level judge apps

That last paragraph I couldn't agree with more. I have said it once already; I don't expect moderators to put their real, personal lives before moderating the forum. Never in a million years would I expect somebody to do that.

What I don't quite get is what you are saying before that. Do you seriously believe that you need to be tagged in something in order to for you to check things. I can understand it if somebody wanted to tag you or whatever other mod in order for you to get round to dealing with someting quicker, but there's the "report post" button for that, and I am most certain that you have full access to all of the reports and are more than capable of dealing with them. As a moderator you ought to be scanning through everything and checking for yourself to see if things are in order, you shouldn't need to be tagged in anything, unless someone specifically asks you.

As for the discussions, the main topic of this all is the fact that things are seriously wrong with the level judging system, and it has been made clear to me as to how poorly it was discussed. You are probably quite right in saying that things are discussed among you as I have no idea what you are doing behind the scenes, but the whole point of this is that this entire system was not discussed properly at all. I can stress enough how inappropriate it was to make such a radical change to the forum without notifying and discussing it with everybody rather than the select few that are involved with it.



Since making that post, a lot of things have been brought to light and I understand your system a lot better now. Before I was making assumptions based on what I knew and I have stated that in the event of them being wrong, ignore them.

The only reason why I believe that the "Level Suggestions" section, or better still, the levels board as a whole, is the beating heart of the forum is simply because such a radical change was made to the forum in order to implement it. Sure, other parts of the forum do get a lot more activity which is why that could easily be considered the same thing. In all honesty, I should rephrase what I said and change it to "it should be the beating heart of the forum". Look in "General Discussion", and although it is realted to Geometry Dash most of the time, it's usually just full of rather daft threads about rather daft, already heavily discussed topics. It also seems to be the centre of where the things closest to flame wars are, because I am yet to see one. It's a "General Discussion" sub-forum, it doesn't really have much meaning. Sure, every forum has one, and in most cases it is the most frequently viewed part of the forum, but I would never consider it the part that's most important. The levels board is a very serious part of the forum that couldn't be any more related to Geometry Dash. But that's just me and that's what I think. What others think is another thing, and I entirely respect their views.

Another thing I have begun to think about is about what the moderators are actually supposed to be doing on this forum. You say that you are supposed to deal with "General Discussion" and "Community Suggestions". Many others say similar things, and I am yet to find a single moderator that claims to have some sort of responsibility for dealing with the levels board. There are moderators listed on the sub-forums, but, for example, Jumpyhead is claimed to be a moderator of that area, but he claims he has no power to move things around and actually moderate that part of the forum. Who, in reality, is moderating that part? Nobody claims responsibility whatsoever. And that brings me on to a further point. What does "Global Moderator" mean? Last time I checked it means you moderate the entire forum, not just sections. How can you claim to only have to deal with a small fraction of the forum if you are a "Global Moderator"? Or is this just another name cock-up or job allocation cock-up again, like in the case of Viprin being an admin when he clearly never wanted to be one and shouldn't even be one? It doesn't make sense to have that title if you are not supposed to be dealing with the entire forum? Either the entire staff system was badly thought through or R4ZOR literally had no idea what he was doing.

The trust issues are apparent, if not quite as serious as I imagined. In fact, if we are going to be really strict as to what it is, it seems to be more of a level judge-moderator issue which is clearly being expressed between Jumpyhead and you all. It's clear to me that you don't seem to trust each other and don't get along very well. That being said, amongst mods and admins there doesn't seem to be any problems that I am aware of, so I go back on that point. Like I said, things became invalid as I learnt more things. The same applies to the ignorance thing.

I think it is worth mentioning that I don't expect moderators to write reviews, but, of course, there's nothing stopping you from doing such a thing, but it wouldn't harm you all to check things for yourselves every now and again (when you have time, that's the most important thing) rather than having to be tagged. It helps massively, I know, and I will always tag when I feel a moderator is needed, but I am not everybody and there is no way that you being tagged is guaranteed, and that's why I feel this "tag me and I'll do stuff" thing just isn't ideal. If that's what you really want, then the point needs to made to the entire community that if you want something done, tagging is the solution (or the report post button if that is what's correct).



Wait a minute, first you were saying that you aren't reviewing because the system needs revamping, and now you are saying that you aren't reviewing because you are busy and aren't interested anymore. Which one is it?

That being said though, if you were just simply made judge before discussions ensued, then the same thing that I said about Viprin applies to you as well. In all honesty, you are about as much as a level judge as I am. You have virtually no power to move or moderate things, the title is virtually meaningless because nothing was discussed and you were just thrown that title, something that could have been done to anybody.

R4ZOR is desperately needed. The level judging system is simply awful, and how the moderation team works needs to be properly clarified. Certain things simply aren't making sense right now.