Alrighty, I'm no longer a moderator. I made a mistake years prior, and it's come back to snatch me down - I won't dive into details, but I understand what's happened, and for anyone who wonders "Why did they step down?", it was an understandable result, with me lacking any way to properly reference or discuss something that happened five years prior, so it's completely reasonable. :) Not that I'm happy, sure, but it's reasonable, and I want that to be absolutely clear. It's been great contributing to the moderation team, and I hope those still present engage happily enough too.
Cyprezz is an excellent owner, and I want it to be known he really does support everyone getting along, mediating tensions, being friendly and such- Trying to (and rather successfully) fostering a community that's diverse and often clashing while still hopefully kind and supportive enough. A respectable, admirable challenge; he just wants everyone to get along, and that's great! I have no regrets from my time as a moderator, bar the fact it's over now - and that is what it is. Most who see this probably didn't see me often nowadays, but if you do know me, hey! It was great working in this position, helping to make the community a little happier along the way, and making my own fair share of accidental errors too (as moderation always has), while trying to overall have a good impact on the site. :) Thanks for the time.
I'm not going anywhere, though - I'll still be here, as a member. Just not moderating!
So, I'll use this opportunity as a bit of inspiration/advice for other people:
Your actions matter. You may not think it, but a mistake, error, sin, making an enemy of someone- Anything like that has lasting repercussions, which go further than just a single month, week, or even day or hour of your life. Take care, and try to make choices you'll be happy with in the future. When you aren't sure what to do in a situation and all options look to be bad, think about the long term effects it may have on everyone involved. Yourself especially. Look after yourself, and remember that actions you make last.
Seek peace with people you speak with. Even if you don't like someone much, aim to get along with them if possible. Find ways to ease tensions, to see eye to eye. To make friends, or at least to not be at odd's ends with someone. You may have wildly different views on how life works, or there may even be a major problem at hand, but it's never worth raising tensions with someone to make them an enemy. A huge part of looking after yourself and others is respecting the differences between people. This can be difficult, as a lot of walks of life clash inherently, but if you can find this kind of peace, you're already going to be better off for it.
Be nice. Self-explanatory, with the other two above: Coldness of any sort can genuinely catch up to you. Try to be a kind person, even while you're still growing and learning. It's difficult, and mistakes will happen along the way, but so long as someone's trying, the mistakes shouldn't be too bad.
Believe in yourself. Even if things look tough and you're starting to doubt how to move forwards with life, remember that you can still succeed. So long as life is continuing, there's still some hope to make it through and overcome the hurdles you face. Do not let anything take away from that confidence and determination to grow, persevere, and make life your own to be happy with.
Mistakes happen. That doesn't mean to accept and ignore the weight of the mistakes, but it does mean to remember not to beat yourself up if you do something wrong. Try to mediate tensions with involved people, apologise, see what you can do to recover from the mistake, and overall just keep working to grow as a person. We aren't defined by our mistakes; we are more than just the small parts of what makes us people. Look out for yourselves, and try to accept your errors, while not dragging yourself down with them. They are not the shackles dragging you down; they are just parts of this walk of life. Some will even be pretty bad mistakes, but if life's still ongoing, you can still change, and you can still grow, and there's still hope for you.
There's always hope. Like the above two points, even when something's still reaching for you after a long time, there's always hope to change and develop. There's always hope to find new friends, new communities, new job opportunities- Nothing is destined to fall apart entirely, purely based on the past. The present and future will be influenced by the past, but your own actions can change and influence them too. You're never hopeless. Never. There's always a future.
Seek help and advice. This is perhaps the hardest thing to do when so few people know how to make it through their own lives, but the reality is we're all learning and trying to make our own journeys. It isn't easy, and it never will be. There's no-one who fully grasps everything they have in life, yeah? But, you can at least seek to hear what others think about life, comparing it with your own journeys, seeking for support and encouragement to try to make your own life better, and perhaps theirs too in the process. We all have thoughts worth sharing (and thoughts that aren't worth sharing, haha. We're all complex, after all).
Never stop learning. As said, we'll never be perfect. Always keep trying to grow. I can't promise it'll matter in some situations, as sometimes regardless of how much you've done you'll still get into problems based on a lesser-capable version of you's choices, however you should still always try to grow, because while some situations are dead-ended, it will open the door to potential options which aren't. There's hope for you. For everyone. It may feel hard to find right now, but in this society, there's no point where someone has no possible way to hope, to care for themself, to hold up a job, friends, a community- There's always hope. Keep growing, keep taking care, and keep trying to work forwards with life.
There's a bit more I think I'd be interested in rambling about, but this is already quite long and the post is partly motivation for myself, and ideally, motivation for others too. :) Life's tough, but there's always a path forwards. Don't let the complexities of this world make you feel helpless; you can always grow. Even if it feels really tough.
