It has been close to 4 years since I started my Gaia Journal, and 3 with Live Journal, so I shall restart it. My name is Justin, and I live in Virginia. But then, that's what you need to know.
The title resulted from an older title of my older blogs. It was Observations on Earth from the Sea of Tranquility. But in almost every forum I've been in, the location indicator has always been 'Tsienville, Europa', an homage to Stanley Kubrick's momentous work. This is a clone of my blog on Gamer's Sanctuary.
Anyways, what will this blog produce, if it even produce anything at all?
The title resulted from an older title of my older blogs. It was Observations on Earth from the Sea of Tranquility. But in almost every forum I've been in, the location indicator has always been 'Tsienville, Europa', an homage to Stanley Kubrick's momentous work. This is a clone of my blog on Gamer's Sanctuary.
Anyways, what will this blog produce, if it even produce anything at all?
In Defense of my Modship - An Essay
My Modship, Nepotism? God Forbid Not!
An short essay on values, personas, and professionalism in an unprofessional medium.
It has come to my attention that within the existing administrative structure, there is uneasiness in my status as a moderator in the forum. I have no clear facts, nor am I totally blind. I know the consequences of my actions, and also know I will forever harbour that mark on my forehead as Cain has his from fratricide. But I digress, this is about my defense of my position. I attribute it to my values, my idea of personas and my core person, and a certain degree of professionalism I bring into this job.
Values are something I uphold. I was taught, even if some don’t see it, in the Roman Catholic faith. I’m not one to quote the scripture, for I believe in the Philippine tradition of faith. A long essay attributing early illiteracy, missionary focus, and numerous other factors led the Roman Catholicism I grew up in a family affair. Faith based. As such, numerous values such as fair play tend to find it partnered to Hammurabian ideals of one for one. This melded and molded into generally jaded attitude, a façade that seems to be removed once the right kinks exploited. My values are not pure Machiavellian either. While I do admire the man, he is not as great an influence on my life. One other influence is Confucian beliefs of filial piety. This can’t be applied much on forums, as the veil of anonymity negates a good deal of it.
In a nutshell, my values are my values. You may not like em, you may hate em, but its what defines me as a person. I can be Machiavellian with a touch of Hammurabi in one time, but I can do an about face and be a Saint. If you can’t get over that, or believe human beings are not like that, then I’d believe that something is most terribly wrong with your assessment of me and others like me.
Values tend to also apply to personas. Webster defines persona as such. A character a person assumed by an author in a written work. Roleplay is also then defined by Webster as to act out the role of. Both are then mutually connected by definition, and in my ‘profession’, this is how I act. Roleplay tend to intermingle with my real life, and real life intermingling with roleplay. Creativity and my love for literature have made me what I am today. I write stories with my friends. I am also transitioning into fanfiction and fiction in general. My love for writing stories can only be limited by my laziness in writing anything. I apply a good amount of personas in my forum. One would be my normal persona. My base, my central character. The purest of my personas, it is strongly Roman Catholic and firmly rooted in faith and facts. Then there is the roleplayer. A mask of masks. There is the tactician, the commander, the high schooler. Any and all roles in between. 4 years and more of this.
This has become my persona, and now, a profession.
I’ve received my first modding job 2004. It was, not surprisingly, as the rp section mod. I have always been content as such. I did not have the tenure in the realm of roleplaying as others, but I was taught by those very same tenured people. A wealth of experience in what is right and what isn’t. I’ve built heavily on that, and rewarded moderating forum sections devoted to roleplay. In the job, I was one to bring a sense of professionalism in forums. I’ve created my own moderator report form, usually so I can catalogue any and all complaints and whatnot. I believe that though it is a roleplaying area, there must be some system of moderation, besides a more, hands on an unprofessional routine. Warnings and what not should be catalogued, as to fully explain the situation in one short and easy to read form.
Now, given those reasons, I shall get to the crux of my little rant, which is aptly called a ‘short’ essay. It has come to my attention that past actions against certain members has come up as an obstacle for my legitimacy. Said legitimacy would be the full acceptance as a staff member in this forum, animeyo, and the point of the argument being that acceptance and access to the staff forum invites trouble.
Again, an opinion shared by a certain member, or members. This may be an accurate, to those people, opinion that it is canon on their own rule books. To me, it is because they know all too well my Machiavellian and Draconian side. The side that earnestly prosecuted and hounded certain members due to erroneous or misleading facts, or the implementation of scripted or unscripted events that has hurt many other forum member’s feelings and has led me to defend those members at my own discretion.
My, how do people not notice change?
I have no aspects for power, nor do I want to abuse said power. I am, if you would love to be cynic and point out my flaws, be similar to a headstrong, young, and new senator (not naming names) who plans to change things within his own available power for the better. I have no designs for modship beyond the roleplay and ooc sections, nor do I plan to incite trouble, for it is unprofessional and if any thing would cause me to be temporarily be demoded, as long as I am still a forum member and roleplaying, I am content to wait out for the duration of the event and reapply or earnestly return to my job.
If this is not enough, then continue to deny my access to the staff forum. I am content with the powers I have, nor do I plan on losing them. I understand I am at careful review by watchdogs and what have you, but my power extends to two sections alone, infact, one section and that section’s subforum, and I dare anyone to point out what I’m doing wrong within that section.
