User blog comment:DudeWithASuit/New mods/@comment-24466042-20150815180501

I've thought about this more, and I'm more against it.

Firstly the promotions themselves, I have no problems with either of those two, but they would certainly not be my first choices as new mods. They could do the job fine, I'm sure, and I've been around when they were staff, which they were not bad at. However, both also are not perfect and have had questionable actions in the past. I feel there would be people more fit for the job and with a better history and track record here, but before this the vast majority of us called for no more promotions for a while, you were among this group.

Secondly is your reasoning. The current mods have been very capable of handling chat at any time, let alone when you haven't been here. New staff was highly unneeded just for your absence, if anything, wouldn't that warrant a new admin if anything?

Next is my biggest issue with this. The fact that you made this decision by yourself with absolutely no word from the community or even your fellow staff members. That isn't how you should handle things like this. This is a community based site, and we should get a say in this. You yourself made several blogs in which we all discussed and voted on who we thought would be good staff members and promotions. Despite what you seem to think, all of those promoted have done very well since then and don't have much of any problems to speak of. By making such huge decisions by yourself and saying the community doesn't make the best choices in the matter is not good. Nobody agreed to this and you did it out of nowhere with only your own say in the matter. I personally find that unprofessional, and it gives me the impression that the opinions and thoughts of the community and staff don't matter much to you now, and I don't like that.

Again, I have no ill will towards you, Meat or Scraw, but this is not how things like this should be done at all.

If we truly needed new staff, what should've been done was bringing the matter up and seeing what everyone thinks. That way backlash like what's been happening here wouldn't happen.

I would personally recommend that these promotions be undone for now, and we discuss whether we should have them, or anyone promoted for the reasons presented. But that's just what I would do here.

Tl;dr this wasn't the best thing to do and was unneeded. I personally don't approve.