Like I said to Cstar in her thread, I had less of a problem with what he said, and more of a problem with the response I got when I brought it up. If the staff member I talked to said it wasn’t rule breaking it would be a different story, but when you get a response that to me read as “yes this breaks the rules but isn’t high on my list of things to do”, it’s a little concerning. Because that attitude is what I mean when I talk about the site bleeding numbers. If I was a new member and I got that sort of response from a staff member, that my concern while valid wasn’t important enough, that would be a giant turn off. We all have a history. I think that was the point of this thread earlier this week: https://kh-vids.net/threads/why-i-left-khv.157323/#post-4308062 I’m talking about the present, and the present is “this concern doesn’t matter”, with no mention of really passing it along to someone else if they really are (and I do believe they are) super swamped.
I get that, but does then dismissing a member with concerns to a staff member and then being brushed off really help in stopping the call out thread? Like the whole point of the call out thread from what I can see is that certain members don’t think the staff are doing their job. If you’re worried about someone seeing you as unable to do your job, why would you then not do it? There are enough staff members to enforce the “regular” site rules and at the same time deal with abnormalities like I would consider the callout thread, and I think that if regular members are being ignored in favour of dealing with the call out thread that only proves what is being said in the call out thread. More on that, if I was a new member who was witnessing all this and I got that sort of response, I definitely wouldn’t want to stick around. I’ve been here long enough to know that certain staff members really are doing their best, but we’re in no place rn to be accepting outside company, so to speak.
That’s pretty cool actually. Because I know the PS3 doesn’t even have those, it’s all HDMI and whatever. But you’re right, when all the cds are gone we’re really screwed
I think you missed the point though - like obviously I think the comment itself is problematic - but for some reason when I talked to a staff member they basically said they had other stuff to do. I understand it’s the first priority to probably sort out the issues called out in said thread, but it really shows that to me the staff members aren’t really working together??? Because you’d think one staff member could deal with the comment in the time being while the staff member I talked to who said it wasn’t a priority for them could continue with their thread response. So yeah, I think it kinda shows we’re not gonna be okay Lmao Edit: to clean this up a little bit cause I’m on my phone - the response I got to asking a staff member to deal with the comment was what I’m concerned about. Because apparently multi-tasking wasn’t an option, and asking someone else to deal with it while they continued what they were doing (if they really couldn’t do both, people are busy so it’s understandable to focus on one thing) somehow isn’t an option? Where are the other staff members?
I regret it so hard tbh. Like I remember tony hawk skater or whatever and all this other stuff that’s out there somewhere XD Here’s the other thing: will we someday be entirely unable to play these consoles? Because for example, my PS2 has those yellow, white and red thingsy. Eventually TV’s may get rid of those right? I can’t think of anything they’re used for other then games and old DVD players. That means you’d need an old tv and an old console
Okay but when are we getting something that’s a neon bright yellow
I think that Japan tends to put a lot more effort into their games. I don’t really have a theory on why per say but I think it’s a cultural thing of making sure that your work is something to be proud of, whereas game developers start to cheap out as soon as they know that their fans will support them even if they put out trash. I think that’s really the difference in the gaming culture - for some reason I feel like a portion of us in North America are more willing to support games even if the developers are shady. Lots of people, including me, we supported games like the Sims as EA took and took more money from us and even though there’s been “back lash” nothing changes. Developers knowing they can cut corners make it so worse games come out, and I don’t think Japanese game companies have that same attitude of cutting back when they get successful necessarily.
This idea is just crazy to me, because like with your example something so insignificant as brushing past you could impact basically your entire dating life. Like the butterfly effect for that example seems insane lol
I feel like part of the “fun” per say is being able to like, find the actual games. I still have my Ps2, but 10 year old me sold all my ps2 games for literally nothing and I’m super sad about it. I didn’t have a concept of nostalgia at all and now my ability to go back to that generation is gone (I could buy some games from eBay or something but as of right now...)
We may have lost the dance but you’re still my Valentine <3
I mean we may have more of a userbase if the staff didn’t let people get away with calling indigenous people Indians but like, I was told that we wouldn’t want to “detract from the big staff issue by getting side-tracked talking about racism”. Now I’m not super sensitive or anything, but I’m a fan of that response from a staff member, if anything that attitude is part of the issue. The staff is so worried about saving themselves they won’t moderate. I mean this entire thread is against the rules, but it’s sort a necessity isn’t it?
