Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25012056-20161230151507/@comment-26172435-20170101094909

Why ask an opinion on any position of any modcteam member here, to this broad community audience? For anyone not playing on TOS during regular US playing times most mod team members are hardly known and their mod team roles, background, typical traits, opinions and intentions are mostly only to be derived from sparse info provided from profile info here or their typical posts on the FB page (if ever traceable - overviewable). If they're not visibly active here, this community cannot judge them on any qualifications for management of this wiki. We can only guess that their opinions, attitude and expectations will be influenced by them being part of the relatively closed inner circle of mod team members / TOS admins. My view of th as t circle is that it's partly disconnected of the rest of the wiki community and that it's members tend to love to confirm the others in that circle and tend to let their view of the mod be determined by the local and historically determined circumstances and insights on TOS, while to some extent disregarding the circumstances and needs of people who are not part of their world. So, just do as they pleaee, why bother to ask? I haven't experienced any effective positive influence of those people on this wiki in past years yet, except for the positive and clarifying messages by Mevans himself. What difference could I expect if one or more of the mod team members would be promoted to admin or bureaucrat? Based on past and present info I have I don't expect any difference.