User:Dismounted Feudal Knight

Dismounted Feudal Knight
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. I'm most likely spotted doing odd cleanup jobs on the forum and the wiki. You might also know me as a distinct infamous roman emperor from years back, or as raidarr on the discord server.

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 Roles

Badge	Description
(?)	Moderator as of June 27th, 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 (Silver)	A reward for spam-bashing and janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections.

Previous Roles

Badge	Description
(?)	Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. There were no cases, so...
(?)	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.
(?)	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.

• Archiving - Thoughts and progress on this aspect.
• Total War: Pharaoh - such as it is. Mod references to be updated as they appear on the forum and other pages should be updated concurrently as neither troy nor 3k are now fully up to date in description.
• Curating - The other rough half of what I do these days. I find planning to do it makes me do less of it so what I actually do is just dive into forums and update things as appropriate, hence you will see a lot of edits by me especially to general forum guides and indexes. If it's not a forum strictly operated by someone (ie hotseating or a modder's forum), I've probably tinkered with it. Eventually I may get around to documenting some of it.

Assorted stuff

• Review forums cleanup
• mod announcements cohesion
• safedisc issue
• archiving project
• User:Dismounted Feudal Knight/TWC staff, curia and ownership
• TWC Wiki:Help
• Using Git for modding
  • Template:TWC Wiki
  • TWC Wiki:Help or TWC Wiki:Getting started?

Previous stuff

• Citizenships: I have a couple potential patronages that haven't really moved. I mean to finish those eventually but my interest in this has waned to nothing, so I expect to do little more on this front.
• More granular ideas on the wiki especially have waned along with my interest, I'm more interested in curating what exists or supporting the initiatives of others than developing new content.