Red Alert: Report your Issues to your Superior Officer

[korofel]

Please let us know if there are any issues of spam, harassment, or general asshattery going on at bakerstreet.

Provide evidence if you're speaking against another player. This is not a venue for anonymous bashing just for the fun of it. Such comments will be deleted.

Anon is on, IP logging is on, and comments can be screened on request.


Previous reporting posts can be found here and here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

morning after is getting posted every week. has it become a scheduled meme?

[(Anonymous)]

No. Not that I'm aware of.

Sorry for missing that.

[thelongcon]

Above comment was me.

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[(Anonymous)]

a protected/protector smut meme was already posted last week. don't think we need both.

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[thelongcon]

We are a little bit more lenient when it comes to similar memes if they work with a different categories - Ie. shipping vs gen vs smut. There were some that used to alternate weeks, as a week is our usual timefrace of spacing them out.

Thanks for bringing it up though

[(Anonymous)]

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7909929.html - posted just over a week ago (22nd)

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7925786.html - posted today.

same meme with different title and gifs. the prompts are identical as are the wording.

[(Anonymous)]

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7919498.html
https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7926156.html?mode=reply

This style of "post picture and comment with shippy reactions" is out of control lately. These two are functionally identical and on the same page.

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[(Anonymous)]

will you be doing another mod feedback post in the future?

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[(Anonymous)]

Sa sorry, that sounded bad lol. not to criticize the mods hard work or anything like that, we appreciate you guys. ♥️ I've just been feeling very frustrated with the sameyness of the memes posted to the community lately and I'm curious what the general temperature is for everyone else

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[thelongcon]

I'm certainly open to setting one up at a later date.

(Probably not this weekend given Jul 1 through 4 have several national holidays)

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[(Anonymous)]

please don't. bakerstreet isn't a game and doesn't need the kind of modding that people seem to feel entitled to. banning problematic players and moderating the repeat memes is one thing. the complaints on anon comms lately is all about memes that people don't like being too repetitive and too samey, but the only answer to that is 'delete them', which isn't going to put better memes in place of it. they seem to feel like if it's not on the first page, it doesn't exist, and that's showing the entitlement, imo.

it's an open comm that should continue to remain open to as many people as possible. that means that people aren't going to like certain percentages of things, because it's not moderated for them. as long as no rules are being broken, which most of the time, they aren't, the problem really lays with people demanding things that they are capable of finding/posting themselves. someone complaining that there's not enough (b) memes when they hate (a) memes, if they delete or limit all the (a) memes and don't bother to do anything to post (b) memes, there's not going to be the memes they specifically want to play with and they're just going to complain about how stale it is.

the point of this comm is public and limited moderation. there's nothing wrong with scrolling or (gasp) going to the second page to find more memes. moderation isn't going to 'fix' the comm. it wouldn't hurt if meme posters themselves stopped just throwing things up out of spite or without seeing what's up already (that includes going back a page or two to see if they're breaking the rules), but considering how easy it is to subvert being banned as a meme poster (make a new journal, post the same memes).

sorry. i guess i'm just tired of seeing complaints about things that are more preferential (whining about not liking the popular memes as if they're taking up space/play for them) as opposed to actual rules being broken or them doing anything to fix it themselves and just lumping it all on 'the mods' as a fault instead of just realizing that one comm isn't the place to depend on for all their rp needs and if they're relying on it for that, that's a them problem.

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[thelongcon]

I am thinking specifically along the lines of previous discussion posts: https://bakerstreetmods.dreamwidth.org/952.html

Where there are places for people to point out things they aren't enjoying, as well as talk about memes they want to play, or ideas they have which may have for memes. It may help meme posters see what people would like to play, and then post/create them.

Which I don't think is a bad thing.

[(Anonymous)]

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7928849.html - in heat meme

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7930124.html - a/b/o meme

they're too close together to be posted on the same day. maybe ask the poster of the a/b/o to give it a few days at least before posting since you can use a/b/o aspects in the heat meme and heat aspects in the a/b/o meme.

[(Anonymous)]

rut meme was just posted. abo is basically the same thing.

sa

[(Anonymous)]

missed it was already brought up sorry

Re: https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7923437.html

[(Anonymous)]

actual rules are being broken when people post identical memes with different titles. it's worth discussion. if you don't want to discuss it, don't.

[(Anonymous)]

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7949493.html

Gen Text meme went up insanely early this week. Back in the day, it was Sunday afternoons, then Sunday mornings, then Sundays around midnight. It's not even 11pm EDT and it's already posted. I know it's past midnight in some parts of the world, so maybe a specific "this is Bakerstreet's Time Zone" would be helpful.

[thelongcon]

It looks like a timezone issue.

There is a linked timezone checker on each week's meme round up, but I will make that link bigger.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't post memes, so don't usually read that post, sorry! I'm glad it already exists.

I just don't want to see, Gen Text turn into an "oops timezone issue" thing every week and it's suddenly happening on Saturday instead of Sunday. I like it spaced out from TFLN.

[(Anonymous)]

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7953026.html - hurt/comfort meme today

https://bakerstreet.dreamwidth.org/7951958.html - hurt/comfort meme yesterday

calling it the crying meme while it has "hurt/comfort" in the description doesn't make it not a h/c meme.

[(Anonymous)]

not a problem, just a noob question - if someone lists just their character's name and fandom in the subject line of a reply, without "ota" or any more information in an ooc note, does it mean they want responses from canonmates only?

[(Anonymous)]

Not always. But if you're not sure, you can always reach out and ask

[bobbysocks]

I tried several times to post a meme that I've posted before. For some reason once I actually hit the button to submit, it takes me to one of the previous entries for the meme as if I was editing, and there is no fresh version posted.

[thelongcon]

That's a known glitch that comes up from time to time.

IIRC I believe clearing your browser cache should remove any ghost drafts DW thinks you have?

An alternative is to post something into your own journal to clear out the "draft" and then post anew elsewhere.

[bobbysocks]

Looks like it worked, thanks!