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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.

I don't think it's biased because all Admins are supposed to hold their staff accountable, that's been the norm in this community. I'm the only Web Admin, so yes it falls to me to do that. The others Admins can hold me accountable. I already addressed in a previous reply why the "criticism" was deleted and that he discussed it with me beforehand. See my first post. I'd appreciate it if that was read. I don't want to repeat myself for something I already said. But I am willing to elaborate if people request that. otherwise, I'm just going to refer back to my previous comments and have people read those first if it seems like they haven't (just in general, I'm not calling out anyone specifically with this).

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"Past" as in the old old drama. I would not call something as recent as the CSGO tournament the "past" in the same context as drama from years ago.

My apologies. I will say "recent" instead to make that distinction more clear.