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Totally real synth who is 100% an engineer now
STREAMS
Employed and (finally) have my desk set up - chair pending - I plan to start streaming again soon! I currently have no planned "schedule" other than trying to go live once a week on either Twitch or Youtube. I'm using this fresh start as an opportunity to both re-install Windows 11 (listen my desktop has been sitting in storage for months), and as an opportunity to figure out what streaming platform I prefer going forward.If you want to keep up to date on everything, the publicly viewable spots to stay in the know are on the Fediverse and Bluesky. Also, my community Discord server is a good place, too. It's... pretty quiet right now.For server and stream rules, check out the Community Rules page and, for the curious, how the strike system works.
About
Howdy! I'm an electrical (controls) engineer currently working for a company that makes chemicals. I'm not telling you more than that. I will gladly tell you that I used to stream back in the COVID days and when I was in university, and I'm attempting to get back into it since I miss going live and seeing y'all's names in chat.It really shouldn't come as a surprise that I'm a furry, given my past D&D characters have consisted of a sorcerer Warforged, a bard/paladin Dragonborn, and finally an artificer Kobold. I love my gremlins so much.Oh, and I have a blog now, go check it out. There'll be all sorts of stuff there over time, from personal projects, to rants, to who knows what else. Mostly rants. It has an RSS feed, too, for the folks using RSS.
COMMUNITY RULES
No discrimination. Period. You will be punished appropriately for it. Homophobia, transphobia, racism, sexism, misogyny, antisemitism, etc. are not tolerated. Nazism, pedophilia, groomer rhetoric, etc. will result in an immediate ban.
Keep it roughly PG-13. While Discord and Twitch are 18+ spaces now, I don't want y'all to be swearing like a sailor, nor do I want NSFW stuff everywhere. If it's gorey/bloody, put it under a spoiler and give content warning(s) as appropriate - smut and porn will not be allowed, period. Suggestive posts are in a gray area - spoil and content warn it.
In Discord, Please use content warnings and spoilers for mental health talk and use #vent-and-politics. Some mental health talk on Twitch is fine, however I am not a therapist and cannot help you other than direct you to local resources.
To aid in moderation, Please respond to friend requests or DMs from myself. I have my DMs open to people in shared servers, and while I don't expect the same from you, I might need to be able to reach out to you should something occur.
Above all, Be nice, don't be toxic. I don't want to harbor people who are routinely extra harsh on others for no reason. If a conversation gets heated, either take it to DMs or step away from the server.
Both the Twitch TOS and Community Guidelines apply when I'm streaming, and are good places to start if you aren't sure of what is and isn't allowed.Also, hold me to these same standards - if you think I'm violating a rule, tell me! I can't expect to hold y'all to anything higher than I hold myself to. Yes, I know that's a hard thing to do, but please. If you think there's something I'm not doing that I'm saying y'all should be, say so!
THE STRIKE SYSTEM
From helping moderate other servers, I've found that a "warning -> strike -> kick/ban" system works fairly well for handling problems from a "offering some grace while still enforcing rules" standpoint. All infractions on both Discord (and Twitch, if possible) are logged with screenshots in a channel visible to all mods.Here's the loose structure if you're unfamiliar. Any step can be skipped at any time depending on the severity of the infraction.
Warnings are simply that. They don't count towards strikes unless it becomes a routine problem, and can either be issued privately in DMs, or publicly if it's something that deserves to be a public reminder.
Strikes are either upgraded from repeat warnings for one problem, or more serious cases that need more than a warning, but don't warrant a kick or ban. What qualifies as a strike varies on the action, intent, and how it affected others, and so is somewhat nebulous. Strikes will always be logged and sent out in DMs (though we'll publicly say this is being dealt with if it's egregious enough, and those affected ask), and over time can be removed with good behavior. We are talking like, many months of good behavior. Not days.
Kicks and Bans are issued when a member continually violates server rules and builds up strikes, or their infraction is so damaging that it must be immediately dealt with. As with warnings and strikes, these are logged, and kick evasion will lead to a full-on IP ban from Discord. A brief message to the individual will only be sent out if the kick is a result of multiple strikes, and the community will be informed of the course of action.
You are more than welcome to DM myself to appeal a strike or kick, though I cannot say that your appeal will always go through or not. Bans, however, are not contestable. If you're banned, you're gone forever.