MEEP: New moderators, website redesign, new features, and more! [DISCUSSION]

No, the previous voters got a boost from them being on the records.

I'd like to nominate Lemming for moderator. 

He's likely the most unbiased person on the site and a huge part of this community. 

Seems like an issue unworthy of a site vote..

They are needless bloat. Like the dictionary hidden in DDO to inflate the page count to make the site look big. If not getting rid of them, we might as well start not getting rid of spam threads.

P.S. I do get rid of them when I see them.

Shouldn’t there be a punishment for users who forfeit without a valid reason?

Yes

I assume this is related to the new voting system proposal…

I agree many things should be penalized. A mature voter can factor those into the mitigation factor when voting in their favor. The majority of voters will be instantly biased against them for forfeitures, making winning any points an uphill battle. And a really immature voter will no longer be able to award extra points for their amazing conduct while forfeiting (rare but it’s happened).

A related suggestion I’ve made elsewhere, is to have the site itself penalize forfeitures automatically. I envision this as a minor deduction (maybe 0.25 points per forfeiture?), which voters may easily outweigh with their votes should they deem the arguments better in spite of that… Actually, that too should be a proposal (no guarantee the dev team can make all things we agree on happen, but getting site agreement on directions to push should be helpful to them).

I think debates with many forfeits are 'usually done by, new for a day and gone, users.

Punishment might lose a bit of it's 'effect, in such cases.

Thats true 

It’s quite annoying really