Skinner...
So on DU3 forums and groups will no longer be policed by a small group of elite moderators who are responsible for trying to deal with problems everywhere on the site. Instead, forums and groups will be policed by the very DU members who have a particular interest in those forums and groups, and who wish to take charge of running them.
We are calling these people "Hosts." If you or any of your friends wish to become a Host of the GLBT forum, you are welcome. You will have the power to lock any thread in your forum, and you will have the power to block any member from posting in your forum. (You will NOT have the power to delete posts -- that is going to be taken care of by a different aspect of the DU3 moderating system that I'm not going to go into here.)
Wow! It just occurred to me that the Big 3 at the DUmp will be swamped (literally) by an endless stream of ATA posts bitching about "I've been blocked!!111!". I see bedlam and dictatorial behavior caused by the elite cliques that usurps control of individual forums or groups of forums.
And I see it ending with Skinner and his henchmen refusing to rectify any situations where it happens by telling the abused poster that "this is what you've agreed to, this is what you get."
I can't wait.
Although I see a massive exodus and a tidal wave of new members swimming over to Pitcairn Island, the pickings for DOTY will become slim and uninspiring. Maybe the DOTY will evolve into the Elmer of the Year, the ELMER FUDDoty.