- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
My intention for NMST was never to make it some sort of 'Sub-Mod' group. People took it that way.
EDIT: And by people, I mean some of its members.It wasnt meant to be a little elitist group either. It was there to help cool down flame wars, try to help organise discussion and to help out new members. Also, I would have hoped that we could push the idea of discussion over flame, and point-counterpoint debates.
Also, I never targeted spam as one of our aims. That is the mods job, not ours.
Original aims of NMST
-Posting interesting, worthwhile conversation about Halo 2.
-Cooling down potential flame wars
-Advising ignorance against spamming
-Helping out the new guys, and getting them used to the idea of interesting debate rather than 'Your -blam!-' 'Your a dumbass' type flaming.
-In cases such as ILB, helping to keep things tip top and under control.
I never said we should tell people what to do, etc. You get the idea. People took things out of context. I wanted to help, not moderate. I wanted to make NM a friendly and nice place to be, not neccesarily a place where only people who are very articulate could go. A lot of members went WAAAY over the top. They assumed that they could start acting all moddy because they were a member of the NMST. Organisation of aims comes at a price gentlemen.
[Edited on 9/2/2004 7:14:23 AM]