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}}Hello there. I am '''Dismounted Feudal Knight''', currently a [[Magistrate]] on TWC. Among other things I have been a [[moderator]], a [[Wiki Team|Staff wiki editor]] and freelance wiki editor, a [[Curia|curialist]], and occasionally a bit of a spitfire. I've changed brand a few times since joining in 2017; in my earlier TWC years I impersonated an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus infamous Roman emperor]. I tend to participate in bursts.
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}}Hello there. I am '''Dismounted Feudal Knight''', currently a [[Magistrate]] on TWC. Among other things I have been a [[moderator]], a wiki editor ([[Wiki Team|staff]] and freelance), a [[Curia|curialist]], and sometimes a TWC activist. I've changed brand a few times since joining in 2017. Distinctively,  I impersonated an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodus infamous Roman emperor] in my early TWC years.  
  
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==Contact and stuff==
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I tend to participate in bursts; you'll see me a lot for one week and not so much another. Invariably I do show up.
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[https://www.twcenter.net/forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=564465 PMs are gucci]
 
  
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There's also '''raidarr#6550''' on Discord if you prefer, and I'm found under that name through the topically related strategygaming.com site.
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You can also find me as raidarr#6550 on Discord if that's your venue.
  
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==Wee bit of history==
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==An abridged history==
 
===2015-2021===
 
===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 [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?759482-Britannia-Expansion-Custom-Submod-The-Isles-of-Chaos-(Roleplay-Hotseat) this] started.
 
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 [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?759482-Britannia-Expansion-Custom-Submod-The-Isles-of-Chaos-(Roleplay-Hotseat) this] started.
  
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I began to participate in Tale of the Week and the Curial Commentary Thread, in the meantime engaged in 'light reading' of the site's extended history. Hotseating had a civil war that I was tangentially involved in.  
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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 and ultimately I didn't take too long with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site survived. 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 a 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 and during 2021, which corresponded with rough moments in my personal life.
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Eventually I was patronized by King Athelstan. My antics in the CCT became antics within the Curia. I'd go on about its future and ideas from time to time. At this point I was a bit of an awards grouch.
 
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I entered Staff a couple of times, not lasting long because I was a bit hotheaded and failed to manage burnout. I served very brief stints as a [[Scriptorium|Librarian]], a member of the Wiki Team twice, and as part of the very obscure Discord Staff. Despite having entered the wiki team formally a few times, my award-backed achievements have been as a regular member often in coordination with [[Makanyane]], a long-time Wiki Director who sadly retired in 2022.
 
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I've held office in the Curia a few times. Once as a [[Praefect]] before that position was removed, once as a [[Magistrate]] ([https://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?804945-VoNC-CommodusIV rather briefly]) and one term as [[Consul]] in late 2021. None of these terms were very accomplished. Frankly neither is the current Magistrate term as there is little to preside over these days, despite it lasting longer than the first time.
 
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I've had a few branding issues, usually between stints in offices or Staff. They included making a new account to increment my original name, rebranding to an endrich antagonist from the Zelda series, and rediscovering my 2015 account and rebranding it to be a sentient cat. I've also tried my hand at blogging, after which I decided the blogs were cringy and had them purged. I can be a little eccentric.
 
  
 
===2022-2023===
 
===2022-2023===
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In 2022 I 'got my shit together', settled on branding as some unit from Medieval 2, and began a stint as a Moderator which lasted most of the year. I also bugged the [https://www.twcenter.net/forums/member.php?410442-Caillagh-de-Bodemloze Content Hex] about putting me on the Wiki Team again. I didn't do a lot with the latter but I think I did reasonably well as a moderator.
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In 2022 I took a different approach, and settled on a long-term 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.
  
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At the close of 2022 I became involved in something else which I expected to take me offline for a long time, and thus I resigned my roles and disappeared. What I expected to take ~8 months ended up lasting a good month. So in early 2023, I booked the next spot for Magistrate and I've been futzing ever since. TWC history is long and full of twists... stay tuned. :p
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In '23 I took on the role of Magistrate. It's gone better than the first round, but it's rather quiet. TWC history is long and full of twists... stay tuned. :p
  
 
==Bling==
 
==Bling==
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! '''Award''' !! '''Type''' !! '''Reason'''
 
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| [[File:Wiki_Editor_silver.png]] || [[Special_Contribution_Awards| Silver Wiki Editor Award]] || The mark of my non-staff wiki history working on content, infrastructure and skins for the wiki. Achieved Bronze on June 3rd, 2019 and Silver on April 28th, 2020.
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| [[File:Wiki_Editor_silver.png]] || [[Special_Contribution_Awards| 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.
 
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| [[File:Macebigsilver.png]] || [[Moderation_Staff#Moderator.27s_Mace| Moderator's Mace (Silver)]] || A reward for spambot-bashing and various janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections.
 
| [[File:Macebigsilver.png]] || [[Moderation_Staff#Moderator.27s_Mace| Moderator's Mace (Silver)]] || A reward for spambot-bashing and various janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections.
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===Previous Badges===
 
===Previous Badges===
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| [[File:3K Moderator.png]] '''[[Moderator|(?)]]''' || Moderator as of February 5th, 2022 to December 2022. Voted 'best jannie twc ever had' by Cope, if that helps. The legacy is in the 'edited by' section of, well, an awful lot of pins in the forum...
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| [[File:3K Moderator.png]] '''[[Moderator|(?)]]''' || 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...
 
