I bet a moderator who monitors threads such as this would have done something about it by now. Maybe the old one could be begged to return?
Begged? You seem to have rather strong feelings regarding the past performance of the previous moderator.
You know, life is full of odd coincidence. The previous moderator, you suggest should be "begged to return", made his last post on February 05, 2021. Coincidentally, you registered here just a few days later on February 08, 2021 and soon started posting plaintive laments about the absence of a moderator...
...I know some forums have moderators to ensure good behaviour: isn't there anyone to do that here? It's a shame.
Your post above is from
a topic you started looking for comments on a photo you posted. You received a number of pleasant and positive replies before the thread became unfortunately
unpleasant and negative, but it really was an image with nice lighting.
You didn't mention what your image depicted, but Google image search recognized the cathedral in
St. Pölten (Sankt Pölten), Austria. I'd never heard of St. Pölten,
a small city in Lower Austria. It looks like a lovely quiet town and you did get a nice shot of a landmark there.
But in another of life's odd coincidences, our former moderator, for whose return you suggest we beg, has also posted photos online from St. Pölten. Down in the bottom right corner of his
online gallery page is an image that links to his St. Pölten, Austria "ironman" gallery. It's his only gallery that requires a password, so I guess those are photos of a personal nature. You can, however, open all the other galleries to enjoy his fine photographic work.
Wasn't it better when there was an active forum moderator? I think it was before my time here but that's the impression I get.
Before your time, but you only missed him by a few days. Who knows? With life's odd coincidences, perhaps your paths will cross and
you can beg him to come back
personally.
I think he's much more skilled as a photographer than he was as a moderator. I found his snarky condescending comments about entire groups of members posting in threads to be odd and unwelcome behavior from a moderator. Of course, you and Frans make similar comments, but then you're not entrusted with the responsibilities or authority of a moderator. I don't miss the occasionally patronizing attitude or sometimes arbitrary nature of the past moderation. Others are free to disagree with me and that's often what makes conversations worthwhile and interesting.