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APPLICATIONS
OK…this will definitely upset a few people, as well as call on a potential uprising – but there’s something exceedingly pleasant about them pitch forks, and I suppose that if ye gotta have an exit, angry mob is one way to make it memorable.
That said, we really… can’t take the app rhythm anymore. We usually get around eighty submissions per app week, which… let’s face it… is a lot. At the time of my writing, there have been 59 character reserves formally stated; in my experience, the very most we can assume is that ten of those will not result in applications. That still leaves us with 49.
…here’s another fact: most applications? Don’t come from reserves. They’re the end product of last moment whim and fancy. Which is OK – but that 49 will sadly double.
I’m sure no one cares about the math. But this is the background behind a decision we’re going to have to ask you to make.
We’ve considered our options at this point. Some of them have been more pleasant than others – some have required entirely too much thought. Ultimately, what we came down to are two proposals:
[Poll #1070767]
There are three other very obvious alternatives that we’ve overlooked in that poll, and here was our reasoning to do it:
I. “Make the app process less of an ordeal so it’ll not take as much time.” As detailed in our last post, that is sadly not an option. Quality > quantity, always.
II. “Get another mod to help! Hell, I’ll do it!”
Before anyone mentions the “variety of advantages” that a mod has, allow me to list the minutiae:
- a moderator does not have the right to submit complaints to the any of the characterization threads;
- a moderator does not have the right to communicate personal player complaints to the ‘offending’ parties;
- a moderator is not allowed to indulge in plots that might in any way inconvenience other players;
- clearly, moderators cannot judge their own applications;
- a moderator is not to judge the application of a character that is / will be in their crew insofar as another moderator is familiar with that same fandom;
- a moderator’s application is subjected to the finest scrutiny, on the formal premise that others will expect it to lead by example, and the implicit one that cries of MOD POWER ABUSE will be heard if there’s ever any suspicion;
- a moderator is not allowed to have inactivity issues;
- a moderator has to handle two fixed tasks, applications and dialogues with whomever might have something to say;
- a moderator is not allowed to hiatus indefinitely, or become inaccessible for anything equal to or beyond a month;
- a moderator has to be polite 24/7 even to those people he or she honest to God dislikes.
- a moderator does not have the right to submit complaints to the any of the characterization threads;
This is a set of inner rules that take administration to a perhaps unnecessary degree of formality. They preempt us from a number of actions that are obviously available at the regular RPer’s leisure, with all the WIN and AWESOME that comes with some of them. They also entail that if one mod messes up, the others get the chance to slap themselves a bitch. We like doing that. It provides the daily dose of exercise, secures alpha positions in the pack without bad purple prose of most fantasy novels, and in 92.8% cases, we’ve found that the tears of pain and horror from the pwned mod are the Best Moisturizer Evah.
Ergo, this is a set of inner rules that is here to stay. Now reevaluate it and consider how many people would willingly devote a considerable amount of their time, but mostly energy to a position that robs them of many game liberties, and brings no definite advantage beyond a job relatively well done? More to the point, how many people can we trust to constantly abide by these rules?
Because, and let me get it n the open at the risk of further enraging over 200 RPers: we spoil. And I – personally – don’t want to have to worry about whether a fellow mod elected in a rush is being rude to a player, powergaming, indulging in every shade of nepotism under the sun, etc, etc, etc. We like spoiling.
So – is RP srs bizness? LULZ WTF NO. Is RP administration srs bizness? It means dealing with – often frustrated or downright furious - people on a regular basis. So, you answer that yourselves. And you consider whether " getting another mod to help ♥" is as easy as it might sound.
III. "If you’re not up for it, quit the job, let other people who can handle it do it, losers." This actually doesn’t fall under category II, because let’s face it, those who resign do not choose their successors; they can at most recommend them. If it comes down to this being what you all want, I’m personally up to taking leave from my mod hat, no further words necessary. But I somehow doubt this will solve the app problem for new mods to come.
If at this point you have any SUGGESTIONS, we would love to hear them. Not because we’re looking for reassurance, or an argument, and definitely not because we want to hear why this policy sucks and how much you feel like crying now. We’d like to hear what you have to say because, yes – we’d like to get the matter solved.
Thank you.
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