do you have to sign anything when you become a mod? what's the incentive to stop you having a bad day and choosing to pastebin every juicy/bitchy executive discussion?
Firstly, I'm starting to think that I should really stop posting here in any capacity of acknowledging GAF moderator status. But since this was my fault for that silly replay to Hampster, I'll answer in earnest, prefacing that this will probably be a lame post riddled with "the feels."
The answer is no. And I'll follow that up with asking rhetorically what incentive there would be to air any of this info publicly? Not to throw out eye roll inducing sentiment (I mentioned up above the feels), but I do genuinely care about that community. People sometimes ask "why would anyone do that for no pay," and honestly, the answer for me is just that I think it's really cool to be thought of as having been a good enough poster to be considered deserving of a leadership position. I've invested over nine years in that community, so it'd be pretty disingenuous of me to come here and pretend to be some tough guy that doesn't care at all what anyone over there thinks of him. As someone who's been a low-key poster (never been tagged, banned, or won any popularity contests), I'd also be lying if I didn't admit that getting that kind of recognition didn't make me feel better than the cynic in me would care to admit. And I know not everyone here loves that whole staff equally, but I think on the whole it's a great group of people that genuinely care about trying to run the community to the best of their ability, and even if I woke up one day and decided I just didn't have it in me anymore, I would have no desire to do anything to hurt that staff and burn any bridges. Honestly, it was an honor to me that that group of people wanted me on their team (feel free to laugh at that sentence).
Secondly, any theoretical "The NeoGAF You Didn't Know" tell all wouldn't be that interesting. Most of the remotely juicy gossip would probably just be met with "yeah, that's kind of what I figured." There really wouldn't be much personal glory, and the fallout would just be a minor nuisance for the remaining staff. Even if I was having the worst day of my life and was just irritated beyond belief, any kind of scorched earth policy wouldn't amount to anything meaningful that could hurt that forum. And what I mean by no personal glory is how many people even really care beyond mild, everyday curiosity? There's maybe a handful of people here that would hoist me on their virtual shoulders to give me mad props for taking GAF down a peg, while the rest would probably just be annoyed that this newly created drama was just bringing more attention to this silly thread. Anyone else that would legitimately give a shit would just amount to unregistered lurkers. So, in that regard, the answer becomes that even if I was bitter, what would be the point?
Anyhoo, this is probably enough of this nonsense for a while. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.