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I don’t know if it counts but I do a discord call before I go to bed and keep it on all night, and that produces it’s own white noise / static
No XD I meant like, not on the list list, not like, here as in not online.
I don't know if I should reply to this, but like, I'm glad Marushi isn't here because honestly she works so hard for this site and we don't deserve her. That's my contribution.
I know what you mean, but at the same time I can't entirely agree. I was in elementary school when I joined KHV, and now I'm in University. I haven't always made the best decisions (because really what teenager does), but over the course of the past year or so, I've come to know better. I think I was a good Reporter, but when it came to Moderating I don't think I had the capacity to do it. I hadn't needed to "run" anything before, and even though as a Moderator you have the rest of the staff team to back you up, for certain things it does feel like it's up to you. And to be honest, if we were looking at 1-2 years ago, I probably would entirely agree with everything your saying. I myself have contributed to my fair share of constant situations. And now I have my own community, my own Discord server, and I didn't realize how bad I felt or how sorry I was for how bad of a job I did until I looked on past mistakes and got better. My Discord isn't as big as KHV, it has 500 members and maybe 100-150 active people. Hunter and I as Owners, 1 Admin, 5 Moderators, 30 Contributors (Patrons), and the rest are regular members. Quickly I realized I wasn't as good as running events as I thought I was, that I maybe wasn't moderating like I should have been, and that if I wanted to keep my community alive I was going to really fight for it and change how I looked at things. Working with the police helped with that a lot because we were told how to resolve conflicts peacefully and all that jazz. I'm glad to say we've only really had to ban 7 people, and I think out of 500 that's a pretty good score. Banned for exactly what you said - toxicity, starting drama, thinking that there's some sort of revolution to be won whether that's staff against the members, or members against the staff. We've had our fair share of raids because of angry people, posting links on somewhere like 4Chan where 40 or 50 people will flood in. But instead of "blaming" the people who got banned per say, we changed the system. If people said the rules were unclear and that led them to break the rules, instead of blaming them for that rule break, we edited the rules. If people said something wrong, we'd try to explain to them why it was wrong first, and then if they agreed and didn't do it again wouldn't give any punishment. Instead of just swinging a hammer down on people (which I had enjoyed doing), we tried to listen to people and go from there. Because the people who said the rules were unclear never broke rules again after that. The people who said something inappropriate now knew it was wrong. The people who were starting drama with other people because they were upset about something else going on in their life, we gave them a chat where we could better listen to them and resolve the conflict. The only people who have really been "banned" were unsaveable - that they were hurting the community more then we could justify to try to help them. And so I know what you mean by moral crusade. I think that most people are well meaning, and their reasons for acting out aren't necessarily because they're trolling or because they're trying to cause trouble. That there's something deeper going on that's the route of the issue. That "I am doing what is entirely right" or "they are doing what is entirely wrong" doesn't really work as a moderator. I don't think a single person has gotten banned from the community in the time that I've been here, wasn't liked by everyone, but made a couple mistakes, or had a bad day, or something like that. I don't really know where I'm going with this, but I do understand what you're saying. In terms of an entire staff overall - I don't know. I think there are staff members (not to name drop or anything), like Marushi who deeply care for this website more then anything else, and don't deserve that sort of treatment. I do agree with the content thing, though. No offense to the reporters or anything, but putting up the KH3 news was a little slow and I had to go get it from KHInsider (sorry, I know I'm a traitor), and I'm sure there are a lot of YouTubers (not to name names but uh, like me) who would be willing to make content for the site. We may want to consider things to be a little more like the Kingdom Hearts Amino, where it's the members creating the content and the Staff just pinning it on the front page, so everything is community based. Because through Amino, members are the ones who are reporting on the news, or making the theories etc etc, but then they get their stuff featured and what not. I don't think it should just be up to the Staff to report on everything, or run cool events or polls. We're all very creative people and I'm sure that we all have something to contribute that could be showcased using the website. I'm sorry if this post was a mess, I didn't want to edit too much cause I wanted everything to be the least about of manufactured as possible.
I know but we still haven’t truly become free
Discord is tearing this family apart
What do you mean "was" though, if you're on the discord server it hasn't really gone away. It will still haunt these halls
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