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Drah-muh (not IRL)
Oct. 30th, 2010 03:36 pmI do the dragon-egg thing occasionally, as you may have noticed.
There are sites and LJ-comms to help people get enough "clicks" for the dragons to grow up.
As the "new" has worn off the fad, the clicks/views across all comms that I participate in have gone down, sometimes to the point that posting each day does not result in a grown dragon but in a "dead" egg or hatchling.
One of the sites has a rule, "all eggs/hatchies behind an LJ-cut" which is perfectly reasonable when you have 150 people posting an average of 10 sprites per post every day. The load time can be horrendous. When the views fall off and the posts run to 10 per day with an average of 8 sprites, that's not so necessary.
In this comm, the founder and the maintainer (yes, the two "top mods") had been conspicuous by their absence for over a year. One of the other mods -- not a random member, but an APPOINTED MOD -- changed/suspended the rule to allow sprites to be posted without the cut to increase views and the likelihood of clicks. This mod had tried to contact the founder and the maintainer with no response.
From what I gather from the public posts and comments, the maintainer wandered by more than a year after the last time she'd looked in, two months after the rule was suspended, and ran screaming to the founder, who had a tantrum. Within hours, both were excoriating the mod who had BEEN to the site almost daily, the one who was trying to help the other dragon-owners, banned her, and stated that anyone who did not go back and place any exposed sprites in earlier posts under a cut would be banned not only from that comm, but from any other comm the founder was a mod on.
No, I didn't go back and modify my previous posts, and no, I wasn't banned. I gave them several days to get around to me, then left the comm under my own steam and promptly joined the new comm started in response to the banhammer.
Immediate public attack was not the way to handle the situation, IMO. A public post saying "We're back, all rules are still in place, please LJ-cut future postings" and a PRIVATE message to the mod who was trying to help would have been the better way to go.
ETA: I dropped back by to see how many people were still posting their sprites, and there might be one post every other day. The remaining mod/maintainer has decided to lift the cut rule, but states "if (the owner) wants to change it back, well, it's (owner's) comm."
How long until there is only one mod, anyone want to take bets?
There are sites and LJ-comms to help people get enough "clicks" for the dragons to grow up.
As the "new" has worn off the fad, the clicks/views across all comms that I participate in have gone down, sometimes to the point that posting each day does not result in a grown dragon but in a "dead" egg or hatchling.
One of the sites has a rule, "all eggs/hatchies behind an LJ-cut" which is perfectly reasonable when you have 150 people posting an average of 10 sprites per post every day. The load time can be horrendous. When the views fall off and the posts run to 10 per day with an average of 8 sprites, that's not so necessary.
In this comm, the founder and the maintainer (yes, the two "top mods") had been conspicuous by their absence for over a year. One of the other mods -- not a random member, but an APPOINTED MOD -- changed/suspended the rule to allow sprites to be posted without the cut to increase views and the likelihood of clicks. This mod had tried to contact the founder and the maintainer with no response.
From what I gather from the public posts and comments, the maintainer wandered by more than a year after the last time she'd looked in, two months after the rule was suspended, and ran screaming to the founder, who had a tantrum. Within hours, both were excoriating the mod who had BEEN to the site almost daily, the one who was trying to help the other dragon-owners, banned her, and stated that anyone who did not go back and place any exposed sprites in earlier posts under a cut would be banned not only from that comm, but from any other comm the founder was a mod on.
No, I didn't go back and modify my previous posts, and no, I wasn't banned. I gave them several days to get around to me, then left the comm under my own steam and promptly joined the new comm started in response to the banhammer.
Immediate public attack was not the way to handle the situation, IMO. A public post saying "We're back, all rules are still in place, please LJ-cut future postings" and a PRIVATE message to the mod who was trying to help would have been the better way to go.
ETA: I dropped back by to see how many people were still posting their sprites, and there might be one post every other day. The remaining mod/maintainer has decided to lift the cut rule, but states "if (the owner) wants to change it back, well, it's (owner's) comm."
How long until there is only one mod, anyone want to take bets?
I decided to set up a facebook page for Fifth House...and guess what? I had already done so. More than a year ago, obviously, since the last post was more than a year old!
The FB page that reflects to my LMT page is still up and has been updated slightly more recently -- as in, within the last month. Oh, wait -- that was the actual business page. Gotta update the FB page too sometime!
And I think I'm just gonna give up on the Dragon Cave eggs. The last three clutches I took, one egg hatched and nearly a dozen "died" even though I was posting them for clicks. Sometimes one with MORE clicks would die and another, older egg, with fewer clicks, would hatch, but then the hatchling would expire. So it has quit making sense to me and I've been staying off that page -- I do still watch the comms and ninja-click, though, when I think about it.
Also need to take some better photos and re-do the ETSY store. How do I expect to get any clients at the current state of things!? Answer: I don't. Right now it's kind of a placeholder while I do some tweaking.
The FB page that reflects to my LMT page is still up and has been updated slightly more recently -- as in, within the last month. Oh, wait -- that was the actual business page. Gotta update the FB page too sometime!
And I think I'm just gonna give up on the Dragon Cave eggs. The last three clutches I took, one egg hatched and nearly a dozen "died" even though I was posting them for clicks. Sometimes one with MORE clicks would die and another, older egg, with fewer clicks, would hatch, but then the hatchling would expire. So it has quit making sense to me and I've been staying off that page -- I do still watch the comms and ninja-click, though, when I think about it.
Also need to take some better photos and re-do the ETSY store. How do I expect to get any clients at the current state of things!? Answer: I don't. Right now it's kind of a placeholder while I do some tweaking.
some candles at various of the smaller local RenFaires next year, at a booth/wagon called "Full Circle."
The owners asked me if I'd like to send some along!!
(The fact that it's my daughter's best friend since grade school has no bearing on the fact that I got invited, right?)
Also contacted Ms. Stephanie of O.R.E.--and she's willing to let me show/sell some crystal-shaped candles at her booth at the NewAge-type stuff she goes to.
And still selling to Renaissance Books and Gifts--last time they took two Venus of Willendorf and two Gaia.
And I have plans to do Pagan Pride Day with both Sedalia and Columbia, MO....consecutive Sundays in September.
This could get interesting fast, huh?
Wheeeee!!!!!
The owners asked me if I'd like to send some along!!
(The fact that it's my daughter's best friend since grade school has no bearing on the fact that I got invited, right?)
Also contacted Ms. Stephanie of O.R.E.--and she's willing to let me show/sell some crystal-shaped candles at her booth at the NewAge-type stuff she goes to.
And still selling to Renaissance Books and Gifts--last time they took two Venus of Willendorf and two Gaia.
And I have plans to do Pagan Pride Day with both Sedalia and Columbia, MO....consecutive Sundays in September.
This could get interesting fast, huh?
Wheeeee!!!!!
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Jan. 21st, 2005 07:40 amMolds got here! Yay! they'll be soooo nice.......and i'm planning on spending the weekend in the shed with 'em.
I figure even if i don't SELL anything at the fair, i'll be getting my "name" out in the community.....and that is good for later. Besides, $100 and local is cheaper than the KC trip last month. No hotel bill, i know where the decent/cheap places are to eat, WAY less fuel.....
Heh.
I figure even if i don't SELL anything at the fair, i'll be getting my "name" out in the community.....and that is good for later. Besides, $100 and local is cheaper than the KC trip last month. No hotel bill, i know where the decent/cheap places are to eat, WAY less fuel.....
Heh.
