Kiozo

Uhm, lemme try to shed some light on what I think are the right answers. If I'm like, 239483249 miles off or something, do tell. Anyway - a beginning part of what I think it is, is that a lot of reborn, or the people in it, aren't as tightknit as before. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong but Reborn always was stereotypically the same people for a looong time without any massive change. I see it now, and I see a large problem within it. The people aren't anywhere near as accepting as a community that's so relaxed should be. I can attest to this personally. When I became a regular here I did know some stuff from previous times. But not 100% of what happens around here, as far as a regular would. So, I considered myself somewhat new, somewhat old. When I was going through the days, it was extremely strenuous being here. No one from old reborn, or even a month prior, was willing to accept anyone at that time. Granted, there was a large influx and many people were rather lackluster, but not all of us were that bad. Having experience with online communities getting floods of people, I knew most of them would flood out just as quick. But getting such a rude stereotyping welcome, or lack thereof a welcome, was a huge smack in the face for anyone that did stick around. What happened then, for most, was a disconnection between the old and new. Old people wouldn't accept new people, and new people had no reason to respect and like old people. I didn't take to it as a reason to leave, as some may have, but it hit home all the same. I know my home, Mysidia, wasn't going to be a community anymore. Stragglers that wouldn't give it up, were all. So in turn, I looked to the sister community that I had a lot of respect for, that had relied on us when they needed it, and those people I welcomed with open arms and swore to protect when I had to. When I got some strong opposition, upon looking to settle in, it wasn't the same feeling I would want anyone from reborn to have. Even as I sit and watch today, I see it still. New people are still disrespected...and I think of when I joined in 2010, and when I "joined" in January/December, and how much it didn't sit well at all, it just burns me because I wouldn't want these people to experience it either. Either way; lemme collect my thoughts. When you have a division, no one will care if you and I are willing to joke around. Someone's going to think negatively of us for joking and not perceive it as such. And I know it's true, just because of that division. I'm still looked at as new, by a decent amount of old reborn members, and old, by new members because I'm auth. I hear it from all angles. And because of it, people associate it differently. The saving grace in this might be Io/Mikey, because they joke a lot, and no one seems to stop them. Maybe there is hope? With time, I trust. Another part of it might just be that the age gap is something we do intend to respect more. I mean, you said "I don't care because it's the internet". But you asked. You spent a lot of time here. You care about reborn...as we all do. I can take whatever Ice says with a joking manner because I know him, he knows me and it's all good. He can say anything he wants and I'll just say "that's cold >>". But when he says these jokes, I do watch and see that he pays mind to the people who will hear it; as I do to everyone else - because people will definitely feel a certain way about it. Part of it reflects a certain standard that is only influenced by ones life events. Forgive me, those who this will ultimately cross over into bad territory for. But it's like the term "rape" for example. We don't use it here, even in the dominant competition kind. We do this because people have been subject to it, and you don't know who or who may not of been. I don't know who. But I know that people have been. I don't use it because of that. To put it even more bluntly...let's have a little recollection. I had an older brother. He passed away in 2010, on March 10th. He passed away because of a drug overdose. The backstory was that previous night, he had asked me for money to go get coffee, cigarettes and a couple other things in the morning, and would pay me back out of his check [it came every 2 weeks, and unemployment at that]. So I had given him the money for the stuff. Later, I had heard a car leaving from the area. I thought nothing of it because even now, it happens often. Then I heard my brother come back inside. In turn, I started to wonder, but I had just went back to sleep, figuring it was a coincedence because he smoked. That next morning, he had passed away, overdosed on pills, during the time everyone else was sleeping. So, I feel a lot of guilt because of it. One because I never supported his habits [i was sure at that point he only smoked weed, but I was wrong.], two because I could have stopped it from happening if I hadn't done it. I know I didn't force his hand into it - that's foolish. But I'm still reminded of it often. And whenever I'm online, and I see someone mention weed or pills or whatever, I think of what happened, and memories and regret and pain come back. Because of those experiences, all the ones various people have that are painful, we try to limit the amount of things that they see and hear. I'm not asking that my experience gets tended to in the same way; but, if you were subject to an event so terrible, you wouldn't want to be reminded of it constantly. Now I dumped a lot of intensity into this whole thing. But I do support some of what you say as well. I don't think 4 people should be running to auth every time someone says something kinda bad. I think that it should be calmly discussed and made clear that no harm was meant and no harm done. But some people are indeed kiddies here...and sometimes it's literally that same thing happening. I mean, here it's trickier, because people are bound to fight more. There's a much bigger chance for it to go to fights. Spammers easily get the chat riled up for hours even...and then I'm like; You know you let them win because you're still talking about it, right? I get a general response of "oooh. You're right". People let things effect them more now, yes. But there's not that tight community feeling now, and worse, not a lot of people want to work for it.

Happy belated birthday ^^' Sorry but I seem to miss them a lot ._.'

I've been glomped in real life... ...It's actually quite funny to me and the others xD

...I'm liking that last set, actually. For a Pokemon I don't like... Well done.

Damn he's a youngin. And to think, you have everyone on a game scared of you when you were in your prime...good work! Happy birthday dood.

Well, I'm sure there are still ways for your squirtle to overcome all challengers, but that just takes more thought now. In response based on my own thoughts; it'll happen one of two ways. Either nothing will change for me, since I do things at an underleveled state, or I will be placed into a new environment as a bit too good. We shall see.

I don't mind at all; hearing it'll be smoother = win. I just hate how I spent 1.5 hours for a good [pokemon] and it became irrelevant hours later. xD

Aww...lame. I was wondering what happened to you recently D:! I don't blame you though; I know what it's like...and should do the same but I'm too dumb XD. Or stubborn. Yeah that one. ANYWAY, I'ma miss ya dude. I hope you come back when things settle. You can still visit in your spare time! It won't be the same without ya :<.

It has to do with INF and the game. There was a miscommunication on one sprite and it didn't come out right so he's asking for some help and/or clear guidelines for future implementation. At least, I think. I understood the points at least, although why wasn't clearly labeled.

http://www.pokemonreborn.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=1596 Read this before posting any more RMTs, please~

Well, I have an old clan name that I was going to bring back, and I'm confident in the interest I can get from old correlated members. For what it's worth...you can add that as potential. Also, [i4] has 4 total members, but from what I remember at least 3 are active anyway, and they're content. As far as others I won't speak for what I don't know of.

Well certainly that post was interesting... I'm not sure why you'd assume they're gaining power. They have two people as authority, with the clan tag up front, yes. But I'm not sure what you mean by them having power... It's clear two higher up members are in one clan and outrank the SU staff in both longevity and position. Also, the ignorance thing just begs to be explained. Lastly, they have the right to refuse whoever they wish. That's part of a clan. I don't think this should be your main force and I hope it isn't.