Perhaps something that could be done to draw more into the Arena area is to have a trainer. Fighting in Rp, actual sparring can be daunting to those who are unfamiliar with any system. When in Free, Casual, or Advanced - much of the time fights are just thrown out there and people go at it. Whether it is fighting monsters, villains, or each other. Sometimes the GM moderates the fight and lets people know if things hit but perusing fight scenes in areas out side of the arena I personally would classify most battles I have seen as "Free" (No matter how many paragraphs are put into it or how well the descriptors are) - Why? Because there is no system used.

Now I am old school. I remember when T1/T2/T3 were being developed on various chat programs and Angle Fire was the main hosting site for people making websites trying to break down the rules. (Most fights I see outside of the arena are T3 if you broke it down and took out the fluff.) I personally prefer the T1 system though I utilize the §I T1 Alt variation I developed personally back in the early 2000's. It runs off a base T1 style with Para and Ref influences. For me it works better for forum. (But that is me personally and that is for RP's I Gm personally.)

My point is, not knowing how to fight in RP can be daunting. Looking at the Arena section there is no clear cut guides or explanation pinned concerning "Hey, I'm new but I want to learn, what do I do?!?!" - Now there are several articles in the articles section but as it has been stated several times in this topic people aren't reading these thread, many probably don't even know there are tutorials on certain subjects because they are pushed back and older.

If there was someone active in the Arena area that could write up at least a topic that could be pinned in the section that can link people to these already written articles or write some new ones that fit this forum in particular - it could do a lot for the section.

Arena, I feel does need it's own section because it is a monster all of it's own. Being an RP fighter puts you in a different category than the rest of the Rpers. Sure there are cross overs but in the end they need the separation because of the different set ups and such for their fights. It would be too much getting lost in the mix.

Anywho, once again just my two copper pieces.

1. As someone who roleplays 18+ content, yes please lets add either a tag or a 18+ subforum of some kind. In a pure organization level this would be great.

2. Allowing more tags in general would be nice as well. I have a very open and vast interest in a variety of genres and 5 is way too limiting. I literally do everything but Horror, Arena, Nation RP, and Historical. That leaves a lot of genres with not enough tags to cover it

Clipping these two points~

I would love to see the 18+ and non-18+ separated as well. It would make it easier to have visibility for the non-romance 1x1s, and it would basically be a clear indicator when one entered the 18+ section of "Here be dragons." This is something I feel mods could do without needing coding or tags, but it would be annoying to move all the IntChecks there.

In re tags: My first RP that I GM'd covered a fairly wide array of options. I tagged all the things I thought of that fit, and then was informed I could only have 5 tags. I understand from a visual perspective why this makes sense, but could we possibly remove that limit and instead only show the first 5 tags or so in areas where space is an issue? Obviously, this means the system -could- be abused, but that would be something for moderators to keep an eye on. More options for tags in general would be great too, and perhaps even an option to create our own tags (of course if they're not a common tag, searching for them would be useless).

In re tags: My first RP that I GM'd covered a fairly wide array of options. I tagged all the things I thought of that fit, and then was informed I could only have 5 tags. I understand from a visual perspective why this makes sense, but could we possibly remove that limit and instead only show the first 5 tags or so in areas where space is an issue? Obviously, this means the system -could- be abused, but that would be something for moderators to keep an eye on. More options for tags in general would be great too, and perhaps even an option to create our own tags (of course if they're not a common tag, searching for them would be useless).

This would be great, we can put the 5 most relevant tags first then people can go into the thread to see all the tags selected just underneath the title of the thread?

Creating tags would be nice too. I roleplay mostly exclusively fxf roleplays (with doubling options because I'm nice like that) so being able to tag that because people seem to not read my title or my thread would help.

Maybe three times will be better than just two :P

(read: we're trying, because you weren't passive aggressively saying we weren't before, right?)

As clarified earlier, I wasn't. Just the point that community involvement shouldn't be dependent on Mod/Mahz direct involvement.

I'm not satisfied with their answers so far

Tough, I guess. I've seen the Moderators say, "There's no delay in Moderator response to reported issues that we've seen." And then I've seen nothing significant to argue to the opposite of that. Some people say things aren't getting reported? Not sure how that weight falls on staff. It's not as if they do anything to actively discourage reporting.

