flutterscotch

BWHAHAHAHAH.

definitely been there.

I can't have been yelling at you too recently. I haven't spoken to you since December 8th, my last open office...when I blocked you.

Well, I say that because Flutterscotch, and others of higher ranks, should treat everybody else on this site, as their moral equal. How they'd want to be treated.

Also, I wouldn't say Scythe is moaning at all. He's just stating a conflicting opinion from yours, that's all.

Templar, I treat you exactly as I do difficult co-workers at my actual job in an HR-approved manner. Have I ever called you a name? Have I ever threatened you? Have I ever disparaged your writing or characters? Have I ever bullied you beyond your opinion that asking you to stop talking about things in chat (when you are dominating a public space with conversation that should be taken to PM) is bullying?

Nope.

I have been stern with you, yes, but that is neither unprofessional nor "treating you as a moral inferior". It is because you like to push buttons and try to put yourself above the rules and the people on this forum who are trying to uphold them by confronting them in a manner like this.

If I was behaving the way you have been in regards to the moderating team and the RP rules of this site, I would expect someone to be stern with me while I modified my behavior in a more community-minded manner.

And that is pretty much all I am going to say further on this matter.

EDIT: Note that I sent you a PM before I posted this.

Ideally, these questions should have been handled in the Questions and Suggestions section of the forum. Bringing them up in a blog post might be a good way to find people to validate your own concerns, but is not helpful way to try to tackle what you perceive to be a breakdown in communication.

We are working on this currently and are nearly through the FAQ at least, including all the things you have brought up, but it takes time to make sure that it is edited to ensure maximum clarity and understanding.

The site's RULES will be under the "Rules Guides and FAQs" button right underneath the chatroom button (the page you posted as hidden in the extras tab is what you are presented with WHEN YOU REGISTER, so there should be no confusion there), and additional RP and lore stuff will be another place for further reading. It might be possible to put the "Rules Guides and FAQ button" higher up on the page, in the animated banner or some other area that I know that he can edit. I know it says "extras" in that little header, so maybe that is the issue.

The rules pages were also recently scoured and we are putting things in place to swap out or remove outdated content. Also keep in mind that the Lorebuilding team and Mane are rolling out new things sometime soon, and a potential new subforum which would require a rules overhaul anyway.

As for your particular complaint about the helpstaff not being easy to identify:

If you look at my posts, I always have "Senior RP Helper" as my title, along with the awards that Artax mentioned. I can bring it up to the other members of the team since we can adjust that somehow (the titles that is), but by and large it has not been an issue identifying the RP staff as they have the brightly coloured, and larger than the rest of the awards, identifying marks under their signatures that can not be hidden even if you hide your sig. You can also click on those awards and see who else has them.

I am fairly sure that the RP Helper rank (which is very old and used to be in use when the ranks were first created) that you mention gets bumped off by the Donator status title, which is why we use the "awards" in the signature instead. Plus those awards are more ideally placed when scrolling through text in the applications section. I can also bring this up with Artax to see if it is possible to put the link to "the moderating team" on other places than the index page, but it is possible that it can't be done because of the limitations of the board software, but he would have to address that. But it's not like it's floating in the ether either. It's right there with ALL the "members" information when you log in. Like it is on most forums.

He does remind me of my niece Sally. A lovely girl. She's a dietitian.

But really, Dio, I DO call grown men Jennifer to annoy them. And princess.

You're a yellow-eyed gamey-smelling lowlife.

#magiworldproblems. You and Jen should co-blog.

Wow. You seem to be a little obsessed with death. That's not very kid-friendly. Nor is your choice of last meal.

I think you should go with cut up hot dogs in mac and cheese! And watch Cabin Boy.

Would you like to buy a monkey?

Ugh, that's awful. My brother and I couldn't see each other for most of high school. I feel for you!

I think maybe you need to not go back in time to edit things? You're going to create a paradox. Just sayin'

good luck!

There goes the NEIGH-borhood.

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Whats with the weird Princess Celestia Admin Bot?[/colour]

[colour=#3D3D3D]We like to have an automated Princess Celestia to wander around Canterlot. Makes the place feel a little bit more homey. She makes killer waffles, too. You should try some sometime.

[colour=#3D3D3D]Don't listen to Mane on this little tidbit. When she means killer, she means KILLER. [/colour]

And just make sure it fits within the official rules of the forum.

Your best bet is to always ask a helpstaffer!

Also, you forgot Howard the Duck.

You are 100% correct. Don't you remember when almost everyone had their kitchens all done up in that horrid country blue duck pattern? it was the harvest gold of the 90s.

YOU HORRIBLE DEER-THING. Go to your...um...I'd say room, but does dell work? Grotto? Bivouac? SHRUBBERY!

Basically, Cherry is Frylock.

Who are you?

Who who? Who Who?