Appealing to fellow region-mates

[Todd McCloud]

I'm not a TSP regular but I'll make some comments.

 

One, being an inactive administrator is a reliability that the ROOT administrator has to take in account for in forum security. Just being a forum administrator is a security threat; hence why administrators are always considered to be handpicked and arguably a trustworthy core group of people to handle the forums. I don't know how to exactly explain it but in the North Pacific recently, Eluvatar (one of the ROOT administrators actually) was removed as admin from his account because he was inactive and therefore posed a security risk. I guess you can say in essence inactive administrators are a security risk because there's no way to monitor their behavior.

 

Two, Hile had to make a split decision in order to maintain forum security. In essence, forum administrators should indeed work as a team and make decisions as one but also note that Hile pretty much owns this forum. I understand that Hile isn't superior to any other administrators but in this forum, he is; because that's his job. 

And that's the thing. Hileville may own the forums, but that does not make him this region's keeper. It can be argued that inactive admins could pose a security threat, perhaps, but what is a greater security threat: an inactive administrator, or an administrator who unilaterally removes half of the team without any consent, announcement, or opinion from anyone else, let alone the current team itself?

 

I can tell you which one I believe is more toxic. Because, as we've seen from other inactive administrators, they seemed to be okay with being removed in general, but not okay with how it was done. With respect to Elu, for instance, I'm sure his removal was done due to inactivity, etc. But we don't know how it was done: was it voted on, or did one person just decide "enough's enough" and cut him off?

 

That's getting a bit off-topic: it's TNP's business. TSP can make choices for TSP - it does not need one person controlling it all and shouting "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!" It's supposed to be a group. We're supposed to be a team. That's what I signed into, and that's what I will work to protect.