If you and a few others think their job should be some kind of community coordinator on top of what it already is...okay. Good luck. I've touched on why that may not be a good idea, not that I feel like anyone's listened to me about that in this thread. Fair enough.

At this point I see a couple people pushing a narrative, talking at more than talking with. So my involvement in the thread comes to an end here.

But we are going into semantics about miscommunication and should get back to the larger topic at hand on how we can improve the website. Perhaps in ways that engage the community since the management has their hands tied at this point in time in terms of mechanical improvements.

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I would love to see the 18+ and non-18+ separated as well. It would make it easier to have visibility for the non-romance 1x1s, and it would basically be a clear indicator when one entered the 18+ section of "Here be dragons." This is something I feel mods could do without needing coding or tags, but it would be annoying to move all the IntChecks there.

I'll put this in my list of ideas because I personally like this idea as well and I don't see how this could create any more problems (except more clutter, but if we're going to advocate keeping arena, then adding more clutter shouldn't be wholly deniable on that basis either). I think that the distinction between 1x1 mature and not mature is big enough to warrant two different sections in that case, since most people are of the opinion that the clutter isn't that cluttery (might just be my personal opinion then).

It also helps create a more PG13 ish thing. The only question I'd have is would we need to moderate this to ensure that whatever rules we have (lol the rules state you can't use words like lesbian, bisexual or homosexual but it happens all the same) are actually enforced for once, or are we just going to pretend like it's not a thing? Either works for me personally.

In re tags: My first RP that I GM'd covered a fairly wide array of options. I tagged all the things I thought of that fit, and then was informed I could only have 5 tags. I understand from a visual perspective why this makes sense, but could we possibly remove that limit and instead only show the first 5 tags or so in areas where space is an issue? Obviously, this means the system -could- be abused, but that would be something for moderators to keep an eye on. More options for tags in general would be great too, and perhaps even an option to create our own tags (of course if they're not a common tag, searching for them would be useless).

Since I don't think a 'tag search' will ever be a thing (who wants to read 300 pages of dead roleplays) I think we can safely add custom tags without it becoming a problem. It'd also allow some dank aesthetics, which I'm always in favor of. :)

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I mentioned this earlier as well.

I believe the problem of having a "Report Post" button is that in my experience, the mods don't just look at one post. Whenever I reported something, it required a myriad of different posts and screenshots and even then the answer was "Well they're being a dick in these several posts but that's not excessive harassment so we can't do anything."

So by that logic, reporting one post isn't going to establish continued/excessive harassment. Of course, the easy answer to this solution is to report all of the posts involved, but I feel like it would make it difficult to view the problem as a whole. What if you report 20 posts and the mods only have time to go through 10 of them in one day? Do they judge each post individually (If the system is a singular reported post, it likely will be judged as such)? How many of the 20 reported posts would it take to establish a pattern/incident? Sometimes things fall through the cracks, and other times it's a lot more convincing if you have a compilation of evidence to build your case.

By our current rules, reporting a singular post is probably not going to encourage action from the mods. It would put more stress on them to try to sift through a bunch of reported posts to see how things are related, especially if there are a lot of other different reported posts.

Additionally, the reporting posts thing brings up another question: Can we report PMs? Statuses?

Well, the one solution I have implemented myself is that blacklist thing, which deals mostly with people that harass others and are, for a lack of better words, problematic. But I can't really publish it here (that'd be targeted harassment) and I can't put it in the public guild discord. So it's hosted 'publicly' in my 'public' server. It's not an A+ solution but so far it's better than anything we have.

Feels kinda vigilante like though and I'd rather not get into that if we can avoid it.

Besides that, yes a report post function is really needed. If anything it's because it's so easy. I can hit the button, fill in a form and press send. It's easier to do than send a PM to a moderator. It also feels less like I'm snitching like that. I'd definitely click report post more often than I'd bother to go through the hassle of taking screenshots and PMing a moderator because even if nothing happens at least I know I did my part.

I imagine statuses can't be reported (I mean they can by sending a PM) but adding a button there would just be stupid I feel like. But PM's, sure.

