User:Dismounted Feudal Knight

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

Awards

Award	Type	Reason
	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.
	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
(?)	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...
(?)	Wiki Team as of February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term.
(?)	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...
(?)	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.
(?)	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.
(?)	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.
(?)	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.
(?)	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

• Competitions / Site Competitions
• detail on some of the offbrand titles released by CA
• User:Dismounted Feudal Knight/Mod catalogue (may deprecate at this point)

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