User:Dismounted Feudal Knight
| Dismounted Feudal Knight | |
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| 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 business 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.
Contents
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.
Profile Bits
Current Roles
| Badge | Description |
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Anointed October 2023. |
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Moderator as of June 27th, 2023. |
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Anointed March 15, 2020. |
Awards
| Award | Type | Reason |
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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! |
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Moderator's Mace (Silver) | A reward for spam-bashing and janitorial work, mainly in the TW sections. |
Previous Roles
| Badge | Description |
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Elected February 18th, 2023. Ostensibly I reviewed appeals of moderator actions. There were no cases, so... |
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First stint from February 5th, 2022 to December 2022. |
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Third run in Wiki Team from February 24th, 2022 to December 2022. I've retained the on-wiki access acquired during this term. |
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Elected on May 11th, 2021, a brief and fairly unremarkable term. |
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Elected June 6th, 2020 as a local moderator of the Curia; served shortly before the position was eliminated. |
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Discord Staff, as of May 10th, 2020. This is the root of why I appear as Technical Staff on the discord server. |
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A very short term to evaluate cases that were brought to the Tribunal. Very very short period. |
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A brief stint in the twilight days of Scriptorium activity, 2018. |
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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.
Broad subjects
- Curating - so what do I actually do on TWC? You see the wiki but not on the forum... well here it is
- Archiving - Thoughts and progress on this aspect, a morbid contingency should TWC itself not survive in coming years
- Assorted thoughts - the "secret" dumping ground for where I think TWC as a whole should go
Wiki projects
- User:Dismounted Feudal Knight/TWC staff, curia and ownership
- TWC Wiki Policy & Guidelines
- Replacing with TWC Wiki:Guidelines. A rewrite and refresh'
- TWC Wiki:Help
- Template:TWC Wiki
- TWC Wiki:Help, a system of pages divided by scope and allowing people to get wrapped in based on the level of involvement they want to have
- Resolving SafeDisc errors a strong candidate to transplant from twc to the wiki for updates as required
- Upload Sites - unfortunately a problem of growing urgency
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.
