Attention!

Dear Moderation of Holla Forums's Holla Forums ("Random") board…

I want to become the owner of this board. More than you LIKE being the owner of this board- trust me. I'm not saying you're bad at moderation, just that I deserve it more.
I will make this thread every day until I'm the owner of this board. I will make Holla Forums great again and it will be better than whatever's going on right now. Thank you.(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

Your other thread was shit so you decided to make a new one? So pathethic

Huh? What are you talking about?

Dont play dumb you fcking pathetic loser. How does it feel to keep making threads everyone ignores?

Why are you so angry?

What's your platform for being BO? Be specific.

I was a mod here before. I think I'd want to do something completely different, and take the board to a new frontier it's never seen before in terms of moderating style. I think mods, in a traditional sense (e.g. reddit or 4chan), are completely dumb by virtue of concept. We're not toddlers. We don't need to be babysat, and we don't need a power hierarchy for our public discussion spaces. I think people forget that the internet isn't serious business. Moderator isn't a job.

The first thing I'd do is probably set up a meta cyclical, and for a while, or at least until I can figure out something better, only function on crowdsourced moderation. As in, I do only what posters suggested I do (if I deem it appropriate) and nothing more. If I could turn this place into a /z/-style vote-for-moderator system, or something like the "federated network of chans" idea that was floating around for a while, I would, but I can't. So, at least, I can try to emulate that.

I used to post here a lot, but as of late I haven't, so it makes no sense for me to try to be "better" than those that are actively conversing. I remember, when I was a mod, some of the other mods' post histories barely had any posts, and yet they still took tons of mod actions. I think that's stupid, and that moderation should be done in the interest of the majority of the posters. Essentially I am a populist.

I've also contributed a ton to the board (banners, etc.) in the past.

That's all fluff though
What would you do about spam (pro early 404)?
What's your stance on pedos?
How do you handle CP from VPNs, are you pro long bans?

t. you

If it becomes a detriment to the navigation/preservation of content it should be deleted. Obviously, spam is bad, and it isn't the same as normal content (like goonsaloon or Holla Forums or whatever would have you believe).
The idea of permanently banning anyone for a post/series of posts they made that wasn't illegal is ludicrous and outdated, though. They'll just ban evade anyway, so what's the point? I don't like the idea of having users "make sure" they don't "get on a mod's bad side", and having banning be an imminent threat for anyone. If it doesn't take effort to post, and thus the prospect of an average user posting it is realistic, it shouldn't be worthy of a ban. CP takes effort to find, and wiping a catalog takes effort (or at least time), so I'm fine with banning people for it.
I've never seen a good argument for early 404. Literally all it does is prevent good threads that are further down in the catalog form being contributed to. "Necrobumping" is a literally nonexistent issue except for autists that are hyper-aware of the position of each thread in the catalog.
If it threatens the integrity of the site or board's status of being existant it needs to go. These people don't get to congregate and have a space here if they might ruin it for everybody. And, at the same time, no feeding the vindictiveness of the rabid anti-pedos or the "PEDOS DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR HEAD SMASHED IN" spammer. A picture of a little girl threatens nobody. If it's allowed on youtube or 4chan, it's allowed here. Illegal content is only not allowed because the site would be taken down if it was posted, so that should be the metric in which it's judged. Mods shouldn't attach their own fallible moral stances to how they mod, that's called moralfaggotry.
How do you handle CP from VPNs, are you pro long bans?
Delete it. VPNs shouldn't have long bans. If we start cracking down on VPNs and proxies (and tor) we get a fundamental step closer to becoming like 4chan's moderation.

Let me ask you, are you a mod?