Goodbye, Fey! + General Mod Updates!

[hughes]

Time for a round of mod announcements!


GOODBYE, FEY!

First off, some very belated news that we should have posted about way back in the beginning of November when it actually happened: Fey (theladyfeylene), one of the original founders of damned and landels_redux, player of damned_radio/mister_radio, monster-creator, Doyleton and Grounds map-maker, list-writer, plotter, oldest remaining player from the original landels, and all-around awesome person who's been with us through a lot of tough spots, has stepped down from her position of Head Mod. We wish her the best and we're so happy to have had the pleasure of co-modding with her. ♥


WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THE RP

Despite her departure, Fey is graciously allowing us to use all the work she's done for the RP however we want, but she's let us know that she's uncomfortable with the prospect of us using Mr. Radio/Alec Doyle without her. Because of this, we're going to have to discontinue the Radio-Resurrection arc we initiated through the zombie event, so apologies for that ending up being a tangent! D8 Court and I will now be trying to plan out a new overarching plot, so hopefully we'll be able to come up with something okay!

As another after-effect of Fey's leaving, we're going to be talking to NPC Mods about new methods we can use for monster creation, so look forward to a post to the OOC comm in regards to that! We're also going to be looking for someone(s) to take up some map-making duties, since Fey and I generally did that, and now Fey's gone and I... never end up getting around to it. D8 Anyway, we'll be posting up more details about all of that at some point!


TO HMD OR NOT TO HMD?

I know that some people have expressed interest in an official damned HMD meme over the years, and I think we're finally ready to give it a try. However, the question is still left up to all of you guys as a whole, so please fill out the poll below with your feelings and we'll decide on whether or not to have one based on the results! (The voter identities are screened.)

Remember that if we do have an HMD meme, participation will be completely optional and unconstructive flaming from player to player, anon to player (if allowed), or player to anon (if allowed) will be screened, frozen, and/or deleted.

[Poll #1505423]


NIGHTSHIFT-ONLY APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!

You can find the only slightly revised app over here! They will be open for around a month and we'll be processing them along with the usual slew of applications.


LAYOUT CONTEST(?)

Although the due date for our layout contest is tomorrow, we're sad to report that we haven't received any submissions at all! D8 So... should we give submitters another month? Or should we call the contest a lost cause and have someone in particular do the layout? Let us know your thoughts!


Phew! I think that's it. 8D; As always, feel free to leave any comments, suggestions, or questions!

Also, due to the day/night event yesterday, there won't be any major event tonight, but look forward to one on Night 47... >:333

Comments

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[ryuuzaki]

Now that I'm actually awake, I can formulate something more intelligent in response to this. :)

First of all, again: BAWWWWW, Fey! :( I neglected to thank her for her hard work. Thank you, Fey! I'm sorry we never got to play together.

Second, about the HMD and anon thing. From a personal POV (aka, the part where I babble about myself for a while):

I have an HMD post with anon and no IP logging enabled on both characters' journals. Nobody has ever used it. Most of the time, I'm probably harder on myself than most people are likely to be on me, and I make an effort to be able to... this is making me feel sheepish!... justify every decision I make in terms of the character's psychology, in case the day comes when I need to address a comment about that kind of thing. (This doesn't mean that people will agree that the justification is successful, of course.) I think all of this is somewhere between "common" and "universal" among other people who also have HMD posts.

All of this is to say that HMD need not necessarily be scary. But even though I voted up there to allow anonymous comments, and I enabled them for my personal HMD posts, I'm still really wary of them.

I see the value of a gamewide HMD, and in fact, while I haven't followed other games' HMDs, one of the complaints I've heard about them hasn't been wank so much as nothing useful being said on them.

All of that being the case, I do also share the concerns that Tad and Serey have.

I think you've addressed them pretty well already, but one thing I would like to add is that, as much as mods everywhere want stuff like this to be optional and want everyone to behave, it seems like there's often an element of peer pressure involved: pressure to accept HMD comments (in this case, to post to the meme), and pressure to accept anonymous comments. It seems like when people don't participate in optional HMD stuff and don't accept anonymous comments, it can be fuel for later wank, even if the person who didn't participate has some good personal reason for it. All of it is kind of "potentially damned if you do, totally damned if you don't." (No pun intended!) That might be worth taking into account.

On the other hand... as long as everyone can avoid this, it should be OK. Anonymousness isn't really the problem; passive-aggressive behavior is the problem. I like the idea of IP logging because it adds an element of accountability in terms of conduct, although I'd hope that everyone would be considerate enough to everyone else that worrying about accountability would be unnecessary.

Third: asdjhdgkjsfhgfgjh if there's another month in the layout contest, I might get it together to submit something. But don't hold it open just for me; I might NOT get it together to submit something! I guess what I mean is: "ideally, I'd like to try to participate, but December was way too busy for me to even make the attempt." If you decide to commission someone, I'm almost certain that they would do a better job.