Ash's Boomstick
Well-known member
I’m pretty sure you’ve given infractions to people for posting anti gay arguments so forgive me if I don’t take you at your word about being “apolitical”
I know Spartan used to be a mod there but he actually was not favoring one side over the other unlike most other spacebattles mods.
Ok I'll explain my way of thinking as a mod back then it may help, if I believed that someone was breaching the rules, it didn't matter who it was, they were hit with an infraction. I hit staff members, newcomers, people who had been there for longer than I had. Every one of them was if I believed they be punished, that was it.
Sometimes I may have been wrong, I'm only a human and quite often I was doing the job of a half dozen or more moderators, occasionally having to do over one hundred reports in two days because no-one else could be bothered. If people wanted to complain about it or ask for an appeal, I would go over it with them and with the SMODs.
There were times that I was overruled one way or another, if I thought someone else was wrong I'd be ignored even if it turned out afterwards that I was in fact right. It was having to deal with people from all sides of the political spectrum that had me decide enough was enough.
I also would like to point out that Spartan is a very old friend, I am also one of those who championed him for his position on Spacebattles, he is very fair and I defended him to those who said otherwise, he was screwed over by the staff on that site as were others.