Please stop thanking me now.

Ok. I apologize.

I'll take up the role. Thanks @fdrake!

You're an excellent forum moderator as well, Moliere. One of the best I've ever seen.

Also stop apologising.

Ok. I will comply with your request. I promise that I will try to be a better forum member.

You could do that by refraining from posting off topic music videos that inevitably clog up the mod action queue.

That's a good point, I never thought about it that way. You're right.

As I said, Mr. F. Drake, you're an excellent forum moderator. One of the best I've ever seen.

Now that I don't have to be objective.

And you're probably already aware of this, but how literal and direct your interpretations of other people's posts are can come off as acerbic. If someone doesn't have a frame of reference for your social style anyway. That isn't just a you thing. People can interpret you being direct, literal and detail focussed as disrespectful and then escalate what they perceive as a conflict.

I'm not even sure you can do anything about it anyway, it's just something to be mindful of.

Yes, it's a very smart observation, the one that you're making. And it's also good advice. I'm not sure that I agree with the following part, though:

I'm not even sure you can do anything about it anyway, it's just something to be mindful of. — fdrake

That sounds a bit defeatist to my ear.

Drake, can I share an article with you, here? It's an article from a magazine called Popular Mechanics. The title is "Wrap Your Head Around the Enormity of the Number TREE(3)".

I'd be interesting in known your opinion about these gargantuan numbers. Or, scratch that, can I please ask you what you think about them? Forget the article. What do you think of Graham's Number, for example?

I don't care. The size of the number is unimportant.

But they're amazing to think about. There's not enough matter in the Universe to write them, even with pen and paper.

Thanks ↪fdrake! You're an excellent forum moderator, one of the best I've ever seen!

(Edited because I removed a music video) — Arcane Sandwich

Drake I updated my comment.

Yeah you just gotta make a bigger universe obv.

I advise you to read what I wrote about music videos again.

Ok Drake, I'll do that.

Thanks ↪fdrake
You're an excellent forum moderator, one of the best I've ever seen!

(Edited because I removed a music video) — Arcane Sandwich

But you can't. No one can. That's the point of these gargantuan numbers.

Skill issue honestly.

I mean, you can write "Graham's Number", I just did that. You can even remove the scare quotes, like so: Graham's Number. But my point is that this isn't Graham's Number itself. Graham's Number Itself requires, by definition, an amount of matter to even write it as a numeral, that there is not enough matter in the universe to do that. I mean, consider the series of single-digit integers:

The set of the series of single-digit integers = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}

If you (or anyone else) wants to write Graham's Number, or TREE(3), using the set defined above, then there's not enough matter in the universe to do that.

That's why we simply call them "Graham's Number", or "TREE(3)".

Do you agree or disagree with me on that, Drake? It has nothing to do with skill. Right?

I'm just shitposting because I don't really care.

Ok, but why didn't you just say that, to begin with, then?

Because you can't shitpost without appearing to be somewhat sincere.

Because you can't shitpost without appearing to be somewhat sincere. — fdrake

Do I agree with this? I'm not sure. What do you mean by that?

Well, I'd say that you're my friend, if there's such a thing as Internet friendships. So, I have already given you the right to moderate me, informally at least. — Arcane Sandwich

I consider you as my friend too. But I don't want to act like I am a shepherd and you my loyal mastiff.

So is everyone, arguably. — Arcane Sandwich

Not really. I have seen some folks who control themselves and know to ensure eclectic positions in different topics. @Count Timothy von Icarus is a good example, and his appointment as moderator was a very good decision by the forum.

Not every moderator has to moderate every single topic of discussion. Maybe your talents and knowledge are better suited to moderate topics in Philosophy of Art, for example. You don't have to moderate political topics if you don't want to. — Arcane Sandwich

That's interesting.

I don't know if you already notice that there is a short story contest once a year. The previous contests were based on a system of poll voting, but readers were not forced to read and leave feedback. Thus, explaining why they gave a 2 instead of 5, for example. I disagreed with this, and I remember putting a lot of effort into supervising that each author had the feedback they deserved, but I ended up mentally exhausted. My aim was just to keep the contest up on an optimal level. I care a lot about the contest, but caring is not the only important feature. If I take personally the way some folks treat the short stories or the contest itself, I couldn't be a good mod because my attitude is obviously biased.

I consider you as my friend too. But I don't want to act like I am a shepherd and you my loyal mastiff. — javi2541997

Well, mastiffs are horrendous. My favorite animal is the Ant-Eater.

, do you mind if I post a funny video about a guy that dedicated his life to studying Ant-Eaters? Would everyone else mind?

I ended up mentally exhausted. My aim was just to keep the contest up on an optimal level. I care a lot about the contest, but caring is not the only important feature. If I take personally the way some folks treat the short stories or the contest itself, I couldn't be a good mod because my attitude is obviously biased. — javi2541997

Right, so maybe Philosophy of Art is not the best topic for you to moderate, then. Have you considered moderating Philosophy of Religion? Maybe your skills and talents and knowledge would be better suited for moderating that general topic.

Do I agree with this? I'm not sure. What do you mean by that? — Arcane Sandwich

The true form of the shitpost is that which leaves what is stated unstated and what is unstated stated.