Focus for Pocus

[Aphrodite Mae]

My recent brief experience as a goddess in other threads taught me how uncool it can be to have everybody looking at you all the time, and expecting great things. It just isn't a good thing, can you imagine? I just couldn't take it, and so I resigned, on the very first day. The "expectations of the faithful" thing got old really fast, and so that's why I resigned my honorary position as "goddess".

But, you know what? There are people who can't do the "resign from the expectations of the faithful" thing. People like Pocus. Everybody is looking to him for answers, poor guy. So what, if he was the "lead developer" part of the team that made the coolest strategic simulation ever. That doesn't mean that we should pester him, all the time!

But we have to, don't we. It's both because we love the game, and because Pocusis the one who both knows, and understands.
It is Pocus, who has omniscent understanding.
It is Pocus, whose words inevitably lead to enlightenment, as incomprehensible as they might be for Acolytes.
It is Pocus, who has already forgotten more about AACW than you can ever hope to know.

You know its all true, don't you.

My problem was that while I was thinking of this concept of "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thing, I was annoyed because it kinda interrupted my train of thought about the next question that I wanted to ask Pocus. (I was pretty close to figuring it out, too.) So I was definitely annoyed, when my "Cool Pocus Question" got derailed by the "It's a hassle to be Pocus" thoughts. So I began thinking, and sweet little me came up with what at least seems like a good idea. So here it is.

What if we had one place where Pocus could… focus? A thread where people could post specific questions to Pocus, and when he had time, he could check it out, and answer the ones which hadn't already been answered by the community. It seems to me like this would also be cool, because Pocus would have a place to correct common misconceptions. Misconceptions shared by even highly experienced forumites. (Think, "Artillery Frontage", if you need an example.) Instead of fifty different threads with "Pocus" as the search thingy, it would be fifty different pages that you could scroll through.

Look at deeper implications here, for a second, ok? Among them: people who didn't know to come to the "AACW Pocus Focus" thread would most likely be asking fundamental questions that could easily be answered by the community of "Regulars". Meanwhile (pay attention here, this is the important part) Pocus would have more time to spend on developing cool games, if there was a thread that was kind of a sub-wiki, for forum "Pocus" questions that couldn't be answered at the Wiki. See…? Instead of answering a question that he'd answered 50 times already in "sunken threads", forumites could help him by posting links to posts within the same thread where the question was already answered! No research needed.
Or something like that, anyway.

So, friends, what do you think?

Regards,
Havely

PS: Some killjoy out there is going to grumble about the necessity of context for understanding stuff. Fine! Go ahead and include a link to go to the thread, if you want to; just make sure that you include a "return" thread, there, so you-know-who can come back to the "focus". If you want to.

[tagwyn]

Havely: Where were you on a forum being a "goddess?" Not that you couldn't do it! You are a very sweet person. apy:

[lodilefty]

Interesting idea.

I think it would need to be 'moderated' to keep the noise and OT comments out...

[Dudosh]

what a thread

Pocus: Hero award ompom: ompom:


Better: let`s met all and then we make a marsh to ageod , with USA and CSA Flags and a orchestre plays the sound and dooya leads it

[dooya]

Actually I do not think that such a thread is really necessary. Instead I think all we need is a little bit of responsibility, a little bit of self-effacement, a bit of trust in our fellow forum members, and a bit of patience in order to let Pocus breathe.

Over the last few weeks Pocus has disabled personal messaging first, and later user messages too. I do not think that he did this because he wants us to leave him alone, but rather because answering all these private messages eats up a lot of time. I do not know how much PMs Pocus received on a normal day and how much of them were really necessary, but judging from my last view on his "user messages" display, I have no doubt that many of these PMs could have been answered by someone else but Pocus.

A little bit of responsibility should lead us to try to find out the answers for easy questions ourselves, and, if that does not work, to use the forum search before we ask a question for the umpteenth time.

A little bit of self-effacement and a little bit of trust in our fellow forum members might lead us to the insight that not every of our questions has to be answered by a member of AGEOD's core team, and therefore does not to be addressed in a PM to one of them, but in a thread in the public forum instead.

And finally a little bit of patience might help if a question is not answered immediately.

This might make life easier for all of us.

[lodilefty]

+1000 for Mr. dooya

[Dudosh]

Actually I do not think that such a thread is really necessary. Instead I think all we need is a little bit of responsibility, a little bit of self-effacement, a bit of trust in our fellow forum members, and a bit of patience in order to let Pocus breathe.

