Hello!
I’m Arkhive (they/she), one of your new mods and I’ve just got a sort of update from the mod team.
We, the mods of Onehundredninetysix (hereby referred to as OneNineSix for my own sanity), would like to introduce ourselves. The members of the mod team that are interested will post a comment below this post and hopefully mingle a bit. Something that has come up in our discussions is a general interest in owning our actions, even in online spaces. That means putting people behind the names you see in the sidebar.
As the OneNineSix community coalesces, things have been quite good from our end. While we could be quicker at processing reports, a lot of that stems from us discussing choices as a group before making final decisions…and probably a bit more fear to use our power than is good for us, but time I’m sure will fix that proceeds to power trip. We are absolutely not infallible, and we also strive to admit wrong when necessary and work to rectify it. There is a degree of patience that necessarily extends both directions between mods and users, and in the end we are all users of the same space. We will work to be good stewards of this space for all those being good stewards with us.
And so! This thread. If this idea goes over poorly, please take it out in the replies to my comment, and we will assess and hopefully the other mods will dive in on the discussion too. We have also floated the idea of an irregularly occurring, semi-regular, mod chat thread. My pitch is for “Modly Mondays” but its still an idea in its infancy and feedback is welcome;)
Thank you for your time, thank you for the memes (the cat included), and I’ll remove see you from in the comments.
TL;DR I’m Arkhive (they/she), I’m a mod, there’s more of us (surprise!), and we’d like to introduce ourselves in the comments.
Side note: I realize this is being posted on a day there are protests happening across the US and presumably throughout the world. While this is not an explicitly US comm, I want to remind people to stay safe. Know your rights, know the ACLU phone number, have an exit plan, go as a group, and don’t talk to cops. We keep us safe.
so umm like, im adora, nice to meet yall <3
im a trans disaster lesbian, anarchist, a bard (i play the banjo), im a huge nerd, privacy and foss enthusiast (i use arch btw), and very autistic/adhd~ :3c
im mostly just here to
powertrip and abuse my mod powerspost memes and be cute <3 id love to answer any questions about our community if i can, or just talk about cool things with cool people, maybe you can info dump about your special interests for me?:33its cool that you play banjo, never met a banjo player before! what’s your favorite thing to play on it? also what is a disaster lesbian?
if you want a lil adhd special interest info dump ive been hooked on a new videogame called motor town ive played 20+ hours in a week. its essentially a simcade driving game where you can run around freely in an open world and do almost any car related job you can think of, like garbage collection, tow & rescue, logging, taxi service, get away driver, delivering presents for Santa, racecar driver, limo service, off road hauling, etc. thats all awesome on it’s own, but where the game really takes off is when you realize almost every job you do is connected to another job and effects the city/world in some way. like maybe you start out delivering pizzas but over time you realize there aren’t as many pizzas to deliver from the shop and theyre paying less, so you need to rent a truck to deliver cheese & meat to the pizza shop so they can make more & higher quality pizzas, but in order to do that you need to deliver milk to the ranch so they can turn it into cheese, but you can’t deliver milk without pallets so you need to start a logging company and deliver wood from the lumbermill to the warehouse, all so you can make more money on pizzas. And thats just one supply chain out of many that you can choose to optimize or ignore and let NPC’s handle. or you can be like me and just spend 18 hours mindlessly doing towtruck rescues in the starter towtruck while talking with friends or consuming other media, the choice is yours and beyond a set of simple tutorial missions the game really doesnt hold your hand. ive spent the past week since my initial ~20-hours-of-gaming-week learning about proxmox, homelab, vpns, and vps so I can host my own lil motor town server for me and my friends, but I think thats a special interest info dump for another day. hope you liked my wall of text!