[ SECRET POST #142 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #142 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 120 secrets from Secret Submission Post #021.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Monday, May 28th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

... yeah, I think this is the crux of the issue. The logical thing to do would be to contact a mod and hash this out privately. People, however, are not logical. In fact, a goodly amount of the time people are just plain dumb. (Plus, some of them would rather just complain and get it off their chest and move on than actually do anything about it.) It might also be that the person in question was just after venting: sometimes all that anyone really needs to do about an issue is blow off steam and that's it, problem over. Perhaps doing it here wasn't the smartest idea but - yeah, it's all coming down to 'People are Stupid' again.

Maybe a mod post is in order. With the mods' screen names written in big scrolling sparkly letters so nobody can miss them or imagine you're trying to hide from them. I can understand it's frustrating to try and be accessible and still see people complaining in .png images of 800 by 800 pixels or less... Hm, maybe if you were to set up a free journal called something like 'acaw_feedback', posted like, one entry in the same way you do for secret submissions here - though the replies would probably have to be left visible - and allowed anonymous commenting, if people would perhaps be a bit more forthcoming with their problems? That could allow them a way to make their issues heard without necessarily feeling they had to attach a player name to their problems.

I can't be any more specific about what their problems are, mind, since my own issues are a horse of a completely different color, small-scale, and also largely resolved.

[grayout.livejournal.com]

I've tried that, even kinda made chat rooms inviting everybody to voice ANY opinion or suggestion they had about ACAW good OR bad. Nothing worked. Trust me, we've like gone out of our way to TRY and contact these people but...

(lolol randomly, if you read any of the comment spams by the ACAW players here it's seriously just them yelling PENIS PENIS PENIS at each other gaehtjkgahekjtgaet ... or that's what it turns into, anyway. we're kind of all crackheads)

http://stoptazmo.com/death_note/ ?

[sevendials.livejournal.com]

In which case I'm guessing that - well, maybe people just like to complain? (Not a very helpful idea, that.) Either that or they're deliberately trying to stir wank, and if that's the case I'm gonna forget trying to see things their way. If I agree with them then eh, whatever, but forget defending them. I do not like trolls, largely because well, if they don't like something that's fine, nobody says they have to, but why does it matter if someone else does?

(This is probably a hangover from being in a less-popular fandom a lot of people only seem to be able to admit to enjoying if they label it a guilty pleasure... ah well.)

Also, don't worry about being a crackhead. I think we all have moments like that; I'll just know to ignore the spam in future. Not like I have to look if I don't want to. And I still think your RP's premise is absolutely made of love, and the idea of having three separate communities to (theoretically, though plenty of people seem to play characters on both sides) keep the factions separate and allow for proper plotting strikes me as absolutely - well, why don't more RPs think of taking advantage of that? That's a great way round the old problem of characters knowing things they shouldn't.

Thanks for the link, by the way! I'll have to run through them sometime when it's not two in the morning...