captainwhosit:

Ocfos said (because the reblog thing wasn’t working right):

We’ve actually been meaning to tell the all-white troll that they shouldn’t be doing such a thing, as it’s way too abnormal for trolls to be clad in bright colours. Especially all white.

And I gotta agree that it’s a tad annoying that…

I’m with whosit completely here. I’m sick of seeing people complain about clearly bad trolls who break canon and generally aren’t even doing anything but making the place look far worse than it is, and proceeding to just mull about on the chat and not do a single thing.

It’s gotten to the point where recent events can happen, no problem, even though people are clearly against it.

Moderation needs to get aggressive. If you want the cafe to succeed, stop playing the nice guy and start getting a spinal chord.

As for Wallflower syndrome, often times I’ve noticed when a character is in suddenly everyone is occupied with someone else, and since it’s a general rule not to approach someone taken regardless unless specified otherwise, that makes it cripplingly difficult to do anything but be a wallflower until something happens that opens a possible spot of conversation. However, often more times, the only ones open are the wholly undesirable ones that you can just look at and tell there’s nothing interesting or overtly curious about them. Sometimes you can just tell a character is very flat, and with the complacency I’ve noticed due to some players who shall not be named being allowed to drag everything in the muck without even attempting to do any research on subjects they refer to and actually claim their characters can do skillfully. See: Any and almost every medical troll to date.

It’s a cold day in hell when a place where the only rules are obvious and don’t fully adhere to canon is looking extremely more likeable than one of the previously most popular and fun threads around which now makes everyone look at it and either rage or laugh—especially when said former place was made with no rules in mind and at first looked like the worst idea put together lazily at 3 in the morning. Granted it’s moderating is now (somewhat) heaps better, and the new owner is willing to be active against clearly off the wall stuff.

In my honest opinion, I’d like the old mod team to return, because they at least had the sense to approach someone clearly breaking canon and troll culture, and at least help to understand why it’s doing so and how to improve. Otherwise you are all not only enabling this behavior, but you are encouraging it, and that is the worst thing you can be doing.

You want quality? Get off your ass and start moderating. Stop being afraid of someone going to a mod and saying THEY’RE TELLING ME HOW TO ROLEPLAY.

Have you forgotten that since the thread enforces a specific roleplaying style, that you have permission to bar posters from the thread for not abiding by the thread rules? Because you can still do that, you know.

You have no excuses, Cafe Staff. Absolutely none. And it’s high time you either started to get serious about this, or just abandon the cafe entirely and let it die.

(Source: flipnote, via chicago-owlbutts)