I
> repeat my assertion that eesh should be made a
> moderator to deal with this problem.
>
> A while back, eesh compared the situation on
> Fairfax Underground to the stalemate on the
> Western Front during World War I, and he's exactly
> right. No user on Fairfax Underground has a
> sufficient advantage to drive another user off the
> forum, even when that user is contributing nothing
> to FFXU and has in fact demonstrated by their
> actions that they wish to make Fairfax Underground
> as miserable and shitty as they're able to.
>
> Gracelessly shifting metaphors, these malicious
> users are a cancer killing the body of Fairfax
> Underground, and require strong medicine to deal
> with them. I genuinely believe that eesh is that
> medicine.
>
> Pirouetting back to my WWI metaphor, making eesh a
> moderator will be like giving him a tank, which he
> will happily use to mercilessly crush the people
> fucking up Fairfax Underground.
>
> Naturally, you should not do this without clearly
> defining the mission parameters for eesh's use of
> his newly found powers. You're going to have to
> tell him exactly what he can and can't do, and not
> give him any wiggle room or space he can take
> excessive advantage of. As I've said, you're
> trying to cure disease, not kill the patient.
>
> And of course, if you feel he's abusing them or
> that the cure is in fact worse than the disease,
> you can always take away his moderator rights and
> put him right back in the trenches with everyone
> else.
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I
> repeat my assertion that eesh should be made a
> moderator to deal with this problem.
>
> A while back, eesh compared the situation on
> Fairfax Underground to the stalemate on the
> Western Front during World War I, and he's exactly
> right. No user on Fairfax Underground has a
> sufficient advantage to drive another user off the
> forum, even when that user is contributing nothing
> to FFXU and has in fact demonstrated by their
> actions that they wish to make Fairfax Underground
> as miserable and shitty as they're able to.
>
> Gracelessly shifting metaphors, these malicious
> users are a cancer killing the body of Fairfax
> Underground, and require strong medicine to deal
> with them. I genuinely believe that eesh is that
> medicine.
>
> Pirouetting back to my WWI metaphor, making eesh a
> moderator will be like giving him a tank, which he
> will happily use to mercilessly crush the people
> fucking up Fairfax Underground.
>
> Naturally, you should not do this without clearly
> defining the mission parameters for eesh's use of
> his newly found powers. You're going to have to
> tell him exactly what he can and can't do, and not
> give him any wiggle room or space he can take
> excessive advantage of. As I've said, you're
> trying to cure disease, not kill the patient.
>
> And of course, if you feel he's abusing them or
> that the cure is in fact worse than the disease,
> you can always take away his moderator rights and
> put him right back in the trenches with everyone
> else.