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StealthyTyranitar Newbie

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So, when we start the event, probably about a week before thanksgiving, we will create an account called. Turkey. Then, said Truley account will make, say, 5 posts a day. Some will be reportable, some not. The ones that are reportable will be reported, and the reporter will put their username in the reason for report. Now, the ones that are not reportable, someone will PM the "Butcher". Each correct report gets 3 points, each pm gets 2, each incorrect one gets -1. The person with the most points at the end of the round will receive some sort of prize. We can discuss what it is.

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Catterjune Newbie

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Oh, you guys are actually going for it?

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If these Turkeys make posts that are report-worthy, those who report it should be awarded. Of course it depends: does the report system work anonymously?


The last time I checked they were not anonymous. They look like a regular post actually in the report queue. I'd be kinda surprised if there was a way to make them anonymous too, because I assume they're not anonymous to prevent people from abusing/gaming the system.

 

Tyranitar/Pika, since this is originally your idea, how do you suggest we go about this?


Considering this needs the support of mods, lest you annoy them with reports, you should probably get to that part first. Ask the mods for permission to do this.

 

 

So, when we start the event, probably about a week before thanksgiving, we will create an account called. Turkey.


Various ideas spring to mind...

Firstly, your plan is to make only one account? Depending on the timezone of the chosen player, it could lock out a fair amount of people. If anything comes up, any last second ideas, if their parents decide to take them to grandma's house for Thanksgiving, if their friends take them to Best Buy to wait in line for Black Friday, if they get a PS4 or Xbone and have to play video games, then this entire plan falls apart.

So as far as "we create an account", I disagree. It should be various people helping out, not just "an account".

As far as calling it Turkey, I had two ideas, which eventually branched out into a third.

Just calling it Turkey seemed dumb and unoriginal, uninspired. Plus it was probably already taken. Or it's about to be taken by some one reading this. My original idea was to name the Turkeys after "famous" YCM-ers that were permabanned. Black W. Turkey. turknarok, turche. But that seemed really, really mean spirited as well as not something really worthwile. "Black W Mage was banned? Let's have a fun party!" People start attributing his name to fun stuff instead of him being banned and stuff gets blurred.

My next idea was to make them "parody" accounts of the mods. Legend turkey, evilturkey, Phantom Turkey, Falling Turkey, TURKEYmaker, Flame Turkey, Turkeydramon, and probably do dumb parodies of their avatars and sigs. Like... an exact copy of their sig, but hastily (and poorly) slap a turkey on everyone's face and replace everything with the word "gobble".

This is LZ's current sig:

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"This, might be a game, but it isn't meant to be played." - 「SAO」Programmer: Kayaba Akihiko
Wing Zero lStar Driver lRaiu lTaKari lMy OC lMy OC (Letter Bee) lRie lLB!


 

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This would be Legend Turkey's sig:

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"Gobble, gobble gobble gobble gobble, gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble gobble." - 「GOBBLE」Gobble: Gobble Gobble
Gobble Gobble lGobble Gobble lGobble lGobble lGobble GOBBLE lGobble GOBBLE (Gobble Gobble) lGobble GOBBLE!


 

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So then I was thinking... why do we even need to make new accounts? If we got enough support from the mods, why couldn't they just all replace their names with turkey stuff, act like turkeys for a bit, than turn back to normal after the Turkey Hunt was over? Less chance of people dumbly accidentally getting themselves modded.

 

 

Then, said Truley account will make, say, 5 posts a day. Some will be reportable, some not.


All posts are reportable. Even YCMaker's.

 

The ones that are reportable will be reported, and the reporter will put their username in the reason for report. Now, the ones that are not reportable, someone will PM the "Butcher". Each correct report gets 3 points, each pm gets 2, each incorrect one gets -1. The person with the most points at the end of the round will receive some sort of prize. We can discuss what it is.


I'm not understanding what's going on for "non-reportable" posts. They PM the Butcher what exactly? Seems like a bigger hassle then just reporting all posts made by a turkey.

 

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Sleepy Mentor

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I think the idea of the single Turkey account was not that just one person would be running around, but that it'd be an account shared by many people.

Though, I like the Turkey mod idea better. 

 

I wonder how likely it is for mods to not just approve but also participate in it, changing their avatars and all.

I can't say volunteers would necessarily be more active, as Jack of the Lantern, I was on at most times of day and there are 8 to 10 other Monsters I just never saw around.

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Catterjune Newbie

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I think the idea of the single Turkey account was not that just one person would be running around, but that it'd be an account shared by many people.


Abso-fucking-lutely not.

... And here's why!


Way back when in the dark times, in the long long ago, before I randomly stumbled into adminship, I randomly stumbled into the Damage Control group.

What the damage control group did was basically give you all the super mod powers in all the sections. You could mod all sections, see the whole report queue, and mod/delete/warn way way better than the limited powers YCMaker gave us. So needlessly to say, it was a big step up. Before it was just whatever mods had access to the adminCP and then if we lost one, they were gone forever and we could never replace them with a new mod. So now... we had a way to make new mods.

