Foxy's Community Post #7

[Foxytail]

Hello everypony, it's that time of the week again, so let's get started!

I'm very happy to say we have a bunch of staff changes, so be prepared to clap your hooves together!

In the radio, we have three new chat moderators! Give a very warm welcome to the return of Harley and two new chat moderators TomTortoise and Blazing Dawn! Be sure to congratulate them either here or on the radio when you see them! Also, we have some new staff on the forums. Be prepared to congratulate Yetione for their position on the community patrol and Saikyo for his new position as forum moderator! It's well deserved!

And while congratulations are being given, a special congratulations for Flash for being the first Staff Gold Star winner! His outstanding work for the radio and his DOUBLE 24 hour shift achievement has made him a clearly deserving first winner!

Next up, the staff have been discussing an idea and we think it deserves to go on trial. The idea is that there's a special subforum area where users can go to post a personal problem and have either the community patrol able to post a response to help them out. Something to keep in mind is that his is just an idea right now, but some of the staff feel it deserves some merit. What do you think? A few notes to point out:

-It's possible to make it so only you and the staff can see your thread (meaning no one else but the staff can post in it)

-It's possible to put users into a usergroup (on request) so they can see the threads and those not in the usergroup cannot

-It's possible to give this area its own moderators to sort things out if the site staff are unavailable

Just a few points to keep in mind while you think about the idea. Please, post your opinions below!

Now for news outside of Everypony! I'd like to give a HUGE shoutout to our friends over at UK of Equestria for reaching 1000 members! If you're from the land of tea and scones (such as myself), do go check it out and maybe sign up! They're awesome people and it'd be awesome to see you over there too!

Now last of all, some sadder news. For anyone who hasn't seen, Circuitfry (brony musician and organizer for Balloon Party) has run into some real trouble. For more information, click here. I ask that you go to his youtube, his tumblr, anywhere you can find him and give him your support. He is an awesome guy, a talented musician and a 100% through and through brony, so I think it'd be just pinkie keen if we could all give him our support.

His youtube is here: http://www.youtube.com/user/circuitfry
His tumblr is here: http://circuitfry.tumblr.com/

Go give him your support!

That's all from me this week! See everypony around.

~Foxytail

[Emperor Mateus]

Congrats to the new staff. It's about time Yeti and Harley got in. ^^

[ThePoeticPony]

I give my deepest sincere regards to circuit. He must be going through hell and back at the moment.

Good show UKofE for getting 1000 members! I'm one of them but hardly ever go on it lol. Ah well, every little helps.

And lastly, congrats to all the new staff! Always fun to have more ponies join the madness.

[AugieD]

Congrats Yeti and to the other new staff!

[Jhera]

Congrats everypony who got staff positions! /]^3^[\


Edit: just read that thing about Circuit, that's awful! I feel so sorry for him, nobody should have to deal with that. I hope he comes out okay.

[mike406]

Congrats to the new staff! And I like the subforum idea with keeping issues private with staff. I think that is a good way to voice sensitive opinions without the fear of ridicule.

[Yetione]

thanks for congrads, and congrads to all new staff.

on topic of up bronies. just wow, good work people. keep on growing, that's awesome

on topic of Circuitfry, I've found out just couple hours ago. that's really bad what's happening to him. I've posted him message (in private), and I hope he'll be better soon (or if needed, I can try to help him)

[Sandemic]

Grats Yeti and new staff

[SoulEmber]

Congratulations to Harley for being reinstated as a radio chat mod, and to TomTortoise and Blazing Dawn for also getting radio chat mod positions. Congratulations as well to Yeti for the community patrol position, and Saikyo for becoming a forum moderator.

It seems congratulations are also in order for Flash receiving the first Staff Gold Star. Well deserved, you crazy pony. I don't think I could pull two 24+ hour shifts.

I am all for the new subforum idea. Not only does it resolve the issue some have had with threads like that being in the General Discussion section of the forums, but it guarantees a positive response to those threads. The ideas on how to handle privacy both seem sound to me.

More congratulations to UK of Equestria for hitting the 1,000 member mark. May you continue to grow. Have some tea and crumpets to celebrate.

Very sorry to hear about Circuitfry. Nopony should have to experience what he's going through, and I'm astonished his family would do such a thing. I hope everything ends up working out for him.

[BlazingDawn]

Congrats to Harley and Tom... Any somepony else who I can't remember.
Then again, Livestream wants to make sure that we have no chat powers, yet...

Sucks that there are some extremely conservative parents out there in the world. Almost like how my friend can't even go to Bronycon on a bus and needs to be driven... Hope that Circuitfry can find a way through this hate...