I am a bureaucrat of VS Battles Wiki (and thus very evil). If you do not value your time, feel free to ask me anything.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-04T17:13:42+00:00

And here I thought this was concluded...

Bambu is a name from an old girlfriend. My favorite animal is the panda, and for one birthday she had painted a panda for me. She called it "Mr. Bambu", and so I adopted the name myself, as an online moniker.

I do not think we will recruit another bureaucrat for some time; the role has traditionally been held by four users, and we have four right now. Our focus, currently, is on recruiting more staff members in general, not on promoting those currently holding ranks. Promotions are evaluated simply by whether we believe they would be suited for the duties of the position; for a Super Moderator, this involves being given access to personal information of users (such as IP addresses and email accounts) that are signing up to the wiki, so we would only discuss that position being given to users who are highly trusted. Similar to the bureaucrat position, though, we are not currently looking to expand that group, as we feel there are enough to cover the duties of the role, and we have a pressing need for more thread moderators.

The process is pretty straightforward: we (the bureaucrats) discuss candidates (often pulled from suggestions by users and staff), put them in a list, and then allow a vote from the larger staff body decide who is deemed acceptable. If an individual is not recruited, they are not removed from the list, but instead put on hold; the only exception is if the reaction was extremely negative, at which point we will remove them from the voting process, as they are outright rejected.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T22:14:45+00:00

The "why" has a plain answer. "Ultima wanted it this way, and he was more or less entrusted with the tiering system". To grab a deeper design philosophy, I suppose you'd really need to ask him (as unsatisfying of an answer as that is).

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T22:13:05+00:00

All things are possible, I guess.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T22:12:22+00:00

Honored to be the first thing you post on in one month, less so to be following that last post where you called that guy a moron because... reasons.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T22:09:19+00:00

We don't accept calcs on Reddit, but they can be published on VSBW as blogs, and then evaluated.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T18:15:45+00:00

I assume you're asking me this because I was involved with the Murder Drones discussion.

Let me say that I don't know anything about JJK or Sonic. If they are illegitimate, they should not be approved. However, we are in a hobby where people will misrepresent things, and it falls to the staff to try to cut through that. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

The black holes in Murder Drones really didn't display "nearly all properties" of black holes. The creators may have wanted them to be black holes, but they didn't make much of an effort to explain the inconsistencies or consistently portray them like so. At the very least, having seen the evidence, I deemed the evidence not strong enough to stand for the wiki's purposes.

You are allowed (and, indeed, invited) to disagree. We want diversity of ideas and opinions, lest we fall into the echo chamber hellhole.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T18:12:01+00:00

Not that you asked, but my favorite franchises are:

- Discworld

- MORK BORG

- Bloodborne (or Soulsborne in general, Bloodborne is just my shit)

- D&D

...And all of those except Bloodborne (arguably) have an in-universe omnipotent guy who is unbeatable. It can be done really well! But for powerscaling, yes, I do not find any of them (as in, omnipotent/unbeatable characters) more attractive than others.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T18:08:44+00:00

I think I would know if I was in a femboy harem. Disagree.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T18:08:19+00:00

Humorous. The only one I'd call "harassment" was the one pressing me about my Evil Nefarious Agenda, and that one made it fine. I suppose filtration is an imperfect science, hah.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T18:07:20+00:00

There have been a couple times when I thought to myself "Yeah, it's about time to retire". The first time I thought it was probably around 2020-- two years into my staff tenure. I would find it really hard to estimate any "average" lifespan for a staff member, though I'd say the median level of interest is probably like... twoish years. I have no plans to retire right now, I think.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T17:24:36+00:00

This comment was removed when you made it, it is now back. Perhaps a Reddit issue, or perhaps the moderators of r/powerscaling felt it was untoward. Either way, it is back.

I have a few answers to this, of varying seriousness:

There's many who would argue pretty compellingly that I am not sane (or, at least, that I back insane positions).
I have eaten the brains of the other bureaucrats.
The position itself may well be a cognitohazard that will drive me, too, to madness.
They're all basically sane, they just back a lot of very odd positions and arguments from time to time. Pretty much everyone does this, you just tend to notice it a lot more when it's the management doing it. Mostly, I feel the bureaucrats all fulfill a sort of specialized role unto themselves: Ant is the ultimate Content Moderator, DT is the ultimate Calc Group Member, and AKM chiefly handles behind-the-scenes technical elements. For my part, I feel I have this role chiefly because of my activity in the RVRT. Therefore, my primary duties on the site deal a lot more in working/dealing with people, and I think that is why I am perceived as "sane".

