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Dismounted Feudal Knight
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Moderator of TWC

Badges/Roles:Moderator, 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, currently a Moderator on TWC. Among other things I have been a wiki editor (staff and freelance) and a curialist, and sometimes a TWC activist of sorts. I've changed brand a few times since joining in 2017. Distinctively, I impersonated an infamous Roman emperor in my early TWC years.

I tend to engage in bursts: you'll see me a lot for one week and not so much another.

You can find me as raidarr#6550 on Discord if that's your venue.

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 utterly absent of cases and the most actual work I put in was quality of life updates to TWC threads using permissions I may or may not have retained from before. 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.

Bling

Current Badges

Badge Description
3K Moderator.png (?) Moderator as of June 27th, 2023.
3K Civitate.png (?) Anointed March 15, 2020. I honestly just chose 'Civitate' over 'Citizen' because it's more fancy. I'm not huge on bling but I have my moments.

Awards

Award Type Reason
Wiki Editor gold.png Silver Wiki Editor Award The mark of my freelance wiki history working on the content, infrastructure and skins of the wiki. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020. Achieved Gold on June 3rd, 2023. First of a kind ;)
Macebigsilver.png Moderator's Mace (Silver) A reward for spambot-bashing and various janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections.

Received a bronze CMS blogger award for meeting the 5 blog threshold. The blogs were not particularly good and I had the award scrapped with the blogs.

Previous Badges

Badge Description
3K Magistrate.png (?) Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. In practice I did nothing except update odds and ends using local moderator powers from my previous moderation stint, because there were no tribunal cases during the term.
3K Moderator.png (?) Moderator as of February 5th, 2022 to December 2022. Voted 'best jannie twc ever had' by Cope, if that helps. My legacy is in the 'edited by' section of quite a few pins in the forum...
3K Content Staff.png (?) Wiki Team as of February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term.
3K Consul.png (?) Elected on May 11th, 2021. It was an unremarkable term that I'm not very proud of, but I did get to experience the eldrich vBulletin underlay...
3K Praefectus.png (?) Elected on June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; served shortly before the position was eliminated. Didn't do much. I forget if I resigned, the term expired or it just got dropped with me in it, but I know it all happened abut the same time.
3K Gaming Staff.png (?) Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. It was purple on Discord and never reflected on the site itself. Eventually I resigned, but the other guy has been there since the start. Now I'm a strange amalgamation of Gaming-Discord-Tech staff since KA gave me access to do some tweaks there.
3K Magistrate.png (?) A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. It was good reading for the future, but I was rather underqualified. There weren't many candidates and it was only after that it was realized I was just a little too new to citizenship to actually hold the position.
3K Librarian.png (?) Before the badge was merged into main Content Staff, I briefly held this position. It was in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity in 2018.
3K Content Staff.png (?) Wiki Team a few times early on. The stints were quite brief; they were succeeded by a longer term above.

DFK's project space

A list of stuff I'm working on relating to TWC. My activity is on and off: I will be here in bursts, but invariably I do show back up and a message can pull me out of a 'contributing winter' at any time.

My priorities are cleaning up elements of the forum and improving the wiki. It's humble work, and the best one may expect in TWC's twilight age. Anyone or anything that may help out these efforts is welcome.

Stars indicate what I'm working on at a given time, ★ being in progress or immediately up on queue and ☆ being next up to look at. All of the below is malleable with feedback. Otherwise I do my thing until someone says no :p

Wiki work

TWC forum

  • mod announcements cohesion ★
  • Pin index ☆
  • registry reviews
  • safedisc issue

Curia

Have not felt this lately...

  • Antiokhos Euergetes citizen ★★
  • bitterhowl citizen ☆
  • Guide to the curia page edit ☆