My open letter to Morg:
Morg,
I have been here for six and a half years now. I have seen many-a-moderators come and go. I have seen the good, I have seen the bad. I remember your baby days here at the Hype, I remember when you used to be a fun, cool, poster. In hopes of somewhat saving you, I decided to list my grievances with you. I think you will find many other posters on the Hype share these grievances. Here they are:
1) You are a crappy moderator. No offense, I always liked you before you became a mod, you suck at doing it though, some people are cut out for it, others aren't. I'd suck at being a mod, nothing wrong with that. But yeah, you're incredibly unfair, biased at times, you overreact to everything and just in general are a bad moderator. In all honesty, there is no shame in stepping down and just becoming a regular poster again. It worked for Cyclops (although, he was an excellent moderator who kept the X-men forums from going to hell...but still, he made the transition back).
2) You put yourself on a high horse. Notice how Dog Lips, Drakon, C.Lee, Dew, and others have their names in red letters and yet are generally in good standing with everyone here? Ever wonder why its not that way for you? Because you act like a total jerk. Bad modding aside, you do things like posting stupid stickys and then when people call you on it you delete the posts. If Dog Lips did the same thing, he would joke, have fun with it...but not you, you delete the posts, like a coward and then just get rid of the whole thread. If you had more of a sense of humor about yourself and can step down from that pedestal of yours, you probably would've gotten an answer at some point. You alienate yourself from the rest of the posters. I don't see Drakon as a mod, I see him as one of the finest posters on the Hype first, a moderator later. Hell, Drak has even stepped in to break up some heated conversations of mine in the past, I don't see him as a "bad guy" for doing it. You know why? Because he kept a calm, cool head. Was fair, and didn't act like he was someone we should bow before. But people see you, they no longer see a poster. They see some jerk of a moderator who has waaay too much of a hard on for authority on an internet message board.
3) You kind of remind me of the Temp from the show The Office. When you showed up at this board you were funny and nice and laid back...although kind of smug at times. The second your name went red, you became a crazed power hungry moderator. You don't act fairly towards anyone. Twylight created a thread with an honest question asking if it sets good precedent for moderators to make laws up as they go and the best you can come up with for a response is "Well, I already did so too late". I think you made a quip about Lackey too. That isn't how you get people to relate to you. That is how you make people see you as a jerk.
In closing, Morg...please step down. You do absolutely no service to the Hype. You are unfair and overreact to pretty much anything and everything. The other, more level headed moderators could in all honesty do a better job without you and keep the peace at the Hype better without a moderator who actually...instigates, situations. I am not saying this to be mean...I am saying it because it is the truth.
Cheers and best wishes,
Matt
P.S. Happy Holidays
God damnit, how many more people do I have to kill before I can get some reputation points?
But, I agree that he should step down.
