That "vote" was inherently biased and certainly not as conclusive as you would believe.

Firstly, that was not a vote at all, given that it was attached to the post itself and to the user, and people were hesitant to downvote or even disagree with a mod they respected. That inherently meant that that "poll" was biased in favour of the person posing the question. Unfortunately this site does not have proper polling support, which would have separated the personality of the mod from the question posed.

Secondly, any potential participants would have had to have been aware of every single thing that this mod were posting. As far as I was aware, that post only garnered the interest of a few hundred users that were present at the time and aware of the drama when in fact there are thousands browsing this site. This site does not revolve around him, you know.

Thirdly, that poll was conducted in the heat of the moment, directly after he presented the evidence and his decisions but well before anyone had enough time (think in terms of not just hours to a couple of days, but several days to weeks to even months) to properly and thoroughly investigate and verify his claims. He also only gave a short window of a few hours to conduct this poll. We're not in the business of making summary judgments.

Well, whatever he decreed, it's no longer in effect, because he resigned and was removed from the mod team, precisely because he made all his decisions unilaterally without consulting the rest of the mods and caused such furore on this site. He "came back" under a different account, which has also been deleted. And yet we're still here.

That "vote" was inherently biased and certainly not as conclusive as you would believe.

Firstly, that was not a vote at all, given that it was attached to the post itself and to the user, and people were hesitant to downvote a mod they respected. That inherently meant that that "poll" was biased in favour of the person posing the question. Unfortunately this site does not have proper polling support, which would have separated the personality of the mod from the question posed.

Secondly, any potential participants would have had to have been aware of every single thing that this mod were posting. As far as I was aware, that post only garnered the interest of a few hundred users that were present at the time and aware of the drama when in fact there are thousands browsing this site. This site does not revolve around him, you know.

Thirdly, that poll was conducted in the heat of the moment, directly after he presented the evidence and his decisions but well before anyone had enough time (think in terms of not just hours to a couple of days, but several days to weeks to even months) to properly and thoroughly investigate and verify his claims. He also only gave a short window of a few hours to conduct this poll. We're not in the business of making summary judgments.

Well, whatever he decreed, it's no longer in effect, because he resigned and was removed from the mod team, precisely because he made all his decisions unilaterally without consulting the rest of the mods and caused such furore on this site. He "came back" under a different account, which has also been deleted. And yet we're still here.