If we were to have mods they should have avatars of identifying them as garbage man

[Hwen Hoshino]

Or something that evokes that image. That is what their brand should be. Authority to do a task but no high social status associated with it.

[Speaker to Animals]

Fuck you. Garbage men are noble workers. Don't associate them with what just happened in this forum.

[Ex-California]

Fuck you. Garbage men are noble workers. Don't associate them with what just happened in this forum.

Garbage men and utility workers (gas, electricity, sewer, etc) are more important to civilization that police, fire, or any other government worker

[DBTrek]

Fuck you. Garbage men are noble workers. Don't associate them with what just happened in this forum.

Garbage men and utility workers (gas, electricity, sewer, etc) are more important to civilization that police, fire, or any other government worker

Unless you’re part of the 48% receiving some form of government subsidy or support. In which case the “money redistributors” are the most important.

[DrYouth]

In the past merchants and entertainers were among the despised classes...

Now they are the upper echelon.

Independent landholding farmers in the meantime rank at about the level of schoolteachers and mid-low level bank employees.

The times change.

I don't see any reason to make moderators into a class of untouchables...

Maybe we should even afford them some pomp... perhaps a nice type face to honour their status...

They are putting in time to keep this place running smoothly... I would say they deserve considerably more than your contempt.

[Penner]

In the past merchants and entertainers were among the despised classes...

Now they are the upper echelon.

Independent landholding farmers in the meantime rank at about the level of schoolteachers and mid-low level bank employees.

The times change.

I don't see any reason to make moderators into a class of untouchables...

Maybe we should even afford them some pomp... perhaps a nice type face to honour their status...

They are putting in time to keep this place running smoothly... I would say they deserve considerably more than your contempt.

Teachers are usually considered to be lower than police, landholding farmers, etc....

[DrYouth]

Teachers are usually considered to be lower than police, landholding farmers, etc....

I mean that goes to show doesn't it...

I believe teachers were well respected in the days that few had education.

Nowadays they rank just above janitors and waitstaff.

[Fife]

Being a professional is fundamentally inconsistent with being in a union.

Especially a government union.

Welfare queens, the lot of them.

[Speaker to Animals]

Teachers are usually considered to be lower than police, landholding farmers, etc....

I mean that goes to show doesn't it...

I believe teachers were well respected in the days that few had education.

Nowadays they rank just above janitors and waitstaff.

Eh...

Janitors and food servers get fired if they fail to clean the premise or serve the correct plates to the appropriate tables.

[DrYouth]

I mean there you go...

Educators are now just cogs in an industrial education system...

Either coddled and protected cogs... or alternatively disposable cogs to be thrown out and replaced as necessary...

I believe educators were once respected and had earned authority.

No longer.

As for internet forum moderators... it remains to be seen.