MKPC: Addressing How's It Going

★ Introduction ★

Hello everyone, for those who don't know me already, I am Hazel. I've been on this site since 2022, it's been with me for the majority of my teenage years and this site means a lot to me, the people here have partially shaped the way I am and I've met many amazing people on this site even throughout the time I was a regular player just like you, to becoming a challenge validator for a while, to also becoming a moderator as of recent

I believe that honesty and transparency is a good quality to have, it allows people to have a better understanding of things and allows us to develop trust in each other and more. I created this topic to let you all know our experiences as challenge validators and moderators, alongside why certain stuff on the site has been slow and a little bit of info as to what we've been doing behind the scenes

★ Site Activity ★

Many of us challenge validators and/or moderators/administrators are 17, 18, 19 years old etc. The majority of us are either: preparing for exams, going to college/university, are currently working a job etc. We're at a stage in our lives where we are becoming more independent as we learn how to live by ourselves in the real world, it's a huge step to move away from home and your parents and as a result of these new priorities of entering adulthood, we have to focus on more important matters of life - which may lead to a decline in activity on the site

Due to stuff like this, challenges are also taking a while to be accepted, I see the list and I definitely want to go validate a bunch of challenges again someday, but we simply have less time to focus on these things. The same goes with moderation, we may miss some things or can be slow to respond to certain reports, but we do try our best to remain active and get these reports sorted out. We're grateful in your help and support for making MKPC a safer site for everyone by reporting these issues

Moderating is not just about the safety of everyone with an account on MKPC, but it's also about considering the silent majority - the people who play MKPC but never make an account, I believe this is where most of the player base is at. So we all try our best to keep the site safe when we can, whilst also dealing with stuff in our own lives too

★ Behind The Scenes ★

When I first became a mod, I had the wish thought that I can imagine all the other mods have, to keep MKPC a site safe from bad actors and bad people in general. Every one of us has been on the site for a while and have some form of connection with the community, it's played a small but effective part of our lives and we (or I know for definite at least I) want to give back by help this community through challenge validation and moderation

A lot of staff actions we do are well thought-out, we talk to each other if we need help deciding certain things and we try find the best solution to certain problems

You'll notice that when the site gets someone who trolls with inappropriate accounts, there is a significantly reduced number of inappropriate usernames. Me, alongside the help of the other moderators within our team have removed over 3,000 inappropriate usernames from the site in a matter of days and we will keep removing more inappropriate usernames we find, and make this site safer bit by bit.

We plan to continue making the site safer through this and the current means we already have

Thank you for reading ^^

This was actually really insightful! Keep up the good work kamone!