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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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Hey thanks for the added feature. I just assumed you could of had it had regionals and what not by clicking to have them on, but nope you added a whole new menu options thank you for this. Was annoying having to include gen 6-9. Then have to go through and click all gen 1 and regionals till gens 6-9 weren't there. Always ended up missing one or two.
oops… wrong game. wasnt trying to post this on the magikarp one, but on the steel quiz.
oops… wrong game. wasnt trying to post this on the magikarp one, but on the steel quiz.
no one will read this, change my mind.
do a bug type quiz, too! i love the quizzes on this website, and ill be happy if there's one about my fav type!
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Always appreciate the favorite picker and all the work that's put into it. If you're open to more suggestions and this is feasible at all, it'd be nice to be able to change a selected Pokémon’s form after it's on the favorites so sorting through all minor form differences wouldn't be necessary for a favored form to show up. This would be especially helpful for Pokémon with many forms like Alcremie, Arceus, or Unown. Hope this makes sense!
It does currently, but it did also vaguely bug me and once you mentioned it I started writing code in my head, so this is coming. Unfortunately it got me into a whole tangle with the shareable favorite list becuse it makes it necessary for that to also know about your form settings, but then again that's probably a good thing generally.
Question: does the picker automatically default to the male pokémon when gender differences are turned off? I think there should be an option to default to the female pokémon also. For feminism. This is a real suggestion but I am aware it is very very silly.
Let’s go has different catch mechanics to the other games; I don’t know much but I believe it acts a bit more like Pokémon Go catching mechanics rather than XY-USUM
Done.
So basically I wanna be able to click gen 1 only. Then be able to click include regionals, mega and gmax. To have alolan vulpix, mega charizard x or gmax lapras. Same for gen 4 and mega lucario etc. Not asking for new evolutions to be in gen 1 as well.
Just the mega, regionals and gmax to be avaiable for gen the original pokemon came from. New pokemon entirely like pichu Something like wiglett is a new name so its stay gen 2 or 9. cause how i see it alolan vulpix still uses the name vulpix so it should be able to be added to gen 1 if i wanted to sort just gen 1. I'm not asking for you to remove regionals or mega from the gen they introduced in. Just asking for them to also be available for the gen the original Pokemon came from as well. With the ability to turn it off still for those who don't see it that way.
This reminds me that im really happy with my own handmade (non pkmn) website (shameless plug of linking it here), & I think as a teenager I had a dream id make a pkmn fancomic & affiliate request you.. of course, haven't drawn a single comic (not past the occasional 8-page zine) since I finished university. Adds to the thesis that any fansite is an achievement :-) The comic could still have decent legs tbh, im just not much of a fanartist these days. Alas, maybe a distant future where I choose to have fun again. 😂
Btw, the site address field doesnt accept anything without http in front of it, unless its a quirk of my url. :-) I suppose that goes some extra way in resisting injections? Not that I figure youve left the field vulnerable in any way.
aside from the header font (& its almost fine for the title!) & not thinking of this site as being babygirl pink in soul - i kind of love this theme actually…..
Highly good post, no notes, but please also accept my extra laudations for stubbornly (& unsurprisingly) hand-crafting your mommy blogging entirely free of robot slop
Sleep still works the way it describes; the page generally states the current way it works as the default and then notes where it was different in previous generations. There was one bit where it talked about the "sixth and seventh" generations that was meant to be sixth onwards and I just hadn't updated that sentence when I updated it for the eighth and ninth generation; I have fixed that.
Burns and poison have always dealt the same damage, I believe, unless it's bad poisoning.
Just so I have a clearer idea of what you're hoping for: how would you class cross-generational evolutions? Would you want to see Obstagoon in Gen III with Galarian Linoone and Clodsire in Gen II with Paldean Wooper, or do those stay in the generation where they were introduced? If the former, would you also want to see Pichu and Tangrowth in Gen I?
Most of it is in my webmaster sections! They're a bit old and some of the advice is a little out of date or not quite how I'd put it today, but for the most part it's still valid. Good luck with your site!
How does sleep work in newer generations? And I remember burn dealing less damage than poison
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