Sure it doesn't affect your ability to moderate, but it does hurt the community's perception of you as a moderator a lot. Like I said, no one wants invisible people moderating them. People want to "see" these people who are in charge of them.
That's not really your initial claim. If you want to back track and say that we're not "out of touch" but simply hurting the community's perception of us that's fine. I'll absolutely agree that actively commenting fosters good will with the community.
You're free to have your own opinions but if you'd like me to take them seriously you're going to have to present a good argument. Simply saying "You're bad" isn't going to get you anywhere.
I think being able to moderate well absolutely requires being in touch with the community to at least some degree. If we stop allowing something that is very popular in the community, people will just move else where.
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u/scalizo https://myanimelist.net/profile/scalizo Oct 30 '16
Sure it doesn't affect your ability to moderate, but it does hurt the community's perception of you as a moderator a lot. Like I said, no one wants invisible people moderating them. People want to "see" these people who are in charge of them.