I am NOT respeaking of my experience here. I am providing info to people who wish toopen up who may have not noticed the need new mod threads.. their titles get tiresome.

Having a mod who will hold up the stated purpose of the tribe will be great. The consensus has been that everyone but me and a few who stated that they were not going to post with Noname as a mod.. has been that Nonamea is fine. I have stopped askign for a new mod.

People 2 - have opened their hearts and whiel that is a wonderful trusting action.. there is no mod operating in any way to maintain their open safety. I am NOT sabotaging nearly every single postiong. Glis.. I made a decision to support the group consensus about Noname and no longer ask for a new mod.

You have no idea what I think or don't think. Youtend to project and say what you apparently think I or others think. Stop doign that. Just concentrate on what you think.

We need an active moderator, even if we just have one on a temporary basis.

I don’t share Glitzen’s frustration to see Cathyq’s contributions to this tribe—definitely not sabotage from my viewpoint.

Current moderator is doing fine. In fact, IMHO, a hands off moderator fosters community building efforts and exercise within the group—without resorting to power struggles vis a vis “working the moderator”.

Nothing personal agaist anyone.. just my prespective

I find it hard to understand what the tactics for dealing with the problem is and why we choose to hold onto the "no moderator" status. What does this actually accomplish? I would like to know the answer to this. Otherwise, our antagonist gets to hold the highest power in the tribe.

Understanding Conscious relating includes understanding power dynamics and knowing when to step up (with understanding and compassion) and take away anything that takes away from the purpose of the tribe by taking away the cause of the problems power. I find this tribe has been sucked dry without any ability to communicate for at least 6 months. Nothing much has been done, except the "don't feed the troll" mentality. "Conscious Relating" to this individual so far hasn't helped us, and cannot help us unless everyone who is amongst the tribe is at least willing to relate in this manner...

If we were a real tribe with this as a base philosophy, and an individual disrupted all activities within that tribe, the tribe would stand up for itself. To me, this tribe does not stand up for itself, and in a larger context it shows a weakness within the "conscious relations" ideal which is attempted to be attained here.

If we wish to continue the 'lack of moderation' then we have to take a deeper analysis at the problem, the weaknesses of the approach we have chosen, and consciously choose as a group how to fully face the issue and stand up to the challenge.

I count six votes for a new mod and 1 against. Anyone else?

Being an anarchist it's difficult for me to support asking for a new mod. I have to agree though, we are losing our focus and it's time for a change. I vote for Dawn if she'll take on the role.

I vote for Steve as the new mod.

I WILL MODERATE
IT'S ALL I DO
I DO NOT JOIN IN DISCUSSIONS
I WATCH, AND MODERATE
THAT IS ALL
I AM IMPARTIAL

I know a lot of people voted here but it would make it easier and clearer if they revoted in the Vote Only thread, thanks for keeping that thread limited to voting only. I'm not trying to limit discussion, we can discuss this as much as we need to, I'm just trying to keep that thread clear.

And I guess we should talk about the temp mod issue, can we talk about that here? As far as I can tell there is no one who really wants to replace nomaeme, I think if she comes back and has the time to be active again, and wants the modship back we would all be okay with that. Does anyone object to that?