At first the plan was to make alts that were half member, half damage control, and then, when we needed we'd just jump into those accounts to do actual modding. Eventually we found it was easier to just make our current accounts half mod, half damage control. But in the interim, we settled for had half members, half damage control alts for a while.

Eventually for those that did bite the bullet it was found half mods, half damage control accounts could not change their usernames. So for some... certain unnamed mods... that didn't want to change their name this was a deal breaker. But... a certain unnamed mod found a work around. He and two other mods would share a damage control account... for some reason.

Needless to say, this turned to trouble since this meant there was absolutely zero accountability for the particular sections these particular mods were in charge of. Eventually things got even worse and this damage control account unbanned a previously banned member and caused more drama. Of course, the 3 mods who had access to this one account all pointed fingers at one another. And with no solid evidence one way or another the issue was dropped and the account was deleted, and these particular mods were told to either get 3 separate accounts, become half mod, half damage control, or GTFO.

... So basically! The moral of my long and uninteresting story was that these were mods we've known for months and years. They had the highest positions in all of YCM and even they fucked it up when they thought they had no accountability. All it would take to ruin this entire event, THE ENTIRE EVENT, would be one person to fuck up. Or not even one of the people posting to fuck up, but to spread the word to someone who would fuck it up.

I don't think the people posting here would post porn or whatever shock images, but it's not out of the realm of possibility one of you would know someone who would post stuff like that and may pass the information along to them. And while these spammers and shock-image-posters can certainly do whatever they want whenever they want, having a shared account would make it even easier to exploit.

tl;dr - Sharing accounts? Never again.
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Thar Rookie

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So just have one person who is on often to be the Turkey.

 

As far as the "reporting", if not all mods feel like receiving reports from "Turkey", the link to the post should just be PMed to the mod that's playing the "butcher." It would be less clutter that way, from what I understand.

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Catterjune Newbie

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So just have one person who is on often to be the Turkey.


I literally said why this was a bad idea three posts ago. e_e

It's the holidays, and all it takes is one person not-posting for the whole things to fall apart. I might trust it if the turkey was a mod, or a pair/group of mods, but I wouldn't trust one random member.

As far as the "reporting", if not all mods feel like receiving reports from "Turkey", the link to the post should just be PMed to the mod that's playing the "butcher." It would be less clutter that way, from what I understand.


We haven't even really gotten any current mods opinion on this idea though. It sounds like it might be a pain in the ass for some mods if other posts are getting reported then you don't wanna have to wade through 20+ "Hurr! Gobble Gobble!" reports to reach any particular post you're looking for but assuming they're taken care of in a timely manner it shouldn't be a problem... of course this depends on if the mods even wanna do this, which we have no idea if they do.
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I like the idea too, though as Pika mentioned, not all of the mods may want to do this; especially since it'll get mixed up in the clutter of posts that are actually spammy (such as the new members that like to spambot links, etc)

 

Either we get the mods to do it or members that have earned their trust here on YCM (in other words, one of the veteran/senior members if mods are busy). But we do need more than one member to be the turkey, otherwise it's not going to work that well. Or we can make it generic and just have it teach members how to report posts like they should be if anything that shouldn't be there exists.

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Flash Flyer - Sakura Newbie

Flash Flyer - Sakura

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I almost thought this club was dead.

 

But yeah, the Xmas card idea might work. (Or if I bring up an old idea back from Halloween 2009, stamps)

 

Essentially, the mods make an Xmas-themed stamp (they choose the design); they make a thread with some holiday-related message, members post on it and given the member's behavior throughout the year, we can do a naughty or nice thing. If member was nice throughout the year or from their first appearance on forum, they get stamp. If they were bad [getting into trouble with the mods and other stuff], they don't get a stamp and get "coal" (mod finds a pic of coal on internet and sends that pic in a PM).

 

The rest of it is a bit tricky to write out, but I'll let you all weigh in. (And again, congrats on becoming the RP/Creative Writing mod, AIX)

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Aix Newbie

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Not sure if people really care for a stamp and the event doesn't sound very exciting, we also don't really have a fair way of saying if a person was naughty or nice.

 

The one hard thing with these events is coming up with a suitable prize, hm.

 

One idea I had for Easter Eggs, which can also work for Christmas presents, is that every now and then a mod posts in a thread and designates it as the Easter Egg/Present and the first person to make a relevant post afterwards gets a prize of some sort.

 

Support?

 

Prize ideas?

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Any ideas for a Christmas event? The mods are sort of stumped as well. Get thinking or there'll be no Christmas this year.

 

Had a strange idea for a Christmas Member contest. All members that want to participate go for a Christmas makeover and have the mods and a couple of selected Members to judge. <- Yeah...my mind works strangely

 

As for the Grinch idea...not a bad one though. As well as the the Easter Egg/Christmas Present idea ^^

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Cocodomoco Newbie

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Username:Cocodomoco
Why Do You Want To Join?: Events are the bees knees... I haven't been on the forums in forever and i want to be part of something social on here and this sounded great because special events are always fun for online communities. I love planning stuff too. As long as its well executed.

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