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June 15th, 2014 - Alpha-Q-Up's #QRules Qoaching System (Proposal)
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Overall, great idea! I just wanted to point out something else…Like the fact that im not blind.

Yes. Like the fact that I’m not blind. I’ve been noticing how much the Xs were against all the #QRules work. The downvotes in the Qs' forum posts prove it.

My opinion:
Ur just plain hatin'. I don’t care. And also I’m not blind; I can see what ur doing.

My suggestion:
Why should I give you a suggestion? Downvote all you like. Qs don’t care. As @Alpha-Q-Up said in the #QRules headquarters page:
lol pssshh! We eat witchu, we eat witoutchu#QRules still be like

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@ThaEQsplanator,
All editors have coaching potential. Why?

The logic:We have all come from where the people who we coach came from: a state when we were unable to accept, reject, edit, and whatever else. We know how it felt. Therefore, we know what can make those peeps feel great. Encouragement is a huge part of coaching, and because we understand those non-editors, we can be great at encouraging. Sympathy and understanding is very important. Equally important, we were editored mostly based on our annotating skills. Therefore, we know how to annotate better than the people we coach, and we can pass off our own skills to them, like I did in my personal guide to editorship.

How can you possibly be not “coaching material”? Come on, we can all do this! It’s not like you’re a kindergartener trying to teach me algebra! (lol idk I can come up with pretty weird examples sometimes)

Well, in conclusion, there is no such thing as an editor who’s not coaching material. We all are. Face the logic, we just ARE.

Thanks for your support to the Q fam, though. Who else can join this cheer? Let’s go, #QRULES!3.

@My_PODner_skoRG Yes, I saw that you upvoted Alpha’s reply to @Slickk and @LaQsman672, which is awesome! But I can’t say I’m giving you credit for upvoting @refleXioneternal’s giantX

on this idea.

Lol can we just forget that? I personally said that you could downvote all you like, we wouldn’t care…so how about let’s NOT CARE for once.
I HONESTLY don’t care for votes. But if this goes on, there’s gonna be a big deal and all that stuff, and I don’t want another huge conflict over a few puny votes. Q vs X is enough for now.June 28th, 2014 - Alpha-Q-Up's

I'll remember this day forever...June 28th, I see.

Okay, not really. But, Autumn, can I just say it?HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gelukkige verjaardag
生日快乐
joyeux anniversaire
お誕生日おめでとうございます
pen-blwydd hapus
feliz cumpleaños

Plz don't ask which languages those were. #june28ftwJuly 9th, 2014 - Fran-Soul's OFFICIAL: World Cup Thread **The Sequel** (In reply to this:)

@Fran-Soul at the very least, king of football
And here’s this thing some of Messi’s fans wherever in the world made:
And yet another one:
July 11th, 2014 - Fran-Soul's OFFICIAL: World Cup Thread **The Sequel**

Arghhh I am so not going to enjoy it.

I’m scared of:
1. Argentina loses

That way, Leo’s haters will triumph. Besides, he’d carried the burden all through the group games and deserves a break. And that would mean Germany beat them again after the quarterfinal that went 4-0 in 2010.
2. Argentina wins

That means the Brazilians will kill them. You ask, literally or practically? I say, PICK ‘EM
I still feel bad for Brazil tho. That defeat…July 11th, 2014 - Fran-Soul's OFFICIAL: World Cup Thread **The Sequel**

@Fran-soul @Wandawaisu
You two are driving me crazy lmao. Let me just say this: Everything you say is based on your opinion. Even when you state a fact, because when you do, it means you agree with the fact. Again, your opinion.

There is no true best player in the world. You can’t see everything from the stats. But whoever is better to you IS better — to you. If you guys keep arguing about this it’ll never end, and it’s probably MUCH easier for both of you if you just let it go (LOL I know right Let It Go). Stick to your own opinion and never mind when someone else’s interferes with yours. Keep going your way, because it’s YOURS.

btw ur probably giving everyone who follows this thread a post overload, hahaha ;)July 23rd, 2014 - SR_thePangloss's What's your "why"?

My reason?

Let’s not talk about me. Let’s talk about sailing or something!

Ok, fine. I just really, really hate selfishness. Like, not regular selfishness as in “I want that cookie!” but real selfishness. Stuff like “I’m the best. I take all ur credit to benefit myself. I’m still the best.”, that’s what im talking about.

So, my reason?

Yeah, to train myself to be less selfish. I put in all my work to benefit others. What you may call troll posts are actually my attempts to cheer up anyone sad who may be reading at the moment. What you may call IQ whoring is me cleaning up a Taylor Swift song for people who want to understand the lyrics fully. Genius did me a favor when I wanted to understand Summertime Sadness, and I owe the favor. So I do all I can to contribute as much as I can for the sake of others, not myself. You guys call me an IQ whore or trouble user as much as you want; I’m more concerned with this priority than what others think of me.