As clarified earlier, I wasn't. Just the point that community involvement shouldn't be dependent on Mod/Mahz direct involvement.

It isn't. So far the community has done a lot for RPG. It's a dependence based relationship. Mahz cannot host RPG without community (well he can, but you see why that'd be dumb) and we cannot have RPG without Mahz. We need to work together and for some things like the bigger community projects, his/moderators involvement is definitely a dependency I'd see as a requirement.

Tough, I guess. I've seen the Moderators say, "There's no delay in Moderator response to reported issues that we've seen." And then I've seen nothing significant to argue to the opposite of that. Some people say things aren't getting reported? Not sure how that weight falls on staff. It's not as if they do anything to actively discourage reporting.

Disagree. Failure to satisfy the need for feedback or at the very least a satisfactory outcome of the process is definitely discouraging reporting. It might not be active and intentional but judging from the posts in this thread, people feel as though nothing happens with reports. That is why nobody reports anything if we are to believe the posts in here.

If you and a few others think their job should be some kind of community coordinator on top of what it already is...okay. Good luck. I've touched on why that may not be a good idea, not that I feel like anyone's listened to me about that in this thread. Fair enough.

Please quote where you touched upon why you don't want them to also be community coordinators. Cause all I could find in the part where you quoted that specific part of what I said was:

That Discord was also started with a former mod, and then had another former mod added in early on to help it along. Not current Mods, former ones. Current Mods also helped in various ways when asked. Put it a better way: people who cared about the Guild community and were active in it.

And this seems to infer that former mods have done a lot of things for the discord. IDK how that means that community coordinating isn't something moderators should be involved in. But you are in the GCS. You used to be anyway. You know how active the guild authorities are on there :)

At this point I see a couple people pushing a narrative, talking at more than talking with. So my involvement in the thread comes to an end here.

I'm not pushing a narrative just because you are the only one to disagree, isn't disagreeing part of talking with too? Am I not talking with you now? In fact, with numerous people agreeing with me on some points, I'd very much think we are discussing something in this thread in general, not pushing a narrative. I'm not sure who I'd be talking at. Perhaps not you, but that's because I didn't feel like you added anything constructive so far. If you don't want to add anything to the thread anymore then feel free to leave. Nobody is making you stay here. It certainly isn't me. You disagreeing is fine. But please don't say I'm pushing a narrative for speaking my mind.

But we are going into semantics about miscommunication and should get back to the larger topic at hand on how we can improve the website. Perhaps in ways that engage the community since the management has their hands tied at this point in time in terms of mechanical improvements.

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Yes, please. I want to talk more about subjects that are not necessarily related to moderation or arena (lol) solely. What are issues people have with the site that bug them?

If you and a few others think their job should be some kind of community coordinator on top of what it already is...okay. Good luck. I've touched on why that may not be a good idea, not that I feel like anyone's listened to me about that in this thread. Fair enough.

At this point I see a couple people pushing a narrative, talking at more than talking with. So my involvement in the thread comes to an end here.

As a moderator on a different site, this is absolutely true. Moderators are not babysitters, nor should they be expected to do any more than their job description (which is essentially to make sure that the basics are covered in their particular area). A moderator typically just keeps an eye on bots and reports, and little more. I'm not sure if there is some additional requirement for the mods here, but complaints about them not exceeding their duties will likely not be very helpful.

@JBRam2002 I've been an admin of groups over 2000 members large and I think honestly that presence is just as important as taking action. I get what you are saying and I'm not advocating turning moderators into babysitters.

But, on the other hand, having moderators interact with the community is a good thing. I definitely prefer it if the moderators were 'one of us' rather than the ivory tower. And they are just too inactive now for my taste to really get that feeling.

@SleepingSilence Didn't I request like, yesterday, not to do this stuff in here? Think it was a pretty straight forward request.

(lol the rules state you can't use words like lesbian, bisexual or homosexual but it happens all the same) are actually enforced for once, or are we just going to pretend like it's not a thing? Either works for me personally.

Wait what?????

Where?

Am I supposed to pretend like I don't exist now? (for the sake of clarity, that's a joke)

That's gotta be one of the weirder rules I've ever seen, and I work for a corporation who's favorite thing is meddling dumb rules that make no logical sense.

