[tiefling lesbian]

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This might get lost in an edit as there have been a few posts since my last reply so I'm just making an additional one to add:
You're asking the community to trust not only Laced to do well as moderator, but also to trust you to hold him accountable should he fail at that. I think this is ultimately the biggest concern in regards to the discussion of bias in the promotion; other than a largely inactive owner, the only person he reports to is the person who promoted him. This is not necessarily to say that that trust is unwarranted or unobtainable, but between the manner in which the promotion was done, the way that certain criticisms are either downplayed or ignored, and the fact that his first act as moderator was to delete criticism of his promotion (warranted or not), it has not been a good start at building the trust you seek.