Do you think mods should be impartial?

[vanillacourage]

NOT calling out specific posters/situations/ threads. Just a general question to take the temperature of the board - in this new forum, do you feel mods should stay impartial and keep themselves out of heated debates with other non-mod posters? Or should mods be basically normal posters that act as security when needed, for the benefit of the community?

[pamela]

Normal posters. They should just be able to separate themselves from a situation when it gets out of hand. If they couldn't participate that would take all the fun out of it for them and they probably won't spend as much time here.

[countthestars]

May 16, 2012 6:34:42 GMT -5 pamela said:

They should just be able to separate themselves from a situation when it gets out of hand.

this is what is important to me. I agree that they can just be normal posters though (and I think that is what the person who originally said it meant)

[ijack]

My opinion on this is very biased based on who it is. But in general yea, I think they should be pretty neutral.

[Deleted]

Normal poster but need to be able to remain neutral.

[Deleted]

I think we take ourselves too seriously if we think that our discussions require a completely neutral, non-posting moderator.

[casmgn]

I think that mods should avoid acting like giant snatches.

[SJ]

I think that each mod should be somewhat "in charge" of their own home board and respect the majority wishes of that board's home community.

Which, by the way, I think our mods are doing a very wonderful job of doing.

[Deleted]

May 16, 2012 7:36:25 GMT -5 casmgn said:

I think that mods should avoid acting like giant snatches.

co-sign