worm82075 on 21/2/2008 at 12:44

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Hello all, my name is Jeremy, but please, call me Worm. This is my site and I hope you enjoy it. I would like to share some of my thoughts with you now about where I see us as a community heading and how I would like to help shape that journey.

I think of The Elder Scrolls Community as a universe in and of itself. The individual TES sites and their authors are the stars and worlds of that universe. The world wide web is the light years of empty space between those worlds and The Wormhole is a short cut through the void connecting those distant worlds and mixing the otherwise isolated inhabitants of an ever expanding universe.

Many people predicted a sharp dencline in the interest expressed in this series, but statistics show that 1000+ new faces enter our community everyday. It is up to us as senior members of this community to welcome and teach those that are new to TES modding. In this way, much needed new blood can be added to the ever dwindling pool of available modders. It won't be long before the activity on the two main forums explodes with the next release of TES. It is quite possible that this will be a serious problem for everyone that uses those sites.We are seriously over crowded in those places and seriously underpopulated throughout the rest of the community.In my travels throughout this universe I have encountered many worlds, most of them dieing from lack of support. Many good mods and great sites have starved and been all but abandoned by the wayside to die a slow and painful death at the hands of poor resource management. It is my wish to proliferate the organization of growth and eventual evolution of the modding phenomenon in which we are all participating. We must act now to ensure a long and fruitful existence for all that is TES.

I give you TES Modders Community College. A revolutionary site of my own design that I am calling a "Dorm Room Style Forum". Each eligible member will receive their own room(forum), fully self moderated and open to invitation only. Residents will also receive a globally moderated public room(classroom) upon request.
This will be a highly moderated site with an in depth lesson plan for beginners , organizational support for aspiring teams, and long term informational and promotional Support for teams that move on to their own sites.
A carefully thought out ranking system will be implemented here to ensure that resources are not wasted on the not so serious and is redirected efficiently to benefit our students and resident modders alike.
~Ranking System~ 2-21-08
Novice - 0-19 - If you have no prior experience modding you must start here. Novices an Apprentices will enjoy hassle free interaction with higher level members (ie;no question is a stupid one at these ranks).
Apprentice - 20-54 - By the time you reach 54 posts you should have a firm grasp on your chosen area of modding.
Journeyman - 55-104 - Probably the toughest rank. All higher ranking members are no longer required to take it easy on you and you will have very few perks.
Expert - 105-169 - Once you reach this rank you will be eligible ( based on your overall contributions) to move on to one of three ranks depending on what you choose to do.
1 - Resident - A fully unrestricted and free form modder, with or without team ambitions.
2 - Junior Moderator - The first step to becoming a staff member
3 - VIP - a special class of members that are users/moderators
Should you choose to take none of the above positions you may continue to be a freestyle tutor and your ranks will progress as follows:
Master - 170-299
Elite - 300-499
Legend - 500-999
Icon - 1000+

Resident - this rank is the most free to do as you please position here. Residents are encouraged to share their knowledge with the low ranking members, but are not required to. Any modder with a released mod ranking higher than five is automatically eligible for this position.
VIP - This rank is for those that do not wish to mod or officially join the staff, but have a moderate amount of knowledge to share and are interested in assisting the school and it's residents with play testing, research, promotion and publishing of mods. Anyone that can provide a link to a list of posts that shows exemplary contribution and desire to help others to learn, will automatically be eligible for this position. All VIPs will have their own room.
Junior Moderator - this position is at the bottom of the ladder for staff members. Your power here is limited to moderation of reported files.
Global Moderator - this position affords you to moderate all public forums with powers falling just short of banning members. All staff members with a rank equal or greater will have their own room.
Senior Moderator - Full moderator rights in all public and private spaces as well as the ability to ban members.
Administrative Moderator - Full administrator with all the power that entails, with the exception of changing network settings and style code.
Administrator - Founder status Only I and partner, Robert aka Stormraven possess this rank, but any Administrative Moderator that remains diligent to this site and it's cause for six months or more will be offered founder status.

I firmly believe that this will provide the entire community with more modders and better mod making time tables.

We hereby do solemnly swear to always aid in the successful transformation of newbie to modder and the creation and wide, even distribution of content created by and for The Elder Scrolls Community. We and any who join us will provide;
1 - An always free to post Community BulletinBoard(no membership required)
2 - An extensive list of community links w/up to date statistical info,available to all as well as a page for each site with in depth house and user reviews
3 - A friendly, hands on learning environment for those just learning and those seeking to extend their skills by collaborating with others.
3 - A comprehensive research and promotional publishing support service to all who seek it.(details to come)
4 - Housing for all staff and eligible members
5 - An unbiased and open minded organization dedicated to the growth and support of the entire community.

This is our mission statement and while it may change slightly in the future the overall goal will remain the same, to unify our community and prevent good members from being left out in the cold to suffer and eventually give up on their dreams to make worlds in The Elder Scrolls universe.

Thank you for your time and if you like my idea's and are currently without a home, consider joining me. Formation of a mod team is also in my plans so there are many roles to fill here, all of them productive to our cause. Long Live TES Community

Respectfully,

Jeremy Burkett aka Worm

worm82075 on 22/2/2008 at 20:46

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It is advertising of sorts. Response from the community has been overwhelming. Many quality people have stepped forward and I now have the start of a respectable staff. We will not be open for public registration until all content and management systems are in place. The entire purpose behind this venture is to bolster the whole community, not to take away from it. Dedicated modders are starting to see that and are asking to join for the sole purpose of breathing new life into the community as well as their own site. TES Community College will be a private learning institution, as such guests will have access to the public resources of the site, but will have no access to the campus unless they become a student. Public chatting will be at a minimum here. That is the reasoning behind the dorm rooms, so we do not lose focus on the overall goal. The rules are not something I'm proud of but are absolutely necessary to ensure that the majority of students graduate and move on to other areas of the community, possibly yours.

Let me apoligize in advance to all the staff members here, for soon enough you will have a flood of students here asking where they can find this or that. The upside to that is almost certainly some of these people will like what they see here and will tell all their friends about it and will possibly join you. This sort of thing will be widely encouraged at our school. Keep in mind that we will only be pointing people in certain directions to find the resources they need, while we will tell them how to conduct themselves in places such as these we can hardly control the chaos that is bound to occur. It would be widely beneficial to all concerned to collaborate on this, so as to keep the flow organized.

We will not accept your application for employment if you choose to leave the site or the team you are with now. We have already turned down several such applications as that is counter productive to our cause. All current staff members were either without a home or a have joined us on the side in hopes of creating something to benefit their site or team.

We need all the support we can get, but should you choose to shun or otherwise boycott our cause that will have no bearing on our mission. We will still provide the public with a link to this site and any other known site for that matter and we will encourage the exploration of them in search of a place of their own. Like our mission statement said:

We hereby do solemnly swear to always aid in the successful transformation of newbie to modder and the creation and wide, even distribution of content created by and for The Elder Scrolls Community. We and any who join us will provide;

5 - An unbiased and open minded organization dedicated to the growth and support of the entire community.


I thank you all for your time and hope that none of my actions here have done any harm in any way.

Repectfully,

Jeremy Burkett aka Worm

flexbuster on 22/2/2008 at 22:04

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Luckily, the one pair black socks and one pair black pants thing is easy, since that first Dark Brotherhood assassin takes care of it for you.

piano-sam on 29/2/2008 at 21:51

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I think I detetcted an. . .


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