Does /tg/ need Mods/Janitors?

This post SHOULD be some sort of insipid "I started a blog, Yay me!" sort of thing, but that seemed somewhat passe.


Instead, I'd thought I'd open up with a somewhat controversial topic instead. Not that this is going to be the case all of the time. Most of the time I'd like to think this blog will be talking about the vidya and wargaming in general, but only time will tell.

Getting back on topic, does /tg/ the Traditional games board of 4chan need moderators and janitors?

If perhaps mods and janitors were infallible superhumans then yes. Hell, if they actually did they job they were supposed to do then it would work fine. But you've got to question the sort of personality that would actually put themselves forwards, and would be online enough to make them the first choice for being a Janitor of a 4chan board.
Certainly this doesn't mean that all mods and janitors are bad, /m/ has had some amazing mod/janitor induced moments in the past. /tg/ however? Nope. Every Janitor we've ever had has either been a powertripping fagoot, or an enabler who looks the other way as one guy gives the rest of them a bad name. /tg/ doesn't have a mod, it occaisionally get's the odd random roving mod who deletes porn if he notices enough reports from general fa/tg/uys or Janitors but that's about it.

Touhou-Guy-Gate pretty much proves as well that said mods don't actually pay any attention to what they're banning a guy for as well.

We've had at least two janitors over the years who's service doesn't surpass shite at best, and were out and out trolls at worst. The first one had all the hallmarks of a militant feminist (what the fuck one of those was doing on 4chan I can't even begin to speculate) who deleted any picture of a woman not wearing a duffel coat or heavier, then came the return of a Janitor who Moot had previously stripped of his authority for acting like an asshole.
Suprise fucking suprise he immiediately started acting like an asshole, deleting touhou pictures solely for trolling purposes. Then came his crowning moment, where he cyberbullied an autistic kid and then managed to get him permabanned from 4chan.
The outcry was tremendous, Moot himself came down to asnwer the cries of injustice.
His answer being "Cry moar faggots"
Although by this point this could be considered par for the course for Moot's dealings with /tg/ given that at the time we had a goddamn sarcastic sticky essentially banning meta-threads in a move straight out of the Dictators Handbook.

This pretty much set the tone for Janitors on /tg/. It leads us currently to the utterly bizarre situation where it's okay to talk about the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, but not Wakfu. Then came a sticky asking people on /tg/ to stop bitching about Matt Wards latest abortion of a Codex. Which is like King Cnut commanding the tide to not come in* at best and shows a woeful lack of understanding just why /tg/ was made to begin with.

Some people even now claim that /tg/ is better with these "janitors", claiming that it would be a hell of a lot worse without it, claiming that it would be beladen with spam and porn.
This pretty much demonstrates them to be newfags or trolls, the old pre-captcha, pre-janitor /tg/ was always laden with what they would call spam and it didn't burst into goddamn flames. Anything a Janitor needed to do, was largely dealt with when we got capcha, we don't really need anything more than that (assuming, knock on wood, that Capcha does keep out automated spam).
Also, even if /tg/ was full of fucking shit threads, it's not like those threads wouldn't last longer than a couple of hourse before dropping right off the board. 4chan, by it's very nature, is ephermeral, a bad thread will die, a good thread can survive upto several days (maybe even as long as a week) Stop acting like a bad thread is capable of physically hurting you, just ignore it and move on.
So, given that capcha does most of his work now, what does a Janitor with too much free time do?

That right: Abuse the fuck out of his power knowing full well that no matter how hard we complain with legitimate concerns, Moot, the power that be, will always take his side.

Does /tg/ need mods or janitors.

No. Hell no. Heck, time was when our lack of moderation was considered our strongest asset. Now though? Hitlers burnt down the reichstag, blamed it on a retard and got himself emergency powers, and what was once a democratic Weimar Republic enthusiastically votes away it's freedom with both hands raised.

/tg/ doesn't need moderation. It just needs people to download the 4chan addon for firefox and learn how to minimise threads. Also, if the population in general could try to be a little less horrified at every little thing that would help too. But then, it wouldn't really be /tg/ would it?

*Yes, I'm aware the Cnut was deliberately doing that to make the point that he WASN'T all powerful just for being king, but you get the idea.