The point? Let’s not talk about me. How about more people’s why’s?

@autumnsayshellQ @Alpha-Q-Up @DarkThoughtsQueDreams

Tag more people you want to ask and do whatever. I’m done with tagging in this lagging page, haha.July 31st, 2014 - My own NEW PAGE: Genius Username Definitions

Now, we all know Genius’s motto is “Annotate the world” or at least something like that.

Recently, the Geniuses on this site have come up with some new things to annotate/explain — the FIFA World Cup 2014 (s/o to @sports-genius!), the first six chapters of Divergent after the publisher giving us permission (s/o to @TheScrivener for this!), and the dictionary, although we haven’t gotten to doing that yet (s/o to @Dyazz and @ewokABdevito for that though :D).

Yes, those were all pretty recent. All the trends and awesome ideas and everything, those were really great! I just found that there was some sort missing…

My first thought was the Genius User Directory, and how that was different from most stuff on the site. The Question — WHY did it seem so different?

Then it hit me — we need more ways to connect with other users, so to make this diverse community easier to understand for everybody. Knowing each other better is good for all of us, as we are working towards ANNOTATING THE WORLD. My 5th grade teacher was right about the importance of being able to cooperate, and understanding your fellow Geniuses is a big step in that.

In other words, if we bicker about who’s older than who and what’s the reason who’s more mature than who and who’s from where which means who’s more awesome and that junk, we will never get anywhere with Genius’s goal to annotate the world. We won’t even get anywhere with annotating because we’re bickering too much. That’s how it would be like if nobody here understood anyone else on the site.

But how? The Directory idea was already taken, haha.

And now, I really have to thank @Alpha-Q-Up for what you guys are reading right now. And the people who posted in this thread. Mostly @Denzel_Parkingsons, for realizing what Alpha’s name meant and posting about it in that now-classic thread.

So what if there were other people who used tricks like this for their usernames to make things a bit more interesting? That’s exactly what I thought when I read the thread, MIND=BLOWN as I was. Everyone’s curious about those names that seem to make no sense, until they finally grasp the genius of it all. But not everybody wants to wait an eternity for an inspiration to hit them so they can understand one of those puzzling names.

I decided to both make it easier for those people who don’t want to wait (meaning almost everyone), and to make this community a more connected one. It was going to require something different from the usual, for sure. The last and not least most way to do that was to create this:

http://genius.com/Rap-genius-users-genius-username-definitions-annotated

Yes, it was my idea, but my idea came from not only me. Remember that. Also, remember that no name on Genius is un-genius (except for the marked as spam gone_ names, duh), so add yourself and annotate your name in any way you want (except for anything inappropriate like putting porn in it lol, just follow the community policy and we won’t come chasing after you to put you in PB for a week you’ll be fine)

Sorry about that, I was just joking and I don’t want there to be any misunderstandings

Now, to end this post in a way different from the usual, let me just steal Alpha’s gif on his tate from the Username Definitions page for a moment…

August 2014 - My own YOUR Definition of Lyrics/Texts/ANYTHING really

As I'd explained here:
http://genius.com/3948835/Your-definition-of-idina-menzels-let-it-go/Your-definition-of-ft-jess-maqswell-idina-menzels-let-it-go

That only applied to songs, but you can do it with anything else on Genius you’d like, really. Just make the main artist YOUR Definition Of and format the title like this:

Artist’s Song Title

For example, the first one I put on Genius was Idina Menzel’s Let It Go, so I made the title “Idina Menzel’s Let It Go”.

Clear enough? Feel free to add your own tates (as long as you’re verified; on Genius only allows one community annotation per line but many verified tates) and just add your artist name to the list of featured artists to whichever song you want to join.August 2014 - RegularRy's Trolls are running wild in the forums

Haha I haven’t been on Rap forum lately though, haven’t encountered a lot.August 2014 - Dyazz's "But it's hard to insist on that without stepping on someone's toes."

lol @Dyazz I was so flattered and I don’t know why I laugh when people either 1. brag about themselves, 2. brag about someone else, or 3. brag about me when they clearly know I can see it. But thanks!

The “perfect editor” though…I think the thing that gets you to being a moderator is being an extraordinarily good editor or something like that. So why am I not a mod yet??? haha just kidding, no worries. I don’t mind not being mod. I don’t mind not being anything here as long as I can contribute to the site at my best.

But yeah, it’s a really good thing that you brought this up, as I am sure this happens everywhere. I think that you should keep the user as an editor, but keep on coaching them with that mod even though they’re editor already, you know, like what they did with DarkThoughtsQueDreams/Murkman a while ago. Tell the editor that they’re doing fine, just that you’re giving them another challenge (or whatever you’d do to coach them) to make them an EVEN better editor. I kind of learned my own way on Genius by observing other editors and mods, but not everyone learns like that, so keep in mind to give any assistance needed.

