This is very probably completely offtopic, so I have no issues with a mod editing it, but I wanted to write this in an earlier thread that got closed 2fast4me:
So a LOT of these complaints regarding moderation issues and "the state of Era" weirdly enough always show up when there's a current "outrage" thread on Gaf going on, with tons of people admitting or bragging their account privileges over here. Which is the case right now, where people over there literally send messages to NYPD about how Era caused Etikas death, and their whole conversation regarding this tragedy focusses straight in on Era, as usual.
So it's very, very hard even for me as a regular user to take many of these complaints - over here - seriously, when I myself am suspecting idiots from GAF, Bore, or whateverthefuck new sites there are, creating them just to seed discord by pretending to be very concerned Era users who only want the best for the site.
Obviously mods can fuck up, they're human, too. Obviously, on a board with thousands of active users and tens of thousands of potential one-time posters, the community itself might fuck up - be it one comment or half a thread. I usually don't have any major issues with how the mods over here handle things, and I have been tempbanned as well.
What I do agree with though, that - if only to be free from these thoughts - we should have an open conversation about how to handle things. Generally. Era, to me, always was a place founded on the community living in it, a work of togetherness instead that of a few people in charge. Since Community Management is my job, I know how fucking hard this can be, and how easy it is to fall into a flow of "silencing" voices (this sounds way worse than I mean it, English is not my native language), but I also know very well how these cases may look to legit, honest users who aren't here to troll or to see the forum burn.
Maybe we can have this conversation, under good moderation. Maybe even not in here, but in a Discord channel with a bunch of selected users who've proven their role on Era. Maybe not. Regardless, I'm pretty sure this thread is not the place to have it, and everyone should direct their criticism somewhere else instead of a thread about a person's death.
