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It’s been quite a while since the Board of Governors has issued an official update on what we’re doing. Please note that these updates are for the purpose of the general VHL member to know what we are and aren't working on. Some topics that move on and off this list may not come to fruition–we may decide that, after careful examination, the idea isn't practical or has too many inevitable opportunities for failure. These updates are not intended to signal that we have everything about it figured out. Frequency of these updates is to be determined. There's no point in posting weekly updates stating that concepts are still in progress, but the goal is to reduce the amount of unknowns with relation to what people are and aren't paying attention to. Anyway, without further ado... The Meta We have been in the process of discussing how to resolve the meta issue in the league since late October. Our goals for the project include creating a more well-rounded competition among teams, rather than a select few teams dominating the entire league because of specific player builds. A challenge we’ve faced in our search for a good solution has been a resistance to infringing upon user freedoms in building their player. We’re narrowing potential solutions so that users still have control over how they build without allowing for the current issue to persist. We’ve advanced from the initial discussion phase and are currently looking at test sims that have been run by fellow board members. VHLM Waiver Improvement We are currently working through a proposal to update how the VHLM Waiver System works. Right now, VHLM GMs are required to manually post in player creation threads, which takes time, effort, and availability. The proposal for improvement consists of moving the VHLM waiver to the portal. This concept was proposed in response to a deep dive into retention. We reached a point where BOG members had said their piece, and we are collecting information and opinions from VHLM GMs, as they would be the primary population affected by the changes. VHL Finance Transparency All amounts listed are in CAD. The makeup of each expense category in this quarter is as follows: Advertising, costs related to recruitment drives. Branding, costs related to purchasing team logos. Charity, the total of funds donated to the league earmarked for charity and the league contribution from the holiday drive. (Does not include holiday raffle winners) Hosting, costs related to hosting the portal and forums. Licensing, costs related to STHS licenses. Career Point Task Revisit There have been complaints (both old and new) about the career point tasks. This proposal just came forward a couple days ago, so not much has been done on this front. We’re evaluating the career point tasks as they currently stand to determine whether they should be updated/returned to how they previously were. More to come on this front. Additional Secondary Task We received a proposal about adding a new secondary point task since trivia wasn’t running. Right now, secondary point task options include reviewing, VHL.com tasks (article, radio, and graphic), and press conferences. Although there are ways to reach cap each week the the current options, without trivia, these options may require people to complete tasks in formats that they’re not comfortable with. The goal outlined in the proposal is to offer more opportunities for forum engagement and connecting with people outside of your own team’s locker room/immediate vicinity. We are currently in the process of determining whether we should implement the proposed task, especially given the return of trivia. Award Voting Award voting is currently live! Woohoo! Offseason! New Member Spartan is ONE OF US @BOG

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Imagine this: you’re talking about me, a very hot topic, in gen chat. You type, “oh yeah, fishy is the actual fucking coolest! She’s awesome and I’ve never encountered anyone so great.” You send the message. Someone corrects you a moment later, reminding you that this cool motherfucker uses they/them pronouns, not she/her pronouns. What do you do? Your first option is to be a dick. This option sucks. Here’s what that option looks like: “Whatever” “I don’t care” “lol but fishy is only one person! ha ha ha ha” “It doesn’t really matter, you know who I’m talking about” Saying those things makes you look like a jerk. Don’t do those things. Those things are hurtful because you’re effectively saying “you don’t mean enough to me to be respectful.” Your second option is to not be a dick. This option is great. We love that option. Here’s what that option looks like: Editing the message to use the correct word And then, maybe after that: Reacting nicely to the message calling it out “Ah shit my bad” “Oh sorry fishy” “Thanks for the reminder” The best analogy I can think of is when you use the wrong name for someone. Here’s another imaginary scenario: You’re sitting around a table with your friends, maybe having some lunch or something, and you’re like “oh yeah Daniel and I went hiking last weekend.” your friend Timmy, who you went hiking with last weekend, looks at you and is like “you mean me?” You know what you’re not going to say? “Whatever.” “I don’t care.” “Your name doesn’t matter, I get to choose your name based on how you look or sound.” “Names don’t matter.” It sounds silly, right? You’d just say, “oh haha yeah my bad” Being wrong can feel awkward, but it doesn’t have to be. I can’t speak for everyone, but I am quite understanding of people using the wrong words. Society has trained us so that when you hear a voice like mine, your brain goes THAT IS A WOMAN. I understand that, and I try to be very forgiving. For some people, you may have never met someone who identifies like me or my non-binary comrades, and it’s a really weird concept to process. Most of the people on this site don’t at all intend to be hurtful or harmful with their words in that way. Some of you do, and, disrespectfully, fuck you, but the rest of you are just uncomfy when you’re wrong. Making mistakes can make you feel so silly, and I know that because I make mistakes all the time. We hear a lot of things like, “respect people’s pronouns!” and, like, yeah, do that… but we don’t hear a lot of discourse about what that looks like. Respecting people is about more than getting right on the first try every time. tl;dr: Being disrespectful of pronoun preferences is a dick move. Fix the error and move on.

