First come first serve is a poor method of picking moderators

Great theory, but we have existed not much longer than a week. We don’t have another method.

It’s not like this instance is big enough to desperately need many mods right now.

We absolutely need more coverage. Another instance had CSAM posted and this federated out to other instances, they didn’t have a mod online and so other instances were left having to deal with it. One person cannot provide the cover we need. In fact I’m considering closing registrations each night since I didn’t get much interest from my request for help.

And I mean, picking the freeze peach mod implies some endorsement of his beliefs on your part.

I did not get a “freeze peach” vibe from the post. Maybe I’m naive, but I got a “we’re all adults here, we don’t need to be petty” vibe. Whether it works in practice or not is another story, but it felt good intentioned.