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ArmadilloEater

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@TheAnonShy  
I found the IRC chat and kept bugging the staff, probably got kicked like a couple of hundred times for being a butt. I liked messing with them, asked if they needed help, and here I am.
Ciaran
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Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@TheAnonShy  
Sent Carcer my resume, no answer. A few months later Joey-H3 updated the “want to help” post so I asked again, and got a trial as an assistant, and did what I could to make myself useful and to help the site.
 
[edit: And like others have described got invited to and kicked from rooms I didn’t even know existed]
 
Then one day something horrible needed doing that no one wanted to touch because it was so horrible, so I volunteered and Mike Rowe’d my way through it, and because you had to be a mod to do it I ended up a mod.
 
Now I basically do that thing for the site, whenever it needs doing, which is about once or twice a week.
 
Most of the staff have a thing that they mostly do, with a lot of cross-training - like I said before, it takes all of us to do it once, but there’s enough cross training that no one person is the only one for any thing.
 
@byte[]  
It doesn’t really seem like that many, but sometimes it seems very much like that many.
 
Weekends, holidays, and when there’s new episodes that number goes WAY, way up. But it doesn’t seem to ever go down.
 
Just as a snapshot, in the last 24 hours there have been 39 reports. Right now there’s one report from 5 days ago that is still being worked on, I’ve got one from 2 days ago that I’m still talking with people about how to handle, and there’s 2 about two separate issues from a day ago that someone is still working on, and 5 from today that someone has already claimed and is working.
 
It doesn’t feel like that many - when we work as a team we can get through most of them pretty fast.
Zebasiz
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@Ciaran  
OH hey~ Had the same thing happen with Applying to Carcer first and then Joey after a few months~
 
 
Though now I’m curious: What was the job you had to do?
Ciaran
ラ・ゼッタ - For supporting the site
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Zebasiz  
Talking with artists who have asked to have all their art removed from the site and who want to go DNP, offering them the various options that we have to see if there’s a way to keep their portfolio online, and if we can’t find a compromise deleting all their art as requested.
 
Deleting an entire gallery of art can be really, really painful.
 
Each image screams a little as it goes, and you can feel a piece of your soul going with it.
Ciaran
ラ・ゼッタ - For supporting the site
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Zebasiz  
Thank you for the offer, but I think we want folks who do have an issue with it doing it. It’s not the kind of thing that should be easy.
 
Otherwise, where’s the motivation to keep working with artists to find alternatives?
Ciaran
ラ・ゼッタ - For supporting the site
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Lunar Guardian - Earned a place among the ranks of the most loyal New Lunar Republic soldiers (April Fools 2023).
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
A Lovely Nightmare Night - Celebrated the 12th anniversary of MLP:FIM!
Princess of Love - Extra special version for those who participated in the Canterlot Wedding 10th anniversary event by contributing art.
Tree of Harmony - Drew someone's OC for the 2022 Community Collab
Elements of Harmony - Had an OC in the 2022 Community Collab

Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Zebasiz  
Ah! Well, that is of course a horse of an entirely different color.
 
full
 
But checking the trackers that were injected when you became an assistant, I think we need to wait for your drinking to get a little closer to mod levels. Best not to shock the body too hard, or the additional brain implants might not take. I know mine still buzz like a SOB sometimes if I get too sober, but I find that drinking helps.
 
/brb must get more scotch.
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