User:Dismounted Feudal Knight

Dismounted Feudal Knight
Administrator of TWC
Badges/Roles:	(Deputy) Moderation Overseer, Wiki Director, Censor & Civitate
Patron:	King Athelstan
House:	The Imperial House of Hader
Patronized on:	03/15/2020
Patron of:	Maltacus
Forum Profile:	Here

Hello there. I am Dismounted Feudal Knight, as of recent a Modding Hex (an administrator) and the Wiki Director of TWC. Besides this I am entrusted to support Moderation as a deputy overseer and you may find me performing odd jobs in other corners of the site. Basically I'm a busy lad.

An abridged history

2015-2021

I've been aware of the site existing since 2013-2014 or so. I registered in 2015, but did nothing and forgot the account. In 2017 I registered again, sucked in by Jadli from an obscure multiplayer/hotseating community on Steam. I wasn't very good at hotseating, but I did manage to get this started.

I expanded from hotseating into Tale of the Week, reading site history and participating in the Curial Commentary Thread. I did not participate for long in the Writer's Study or with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site grew. I also took an interest in editing the wiki. Eventually I gained citizenship by King Athelstan's patronage in 2020. Between 2018 and 2021 I was in and out of Content and roles in the Curia. Each of these roles were fairly short lived. In 2021 I wavered from my roman theme and tried a different branding. It didn't work well and I went back to the roman theme. I did quite a bit of strange stuff in this period going into 2021.

2022-2023

In 2022 I took a different approach and settled on a rebrand to what you see now. In February I joined the Moderation Staff (with a focus on TW sections) and Content Staff (Wiki Team, for a third time). This arrangement lasted until December, when new life events turned up and I expected to be gone for a long time. I resigned my roles expecting that, and as it turned out I was able to return by February 2023.

Shortly after returning I took on the role of Magistrate. It went better than the first round, though it was absent of cases and the actual work I put in was quality of life updates to TWC threads using permissions I retained from before as Moderator. The existence of these permissions was publicly noted only near the end of the term.

Following the expiration of my term in late June I re-entered the Moderation Staff, where I continue similar work as before cleaning up and primarily operating in the TW sections. Shortly after came a renewed interest in wiki editing. In October following PikeStance becoming Consul I took an interest in the Living History forum and entered a capacity as Censor to assist in that forum and to be a backup for Curial business if needed. Shortly following that I was given the opportunity to lead the wiki in Staff.

After a few days of experience as a Director the administration decided I was a pretty good cleanup guy and dipped me in red paint. And now, here we are...

Profile Bits

Current Roles

In order of attainment, not in profile display per se

Badge	Description
(?)	Modding Hex as of October 24th, 2023.
(?)	Site Moderator (leaning towards TW sections) as of June 27th, 2023. Elevated slightly to be deputy overseer October 24th, 2023.
(?)	Wiki Director as of October 21st, 2023
(?)	Appointed October 2023
(?)	Anointed March 15, 2020

Awards

Award	Type	Reason
	Silver Wiki Editor Award	The mark of my wiki history, mostly outside of staff. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020. Achieved Gold on June 3rd, 2023. First of a kind!
	Moderator's Mace (Emerald)	The once-pretty mace smashed so many bots, random threads and objects I stubbed my toe on that it's turned a sickly green. Or maybe I've lined it with poison for more damage, I don't remember. At least it's not red!

Previous Roles

Badge	Description
(?)	Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. There were no cases...
(?)	First stint from February 5th, 2022 to December 2022.
(?)	Third run in Wiki Team from February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term. This access has been superseded as of latest Content involvement.
(?)	Elected on May 11th, 2021, a brief and fairly unremarkable term.
(?)	Elected June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; served shortly before the position was eliminated.
(?)	Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. This is the root of why I appear as Technical Staff on the discord server.
(?)	A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. Very very short period.
(?)	A brief stint in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity, 2018.
(?)	Wiki Team twice around the 2018 period, short rounds interspersed with freelance editing.

DFK's project space

A list of stuff I'm working on relating to TWC. This comes with no guarantees on progress: it's whatever is in my head at the moment but if you're curious what I'm plinking at here you go.

With some recent changes especially with my relationship with the wiki, this list will change and some isolated ideas may move to other places.

With elevation to Hex this entire thing is subject to a rewrite I'm afraid. Stay tuned...

Broad subjects

• Archiving - Thoughts and progress on a more morbid contingency, should TWC itself not survive in coming years
• Assorted thoughts - A bit of rambling about site direction, rendered very obsolete right now given my changes in roles. To be updated soon I hope

Wiki projects

• TWC Wiki:Help
  • Template:TWC Wiki
  • TWC Wiki:Help

• Upload Sites - unfortunately a problem of growing urgency. remember imgbb, remember to prod various people about their hosting choices. Expand to include image hosts?

Previous stuff

• Citizenships: I have a couple potential patronages that haven't moved. I mean to finish those eventually but my interest in this has waned badly. My interest in the Censor role is strictly to compliment other tasks - primarily, to help curate the Living History forum.