So, I'm not staff or even friends with staff (that I know of) but since there's no thread for this game and there was such excitement over Spirit Lake (now closed to apps) that I thought I'd bring this to peoples' attention.
Sanctuary: modern urban fantasy though set in a small town in the same vein as Midnight, Texas the show and the books. Here's the link to the wiki. Check it out and app cause I just apped there and it's still very small and more people to play with would be cool.
Common one, I'm sure...
Paging someone to complain/comment about a third person and paged that third person.
@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
This is less acceptable. What is the point of this? You aren't trying to say here, "some of the things you did contributed to the problems that we're currently facing, and you should consider how you're going to handle that going forward." This is just meant to browbeat and shame a person based on personal dislike for no other reason than to vent your spleen in an argument
Pointing out someone's hypocrisy is not browbeating.
@Aria Make them a mix tape and send it to them anonymously: Music to Fuck To.
I think it's safe to say that this foray into moderation is going to go through some growing pains and both posters and mods should be patient with each other.
That being said, I'd rather it go away entirely that continue the way it is at this moment.
@Pandora said in Personal Agency for Personal Boundaries:
"Let's fade to black" is fairly often met with 'Why?' or 'Oh, I wish I'd known you didn't TS before we let it get this far.' or 'Lol, let me just do one more pose, your character will get a kick out of this.' or a dozen and a half other things.
Point. And I just added clarification to the news policies that a request to fade to black should be accepted without question and ending the scene at that point.
Simply put, you've dodged a bullet. Don't run back in front of it.
I haven't really weighed in on the whole kerfuffle except to say that it brought to mind 'In order to save the village, we had to destroy it'. I still get that impression. But since it began, I think something has crystallized about what exactly happened and why some people are reacting so strongly.
Once upon a time, the moderators of this board in all its various incarnations did so as custodians of the community. By which I mean that the board functioned basically as the community as a whole wanted it to be and the moderators used a light touch to keep it that way.
At some point, and this is just my impression, this became @Ganymede 's board and people could either like it or leave. I make no comment on whether that's a good or bad thing but it seems like the custodians have become the staff.
That's going to stick in some craws. And here we are.
But I’m also not an idiot, and people like TNP and Tez aren’t coming here to engage in good faith. They’re just coming here to fling shit because they can, and I have no intention of being so bound up in bureaucratic red tape that I just shrug and go ‘but what can you do? Rules.’
Yes, I have such a track record of posting merely to fling shit. To correct your mischaracterization, I did not 'come here'. In fact, I never left and would check the board every day. As a rule, I do not post unless I have something to say and that hadn't occurred here in quite some time. Which is unsurprising since this board is, for all intents and purposes, dead unless someone reading Brand Mu Day brings something over here to cause controversy.
It's a safe bet that this thread has more posts in it than those made in all other threads combined since The Great Banning. And on that note, I have nothing further to say so shall truly depart and let you all fade into irrelevancy, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
It's not an accusation if it's conjecture. Spoken like a true weasel. You all deserve each other.
Speaking as an atheist, it seems to me like the universe put this dog who needs a new home in your way. Pure chance? Of course it is. Unless you're not an atheist in which case you decide.
@Derp Nope, not that. But never mind. So totally not worth the effort when there's fun to be had.
@Ganymede In no way am I referring to the change in software or site address. I'm referring to the change in tone and rules you decided were necessary.
@Derp What Arkandel was referring to was. Which is what you were responding to. Which is obvious unless one chooses to deliberately obfuscate the broader picture by focusing only on the very last post made.
@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
Let me answer, clearly.
Those people are no longer current users of this forum, and they can't "defend themselves" due to clear consequences from their own actions after warnings.
So broad, personal attacks are fine so long as the target is banned?
@reimesu Honestly, WORA was a shithole. Each incarnation after it got a little better. I'm sure we all remember HR leaving because the place got too nice. MSB a couple months ago was a pretty nice compromise. It still had too many personal attacks but that's how people - all people - argue. They always seem to devolve into ad hominem attacks and I doubt that will ever change.
MSB was just how many people liked it. I'll even say most based on the number of active posters there compared to here and the number of active threads as well. But that's neither here nor there.
@Derp said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:
Let's not pretend that some of the BMD users have no axe to grind.
Honest question, can you blame them? Our board - and by our I mean all of the community - had their board basically hijacked out from under us. It was decided pretty much unilaterally that MSB would be something it never had been in any of its past incarnations. I've been here for all of them going back tot he original WORA before Nymeria got Tasteless Descs shut down.
The Mu* equivalent is a staffer stealing the database and newpasswording the old guard and anyone who dared to speak up. That kind of thing was pretty unanimously condemned back in the day.
Had some people wanted a kinder, gentler board, they should have just started their own. So yeah, people are not happy and have an axe to grind. They'll get over it. Maybe sometime in 2024 unless this board dies before that.
if you (general you) have a problem with what some posters here are saying, just don't engage. Ignoring them won't possibly cause anyone to say anything worse about you than they already are.
@Derp To quote @Ghost, saying someone has engaged in bullying is not calling them a bully. Using the same reasoning, saying someone is being hypocritical is not calling them a hypocrite.
Please be consistent in your warnings even when they come from those engaging in sycophantic behavior.
