Jul 30, 2018 16:56:32 GMT pharaoh leap said:

Okay, but no joke, my biggest admin pet peeve:

I wish I had enough time to thread with all of my members. All of them. But I just. Don't. I don't want anyone to leave one of my RPs feeling as if they were ignored - even just having one person to thread with can help open the door to more activity, and being less shy about getting more threads. It really can make all the difference! If I, as the head admin, can make sure that at least I've threaded with someone, that means they have at least one thread on the site.

Unfortunately, unless there are only, like, six people on site, that's just... not feasible. Why can't I thread with everyone, aaaaaah, I just want everyone to feel happy and welcome.

I feel this down to my bones on an existential level... and am currently drowning in 30-thread hell for this very reason.

And I can't control myself. At all.

I'm sure that one day, the rp gods will come down to smite me for this.

Jul 28, 2018 20:21:22 GMT Chibi Magician said:

Jul 28, 2018 19:25:40 GMT Sharp said:

I believe the reason some people don't ask questions is because they are afraid of being "that guy" in Murk's post. I hate asking questions because when I was a younger roleplayer an immature admin burned me for missing some obscure information in their lore that I could not find.

That is an excellent point and I see what you mean. I can understand shyness/anxieties getting in the way or bad experiences; in fact, my own shyness leaves me hesitant to join sites that leave me having a lot of questions. So I partially wanted to mention it in hopes people will see that staff prefer receiving questions over the member assuming when they are confused/don't understand. c: We do attempt to keep a friendly display and openness towards question after all, so it can be unfortunate to discover a member has possibly become anxious about asking questions. Also, I hope your experiences with admins/staff have improved since it always makes me shake my head hearing stories about members receiving backlash for simply forgetting/missing that is obscure.

This. This. This.

I'm both ADD and dumb as hell, so there are times when I read through all a site's info... but then I don't notice that my brain decided to blip out and not to process a solid chunk of text that I thought I read. So I usually have questions and whatnot, but when I have questions that I feel might be dumb (but I can't find the answer on my own), I'll slither off into the sunset because I know admins' lives are hard and I don't want to contribute to that by annoying them with something trivial or by being That Guy™.

This might be an unpopular opinion but... I actually? Love getting questions from guests and new members?? Even the "dumb" questions??? It could have something to do with the fact that I actually really like it when my members are excited enough to want to answer questions — or "mini-modding," I think it was called? As long as the member answering is fine with saying that they don't know or are unsure about something when it's applicable, I think them going out of their way like that is super helpful; hell, it even warms my cold, dead heart? In the past, my members and I have had contests to see who can answer a question the best or grab a link to a certain thread the fastest. And we've probably scared people off with our weird excessive enthusiasm in the process.

Also, casual side note: I know that on the first site I was on in this community, I was one of those enthusiastic members who wanted to be super helpful all the time. I kind of had this "the admin could use a break, I'll try to do what I can to make things easier" mentality. So yeah. I'm sure I was super annoying and I'm so incredibly sorry that that admin had to put up with that dfahlsdflajsdfh.

But yee... I don't want people to feel bad for not understanding things, even if it's simplistic. I love questions. I love attention. I love validation. Hell, if someone's nice to me and just says "thank you," I'll even sit on VC with them and walk them through everything step-by-step, even though I've written out a getting started guide. Chances are, some other members would be excited to chat and help, too. — I've actually had a member go on VC and read out everything in the site's info section out loud to new people more than once. Bless him.

The tarrot-card-like graphics you made are absolutely stunning. I was actually going to compliment you in the thread you posted them in... but then got shy.

Me in a nutshell:



Tbh I'm just using this thread as an excuse to show people the meme that's on my phone's lock screen atm.

Mine.




That counts, right?

Jul 27, 2018 1:46:03 GMT iota said:

Oops, I guess I made a public suggestion. Sorry. I meant no harm by it, merely that I could relate in certain circumstances. Edit: I deleted it for you. I didn't realise it applied off your site.

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Dw! It doesn't. I was just sitting over here laughing at the irony of it and wanted to give you a hard time. Looking back, I guess the gif could come off as paggro, but I absolutely didn't mean it that way; sorry I caused a misunderstanding.