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Important Post and Discussion Opportunity
re: HMD, hostility and anonymous

At first this was going to be another mod post written from the sometimes-distant "we" that makes up the mod team, but I had a change of heart when I began to write it. Instead, I am posting this as a personal appeal, written as a mun, as a mod, and most importantly, as

Comments

[save_the_souls]

thank you for posting it. It was very well worded and brought up a lot of good points

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Asuka would definitely yell at everyone to read and suddenly sound 80% more German.

I know an IC welcome committee has been brought up elsewhere (I think it was Boobs!) and I'm not sure if anyone's ever mentioned it before, but there can maybe be a monthly little HEY EVERYONE WHO LANDED HERE THIS MONTH, LET'S HAVE A LITTLE PARTY. Nothing huge, and it could just be a little party post (or IC meme sort of thing... WHAT'S YOUR NAME? FAVORITE COLOR? etc thing) that a welcoming committee member could toss up at the end of the month for some mingling, sort of like the host club stuff. There are lots of IC possibilities with this!

Committee members could drag/beg antisocial characters to show up at least once to get some CR rolling B(

[randomtology]

sadfjksdkljf WELCOME TO PARADISA, HAVE AN ANGRY GERMAN GIRL TELLING YOU TO READ THE MANUAL.

Oh yeah I've heard talk of it going on in chat sometimes! I know that muns in the past did it too but it tended to fade off as the muns dropped or whatnot. BUT I THINK THAT COULD BE COOL TOO. Something to make the newbies able to interact with people. I JUST WISH MY CHARACTERS WERE THE WELCOMING/SOCIALLY SKILLED TYPE.

And now I must flee...to German class. IRONY.

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LEARN OF ASUKA'S PEOPLE.

Yeah, like Jenn said below it'd be hard to keep going because of reasons like that. Unless it was just a few characters making a blood pact to be friendly and awesome sidugbdsg. There is definitely some solution or innovation way in here somewhere B|

HAVE A GOOD TIME IN CLASS :3

[beltbucklerebel]

Thank's for putting this out there, Jenn. It was really disappointing to see some of what was going on this round, and I'm glad to see proof that we really are better than that, as a community.

[onlyanapple]

Thank you so much for addressing this, Jenn. It was saddening to see the whole thing going down, and this really needed to be said.

[fiveby_five]

Thank you. Really. &hearts I feel that after last go, this was incredibly needed.

We could always establish an IC and an OOC welcoming committee, possibly with differing muns in each so there's a larger pool?

I wish I still played Misa because she would make newbie mixers. :( But on that note, I think there could also be periodic opt-in events that put newbies and oldbie together? LIKE...mixers or some random joint loss where you need to three leg race. Or get locked in a cage with a lion and use teamwork to survive. OR SOMETHING.

[bogusmagic]

Or get locked in a cage with a lion and use teamwork to survive.

I want that to be an actual opt-in mod event now.

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Doable. I'd just want someone else to do the NPCing of the lion, ahaha, I'm pretty NPC'd out/saving my NPCing strength for my next big plot.

[bogusmagic]

Stick people in groups of 2 or 3 and put them all in separate cages with one lion. The muns could NPC the lions.

JUST A BUNCH OF LION-FILLED CAGES IN THE LOBBY. Those who don't opt-in get a free show.

[apocashrriipp]

QFT Dude. QFT <3