Idea for forum:

[Tsukino_Kaji]

Honestly, most people who think they should be a moderator, are the wrong people for the job.

[Greatguardian]

I should be a moderator.

[Nacht]

I wouldn't want to moderate this forum unless they paid me to.

[Dale]

Volunteer moderators; after the community is established, SE should look for prime candidates to assist in keeping the peace amongst the boards. Look for examples of posters who assist the community, display their opinions without being detrimental/offensive, and just overall present a good example to the rest of the community. They can be monitored by the company to make sure they aren't abusing power, and/or harassing people. My idea would be:

-Give them the ability to lock, move, or delete threads that are inappropriate, or antagonistic
-Let them warn posters when their posts are becoming offensive to the point they will recieve punitive action from the main staff.
-Be arbitrators between company and playerbase for getting ideas acrossed in an orderly fashion
-Other ideas the company might have them do errandwise that I havent thought of.

No - very bad idea. I'm against censorship period. Moderating speech always does more harm than good, but it's especially harmful if done by peers and active participants in the actual discussion. Monitoring the forums should deffinitely be kept in the hands of Square Enix employees.

[Chronofantasy]

I like the mods here. Emdub is my favourite. He's funny. ^^

[Babygyrl]

i fully agree with you, it would be a great idea.. that is actually what backstreetboys.com did.. (yea im a bsb nerd) they have actual fans who they gave mod access to (for the forums) because lets face it real developers can not be on 24/7 to monitor the stuff.. I think they are compensated with free memberships.. but its cool t o have mods who are just like everyone else..

[Dale]

i fully agree with you, it would be a great idea.. that is actually what backstreetboys.com did.. (yea im a bsb nerd) they have actual fans who they gave mod access to (for the forums) because lets face it real developers can not be on 24/7 to monitor the stuff.. I think they are compensated with free memberships.. but its cool t o have mods who are just like everyone else..

But they wouldn't be just like everyone else... they would have powers the rest of us woudn't have. The urge to play God with our posts would be way too tempting for them, especially if there were people on the forums they didn't like.

Plus, a lot of people on this forum in particular would want to suck up to them in order to gain their favor, and I rather not see this unsightly scene take place.

Trust me, it's a horrible idea.

[Greatguardian]

If we were to vote in player moderators, I would definitely nominate Isladar.

[Sayelle]

If we were to vote in player moderators, I would definitely nominate Isladar.

Isladar4Mod!

[Yarly]

Isladar4Mod!

Yes to this, 1000x