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@meg said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I have no way of knowing if she was speaking as just another poster or as a moderator.

We're working on making this clearer, and I'm not perfect on this either. It is safe to presume that unless I mark my comment clearly, I'm responding as a sour-old lawbot, and not as a moderator.

I concur with surreality's assessment. I thought your story was difficult, but important to tell. Putting in a massive, smoldering shit-fire of a topic obfuscates it in a way that I thought could be avoided. I cannot and do not speak for Auspice, but I might've suggested something similar to highlight your story rather than shut it down.

@Bananerz said in I know it's an old topic but to this day....:

Arguing about what is real when you're in a simulation.

Arguing about what is love when you don't want to be hurt no more.

@three-eyed-crow said in Regarding administration on MSB:

I'm glad the rules are being clarified, though, because oh gosh I hope no one is arguing they're crystal clear and consistent right now.

MOD VOICE

No. They are not.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I still prefer painkillers and bourbon to actually going in to get things done most of the time.

This is how I feel every morning before I get out of bed to get ready for work.

@surreality said in POLL: Vampire Requiem 2E Settings/Theme:

Capping at 2XP/week is exactly what Reno1 tried that didn't work on any level at all.

Hard-capping at Fallen World wasn't what caused its activity to slow down, from my perspective. The absence of any tangible activity reward also did not slow BSG:U or Fifth Kingdom.

@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

They aren't if the professor wants them.

It’s Black’s Law Dictionary.

When’s the last time someone asked for author identification for the OED? Or the DSM-IV?

You know it, or you don’t.

Next thing, the professor’ll ask for author credentials for Blackstone.

@zombiegenesis said in POLL: Vampire Requiem 2E Settings/Theme:

Well I'd argue that if you're only RPing for XP than there's something wrong to begin with. I RP for fun, XP and advancement is connected to that but not my driving goal for RP.

I think you should try @Tempest's proposal. Why not give every PC 50 XP, period? And then let them play together. Every now and again, if it feels right, move that up. Everyone starts the same; everyone places the same; but not everyone will have the same build.

@Ghost

I do me the wrassling, but I haven't had cable or the time to watch a full WWE RAW broadcast for a while now.

@bored said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Or put it simply: it is currently against the rules to post 1-star yelp reviews where the public will see them.

If we were to apply the current Mildly Constructive rules to a new section, would that help? I think you could make a 1-star Yelp review that didn't immediately devolve into Hog Pit territory.

@Kanye-Qwest said:

Again, the real issue here is my lack of familiarity with the setting. I have no trouble being active to find RP (or, have never had an issue with this before) but my preferred style is the kind that happens organically - that just never seems to happen without an IC grid people want to hang out on more than the OOC rooms. Then, when I have a good feel for characters in my newly-known group, I can come up with a plot that helps advance them/appeals to their chars or personalities. That's the storytelling I like.

This is my preference as well, so I tend to hang out on the Grid whenever I'm connected. I usually connect when I'm RP-okay, but I usually RP from work, and work sometimes invades.

I play James, so feel free to come by wherever I am or page me if you want to RP something.

@Sparks said in RL things I love:

You know that scene in The Man from UNCLE while infiltrating the factory, where Solo just looks over at Kuryakin and asks in a bewildered and plaintive tone, "...why?"

Flyers fans have to have something to look forward to.

(Yes, I will continue to zing if I can zing because hockey is my jam.)

@thenomain said in Regarding administration on MSB:

Would you encourage a bad enforcement because you don't have the resources?

I don't think this is a fair line of inquiry.

If people would like to have us open a section that is desirable and has merit, so be it. This may tax our resources further. We could always high more moderators, but that may create more problems than solutions at this time.

But inconsistent enforcement is a concern, not a certainty; it's not a matter of encouraging bad enforcement.

@Coin said:

And anyone who has the above things and says that they are poor, without being in immediate danger of losing those things (and who are able to apply said things to their kids), is lying.

Define "immediate danger."

Do you have health insurance? A single personal injury accident could destroy your life through debt. Do you have auto insurance? A single accident could destroy your life through incapacity to work due to lack of transport. Do you depend on relatives? Their untimely demise could destroy your life. Are all of these things that can and do happen to people, and push them into what "experts" would call "poverty"? Absolutely.

One problem in the United States is that people convince themselves that they are not in poverty. If they came to realize how precarious their situation really is, maybe they would mobilize to create effective and affective change politically and economically. But they do not, because it's easier to convince themselves that they are not shit on, and have not been shitted on, by other classes.

@three-eyed-crow said in Regarding administration on MSB:

And making it a separate thing from the Hog Pit would make staffers less able to obfuscate criticism from the masses, which I do think happens as things stand now.

I'm not sure if Yelp! allows owners to respond to reviews or not, but would it be reasonable to keep staff responses to reviews on the Advertisement thread?

Just feeling out ideas, here.

@Apos

I feel what you're saying here, and it is a concern, but I do think that there are many posters who want to express their concerns safely and in a way that isn't an immediate personal attack on one staffer or another. It would be a place where there'd be some assurance that responders wouldn't immediately launch into a derogatory diatribe at them for daring to speak badly.

It would require heavy moderation, yes. But I think it would be a valuable resource we don't have here. If we simply have all of such reviews in the Hog Pit, players who have legitimately suffered what they believe to be a bad experience risk being verbally assaulted personally, for lack of a better term, by staff and their minions. So, that's my concern with having a Review section being the subject of Hog Pit rules.