Posts made by Roz

@ganymede said in Helpful Spellcasting Flowchart:

@cobaltasaurus said in Helpful Spellcasting Flowchart:

See, I see it and find it visually distracting and would rather just double check myself with the various tables in the book.

I feel the same. To re-word what I said above, the flowchart might be useful if you are familiar with the system and can use it as a reference, but to a newbie it may be mind-bogglingly and unnecessarily complex.

I wouldn't ever assume it would be a resource for a newbie. Like, most flowcharts like this do require you to know the details behind it; they're just references to remind you. If this is helpful as a visual reminder for people who know their way around the system, seems like it's doing its job. And it looked like there were some responses that found it helpful, while others found it unhelpful, so, like, if it's not helpful people can just not use it.

It's literally impossible to state all of those statistics are rooted entirely in nature when they also can't be removed from their cultures. Like, there are also lots of cultural reasons why men take more risks.

@thenomain said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@roz

It also provides a history. "Oh there's Theno, yelling at Tempest again. Will those two ever get a room?"

I would like to think that we're all just the nicest people in the world, but we're not. Knowing who will and won't escalate (i.e., me and Coin, respectively) is useful in this hobby.

I just don't find that a particularly compelling argument versus "If we had actual consequences for getting out of hand outside of the Hog Pit, then maybe people will eventually learn." As others have said, getting your post moved to the Hog Pit isn't a real consequence, it's basically making the mods have to be responsible for you after the fact because you couldn't be bothered. Losing out on your FINELY-CRAFTED INSULTS is a consequence. Temp bans are a consequence.

@thenomain said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@auspice said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

The other issue with it is this: people can be shitty purposefully to force a thread into the Pit.

Then you don't force the thread into the pit, just the messages.

If this is something that's too difficult with the current tools, then maybe they're the wrong tools.

And I also don't think it's reasonable to say "Make no rulings on how to mod based on the efficiency of the tools at hand." Like, that's just not a helpful argument. You have to make policy based on multiple factors, and one of those factors is how much modding time and energy is available. I also disagree with @Sunny's sentiment that there's something bad about having some reliance on people flagging posts, if only because it's a high-volume forum and, yeah, the mods should be proactive and apparently have been without flagging, but there's no reason why they can't also put an expectation on others to at least help point them in the right direction. It doesn't have to be all one or the other here.

@thenomain said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@sunny said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

that's going to introduce ugly consequences if you guys move to the step of deleting things instead of just moving and redirecting

This.

I don't know what consequences there will be, but moving instead of deleting seems like a far more equitable solution.

I agree with a "stop it" warning, unless things have gone far beyond a warning. We're adults. We know when anti-trolling methods are good. It's because we are adults that I think moving instead of deleting is more honest, and more considerate toward those of us who want to see what happened.

I mean, yeah, we all like to rubberneck the trainwreck, but that doesn't mean we don't clean it up.

@arkandel I was already on the train for this approach earlier. I tend to roll my eyes whenever people bring up CENSORSHIP on forums anyways. And especially since this is not even telling people they can't say the things, just that they need to say them in the appropriate place. You're totally gonna have hurt feelings when people lose some big involved screed they wrote, but I think eventually people will learn.

@theonceler said in TheOnceler’s Playlist:

Arx - Niklas (the good one)

brb crying

@jaded That's a fan-made trailer.

Good lord, was this a COUNTRY-WIDE phenomenon? I feel like everybody had crazy storms today, including myself!

I mean, I for one am not really doing things yet because I have no idea what's going on or what to do! Which is fine, I'm mostly here to relax. It's super hard to keep track of all the names, though.

@insomnia Yeah, FOX cancelled it!

NBC HAS RESCUED BROOKLYN NINE-NINE!!!!

@kay Also a house of ILL REPUTE that has a less scandalous front parlor for gambling and the like.

But I agree that I'd love more hangout spaces.

@cupcake Yeah, I didn't last long at the recent party, mostly because of the lack of places and WOW I've apparently gotten really dependent on places and tabletalk. I was definitely being insular because it was just hard to keep track, and I was only there for a bit. Fortunately staff said they'll start getting places set up for future use!

BROOKLY NINE-NINE IS CANCELLED AND SO I'M CANCELLING THE WORLD I'M SO MAD

Passion seems to be the connecting threads for most of my successful characters. (By "successful" I generally mean that I end up playing long-term and don't get tired of/abandon.) Sometimes it's super wildly apparent passion, sometimes it's brewing beneath the surface, but I gotta have it. Sometimes I play dark and snarky, sometimes bright and shiny, but they all tend to have that connecting thread of passion.

Degrees of self-loathing also tend to crop up often in my characters. Especially when they're hidden behind various levels of confidence or vanity.

@faraday said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

@roz said in Hello MSBites! Grade your administrators.:

"but don't personally attack me for this terrible behavior!!"

Well I'd have to disagree in general. If someone posts a sincere "I did something horrible and I'm sorry" apology, I think that dogpiling them for the horrible thing they've already admitted to is a crappy thing to do. Splitting off to a Hog Pit thread calling BS (or a PSA type thread in the Reviews section I mentioned) seems more appropriate there.

It doesn't have to be a dogpile, but you have to consider that most apology threads that get posted on MSB have the other side of the apology -- or at least some of them -- on the forum as posters. If you decide to open up your apology to the public, and there are people on the forum who have been personally victimized by the behavior you're apologizing for, they should be able to respond on the same thread. I don't think it's appropriate to expect to be able to dictate how the people you're apologizing to respond to your apology if you've seriously wronged people.

Honestly, any and all apology threads should just be moved directly to the Hog Pit, because that's pretty much always where they end up. (And really, it's pretty manipulative to post an apology thread for terrible behavior in a section of the forum that lets them be like "but don't personally attack me for this terrible behavior!!")

@dreampipe said in Dreampipe's Playlist:

I heard cool people hang out here.

Good lord, who told you that?!

@lithium This is definitely a good idea, and one some games have done. One of the problems comes, hilariously, from people welcoming the newbie and the helpful instructions scrolling right off the screen with channel chatter. (And this wasn't even on a game where guests or unapproved PCs had access to the Public channel.)

@thatguythere Yeah, that's usually what it comes down to me. I hate the game of "if I take this scene now, I might lock myself out of RP I'd really like later when this other player comes online/becomes available, but if I don't take this scene now, I might end up with no RP at all for the night." IT'S A STUPID GAME. It sucks and I hate it.