@JBRam2002 I've been an admin of groups over 2000 members large and I think honestly that presence is just as important as taking action. I get what you are saying and I'm not advocating turning moderators into babysitters.

But, on the other hand, having moderators interact with the community is a good thing. I definitely prefer it if the moderators were 'one of us' rather than the ivory tower. And they are just too inactive now for my taste to really get that feeling.

Sure, I think the mods being involved in the community is a great idea (I am definitely one of the most involved members of the community I mod). But it's also possible that some of their community interactions take place off-site (either in Discord or in private threads). I know there are a lot of members here who are active, but they don't necessarily have a lot of recent posts due to the manner in which they are active.

That said, getting the community involved starts with getting those at the top of the community involved with the community (as opposed to them being babysitters). If we want to increase involvement, then having more moderator-led events like the writing contest is a great opportunity.

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Wait what?????

Where?

Am I supposed to pretend like I don't exist now? (for the sake of clarity, that's a joke)

That's gotta be one of the weirder rules I've ever seen, and I work for a corporation who's favorite thing is meddling dumb rules that make no logical sense.

The rule stated in the IntCheck forum is to use FxF tags, mostly for precision.

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Then that was a failure on the part of whoever informed me though, to their credit, they didn't say you were explicitly the head moderator. Just that you were, quote, 'Team Mom to the other mods' and 'Sherlock Holmes was a Spam reg for many years (during Jorick's time as a regular user), and is essentially the head moderator.' Perhaps the fact that people see you as such is another indicator of the perceived failure to establish moderator presence/knowledge on this site.

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Do you think this is a good thing? I'm not sure how this is preferable for a moderator.

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Since I don't know you I can't comment on questions I have specifically for you but I can give you some questions that I've asked the other moderators in this thread/want to ask the moderators in general.

Do you feel like the issues touched upon in this thread are real, or are you under the impression that everything is fine?
How do you feel about the amount of moderators, and their activity?
How do you feel about the engagement of the community as a moderator? Do you think it's not required?
How do you feel about the quote that states;
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Do you feel like the community is deteriorating, whether through shrinking member counts, increasing toxicity or any other reasons?
What are your ideas on how we can fix the community?
What are your ideas on how we can make the community better (in case you are under the impression there are no problems)? We can always make the community even better, so 'the community is already good' won't really suffice here.
What are priority issues for the moderators at the moment?
What are your concerns in terms of moderator recruitment processes?
What are your concerns in terms of how moderators currently discuss and act together?

I'll answer you in a lump sum, rather than quoting each point individually:

(I'm posting in between some unexpected projects this morning, so hopefully this will be coherent, even if I'm typing everything a little disjointedly.)

The whole 'Mom' schtick came from my days in Spam -- I was always viewed as the level-headed one, someone who was fair and would not choose sides lightly or pander to whoever happened to be popular at the time. I was known for giving good advice and being unerringly even-tempered -- this is ultimately why I was promoted to moderator. My username was aptly chosen: if you've ever read the stories, Holmes has a personality that I largely identify with. This is beneficial in a lot of respects, but it is also somewhat detrimental in others -- I am able to objectively reason any point and conduct myself maturely, but I'm often seen as somewhat aloof and arrogant. Because I've always been a cool head when surrounded by chaos (such as Spam once was), people felt comfortable to approach me for advice on almost any matter, despite the fact that I'm not well-known for inspiring "warm fuzzies" personality-wise. (I'm sure Hank will vouch for the majority of this, since we've known each other for several years now.)

I was a decently well-known entity on the site before Guildfall occurred. At the time, I was on the site almost constantly -- I was working from home and had the luxury of popping on here frequently. Since then, I've moved to New York City and I have a much tighter work schedule, but I still come on several times a day to check the moderator forum and weed through my PM box. I have always been comfortable being a 'behind the scenes' type of person -- I enjoy being low-key and helping out when/where I can, so my style has always been to lurk and keep an eye on things from the shadows. I generally don't say anything unless I feel like I have something to add, which gives me the appearance of being less active than I actually am, I suppose. (Take this thread for instance -- I've been following it since the beginning, but I kept quiet until I actually had something to add.)