In short. Deny my staff access. Deny me any privileges, and I’m still content to being a normal forum member. The claims of me inciting trouble in the staff section is clearly done from prejudice and impressions of an earlier action. Animeyo was created with the express, enforced, and heavily guarded neutrality. I don’t plan to bring in the drama that plagued…how many sites. I want to do my part because I was asked if I wanted the job, and having applied for it, would rather do my job than write this defense to any sort of backroom criticism of Nepotism and doubt held by some. This goes for the rest of the staff as well, the staff should not be discussed in such a manner behind their backs. All is welcome here, as we strive to forget the past and reforge relationships thrown asunder by a year or so worth of forum bitching, which, if you think about it, completely pointless in the internet.
An short essay on values, personas, and professionalism in an unprofessional medium.
It has come to my attention that within the existing administrative structure, there is uneasiness in my status as a moderator in the forum. I have no clear facts, nor am I totally blind. I know the consequences of my actions, and also know I will forever harbour that mark on my forehead as Cain has his from fratricide. But I digress, this is about my defense of my position. I attribute it to my values, my idea of personas and my core person, and a certain degree of professionalism I bring into this job.
Values are something I uphold. I was taught, even if some don’t see it, in the Roman Catholic faith. I’m not one to quote the scripture, for I believe in the Philippine tradition of faith. A long essay attributing early illiteracy, missionary focus, and numerous other factors led the Roman Catholicism I grew up in a family affair. Faith based. As such, numerous values such as fair play tend to find it partnered to Hammurabian ideals of one for one. This melded and molded into generally jaded attitude, a façade that seems to be removed once the right kinks exploited. My values are not pure Machiavellian either. While I do admire the man, he is not as great an influence on my life. One other influence is Confucian beliefs of filial piety. This can’t be applied much on forums, as the veil of anonymity negates a good deal of it.
In a nutshell, my values are my values. You may not like em, you may hate em, but its what defines me as a person. I can be Machiavellian with a touch of Hammurabi in one time, but I can do an about face and be a Saint. If you can’t get over that, or believe human beings are not like that, then I’d believe that something is most terribly wrong with your assessment of me and others like me.
Values tend to also apply to personas. Webster defines persona as such. A character a person assumed by an author in a written work. Roleplay is also then defined by Webster as to act out the role of. Both are then mutually connected by definition, and in my ‘profession’, this is how I act. Roleplay tend to intermingle with my real life, and real life intermingling with roleplay. Creativity and my love for literature have made me what I am today. I write stories with my friends. I am also transitioning into fanfiction and fiction in general. My love for writing stories can only be limited by my laziness in writing anything. I apply a good amount of personas in my forum. One would be my normal persona. My base, my central character. The purest of my personas, it is strongly Roman Catholic and firmly rooted in faith and facts. Then there is the roleplayer. A mask of masks. There is the tactician, the commander, the high schooler. Any and all roles in between. 4 years and more of this.
This has become my persona, and now, a profession.
I’ve received my first modding job 2004. It was, not surprisingly, as the rp section mod. I have always been content as such. I did not have the tenure in the realm of roleplaying as others, but I was taught by those very same tenured people. A wealth of experience in what is right and what isn’t. I’ve built heavily on that, and rewarded moderating forum sections devoted to roleplay. In the job, I was one to bring a sense of professionalism in forums. I’ve created my own moderator report form, usually so I can catalogue any and all complaints and whatnot. I believe that though it is a roleplaying area, there must be some system of moderation, besides a more, hands on an unprofessional routine. Warnings and what not should be catalogued, as to fully explain the situation in one short and easy to read form.
Now, given those reasons, I shall get to the crux of my little rant, which is aptly called a ‘short’ essay. It has come to my attention that past actions against certain members has come up as an obstacle for my legitimacy. Said legitimacy would be the full acceptance as a staff member in this forum, animeyo, and the point of the argument being that acceptance and access to the staff forum invites trouble.
Again, an opinion shared by a certain member, or members. This may be an accurate, to those people, opinion that it is canon on their own rule books. To me, it is because they know all too well my Machiavellian and Draconian side. The side that earnestly prosecuted and hounded certain members due to erroneous or misleading facts, or the implementation of scripted or unscripted events that has hurt many other forum member’s feelings and has led me to defend those members at my own discretion.
My, how do people not notice change?
I have no aspects for power, nor do I want to abuse said power. I am, if you would love to be cynic and point out my flaws, be similar to a headstrong, young, and new senator (not naming names) who plans to change things within his own available power for the better. I have no designs for modship beyond the roleplay and ooc sections, nor do I plan to incite trouble, for it is unprofessional and if any thing would cause me to be temporarily be demoded, as long as I am still a forum member and roleplaying, I am content to wait out for the duration of the event and reapply or earnestly return to my job.
If this is not enough, then continue to deny my access to the staff forum. I am content with the powers I have, nor do I plan on losing them. I understand I am at careful review by watchdogs and what have you, but my power extends to two sections alone, infact, one section and that section’s subforum, and I dare anyone to point out what I’m doing wrong within that section.
In short. Deny my staff access. Deny me any privileges, and I’m still content to being a normal forum member. The claims of me inciting trouble in the staff section is clearly done from prejudice and impressions of an earlier action. Animeyo was created with the express, enforced, and heavily guarded neutrality. I don’t plan to bring in the drama that plagued…how many sites. I want to do my part because I was asked if I wanted the job, and having applied for it, would rather do my job than write this defense to any sort of backroom criticism of Nepotism and doubt held by some. This goes for the rest of the staff as well, the staff should not be discussed in such a manner behind their backs. All is welcome here, as we strive to forget the past and reforge relationships thrown asunder by a year or so worth of forum bitching, which, if you think about it, completely pointless in the internet.
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