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You're really desperate to be uncovering some kind of a grand conspiracy.
The fact is that most people are good people and most things people do are done in good faith. People love to attribute things other people do that they don't like to those people's fundamentally bad nature; it's a known psychological principle called the fundamental attribution error. But in reality, they usually believe they're doing the right thing, just as much as you believe you're doing the right thing.
My mods are not bad people. Can they make poor decisions, act rashly, take out a bad mood on innocent members? Of course. That happens to everyone. People have bad days. People misunderstand things. People just plain make poor judgements sometimes. But they are not systematically evil or oppressive. I've made poor judgements, too. Yeah, I let Furret in after he'd abused far too many chances. Why? Because I liked him, I knew he could be a perfectly nice member when he put his mind to it, and I really wanted to believe he was sincere when he said this time he wasn't going to end up making trouble. Naïve? Sure. Poor judgement. Yeah, probably. Corrupt? Really?
I don't know where you're getting the idea that the members in general feel the mods in general are abusive. I received complaints about one mod a while ago (and subsequently tried to keep an eye on them), and one member left the other day because she thought a mod's post in a debate was rude towards her (which it wasn't to any particular degree; somewhat condescending and irritating in tone, perhaps, but not inflammatory and clearly less so than many other debating posts), but that's it. And seeing as you've given ample evidence for the fact you haven't even been a member of the forums in years, I can't help feeling generally skeptical that you actually have any idea what is going on at the forums right now; I suspect you're just basing this on some nebulous feeling that if you haven't been on a forum in some time, everything must still be the same as when you left. Things change. People change, especially teenagers. And people generally just aren't evil and out to get you.
Incidentally, the name Helen has no significance to me and has just been making you sound silly; if this is yet another thing that has something to do with something that happened in 2005, I've forgotten and whatever it is you're trying to do with it isn't working. And as far as I can remember, Nidokingu left on his own. My memory may be fuzzy on it because he left at least twice; the first time he definitely just deleted his account and then whined about getting re-admined when he came back. Maybe I did de-admin him when we broke up, what with having only admined him in the first place because he insisted he had some God-given right to be an admin because he was my boyfriend. I don't remember, I don't really want to remember because that was a pretty screwed-up time in my life, and it doesn't matter because like I said, there is no reason members should care if I de-admin somebody - even less reason than to care whether I admin somebody.
Also, I don't have a "modding system". Yet again, you keep acting like I have some special, unusual "system" in place for modding people, when I just don't. Some years ago we modded upstanding regulars as a kind of prize for being upstanding regulars even though we didn't really need mods, but again, that was years ago and since then about three people have been modded.
As for the limiting freedom of speech thing: First of all, you can't see infractions, so you have no basis for claiming X got an infraction but Y didn't. And second of all, we make a distinction between attacking a person and attacking an argument, which may be what's confusing you - "That statement is stupid" is not equal to "You're stupid". If you have actual specific examples where a mod clearly flames a member, point it out; don't just stand there going "this happens all the time, really!" with nothing to back it up. Maybe something really did slip under the radar and I'd be glad to hear about it.
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I try to play a game of voltorb flip every day. I may have to keep applying the rules during my game until I can recall and apply them without referencing this page or my notes. These rules are super helpful.
Got one of my favorite pokemons. Yippie! Really cool website, keep it up!
Just catching up on site updates in the big 2026 and I forget if I've seen this page before but it was a nice read either way, which feels especially relevant now as someone trying to engage more via comments with the advent of all these bots lately and considering what kind of comments I'd like to get myself (in theory I wouldn't mind any kind of feedback if only to see how people feel about my work either way but I can see how it can be taken poorly with the reactions these bots are getting).
I like the idea of providing insight, mostly it feels like I've just been working with praise and impressions about the current plot but it's fun to see authors respond in kind and what they focus on from my own commentary. I do like taking notes in general and sometimes I end up spacing out my reading over time and referring to those later, also highlighting specific lines/quotes as well as elements I find personally cool like how game mechanics might get worked in.
Again I appreciate the heads up about AO3 bots since it feels like there's a large variety of these that keep coming up to discourage writers that may not know any better, or even AI generating some slightly relevant praise to trick the author into a scam, and they even make accounts now with some fake info filling up the profiles. So I'm actually trying to comment around my main fandom more with an actual account so people might better tell that I'm a real person following along and also trying to encourage the authors I've been following mostly silently for a while.
I'd also like to shout out the official advice to also report those blatant scammer/spambot accounts as spam as detailed in https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/33026 so that the admins can clear those accounts out from the whole site, if they are registered.
Of course! It was one of my affiliates back in the day.
Do you remember a fansite callee mewtwofans pokemon page?
Played this game at 3 AM while being severely sleep deprived, 10/10 game :)
I honestly think Pokemon is so popular because there are an infinite number of ways to enjoy it. You can just collect the cards because they look cool, or you can learn the TCG and participate in tournaments. You can blast through the newest games with your Level 100 starter if you want, or try catching them all, learn VGC, nuzlocking…
The point is, I think calling Pokemon "childish" is kind of unfair, because the franchise has something that EVERYONE of ALL AGES will enjoy. It's universal.
Awesome article!
first of all, AMAZING WEBSITE!!!!! <333
i tried catching a Radiant Jirachi in Quetzal and trying every chance of the RNG via save states showed me there was NO instance of me catching it in a Cherish Ball </3 it would've looked so beautiful in it, but I ended up catching it in a Radiant ball… ough
Wooper is the cutest Pokémon no notes
They are accepted, as are "Nidoran male" and Nidoran female"!
Thank you so much for maintaining such a fantastic resource! The Cave of Dragonflies has always been a special place for the community. I really appreciate all the hard work put into this site. Long live Pokémon!
We can't put in gender symbols for the nidorans. That's not really fair. NidoranF and NidoranM should be accepted.
as i find myself in my personal Indie Web Era, returning to the internet habits of my childhood with the small web revival movement of neocities and nekoweb and other communities, i find myself coming back to this site a whole lot. every time i see your link on someone's button wall, i end up coming back here. i spent a LOT of time on your site as a kid, always thinking of it as the pinnacle of what i wanted my own website to be when i was constantly trying, failing, and wishing to make a site of my own. now i have one, and that's real cool, and your site continues to serve as an inspiration—how funny that life can circle back that way! thank you for continuing to keep and share your passion all this time, and for galvanizing me to keep and share mine, too!
Thanks for your the response ! I'm French and I try to learn all dex numbers, so I will definitely look forward for it !
Hmm, I hadn't thought about doing that, but perhaps that'd be a neat thing to add! It wouldn't be super hard to implement, since I've got a database with multilingual names.
Will Pokémon names in other languages be available in the future?
Unfortunate! If you don't have Pokémon in your autocorrect dictionary, then you should probably turn autocorrect off before playing this game. Turning it off for the field in general might be annoying for people who do have Pokémon in their autocorrect dictionaries and make a typo!
Which game are you playing? There are no rocks or bait in Scarlet and Violet, which are what this calculator is for.
Typed Dewott, but got it wrong bc it autocorrected to Dewitt
Do you remember and know what happened to Suita Ratio and Mewtwofan's Pokemon site
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