LET'S FUCKING GO

I don't really see a need for this, especially considering that we intentionally don't have a tpe opportunities channel in the main discord. i get notified when you post new fantasy zone because i follow the subforum... i've thought it weird that we have a ping list, which creates more unnecessary work for you, when the exact same functionality is already built into the website

do we need the separate subforums for the different fantasy zones? if all the results are going in one place, could you do like a masterpost with all three forms (or one hella long form) instead of three separate posts? edit: also wanted to add that i like your variable questions at the end, i like that's not the same "guess the score" question every week

i way slowed down on this book but i still have it and am making progress bumping this thread with this tweet. enjoy

the survey is not well made but a vhl census could be kinda interesting tbh

golden. I also wanted to refer to Horcrux as she/her even though I knew it was Kachur. can't stop me. l o l horcrux cared more about being misgendered than i do I think this says a lot about you, and don't undermine my statement (p.s. i slowed the podcast down to 1x and your voice is much lower than I thought it was. also you talk slower than i thought) lol @ the spartan part. the horcrux v spartan feud was hilarious from my viewpoint. she messaged me, unprompted, not even after an argument between the two of them, telling me that she was trying to get spartan banned. all i could do was laugh fuck you. you know what for. how ironic that she was on that website. sometimes people tell on themselves and you don't even know that they're doing it. ------- i've laughed a lot about the fact that we got played like fiddles. i was asking mod team jokingly if we could ban horcrux after various situations where she was causing problems. i was close enough to the situation that i saw what she was doing in public spaces, dealt with the situations, and gained her trust (at least for a time, she probably added me to her shit list near the end where i stopped giving her the benefit of the doubt). the whole thing feels so maniacal that all i knew how to do was laugh. how else do you react to a spectacle like the horcrux personality? since then, though, i've had some time to step back and really think about the impact that the character had and on how many people they impacted. I'm a naturally giving person, with time, information, energy, etc., and i got really lucky to have not been sucked in. when she first joined, she was messaging me non-stop, and we developed a relationship about the fact that we were both queer. that was cool for me even though her energy was, like, a lot, in a way that i didn't really vibe with. we established that initial connection so easily, and, like so many other people, i got the same stories of a deeply traumatic past and a view of someone who very clearly was unwell. i think, just because of my own past and experiences with people like the person we thought horcrux was, i got lucky that my little red flags flew up and started vigorously waving–not from a mod sense in that this person wasn't who they said they were, but a self-protective series of flags that told me to get the fuck out. i don't want to say that i'm an empath because everyone i know who claims to be an empath is next-generation satan. i will say, though, that it hurts to know that people were suckered into this person's shtick. it's so easy to pull people–especially good-hearted people–into a facade to bait emotional sympathy and energy. i really hate knowing that a wide range of folks that i know to be really great humans were manipulated & taken advantage of by this person. it also sucks, jardy, to hear you regret so much of the time and energy that you gave this person. you said multiple times that you felt like a dummy, like you got played, but i don't think it's fair for you to hold that against yourself. we as humans shouldn't expect ourselves or anyone else to constantly have protective shields up. I think it's an admirable quality to feel confident and comfortable enough to navigate life without being on high-alert all the time. it says that you're not cynical or closed off. i understand that you feel responsible for "falling for it" or "not being watchful or perceptive enough" or "not seeing the signs," but it's really not fair to you for you to hold yourself responsible for other people's actions. horcrux did you wrong, and regardless of who that person actually is, their actions can't be undone. they did what they did, and for what reason, we'll never know. i want to have sympathy for horcrux/kachur. i think i said this on the podcast i did with sam–i hope they get the help they need, because i really do think that there's something, even if not what they told everyone, that this person needs to think about and work through. a happy and healthy person doesn't do the thing that horcrux did, creating a persona and extracting information and energy and time from people. at the end of the day, you did what you thought was right, and i commend you for that. i hope that they understood the value of the friendship you gave them.

