Texrat you've done a fantastic job at handling the situation don't leave!

Well, I don't know Texrat personally, but he is the kind of person who is always there if someone needs help.

In every new thread, he usually is among the first to answer and help where he can.

I haven't been on this forum uber long but the time I have been Texrat was always a cool person and now he's a mod he bring fresh life to this forum not only is he cool and level headed he has a since of humor. I've been on forums where mods and they way they act and handle the forum made me just stop coming ex. the sidekick forums back in the day they think cause they are mods they know it all and no one else knew anything but they didnt know my ties with danger and the tech dept for the sidekick and had to prove them wrong many a times got to the point I just gave up and stop coming and alot of people was disappointed cause I usually can fix there problem without them calling tmobile csr which people know the hassle of calling csr . Alot of people changed they phones cause I left lol. Bottom line is this is a great forum great people and great mods/adm. So keep up the good work and Viva la Texrat lol

Quite possibly the best answer given to any question... ever.

Oh and Texrat... he's not so bad either. Have yet to ba...

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Drats.

I'll say... that Texrat chap... he's a gentleman and a scholar in my book!

The more I thought about it the less I liked the title to this thread. Don't get me wrong-- I appreciate it, but I'm a very minor player here. Many others have moderated a lot longer than I have here and deserve the kudos more... and none of them has shown the bout of exasperation I did earlier.

So I changed the title, and please: recognize your hard-working moderators and admin (Reggie) here. I can't hold a candle to what they've done.

Well i tried to change the title to make it " support Texrat for his great moderation on the PR1.2 leak thread " or something on those lines but it never changed after my first post.. That was the idea of the thread and it would be nice to switch it back to its original purpose..

I do agree that I love this forums, its moderators and its users and all of them are the best one can expect.

I <3 Maemo talk

So the OP can't change his own header but a moderator can?

Why don't the moderators write the messages too -- it would save the rest of us a lot of trouble.

It's too bad that the trolls and the ones making worthless arguments don't resign instead.

Stupid day here.

Moderation is an art, not an exact science. And a very difficult art, at that. Which means that just occasionally one makes a judgement call, does the best one can in a situation and then looks back with the benefit of hindsight and thinks "You know, if I had that day over I'd do it slightly differently". That's the price we pay for being human. Don't beat yourself up, Tex, for making the best decisions you could in a situation you had no actual power over and no fellow mod around to discuss with. And that goes for all our mods who have on occasion to make difficult decisions in a forum with no formal posting or moderation guidelines (note: meego.com is creating guidelines before the crowds arrive for exactly this reason).

There are no formal qualifications for the post of mod. What we need is people who care passionately about the community and want the very best for it. After that, the ability to stay calm under pressure, make judgement calls and defend why you made them, and consider that sometimes you might have done better are the qualities we need. In all these Tex excels.

Personally, I think losing Tex from the mod team would be a tragedy for this place. But I admit to being biased. I suggested on twitter last night that we consign yesterday to the crack in the universe and unwrite it as it never really happened: I stand by that suggestion.