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| [[File:3K_Content_Staff.png]] '''[[Content Staff|(?)]]''' || [[Wiki Team]] as of February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term.
 
| [[File:3K_Content_Staff.png]] '''[[Content Staff|(?)]]''' || [[Wiki Team]] as of February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term.
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| [[File:3K_Consul.png]] '''[[Consul|(?)]]''' || 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...
 
| [[File:3K_Consul.png]] '''[[Consul|(?)]]''' || 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...
 
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| [[File:3K_Praefectus.png]] '''[[Praefectus|(?)]]''' || 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 my term was ending and that's around when it was binned.
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| [[File:3K_Praefectus.png]] '''[[Praefectus|(?)]]''' || 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.  
 
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| [[File:3K_Gaming_Staff.png]] '''[[Gaming Staff|(?)]]''' ||Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. It was purple on Discord and never reflected on the site itself. Eventually I resigned, but the [[King Athelstan|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.
 
| [[File:3K_Gaming_Staff.png]] '''[[Gaming Staff|(?)]]''' ||Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. It was purple on Discord and never reflected on the site itself. Eventually I resigned, but the [[King Athelstan|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.
 
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| [[File:3K_Magistrate.png]] '''[[Magistrate|(?)]]''' || 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..
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| [[File:3K_Magistrate.png]] '''[[Magistrate|(?)]]''' || 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.
 
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| [[File:3K_Librarian.png]] '''[[Librarian|(?)]]''' || 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.  
 
| [[File:3K_Librarian.png]] '''[[Librarian|(?)]]''' || 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.  
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==Goals on the wiki and TWC==
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==DFK's project space==
 
I have three priorities for the wiki.
 
I have three priorities for the wiki.
 
* offer a fairly complete history of TWC (ie: [[History of TWC]])
 
* offer a fairly complete history of TWC (ie: [[History of TWC]])

Revision as of 16:16, 8 April 2023


Dismounted Feudal Knight
Twcdfk.png

Magistrate of TWC

Badges/Roles:Magistrate, Civitate
Patron:King Athelstan
House:The Imperial House of Hader
Patronized on:03/15/2020
Forum Profile:Here

Hello there. I am Dismounted Feudal Knight, currently a Magistrate on TWC. Among other things I have been a moderator, a wiki editor (staff and freelance), a curialist, and sometimes a TWC activist. 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 participate in bursts; you'll see me a lot for one week and not so much another. Invariably I do show up.

You can also 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 and ultimately I didn't take too long with hotseating, but my interest in the Curia and the overall site survived. 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 a 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 and during 2021, which corresponded with rough moments in my personal life.

2022-2023

In 2022 I took a different approach, and settled on a long-term 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.

In '23 I took on the role of Magistrate. It's gone better than the first round, but it's rather quiet. TWC history is long and full of twists... stay tuned. :p

Bling

Current Badges

Badge Description
3K Magistrate.png (?) Elected February 18th, 2023. I vote on the (currently nonexistent) cases where users appeal Moderator actions.
3K Civitate.png (?) Anointed March 15, 2020. I honestly just chose 'Civitate' over 'Citizen' because it's more fancy.

Awards

Award Type Reason
Wiki Editor silver.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.
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 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

I have three priorities for the wiki.

  • offer a fairly complete history of TWC (ie: History of TWC)
  • offer a resource that is helpful to and used by the wider modding community (ie: the Modding Portal)
  • effectively supplement what TWC offers with its better load speeds, SEO and so forth (pages about staff, the faq and so on)

I'm not good with documenting units, factions, game mechanics and individual mods. The first three especially are a game of whack-a-mole that other wikis have us beat on by far.

These are just what I am interested in/will be most useful with - I'll review any article especially on request for copyedits and feedback. I also partake in the wiki's overall category work, theme design/tweaks and administration as far as my non-wikiteam role can take me.

My role on TWC itself mirrors here, including upkeep of pins, content and minor details as far as I can at a given time. Plus awards stuff.

All of this tends to happen in 'sprees of activity' when working on my own. If you see something I do and would like to help, or are interested in an area I'm weak in and would like to work with me, I'm always open to messages.

Wanted pages

Awards and TWC stuff

  • site awards (mostly done probably)
  • awards hitlist in no particular order
    • flinn -> curial service
    • bitterhowl -> artifex, a modding service/legio award, and/or opifex especially with his ai work. Leaning larger once the ai work sees a substantial and used release
    • Macaras -> award and/or citizenship especially pertaining to his SSHIP work
    • realm56 -> citizenship on account of just good contribution in general, despite activity being in flux
    • various hotseating forum members -> modding awards for hotseat tweaks and citizenship for long-term memberships and participation, however I defer to the operators of the forum to push the ball on these
    • Sara Temer -> possible opifex as the leading shogun modder on the site
    • Belovèse -> citizenship
    • WeekendGeneral -> take your pick of modding awards given his broken crescent work and the fact he still shows up to help
    • RafSwi7 -> obvious citizen for continued staff work, modding work and other participation that is ongoing
    • j.a.luna -> legio and/or citizenship
    • Shoebopp -> citizenship
    • Araval -> make the case for opifex
  • links and stuff for old site pins
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