First of all, to just get this out of the way, in no way am I now, or ever, going to apologize for the recent rant and comments I made, nor am I looking for any apologies from anyone else. I won't apologize for something when I meant every single word of it, and all I hear of it is "typical TPB response", "how can we take you seriously?", and "how can I respond without being banned?".

Let's get something straight, I take this site and the way it's run seriously. Look at my rank. See that symbol? I'm a God rank on this site, that means that moderating is NOT my main job. That is why we have the moderators to do that job. But I still moderate, because it helps these guys and Crow out a lot. I don't see a need to have the options to do what moderators do when I don't have to use them, but guess what, I do.

I'm not the forum director, but I'm still above the Portal Guards, and I have as much responsibility for this site as Crow does, and when there's a problem involving how Portal Guards are moderating, when they have problems, it's just as much my deal to help take care of it. Crow and I don't agree on everything, but I do not care to let him be the only God on the site to have to worry about it.

That's why I'm so damn upset at what happened. When all these issues are being thrown around at once all of a sudden, it begs the question of why these issues weren't mentioned sooner? Yes, they get mentioned a lot sporatically, but I never hear any of it. I almost never get a contact of "why was this done", "can you fix this", anything. I'm here to help you people, I'm not getting anything to do it with.

I'm very much aware of our shortage of moderators, I have a couple people in mind that I'd like to have the job. I'm also aware that our dragon point system, our FAQ, are all worded and set up vaguely. And believe me, we fucking tried to find a standard for rating posts, but it's just not possible. Just what would you have to do exactly to get a number of points in a post? Same with the moderation, all our Portal Guards can't run like robots, and follow the exact same judgement when one person would take one action, and another would do something different, that's just how it is. And instead of just sitting there making side remarks in a thread, why not actually try to find an answer? We keep our shit recorded, we can tell you exactly who to go to. When problems with moderation have been sitting here for months suddenly come out of the blue in a mass amount from everyone, it's just stupid. It could have been something dealt with long ago. And that is why we ask for stuff like that to be brought to our attention. Otherwise, if we don't know about it from enough people, it doesn't get taken care of.

And you want to know how you can do this without being banned? Since when in God's name could that happen for trying to give feedback to the site? The only way you could possibly be banned for it is by going on a cursing spree, flaming all over the place about it, in post or PM. Everyone knows this, yet somehow people still think they can still be banned even if they're not pulling that kind of attitude. Bullshit. If you can't come to us because you're scared that we'll punish you for it, that is "chicken-shit mentality". Crow is sure as hell not going to let me ban someone for asking me why a thread was closed, someone was shadowed, ect. He just plain won't, and I don't intend to actually do that. Like I said, I've been moderating the way I have for 3 years now (collectively), and only two times, TWO TIMES, has anyone ever attempted to resolve it with me when they had a problem with what I did, and BOTH TIMES the issue was resolved, and there was no animosity between myself and the person I acted on. It seriously changes the way I try to moderate on this site, and if you have a problem with something I did, just talk to me about it. My door is open, and when I can get to it (time is not of my essence as of late), I will respond. I'm sick and tired of people acting like they're afraid to question us, I'm not afraid to answer the best way I can.

But again, if you don't want to help me out, then there's no way I can help you out. That is what this thread is for, you tell me exactly what you want done for the better of this site. I'm not going to sit around and wait another year for a mass consolidation to just spring forth. Any issues that you people feel are causing problems for this site, they need to be addressed now.