Being a moderator is a tough gig as @zephyr1 and past greats would tell you (and as future greats are now realising, not that they didn’t know already @DaveCozy@littleKAF )
Of course there is a (fair) view that moderators should not be compensated but I find it absolutely INCONCEIVABLE that our longest-standing moderator @Rook has not been able to pull a single HOTM.
This request is likely to fall on deaf ears but I’d ask SG to give @Rook a free 2017 HOTM of her choosing or if they are unwilling to do that, 20 EHTs for her years of continuing service.
I’m unaware if a previous request has been made but for what it’s worth I did a quick search and could not find a Rook targeted thread??
Oops, had my ‘defence-of-thread’ helmet on which I usually put on when @zephyr1 and @littleKAF come on
Come to think of it @rook seems to me to be more a ‘profanity’, ‘civil manners’ and ‘is this going out of control’ police rather than a merge police (at least from what I can remember)
@Rook does merge reasonably often, but also tends to just close duplicate threads more often than I do, instead of merging them.
Technically the Forum Rule is that duplicates will be deleted. But we usually try to merge or direct people to an existing thread instead, as a courtesy.
It’s incredibly uncommon that we delete threads…but on days when I’ve had to merge 20-something duplicate bug reports during server outages, or there are 10 new complaint threads about things that have been rehashed a million times…it gets tempting to just start following the Forum Rule instead of merging. But we resist. For now.
Thank you for your kindness, but I would have to decline. It would be very unfair to all other players who have not pulled a certain hero if I was handed one for free.
Besides, I already got a cat-themed card!
P.S. I’m now intrigued to see how long The Curse of Rook can actually last…where’s the fun in artificially breaking it early?
