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silverthorne1) We already covered this, but, Mods that pick one or two 'partners' to thread with to the exclusion of all else...at least when they were responding to others until the SO shows up, and then said mod is threading only with SO...and threading smut. (Disclaimer: I'm not much for smut/slash/whatever posting myself even though I have done it in the past, but it's okay if that's what floats other peoples' boats. Unless, of course, that's all you're doing in a group setting RPG (especially one with underage players). Then I tend to get a little twitchy.)
2) Applying to a game where the world 'canon'--whether taken from other media, or a product of the mod(s) imagination--is well defined, and the players are expected to conform to that canon...and yet the mod team itself rarely shows up in the character approval thread to look at the pending sheets. Yeah, it's great other players, which may or may not have a solid grip on the world, respond and voice opinions and suggestions, but when I'm trying to mold a new character to fit the canon world, it would be nice to have at least acknowledgement from someone helping to run said world. I'd rather get the bugs out before I post to a thread and then get in trouble for using something 'not in canon', thanks.
3) Seeing that I'm not the only one with pending questions that are not getting answered, and yet the mods are off playing on an RPG thread for several hours. Yes, having modded games myself, I know how badly you'd like to play yourselves. Yes, it's a drag if there's several pending questions that are likely to take up a good chunk of your online time if you bother to answer. But...guess what? You run the place--that means you're responsible for making sure that not only do things get smoothed out when something goes badly wrong, but also that your players don't take your silence as an implicit 'okay' to do whatever they've posted. And, quite frankly, if they do sneak things past you later that are world breaking, I'm sorry, but if you weren't there to nip it in the bud in the first place, then whose fault is it, really? It sucks, but as a mod, running the place comes first...and then you can go RP yourself. Kinda like real life. Chores first, play second. Place tends not to implode that way. If you don't want to invest that much time? Either don't allow RP from others, or accept the fact that your world is not going to be as 'neat', 'clean', 'pretty' and as much your brainchild as you would like. You opened the gate and let the raiders in; it's your own fault if you don't like it when they eat all your rations and sleep with your women because you can't/won't stop them yourselves.
Anyway, still patiently waiting, but really...five days is long enough without even so much as a 'looks interesting/needs work, I'll get back to you as soon as I can'. At least to my mind. :P
2) Applying to a game where the world 'canon'--whether taken from other media, or a product of the mod(s) imagination--is well defined, and the players are expected to conform to that canon...and yet the mod team itself rarely shows up in the character approval thread to look at the pending sheets. Yeah, it's great other players, which may or may not have a solid grip on the world, respond and voice opinions and suggestions, but when I'm trying to mold a new character to fit the canon world, it would be nice to have at least acknowledgement from someone helping to run said world. I'd rather get the bugs out before I post to a thread and then get in trouble for using something 'not in canon', thanks.
3) Seeing that I'm not the only one with pending questions that are not getting answered, and yet the mods are off playing on an RPG thread for several hours. Yes, having modded games myself, I know how badly you'd like to play yourselves. Yes, it's a drag if there's several pending questions that are likely to take up a good chunk of your online time if you bother to answer. But...guess what? You run the place--that means you're responsible for making sure that not only do things get smoothed out when something goes badly wrong, but also that your players don't take your silence as an implicit 'okay' to do whatever they've posted. And, quite frankly, if they do sneak things past you later that are world breaking, I'm sorry, but if you weren't there to nip it in the bud in the first place, then whose fault is it, really? It sucks, but as a mod, running the place comes first...and then you can go RP yourself. Kinda like real life. Chores first, play second. Place tends not to implode that way. If you don't want to invest that much time? Either don't allow RP from others, or accept the fact that your world is not going to be as 'neat', 'clean', 'pretty' and as much your brainchild as you would like. You opened the gate and let the raiders in; it's your own fault if you don't like it when they eat all your rations and sleep with your women because you can't/won't stop them yourselves.
Anyway, still patiently waiting, but really...five days is long enough without even so much as a 'looks interesting/needs work, I'll get back to you as soon as I can'. At least to my mind. :P
