"Admins make excellent janitors and terrible dictators" - Wandering Critic

That's eight years ago, at this point ( Juliette plays the oldbie card!), but the sentiment still holds true, imo. When we recovered the admin account, we realized the terrible powers it contained, and had a long discussion about how to preserve the creative-anarchist community we'd built without it.

I can recall exactly one post which the Nameless Admin edited- someone, appearing under a new name and questioning the community and its structure (not unlike yourself!) used a fairly nasty slur in the process, and the Nameless Admin removed said slur and signed the change. That was it. The discussion continued.

And, to pose a question in return, how would this be different in a more conventionally moderated board? There would still be someone with the authority to do whatever they willed to posts and users, they would just display that authority on their sleeve rather than it being something that is only picked up when needed. Even if we built a forum without such a role, someone would still have the database login- and then you've traded an adminity that can be given to anyone to one that can only be used by the technologically adept.

For years and years, we had a community that was both incredibly vibrant and also resistant to trolls by its very nature. And you know what? I think we still do. All we need the Nameless Admin for is janitorial work.

It deletes posts by users who have been banned and refuse to stick to the ban voluntarily. That includes the Tor-using troll, among others. The Nameless Admin doesn't moderate based on opinion, or violations of the Constitution, or anything else: just as a technical measure when trolls or spambots get around the IP block.

I am granting you the assumption of good faith here and not assuming you're just the same troll again. But I can't imagine a single good reason for you to post anonymously.

hS

Instead of a discussion about Data Junkie acting against the Constitution, it was basically

>Trolololol
>>Do not feed the trolls
>>>Trolololololololol
>>>>Do not feed the trolls
>>>>>Trolololololololol

And nothing good was going to come from it, especially since it seems Data has left the Board anyway.