Suggestion for Rules

[Mysterious F.]

As said, try having a PM conversation with more than two people. It's chaos.

And there are times we will need to discuss more than one thing. For example, look at the theories section. all of them are theories, but about different things. This will be a section, one general place to discuss different things that fits in.

[DW]

Well, you aren't going to be a mod anymore. Just give it up.

[Mysterious F.]

In case you forgot to read about 15-20 posts ago, I only did that so I could see your opinions of my actions. (I didn't get the best information, though) And just because I'm not a mod doesn't mean I'll ignore the other four mods (Maggy and whoever the other one is) who will need to discuss something.

[darkphantomime]

Yeah, I read your little thing. Even did an experiment. Turns out if a topics locked, can't edit post.

As said, try having a PM conversation with more than two people. It's chaos.

Have you tried sending a pm to two or more people at one time? It'd reduce the chaos by a considerable margin.

[Mysterious F.]

I did, but they are also sending PMs to you and the other people speaking, so you'd have to answer alot of PMs within just about 10 minutes.

[darkphantomime]

That would be easily avoided if the other mods were also sending pm's to multiple people, that way everyone would know what's going on, as everyone would be able to see everyone else's messages.

[Mysterious F.]

I'm afraid I think you don't understand, or you have terrible wording. Let's give an example:

Mod A sends a PM during a message to Mods B, C, and D. Each of them make a responce and send it to each of the other mods. That means each mod has three PMs to reply to. Then each of them make a reply, so then they'd have another 3 added. Then it would happen again, and again, and again, until there'd be too many PMs to answer.

And if what I think is correct, you're telling the mods to, instead of telling their replies to only mods (the only ones who matter in the discussion) to several random member. That is actually making the least bit of sense I've seen thus far on TDC. I could have misunderstood you, however.

[darkphantomime]

Oy. You HAVE misunderstood me. When I say 'other members', you know I was talking about the mods.

And of course, it's not like you have to reply to every pm you recieve.

[Bboy94]

Yes, when three people send you a message about a topic, just send one reply to all of them.

[Mysterious F.]

But htey're sending replies too, so you're still getting several PMs. Plus, one could easily get confused doing this, they won't know what and who someone's talking about.

[DW]

Then use a chatroom. Something that won't take up bandwidth. Once again, just let the mods worry about themselves, you won't be one anymore and it will no longer be any more of your concern.

[Mysterious F.]

As I said, I won't ignore the mods just because I'm not one anymore. I get along well with Gamefreak and Maggy, and I have a feeling I know who the other one will be, especially if Gamefreak picks the other mod. I don't know DW or Evilslayer all to well, but I'm on good terms with them. ZV is a very good friend, too. And I was once a mod, you know, I know how complicated it is and how it changes your opinion of TDC. I'm not ignoring the them or changing my minds on things they deserve.

[darkphantomime]

Well then, how about having Magmarfire post what he thinks, eh?

[Mysterious F.]

I'm not going to force someone to do something. I'd prefer if you didn't do that either.

[MagmarFire]

I suppose we're discussing on how to communicate with other mods? If so, then something like a chatroom would be nice. However, I'm not really a chatroom kind of guy, so I guess the closest thing would be to have a mod-only topic, which has also been in dispute.

If the discussion should be secret, we should have it on a hidden board. If it shouldn't be secret, we can start a new topic, lock it, and post from there. That way, the members won't have to be left in the dark regarding certain events. If any member has a question that should be brought up in said discussion, we could have the inquiring member ask a mod to represent him or her in the discussion. Not only would it reduce potential spam, but it would bring a democratic voice to those discussions.

Now, being somebody who's usually late on things like this, what I said has probably already been mentioned. However, I'm not too sure that the representation part has, though.