I think threads like this show me some of my faults because I find them very entertaining. Especially how despite the best of original intent, and attempt to hold that intent, it always comes down to degrading other Jedi and a contest of who is the better Jedi and who is more "mature" or not etc etc.
It actually reminds me most of the episode of the "orville" recently where they visit an un-developed planet and everyone has these badges they wear. These badges have an up arrow and a down arrow, and anyone can click these arrows but yourself. So if you do a good deed and someone notices they can bump your arrow up and this improves your reputation. If you do something rude or mean they hit the down arrow and you loose this score. You can also get someones ID number and do it remotely over a phone app too so if something ends up in the news on TV as it did in this episode, millions of people can down vote you. Once you get to like negative 8 million or something you end up on a tv show with a chance to give your story and seek forgiveness and whatnot but if during the final vote phase you hit negative 10 million you get "reconditioned" which is something similar to shock therapy until you are not yourself anymore kinda thing.
The original issue is on the moderation itself, of which has been said multiple times in the last couple weeks in a few different threads a clear cut set of rules of conduct and also relating to moderation is being developed and the first drafts are actually done, hatter has done to my understanding an amazing job on it but also had some helpers, and it is currently under review of quite a few other members of various rank as well and when its agreed upon will get posted accordingly, until then it's not so clear cut and is still up to the interpretation of anyone who has moderation rights.
That being said EVERY moderation action CAN be reviewed, and as it has been said quite a few times as well those requests are done via formerly Private Message to any of the moderators or a Councillor. This act has NOT to my knowledge been done other then the creation of this public thread which is not the way it should have been done. Once this request is made a thread goes up in a private area of the forum with a copy paste of the requests, a link to the thread where the moderation took place any evidence of such and discussion starts then. It also usually filters over to the council chat which is connected to every council members phone so we are all very quick to be notified and begin discussing etc, which is a new improvement on things and pretty impressive. (We had a moderation request come in the other day and within about 15 minutes of that request a majority of the council was involved in discussion of it which was very impressive to me).
The request once reviewed is decided upon, in some cases reversed, in some cases reinforced, but more importantly learned from, grown from, evolved from, much like all of our experiences and lessons in our lives and our training wherever that may be. No one individual is infallible, here or anywhere else. So the whole Jedi maturity, lets loosely walk around who is holier then thou pissing contest that happens under the table and guise of a legitimate question and strive to look out for the "underdogs" and the "Jedi everywhere", or try and appear to be the "savior" can stop now...I vaguely remember a saying from someone that stated there wouldn't be any drama or problems if everyone would "Be a Jedi".
I feel like too many people worry about how their actions "look" and less on what are the appropriate actions period. A Jedi does not seek fame, does not seek glory, does not seek gratitude, does not seek to instill chaos. Your request Opie is totally legitimate, and is important to how you post I'm in full agreement, that's not even in debate. But I feel there are better ways to have done that then what has transpired. However its here, its done, lets ALL learn, grow, move forward shall we?
All that being said I will start the formal request for review on this point and we will proceed from there. In regards to the editing rights original question, the rules will be made more clear and more obvious here in the near future when those are done being revised and reviewed and made sure we have had plenty of different perspectives on it so that we have met the best interest of our community as well, and to be patient as a lot of big steps are going on at the council level and improvements to the training programs and a ton of other things that are in work and progress which like all things, takes time.
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