You were never the people's mod. You were and are the people's narcissistic prick.
Spot on.
It's funny how some zoklet staff members come here, trying hard to validate their actions and to act like they were all part of something grand, something unified. If I ever saw a bunch of incompetent mods together on a forum, it was on zoklet. A giant jerkfest of people with powers, shunning true conversation and knowledge but trolling along with the rampant resident idiots. True mods like Spatula Tzar, Bunghole and HLC, to name a few, stood above shitposting, but the likes of mark, psychomantis and unwyred made the whole zoklet experience into the stain of shit it became over the years.
Mods should be knowledgeable. Mods should be able to take distance from internet drama, and shouldn't encourage the kind of posting that drives people away. Mastering ctrl C and V from wikipedia to zoklet, posting a oneliner in every SG and PEOO thread isn't mod behavior in my opinion. Infractions were more than often a joke, and nepotism has been a large cause of decline of the site. A Flemish proverb says 'soft healers, stinking wounds', which is something I tend to link to zoklet. Each and every tard there had multiple accounts, was allowed to keep posting utter shit week after week, had infractions reversed multiple times, and was allowed to do pretty much whatever he/she wanted to do, everywhere, all the time.
I'm more than likely not the first, but I predict a massive amount of cocksucking by certain zoklet staff on whatever site zoklet will migrate to. It'd be nice to have a site with some traffic, but I'd prefer content over shitposting any day. Zoklet was mostly drama and a bunch of tards trying too hard (TDR and rowan making four thousand posts about Snoopy's bald wife, for example) with very little actual discussion outside the specialized fora, it'd be nice to have all of that gone forever, or at least taken care of in a mature way. Better no posts than shitposts, something -Spectral and Daguru tend to say in a few thousand words per post.
Hopefully Arnox will use his common sense and (if needed) appoint decent people. I don't give a fuck if someone is online 24/7, this alone does not make one a good mod. Authorities on certain subjects is what you need, people who are humble and above drama and bullshit. Zoklet had preciously few, I sure hope this place does better.