Maybe we got off to a bad start. Whatever, I'm not going to judge you this early.
So, welcome to the PPC, have a cup of Earl Grey as your welcome gift. So since you haven't mentioned it, what are your pronouns?

And the reason I don't buy it is because you're not stupid. You knew exactly how your post would be taken and you are now showing up - with the moniker Orwell, seriously, subtlety is a dying art - to complain about the fact that we don't have an active and empowered moderator class.

It is my personal belief that if we did so, you'd be long gone.

I don't buy what you're selling, and I've seen enough mock-contrition in my life to know it when it posts in the one community left that doesn't let me let it down. You have nothing positive to add and are merely trying to stir the pot for the sake of it. To reiterate Ix's point:-

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS.

Then why are you so invested in how it's being run? Even if you have been a lurker for quite a while, you haven't actually taken part in it before. For someone who is unaffected by the moderation here, you seem very interested in it.

More to the point, what else interests you about the community? What kind of fandoms do you like? Is there anything that brings you here other than the current drama?

I would like to remind people that pretending to engage in reasonable debate while riling everybody up is still a form of trolling, and Orwell has shown themselves to be less than trustworthy.

I'm personally not opposed to actual moderation.

I also think we're doing fine without it.

I also think the people with the keys to the Board are fine, trustworthy people who had proved as much over many years of membership before the idea of the Nameless Admin was conceived, and have never done anything to abuse that power since.

It just doesn't seem worth the drama to me.

That said, if members of the Board who have participated under this system have actual grievances with it that they'd like to discuss, they should absolutely bring them up, but popping up out of lurkerdom just to complain at us doesn't seem in particularly good faith to me.

~Neshomeh

Which is lovely, it is. I love being helped out, personally. Lovely stuff. Always nice. Once somebody held the door open for me, and, let me tell you, I was more flattered than a pancake in an anvil-dropping factory.

But, really, even assuming you've got completely benevolent intentions, is this honestly the best way to go around with it?
Because, at least from my perspective, you're a total stranger, jumping in after a troll's hijinks (said troll quite fond of impersonating people,) posting an incredibly Toroll-esque (no offence, of course, but it was the sort of thing within the fellow's utility Toroll-belt) first post, and then suggesting a pretty decently large revamp of a system we've been (I assume, anyway) fine with for a while.

Now, I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, or that your ideas are irrelevant and ought to get scrunched up and popped in the bin, but do you get where I'm coming from? Because, even the last one, on it's own, would be a bit weird, y'know?
You're not selling yourself very well, is what I'm saying.

Anyways, I hope you're not one've those trolls. It'd shake things up, anyway.
And, er. Welcome, I suppose!

And by some I mean at least two, though I doubt we're the only ones.

Who were you talking to, and what name were you using?

Also: you may note that the 'havoc' lasted less than ten hours. Hardly the crisis point you seem to be making it out to be.

hS