@scoop i found it, it's literally the last 5 minutes

also just realized the embed isn't here. why does this keep happening to me.

Truly looking forward to this, please tag me when you post tbh i can't even blame you guys. @Spartan jardy wants in on our podcast that we may or may not do no it's fucking not i said that fong is good at many things thanks a lot for putting the whole goddamn mod team on our asses, rly appreciate that pal

excuse me? are you suggesting that i talk about this league in a grocery store surrounded by people?

join us next week on bite size berocka with: how to use the goddamn search function

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i appreciated the fumbling correction and aggressive "they. they. THEY" punching yourself, it was endearing

i was really wondering, when we got all the way to the outro, why i was mentioned in this podcast thanks for the shoutout. @Shindigs (cough cough grandma) calling me out on the number of times i say fuck was really eye opening for me. i'm not gonna stop, but my eyes are definitely open

LOL yeah that makes sense, english is a germanic language, so there are some fundamental similarities.... french, however, is in a completely different language family, so i get the hate

let's make this an "annoying things about english" thread. english language hate thread. why-are-you-the-way-that-you-are thread. anti-english language sentiment thread

i can't believe this thread just got made in november 2021? what were you guys doing before then? LA definitely existed before that time? 1. What is your favourite pass time/activity during the holidays? i like looking at people's christmas lights on the night or two before the actual holiday. people put a lot of time and effort into that, and i feel like i'm doing a favor by appreciating them. 3. Recently we have seen a bit of an uptick in bans for users multi accounts/players. Why do you think people are driven to do this? people get excited and addicted. i don't think that most people have an interest in breaking rules per se, they just want more of the league than they can get with one account. or so they think. 6. Did you monitor your diet during the holidays or will you worry about that when back with the team? i am YOUNG WILD AND FREE i don't pass my days with a DIET!

https://anchor.fm/fishy3/episodes/a-huge-fucking-win-e1cfs1l beware your ears. the sound is all over the place and could eliminate your hearing realizing that as i become steadily, increasingly unhinged that i swear a lot count how many times i say "like"

1. today i learned that the vhl wildcard series is best of 5. who am i to claim that i have ever been a veteran on a team when i had literally no idea. i found out because fantasy zone was asking how many games (3, 4, or 5) would be in the series. i’m so glad that i didn’t message youloser and ask if it was a typo bc that would have been one of the most embarrassing moments of my life 2. one team has scouted me since my aggressive podcast last week. it’s working, folks. they’re either reaching out or too scared to. just the way i like it. 3. i don’t like that resign (voluntarily leave) and resign (re-sign) are spelled the same way in the vhl. the latter is supposed to be re-sign. the two have completely different meanings, and we use the same spelling for them. what’s wrong with the dash. why can’t we just use the dash. it throws me off when people are talking about re-signing but saying resigning because they’re talking about returning to a team but, prescriptively, talking about leaving a team. but i won’t get started on my text-based communication pet peeves. i’ll be here all night.

is there an easy way in your silly little excel sheet to pull in the user's rank in the group onto this list? i kinda liked seeing that