Posted by Kryztian
(here)
Posted by ClearWater
(here)
Those who take it on do so with full knowledge of what they're volunteering for,
Actually, that is far from the stories I've heard from Avalon moderators, most of them had no idea. And every forum is different and this one happens to be quite busy and trades in a lot of controversial ideas, which make the workload quite high, even before considering the Q-anon fiascos.
and can step down from their position at any time, should it prove to be more than they wish to deal with.
That's absolutely true, but do we want them to resign? We have had quite a turnover of mods and it isn't easy finding people to do the job. There are limits in any job, paid or unpaid, as to what you should be expected to do, how much stress you should be expected to handle and how much your dignity should be taxed. We should be mindful of that.
I see lots of posts here talking about kindness, patience, understanding, love and light. But it seems many of them are by people expecting to receive kindness, and don't necessarily give it. Different forms of the
Golden Rule have been uttered by many great prophets (Buddha, Jesus, et. al.) and the reason those words were so meaningful was because those prophets were living according to those principals to the utmost degree, showing tremendous love and compassion that were superhuman. They were urging others to give kindness, NOT to demand it from others.
So we probably can not all agree as to where the kindness and the unkindness is flowing in the antagonistic confrontations between pro- and anti- Qanon factions, but can we all at least agree to be kind and considerate to our moderators who have given so much time and energy to making this a better forum?