Sabbat board issue

[user/874]

Heeeeey Mr. Webmonkey.

What am I screwing up here? I am clearly logged in, why can't I hit the Sabbat boards? Tell me what I forgot to do and I will fix it!!!

[Webmonkey]

HST Jaron has decided to have someone create a separate pro board for Sabbat that requires its own user/pass to access rather than using sub-boards like other spheres at Seth's urging. So you'll need to register a brand new account with their board in order to access the Sabbat OOC area. Not how I would have gone with it, but Jaron is the boss for the Sabbat sphere & he can do what he wants.

[user/874]

Ah, gotcha. I thought I had screwed something up in my scripts allowed settings or something.

Carry on then! Feel free to delete this as a resolved ticket then, good sir.

[Webmonkey]

*webmonkey salute*

[Jenn]

Aug 23, 2013 14:31:04 GMT -8 Webmonkey said:

... at Seth's urging. ... Not how I would have gone with it...

Chris,

This really feels like you are having a passive-aggressive territorial fight with Seth over the ECC website in general.  There was no need to bring up Seth's name at all. It was Jaron's decision to go a different route.

Perhaps you didn't mean to sound passive-aggressive or territorial but that's how it came across.

Thank you,
Jenn

[Webmonkey]

Hey Jenn,

Thanks for bringing up your concern. From my perspective i was stating factual information based on the circumstances at hand. Players must now make one profile for ic posts with the rest of the EC community boards, and another for Sabbat ooc.

By the way some notes about nomenclature:
EC as in 'Emerald Chronicles' the parent naming convention for the other games such as:
ECC for Emerald City Chronicles (Camarilla vampire) or
ECC Emerald Coven Chronicles (Sabbat vampire) or
ESP Emerald Sept Chronicles (Werewolf) etc.

So anyhow, all boards and sub-boards except the Sabbat OOC boards are hosted on vampst.proboards.com with the exception of that separate Sabbat Ooc board (eccsabbat.proboards.com), which they're sort of using in lieu of a wiki. As evidenced by some player confusion in the post above, and some on the other Sabbat boards, that can be, well, a bit confusing. Seth is now the primary administrator of the separate Sabbat ooc board, stated so as a guide to whom to contact for issues with that board. I'm sorry that could have seemed passive aggressive or territorial of me. I suspect that's a bit of the rumor mill at work and some bad phrasing on my part. I can see how from my statements you might have felt that way though and I should have phrased it differently given the tension hereabouts.

Please allow me to clear up any misconceptions to that point though for the future.

Any sphere storyteller may use any resources they wish on the Internet to run their games and are encouraged to do so. This might not seem obvious. However as a dude with some experience (and lets face it, history) in this arena I always offer to assist with these endeavors, if for nothing more than continuity's sake. In other words, if a storyteller needs a web resource that I can assist in creating and administrating at the outset, it makes it easy to pass that resource on to the next staff and the next staff and so on. If I'm not involved in that process however, these yearly transitions may not go as smoothly as possible. I've been doing this for just under a decade now, so I've seen many staffs come and go when you take into account all of the spheres. That's what my interest is in 'going a different way'.

I understand that is not the perception of some, because of some unfortunate personality conflicts, but please consider the following: As a web developer by trade I'm well aware of the many resources available for websites and forums out there on the Internet. It would be logistically impossible for me to 'stop' any HST (or their designate) from utilizing these diverse and often freely available resources, nor would I wish to. I'm in this to advise and help administrate these resources within my areas of expertise.

Do I have a bunch of pretty particular experience I might like to offer about what might be a few simpler web solutions at any given time? Sure. It'd be hard not to at this stage.

Am I willing to research and implement any number of wikis, sub-boards, email forwarding schemes and websites for any HST? Yep.

Do I think I 'own' the right to say what an HST does or does not wish to use online, be that people or digital resources? Certainly not. That's neither possible nor particularly practical.

So my feelings on the subject of a side board for the Sabbat ooc stuff can be summed up as: it's not the way I would have gone with it, but Jaron (or any HST) can do what they want.

I hope that helps put things into perspective on the 'professional' side.

On the personal side of things, I have some concerns, but this isn't the time or place to air that laundry. If Jenn, as a friend, you want to hear my perspective on that, feel free to ask, but a public forum is not the right place for that discussion I feel.

Side note to any worriers out there: I'd never 'turn off' any of the web resources that I administrate for these games unless directed to do so by an elected storyteller. If the day ever comes where my services are no longer desired or I just decide I'm done for any reason, be it practical or personal, I'd provide either the 'keys to the kingdom' to someone who wanted to pick up that torch, or the data behind it, and I'd bend over backward to assure that everyone's hard work writing house rules, etc. didn't just disappear to the best of my ability. No emotion I could have, be it the positive or negative, would cause me to leave this community without some access to these resources in whatever form I could provide. I've been offered jobs out of state in the past, a few of which I seriously considered. Had that happened, I'd have implemented that type of hand-off/transition and barring sudden lethal calamity (god forbid, knock on wood) I'd do so 'ere the Red Star comes and Caine rises to devour us all.

Thanks for listening and presenting your concerns.

- Chris