Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-10337166-20161124113700

Before I begin this post, I want to open by saying something: I realise I've made mistakes on here, I realise I've probably fucked up as much as anyone else on here. I realise that some of you, probably hate my guts, and you're well within your rights to feel that way. However if only someone with a clean record can begin these discussions, then they could never happen. Everyone on here has fucked up in one way or another, I want this place to be better, and I'm willing to start these talks to make it happen. If you have a problem with that, feel free to message me personally on chat or my message wall.

Anyway, with that out of the way, hey it's me Jord, Best Husbando 2016, Professional Australian, and Babby Admin here with another state of the fanon thread.

I'm going to be talking about a lot of issues here and it'll probably get on the nerves of some people but it's what these threads are for.

Reviewer Community Relations:

Speaking as a reviewer, I feel like these have never been better honestly. Complaints about reviewers have dropped, seasoned members asking for reviews has stopped, and I feel like there's a nice equilibrium, pending is almost always under half a page (he says while pending is more than that).

One small issue Is with members of chat, jumping on obvious newbies when they ask a reviewer to do a review of their character. This is unnecessary, these issues are between reviewers and the person asking the question, not chat. I understand that you want to defend the reviewers but it's really not helpful when 6 people say the same thing to someone with varying degree's of harshness. Especially when such a message is taking place on a reviewers message wall.

Witch Hunting:

This is a big one, it's been occurring more and more, and frankly it's disgusting that it's been happening at all. Every single one of us, was a newbie once, every single one of us, has written some cringeworthy stuff, every single one of us has done stupid things on here.

That means that when someone comes onto fanon and makes some bad things, and has some issues adapting to how we do things, we help them, by pointing them in the right direction. We DO NOT, attack them constantly, use someone else as an excuse to try and get them banned, nor do we try to whip chat into a pitchfork and torches frenzy to try and get them banned on the spot and all of their creations deleted, we're better than that.

On a similar note, if you're a member of staff, that's because you've shown dedication and reliability to this community. It is a position of privilege that you are lucky to have. If you abuse that privilege by trying to ban someone on the spot, and trying to whip chat up into a frenzy about them, just because you want them gone, then you don't deserve that privilege.

Generally speaking, character issues are between that person, and the reviewers, chat issues are between that person and staff. We DO NOT need everyone on chat suddenly being an expert on the issue at hand. It's not helpful and incredibly annoying.

Witch Hunting is a shit thing to do to anyone, we don't want it here, and it's time for it to stop, we're all capable of being better, and we should.

Enforcement of The Rules:

Simple thing here, we need to decide what rules we're going to continue to enforce consistently, because they're a lot of half enforced rules or forgetting to enforce them when it suits people.

If someone asks for a topic change, we change the topic, if they're genuinely offended or the conversation is an obvious negative circle jerk about another user. Everyone has the right to request a topic change, and that right should be respected.

Staff members, we don't get to choose as pick what rules we do or do not enforce, just because we enjoy a conversation, doesn't mean it needs to continue, just because we don't enjoy a conversation, i.e. someone isn't saying our characters are god's gift to the earth, doesn't mean we can just shut a conversation down.

This really is all simple stuff and I think it'll be simple enough to fix.

Ban Procedure

Simply put, it goes

-Warning

-Kick

-Warning

-Ban

This is the system as it stands, a first ban is always 2 hours scaling up with each repeated offence. There is no real reason for someone's first ban to be a perma ban. Even mindless trolls give up 90% of the time once they've been banned even if it's only for two hours.

Simple thing but it bears mentioning.

Anyway, if you have issues to bring up feel free, this is an open forum, I'm just stating my feelings. If you wish to bring up an issue, don't be a dick, and don't witch hunt simple as that.

~RWBY Fanon Staff~ 