Dude, you've essentially got a mini cult. I'm that guy with a stick who shoos away the kids and gives slaps on the wrists. Or, in more analogous terms, you're the hot algebra teacher and I'm the dorky history one. Same paycheck, different views on policies by others.
Like I said, why does
that matter? You don't think I'm not immune to dickery and criticism as well? I've been called out a few times both by noobs and vets concerning unjustified infractions and some of the time they're right. I've had to infract people I really really like even though subjectively, they didn't really come to me as offensive. And I'm pretty sure I have a "mini cult" because of my actions as a user, not as a mod.
Your allegory is cute but inaccurate. It's more likely we are both selflessly donating to the same charity but rather you are doing it by sending clothes to a relief outpost in your hometown twice a month, while I'm a constant volunteer who goes to the disaster sites themselves to help pass on water bottles and do other kinds of menial labor. The means and intentions behind our actions are the same, by the circumstances behind it differ---one day I won't be around this site much anymore, and I won't have time to volunteer every damn day. It doesn't change the fact that I will falter in my ability to mod. And neither will you.
Alright then. Guess it was mostly a self-doubt issue (and Camila's problem with Smile is exactly the thing I want to avoid).
That's kind of impossible. Conflict is part of the job. And the best thing for you is to know what is right and whether or not you are in the right. You don't have to make friends to get a leg up on the "competition" but it is nice to have. In this case, I would have approached smile differently because we already know each other.
On the other hand, appeal to emotion isn't really necessary. It'll take a blow to your approval rating, but fuck that. That's just a factor of popularity. What really matters is if your decision to infract the guy was right to begin with. And if you don't know you got me and Arch and Jeff here. And the rest of the Sectionals as well.
Azure, for me the only difference between a global and a normal mod is that the global mod can handle more sections. The fact that you can screw up by giving an infraction and it's consequences apply equally for both sides, I don't know what are you talking about.
Ideally you are right, but as Arch and often times Sacred, Exile, Devour, and Zed have done, Global Mods have a little more say in how to do things---things that appear unorthodox for the traditional rulebook to handle. This is just me but the way I've always seen it is that Sectional Mods are lucky as they have Globals to lean on as their moral core. But Globals have no one but themselves. You can infract someone for the most inane of reasons that you yourself don't know if it's justifiable and you will have no one to turn to unless you ask OR you can just leave it alone and none will be the wiser. The freedom in deciding yourself what is right can be scary in its own right but it has its perks.
