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@Armi: Thank you for your reply and visiting our site/forums. I think you'll find that you have access to most of the forums there. Please feel welcome to create a thread or offer your thoughts on one of the ongoing discussions.
@drake: I'm concerned about some of what I have heard, but I am not looking to attempt to please everyone. One of my favorite quotes is by Bill Cosby and goes something like, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." While we are looking to make some changes to be a bit more accommodating to the larger community, we're not looking to flush the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. It is important to us that the LS retain its core values and purpose.
@Ildur:Â I agree I don't think there's any way to set up a moderator team on any forum that is going to be received well by all members - particularly with a site like that RPC that encompasses so many members with so many different backgrounds and varying opinions.
@JJ: Thanks for better summarizing what I was driving at with my rather longwinded response last night. I don't think I can not be longwinded. It's a sickness.Â
@Ellie: Thank you also for clearing up that point about not wanting to promise things we can't deliver and leave prospective members feeling disenchated as a result.  You have a way of taking what I'm thinking and wording it so much better than I am able. I appreciate that.
@Asyria: Thank you for your comment as well. I also agree that the RPC belongs to all of us. But I am getting an idea where certain perceptions are coming from, which was part of why I created this thread. I also remember BF from 1.0 and it sounded like a good group!
@Tyriont: It's good to see you're back! Changing recruitment status to something like 'Pending' would be a good idea. I think we were locked into only a few different options, but this is certainly something worth looking into as well. I also agree that the 'top shell' remark - which was first introduced somewhere on page 1 - is kind of deflating sort of thing. I try to view the smaller communities that make up the RPC as cooperating and collaborating rather than competing. While perhaps not equal in membership quantity, style, immersion, etc., I think it's probably offputting to label any one as being better or worse than another - generally speaking. For each player or character there may be some that make more or less sense than others or make a better fit, but I agree that tagging any LS as being superior to others for any reason is a big no-no.
@Spiritual Machine: It's my opinion that this did have a positive impact the last time it was conducted for another community I belonged to at the time. I can appreciate that a lot of delicate issues may be brought up, but our goal is to improve our community not only for our members, but also to make it so that other communities can easily interface with us for cross-LS type RP. I feel that there is value in this. It has also been interesting to read about how these sort of modererator-member matters have been dealt with in other games' RP communities. Please read on.
After some discussion with my fellow linkshell members, I decided to go back and edit much of the opening post of this thread. It was pointed out to me - and I agree - that some of the phrasing I used/borrowed may have come off a little bit defensive, and that's really not the message that I'm meaning to send with this solicitation. The OP now reflects what I really feel about the issue, which is simply that I've heard through some of the back channels that Crystalline isn't viewed by some in a mostly positive light, and I'm now concerned about this, since it is as much of a reflection on Crystalline as it is of me, as the group's leader. I'm sincerely looking here for complaints that are registering for Crystalline, so that I can figure out what I can do, as shell leader, to make Crystalline as attractive and friendly as possible both for our members and also for those who may be interacting with us from other linkshell communities.
Since we do not want to be seen as hiding anything, I've preserved the original post and will leave it here beneath a spoiler tag:
Thank you for sharing all the thoughts and feedback so far!
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@drake: I'm concerned about some of what I have heard, but I am not looking to attempt to please everyone. One of my favorite quotes is by Bill Cosby and goes something like, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." While we are looking to make some changes to be a bit more accommodating to the larger community, we're not looking to flush the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. It is important to us that the LS retain its core values and purpose.
@Ildur:Â I agree I don't think there's any way to set up a moderator team on any forum that is going to be received well by all members - particularly with a site like that RPC that encompasses so many members with so many different backgrounds and varying opinions.
@JJ: Thanks for better summarizing what I was driving at with my rather longwinded response last night. I don't think I can not be longwinded. It's a sickness.Â
@Ellie: Thank you also for clearing up that point about not wanting to promise things we can't deliver and leave prospective members feeling disenchated as a result.  You have a way of taking what I'm thinking and wording it so much better than I am able. I appreciate that.
@Asyria: Thank you for your comment as well. I also agree that the RPC belongs to all of us. But I am getting an idea where certain perceptions are coming from, which was part of why I created this thread. I also remember BF from 1.0 and it sounded like a good group!
@Tyriont: It's good to see you're back! Changing recruitment status to something like 'Pending' would be a good idea. I think we were locked into only a few different options, but this is certainly something worth looking into as well. I also agree that the 'top shell' remark - which was first introduced somewhere on page 1 - is kind of deflating sort of thing. I try to view the smaller communities that make up the RPC as cooperating and collaborating rather than competing. While perhaps not equal in membership quantity, style, immersion, etc., I think it's probably offputting to label any one as being better or worse than another - generally speaking. For each player or character there may be some that make more or less sense than others or make a better fit, but I agree that tagging any LS as being superior to others for any reason is a big no-no.
@Spiritual Machine: It's my opinion that this did have a positive impact the last time it was conducted for another community I belonged to at the time. I can appreciate that a lot of delicate issues may be brought up, but our goal is to improve our community not only for our members, but also to make it so that other communities can easily interface with us for cross-LS type RP. I feel that there is value in this. It has also been interesting to read about how these sort of modererator-member matters have been dealt with in other games' RP communities. Please read on.
After some discussion with my fellow linkshell members, I decided to go back and edit much of the opening post of this thread. It was pointed out to me - and I agree - that some of the phrasing I used/borrowed may have come off a little bit defensive, and that's really not the message that I'm meaning to send with this solicitation. The OP now reflects what I really feel about the issue, which is simply that I've heard through some of the back channels that Crystalline isn't viewed by some in a mostly positive light, and I'm now concerned about this, since it is as much of a reflection on Crystalline as it is of me, as the group's leader. I'm sincerely looking here for complaints that are registering for Crystalline, so that I can figure out what I can do, as shell leader, to make Crystalline as attractive and friendly as possible both for our members and also for those who may be interacting with us from other linkshell communities.
Since we do not want to be seen as hiding anything, I've preserved the original post and will leave it here beneath a spoiler tag:
Thank you for sharing all the thoughts and feedback so far!
EDIT: fixed formatting
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