User blog:Jeremiah Garland/Davy Gunfish, You Are Not a Chat Mod

Alright, so I've been noticing something recently. The user, "G-Man", better known as Davy Gunfish, has been really uptight about enforcing the rules in chat. Now, I have no problem with this. In fact, that's great. That's what were suppose to do.

However, I have also noticed that he thinks he has abilites of a chat mod, when he is not one. For example, just recently, he, Mallace, Albert Sparks, and I were in chat. Mallace and I were talking. Just talking, nothing inappropriate or vulgar, and we were really glad to talk because we hadn't talked in several days due to his hacking. Well, Davy says "Al, I gotta brb, you watch over chat and make sure they don't do anything.". Him saying that just struck me as extremely pompous of him to say. First of all, he isn't a chat mod, so he can't "assign" another user to watch over two other guys in chat. Second, it made it sound as if me and Mallace were subordinates, saying "make sure they don't do anything". Mallace and I weren't doing anything bad, but he doesn't trust us enough to let us talk "without somebody monitoring over us". Also, he feels it is his duty to make sure everybody is "behaving" in chat, when that is all of our responsibility. It is nowhere in his place to assume the title "arbiter of the chat" when there's no other chat mods, and he completely embarrassed Mallace and I by assuming the fact we couldn't go ten minutes without getting into a dirty conversation, when we were really just talking calmly.

I guess what I'm asking is for an admin to explain to him he isn't a bloody mod, and just because there's no mods in chat doesn't mean he can assume the position of "deputy mod".