Never going to read your advertisement rules if you put it in a thread instead of the board description, don't @me.

Edit: Okay I lied, i'm not going to read them at all.

I do not understand how some people think that by knowing and being friends with members on a site they are banned on should automatically get them unbanned. x.x You broke the rules, so sorry, you are not getting unbanned just because you are friends with site veteran Joe Two Shoes. If anything, you have more luck being unbanned by being respectful and understanding the staff's decision. You get a lot more appreciation for that and respect for being able to say "I respect your decision." Naturally, I am excluding false bans and people who just ban cause they wanted to ban that person. In those situations, honestly, it is better to leave in my opinion.

I always feel wary when looking over applications. I want to be lax like my friend. I look at the applications I accept verses the ones my friend does and think to myself, damn I ask too much, don't I? I am really tempted to just let my friend handle it because she knows what she is looking for on these applications.

i honestly think it's such a disservice to think of your site as a product that you're trying to sell.

part of it is because i just don't think that infinite growth is really super healthy for a site (and not something that so many sites should be trying to aspire to), i just don't, and it makes me sad that it seems to be such a prevalent way of thinking in the wider community. but also part of it is because i think that you lose a lot of the charm and appeal of a site to simply distill it down into selling points (especially when so many sites are so concerned with the initial recruitment that they largely neglect the retention side of things).

if you really want to think about your site in terms of salesmanship, it should be as a service, not a singular product, because you want that person to still be interested in what you're selling six months from now, not just now and for the next two weeks while it's still new and shiny and cool.

I do the same thing when someone has a fuzzy avatar graphic and I can find the source image.

When I had my own sites, I did that.... fixed the application or would ask if I could provide their profile with an image or something. x.x

this is more of a Theme Designer confession.. but oh well...

I have this horrible habit of Coding All Kinds of Secrets into my Themes-skins.. That lead to Secret pages, Secret threads, puzzles, and just things. The only real way to get to them is by breaking into the source code, highlighting my pages, and/or just simply "clicking" on them by Pure chance. Some of my little hidden "secrets" are harder to find than others, and I honestly Don't expect any member to ever take the time to figure them out. But I do from time to time hint at Plot Events, actions, and/or Secrets that members don't want other members to know about their characters............

As a staff member I cause randomness like persuading people to add "Eh" to the end of their name cause I am known as the stereotypical Canadian. Chat has now become Canadian stereotypes and humour and as the resident Canadian who acts like a bit of a stereotype, I approve, eh.

me when the sites busy or we're counting down to a deadline: oh my god i hate this so much wtf can i retire
me when the sites slow & i have down time/can breath: oh my god i hate this so much wtf can i please get something to do

Advertising is always the last thing on my mind.

I've hoarded FC's before. :'D

I have also saved a terrible app before and used it as a DO NOT DO THIS EVER, IT WILL BE DENIED but uh, only because the member who made it was a massive troll and argued with us a lot when we told him what needed to be changed... And just, yeah. I was a lot younger then and I would definitely handle that situation better now but, it really was a terrible application lol.

Question. Is it possible to put TOO Much Member customization? With Member-filled fields? I just don't Wanna Overwhelm New Members, who might just quit because of the options...... ~~To the point I keep hiding stuff into Staff Only control....~~