Meth Quokka

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

If you want a more rapid discussion, I'm happy to host a chat group on discord.

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

@Lady Amalthea

To me, anyone who wants to be a mod probably isn't going to do too great in the role - then again people would argue I'm not either. In my case I was asked to test some forum tools on newguild and kept a mod status since then. In terms of activity, from what I've seen from our discussion we do agree that a few more mods would be nice but again, it's having the right ones.

@Buddha

When you talk about this 'disconnect' that may be true for the community as a whole but not necessarily everyone inside of it. As a mod I pay attention to the way people deal with other's situation to evaluate how I think they'd be a mod. The reality of a new selection process is that the mods can make suggestions but ultimately it's Mahz's decision.

Now there have been a number of plans and concepts which never came off around how to run staffing but again it falls back to this is Mahz's hobby, not his job.

As to the reporting system - in every forum there is a pinned thread which instructs you to report incidents. If incidents aren't reported, they can't be dealth with. Unless you want mods trawling through every thread on the forum.

The status bar is a unique case in that it was sprung on and to be honesy, we never designed a guideline for a live updated status bar. I think you'll find every mod's perception is at least a little different. But is what you expect from a mod team to be constantly refreshing and patrolling a white board?

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

Okay, I'll start off my saying I closed the last thread early because it was trending away from the right topic and after the spam event, I felt it was better off to restart the conversation.

Now to give my personal opinion of the situation.

There are deficiencies with mod availability, I will freely admit that. We're all busy people and how we effectively moderate is through mod reports - whether by PM or DM on discord. As to needing extra mods, from our discussions every one of us is in agreement that we either need more mods or people more available, however a bad previous experience with a mod makes mod selection very important. As to the claim that we perhaps don't care about the site; I can see how that would come across but again it's a factor of time. I've personally offered a few times to resign my modship for a more active user if Mahz didn't want to increase the number of mods then he could use the spot I occupied.

I think subforum mods are a bad idea; we don't want staff actively combing through threads to hunt down every infraction - our moderator model was always built on responding to requests rather than active hunting. This is the way I personally believe it should be done and that is the way we five original mods decided we were going to do it.

There are problems with the server infrastructure, however at the end of the day Mahz does pay the bills and self-funded this site despite not using it for a number of years. I can understand the desire to see other people to work on it to progress it but as I understand the hesitation is over what happens if one of the coders leaves/goes rogue and then there;s a really big mess to clean up. I understand that it is frustrating to see a community start to wither, I've been on here since 2009 so I do feel an attachment to this place.

Looking forward, I'm happy to support and work with community projects as best I can - I've supported community run news/contests in the past and I'd love to see that continue in the future.

what can we do to help improve roleplayer guild?

Now this was a thread that had some good potential and had legitimate criticism of the way the guild is being run; all of us acknowledge that the guild is not run flawlessly but we are doing the best we can.

In terms of my personal activity; if you dm me on discord, I will generally get back to you ASAP, however I don't constantly sit on the forums.

I'm going to close this thread, but if you want to start a new one; keep it constructive.