Holy crap! I can post a report!
HRLD SITE
Yep, it's still down. We're working on about two months here of the site being unavailable, and it's really beyond my power to fix it. Also, I've been planning a whole new site, but it seems most the Office has fallen asleep at their desks (nah - I know they're just busy doing other stuff...). If you're on the HRLD Office Staff and reading this, check your mail and reply.
Techno...what?
Somehow this got leaked to the newest Dark Voice...
There is a new guild on the horizon, or at least the people working on it hope so. A handful of people are working on a long-overdue grouping of the DB's talent, myself included, and devising in-guild rewards and ranks. I know the CoG has eluded to it,and that this is still a massive Work In Progress, but since it's a slow news week here in HRLD land I figured I'd shed some more light on the subject.
Error!
My inbox has been flooded this week with error reports. You see, DB Feedback goes to the whole DC. I've already screamed about it, and hopefully it'll be changed that technical issues will only go to the people who can actually fix them.
HRLD's Commentary
These days everyone has one of those "hooks" that makes people want to skim their report right up to the weekly fun stuff. Some have a distinct format, others run some sort of competition, and some do a combination of those. I do nothing, as you all have seen, and until now it didn't bother me.
I've sent quite a few reports with material that matters only to see it gets the same recognition as the near-pointless reports. A definite case in point was a report about the GoA form being broken and the guidelines that needed to be followed to submit your request. Requests went down significantly, and the inquiry e-mails on 'what information do you need for a GoA' went up. I'm not above answerng such e-mail, but the point here is that I already sent a report - and even a news item - on what we needed.
Is anyone even reading these? Do silly games or predictable formats guarantee that the information contained within is reaching the membership? Of course not, but it seems that those reports actually generate activity and interest, or, at the very least, it proves that people are looking forward to them.
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I think it is less a matter of people not reading reports and more a matter of people forgetting reports. I mean if I read your report and then 3 weeks later I decide I would like change my GOA, I can hope it was a logged report and I can just go to that list but if not or if I don't know where that is. I have 3 weeks of news posts to sort through inorder to find the info I need. In which case it is easier to just fire off an email. Having a post on the Herald site in some highlighted text saying "Do This" while we fix the old way would be a great help. Remember it isn't that we don't love all these fine reports rather we tend to forget stuff if it doesn't affect us or at least doesn't affect us at the time.
Just my opinion I could be wrong.