From my perspective, anyone that brings Carlos' thread into an argument such as this doesn't get what this place is about.
They are interested in modding the forum. But it seems like they want to try something different so they can concentrate on moderating things which don't actively break the rules. Plainly the rule about politics was made to be broken, but more on that in a minute.
I know your post is a bit tongue in cheek mate, and I actually think you'd make an ace moderator, but one of the common themes coming out of this thread is a willingness to help moderate political threads, but at first glance, there's not a great deal of willingness to moderate the whole forum.
I think that says a lot about peoples priorities in the forum. Whether that's important, good or bad, or even relevant is open to debate, I just find it interesting.
Unless you've had to reinvent yourself, you've been here since 2015 so your experience is limited. You joined when
@The Esk was moderating, who, along with
@Bruce Wayne was keen on promoting political discussion on GOT.
@roydo started moderating in 2015 and he liked / likes to natter about political stuff.
Previous to that, the mod teams stance on political threads was less positive. These things tend to go in phases and I suspect it's always been so, and will remain something which ebbs and flows.
Bruce is getting a lot of stick in this thread, but he deserves a lot of credit for coming out and saying he's changed his mind on how the political stuff should be treated. The way people are reacting you'd think the change was written in tablets of stone and will never change, but, to me it sounds like an experiment which will be reviewed in due course.
Yea, I'm taking a slightly exaggerated stance, but someone accusing me of being divisive on a thread about political threads makes me smile a bit !
Truth is I have an almost unique perspective on this because I know the angst it causes in mod central but, because I'm no longer in there I can be brutally honest ( I likely would be even if I was still a mod btw, that's how I roll unless it's plainly going to upset someone unnecessarily ). So I'm sorry ( but not much ) if my honesty upsets you.
I will say one last thing though. I ain't going to name names, but at least one person who's been vocal on this thread has previously reported posts from right-wing members whose views they found repulsive.
Now, while I agree that the views were indeed repulsive, I think that if you want to discuss politics and the like on here, you have to take the rough with the smooth and allow ALL views to be aired. Even if those views appear to incite hatred and may actually be illegal, they are likely held by a sizable minority of the population so, for me, it's an all or nothing situation, so there's a wee bit of hypocrisy being aired in this thread.
