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Why is Laced afforded the luxury by an admin "hoping to build" that trust over time for him when we keep regular people banned for the same thing? Why isn't someone like Timbo afforded the luxury of building trust again? He has 10 bans, Laced has 28. (This is just used as an example, no need to comment on Timbo specifically).

I have no part in TTT decisions or regular people getting banned for the same thing in most cases. I don't see it as a luxury. As I said, I think he deserved an opportunity to prove that he's changed and web mod was a first step. I fully expected some people to have a lack of trust based on his past. As I said, I think that's a preconcieved view that some people won't break easily. Some people can be stuck in the past, echo chambers, etc. I think he's so far shown signs of improvement, dedication to the community, motivation, and taking the role seriously. He's also returned as TTT staff initially, so it's not like I was promoting a non-staff member. He's my responsibility and I think that over time, trust can be built. Otherwise some people won't come out of the bubble that is filled with preconcieved view, opinions, echo chambers, half-baked context, etc. I fully recognize his past. I never said I didn't. We have to move forward and I think this is a good first step.

As I said before, the perks/perms of "Web Mod" have changed significantly, I don't think people recognize that enough. It's not mod in the traditional sense. It' a hybrid of Mod and TMod(which he already has on TTT). I think we need to not jump to concluions right away and allow some time to genuinly evaluate how it goes.

I'll comment on Timbo, sure. In my view, Timbo showed little reason that he should be trusted again. His app lacked effort, acknowledgement of his issues, etc. For Laced, he has acknowledged his issues and has been genuine in bettering himself.

I wasn't sure before, but this is obviously a "hey you're my friend, so here's moderator" type of decision. I've seen so many people in this thread defending Laced, who I've seen comment things like "You've already been given three chances. Don't come back -1" on unban requests. What makes Laced better than us plebes where he is given special treatment by an admin, in order to build trust again?

Respectfully, I don't get how this is favortism or some sort of "favor." Sure, we are good friends. I've known him since ~late 2018. So on the surface level I get why it appears that way but I frankly think some much needed context is here. For one, I can tell you have not read my initial forum changes post here. As I said, "Web Mod" is not moderator in the traditional sense. It's the only web staff rank. I don't feel like retyping what I've already said multiple times, so here:

As I've also said, I'm in a unique position be able to be able to determine how he's changed given my involvement with his past bans, promotion/demotion, and watching how's he's changed and grown. So i think painting this as favortism is not productive nor reasonable to infer, respectfully. I've said more above, but I can elaborate if you wish