Ruby

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I strongly disagree that it was venting nor that it violated the OP guidelines, unless me addressing Hank violated the "only address me" part.

@j8cob

It did. If you want I'll PM you the text and you can have at it with Hank where you two want. But that's done here.

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Again this is no longer a platform for venting at each other. OP guidelines will be enforced.

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I don't really want to cause any drama, but is it really a good idea to accept more mods? I'm sure that people on here just want better mods than a few more roaming the site. Also, what are going to do about the mods that haven't been active on here for more than two months?

@Mao Mao

I will only add no one seems to know how active our newest mod has been. Which is concerning.

And also: YES WE NEED ANOTHER MOD. WE'RE VOLUNTEERS HOW MUCH TIME AND ENERGY YOU THINK WE HAVE!? I'D LIKE TO RP AGAIN ONE DAY.

ahem. So. Yeah.

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@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)

@Lady Absinthia

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.

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Site Mod Selection

Our list of questions is still a WIP, but here it is:

What general time zone do you live in?

How do you think site mods should be selected?

Do you currently roleplay, and if so, do you anticipate your role on staff to impact that in any way, negatively or positively?

What are some of your favorite parts about the Guild community? What parts would you look forward to spending some time and energy on as a site mod?

Hypothetical: User posted, someone memed and it was a tad insulting, user started up an argument. How do you address each member?

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@Ruby Thank you for the response, though I meant in general not just pertaining to bans but moving on to the other part. Could you please address the second half of my previous inquiry as it was overlooked and is, to me, the more important part. To refresh I quote:

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@Lady Absinthia

We went years without much outcry or disruption at all.

I wasn't being flippant to Jacob. I looked. There wasn't such a thread, although again I could have missed it.

In fact it's been so quiet it was hard for us to justify adding more than one mod to Mahz, or that it was something quickly needed.

We did try a PW. We have tried various channels in Discord. We've tried four or so different people in Guild news. Tried adding another contest mod. We opened up mod selection to general applications; something I still get heat for. It's not like we don't, or haven't been, trying.

Site Mod Selection

Believe it or not, I've been thinking up ways to make this process more transparent for a while.

So today especially, a day when transparency has been a buzz word, I'm ecstatic to announce we have our list of candidates for site mod. As well as the process on how selection will go down. Normally this would be the end of the announcement, more or less, but I wanted this to be different. This will be the second time we've asked for general interest from the Guild community. No one has to nominate you, no moderator has to know who you are.

Last time I asked a few questions of each candidate, I looked at alts, and post histories. I even bugged Mahz about it, and yes, he got back to me about it very quickly. Still it was a slow process and it took longer than I would have liked, and those who applied last time told me that the process was frustrating because they had no idea what was going on behind the scenes.

This time I want that to change that.

We have 16 candidates. That's the most I've ever heard of for a mod position. Site staff has decided it would be best if we kept that list private. I do not mind if you let it be known that you're on the list if you want, but please understand this is not a popularity contest. If you don't want it known you're on that list...more than fair. Personally I probably wouldn't want people knowing if I was on it. I'm shy, though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(If you want to make sure we put you on there and you sent us a DM/PM before the cut off, please reach out to me or any other site staffer. We're happy to triple check.)

The site mods will assist me in reaching out to each candidate and trying to pick their brain a little bit. To that end we've been thinking up some questions to ask these candidates. What a great way to take advantage of making this process more transparent?

Soooo...if you have a question you think would be good to ask a site mod candidate let us have it. Reply here (if this seems 'locked' someone tell me--there's a bug that bit one of my earlier threads and there's an easy fix but it helps to know), or send a site staffer (admin or site mod) the question in PM/DM. Either way. We may not catch it in the status bar, so at your own risk status bar peeps. (Don't use this ask for assistance as a chance to shitpost/troll us or the candidates please.)

You got until Friday night in the US.

After we get the list of questions finalized site mods and I will begin to survey and evaluate the candidates. (This will likely take the longest amount of time out of the whole process.)

Once that is finalized each site mod and admin will get their chance to give their opinions on each candidate and/or push for a few they liked best for the role. After that we'll vote until a majority is reached. Then we will let that person and announce it.

That is the plan, and the process created for it. I will update this thread on when we're on the next phase of the process.

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@j8cob

Sure. Although for what it's worth I looked back a few years and didn't see such a thread. Very possibly I just missed it.