But as I said in one of my earlier posts in this thread, it justifies giving new privileges and rights, and as it eventually turned out, it came down to adding a new global moderator.
No, that is not the case. All this proposal does is change the rank of permanently banned users to 'Banned'.
As I got it, only global moderators can give out permanent bans, right?
Correct, global moderators and admins.
At first this "interest check" which shows that people are eager to see more blood spilt, and then the "elections" which arrive just in time to ride the wave of rage and wrath toward poor fellas trying to earn a few pennies (this shouldn't be misconstrued as if I were justifying shit posting). I'm curious if I'm the only one who sees these events as closely connected...
I've suggested this proposal to theymos after it has been mentioned somewhere else, and they told me to create a thread. The elections were actually not my idea, I was just one of the people that helped create it.
So you're opposing the fact that Lauda wants a new global mod to be the choice of the community?
Ultimately theymos decides (or does not decide) based on the factors that they seem most important, but the election is off-topic here.
This is one of the rare times that I hear complaints about doing things transparently (regarding the 'Banned' rank in particular).