I can read it and unscreen comments. I think some of the comments vox_diabolica have made may be better left screened, but I'll unscreen them if he wishes. I think the ones I chose to do already were an eloquent summation.
It should be noted that "Mods 1" is not officially reinstated. A quick scan of the community info shows who the sole maintainer is. (And given recent events, the continued use of a shared user account as a tool for moderation represents a certain type of risk to all but one of the users sharing that account. The people sharing that account should take this into consideration.) Also, it should be noted that "Mods 1" will not contain at least 2 of the former mods, carl_sagan and pooperman.
1. Nobody owns communities. Communities are maintained by maintainers. Ownership is restricted to user accounts. That is the technically-correct LJ admin answer. A community is not an account. It has no password. This is true even if you gift a subscription to it. That said, the members of the community--which includes the maintainers--own the community in a nontechnical rhetorical sense.
2. Posts like this from posters like anosognosia. Now, he didn't need to be made a moderator to do this, but he did need to be assured that people like carl_sagan were not out to get him by
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1. I think the best kind of comm belongs to its members. 2. A goal and better maintenance of the comm. 3. A whole lot of freedom--sometimes so much so that the comm was full of trolls and nonsense posts. 4. Not really. It was a promising beginning.
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also, the ownership of some livejournal account is immaterial.
2) vox_diabolica
3) gerbilsage
4) yes
5) we pay attention to drama too easily. so what could just be one jerk becomes a feedback loop.
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presuming you can even see this.
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1. Nobody owns communities. Communities are maintained by maintainers. Ownership is restricted to user accounts. That is the technically-correct LJ admin answer. A community is not an account. It has no password. This is true even if you gift a subscription to it. That said, the members of the community--which includes the maintainers--own the community in a nontechnical rhetorical sense.
2. Posts like this from posters like anosognosia. Now, he didn't need to be made a moderator to do this, but he did need to be assured that people like carl_sagan were not out to get him by ( ... )
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2. A goal and better maintenance of the comm.
3. A whole lot of freedom--sometimes so much so that the comm was full of trolls and nonsense posts.
4. Not really. It was a promising beginning.
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