In response to this, it takes quite a bit of learning time and practice to efficiently make skinning worthwhile and not stressful (otherwise you'll be pulling hair and want to smash things). I apologize for my own lack of work on the skins since I still designate myself to the task. Tyro can and will learn these things of course, but it takes time to get used to the less than user friendly vBulletin system. :derpe:
Since this is a thread on site improvement, and Eight Star's leadership has been called out upon, where is Eight Star? I want to hear what he makes of this.
He should've been back from that yesterday. I suppose he wants a bit of rest before coming back here, though i'd start to worry if we don't see him today.
You're the only person to come to the site with that mind-set. The only reason you're moaning right now is because you thought this site was, as you put it, some sort 'village'. You're the one who pushed yourself away from the site, you're the one who has made it so you feel like an outsider, all because we don't share this idea of EP being an intimate village where we all share every strand of feels we have. It seem that you've finally learned that this is just a forum.
Hey look, Foxy posted something. Heeeeey. Like the P&S avatar. Anyway, maybe stop going on about something for 10 pages and start posting in other places? Also, the @Flutteryshy the sole reason why I don't go into radio is because it lags to an unbelievable degree, and I like to think I have a fairly decent connection, so... yeah. I think incorporating it into the main board would discourage me even more from coming over here. Now, after spending a good minute looking at Trance's now blue name and mesmerizing signature... Ugh, there is no simple solution, okay? It's probably just me being a pessimist, but it's dying and it isn't going to change. The site doesn't get enough exposure. What happens if someone were to Google "my little pony forum"? They get big dog. How did big dog get so big? Aaaadvertising. Their owner owned multiple forums and was able to get massive amounts of exposure, thousands more than we're getting now. So... yeah. Anyway, I know that as someone who seldom posts and ventures outside of the chat room, I am currently part of the problem and not the solution. I suppose that I will try a bit more to post, but after years of service to forums, I just can't bring myself to devote great amounts of time to another. But hey, answer to all your problems? Ban Gateway of the Six, and Black Whirlwind to 3.
A lot of users lurk, remain dormant or have altogether gone. It may be due to a lack of faith in the site ever improving. I hear it in every 'goodbye' message; People losing interest in the site, or worse; they've lost the spark they once felt. I believe I'm guilty of being inactive a lot of the time, and obviously some days I am so ill that I can't help it, but I admit I haven't been as active in these few months. I always come back though, because I genuinely get along with users here, even if in the past we've clashed. It doesn't matter. I still believe that this site has the potential to do more. The mods/admins could do more, but the members especially could. It's not great that anyone who joins the staff soon drops like flies, and obviously that needs addressing, but members like myself should log on more and join in. But then again, what is there to log into when everything seems dead most of the time? There needs to be something for people to take part in, and those users that weren’t here from the beginning like myself do not have the nostalgia factor that keeps them here.
I feel like that summed it up pretty well. I hate Six Samurai, but I'm not fond of Blackwings either.
And the fact is that we're not trying to 'try what you did'. I think all of us know that EP isn't a friendly little village free of conflict where everyone can get along. People are gonna have their differences, and we have to respect those differences. But as things are right now, as Sinders said, the people who haven't been here have almost no reason to stay. Staff need to step up their game on the front of not being lazy and dropping projects because of said laziness. On the flipside, the users need to step up their game in being more willing to work with staff on potential events. Karaoke night has failed the last two times they've tried to set it up; People say we need more events, but whenever staff try to do events (And Karaoke night is the first event in a long time where they actually tried semi-hard to keep things in order) nobody participates. It needs work on both sides, but the user side can't do much until the staff fix their act, because in the end, the staff have to be the ones to set things up. If they're too lazy to set it up and can't get motivated to make it the best they can be, then they are failing, and a new moderating team is what is required. A lot of staff have been here for a very long time. I think it's time to let some of them go in favour of some new blood, unbiased blood. This way there is no room for marginal error between staff members because there is no history or predefined past between staff members; what happens after they're hired is specifically on them. We've got too many staff members with a history. The staff have too many petty squabbles. They focus too much on the people they want to ban instead of the people they want to help make the site better for. Something as simple as participating can make all the difference.
But with the "new staff" thing, the new staff wouldn't know what to do. It would end up as an argument of who to replace and who to keep.
Knowing the current staff, that's undoubtedly going to be an issue with most of them. So That will indeed be a little bit on the hard side. Newer staff can be taught what to do by the less newer staff though, so I don't see that problem.
Cool story, bro. I really think a staff change would help. More than half of the staff aren't even on regularly. Except Ghan. We have to keep him. I would leave EP if the staff got rid of him.
Everyone here already knows my history. I took a stand against bias, as well as harboured a personal grudge against a staff member. That staff member was promptly removed and he showed his true colours to everyone that day. I lied to the community about my age because I completely hated who I was and I didn't want anyone to feel like I was just that one kid from down the block. I wanted to be unique and special, and I only realized later down the line (Ironically due to the staff member I was going against) that I was already. I was put on the staff to essentially shut me up on the forums (Precise reasoning was so that I could work with the staff instead of against them) and I took the job way too early. I wasn't ready for it at the time. Since staff members have come and gone, I've done a lot of things wrong, and a lot of things right, of which only the negative is being focused upon because people like to focus on the negative aspect of things instead of the positive. I am to blame for many things, and I stepped down from staff of my own accord because I knew that something wasn't right. I knew I was screwing up and I knew that if I kept going I'd be doing a lot more harm than good. So I did. Your attempts to discredit me are ill-founded. Everyone need only ask me what I've done and they'll get an honest answer out of me, unbiased and to the point: I've screwed up. Not to mention everyone already knows what I've done, and people either hate me for it or respect the fact that I acknowledge that I didn't do some good things in my time. You called me a plague and a rotten infestation on this community, and I sorely disagree with you. Others may agree with you, others may agree with me, and I personally don't mind either way. I have the people I care about beside me and that's all I need. I won't let someone like you get to my head because you're a bit salty that this place didn't become some super ultra village or something. tl;dr stop moaning about me and get on with your life. Everyone already knows. And as Narrow said, this isn't the place for this. If you want to be in the Salt Mines, go whine about it somewhere else. We're here to discuss improvements, not rely on petty squabbles for evidence or 'facts'.
Indeed... I need to work on ignoring people. Irregardless, I'm sure everyone would appreciate it if we all got back on track and used this thread as to what it was actually made for.
I shall repeat my earlier statement. I really think a staff change would help. More than half of the staff aren't even on regularly. Except Ghan. We have to keep him. I would leave EP if the staff got rid of him.