Take care. :)
Always seek to take care.
You may not know what for, but future you may well thank you for doing it. :)
Thank you. :) I appreciate that- I try to be nice, although I definitely can't guarantee I always am, aha. Human limitations. Still, I appreciate it. You're welcome, and thank you for reaching out to me before. :) I'm glad it helped, and hopefully you're still doing better now too! :D
Take care Unknownymous. You were probably one of the nicest moderators I ever talked too. I thank you for all the chats we had in PMs, and I wish you nothing but the best.
Ahh. That's a tough question. I guess I'll be a little honest: I'd be lying if I said I'm not disappointed at all about it all, but at the same time, the time I've spent here has objectively helped me develop tremendously as a person and there's so much progress I've made that would have been impossible (or less likely!) had I taken a different route in life.
I originally became more active here and sought to be staff more for my own benefit than anything else, and gradually, over time, appreciated the sheer amount of good that could be done throughout it. Even if it was a bit difficult sometimes and things weren't all peaceful, it was really nice, and challenged a lot of my views of how I saw the world. Expanding what I thought was obvious, and showing me how amazing it could be to resolve things peacefully- To mediate between people. To try to find a path where everyone is happy. To follow ideals, and make it actually work, while helping people along the way! I'm glad I did it. I am upset it ended up turning out like this, and it scares me quite a bit, and it'll take a lot to work through these feelings again, but that isn't going to wipe away how glad I am that the time happened to begin with. It's complex - I know the time I spent here helped me grow, and helped others along the way too, and I wouldn't change that at all if I could do it all over, just because of a sour end.
Thank you for asking. :) Probably more of an answer than you expected though, ahaha. I hope you're doing well yourself too! :)
Ohh, I remember. Hope you're doing well! And thank you - I appreciate your support, but no worries, this is just part of life, in the end. :) People come and go in many ways.
Good news, the Creator Analytics update is ready but the bad news is the timing isn't right to launch. I have some IRL things happening that require my undivided attention. All good things though, so no worries there. It's just best to wait until things are settled so that I can return the same attention to the update and you.
Creator Analytics WILL release next month! It took longer than initially expected for a number of unexpected reasons but scope of work also grew in many directions for the best. There's always more to do after the launch but there's more than enough to be useful and fun now and into the foreseeable future and historical past interests. Always nice when things motivate you to go, go, go. Didn't help switching chart libraries last week but know it was the right decision for the short and long run.
You'll see soon and I'm looking forward to having the proper time to respond to bugs and feature requests.
After a roller coaster ride of locating, merging, migrating and auditing massive amounts of data (nearly a billion records), I'm back on crossing off front-end features until remaining tasks are down to launch preparation. The bulk of the work is done, last 10% requires pushing through and eventually leaving some ideas for post launch.
Just going to drop several work in progress screenshots from various analytics sub-pages and let them do the talking:
I'm working on our Creator Analytics update and while it has grown in scope, it's more interesting and useful than I first imagined.
Here's a sneak peak of just the top half of a random members analytics widgets!
Each widget has a full page view that allows for an in-depth exploration of its data and insights. You will have the flexibility to navigate through various time frames, extending back to the inception of your membership or the publication date of your content, depending on the specific context. Relevant content, notifications and more will be readily available to explain and learn more about your analytics.
Still not sure when it will be ready but every day, it's getting closer :P
Find myself working at night instead of gaming because it's more engaging. Already covering profile, content, discussions... Maybe even get into wall post stats. For entertainment, knowledge and motivation.
Overall goal is to make it interesting to everyone that posts anything here. We just have so many systems and unique members that it's hard to cover all at once.
Scope keeps growing with what I want to add. Ready when it's ready.
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I originally became more active here and sought to be staff more for my own benefit than anything else, and gradually, over time, appreciated the sheer amount of good that could be done throughout it. Even if it was a bit difficult sometimes and things weren't all peaceful, it was really nice, and challenged a lot of my views of how I saw the world. Expanding what I thought was obvious, and showing me how amazing it could be to resolve things peacefully- To mediate between people. To try to find a path where everyone is happy. To follow ideals, and make it actually work, while helping people along the way!
I'm glad I did it.
I am upset it ended up turning out like this, and it scares me quite a bit, and it'll take a lot to work through these feelings again, but that isn't going to wipe away how glad I am that the time happened to begin with. It's complex - I know the time I spent here helped me grow, and helped others along the way too, and I wouldn't change that at all if I could do it all over, just because of a sour end.
Thank you for asking. :) Probably more of an answer than you expected though, ahaha. I hope you're doing well yourself too! :)
just wondering