Thread:3cooldog92/@comment-3180503-20120618155642/@comment-3247345-20120725035609

I can kind of see why they would do that. If the mods use chat a lot then it's more likely that at least one mod will be on at any one time. I guess the assumption was that there would be a few regulars that could be made into mods and a lot of causal users that don't on a lot. But if there's not a lot of those users then everyone ends up a mod and you get that situation. It's like a society where everyone is a police officer and cops can't be arrested. Everyone breaks the law except for the few people that aren't cops. I've found that policies/rules don't really matter. What matters is the people who enforce them. You can have two forums that have the same rule but a certain behavior will get you in trouble on one but not the other. What really matters is who's enforcing the rules, if they're enforcing them, how often they enforce them and whether they decide behavior X is within the scope of rule Y. It's amazing what certain people get away with when they manipulate this...