RE: MSPAF Pluckening Scheme Station
12-07-2014, 12:49 AM
I had a glance at your thread over on Chocolatepi, and there are a few misunderstandings/assumptions being made I reckon? I'm talking as an ex-admin though so obviously the inputs of Eagle Time exclusives (both regulars and lurkers) as well as dual citizens would be much appreciated.
First: Eagle Time's administration consisted of Pinary and I, and now it's currently Pinary and an account called OTTO (which I have the password to, but I won't access unless there's some kind of emergency like a botspam swarm and Pines being awol). I'll have to expand on my reasons for quitting as a modmin here but basically, it brings out the worst in me and any stuff about the community I want to say, arguably works better without me wearing an arbitrary badge of authority. It doesn't really need anyone in the position of a moderator, and I don't have the know-how to run the technical/administrative/under the bonnet side of things with the codes and junk.
Leading on from that: Eagle Time does not urgently require, but would certainly benefit from, a general tune-up. Its administrative requirements as mentioned have basically nothing to do with the community and behaviour (which is self-moderating, mostly), but we would ideally have someone more active/less busy than Pines to man the Scraper and implement fixes like an improved Advanced Posting page layout and a retooled User Profile page (among other things). Eagle Time is functional and perhaps more aesthetically cohesive than Chocopi, but unless someone with coding experience volunteered to do a bunch of fixing (and, more importantly for me, if Pines is ok with lending the keys to such a person), our rate of website-tweaking probably keeps pace with Chocopi.
Thirdlyish: Eagle Time was never a "contender" for official MSPAF affiliate, and while we're not going to gang up on any Homestucks who stumble in here they're going to get a lukewarm response if they do try getting in-depth about the comic. (and let's face history and run ass-backwards screaming into the volatile unknown of the future: If we get a mass exodus there's going to be inevitable insularity and lines being drawn unless we collectively learn to not tie up our online identities with individual pieces of media).
First: Eagle Time's administration consisted of Pinary and I, and now it's currently Pinary and an account called OTTO (which I have the password to, but I won't access unless there's some kind of emergency like a botspam swarm and Pines being awol). I'll have to expand on my reasons for quitting as a modmin here but basically, it brings out the worst in me and any stuff about the community I want to say, arguably works better without me wearing an arbitrary badge of authority. It doesn't really need anyone in the position of a moderator, and I don't have the know-how to run the technical/administrative/under the bonnet side of things with the codes and junk.
Leading on from that: Eagle Time does not urgently require, but would certainly benefit from, a general tune-up. Its administrative requirements as mentioned have basically nothing to do with the community and behaviour (which is self-moderating, mostly), but we would ideally have someone more active/less busy than Pines to man the Scraper and implement fixes like an improved Advanced Posting page layout and a retooled User Profile page (among other things). Eagle Time is functional and perhaps more aesthetically cohesive than Chocopi, but unless someone with coding experience volunteered to do a bunch of fixing (and, more importantly for me, if Pines is ok with lending the keys to such a person), our rate of website-tweaking probably keeps pace with Chocopi.
Thirdlyish: Eagle Time was never a "contender" for official MSPAF affiliate, and while we're not going to gang up on any Homestucks who stumble in here they're going to get a lukewarm response if they do try getting in-depth about the comic. (and let's face history and run ass-backwards screaming into the volatile unknown of the future: If we get a mass exodus there's going to be inevitable insularity and lines being drawn unless we collectively learn to not tie up our online identities with individual pieces of media).
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clouds is shaky love | broke as hell but i got a bunch of ringtones
eyes blood red bruise aubergine | Sue took something now Sue doesn't sleep | saint average, day in the life of
woke up in the noon smelling doom and death | out the house, great outdoors
staying warm in arctic blizzard | that's my battle 'til I get inanimate | still up in the same clothes living like a gameshow