I'm not saying whether this is preferable for moderator behavior or not -- it's simply how I am and how I have always been.

I am far from a point where I think things on this site are ok. The community is on life support (in a lot of respects) and the tools with which we have to moderate by are rudimentary compared to what we used to have. (Pre Guildfall.) At the moment, moderators have very little functional power, aside from banning and warning. That is pretty much all we are capable of, aside from hiding threads or moving them on occasion. We don't have the tools to research users like we once had, we don't have the ability to do temporary bans (unless we physically keep a list of time frames and physically ban/unban people on a case by case basis), we cannot do name changes or any other under the hood changes that most moderators on forums are able to do. People like to point out that the site needs some updates and for things to get finished -- the moderator tool kit is no different.

We'd all like for Mahz to be more active, but the reality is that he is a busy guy and we are not necessarily at the top of his list priority-wise. This is not to admonish him, this is simply a fact. I appreciate all that he has put together on this site and respect the fact that he pays for everything from his pocket out of the goodness of his heart, but I think we can all agree that we'd be blind if we ignored the fact that improvements/updates on the site need to be made. That all said, these are things that the moderators have discussed at length in our own forum -- I know I've personally said that I would like someone to be appointed as an admin to help Mahz and be more accessible on a regular basis. (Even though Contra Fates was spotty in her availability at times, she was at least accessible.) We've also discussed bringing on more moderators, but unless Mahz pops in, this is not within the moderator's toolbox and he would have to make the changes.

(We can discuss things all we want, ultimately the discussion does little unless we can get Mahz on board for some changes. It's the same in these regular threads as it is in the moderator forum -- we only have so much power.)

Priority issues for the moderators are getting more help -- both in a sense of potentially expanding the staff, as well as getting the moderator toolkit up to scratch. If Mahz can't be around, then he needs to share the abilities to make changes by appointing another admin or giving the moderators more power to make changes in his absence. As far as working as a moderator team, we seem to work fairly well together as far as communicating behind the scenes goes -- when there is a problem, it gets handled. Hank is right, however, when he says we're mostly 'janitors'. We sweep up after everyone, sorting out disagreements and whatnot, moving threads, and disposing of the spambots when applicable. Really, that's pretty much our lot day in and day out. It's not fun or glamorous, but a lot of stuff that gets done behind the scenes that regular users don't really see.

Could we be more engaging as moderators? I know I probably could, personally. While it's my preference to lay low, I can understand how that might create a bit of a detached feeling on my part from the regular community members. With the demise of Spam, which was my regular haunt (aside from my RP's), I don't post much outside of the moderator forum these days. I am around the site, but I don't tend to leave much of a trail outside of my moderating duties. I'm far from a perfect example of a moderator in terms of being sociable -- I do my duty and don't do much to grow the community these days. I could definitely work on that. (Part of it's available free time, part of it is a bit of apathy on my part because the community is a shadow of what it once was -- the first part is understandable, the latter part has no excuse.)

As far as appointing new moderators, I don't know that I have a way of improving the system devised, since we don't really appoint them anyhow. Really, it's always just been taking a community temperature and seeing who stands out based on recommendations. It's not a perfect system.

TL;DR -- I'm not as social as I could be, but I do keep up on my moderator duties. Our community needs some attention, both through site updates and community-building activities. We need more staff and the staff that we do have needs more power, so that we can do things in Mahz's absence.

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@JBRam2002 all of these have been mentioned before but that doesn't mean you can't raise these issues again because they are all valid and in fact most people here share your opinions.

It's kind of strange that we don't have a report button given that the always updated rules literally state you should use the report button. ;) You're right though and a report button would at least fix the problem of people not reporting anything.

This is one of my biggest site peeves as far as being a moderator goes. We DEFINITELY need a report button.

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I mentioned this earlier as well.

I believe the problem of having a "Report Post" button is that in my experience, the mods don't just look at one post. Whenever I reported something, it required a myriad of different posts and screenshots and even then the answer was "Well they're being a dick in these several posts but that's not excessive harassment so we can't do anything."

