Considering the consistent positive reaction and lack of any opposition to upping the bump limit, I'm provisionally upping it to 750 to see how things play out. Still more than open to hearing any opinions on the matter though, as well as any unforeseen complications due to it, so talk to me - this is provisional, I'm more than happy to revert back to 300 if necessary.
>>69664
>Otherwise, people are just going to be confused because they don't know what happened, which means they ask about it, which rouses the subject again.
Pretty much this. While I'm going to delete on sight shit that goes against the global rule and/or is obviously advertisement spam, if something were to come up worthy of a delete/ban for another reason, I'd prefer to have a discussion with the board about it.
>are there really people that know about the catalog yet still insist on not using it?
I find it hard to believe too. To be fair, most of the arguments I've heard haven't been "I prefer the regular view to the catalog" but "other people don't use the catalog," but then due to that we really don't have any evidence to indicate people don't use the catalog. Maybe it's their fetish.
>not to mention eventually cause them to hit the image caps.
This is a good point, I'd forgotten about the possibility of image caps, since there isn't an option regarding it in the board settings, and thus no way for me to edit it if it exists here.
>If they don't want to be followed, they shouldn't be followed.
100% agreed.
>>69666
>If possible, I'd like to see three or four mods that together provide 24 hour coverage of the board.
This is of course the ideal, and I'm certainly not opposed to bringing on Volunteers, especially considering how I got here in the first place. That said, there's a few reasons I haven't added any yet, despite the fact that we've lost half our moderation staff.
First, and most importantly, we simply haven't needed it, as between the two of us left and the globals, I don't think any of the spam has lasted longer than 24 hours as is. The reason the original three Volunteers got added in the first place was because of a rather insane spam epidemic that wiped the board completely, and while we've had GET raids and the like and will probably have one soon judging from the post numbers and of course the aforementioned spambots, we've yet to have anything on the scale of what came before to prompt a need for more staff.
Second, there's a bit of a paradox that I need to work around, which is that while I don't want to go the nepotism route and appoint my friends/people I like as Volunteers, if I'm going to have Volunteers I want them to be people I can trust enough that if I had to leave the board unattended for a long period of time I could feel comfortable knowing all was in good hands. So far I've managed to check in at least once a day almost every day (though not necessarily once every 24 hours, mind) but there's always the possibility of myself getting hospitalized or otherwise rendered incapable of contacting anyone at all, much less maintaining a daily vigil of the board. Of course, that possibility is also the biggest reason I'd want to appoint some Volunteers, which makes the whole thing even more irritating.
>Also, it would be nice if you could get with the staff of /erp/ rooms on F-Chat and wherever else they exist to make sure the rules and behavior of staff reflect that of the board.
Unfortunately, not really much I can do there - we've never made any presence anywhere else save the IRC room which never really saw much use and which I actually lost the logins for when I changed computers, and will need to figure out again or possibly remake entirely should people want that back so it's not like they were ever really associated with this board to begin with. I'd of course be more than willing to speak with the staff in such places, but then we run into the paradox of them either being decent folk in which case there'd be no need to bother them in the first place, or them being complete jackasses with no business associating themselves with us and who wouldn't be open to discussion in the first place. The problem with the latter comes down to the fact that they have no real reason to listen to anything I have to say - I'm Board Owner here, but I have zero authority on F-List don't even have an account or MMOs or anywhere else. Now, if people actually want an "official" F-List thing or MMO thing for /erp/, I'm not opposed to talking things out with pre-existing groups or the creators of new groups if they want something like a mention in the sticky in exchange for being somewhat answerable to me should board users complain to me about policies/behaviors, but again, it's not like I'd have any real power over them, and the most I'd be able to do is just cut them loose from "official" recognition anyway - I wouldn't be able to effect changes directly or shut them down entirely unless they gave me that power, which if there's enough of a difference of opinion for the conflict to happen in the first place is probably not going to happen.
>making certain threads cyclical
Could you specify what you mean here? Because my immediate interpretation is either the way the threads operate now (making a new thread when old ones hit limits) or a system where a thread is deleted once it hits limit and then a new one is made, which then leads to our archiving problem.
>>69668
>This board has surprisingly very low amounts of shitposting going on, they'd enable more trouble than they'd solve.
Absolutely agreed.
>>69669
>One thing you should never do– change the look of this board. It's like the best looking one on 8chan
I love the look of this board and I don't know how to change it even if I didn't so barring some torrent of passionate appeal on the part of the users the look is here to stay.
>Not a huge fan of typing a capcha every post, though.
Me neither, but if you've been around for about a year or so you know why we implemented it. That said, I'd be willing to experiment to see if it's safe to switch it off, or at least downgrade it to being only required for making new threads, but I'd advise everyone go through and save any and all content on the board you're remotely fond of first before we do anything like that.
>>69674
>Is it okay that I have a lewd game running with two active threads that will continue to reset every time it hits bump limit?
Absolutely.
>Are there stress-reduction efforts I should be taking?
If you've got any in mind, go right ahead, but it's not like you guys have been spamming needlessly or anything. If we do something more universal for the recurring threads mentioned earlier, like the stickying, I wouldn't be opposed to doing the same for Empress Calista's Tower, both the ingame and OOC threads.