hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

[foilman8805]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

Foilman: You see in certain communities you start to know peoples first names. Dragons Fury for example, over there you kinda lately don't see many people NOT calling people by their first names. However, I'll stop for your being.

Well this is a much, much larger community than Dragon's Fury. Additionally, not a whole lot of people even know Synthlight's first name, so it's just confusing to everyone else on top of it all.

I prefer my relative anonymity, and I imagine Synthlight does too.

[Izzy]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

Becoming admin is not about technological/managerial merit (if this were true, I'd be an admin eons ago). You still have to be a decent member of the community. If you run around trolling and/or being an ass like yours truly, people get wary.

Well, synthlight has to like you and think you are a good addition to the team.

[X{Krunkykai}X]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I understand. But, he has given out his name publicly otherwise everyone over at DF wouldn't know who he was :P But, no worries man.

Oh, and you still have the creepiest avatar ......

[kommisar]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I would argue that an admin should be involved within the community. admins are, after all, representing who's working on the site and how they can improve keeping in touch with everyone else.

[MrRubix]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I second the first-name thing. It's generally creepy.

[bmah]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I would argue that an admin should be involved within the community. admins are, after all, representing who's working on the site and how they can improve keeping in touch with everyone else.

I thought this was a given? All too often though, admins don't keep in touch with the community, just like the higher European echelons of kings and queens of the middle ages. I always have found that my experiences were better if the admins were actively involved with the rest of the site.

@personal name issue: ditto, pretty weird

[MrRubix]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

That's what Tass' job was. He was pretty much on-call 24/7.

[Ephraim Desole]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

Well this is a much, much larger community than Dragon's Fury. Additionally, not a whole lot of people even know Synthlight's first name, so it's just confusing to everyone else on top of it all.

I prefer my relative anonymity, and I imagine Synthlight does too.

I second the first-name thing. It's generally creepy.

@personal name issue: ditto, pretty weird

All of this.

[scientific]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

contender for worst thread of all time

[DotKritic]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

This thread is going all over the place.

Just sayin'.

PS. I third the first-name thing.

[DotKritic]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

contender for worst thread of all time

And worst n00b: X{Krunkykai}X

Just sayin'.

[bmah]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

That's what Tass' job was. He was pretty much on-call 24/7.

In the most agreeable conditions, I would've liked Synth to participate more in the community, because Tass didn't necessarily do the best representation of the opinions and mood of the administration. But this isn't realistic I guess. Just like it's often rare to see your manager in your job, you don't see Synth too often. But Synth's presence was a tad more than sporadic I'd have to say.

[T-Force]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I'm pretty sure everyone thinks the first name thing is weird.
Like on DF, it's a tight-knit group where most of us get along with the others and spend enough time with each other to learn names and build friendships.
Over here, everyone is kind of isolated. We know who others are by username, and we're cool with it. As well, unlike DF, you have people on FFR who all have different likes, intentions and whatnot.

tl;dr: small communities where everyone's all cool with everyone = first name basis
Big communities, leave it alone.

[foilman8805]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

And worst n00b: X{Krunkykai}X

Just sayin'.

ur madmatt

Just sayin'.

[kommisar]

Re: hmm, I wonder, whats gonna happen now with admins/mods ....

I dont care what people call me. my personal life isn't much of a mystery and I'm fine with it that way.


I've met a few dudes from online irl and we call each other by our names all the time. But I guess that's normal. More frequent in smaller communities that know each other well.