Well, after my reading of Petrosianic's post, where he *totally insulted me* and made my name look "pretty much like mud", I think that, for the good of the Message Board, and, for the fact that I do NOT want to be chosen as a Moderator in any sort of an insulted "lame duck" situation at all, I am going to withdraw myself as a candidate for becoming a Moderator here at ChessNinja.

Believe it or not, I really DO care about this Message Board, and, I really wanted to "do my part" in helping out by my being a Moderator here on this Message Board.

However, after my being so very *totally* and in *such a very lengthy way* being insulted so *very badly* by Petrosianic, my heart is really not in it to be a Moderator here on this Board.

Indeed, I am now very sorry that I even offered to BE a Moderator here at ChessNinja!


Chess Fan

What, RB and I are chopped liver? Our opinions mean nothing to you? Incidentally, what did you expect from Petro? You must have known that he would strongly oppose your nomination. Besides, the only moderately insulting thing that he said was that in his opinion several members might leave if you became mod. The rest of his post was basically factual. Incidentally, I disagree with Petro; I would be very surprised if any of the regular members left CN if you became mod.

C'mon, stop ducking your responsibility -- there's work to be done!

Don't want to discuss him. What are you doing today, anyway? Trying to set everybody up for a good knocking?


Actually, I don't. I realize that the Modulators have very little actual role here. That exist to give the appearance of order without actually maintaining order except in extreme cases (and I'm not insulting anyone here, that's what Mig himself has said about the matter).

For evidence of that, you can just look at this thread:

Chess Fan's Neverending Autogiography

...set up by a sitting mod to try to curtail your candidate's habitual spamming by focusing it into this one thread and out of others. He simply thumbed his nose at it, continued doing the same thing everywhere else, and also used this thread, with no repercussions. Unfortunately, most of the board rules are voluntary.

So no, I don't have the illusion that the Modulators have any big role here. My point was about one specific thing: the fact that you can't put a Mod on Ignore, and the idea that trying to force someone that so many people wish to ignore on them can't be a good thing.

All right, here are some more reasons not to. 1) He's planning to be raptured within the next few days, and will just need to be replaced again if that happens. He can't guarantee his continued presence. 2) Before he developed his bizarre and totally unfair personal grudge against me, he used to complain bitterly to me in PM about the hardships he faced in posting on a "secular" board. Making him an official on a secular board might ruin his reputation with his church forever. Do you want that on your conscience?


No, not strongly. Mig will do whatever he wants to, of course, and it won't matter what I say. The Malthrope case shows that he might even pick someone who declines the nomination. I'm just pointing out that should that happen, I would continue to ignore him as best as possible, and delete all PM's from him unread. If that's not a problem, forget I said anything.


And even that's not insulting, simply an educated guess. If they gave me permission to do it, I could name a half dozen people who did exactly that (you're aware of most of them yourself). I'm simply surmising that more might follow. But possibly not. It might be no worse than before. Who knows?

If we're trying to nominate the worst candidates possible, I'd like to nominate Combo Kid and DeepNf3. Actually, there would be an advantage in having Deep as a Modulator. If he ragged anybody out, nobody would understand what he was saying to them.

@Crumhorn:

Well, I was very willing, (and happy), to take on the responsibility of doing my part to help out by my being a Moderator here at ChessNinja.

However, even the endorsements of me from you and Russianbear are, well, "less than ringing endorsements", and, really, *that's quite okay with me*!

Even now, Petrosianic continues to go "on and on" about all of this concerning me.

So, once again, I am just going to say again that I am withdrawing my name from being a Moderator candidate here on this Message Board.

** Indeed, after what has happened to me here in this thread today, I am now *very sorry* that I ever even offered to BE a Moderator here at ChessNinja, and, I will *never again* make the mistake again of my offering to BE a Moderator on this Message Board ever again!! **


Chess Fan

CF: Okay. It's really not a big deal. Just thought you might want to do it, is all, and also thought the community might gain from it. As for not giving you a ringing endorsement...well, yes, in my opinion there are better candidates to be mod; nevertheless, I nominated you because I thought that: a. we all might gain from your experience moderating the board; and b. ultimately you would do a fine job. But you're not interested, and that's just fine. No need to belabor this point any longer.

Petro: No, not interested in "setting anybody up for a good knocking" (not even sure what you're implying, to be honest) -- simply thought it was CF's time to moderate so made my case as forcefully as I could. Now it's all as moot as moot could be...

To get this thread back on track, I see multiple nominations for SCK, Sam Hardwick, Guy Kerr, Krish, and RingLord. A fine group.

I'd like to second the nomination for Ed, even knowing that he'll not only decline, but probably kill me for pushing it.

I think Kevin would do quite well in the position, but all the ones you mentioned are fine. (But are you sure you don't want Deep? )

Everyone mentioned is fine with me, even the joke nominations (except for the obvious one). I don't really get why CF has gotten people so heated up, but I guess it would be difficult to be a moderator in his situation.

As for me, I don't really need more excuses to spend time on the Internet at the moment, so if we have enough willing candidates I'd rather they took the job. But (there's that word starting a sentence!) I can do it if needed. Warning though: I'd be pretty hands-off; most times I don't really understand why the mods delete what they do.

I would endorse any/all of the following people in no particular order.

1. inky
2. Crumhorn
3. Russian Bear
4. Chess Fan
5. RingLord
6. Petrosianic
7. Krish
8. Saguni
9. Petrochess
10. BobRich
11. South Coast Kevin
12. Permanent Brain
13. FirebrandX
14. Combo Kid
15. Ed Yetman
16. Guy Kerr

There are others who escape me at the moment. All of the above make CN a better place to come visit when I am looking to be enlightened. Thanks for all the contributions to the board. I never thought coming here would be anything more than a cup of coffee. I have been here almost since day 1 now and I still enjoy coming, even if I can't afford to visit as much as I used to.

The current mods did a great job too. Thanks for all your efforts as well. All mods, past and present, have helped this board thrive. Hoping everyone has a good 2009.

COP

So, pretty much any regular poster then. In that case, I'd like to nominate you too. You shouldn't be left out of this list.