"How did we get a host?" a locked thread asks? Here is the answer.

[FBaggins]

64. Welcome to DU3. There are still some things to catch up on.

First of all, there are no moderators. You may be "resistant to change," but "put things back the way they were" isn't an option.

Second, you've confused a bias on the topic with an inability to be fair to those with an opposing viewpoint. This error has cropped up several times during this debate. The question isn't whether one of the hosts will vehemently disagree with you on a given subject, it's whether they will block an on-topic thread because they don't like what it says, or block you from the group because they don't like you (or your position). There has been no evidence that any of the six have or would do such a thing. Jpak and I have had several heated discussions, but I seriously doubt that he's going to just up and decide that I can't participate.

And if you feel that such a thing has happened, you can always appeal it back up the food chain. You can say that you feel it was "rammed through quickly", but most of the groups with any real volume were even quicker. The thread prior to the one you're citing basically said that they expected the job to go to the first person who was willing to do it in most cases and our current host played host through most of the beta period IIRC.

One wonders why we can't just wait for the expected terribly unfair hosting to occur before whining about it? From reading this thread you would assume that great injustice had already occured when I think a total of three threads have been locked (and no posters blocked). The first was the original host thread that was closed after a host was assigned (makes sense), then two follow-on threads that had nothing to do with E/E's topic but just wanted to rehash the host decision. Then this thread was locked for the same reason until it was clear that the admins were willing to reopen the host/no host decision.

Some want it to be about whether a particular host is acceptable. Such whining is more than childish. The posters have made clear that they don't understand what DU considers the host role to be... constantly rehashing variations on the "doesn't agree with me so he can't be fair" BS which was never the point. What is more than clear is that they know that were they in the same position, they would abuse the power... so their paranoia forces them to fear that others will do the same to them.