[quote=@Lady Absinthia]
[@Ruby] I am a tad confused considering I never once mentioned Jacob so it is odd to me they were mentioned in a response to me. O.o I am asking in general. Not what has been done, but what in your mind could be. I am not speaking about specific people or responses. 


Though, as I can see this is not the right time and a bit too hot of a topic to be able to just be spoken about generally I am taking a step back. Perhaps another time. Well wishes and nope, like another said, do not envy at all. ( Said it once, said it half a dozen times: one could not pay me enough to mod this place lol)

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the "bring the community more together" line equaled=Jacob saying there was a yearly cycle of outrage and reaction, in part because I had just gone looking through the forum for it, so, yeah. 

I had a conversation earlier tonight where someone said to me, paraphrased, "People don't think site staff listens to them in large part because they don't talk to site staff to begin with." 

They asked me about transparency and I told them, again paraphrased, "Literally anyone can DM/PM me. Anyone. I answer everything unless someone is trolling/harassing me. Those may not get answered." So they hit me with that. Someone said on the status bar recently, "Anyone DM me. Wanna chat." I didn't know them at all, you bet I bugged them. Learned a lot and think about them regularly still. I made this thread, anyone can invite me to their Discord server if they want an admin they can ping in their own server...we did the Guild official Discord. 

We try. Opening site modship up to anyone who wants to apply, getting voices in the staff rooms not connected to any of us, not nominated by any of us, that's only going to help provide us perspective. We're always trying new ideas on how to bring the community together. Finding ones we can execute can be difficult, but it hasn't kept us from controlling what we can control and trying. 

Hope that answer is a bit more of what you were hoping for. If not my apologies. I am officially brain fried for the day.