weekly updates

[these_balls]

Announcements, guys!

YOUR WEATHER FORECAST FOR THIS WEEK IS: SUNNY!
That's right, guys! It's going to be beautiful and sunny until Monday, Sept. 6! Level playing fields, but who wants to battle? It's wonderful picnic weather!
Highs: 85ºF/29ºC. Lows: 64ºF/18ºC.


Also guys, we've received a few complaints about the overabundance of memes in the OOC community. We accidentally let it get a bit overboard and we don't want it to become too cluttered, so in a few days, we are going to make a meme-community for Route. For now and for the future, all memes posted in the game communities and the meme community must be mod approved. More details to come soon!

And don't forget our monthly activity check, which is.... the post right after this one!


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Comments

[these_balls]

Well, it was supposed to be moderated from the get-go and it had been for the first few weeks, so it's not really increasing our workload. If anything, it's just making sure we stay on top of things.

[magical-logic.livejournal.com]

You... didn't answer my question. Why do you guys feel moderating the meme comm is necessary? Because, personally, I can't think of any pros to moderating it and a whole long list of possible cons. I mean, it is increasing your workload, because you haven't been moderating memes even if you were supposed to. And your workload really doesn't need any increasing considering that apps have been checked on Sunday instead of Saturday two weeks in a row now.

Also, something that really concerns me about this is the fact that the announcement comes in the form of "we'll have a meme comm ready for you in a few days and we'll be controlling it all closely and we're not going to explain how until it's ready". I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that it sounds like you're going "STOP HAVING FUN GUYS" but I would say that it sounds a lot like you're going "MEMES ARE BAD GUYS" with a little of "WE DON'T TRUST YOU TO BE RESPONSIBLE ON YOUR OWN". And I can't recall ever seeing either mod participating much in memes, which adds to the impression that you don't like them. And I know I'm not going to feel comfortable asking permission to have a meme when I feel like the person I'm asking doesn't like memes and doesn't trust my judgment on them.

And then there are concerns about timing, like what if my schedule is completely incompatible with either mod's? I mean, memes are spontaneous by nature, y'know? By the time I get a response to a PM, maybe I don't want to do the meme anymore, or maybe I had a different idea that I like better. And then there are memes for which the timing is important, like, say, if I'm not doing anything for Thanksgiving and I'm bored out of my skull and want to do a "what are your characters thankful for" meme but oh hey both the mods are spending the day with their families or whatever, looks like my Thanksgiving meme can't be on Thanksgiving because there's nobody to approve it! And what if there are 5 other people in the comm who had the exact same thought and suddenly when the mods get back the next day, there are 6 Thanksgiving memes sitting in the queue?

Really, I feel like a lot of this fuss could've been avoided by the meme comm and its mysterious "system" being set up before this announcement was made, because I'm sure some of the expressed concerns are going to be addressed by the explanation of the system, but because literally nothing about the system has been explained to us (including that an organized system will exist, if one looks at the announcement alone and none of the comments), we don't know that, do we? So we ask, because I know I don't like being confused and in the dark about this sort of thing, and I'm sure nobody else does, either.

[these_balls]

I thought I had, sorry if I didn't. The reason we're moderating the comm is because we want to a) establish the new system and b) memes were supposed to be moderated from the beginning so we're formally announcing it. It was one of those unwritten rules that we didn't feel would be fair without it being at least introduced to the players. We're not the type to go "hey you just broke a rule you didn't know about so you deserve a consequence", but to just "randomly" choose to moderate them on the OOC community would be awkward (and I say randomly for those who didn't know it was a rule, which was most of the playerbase), so the announcement was so players would know and at least have an idea on what we're planning in the next few days. I don't like just springing thins on my players so the announcement was a heads-up, and, from the responses we've been getting, in need of a bit more tweaking.

I'll be explaining the system once the community has been set up. We're not trying to restrict or control anyone's fun, and we have no problem with memes at all, nor do we just assume the players can't handle things. In fact, we're sure you can. We're moderating the comm just for the system and to make sure things go smoothly at first. I don't want to just turn everyone loose and let things get chaotic because I haven't made clear sense of something or we had some confusion.

We had decided the night the announcement came up. I won't be around this weekend so I haven't had time to set it up, but I'm setting it up the day I return. And everything will be fully explained once I'm back. I am new at this whole modding experience and I don't want things going to chaos if there's a way to prevent it first. Until the announcement is up, you can all still ask one of us, including our tech mods, and use the OOC community for memes. After all, they are only memes. If they don't go up, that might be unfortunate but they're not dire issues or completely necessary to the game. We'd like to ask that you just remain patient for us to explain the system and everything it entails before jumping on us for not giving more details. We've been receiving many brilliant suggestions with this post and we're trying to incorporate them with the new memes community, and it's on our list of things-to-do-when-Stormy-isn't-swamped-and-not-sleeping. I apologize that we haven't given any details but with the way things are changing and with the way things are going right now, a full explanation as well as the community will both be announced when I return.