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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

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[my_six_hearts]

Firstly - I'm now adding "get over fear of intro posts" to my new year resolutions list. I've always avoided the first posts of muses-- not because I'm tired of that dance, but because I have a weird...thing about it. I've tried to hit them up on their second post instead, but... yeah. That's still shitty of me to do, and it's no excuse. Doesn't help that I play a bunch of ass hats that are too self-absorbed or socially retarded to greet newbies, but that doesn't mean that I can't push my creativity a little bit to figure out a way. So, in other words: POINT TAKEN! orz

[dusk]

Unfortunately, it's difficult to come by something more convenient than a group chat, because it's a place where a lot of people can be instantaneously chatting with each other. I sincerely doubt anyone was intending to make you feel like you should have been there -- but regardless, I'll try to think of some other solutions in terms of out of chat communication like maybe ... an open chat post on the OOC/YYPL? Like I said, it's a bit difficult to beat an AIM chat in terms of a place for several muns to hang out and plot together ... :|a Maybe more frequent CR/plot memes?

[my_six_hearts]

I have to agree that an AIM chat of several muns hanging out and plotting together is an awesome thing. It would be great if that is what chat was usually used for, but that's...idk...never been my experience with it. I've never had any success with talking about plot-related things in chat, back when I used to try. The best I could get was about thirty seconds of attention from a couple muns before the conversation was completely taken over by whatever chat's trend is at the time. It's always been a frustrating and largely fruitless experience, so I've lost any will to try anymore. (again, this goes for other game chats too! Not just para

[dusk]

Yeah, that's true, there ends up being a lot more messing around than plotting, and it's definitely not fair to tell you to wait around until those moments happen. That one night a week designated plotting thing sounds like an interesting idea that I wouldn't be averse to trying, though! Or maybe an entirely separate chat for plotting? HMM ...

[oathprotector]

I've been in and out of this game for three years, and I've seen some good times and some bad times here. Still, I love this place and could never badmouth it. I know that Paradisa has gone through a lot, and I'd like to say that you mods have handled things very well. You're responsible and hard-working, and you treat this game like a family. It makes me proud to be here.

I'm gonna do my best, personally, to bring a little more help to the newbies. I've had a problem with that in every game I've ever played in, but I know that's just me. I can get over it, and I will.

[ruined_jaw]

I don't really have much to say on this, but I can see the validity of both sides of the argument.

As for immaturity within rp anon comms and things like that. I purposely choose to ignore them and not participate, because I don't particularly care how the overall LJ community as a whole sees me, both as a mun, and my individual active characters. The only thing I care about is how the players of this game like me, and like my characters. I like to think myself amiable enough to be approached directly when a person has a problem with the way I do things, and indeed, the few times other players HAVE had issues with something I've done, they've mentioned it, either via AIM or private message.

[embattles]

Thank you. I don't really have anything constructive to offer, but...This all needs to be said, and thank you for doing so ♥ You guys are a wonderful mod team, and we're lucky to have you.

I sincerely hope that in light of this, the community as a whole will get back on track and move away from the recent rut of pure hostility it's fallen into.

[fiveby_five]

Does Meebo.com work for you? :>

[fiveby_five]

Super laaaame. :( My AIM hasn't been working at all, so I've been stuck on meebo.