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Originally Posted by scotty1234

theyre still volunteers though,right?

Yes. But a lot of them volunteer for the 'wrong reasons'.

and also moderating is time-consuming

No it's not. It doesn't require any more time than active reading of the forum would in the first place. And if you don't already spend that time, you shouldn't be modding.

and they should be thanked for what they do

No they shouldn't. Thanking a mod has absolutely no purpose. A thanks is not a reward. A good mod's primary reward is looking at a forum with good discussion and few pointless flames/trolls.

i dont wanna be doin it.

Then don't volunteer.

im not sure what sycophants are

To quote dictionary.com (which it would've taken you about 15 seconds to check for yourself):

Originally Posted by http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=sycophant

syc·o·phant P Pronunciation Key (sk-fnt, sk-)
n.
A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people.

and if they want *power* but even if they are *sycophants*(did u mean psychopaths?)...so what,its not doing any damage.

Yes it is. A good moderator, as previously mentioned, sees a good discussion as a positive thing. A sycophant doesn't give a shit about that, they just want people to thank them, from both sides.

Originally Posted by Blacknova

I don't honestly believe that the mods fall quite under that category, I've seen worse (on a fair few other games) put it that way.

It's gotten better, but it used to be pretty bad.

It's not like there is any particular advantage in controlling the boards here since a bad mod will be in turn accountable to a commercial entity (Jolt) somewhere along the line if they overstep their mark too much.

That hardly matters. They are volunteers, thus not accountable to much at all. Anyway, it's not the power abuse that is/was the problem. Problematic mods just carry the title as a mark of superiority over the masses.

Btw Methedrine / Heartless, please start using your real account, this act is getting a bit old.

And it's getting really, really old watching 1up people gloat about knowing who Methedrine really is. It's hardly a problem that he's decided to use a different account. Methedrine has clearly showed that he's not a gimmick account and he's not doing anything wrong by posting under one account instead of another. Not only that, but he's contributed more good discussion to AD than you have since his inception. So get off your high horse and try to focus on actually adding something to the discussion (like you did earlier in your post).