Appreciate the nomination or even consideration, but no. It has been my stance to not to accept any position of power in here, lest I'll be corrupted as how the current moderating team is. I'd rather be free to voice out my opinion than to be shackled by the code of conduct of being a moderator.

With that said, I hope whoever chosen to be a moderator in the iPhone section to remain partial and stay steadfast from being corrupted by the bad apples in the Powers-That-Be circle. If chosen, your priority is to look after the wellbeing and to put the forum members here FIRST, and not to expand your own OR your colleagues of power's agendas.

With that, I wholehearted agree to nominate DavidGary. Plus, I'm branching out of the Apple section with my current new purchase, and from the looks of things, I dont think I'll have ample time to scan and mediate the Apple section either if chosen.

David, you're on bro! Make sure you look after us the iPhone users.......NOT the mods! Your comrades here comes first.

If David is Obama, I dont think anyone wants to be McCain.

I find it ironic that a PDA moderator moderating the iPhone section. When push comes to shove, I doubt anyone who had no comprehensive knowledge on the workings of the iPhone AND how the scene is doing would be able to mediate it fairly.

It's like asking a football referee to mediate a volleyball match. He's be calling handball 24/7!

But then again, fair moderation is not a strong point I would associate with "you people" around here.

One of you, yes.....but the more reliable kind. I do not hold blanket perception that all of "you people" are bad apples, there are those who do their work and maintain partiality. But like I said, when push comes to shove, when peer pressure adds in, when it comes to standing up to things that you personally believe, rather than acting based on hivemind mentality, what would your choices be?

That said, I think it would be fair to give you the benefit of the doubt, since you sounded sincere in your intentions of putting your newfound status to good use. But I still maintain my stand that an iPhone-specific mod, with all-round knowledge on the iPhone AND the scene itself should be the best man to do it. After all, we are looking for the "best man" to do it, not the "the best man who can be pulled into to sway to certain agendas". Not that I am implying that you are, Baronic, but you'll have to understand my general wariness when it comes to "you folks" after those past incidences.

P/S: This is not a flame, this is merely an observation and a comment. I don't have a cause, other than seeing the RIGHT thing done. If you consider this simple sentences as "a flame", then I'm afraid you have more to contend with, later in your moderating life here. I'd think I've been rather civil and accomodating, with a little mirth and cynics thrown in together.

There, I like you already. Respect IS earned, NOT given. The way some of your peers act around this forum, is like they DESERVE the respect, instead of earning it. No matter what color your tags are underneath your avatar, if you dont act your station, you cannot simply DEMAND respect. Like you said, you gotta earn it.

Please work with DavidGary carefully, but there are several things that needs constant monitoring. For example, as a moderator, I feel you need to know which threads are repeated and which aren't. How would you know if you dont frequent the forum you moderate? Relying on DavidGary 24/7 is not an efficient means of doing it, instead of relinquishing that task to DavidGary straight away, since he would recognize straight away, which thread is a repeat, or which thread has queries already answered, and needs to be purged or cleaned. Don't tell me you want to keep asking DavidGary all the time for this? What happens when David is not around? Who are you going to refer to? Are these people you refer to reliable in their consultation?

This is the reason why all of us in the iPhone section feel that we need to appoint someone who is familiar with the workings of the forum, as well as already have the grasp of what is adding to the forum, and what is redundant, repetitious and downright spam. It has nothing to do with who you are personally, we have nothing against you, it has everything to do with efficiently managing the forum right. You are the right person to do so in the PDA section, but ask yourself, are you the right person to do the same thing in the iPhone section?

This post has been edited by stringfellow: Oct 29 2008, 08:08 PM

I know where that is headed if I am directing those question to the "admin and staff". We all know what happened before, and it is still unresolved till now, being kept hush hush instead.

LOL, the way you said it, it's like we're at war or in court battle or something, your rep talk to my rep.

For obvious reasons.