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Tidal Wave
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I've got a hurricane in my head, I can't feel a thing, but it's better than dead
I've always had the opposite problem. I can't seem to just... be a member somewhere. Every time I haven't been staff I've been run out of sites, kicked from them, been a part of serious drama. And yet, running them? Very few issues. I don't get it. Maybe I have a strong staff-like personality that just pisses off staff or something but I've never done well as being just a member. I do really contemplate not being staff anymore sometimes too though.

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I've got a hurricane in my head, I can't feel a thing, but it's better than dead
I had to talk myself out of making a third site just because I found an image that would look great as a banner. Sometimes the ideas just come out of nowhere, but they still have to be crushed anyways.

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i am so full of love for my fellow staff members and the community at large. i came back from a hiatus, having had a really rough time, and everyone's been so warm, accepting, and accepting of me coming back in full force. wah
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You ever notice a member-made post where the template is broken (due to a missing bracket or something) and you sneakily fix it without telling?
Yep. Quite a bit in fact and especially if it's a post for me. If I'm gonna be sitting there and replying to it then I need to clean it up otherwise I'll stare at the error instead of working on the post. I hate that my brain does this. I'll also go in most of the time and fix tags that didn't pop in the alerts system for me. 
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You ever notice a member-made post where the template is broken (due to a missing bracket or something) and you sneakily fix it without telling?
i'd personally tell them and then say "i fixed it for you, but that's for future reference!" because its good for learning
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Staff can only cultivate a site culture to a certain degree. The larger a ste gets the more it takes on a life of its own. Sometimes this can lead to something greater than the conceptions of the site maker, and at others it can lead to ruin.
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When I'm a member, I feel like staff misses some points. And when I'm staff, I'm afraid I'm always missing points. It's this vicious cycle.


The second half speaks to me on a spiritual level! I keep telling myself "Alright I think I've covered all my bases" and then immediately think "But what if I haven't?" and then wrack my brain trying to figure out what terrible crime against humanity I have committed when there's usually none.
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I feel horrible when I have to put a character on pending and then have slight anxiety letting the person know. (Gotta put the staff pants on lol). However, makes me feel so much better when the person behind the character is willing to work with me so we can get their character to where myself (and other staff) is comfortable with accepting.
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I feel horrible when I have to put a character on pending and then have slight anxiety letting the person know. (Gotta put the staff pants on lol). However, makes me feel so much better when the person behind the character is willing to work with me so we can get their character to where myself (and other staff) is comfortable with accepting.
i get this feeling tbh its hard to accept the fact that you're gonna have to be viewed as the bad guy even when youre just trying to do your job as a staffer who does apps. but, more often than not, people are willing to work together with u these days so it is definitely a breath of fresh air ^-^
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double post but the titan embed sunset message was the ugliest thing i've ever seen so i scrambled to implement a fix before our site coder could make it all pretty and now im like wah

WHY CANT I SIT STILL AND WAIT!!!
last edit on Aug 28, 2022 0:22:24 GMT by yuan
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i get this feeling tbh its hard to accept the fact that you're gonna have to be viewed as the bad guy even when youre just trying to do your job as a staffer who does apps. but, more often than not, people are willing to work together with u these days so it is definitely a breath of fresh air ^-^


I completely agree, but yeah, it's a huge relief once you know it's okay and people are okay with reworking stuff. Especially when all I want to do is make sure they succeed and be able to roleplay.

On another note - I am making quests. They are derp for the testing - but that's okay. I love these derp quests, even if they are like... level 1-type MMO quests. :'D
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I feel horrible when I have to put a character on pending and then have slight anxiety letting the person know. (Gotta put the staff pants on lol). However, makes me feel so much better when the person behind the character is willing to work with me so we can get their character to where myself (and other staff) is comfortable with accepting.


It is a good feeling! Generally I've found that most people are cooperative if you politely explain what needs to be adjusted and why. Occasionally, though, you'll run into those people that give up on an app or even quit the site if their character doesn't get accepted as is, and that's a sucky feeling, especially if the character they were working on looked really neat. Then again, if someone gives up on a character app just because a mod requested some changes to better fit within the site setting, they probably weren't that committed to playing that character anyway.