Why Zen sticky post are now "anonymous" ?

alexti · #1 August 24th, 2004, 09:47 PM

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archaeolept said:
i think he was just tired of it and suffering a bit of the notorious Dom II burn-out. just a guess, based mostly on a few comments. He's said before that he was thinking of leaving.

I've got the same impression as well. Aside from his comments to that effect, he was doing maps, documents and moderating besides playing the game, so it surely looks like a burn-out.

deccan · #2 August 27th, 2004, 07:34 AM

Hmm, if all of the stickies are now under anonymous, does it mean that no one can edit them?

Arryn · #3 August 27th, 2004, 08:12 AM

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deccan said:
Hmm, if all of the stickies are now under anonymous, does it mean that no one can edit them?

No one except Moderators & admins.

Gandalf Parker · #4 August 27th, 2004, 09:41 AM

Actually that was part of the problem anyway.

Zen and I were fishing for some interest in maintaining some of the stickies, but it was being left to the admins and Moderators.

Arryn · #5 August 27th, 2004, 11:04 AM

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Gandalf Parker said:
Actually that was part of the problem anyway.

Zen and I were fishing for some interest in maintaining some of the stickies, but it was being left to the admins and Moderators.

Well, if you have to be a moderator to have the access privileges to be able to edit sticky Posts, it shouldn't be a wonder that it's being left to the mods/admins. Unless this forum software permits (which I doubt it does) the selective granting of access rights (ie: ability to edit certain threads, but not others). I'd be happy to take responsibility for maintaining the stickies, but I have no desire at all to be a moderator in general. (Been there, done that, it's a near-thankless task.) I'll leave the cat-herding to those more temperamentally suited to such things. Let me know if I'm wrong and you can grant limited-Moderatorship.

Ozymandias · #6 August 30th, 2004, 04:21 PM

This is sad news indeed, Zen was wise back in the days when I was playing the dom1demo.

NTJedi · #7 August 30th, 2004, 05:55 PM

Well he must have been upset about something since he left by having himself entirely removed from the forum. Most people on forums just appear less and less frequently eventually fading away.

deccan · #8 September 3rd, 2004, 07:28 AM

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Arryn said:
I'd be happy to take responsibility for maintaining the stickies, but I have no desire at all to be a moderator in general.

You know the growing irrelevance of the stickies is getting really annoying. I think the easiest solution might be to unsticky zen's original Posts, have arryn make new ones and have a moderator sticky them instead.

Johan K · #9 September 3rd, 2004, 08:52 AM

I have now unlocked stickies and deleted a whole bunch of incorrect (old forum) links. That way at least people can post new stuff below the unmaintained post.

I would of course appreciate it if some people like to maintain a stickie or three. If you are interested in maintatining an anonymous stickie, make a new post and let me know so I can replace the old stickie with that one.

Arryn what stickie(s) are you interested in maintaining?