Dear diary

I'm so excited, Atko made me a mod of a somewhat popular sub today. Not sure why he chose me, but I'll try not to let him down.

Hmm.. No instruction manual, only one other confused mod. What do I do? Surely instructions are coming right?

Okay, read mail.

Find a serious complaint involving doxing. Sweet I get to be a hero.

Turns out I don't have the ability, send reply saying I can't help.

Get message from other mod who just fixed the problem. Hero status stolen, but it's ok. Things are about to get better.

New message, user asking for some clarification on a rule. I gave the best limited advice I could, and told them to go ahead. Starting to feel good.

SHIT GOES OFF THE RAILS

Angry people out of nowhere. They demand things I have mostly planned to do, and can't seam to hear me when I say "Okay".

They came to put the boots to a power hungry mod. But they only found me. I really was an InnocentBystander. I didn't make the rules.

If you read the modTalk chronologically you can probably spot the moment where my hope that this would be a smooth transition was crushed.

Continue getting my ass handed to me by people I have upvoated in past. This is not fun anymore.

But at the end of the day I won. I employed a cunning strategy of throwing myself at their feet and begging.

Like a Man.

Why not. They want the users to decide, and that's all I ever wanted either. I'm just confused about how we were not on the same side from the start.