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[Jinx]

i mostly agree with what you write...

solutions might be:

- install a rotating system of officials ( admins / mods ) - so none of them can at any rate be admin or mod longer than lets say - 6 months. ... might be re-elected but only once

that would take care of ppl getting too much set in their ways or too used to power.

about people acting ... for need of a better term: "like they probably ARE" ( a state of being that they usually mask in RL ) - there is nothing one can do about it. - people are people... and even more so when they are anonymous people. - you see the worst and rarely the best in people when all you see is a name they gave themselves - or if you allow multiple "alter Egos" without transparency. ( its a total mystery to me why alter ego forum accounts don t require to show the primary player - after all... making an alter ego forum account is usually done for roleplay ( so you don t have for example a rheinland sig under your liberty char ) - but they should not be anonymous just to troll others with multiple accounts )



discovery is not dead - but its decaying.... . what discovery needs is the release of 4.86 ( which WILL act as a revive ) and quick and smaller releases afterwards - and people who have fun playing the game.
for the sake of what i mean by decaying:

- the mod starts decaying the very second a new version got released. its like a commodity that is vanishing slowly but steadily. - there are certain events that speed up the process - and events that can slow it down. - but in general .... the excitement of the mod decreases steadily. - each release of a new version resets it - sometimes a bit, sometimes more.

- dead however is a stable state. it means that at peak times .... its only a handful of people bothering to log on ... and thankfully we re not there yet.


old people have become dangerous in our community. - they became set in their ways as you say... but also powerful - and that is a dangerous combination. ( not only in a game, but also in RL )


however - i am happy that every now and then - new people still come to disco - with new ideas and innovative roleplay.... and i hope they don t become like some of us "old" people became.



edit:

i started in 4.82 .... and i STAYED - cause the disco community was extremely civil and welcoming.

not sure if i d stay these days, too.

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