I do not agree with your sentiment Loki.
Firstly, you present a lot of straw mans. You attempt to say a certain JMod was here over a decade ago, yet they date u give is technically less than a decade ago.
Not only that, but the JMod I referred to was the HEAD OF COMMUNITY. He was responsible for everything social and community related. He specifically oversaw the change of the forum rules in 2017, with Mods MattHe, Mod Kalaya, possibly Mod Infinity and possibly Mod Jon and possibly with Mod Neena and others.
It was explicitly stated that there would be no gravebumping rule anymore. It was specifically, very, VERY clearly stated, that if you post on a thread and contribute to the discussion with relevant content, that it does not matter how long ago or how old the thread is: it is not classed as a gravebump anymore. Only if you respond with something unrelated, or if the OP's topic clearly has no relevance to the present day.
Yet this regime deliberately falls into a coma and conveniently forgets about that and starts reinforcing the archaic gravebumping rule again, particularly when it suits certain agendas. And these types of things repetitively happen.
It was very clearly explained that the current rule set's spirit is that threads and content should not be moderated unless there was a clear reason that it MUST happen, and that that reason is within the ruleset. That was specifically why Kalaya helped to shorten the ruleset, specifically removing the "catch all" rule that used to be there.
Now what do we see happening? Mods regularly citing rules that do not exist yet again, that are often made up on the spot, where enforcement is not 100% necessary but it becomes entertainment.
Also, you can chuckle all you like Loki. You would be very surprised at the issues that some people have.It is not far beyond Scope ofPossibilities that there are people that
enjoy
moderating content. And that is not a laughing matter. 1 FMod already gone
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