But this is what Juno is talking about. If people were more aware of how things run, if things were in the open (if they're on the up-and-up) then when someone like Juno gets a point for finally going over the line on ortiz, a member, who, in the few years I've been here, hasn't seemed to contribute anything more than a string of inane OT forum threads and mildly vicious barbs, people would also be more comfortable when they see him get his just desserts.
When the members find out about someone like Juno, who's contributed greatly to both research and prop runs, getting a 'pip' while ortiz goes around using the intimation of homosexuality as a slur, gets jumped on by several members, and then gloats about their indignation hopefully getting them more 'pips' and he gets no rebuke from the mods whatsoever, something smells like a pile of crap covered in rotten fish in Denmark. And if you think members are being unreasonable for thinking there's a conspiracy when contributing members get slapped down and those who start useless threads get away with gloating, then you need to give up the moderatorship to someone who does understand basic human reactions to situations. Because that smells like a "conspiracy" if by "conspiracy" you mean people who are on friendlier mod terms get away with more bullhocky.
I've had you jump on me, the last one being in a thread with Agent5 throwing an apoplectic fit because I didn't want to discuss what he wanted to discuss, then, when he actually starts insulting me and I point it out, you offer a halfhearted "Everyone knock it off," instead of calling him on his crap. Tactics like that, bluntly, obviously hypocritic tactics are what lead people to think the mods have backdoor friendships. On average (because there're always a few nuts, but for the sake of this discussion, they're not applicable) people don't just make these ideas of cabals up out of thin air. It's seeing a mod use two different tactics with two members in the same thread that make them think this stuff.
Also, Juno hasn't come in here with her eyes closed, arms flailing, slapping willy-nilly. She's been extremely reasoned in her words and responses and has received an undo amount of smart-alecky responses in return. So that makes the whole, "You people just don't get how hard we mods have it," difficult to swallow because it shows that you guys obviously have it hard enough that you would all like adult-level respect while being able to dish out teenage-level sarcasm. I can buy it a little more if people have been rude to you in the first place, but Juno has been more than reasonable, even taking partial blame on herself where many can see no blame is do and yet she receives snark and guff. So it's also not unreasonable for people to not give a crap about "how hard it is for the mods" if the mods can't remain civil in the first place and end up always responding to the faintest whiff of criticism with a sarcasticness that's completely uncalled for.
