User blog comment:Jack Pistol/Chat Mod and Rollback Promotion Request: Lord Matthew Blastshot/@comment-2040576-20120603081351

While we were demoting Bator, you guys all worried about there being too few mods, but now you are all opposing because you think he is not ready when he is in fact overdue for promotion? First of all, Matthew is actually very active in chat and if he gets promoted I am sure he will become even more active, wanting to do his job. The reason you think he is inactive is because lately he has mainly focused on PM because of some of the drama and so on. He is still always watching public chat and therefore can enforce the rules. I am also sure that with all this and hopefully a lot of the drama of roleplay being settled soon, he will return to public chat. I asked many people for suggestions and got a variety of ideas, but I think that of all the suggestions Matthew was the most dedicated to the wiki and enforcing the rules. Upon looking at all the suggestions I notice that most of them are from a group of common chatters. Most of these are newer users who are merely active in chat ( which doesn't deem the perfect candidate ). Just because someone is your chat buddy it doesn't mean they are good for this role, it may actually be worse because the person will need to learn to enforce rules despite friendships. Don't only suggest someone who is fun to talk to in chat or who is simply active, because of many of those suggestions I didn't see the Chat Mod qualities in them. I may not have been in full support of Davy, but I knew for sure that he at least had wiki experience, which is hard for me to explain. Wiki experience means knowing almost all corners of the wiki, even the background pages and sections, which many people don't have. It is one thing to click the ban button, but then you need to make a solid decision on ban times, keep a record, update their talk with a chat ban template and unban them when the time is up. A lot of users can only enter chat and be fun, and we are trying to give veterans a chance to step up here, as we are seriously runniing out and not all the newer users have certain types of experience. Trust me, Matthew will be a good mod. He will be strict, yet lenient when he needs to. I could see this trait in all the reports he makes to me and all the other things he tries to do. Where some people PM me saying "BAN that troll!" he says "aren't you going to do something?". Fret not, for if he is underperforming I will be the first one on his back about it, screaming in his ear ( xD ). Also some users are always moaning about certain people who misbehave in chat, but I am never on to witness, this could be a solution to that.