Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
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mattwdr
1. Breaker is the man, don't doubt him
2. Starkist is always around, how can you forget him?
3. Thanks for not even bothering to mention me, even though I've been around the whole time too...=p
4. No mention of TSA?
I am sick of people complaining about the forums, when everyone is individually responsible for his or her own activity and posting.
It's all relative, isn't it? :shrug: It's entirely obvious that you would see your own posts, and know how much you're posting. Just, not everyone else would see all those posts as you would. Nobody is clairvoyant.
As it's been said (Or at least implied...) in this very thread, it's often the little stuff that you can't see that makes it all add up. Spammers get KO'd well before they cause too much havoc, and topics get moved fairly easily, and ... ... well, I'm not even sure what else is generally done, because there's not that much to even moderate on a forum of this current size. (Hence, is there really a "problem" with the staff? I can only think of one, and it's a minor, if not semi-trivial one. I'll mention it in a bit.) So yes, the Moderators and Senior Moderators are certainly doing their job as a team. As individuals, however, that's not really so easy to monitor. It's easy for one or two people to do all the work and have the rest just sort of be there, but it's also very much quite possible for them to take "turns" in being inactive for a while while those other inactive staff suddenly become active again to take over.
It's also quite possible for staff to go entirely unmentioned and unseen due to taking all of their potentially myriadic actions behind the scenes where nobody can even see them do it. Banning Spammers, deleting posts, making up new rules and debating on policies, advertising for the community, management, etc, ... all done without necessarily being able to be seen by the public. (Hence Private Staff Forums.) I know for a fact that this is very possible. (I do it on Pure all the freaking time.)
But for those reasons, it's important to post once in a while in the public forums just to let people know that you're alive, so these sorts of discussions can be avoided. Just one or two posts a week. That's really all it takes. Two posts a week isn't hard, right? :-/
And yes, Breaker is the man, and No, TSA hasn't been around to do anything at all. (He's even inactive on TheHylia, for whatever it's worth.)
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
I can see the main reason behind adding an SMOD or two. It's been a small while since the lower staff has tried to get one added because for the simple fact that we can't ban. There's been a few instances where we had to stand behind people like broken soul, zeldapro, gamer07, and woah with a mop and just clean up after them until someone else came along. This by no means is bashing the staff, obviously, and CK has definitely been a breath of fresh air to the forums.
As far as the social state, I see no problems. Sure the place has died down QUITE a bit, but people do grow up and away. We could garner a new generation of members with ZC, but I don't follow that enough to warrant a reply on it.
I would like to see a few new faces as staff around here, sure. Allegedly, current staff does login at least once every few days, which is sufficient, I believe.
I'm not saying that everything right now is a-okay, but a few minor changes in a couple places would work wonders, I think.
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It would be cool if regular moderators had the ability to ban people with less than a hundred posts, without having a discussion or anything.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
I've been trying very hard to make sure we have different subjects/topics to cuss 'n discuss as I find them. That in turn helps make sure that new ones coming to our community have a reason to stick around and check things out.
I believe our mods/smods are doing a good job. Although I do wish we had easier access to those with the ability to ban.
Ultimately I know that all of this is being discussed and worked out with those higher ups of the board. We all just need to be patient.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
I don't really think there's much of a problem really. As long as people get along and spam and such is taken care of then the staff isn't much of an issue. If you want activity that's up to any member to bring it to us. If you want more activity you need to post topics about something, which may require doing something to talk about.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
An interesting activity that has occurred in the past that I've suggested once or twice is the AGN Awards. Most active, most talkative, best grammar, longest poster, favorite perma-banned member, most controversial member, most memorable member, member most likely to go to jail, etc. That would at least add fun to the forums for a little bit.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
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Pineconn
An interesting activity that has occurred in the past that I've suggested once or twice is the AGN Awards. Most active, most talkative, best grammar, longest poster, favorite perma-banned member, most controversial member, most memorable member, member most likely to go to jail, etc. That would at least add fun to the forums for a little bit.
The only problem I see with that is someone getting bent out of shape because they were given the award for being such and such. It could cause some problems and hurt feelings. The other thing is there are some really immature members that would throw a fit because they didn't get an award.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
i think i vaguely remember having such awards some time ago. i don't remember if they were "official" or part of the member pages or ??, but i do remember alot of reactions similar to what biggiy was just talkin 'bout
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Ah...the AGN Superlatives.
I'm not drunk anymore, by the way.
Re: Sentiments about the state of AGN
Was it ever a problem with the Superlatives before? :shrug:
I could handle such a thing, fairly easily, assuming there could be a temporary new Superlatives forum for it. Best way to go about doing it.
EDIT: ... .. ... Okay. ... I really, really need to stop clicking into a topic and wandering away from it for half an hour. People post during that time that I wouldn't be able to see unless I refreshed. .. Boy...
But for what it's worth, I don't really remember seeing any complaints over the Superlatives. I mean I don't have a recollection of any, is all. I can understand how there would be, but anyone who doesn't understand what superlatives are ... well, ... I suppose they *would* act that way, wouldn't they.