Harebrained

Drinking mango black tea, watching a LoL stream, and getting a little bit of work done.

I moderate my boyfriend's gaming stream chat, and used to moderate a furry forum. I think on an MLP forum like this things might be fairly calm, but my experience has been a little grating. When my boy was part of a charity streaming event, some people came into the chat and started spamming inappropriate links and just generally being lewd and disruptive. It's not too uncommon to find people who think ruining the chat for everyone is funny. I'll be the last person to say mischief isn't wonderful, but sometimes I'm not sure if the perpetrator is an 11-year-old who just discovered the word "dicks" or not. When people show up looking to troll or otherwise be a tawdry little deviant, it's the moderator's job to clean up - and sometimes there can be quite a few of them. On the forum, we had a very loose set of rules and it was mostly self-governing except for when it came to things like genuine harassment, underage porn, etc. Most anything went, and if you didn't like how someone was talking to you then the suggestion was to block them or simply stop participating in discussion with them. However, one guy would send in maybe dozen or more reports a week every time someone so much as called him an idiot. He wildly derailed over 30 threads in the time I was on staff, and our moderator team of 3-4 had to wade through his weekly deluge of reports to get to what could potentially be real problems (we did have a few). I've also known people to take issues with moderators and complain about favoritism, bias, etc. It's enjoyable enough if you really like working for your community, I guess, but it's not a power position or anything (at least not off of sites that have a horrible reputation for their crazy moderation).

I agree that there's similarities between ponies and furry, but they're not the same thing. MLP is a show with anthropomorphic characters that fans tend to like for the cuteness or the humor more than the talking animals factor, and while fans do sometimes take part in creating "ponysonas" and roleplaying (and yes, pony porn) it's really not comparable to the furry fandom, which is a general interest in enjoying the anthropomorphic characters themselves and of a fantasy world where a fan can be one of them. One community tends to look down on adult content, while in the other one the same type of content is so central to the communities and the experience that you're hard-pressed to even go on a PG website without receiving solicitations for cyber sex or finding porn that the moderators can't remove fast enough some days. The focus is different even if some of the content is found in both communities. /7 years of furry before leaving

What is a forum Oh baby, don't troll me Don't troll me no more Hahaha... Forums are just a place for discussion and wasting time, and perhaps to make online friends if you really get along with someone. Sometimes there's a real community aspect, too. If you're totally unfamiliar with online discussion, expect to run into a lot of inside jokes and strange humor. Don't take anything too seriously.

Someone on another forum shared this blog full of captioned images and positive posts meant to cheer people up. I thought you guys might enjoy browsing some of these, especially from this section. For discussion, which ones are your favorites and why? What do you think of motivational and self-help images, phrases, etc? Do they do anything for anyone? Have there been any that particularly inspired you?

I'm pretty good at laughing at my own humor, so I'm set.

No, my heart is made of ice. I always love cute and simple pieces like this, though.

Posting it here would be pretty cool. I mean, you took the time to put the image there, it's just a copy-paste away....

Not with a bang, but with a whimper - and some fairly plain coffee.

I used to be, but I've tried a few of the newer games and was terribly disappointed. There was a DS title (can't remember the precise name) that I honestly doubt went through a real testing phase because there were at least half a dozen noticeable problems with gameplay. Sloppy, sloppy work.

Having a coffee and trying to get motivated to write. Assignments, unpaid staff position, roleplay profile, etc. There's a lot... '_'

FiM is the only one off that list that I watch... '_'

Facebook has been the source of so much strangeness for me. Just when I thought I had everything nice and hidden, the admin of one of the forums I frequent pulls a creeper on me and comments on my Facebook photo in PM - he looked it up via my (hidden) e-mail. Gnnh.

A lot of "100%" seems to be tedious tasks with very little real reward. Unless I'm desperately in love with the game and want to draw it out as long as possible (Legend of Mana, Chrono Cross, etc), nah - better things to do.

I grew up on Sega Genesis, Gameboy Color, Super Nintendo, N64, and the early-ish days of PC gaming. I've had my fill of most of it at this point, though. I can't even play some of my childhood favorites unless I play with ridiculous handicaps, I know them so well.