Over the last few weeks Pocus has disabled personal messaging first, and later user messages too. I do not think that he did this because he wants us to leave him alone, but rather because answering all these private messages eats up a lot of time. I do not know how much PMs Pocus received on a normal day and how much of them were really necessary, but judging from my last view on his "user messages" display, I have no doubt that many of these PMs could have been answered by someone else but Pocus.

A little bit of responsibility should lead us to try to find out the answers for easy questions ourselves, and, if that does not work, to use the forum search before we ask a question for the umpteenth time.

A little bit of self-effacement and a little bit of trust in our fellow forum members might lead us to the insight that not every of our questions has to be answered by a member of AGEOD's core team, and therefore does not to be addressed in a PM to one of them, but in a thread in the public forum instead.

And finally a little bit of patience might help if a question is not answered immediately.

This might make life easier for all of us.

No more words to say to this and at mostley I think the thread is needless

[Generalisimo]

Actually I do not think that such a thread is really necessary. Instead I think all we need is a little bit of responsibility, a little bit of self-effacement, a bit of trust in our fellow forum members, and a bit of patience in order to let Pocus breathe.

Over the last few weeks Pocus has disabled personal messaging first, and later user messages too. I do not think that he did this because he wants us to leave him alone, but rather because answering all these private messages eats up a lot of time. I do not know how much PMs Pocus received on a normal day and how much of them were really necessary, but judging from my last view on his "user messages" display, I have no doubt that many of these PMs could have been answered by someone else but Pocus.

A little bit of responsibility should lead us to try to find out the answers for easy questions ourselves, and, if that does not work, to use the forum search before we ask a question for the umpteenth time.

A little bit of self-effacement and a little bit of trust in our fellow forum members might lead us to the insight that not every of our questions has to be answered by a member of AGEOD's core team, and therefore does not to be addressed in a PM to one of them, but in a thread in the public forum instead.

And finally a little bit of patience might help if a question is not answered immediately.

This might make life easier for all of us.

All I can say is:

Oh, and by the way... Happy Birthday!!!

[arsan]

Hey! its true!
Happy birthday Dooya!
Your avatar looks kind of old for a guy with "only" 35
Because of too much drinking, smoking and partying around i'm sure

[dooya]

All I can say is:

Oh, and by the way... Happy Birthday!!!

Many thanks.

Hey! its true!
Happy birthday Dooya!
Your avatar looks kind of old for a guy with "only" 35
Because of too much drinking, smoking and partying around i'm sure

Many thanks too. Don't be confused by the avatar, it's just a picture of my younger sister. (Not married yet, if you are interested. )

[jastaV]

+1000 for Mr. dooya

My +1000 for Mr. dooya!

... and happy birthday!

Take chance to thanks all other members replying with competence to many questions I'm posting!

..... lodilefty and Primasprint expecially!

[Hohenlohe]

Happy Birthday, dear Dooya ompom: ompom: ompom:

Live long and prosper!

greetings

Hohenlohe

[Pocus]

I appreciated the humor in the post of Miss Mae anyway, this was rather amusing to read, while I was sipping my tea (no, French don't eat snails jam at tea-time), so thanks to you for this nice moment, former Goddess across the pond.

Rafiki told me I disabled PMs. Ooops, this was not my intent, despite receiving, everyday, a bit too much of these for my taste. I just wanted to disable visitors messages (the ones even guests can send to people), and that's all.

Browsing the forum don't take that much time, because more often than not, helpful players give answers to the less experienced ones. So it is ok for me to keep checking them. Customer Support on the other hand can be time-intensive. And it is soooo fun too . So if you know what can be the technical/installation problem of a new player, don't hesitate to provide guidance.

I wish you an happy birthday Dooya!

[dooya]

Many thanks for the wishes. Please be all invited to "Aphrodite Mae's Gentlemen's Club" tonight.

[Primasprit]

Happy birthday!

[tagwyn]

AMEN for Herr Dooya!!! apy:

[Jabberwock]

Many thanks too. Don't be confused by the avatar, it's just a picture of my younger sister. (Not married yet, if you are interested. )

Apparently she is wearing a tight outfit, just tight in the wrong places.

Happy Birthday!

[Dudosh]

No Orchestre marsh to Ageod? No Dooya as orchestre leader?

[Aphrodite Mae]

With great affection,
Havely

PS Tag...? Dooya's a "Himm", not a "Herr". He just sounds that way, sometimes.

[Adlertag]

So, a focus for dooya that day.

[tagwyn]

Havely: In German,Mr. is Herr, as in Herr Schmidt, ergo: Herr Dooya. Right? apy:

[Dudosh]

Havely: In German,Mr. is Herr, as in Herr Schmidt, ergo: Herr Dooya. Right? apy:

Yes

[arsan]

I bet Havely was just pulling your leg, Tagwyn