A MagiQal Life

There are two points of reconstruction that have taken place on Occult Corpus recently and one of them is rather hard to miss. The other, while more subtle, is liking even bigger.

I have eliminated the Occult Aspect forum and have moved its contents under Magickal Persuasions. Originally I wanted to place Occult News, and Article Arcana under this header, but as it turns out I found a better place for the articles section (by itself). Regardless though, from the start of Occult Aspect I always had a tugging feeling that it detracted from Magickal Persuasions and was, for the better part, the same thing.

If you were gone from the site for the last three or so months and are just now returning, I guess the only ‘change’ you’d notice would be that Cryptozoology and Paranormal are both under Persuasions rather then Social Aspects, as I find them more suited as magickal accessories then a social phenomenon.

In my opinion, switching back to this format cleans up the board rather nicely and the reorganization I think may help the flow of conversation.

The second change (which by the way is only the first phase) was to promote two members to Super Moderator and then place them over a section of the board.

I promoted Forest Breath to supervise the Social Aspects board. She has shown a great interest in the site and has preformed her duties as a moderator with loyalty and respect. While she is as good as my Wife, my relationship with her was not a real factor in this promotion…and I am hoping that others can see her as the wonderful moderator that she is.

Cypher Grey was also promoted. For those that do not recognize the name, he was Chalis. He has also shown that he is responsible enough to hand a few more duties as a moderator. I pushed for his modship over at OF, and was adamant that he be a Mod here on the OC. I trust and respect him as a member, mod, and as a human. His main duties will be to cover Magickal Persuasions.

Mmothra was not demoted by any means however, his duties and responsibilities has lessened. He is now in charge of Magickal paths rather then the entire site.

With these two changes, and a few more changes to come, I hope to see Occult Corpus grow into one of the largest Magick, Pagan, and occult communities on the internet.

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I’m a member at Digital Point forums and have noticed that they have rules that seem a bit loopy and onesided. They have no post whoring rules in effect and there are posts after posts with no content, and I mean NO CONTENT. Such as PM SENT! Like the nav bar does not show that. Post counts at this place are important, as if you have a high enough count you can see your signature links, avatar, and even your location. I’m seriously beginning to think I may start whoring my posts so I can make $2.99 a month *boggle* Actually, I’d like to see their staff increased 20 fold to help put a stop to such a thing.

At Digital point forums I’ve found that the rules are secondary once you’ve reached 100 posts. While I see name after name in red (banned) I’ve also noticed that there are many things which are seemingly simply ignored. Like Post Whoring for instance… Such a thing is clearly against the rules and I see some folks posting they got infractions for it. But I see more and more threads with “Thank you” or “PM SENT!” in them which does nothing but increase ones post count. And on a webmaster forum, just like the web Content is KING. With 2000 posts and 10 posts a day you can sell your signature links for a nice chunck of change. Currently, a link in a sig on a forum with such a high PR offers a lot of Google juice. You can also sell your Avatar and even your location field (as it’s seen in the post-bit). These are for product recognition rather then linkage. Such sales are generally aimed at the population of the forum (webmasters at the DP).

I don’t know, but it’s all really silly, and I think there should likely be a massive crackdown on such a thing…this includes a mass wipe of “PR UPDATE” threads which have infested the Google forum cockroaches in a dirty kitchen.

I’ve learned a lot at Digital Point, but I’m starting to get annoyed at the seemingly lopsided rules…
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