Saladwood
Jun 30, 2003, 08:59 PM
On 2003-06-30 18:43, LollipopLolita wrote:
there will never be custom avatars because:
1. the site owners does not wish for users to have custom avatars. and that is their wish. respect it. it is also their wish that only staffers get it. for your information this is different from the way things were done before. before, we had custom titles and/or custom avatars only for selected/preferred people. we got rid of this to ensure more fairness among users, not staffers. the current exception to this would be contests.
2. custom avatars mean more modding. contentwise. we already have a hassle with sigs. daily, several people break the sig rules even though we already rules stating the specifications and requirements. we have to go in and correct individual sigs.
3. custom avatars will take longer to load versus images that have already been cached in your system. the forums will take way more time to load. want that?
4. we would have to manually check all of the avatar sizes. it's tedious, time consuming, and you have no idea the backlash, attitude and rudeness we get from people who have broken sig rules and got their sigs taken away. trust me, psow does not have the best attitude when it comes to members sometimes.
5. we have a lot of avatars, a whole lot. pick one. it's that simple. use your signatures to express your personality if you need to.
6. we acknowledge the contributions of our users. everything is credited, and members making large contributions are noted in our contributors section.
7. this being a pso site, we are more focused and driven to putting out content for pso the game and for the players, and more focused on improving certain site areas to better facilitate pso players.
8. we do work entirely pro bono. we have 0 pay 0 incentives. we run on 0 donations, everything is done voluntarily, including contest prizes. we upkeep content and contests voluntarily for all of you. we don't just sit around and do nothing but mod psow all day. all of us have something else to do. we all have either school or jobs or a combination of both. monitoring psow is tedious and stressful, something a lot of people don't realize, but babysitting a huge community that tends to mess up isn't exactly the most fun thing in the world at the end of a tiring day. most mods are already going way out of what they are required to, and trying to participate and build the community. our mods do a lot more work than most mods at other forums. our mods also take a lot of abuse and attitude from people. we all take a lot of abuse and attitude from people off and on psow. being admins does not mean that erupt has to code new features, i have to add guides or mod, or that salad has to upkeep the item database, pics and findings. we all have to deal with a lot of personal requests, dealing with members who need individual attention, coming up with continuous content, making sure everything is running smoothly and fairly and keeping up with member requests for additions and enhancements to the site and forums. none of which are obligations to any of us as part of the job. we don't own any part of the site unlike other admins of pso sites with content. with psow we set the pace of other sites and update news as they are released as soon as it gets out or as soon as we get them. i am not even obligated to make guides everytime quests come out.
we don't do this to ask people to notice us, and we don't do this so that someone will thank us. we are doing all this so that pso players everywhere can have a site to go to for information and a thriving community to turn to. we are doing this to continuously improve a community and site that has previously gone downhill in terms of content and community. of this, we ask for 0 thanks and recognition, we would just like to say thanks to the our staffers and their hard work (most behind the scenes so it all seems easy and seamless to you guys) by giving them their personal avatar.
so please. stop arguing about the personal avatars. it's growing thin on me and all of us.
there will never be custom avatars because:
1. the site owners does not wish for users to have custom avatars. and that is their wish. respect it. it is also their wish that only staffers get it. for your information this is different from the way things were done before. before, we had custom titles and/or custom avatars only for selected/preferred people. we got rid of this to ensure more fairness among users, not staffers. the current exception to this would be contests.
2. custom avatars mean more modding. contentwise. we already have a hassle with sigs. daily, several people break the sig rules even though we already rules stating the specifications and requirements. we have to go in and correct individual sigs.
3. custom avatars will take longer to load versus images that have already been cached in your system. the forums will take way more time to load. want that?
4. we would have to manually check all of the avatar sizes. it's tedious, time consuming, and you have no idea the backlash, attitude and rudeness we get from people who have broken sig rules and got their sigs taken away. trust me, psow does not have the best attitude when it comes to members sometimes.
5. we have a lot of avatars, a whole lot. pick one. it's that simple. use your signatures to express your personality if you need to.
6. we acknowledge the contributions of our users. everything is credited, and members making large contributions are noted in our contributors section.
7. this being a pso site, we are more focused and driven to putting out content for pso the game and for the players, and more focused on improving certain site areas to better facilitate pso players.
8. we do work entirely pro bono. we have 0 pay 0 incentives. we run on 0 donations, everything is done voluntarily, including contest prizes. we upkeep content and contests voluntarily for all of you. we don't just sit around and do nothing but mod psow all day. all of us have something else to do. we all have either school or jobs or a combination of both. monitoring psow is tedious and stressful, something a lot of people don't realize, but babysitting a huge community that tends to mess up isn't exactly the most fun thing in the world at the end of a tiring day. most mods are already going way out of what they are required to, and trying to participate and build the community. our mods do a lot more work than most mods at other forums. our mods also take a lot of abuse and attitude from people. we all take a lot of abuse and attitude from people off and on psow. being admins does not mean that erupt has to code new features, i have to add guides or mod, or that salad has to upkeep the item database, pics and findings. we all have to deal with a lot of personal requests, dealing with members who need individual attention, coming up with continuous content, making sure everything is running smoothly and fairly and keeping up with member requests for additions and enhancements to the site and forums. none of which are obligations to any of us as part of the job. we don't own any part of the site unlike other admins of pso sites with content. with psow we set the pace of other sites and update news as they are released as soon as it gets out or as soon as we get them. i am not even obligated to make guides everytime quests come out.
we don't do this to ask people to notice us, and we don't do this so that someone will thank us. we are doing all this so that pso players everywhere can have a site to go to for information and a thriving community to turn to. we are doing this to continuously improve a community and site that has previously gone downhill in terms of content and community. of this, we ask for 0 thanks and recognition, we would just like to say thanks to the our staffers and their hard work (most behind the scenes so it all seems easy and seamless to you guys) by giving them their personal avatar.
so please. stop arguing about the personal avatars. it's growing thin on me and all of us.