Quickly moving beyond the past, let's talk about the future.
If I am given the mod ability, here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to use it to smoothly host this game. I'm going to get rid of the words Free and Super from the few titles I added it to in that forum because I've wanted to get rid of them for months. Despite getting a ban for doing so and there now being some hesitancy in granting me mod powers again because of it, it doesn't seem that anyone else cares that those thread titles stay that way. I do because I've always cared about that forum. I'm not asking to be given an unlimited amount of time as moderator again. I'm just asking to be mod to host this game. When it is done, take them away again if you feel so unsure about me. That was what was supposed to be done when it began. When I was just left as a permanent mod, it was because the majority of users felt it appropriate. If you don't think it appropriate now, I'm not going to argue it.
However, that means you have to be checking in on when games are over and when to take that ability away. That is something that never happened. It wasn't until a new host was ready to begin that the change happened. In fact, Maryjane (who disapperared while hosting a game 2 years ago) and Maxi (who abandoned these forums a year ago) were still left as mods for the forum for almost a year. They could have shown up at anytime and just disrupted things if they so felt much like S-U-P-E-R did with the forum rules. If you are really that worried about giving people moderator abilities for the forum, I think that is a hard position for you to argue since there was never any swift action to take them away after.
Frankly, that's always been the risk of giving anyone mod powers for that forum. Would there be a deliberation if there had been enough support when Silenced wanted to try hosting a game? I like the Mafia Forum. If Pale had actually gone through with his grand plan of moving all old mafia threads out of the funhouse and into the Mafia Forum, I think it would be equal to or maybe surpass the Podcast Discussion forum on the Top 10 boards list. In fact, for not using it for almost a year, it still isn't that far behind. I'd love to see that forum climb higher and higher on the charts even though getting past the Handheld Discussion forum might be an unreachable goal. Yet, despite feeling this way, I have to ask. If you aren't going to allow the games to be held in it, what is the point of it right now? An archive?
That's my stance. I'm open for discussion on the matter and have been since contacting you all. I'd welcome feedback on it.