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Yep, Sock removed the part about you leaving the forums and labeled it as "Off-topic spam". *rolls eyes* How is a user announcing that they're planning on leaving considered spam? Isn't that something other users would want to know so they don't try to PM you or contact you via the DC forums?

Yep. I even got warned for it. What a surprise. /sarcasm On my birthday, no less. (Yep. I got the message today (my local time). And I started playing DC one day before my birthday. Well, happy birthday to me.

May I put "DCF mods act like self-important, holier-than-thou imbeciles" into my signature here? Because they do.

@ewi: DCF (DC forums) are full of hostility and drama, with the mods making sure that everyone openly criticizing any one of them in any way, shape or form gets warned, ends on post moderation or simply leaving. The forums sure are open to people who behave like good little dummies and do as the mods say.

I've been on DCF for almost 5 years, my anniversary will be in eight days. I won't be there. And even when I just started, the mods - though some of them different people - were the same. Quelching discussion, deleting posts and whole threads for no better reason that that they felt like it ("It was sooo much work, all those reports. No, you can't see the posts any more, we edited them and the users then went and deleted them *whine*. Users are so eeevil!")


Today, I went back once to clear my inbox - Sock's love letter - aka warn notice - included. That one was deleted without being read. (I'm sure she tracks her messages. Let her see how it feels to be ignored. I wonder - will I get another warn for ignoring an older warn? I wouldn't put it past the mods on DCF. But I digress. No, I'm on a rant.) I will come back sporadically to look at my inbox, and because I arranged for some holiday trades and mostly gifts for Halloween and Christmas. Some people would be really disappointed to not see the hollies I promised - some on my daughter's behalf. (She agreed to breed hers for some people, too. Yes, I actually asked her every single time before promising her hollies' eggs. I'm not playing her scroll. But I do gift stuff to her, and it's usually a very quick pickup because I ask her if she wants a certain egg before putting it in a teleport. Just saying.)

Actually, filling the Encyclopedia doesn't take that long if you have a fast Internet (I can understand people with slow Internet and/or not enough time, though).

I managed to fill nearly everything in five hours, and I'm only missing a few breed details (which should be easy once I find a scroll with hoards of frozen hatchies).

PS. Clicking through mod scrolls is a good way to get your Encyclopedia filled. I did Rubyshoes's scroll and that helped tremendously. And when you need to click hatchies, CTRL+F for "hatchling" and bam, you'll breeze through thousands of dragons in no time at all.

Thanks for the tip, Beldarius! I tried it and was able to get much farther using mod scrolls as you suggested.

And yeah, Olympe, that was probably a good call. I'm glad we finally got the post...but that's the response we should have gotten when the complaints started, not 13 days later. I'm not a fan of the new TAE/LAE, but I do feel a bit badly for the mods, who had to guess blindly what the admins would and would not approve. Which I suspect is why we got such cautious rules.

I did trade 4 of mine for a third gen, but I consider it well worth it, as I got to request a non-perfect stair that most likely no one will like but me and I don't really horde holidays.    The much harder request I fulfilled was raising 18 hatchings for my first 3G shimmer, when I wasn't sure I'd ever have another chance to get one.  Of course because karma hates me, he misgendered and within a few weeks I managed to trade for three more 3Gs (1 for the halloweens, 1 for a CB silver I didn't really need and 1 for raising another 8 zombie fodder babies.  I really profited from my dislike of zombies this year xD), but I like him anyway and raising the hatchlings was actually kind of fun, although I am very glad to have my scroll back to myself.  I just fulfilled a second very tough IOU, for a CB gold in exchange for a future holly, and it was, surprisingly, much, much easier than the hatchie horde (certainly easier than trying for the Contest) and only took a couple of days of cave stalking.  And hey, now I know how to catch CB rares, which is nice.  If anyone needs an unbreedable or anything else that's not a metal or a trio, feel free to let me know as now that I'm really cave hunting I frequently have extras I'd be happy to share.

Sorry this is a somewhat chatty post, but the holidays were busy and there really aren't many places in DC for discussing what goes on there.  Somewhat off topic, I now have this egg: dragcave.net/lineage/had3h whose mother's name I despise.  I don't know why anyone would do that.  I actually dumped this exact egg back into the AP, because I did not want "Hitler" in my lineages, but traded for it again after all my other pumpkins gendered female as it's the only PB male currently available.  So, in compromise, I named it "Zionist ".  Hopefully it doesn't get me in trouble, because it does indeed make me happier.  His mate's family had a theme I followed out of respect, so she's just called "Hallowed Hopes" but my 4G is now "Sword of Jerusalem" (although I will change it if the parents' owners ask and have made sure my username is visible on my scroll.  I do not want anyone else made uncomfortable.)

I traded a CB silver at one point as well, but I remain very happy with my Halloween trade. I honestly just wanted one male and one female of the new Halloweens and I have them, with the codes I wanted. I guess I'm just not much of a CB hoarder in general.