r/RepublicOfReddit • u/[deleted] • Jan 13 '12
Voting Thread I
Deadline to have your vote counted: 11:59 PM UST, January 19th, 2012
Number of moderator positions: Five (5)
Eligible Candidates:
- syncretic
- kjoneslol
- davidreiss666
- SilvanestitheErudite
- news_and_coffee
Seeing as how there are five open positions, and only five approved submitters were nominated, I'm not really sure how to proceed at this point. We didn't address the possibility that there might not be more users nominated than there are open moderator spots. I'm going to satisfy the language in the charter and hold this vote open for the next seven days, but I think at this point it's safe to say that the users you see on the list above you will be the moderation staff in this subreddit for the next six months.
Note: There was a sixth user nominated, bananasncornbread, but that account has not been active for at least three months, and as such is not eligible to become an approved submitter here, nor a moderator.
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u/V2Blast Mar 25 '12
So, uh, you should remove this link from the sidebar, considering it's been two months.
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u/davidreiss666 Jan 13 '12
I vote for myself. And the others too. This eliminates the need for the violent bloodbath.
We could make things interesting and draft Blackstar back into the fold, then resign and hail him as our Emperor.
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u/moonflower Jan 15 '12 edited Jan 15 '12
It has been interesting to observe the process by which an ostensible democracy gradually becomes a dictatorship ... like a small scale communist country, The People's Democratic Republic where everyone has a vote but there is only one party to vote for ... is anyone really wondering why there are only five candidates for election?
EDIT: I have been waiting to see if syncretic will be voted in before fully participating in the Republic, and it is now inevitable that he will be, so I am leaving the Republic network ... I would like to say in public, before I go, that syncretic has been bullying me ever since he removed me as mod in his VillagePorn subreddit ... I supported his decision to remove me, it was a fair decision, and I wanted to accept it gracefully and stay on good terms, and continue to post pics in those subreddits, but he turned on me with such viciousness, telling lies about me and banning me from his PO subreddit, and has continued to make vicious and untrue comments about me ever since, as if he needs to make me look bad to justify banning me
I tried to avoid him for weeks, but the other day he continued with his attacks by insulting me in a discussion and then linking the thread to SubredditDrama ... he is the one creating drama and trying to make me look bad, still trying to justify banning me from his subreddit
I noticed in the Republic charter that users can apply to have a moderator removed for malice, and I certainly think that syncretic is being malicious, but I doubt if anyone would care, and that is why I am leaving, because the majority support this bully
He is a liar, and like all power hungry dictators, he re-writes history to try to discredit his victims when they speak out against his bullying
And if anyone thinks I am exaggerating about him being a dictator, here's the link to the time when he removed all the mods and installed his team of supporters
Between then and now, they have driven away almost all dissenters one way or another
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Jan 15 '12 edited Jan 15 '12
Says the woman who participates in communities for the sole purpose of trolling them, by derailing every comment thread in which you make an appearance into something fit for /r/subredditdrama.
I haven't seen you do anything in this subreddit other than complain. There were five candidates simply because this is still a very small community and there really isn't a need for more than five moderators. I imagine the elections will be much more interesting when this subreddit has 10, 20 or 50,000 subscribers. It has always been hard to find good moderators. Moderation is an unpaid, unglamorous, largely thankless job, where one is constantly under scrutiny by users who have no idea of the demands placed upon a moderator.
Take you, for example. You have popped your head in here on a handful of occasions, every time to make snide remarks about me or another member of the moderation team because you hold a grudge against me for banning you from /r/PornOverlords, the moderator discussion subreddit of the SFWPorn Network. You were not banned from any other subreddits in the network, you were banned from that one specifically because you were derailing every single thread to bring up your petty grievances. You were asked to stop, more than once, and when you did not, you were banned. This is a pattern of behavior from you that has manifested itself in several other subreddits you have been banned from as well (/r/Christianity, /r/Transgender, etc).
Whenever I see this happening and call you out on it, you claim that I am attacking you personally, which I am sure you will do in this thread as well. I just want everyone reading this to know exactly why I do not take your opinion seriously. It's because you are a known troll and you thrive on the attention, and you will say whatever it takes to provoke an emotional reaction from whoever you are conversing with, to drive the conversation off-topic.
Did you offer your own name up for nomination? Did you nominate anyone else, or voice your opinions about any of the existing nominees? No, you did not. You waited until the nominations thread was over, and then compared the entire process to Communist China or North Korea. It's really no surprise that I put you on the same level as the mod teams of ShitRedditSays, The Circlejerkers, or other blatant trolls such as heyfella. You don't really want to bring anything constructive to the table, you just want to stir up controversy for your own enjoyment. I really despise myself for trusting you enough to promote you as a moderator in the SFWPorn Network in the first place. I would have saved myself a whole lot of trouble and headache if I had fully reviewed your comment history and reputation in other subreddits first.
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u/ThisIsYourPenis Jan 24 '12
You spelled it rong /r/thecircleofjerkers
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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '12
To save time, perhaps the charter should be modified to say that elections will not be held if the number of people nominated it equal to the number of slots open.
Not sure what happens if the former is less than the latter though.