Ah. I don't like round-table discussion topics, mostly because I have nothing worthwhile to say that has not already been said.
I agree that most people would be horribly bucked to have the word Moderator by their sn. I mean, I get horribly bucked when RPers actually respond to what my characters in RPGs do, or notice my chara a little bit, even if it's a throwaway phrase or one-liner, so that it makes my fingers automatically start typing up a new post; imagine if you were Moderator and everybody *had* to notice what you typed, but I'm rather too easily excited, so. To the matter at hand...
I have no particular preference about choice of new mod or keep the old mods or anything, but Drusilla is the obvious choice if you wanted a new mod. She does things.
Roy nom'd me? Thanks muchly, but I'm really lazy at the core; the world would end before I was a mod.
Likewise I have no real opinion about rules that has not been voiced, but yes I like the friendly approach. Archiving is a lovely alternative to deleting, because I'm the type of RPer that gets sentimental over old posts, and I'd like to think there are others like me.
Uh, for an innovation type thing, I think that all RPers who signed up for a particular RPG should get each others contacts and talk, to each other, about their characters, and the subplots and things they want to do to them. Also, if anyone was unsure about how another's chara would react to their own, they could ask each other easily, and not need to put my favourite standard disclaimer "I hope I didn't mess anyone's chara up". There'd be more interaction, and with a solid plotline made up of everyone's little character plotlines, people would maybe want to post more. Of course the downside to this would be that there'd be no surprise factor anymore, but some discreet emailing/PMing could be arranged?? Maybe there should be a special sub-forumish thing for this.
Okay, time for me to retreat backwards into my shell.