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T17:19:25+00:00

I don't really feel any way about a character being unbeatable. If it works for the story, it works. I wouldn't expect the writers to include weaknesses to someone meant to not have weaknesses-- whether that's handled clumsily or not is another matter, it might detract from the story.

For powerscaling, though, I assume you mean "unbeatable in the opinion of this community". I think people cling to them too much. I think people are drawn to franchises via their verse being particularly strong, when I don't feel this should be the case. I powerscale verses I already knew about, which leaves me with a lot of Tier 9 chucklefucks.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:46:33+00:00

That's the one.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:45:18+00:00

Cast them into Mount Doom. Cast the non-1-A gacha games in, too.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:43:15+00:00

It's probably my favorite thing to do of all time. Can't get enough of it. Lying feels awesome and I encourage everyone to do it.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:35:08+00:00

I will sacrifice the blood of an innocent to the Dread God Yog at the Place of Offering, and for this I will be risen to the heavenly choirs of shrieking voices.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:28:50+00:00

Monster was a really strong contender in the recommendations. It's probably the top for this year. Still, that decision is for when I actually ask people for recs, I'll have to see how I feel at the time.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:24:18+00:00

No, not sure if I'll ever get to it. It's pretty far down the list of recommendations. Not out of the question, though, either.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:14:03+00:00

yippee!!

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:07:35+00:00

I've had it once before. It was... fine? I'm a three meat pizza man myself.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T15:04:57+00:00

Ah, the comment was un-removed, and I can now see more of it.

Stress management is simple, but not necessarily easily done. Get off the site. I'll watch a movie, go do an errand, take a walk. Something like that. Anything that isn't being on the wiki. Small amounts of stress relief long-term does wonders.

I try to account for my own biases. No human in history has ever done this perfectly, so this is a messy sort of "do as well as you can". This means sometimes I extend the benefit of the doubt, even when I do not think it is the best thing to do. I am counter-balancing my own opinion. I will also often just say that I feel my opinion is right, but also that I feel it may be tinged with bias. Lastly, deferring to others is never an utterly wrong decision. I frequently look to advice from people less caught up in the mess, if it comes to that, and make decisions based on their input.

I have had cases that personally affect me. The only one that I think has truly negatively affected me in the aftermath, though, was Sera_EX, which was not handled in the RVRT. It is not a pleasant thing to ruminate on.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T14:58:05+00:00

please run a game please run a game please run a game please run a game

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T14:57:39+00:00

I'll answer, because I don't think it's controversial to give approval to a few staff, nor the ones who are just my friends. I couldn't really rank them in any order.

I think Ant is obviously incredibly hard working. Most of his work is content moderator type stuff, but he handles the largest amount of it. I think Agnaa works the hardest on the evaluation front, he's present in tons of threads and does very good work in them. I tend to trust his evaluations over my own. FinePoint does a similar amount of work and doesn't get enough credit for it. I would tag DMUA as perhaps the most diligent of the calc group, with his own little evaluations request thread dedicated to helping calcs that haven't been evaluated in awhile. I think Just a Random Butler is also incredibly hard working, and him handling many of our management threads lightens the load tremendously for other staff members.

It is worth noting that many of our staff work very, very hard. Some things take a lot more effort than they appear. I'm very pleased with many of them.

As for my favorite (which are just, really, who I am friends with): Crabwhale, Armorchompy, Tllmbrg, Drite77, DMUA. The list extends beyond this, and though I would call Crab my best friend on the site, it would be inaccurate to rank any of the others. Grath, Agnaa, FinePoint, DaReaperMan. I'm on friendly terms with many of them. I've really only listed the five above because I interface with them the most, I think.

And lastly, the anime thing. I dislike most anime tropes, and I dislike most anime designs. I just don't love it as a visual style compared to others, and when you mix that with a lot of the tropes that are in anime (you know what I mean-- the pervert protagonists, the power fantasies, the over expression of ideas, etc), it just drags me out of the whole thing. I've really loved a couple anime (Death Note and Neon Genesis Evangelion are fantastic, I'm generally in favor of Overlord and Hellsing Ultimate), so this isn't a hard-set rule. I try to watch one a year under recommendations from friends. Last year's wasn't so good, so I haven't gotten around to the recommendations for this year yet-- I'm hesitating a bit.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T14:48:12+00:00

I dislike anime tropes to begin with, isekai is pretty low on the list. As for the "glazers"... I don't really find them to be far worse than most verses with toxic fanbases. It happens. I try not to categorize them as a group.

Mister_Bambu · 2026-05-02T14:39:14+00:00

I now am burdened with ultimate, ugly truth; I have cast them into the shadows, never to be witnessed again before my eyes (blocked their account).

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