Member Questions

This is becoming a repeat theme and I have a lot of thoughts on it so... bear with me.

Breeding season has always been a huge headache and MERs, surprisingly enough, make it a larger one.  Now every app we get we have to check criterion on, criterion that before I wrote a plug-in just a few weeks ago, we had no real way of seeing.  I don't recall for sure, but I'm betting the compromise was to give us time to implement MERs and see how this season went before removing the season altogether.  It also gave me time to make it easier to see inactivity periods etc so admins don't have to comb back three months in posts for every single character who posts an app.

At the end of the day, if we lose interest or are overwhelmed, wolf dies.  We protect member interests, but we also protect our own, and I can't feel bad about that.

But every change we make, we do on the belief that it is something that will be positive for the site going forwards.  Sometimes that is in line with the vocal members, sometimes it isn't.

In discussions like this we don't always 100% implement what players want, but we try to incorporate things.  In ppc discussion, I went with what was easier for now, but down the line I heard every point made, summarized it, and will be referencing that when I look to clean up the rank plug-in in the future.  The limitations of what we work in are there, so you may not always see it right away, but it's there.

its... quite frankly exhausting to be constantly met with the fact that in every thing we try to do, we are victimizing members, making wolf worse, and stomping on opinions that differ from ours.  If you would rather we make decisions in a vacuum and not get feedback, then we can begin to do that.  It would be easier for us, frankly.  But every discussion seems to bring to light a compromise that ends up being better than what we came up with ourselves, and i would hate to lose that.

Sorry if this comes on as strong. I haven't even given my opinion on this thread either - if it were up to me, the rule would go.  I don't care about limiting WF, but I know I care less about controlling ic circumstances than some.  So I try to defer and look at things from all sides, and play devils advocate to challenge myself to see what the site as a whole would look like when things are changed.  That's... kinda what these conversations are all about.