Out of sheer boredom, I have taken an extremely long post that I saw a few hours ago, copied it, and pasted it following this message. You have one week. Hammer out all grammatical, stylistic, or stylistic mistakes. The goal of this thread is to edit this into a clear, concise message.
Now, for our feature presentation.
Thanks for responding. I appreciate and understand your response I eventually resorted to emailing you my question. In both attempts, my emails failed to deliver. Long story short, my questions via email were far more polished than these earlier questions above. Now that I know I can get a hold of you this way, shall contacting you via the discussion board be preferred for you?
As I put time into crafting emails to present to you my request, please permit me to share my request as I intended for you to read:
Hello my online name is Cognac250. I am and have been a highly active member of Pointy Ears : http://www.wakachan.org/elf/wakaba.html I am also with in my knowledge the longest serving member and have earned the respect of my posting peers. I have also taken on the responsibility of learning how the ins and outs of the board work so to better serve PE's growing needs. It has been a learning process, but enjoyable. Before taking on a possible moderator role, I would to know more about what it means and entails for I have only met kind directions but no description. Upon reaching you, could you be kind enough to describe to me exactly what a moderator does and how.
I want to become a moderator to better protect and nourish the native vitality of our PE board. If you accept my request may I for a moment please you with a moment's pause? In the democratic nature of PE, I would like to ask my peers if they will accept me as moderator. Only then could I, with your initial approval, accept the duty. If PE says yes, then I will contact you with my decision. I thank you for your time and will appreciate your response.
That was my email which twice failed to deliver via hotmail. I am concerned, also, to what are you referring when you say spam? It is not that I am not familiar with the term, but tell me sir if you are directing that point specifically at me? If so, could you please elucidate me with specific examples. If it is a matter of general advice, then of course I should never intend to spam. As I have mentioned before, I am growing in my experience with such boards and am in earnest to learn.
Second matter of concern, and take no offense, sir, what do you mean by “sock puppets”? It’s not the fact that I am relatively newer to iichan and wakachan, sir, but I prefer clear, direct and concise terms with no ambiguity or generality in professional discourse. I may infer what you mean, but that not as useful as a more exacting declaration.
In my demonstration of posting etiquette, does this mean you read in on PE from time to time? And, may I be permitted to assume that you have the power to see the ip address of any post? This is some thing I have wondered of in the past. If I am to be watched and measured against a strict necessitude, then I would like set to me exact terms of etiquette. Let’s assume I am a dolt, and know nothing of these matters and spell the rules clearly so I may with out exception follow them completely.
Finally, you say “role playing is fine”. Believe me sir, I do not intend to abuse or cause ill content among my posters by secretly giving voice to the Queen. I do this with a careful and responsive touch. Currently I seek to bring the voice of the Queen more into background. The Queen is a long tradition predating my first coming into PE. I am, however, the first to my knowledge to give her a voice. It is a complex yet stubble thing at which I am improving. I do not think it as classical rpg role-playing but using my voice-acting skills to add to the special sense of PE’s creative uniqueness. Even without a speaking Queen, PE fans are subtly different from other boards. They created their tradition, I merely sail its currents. We have posters from all over the world. They put heir hearts into their votes, and each of their voices counted then and still count now. I was so impressed and moved as election vote counter by the large heart that is our board. It was like watching Santa Claus being born each time a new Queen was elected. They all know she’s not real, but are devoted to the idea of a Queen all the same. Even as I back off, and the voice of the newest Queen becomes more still, you can still sense among us a common thread of humanity. And because the Queen, whether voiced or not, symbolized unity, she symbolizes us and our dreams which bring us to PE. Electing a Queen It is a lovely tradition that I and others hope endures long.
No, I am not their Queen, of course. As my self, I post as I or any one else would in an independent and free way. Who voices the Queen is a secret, and needs to stay that way as part of the illusion.
