Hank

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Inkarnate English isn't my native language. I mistook your optimism for making demands ("No Mr. Bond, I expect you to die" -- that kind of thing). Apologies.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Inkarnate Constructive criticism is always welcome, but statements such as "like I expect him to" leave a sour taste in my mouth.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

@Inkarnate Mahz is under no obligation to do anything for this site; he pays for it out own his own pocket and offers its services for free to the rest of us. It is important not to let your expectations be colored by a misplaced sense of entitlement.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

I would also like to emphasize the point once again that the Guild's moderators are primarily janitors. We take care of spam(bots), move threads and delete unwanted posts. Enforcing the behavioral code is our secondary function. The rules of the Guild are deliberately very simple and just amount to "don't be a flagrant asshole". If you think someone is being a flagrant asshole to you, send us a message. It's that simple.

We do not exist to "regulate the behavior of 100+ active users" as I saw someone describe it in the old locked thread. I don't believe that's even necessary. We're all just here to roleplay.

As for merging subforums and other site-wide changes, these are things that only Mahz can do. I will ask him if he's willing to appoint another admin to deal with larger and more structural changes to the Guild, including managing the rest of the staff, but no promises.

EDIT: I can see about making more sticky threads with guides etc in the appropriate subforums, however. Anyone interested in this should PM me with suggestions.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

I tend to send my reports through @Kangaroo or @Mag Lev [as I am more familiar with them] unless it is a dire issue that needs full staff awareness to respond to. But that’s just me.

@Inkarnate

This is fine by me as long as you're satisfied with their response times.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

Well, it's not the any individual member's job either, every single member online has there own life, job and real life problems to deal with. As much as I sympathies and know it's not an easy job. It's frankly irresponsible to say, it's not my job to scour through things and waste my time, without pay. When it's equally true for every other person as well. In fact it's more so, because they don't have any power to do anything about it. The moderators do...

@SleepingSilence

I'm not suggesting that other people take up the mantle of detective in our stead and go trawl through the forums looking for issues to report. My stance is that the people directly involved with any given incident shoulder the responsibility of bringing it to our attention.

There have been people in this thread who have shared the sentiment that things don't get looked at when they report them to us. That's regrettable, but it raises the question of when these things took place and to who they were reported, because -- and this is the second time I'm saying this -- I barely receive any reports. There has been one incident that was PM'd to me in the last three months, and my colleagues picked that up and dealt with it within 24 hours. So either these sentiments are outdated, possibly stemming from a different moderator crew than the one we have now, or people haven't really been trying to bring things to our attention.

The Elder Scrolls: Heart of Darkness

Movealong post from me coming tomorrow/early next week. We'll depart with the crew we have.

EDIT: Scratch that, it's going to be later this week. My time has been hijacked by visitors and national holidays.

How can we help improve RPGuild? Community suggestions and discussion.

The only thing I have to say right now is that I agree with the point that incidents that break the Guild's rules (as simple as they are) should definitely be reported to the moderators. We are active but we often don't see what isn't brought to our attention as the staff is currently comprised of people who work full-time.

We trust the userbase to self-police most of the time. We're janitors, not police officers. That said, what can't be solved by reprimanding each other and reminding offenders of what the rules are should be PM'd to (one of) us. As it stands, this very rarely happens. I assume this means that my help is practically never needed. If that is not the case, the responsibility lies with the users to involve one of us to render judgement.

Mahz's continued absence is a result of his current workload and living situation in Mexico. There is nothing that can be done about that.

The Elder Scrolls: Fruits of Contention - Chapter 1 (Completed)

• The next writing prompt will be based on the theme of ancestry

@gcold

Oh boy

Name the place you first began roleplaying.

Good old JPL: jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Jurassic_P..

Doesn't exist anymore, sadly. That page does have a section on the very RP I participated in. Nostalgia.