My purpose is two-item:
1. To consult, provide guidance to the existing administration/moderation - I have extensive experience in both informal and formal situations and have experience in policy writing.
2. (as mentioned) To enforce
You also need to know the community you're working in. I don't want to think you're stupid, but shutting down debate is the worst possible thing you can do in this community. We are, at our core, a community of rational people--some more so than others at times, obviously.
But not letting people talk through problems will only create more of them.
The problem is there are certain people who are ruining it for the whole. People who are not coming to the table rationally. There ARE many rational people here, yes, but it is extremely difficult for those people to hold stable conversation when there are people who have no interest in resolving the situation coming into the threads and wrecking it.
Define "wrecking". Everyone has different ways of coping. Those more attached to the forums are obviously likely to be more upset at recent events. Several of our Old Guard are gone, several more are considering it. The rest of us are hoping things get better.
But people still need to talk, even if that talk isn't always friendly. That's the crux of the issue here--FSTDT was never a place to come for someone to hold your hand. It was where you came to get your ass kicked when you were acting stupid.
Right now, you're punishing the ass-kickers and shielding the stupid from what was the whole damned point of the forums.
