Exactly.  I would have probably PM'ed Carter myself or gotten in touch with him by some other means were I a mod and asked to do him the favor unless he was going to do it himself.  What's more?  I'm sure if the question had been asked as Jayde pointed out in a nice fashion rather than with the sarcastic tone it conveyed, he, meaning Jayde, might have taken the initiative to ask Carter himself!  Not to bring up bad apples but there was an incident not too long ago where I disclosed someone's real name thinking it wasn't an issue given it had been posted elsewhere on the forum and within emails and such.  Said person and another forum member came forth in that topic and politely asked that the issue be looked into.  Jayde contacted me privately about the situation and while the incident was an oversight on my part and there was nothing to be served by my editing my post the issue was resolved as smoothly and effectively as possible given the circumstances.  That's called proper communication; it does not require snarky nonsense.

Honestly I think deathstar should have been banned a long time ago. She does nothing but ster the pot to see what happens. I think this is where the community failure claws will come in handy.

@129 I'll put my own opinion up here in answer to your question, but to say I definitively know how to fix the issue would be rather arrogant.
The forum has expanded a ton since its birth.  More people?  More opinions.  More active users spouting out their opinions.  More chances at dramafests.  More moderation decisions to be handed out, meaning more mods were required to hand them out.  YOu say you remember the old days?  When I first joined up in 2009 there were mostly only two guys moderating the whole of the forum.  Dark felt it was a bit much for just the two of them and thus began searching for other possible candidates that would, if not be able to agree with him on most factors would at the very least express them self intelligently and reasonably enough to merrit discussions concerning moderation decisions.  Myself, Arqmeister, Sebbi and others were approached and recruited after careful consideration.  Some of us had contributed help on various topics and done so eloquently, while others had put forth other helpful material in the form of audio tutorials and playthroughs and the like.  Some of us had done these things and more that I just won't mention for the sake of  keeping this as short as possible.
Interestingly enough it was as I was coming in the door that previous mod, DB  editor and news writer cx2 decided the responsibility had become too much for him and relinquished his place on the panel, which is sad as I think he could have provided a solid front for us all given his already having been established for awhile.  Either way, we did our best with what we had at the time and picked up a few faces along the way.  Fastforward to 2014.  This topic and others that sprung up around the same time, plus a few other things that were going on in my life including hearing loss made me wonder/question if I just wasn't fit to the task of moderating.  I told Dark then what I'm putting out here now, which is that overall I felt like the forum was becoming a little more aggressive than I cared to believe it should be and that I honestly didn't want to be suckered into it and do more harm than good in the process.  I felt that annonymity was driving users to greater trollish heights.
While Dark did his best to tell me that this was the kind of thing he believed just came and went in phases and that he was not concerned because he'd seen it before I took my leave all the same.  The next two years were rather hard for me but I did them anyway, and, thanks to my wife, I was motivated to join the moderation panel yet again.  We both learned a lot thanks to this site and wanted to try and contribute to it as much as we could together.
Sadly, around the time I rejoined the moderation panel was involved in a rather controversial mess; you can read my research paper of sorts on it here,  Hasty decisions were made and many of us were left with bad tastes in our mouthes.  To this day I'm still not sure who lost the most out of that horrid mess but I know that nothing was ever the same after that fiasco.  I'm not going to point a finger at anyone in particular on this one because I've had a ton of time to reflect upon this situation and strongly believe we're all collectively to blame as a community, for letting annonymity make us feel untouchable because that's what we see on social networking platforms, for having allowed toxic content to run rampant for as long as it did and not punishing those who started it, for not having communicated more effectively, for not really looking for solutions but instead fueling fires and pointing at one another as the source of the problem.  We were more interested in playing a blame game that probably never should have been rather than sitting back and taking a collective breather that would have allowed us all to keep the community as it was or, better yet, to further its progress.
So yes... I believe mods and forumites alike are responsible.  I don't believe one did any better than the other.  My investigative piece probably did a great deal of putting the pieces together for the sake of transparency, but what it did not do and the one thing I regret for sure and kick my tail for almost every single time I visit this forum now, is restore order to chaos, which is seriously what I wanted most.  The current moderation panel is trying to do its best, but it has three years of harm to undo... Perhaps more that I'm not even aware of.  During my time we dealt with everything from fielding questions on cloning operations, why games didn't end up on the database, why steam didn't seem like a matter worth considering on the site, and many other things beside.  Today the mods are harshly tasked by individuals because rules don't seem stable and or have to quickly evolve to keep up with the new-comers and oldtimers alike.
At the core of my beeing though I still believe in this community and its longest standing members.  I believe many of us still try to make it work.  I believe there are also newcomers who are doing their best, but as I've said elsewhere we need to take all of the age ranges into consideration.  To be honest, that in itself almost makes it miraculous that we can all even so much as hold civil interaction on here.

Christian, let me be honest. This is likely going to sound harsh, but I'd really like to make this clear, like, right now.
On STW, you were recently banned from the game due to your disrespect towards a lot of us who play. If you wanted help, we'd try to provide you help, but you'd come back at uwith snide criticism or unnecessary sassiness, which is just totally inappropriate. I gave you, oh I don't even know anymore, over 4 chances to try and help you, but you decided you should go impersonate me on one of your clones, which really crossed the line.
Then you come on here and claim you're proud of ruining Liam's stream, as if it was like, "oh, I just won 3 frickin' trophies, yee haw suckas." I don't know what you're trying to do, bj because you're 12 years old does not mean you have the right to do this (excuse my language) shit. You know better, grow up please.

1. Jayde is not the boss. Look at our profile's and you'll see the same shining rank.
2. As was suspected by Nocturnus and Jayde, I had planned to, but discussions on list plus life simply caused me to forget. I have always, up to this point, remembered to write down punishments I hand out in the topic, if not in their own post I edit the first one. You are more than welcome to take the time and prove me wrong if you like, knock yourself out.
3. If I were following my own set of rules and wishes, far less fair, many members posting in this topic would no longer be here. Instead we, as a team, try and do our part to make this forum a better place by adhering to protocol you and everyone else mutually agreed upon. Don't like it? Take your concerns up with me privately. I personally see us as pretty reasonable considering all we're required to deal out. It isn't an easy job, nor is it fun. We all signed up because we genuinely care about the community, not because we enjoy it or are drunk with power and the desire to go rogue.

This may indeed be a matter of sarcasm distorted by the language barrier, but that doesn't change the way it came across to us. Please be more cognizant in the future.

That...doesn't even make sense, Lord Lundin. Are you saying that I somehow have more rank because I'm older? Does Nuno even know how old each of us is?

That doesn't make any logical sense though. Jayde, Cartertem... both of these two have the same privileges. Just because one does more than the other in no way means that that person somehow holds more authority than the others who are more "in the background".

All admins hold the same amount of power.
Thank you.

I didn't  even look at your rangs. Something just rang my bell that Jayde is the boss. If not, then I am sorry for misinformation.

@145 Wow. You must have a wonderful life if you can make a problem out of this. If every mod is an administrator, the moderator status becomes obsolete. What is the big deal with reading the word administrator instead of moderator. There is absolutely not one single disadvantage for you or anybody else.

As far as i know, the only difference between moderators and admins is that admins are able to unlock new users while moderators can't.