Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626061048/@comment-1207741-20150626175321

SuperSajuuk wrote: If Dantman felt that the sysops should be moderating the forums, he would not have requested the Forum Moderator and Forum Operator groups to be created. Mightn't he create the group if he wanted you to be able to contribute in ways you were not otherwise able to? The fact that moderators exist as a group does no seem to me evidence that they and only they are permitted to moderate.

To use a poor analogy: for a long time trees were the sole provider of oxygen for us to breathe. It was eventually decided that trees didn't do a good enough job of that, so respirators were created. The existence of respirators does not mean we want trees to stop making oxygen; so long as everyone can breathe, that is all anyone should want.