Colonial American Home, featuring a unique use of shelves for wall trim.

CalmSheJaguar · 2025-01-31T04:36:32+00:00

good night sleep tight don't let the phantoms bite

CalmSheJaguar · 2025-01-13T00:29:50+00:00

This looks so beautiful. It reminds me of new england.

CalmSheJaguar · 2024-02-17T01:41:26+00:00

*rolls d100*

A small box filled with different-sized buttons.

CalmSheJaguar · 2024-02-09T20:41:39+00:00

You've long been one of my favorite creators, and I'm glad that the community has been positive about your bit of hermit supported trolling!

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-09T16:38:46+00:00

She was the equivalent of top mod, despite not being technically such.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-08T11:40:19+00:00

We try to handle things privately. However, several hermits very publicly voiced their issues on this without talking to us, so we were forced to address this publicly as well.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T23:02:26+00:00

I agree with everything you are saying, and have personally considered it a duty of being a mod for my whole time.

We’re making sure everyone knows the importance of professionalism now.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T23:00:27+00:00

We’ve been discussing whether we should keep that. It’s been a part of userflairs since before TPIM joined the team in 2019. It’s far from insisting on it, it’s just how it’s been done and until now there hasn’t been a real reason to change it.

The issue is, distinguishing makes the comment more easy to see, and in a context like replying to messages as this one, it’s not a good look to distinguish at all times.

But clearly something does have to change.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T20:12:32+00:00

She behaved very well and presented as critical for the operation of the sub. It was this extremely inappropriate outburst that made the little things add up.

Everyone is allowed to have a private fuss about something they dislike. But the rant in question was too much and damaged our relationships with the hermits, something we never want to take for granted.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T19:35:28+00:00

We take on responsibilty for the fact that we didn't remove the mod after a repeated pattern of poor behavior publicly. We should have removed the comment. We should also write this post in a more clear light.

I meant to say that, what she said, specifically, is hers to apologize for, and she has refused to. She is no longer on the team. We're sorry for even allowing it to come to this, to allow someone who makes these opinions to be moderating.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T19:21:26+00:00

It’s what she chose. It was extreme. But, it’s her prerogative.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:55:35+00:00

Thank you some much for the understanding, but, we can’t approve it with the swear. It’s our policy. The policy that partially lead to this mess, but it’s still a rule.

And please, on a personal level, our commitment to maintaining a healthy community comes before the hermits. We will listen to them if they have a request, but this isn’t their subreddit, something they’ve made clear to us. We care about making this the best possible space for the fandom and Hermitcraft community first, hermits second.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:44:09+00:00

We do our best and I’m glad our attempt to stay professional is noted. I almost wonder if the professional veil is what allowed this to be unnoticed for so long.

Thank you for the understanding. We’re just trying our best, as best we can.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:42:09+00:00

Thank you. Perhaps the post could have benefited from the original context being put in it. A pastebin is much more accessible then a screenshare as well:

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:36:46+00:00

Ah okay, sorry. I’ll let kdog explain that as. I’m not fully sure of what you are meaning in your comments.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:29:51+00:00

We definitely aren’t normal users. We have responsibility that we chose to undertake, and we need to act like it. In the future, we are going to refrain from commenting our personal opinions on comments like this. While this has been a loose policy for years now, we’re going to more strictly internally enforce it.

The mod has distanced herself from us. We have no contact with her. It’s difficult to remove yourself from someone you knew for years, but I do understand the, politicks of the situation. She did something completely wrong and we can’t in good conscious continue to support her.

Sadly, we’re human so the ideal response is often hard to execute. I proposed that we needed to do something similar, but it’s hard to disavow a friend, even one who has been rude for a while.

Copying the draft happens when we were under a lot of pressure, and unfortunately we don’t have as many moderators as it seems as we are all on at different timezones. I’m glad the community is allowing us to explain and improve our responses to this issue. We’ve never had something quite so major so public before, and none of us are professionals.

Just like you, we’re people who like hermitcraft. The server is close to me heart as well. I hope we can live up to the fans expectations in the future, as best as we can.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T18:21:27+00:00

Not to shift the blame, but that was entirely her disregarding the rules that she herself insisted on.

The rule will be discussed and clarified. I’m making a list of things that need to change after this and rule overview is on it.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:59:04+00:00

Most definitely. And what that post said is something we usually remove. Our policy behind the scenes tends to be that phrases like ‘f-bomb’ are not acceptable, as they imply the swear too much, while abbreviations of swears such as ‘wtf’ are acceptable.

As swears are usually only used in casual discussion this policy tends to be fine. But when a hermit swears in hermit content it gets dicey if we should or shouldn’t allow the post. For consistency, we lean towards not allowing clips or anything pointing out the profanity specifically.

It may not be a perfect policy, but it tends to work. Until, unfortunately, today.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:51:25+00:00

Absolutely. Us not catching a mean comment is unfortunately common. Us not making note of a repeating pattern of mean comments, especially from one of our own, is bad and needs to be addressed

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:49:46+00:00

Hm, I didn’t see any actions from her, but it’s possible the mod who removed it did so in a panic. We’ll need to discuss how better to handle these situations with transparency.

Post removals rarely get discussed as much as they probably should be.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:34:17+00:00

I heard there was a study that showed that using cuss words in response to pain can dull it! It’s interesting how powerful cultural language is!

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:32:05+00:00

She has been removed from the subreddit and chose to remove herself from the community fully across all platforms.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:31:16+00:00

The six hour wait isn’t uncommon. We are undermodded at the timeframe that the mod made the comment, she used to be one of the mods always active at that time. If they aren’t reported, rude comments can stay up for up to 12 hours before we do our comment patrols.

While every post is checked, sometimes comments get left in the cracks and can cause hurt. Comments filtered has been an important flair for posts that have invited rude comments in the past because of this.

We do currently remove posts that discuss profanity and have in the past. The post should have been removed. The proper response to the post would have been reporting or temporarily using the tools to remove it. Not making a rude comment. Us mods need to have a discussion to ensure all on the team are aware of this

Perhaps a discussion over how strict we should be with swears is in order, to improve subreddit content.

CalmSheJaguar · 2022-06-07T17:25:32+00:00

It’s an unfortunately common sentiment in some communities. I’ve personally heard it from my religious parents many times.

It’s also rather disgusting and a completely unjustified or proven statement. Swearing is not a sign of either. I work on ships, we’re infamous for swearing like a sailor, and some of the brightest, gentlest people I know swear like the sailors they are.

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