That's not how this works.
That's not how any of this works.
I admit, Quickseller is pretty active, and does quite a bit of scambusting (I remember when he used to just be an account seller
)
But I don't think the forums will take into account our opinions when deciding new moderators.
And I'm not sure about the extent to which scam busting and moderating are similar. Moderators don't delete scammers threads, ban scammers or anything of the sort. His reports sound quite impressive, but that's for admins to consider, not us.
I'm sure they'd take it into consideration but obviously we don't have a democratic system here for choosing new mods. However, if the majority of people think he's doing a good job and would welcome him as a mod then I think that has to count for something, though it obviously isn't the deciding factor.
Exactly. This is not how the system works and it would be prone to abuse. A problem would occur, because if you factor in all the drama that happened with people complaining about Quickseller, this would make that escalate even more (unless you like long threads with drama).
Interestingly enough he has not been offered a position even after such a high amount of good reports. On the other hand, I doubt that there is someone more deserving right now than him.
There are likely a couple of people with many more reports than him, but I don't think just having the highest or very high amount of reports will guarantee you anything either. That could just as easily be abused. A scammer could spend a significant amount of time reporting posts in an attempt to join Staff. I also think QS would make a good mod and don't think it would be that controversial but there's never a day without drama here and whingers will always whinge. The only drama that has really occurred because of him is due to him outing scammers anyway. He screwed up once or twice on feedback and that was unfortunate but I'm sure he's learned from his mistakes and don't think that should count against him potentially being a mod especially with all the other good he does. I think potential mods should be trustworthy, be
very, very active and know the rules with also a high report accuracy. He has all these things but I have no idea whether he would ever be made a mod or not and that's not up to me to decide. If I was going to nominate the next mod though I think it should be Shorena for also all of the above reasons.
Who cares about drama, ban or delete any nonsense posts like those ones, lets be honest 99% of people that used to complain about qs ratings were confirmed scammers, yeah he might have made some mistakes but the majority of the time he didnt.
You can't delete posts that aren't against the rules as far as I know.
Well we can #WorstSituation #AbuseOfPower haha, but if he or any other mod just deleted posts like that they likely wouldn't be a mod for very long and that certainly would be a good way to cause drama. People complain in Meta when they've had their thread moved to the
correct section so if someone deletes a post that they shouldn't there'll be trouble
.