Because I post as my self and the Queen, I have a double role. It is not my policy for the Queen to post anything but text and a picture of herself. Only when the board requests it, or as a special reward, does she post. This dual capacity is not spamming. I have two jobs at PE, one is my self and two as the Queen. It’s just that simple. If an admin did not know that, they would be confused and just label me a spammer which would be wrong if they knew the full picture. Additionally, as a real queen would look after her people, I have sought for a way to inform PE with various matters of importance. In doing so, I speak with other admins and mods to obtain correct information pertinent to our board which I then pass on verbatim to PE via the Queen’s character. This has been greatly effective, bringing mostly hidden knowledge to the people at large. When that information is at large, then I as my self help carefully manage the effects so we all act responsibly on that new knowledge. PE greatly appreciates the Queens’s actions, my subsequent follow-ups and have empowered themselves to use the growth in knowledge responsibly, governing themselves in the process. It is really a marvelous thing to see unfold. I only voice the Queen as long as all of PE accepts it the Queen, and they do. In my capacity as my self, Cognac250, PE has come to recognize me as polite, generous and just as silly as they are; as a guy who gladly gives a hand and a positive word. They also know me as strong minded when it comes to defense of PE, so I think PE would not at all be much surprised if I told them my interests in becoming a moderator. And if I never become one, I have shown I can work in the board as a respected, pro-active member. I am not vain-glorious, posters have in fact treated me very well and at times with deferment per my view on matters. I in no way treat this lightly or with frivolity as I respect one and all for who each poster is.
I look forward to continuing dialog with you. The above is, yes, long, but in order to understand my position it takes a bit of substantiation. As such, all future communications being hereby brought up to speed will be short and sweet.
Ps: Please let no word of the Queen’s voice-actor be known. Second, I am wondering if I should announce my interest in becoming a moderator now in PE. That way, you could see their input to this interest at the same time while you are monitoring my activity. Should it help you to see how PE reacts to my request to them? I thank you very much.
Only one week? That's really pushing it, but I'll give it a stab.
It'd take me a week just to read that thoroughly.
I'd rather (try to) read Ulysses again. :(
Holy crap. That thing's a 1500 word essay, more or less. Well, here's a whack at it...
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Thanks for your reply. My email sucks, so here's what I was trying to send you.
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Hello, I'm Cognac250, and I want to be a mod, as I have lots of experience with the /elf/ board. However, I want to know what this responsibilty would entail, so I can evaluate how well I would perform in such a capacity. Thanks for reading this and responding.
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Anyways, I also have some questions about proper posting practices.
I'm concerned that you might have mistaken me for a spammer. Please know that this is not my intent, and correct any mistakes I may have made.
I also have no idea what's meant by "sock puppet", so if you could enlighten me, I'd be grateful.
Another thing, since I'm on the subject of post etiquette, I was wondering if you checked in on /elf/ occasionally and could see the IP address the posts originated from, for if I'm watched, I'd like to ensure I don't do anything unbecoming.
On the subject of roleplaying, I roleplay as the queen on /elf/, so as to lend a sense of leadership to the other roleplayers. However, this action may be confused as spamming by a moderator, or may offend a board user. This is not my intent in role play. Just wanted to let you know, as I play this role seriously. Not so seriously so as to lose touch with reality, but still seriously. Seriously.
PS I'm assuming noone from /elf/ will read this and find out that I play the queen, so please don't go there and reveal this fact. It might shatter their suspension of disbelief. Oh, and lemme know if I should tell the crew at /elf/ I wanna be a mod.
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Bleh. That's as close as I come to doing a simplification of that mess. And it's still tl;dr... So hard not to mock the serious tone it took. Too much /b/...
That was a very, very brave attempt at summarization. Have you considered editing as a job option?
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Nah. Ironically, I do horibly in formal English classes because I don't give a damn. Although I do have a tendency to nitpick other people's writing to death, so I guess I could have copy editor as a backup plan if engineering turns out to suck...
Hi my name is Cognac250, and I am a megasuckup hopeful who wants to mod a board because I think it would be cool and impress my friend, however no one likes me on the PE board, because I post crappy art, act like I am in charge and I forced a meme onto them and pretend to be her (it has always been my deepest dark secret to be a female blue demon shemale), and if I would become a Mod it will be my first order of buisness to change this board to my own fantasies and remove the posts and images of everyone who offends me.
for all that which is holy do not make this idiot a mod