A Manlyfesto

Here at Mods In Heat, we've provided hard-hitting coverage of various internet communities for about a year now. It's time we reflect now, at this our first anniversary of coverage, on how this has gone, and where it is going.

The use of authority in various internet communities is, by and large, mistaken. That is, it fails to accomplish what it intends, and often intends to accomplish what only takes away from other goals or fails to consider those that are truly more beneficial and important.


Intro

You have to ask yourself, "What is the good life?" Like it or not, internet communities represent the real time of real people. In other words, it's not "just the internet" no more than anything else is "just x" for any x. Therefore, it's also not "just entertainment" or "hobby", etc. It all fundamentally is the physical manifestation of real time from real people's lives.


It All Counts

Obviously every action represents an attempt to sate some thirst, to satisfy some need. Time spent in various internet communities is no different. But as you can see, the question of whether the time is spent effectively or whether the interest of some or all is partially or fully thwarted through bad judgments is as important as any dollar amount or human lives amount that you could make equivalent to some amount of any person's life.

For instance, if you had to waste 1 hour a day for the rest of your life, say 50 years, that's 18,250 hours or 760~ days, 2.08~ years.

Put that in perspective man! We are slaving and slaving in labs to add a year to granny's life because she ate too many donuts when she was in her thirties. So actually, the lack of this or that script or policy on this or that web site, does, in fact, add up.

It's only wishful thinking, rationalization--delusion--that allows the authorities in various internet communities to tell themselves that it doesn't matter whether they are slightly lazy. They may delude themselves into thinking that "able" is the same as "ought" when need be. But it remains clear for all that only by making their reason public and accountable, can such authorities hand back over the waste they create, back to their constituents--back to the people.

Every click you've wasted by shrugging off a decent idea, every person you've temp banned or banned unnecessarily long or without giving them a chance to show they can perform as you desire, or giving them a chance to reason with you so that you have a fair chance of finding out if maybe your ideas on desirable performance and undesirable performance and how to achieve those is actually not in line with the true goods the community moves towards. In other words, until you have the balls to risk letting other people show you when you are wrong, you are simply a self-serving, deluded bully pissing all over those starving children in Africa. Q.E.D.