Hello. Most of the new community may not know my name. That is fine. My name is The Great Bolesby, previously Robbylynn12 to the oldest of players.

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For background, I joined Civ Ex in February of this year as part of the first Worldbuilding wave of recruitment. I brought along 15 new players of combination of friends and friends of friends and helped create a beautiful community. I did my part. Whether it was being a catalyst in the 1.0 first World War or creating the largest nation, to date, Lakeheart Dominion. I have NEVER broken a rule in my time since 2 months ago on the server or subreddit. I have been a victim of harassment, hacking, etc. I do not care. I made videos, had great laughs and most importantly, formed amazing memories. Though. I stated 2 months ago I was going to "quit" the server and community due to a lack of time. This is factual. My time is limited... on weekends. In reality though, I have still checked the subreddit every day since 2 months ago. I have seen everything break down. I religiously use the website of Reddit.

I saw the moderation team problems that happened and all the issues in the past couple weeks. So I decided to let the moderation team (GaG, Devon and Kireko) I would like to apply for a moderator position on the subreddit. It seems I didn't get the position.

I don't want to critique the current staff picks, but I am just really curious on my own position. Virtually I cannot play on the server anymore due to a lack of time and enthusiasm to due so. I don't want to complain about the server. It's fine. But I still love the community. Some of these people I have had great times with, such as /u/masterofparadox, one of the current mods.

I can't give back in any other way though, I mean sure I upvote appropriate content. I can't really comment without being a hypocrite or like GetNGoing who proved to be... toxic. Speaking of which, GetNGoing, currently PERMA-BANNED, was suggested to be a Moderator (A few months ago) by both current staff members Phaxar and GoldenAppleGuy. Again, not flaming on them, they did what they thought was a good choice. I am merely curious if in the same light, why was I not considered? Sure I could private message the mod team right now, but I also want the community's answer.

I contributed countless hours to the CivEx community in both 1.0 and early days of 2.0. Waking up early, reporting bugs, establishing the community of Ironscale and staying up late to feed it. I reported raiders and hackers in the days of 1.0 to /u/Defmork and /u/GoldenAppleGuy and /u/Phaxar constantly. I always provided suggestions for plugins, improvements and etc, like PlayerHeads (one day they will come I swear of it) or bug exploits used in PvP.

Now, this might seem harsh but half of the staff list currently, hasn't even played or been a community member for half the time I have. Quite frankly, I don't even know one of them. I do not deny they are good community members currently and are good people, what I do contend though is I have something many of them lack- experience. I have been in leadership positions, I led the largest nation of 40 players and coordinated communication and a subreddit. We had, not to humble brag, but best builds on Civ Ex. We had the strongest sense of unified community too., Sure TylerToon and Pickles and Alli and all those nations were friends but EVERYONE in Lakeheart knew each other and were a close tight knit community. I still talk to people like Prisinorzero whos made such an impact on me.

I have had controversial moments, yes. "Crazy Rob". Let's be fair though, EVERYTHING controversial of myself has been, rule following, in-game, RP oriented, action. Killing Luni and FaerFoxx. One of them destroyed 1.0 and still to this day, fragmented our community where every month or so we have a new drama explosion. The other, I can't say much bad about. FaerFoxx is a good person but I wanted to create an RP conflict between 2 rival, large nations. Yet, they both seemed to be running the show of the sub and server in the background WITHOUT ANYONE KNOWING. Realistically, I don't have other controversies. I made enemies and friends in CivEx, all for in-game reasons. I have never harassed or personally attacked a player, the worst is me calling FaerFoxx annoying for her ;p faces. Yeah, I backstabbed USN near the ending days, but again, those are in game RP reasons. Nothing rule-breaking or personally harming. Realistically, I am just as good as Master of Paradox or PrisinorZero or hell, even Winton or Raxus. We are just all vocal, active players in game.

What I do know is I applied for a moderator position and recieved no feedback. So I would like feedback from both the community, and the staff. I hope the current community would be in support of myself being a moderator, and the current staff seriously reconsider. I want to dedicate the little spare time I have left to better the community. I already sent in my application to explain my maturity and experience as an administrator and moderator. I realize there is no honor or glory in being a moderator. I do not gain any tangible benefit but the satisfaction of continuing to help the community I love. I lose time and patience but it's a worthy sacrifice.

I now want to know if the community would accept me.

Thank you for reading this long essay.

• The Great Bolesby

TLDR I am an old member of the community. Want to be mod. Not mod. Just as worthy of being mod compared to rest. Here's a video of all the stuff I have contributed to.