So by that logic, reporting one post isn't going to establish continued/excessive harassment. Of course, the easy answer to this solution is to report all of the posts involved, but I feel like it would make it difficult to view the problem as a whole. What if you report 20 posts and the mods only have time to go through 10 of them in one day? Do they judge each post individually (If the system is a singular reported post, it likely will be judged as such)? How many of the 20 reported posts would it take to establish a pattern/incident? Sometimes things fall through the cracks, and other times it's a lot more convincing if you have a compilation of evidence to build your case.

By our current rules, reporting a singular post is probably not going to encourage action from the mods. It would put more stress on them to try to sift through a bunch of reported posts to see how things are related, especially if there are a lot of other different reported posts.

Additionally, the reporting posts thing brings up another question: Can we report PMs? Statuses?

Actually, it would show us the problem post, but we also would go and read through the thread to get context anyhow. That's how it always worked when we had a report button in the past.

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Wait what?????

Where?

Am I supposed to pretend like I don't exist now? (for the sake of clarity, that's a joke)

That's gotta be one of the weirder rules I've ever seen, and I work for a corporation who's favorite thing is meddling dumb rules that make no logical sense.

Works like youtube. Mention of the word sexual or lesbian relates to sexual content 99.9% of the time when you are perusing the internet. So, mentioning it will likely result in adsense picking it up as bad bad words. :) I won't argue about identity here in this thread because you know my stances, but there's definitely a reason for it afaik.

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Sure, I think the mods being involved in the community is a great idea (I am definitely one of the most involved members of the community I mod). But it's also possible that some of their community interactions take place off-site (either in Discord or in private threads). I know there are a lot of members here who are active, but they don't necessarily have a lot of recent posts due to the manner in which they are active.

That said, getting the community involved starts with getting those at the top of the community involved with the community (as opposed to them being babysitters). If we want to increase involvement, then having more moderator-led events like the writing contest is a great opportunity.

Eh. The discord is.. barebones in terms of activity from Guild moderators or RPG members that manage the discord. It's a frequent point of annoyance to me but what can you do. :)

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.

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.

Forgive me, but that statement really sounds like it. If you aren't the police and just the clean up crew. You are sort of pushing the community to police their own forum, which nobody does...(actually maybe this is off topic. But I've literally been banned from a (different) forum for sending a private message to someone breaking the rules and telling them to please knock it off.) Because apparently THAT was harassment.

But as it comes from personal requests and receiving low amounts, well the only answer I have is at the time...the only mod I saw actively participating in the chatbox was the one I went to...because the others were nowhere to be found. Another reason I mentioned, it isn't good to appear inactive vs proactive. But I can also tell you, it is still a problem with the current line up. It's not even been that long ago, where supposed mod warnings have been outright ignored, and the repeated harassment offenders did not receive any punishment. It feels bizarre to explain that there is nuisance and say people aren't banned for simple actions. (you didn't do that mind.) When like I said, the bans that have occurred seem to be the exact guildlines to how those people were banned on the spot. What's the difference that got those people banned and not the others? Beside the direct connection with moderators themselves? That's a legit question I hope I can get an answer too...

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Yes, please. I want to talk more about subjects that are not necessarily related to moderation or arena (lol) solely. What are issues people have with the site that bug them?

my issue is that there're lots of people who want change, yet at the same time, people are so afraid of it that they get their pants in a bunch over even hearing the word "change". it's a mindset we really need to tackle before any change can actually be made.

@SleepingSilence Didn't I request like, yesterday, not to do this stuff in here? Think it was a pretty straight forward request.

Don't shoot the messenger. I was attempting to tell someone else to stop. But I'm sorry for getting involved. Though the "shooting the messenger" thing is exactly what happens every single damn time I tell users to not harass other users and I'm basically one of the few members I've seen do it...that doesn't help stop the people breaking rules either...Exactly why moderators need to insert more authority in situations.

Works like youtube. Mention of the word sexual or lesbian relates to sexual content 99.9% of the time when you are perusing the internet. So, mentioning it will likely result in adsense picking it up as bad bad words. :) I won't argue about identity here in this thread because you know my stances, but there's definitely a reason for it afaik.

UGH

I won't go into it here because this isn't the thread for it but...

UGHHHH that bothers me.

Anyway I've said my piece I'll keep an eye on things if I have anything to add.