Final Announcement (from both mods)
This is a final moderator announcement for those seeking a resolution to the current "crisis".

For those calling for "action" (you know who you are): you can keep flinging poorly-reasoned, unexperienced, insulting nonsense at Oblyvia and I if you want. While I find it hilariously entertaining (i do SO love pointless drama) It's not going to change anything, because guess what: we're the mods now. No, seriously, think about that for a second. We. Are. The. Mods.

I would rather there were no mods, but here we are. Deal with it. If anyone here thinks this is going to be a god damned democracy anymore, think again. No comment you make to myself or Oblyv can override our collective common sense. An exposition of said common-sense is as follows:

There are very, very good reasons to do absolutely nothing as a moderator, reasons many of you seem to be utterly incapable of imagining. As soon as you ban one person, or delete one post without permission, you've set a serious precedent. It enrages trolls, encourages the creation of endless sock-puppet accounts, and generally makes more trouble for everyone than it's worth.

It's over. No more polls, no bannings, no more faux-democratic nonsense. The community will continue to be an anarchistic forum to discuss relatively mundane issues with almost no relevant experience or education in those issues. That's what this place has always been about, and so help me god, that's what it will continue to do. We have a long, proud history of flinging uninformed rhetorical BS back and forth at each other with no resolution in sight, and that tradition stays.