What IS good, and how do we determine it?

[Randy Carson]

Thank you for the clarification. I did not mean to imply otherwise.

My objection is that staffers should have two accounts: one mod and one regular user (and your identity should be anonymous, btw)

If you want to tee off on someone as a regular user, then others could ignore you.

You would only switch to your mod account when taking action as needed.

As it is, there are more atheist mods in this Christianity forum than there are Christians to take action against.

Cthulhu Dreaming has suggested that I use the Suggestions forum to propose ideas like this, and I may do so. This post is just for discussion...in a "discussion forum".

When the staff post in their relevant colours, we're posting as staff.

When we post any other time, we post as members. If this is difficult to understand, Randy, I'm not sure what else can be done. But to clarify, here I am posting as a normal member.

There is no added value whatsoever in us having two accounts, or remaining 'anonymous' (why would we want to do that?).

The advantage in posting as a "regular user" would be that you could argue all you want with another member without that other person knowing that you are a mod. And if that person thought that you, as a regular user, were being abusive or disrespectful, he or she could ignore you. Mods should be neutral...simply applying the rules equally to theist and atheist alike. Unfortunately this is not the way things work here. Atheists can break the trolling rule (you know, the one that says that deliberately provocative posts will not be tolerated), and mods are among the worst offenders of this rule.

For example, I would quickly ignore three or four mods immediately if I could - not because I do not want to obey the rules, but because they use foul language, troll, and generally try to disrupt the threads. Sad, but true. Unfortunately, I have to put up with their non-mod crap because I cannot ignore them. So, I just skim the avatars and breeze past those I'm not really interested in chatting with.

This is a really simple fix...but one that will not be implemented because no one gets the fact that the current system is anything but impartial.