If I'm saying something as a mod, I'll flag it. The closest I've come otherwise is going 'Please don't make me break out the mod voice.'
Are people really so obtuse they cannot tell the difference?
Are people really so hell bent on being shitty to one another that they'll do so until the mod voice comes out?
To be bluntly frank, since I just woke up:
I almost added to that post <not mod voice>, but I thought: 'These are adults. We've flagged our posts to explicitly say mod voice. They're smart enough to know that it's not mod voice.'
Apparently not.
@sunny said in Regarding administration on MSB:
Double post, because another thought.
The first question for the next while for you guys really, really should be: why can this not wait until I can deal with this with my team?
We actually discuss a lot of our actions before they happen. Or one of us goes 'Hey, can you guys take a look at this.' Which is why Arkandel keeps stepping in and going 'I back this move.'
We may not spend three days deliberating on it, but almost every action that has been taken has been discussed by 2, if not 3 of us. And sometimes it may be Ark going 'Hey I trust your judgement.'
I will note that it will never, ever be perfect. Period. Hands down.
I have done forum moderation professionally. I have worked on teams where we have fleshed out guidelines, rule books, etc., on 'how to mod.' Teams where some of us have worked together for months (or in one case: years).
We would still mod differently. We would still disagree sometimes. What's severe to me may not be to Gany and vice versa. And there will always be edge cases.
Growing pains happen. It will take a while to settle. And even then, you're guaranteed to see things you don't personally like or would do. It's called being human. And rather than flipping the whole goddamn table in the middle of the game, maybe we need to sit back more and go 'Alright. There may be a reason they did it this way.'
As Gany told @Three-Eyed-Crow earlier: got a problem with a mod action? Message the other two. Or all three of us. Ask about it. (But if all you do is message a slew of insults we'll probably just ignore it.)
@tempest said in Regarding administration on MSB:
If we want no personal insults outside of the Hog Pit, that needs to be clear cut and dry, IMO.
My vote, but I am a mod so I understand if it gets at peoples' jimmies that I voice it... is to avoid personal insults outside of the Pit. Not because of 'we must be happy fluffy forever!' but because almost every time a personal insult comes out, the thread becomes a dumpster fire.
Like that first 'UR DUMB AND UR FAS IS DUMB' comes out, it's basically the Steel Chair Effect.
@arkandel said in Regarding administration on MSB:
@ganymede said in Regarding administration on MSB:
I'll stop being a rusty, cunty old bint, all right?
That's the most british thing I've read today.
Wait until @Tinuviel wakes up.
@misadventure said in Regarding administration on MSB:
I'd suggest making MOD ACCOUNTS that are only used for moderating.
I mean, sure, but it'd be the same as on MU*s with staff. If a staff-alt says 'Hey can we not talk about this on channel?' it's assumed to be STAFF VOICE. So really we'd just be having to log into another account to achieve... not much. And we're all lazy.
Instructor is still an ass. An assssssss and listening to his treatment of a classmate on the recording of Tuesday's lecture is gross.
But I managed to learn his 'wants' enough to have gotten a 90 on last week's script draft.
I'm gonna be able to pass this class and be done with him (one of my fears was failing an having to re-take it).
@zz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@auspice I am also godawful at it. There are a couple of great apps like headspace and calm that help you focus. Mainly I do breathing exercises which help my system chill out - more healthy oxygen and less stress. So far no floaty Zen state.
I haven't tried any of the apps. I've tried websites before. My brain (thanks anxiety + ADD) is just always FULL STEAM AHEAD.
What I am doing is this book on stoicism and it's sort of a 'book of meditations.' Every day has a lesson/reflection, so it's a minute or two of reading and reflecting on it.
@zz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@auspice I hate haaaate to be this person but as I've had to bite my own tongue on this - gentle yoga and meditation can help stress. Also apparently diet but I haven't really done that one and cannot eat, pray, vouch.
I am terribad at meditation. And yoga- I'm bad about doing it at home (plus cats). If I could afford going to a yoga studio, I totally would.
@ganymede said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
@auspice said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:
Walking is not helping me lose weight. Not visually, at least. Most days I still feel fat as ever (though I do not own a scale, so who knows).
Stress isn't helping. Cortisol is your enemy.
All the stress forever. 
Walking is not helping me lose weight. Not visually, at least. Most days I still feel fat as ever (though I do not own a scale, so who knows).
What it has done, however, is make me stronger. Overall, I feel stronger. I'm regaining a lot of the dexterity and reflexes I used to have.
See, I played a lot of soccer as a teenager. I was incredibly active. Soccer, swim or dive teams, out biking through the woods multiple days a week. Then (thanks soccer!) I injured my knee bad enough to require surgery. It was a really long and not very thorough recovery (for reasons related to an asshole father). Then the fibro kicked in a few years later and I just... stopped, for the most part. When a single day of light activity could leave me in bed, in pain... it became 'why bother?'
Then over the last few years, my leg/ankle/foot developed the issue where overuse would fuck up my foot.
But this has been necessity. 2.2 miles a day, 5 days a week. My knee hurts less. My foot is still fucked up, but an epsom salt bath 1-2 days a week has been helping avoid anything worse than swelling and sharp pain.
It hasn't helped my hip, sadly, but I'll take improvement in one of my two arthritic joints.
The big thing has been the return of my reflexes. I'm really happy with that.
@peasoupling said in Incentives for Doom:
My chargenned and barely played characters I never could get into litter the DBs of a thousand worlds. So I just know I'd make one of these characters and then it would just click and be the best character ever and I'd grow very attached to it and it would end in tragedy.
I have used up my entire allotment of PTO on migraine-related doctor's appointments and migraine sick days.
This makes me very sad. It is not what I would have liked to use my PTO hours on.
Ugh. The only time in the past 10 years I had PTO, I lost it all to being ill myself. It's the worst feeling. Because you don't enjoy those days. There's no relaxation. There's no recovery from stress.
It just feels like wasted time.
@sparks said in Writing Feedback:
@auspice said in Writing Feedback:
@sparks said in Writing Feedback:
@auspice is this the one you sent me that I've been horrible about actually reading, or a different one? If the former, I'm so sorry; work ate me alive and I forgot.
Different one.
The other one is that which will be published by the end of this month!
This one was written just a few weeks ago.
Yay! I will still read the first one, but I'll happily read the second one this weekend too. I just need to dig out from under writing documentation at work this week.
Link sent! Sooner is better if you can. Deadline is the 15th and I'd like to get it packed up and off by Monday at the latest. 
(But, if RL keeps ya busy, all good :D)
@sparks said in Writing Feedback:
@auspice is this the one you sent me that I've been horrible about actually reading, or a different one? If the former, I'm so sorry; work ate me alive and I forgot.
Different one. The other one is that which will be published by the end of this month!
This one was written just a few weeks ago.