Tag me in the new thread for what’s a good editor, though. Can’t wait to hear about it <3

btw a correction — the heart is missing a one at the end, it should be <331 like the 331 in my name haha

No, literally CORRECT it or else there’ll be…YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
August 2014 - AKNCXV's Suggestion on downvotes

Who else hates 0 IQ user downvotes?!
September 2014 - RegularRy's Never Forget - R.I.P. IN PEACE

1 — old notif buttons
2 — name not on your profile page link anymore
3 — sign out button is now a gear with more functions for editors than log out
4 — that bunch is now at the bottom of the page
5 — overall colour and even template of the website changed
6 — editors can now see activity
7 — template for annotations on profile page changed
8 — old link blue is now a steel blue
9 — rock chat used to say “Rock Editor Chat” and now it’s just Rock Chat
10 — even the name of the website changed.

This is #2014 guys…the year of updates.

And I’m sure everyone remembers how laggy it was at one time, and how we all learned to never take unlagginess for granted again. The site is awesome now, but the old times……………………….!!!!!are simply irreplaceable. Yes, rip in peace memories.September 2014 - My own THIS WEBSITE COPIED GENIUS

Well, at least it seems like so to me.

Has anyone ever noticed this site?

http://musixmatch.com

Here’s a lyric page for you to see what I’m talking about. Just highlight a line. Any line.

They copied us! You even have to sign in to explain their lyrics and there are upvotes and downvotes and they have music players too, although NONE of that is as good as ours. If you don’t trust me, go to the links. You’ll see exactly what I’m talking about.

Still, no matter how many other lyric explanation sites are out there, Genius will always be the one I’m loyal to.

And here’s another link:

https://www.musixmatch.com/community/meanings

Genius forever! Forget all other explanation sites!October 2014 - Slickk's DELETE: Spam Accounts on the run

@Slickk I knew that it had to be deleted at some time, so I took a few screenshots:
drag it over to your link to see the fullscreen because it’s not as boss to view at UN fullscreen. feel free to save it to your desktop lol

again, @Wandawaisu, when are you going to be on to see these?October 2014 - ChrisSweatshirt's Mods please contact this user

@ChrisSweatshirt feel you on the bad grammar thing. But I think he did the bad grammar on purpose to tell people that the page was a joke — a page that informs you on college/university enrollment should at least have good grammar that is not pointless. I’m 12, and common sense tells me that (just saying)

Pretty sure this guy is a troll though, by looking at the message history…It’s obvious enough. Non-trolls don’t spam bulky, mental, insulting essayish paragraphs when you ask a harmless question, right? Based on that analysis, this Jerome guy just wanted to prank/troll you. So the best thing for you to do was probably to send a plain “lol” message or something that didn’t tell him you saw what he said as disrespect.

He was probably just pissed off that you didn’t get his joke (because he’s a troll, after all) and he ALSO didn’t get the fact that jokes aren’t always obvious to others (I don’t freaking get the CAC thing either, and I’m just going to ignore it) so he just tested you on how you would react if he tried to give you a more offensive joke. I’m not saying you’re dumb, I’m not saying Jerome is dumb, I’m not saying anything against anyone except that Jerome is a troll and kind of immature too. THE POINT: He sees that message he sent you as a joke, and he knows that you saw it as disrespect, so now HE thinks you’re not that smart (biased view, so don’t take it personally). BUT he needs to learn the fact that smart doesn’t mean you get every single stupid troll joke everyone makes. My friend got a really high IQ score and she out-logics me all the time, but I still have to explain some troll jokes to her. Some of these troll jokes just don’t make sense and aren’t funny, but you’ve just got to deal with it.

sorry for the essay, everyone. downvote all you want. i’m out.October, 2014 - Alpha-Q-Up's Borderlands The Pre-SeQuel Gameplay/Commentary! By GG's very own AutumnsayshellQ!!!

Has anyone else ever realized that “Autumn” rhymes with “awesome”?

Well, it’s only a loose rhyme. But still. Qongrats, man! :))) And that name, “autumnplayshello” — sooo Qreative!November, 2014 - SemGro8's Goal Pages

…I didn’t even notice that there was a Barcelona page.

The player pages tend to be more specific, though. And the goals are actually in numbered list form there. And it’s a little easier to find specific goals because these ones just seem more organized than a gigantic list of the whole club’s goals.

I’d say that player-specific pages are better for those superstars who score tons of goals, but probably won’t work for people who score less and get less attention.December 29th, 2014 - in DC26's "Change"

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I don’t know if this is helpful or not, but here it goes:
I suggest a “neighborhood watch strategy” (sorry about any possible reference to illuminati), which is non-tech, but it could do something…

Like, say if a mod trolls in chat with the warning thing or whatever else mods can do, a user would have some sort of power to hit up a staff member about it, and the staff member HAS TO speak to the mod and try to solve the problem. This is serious, and when help from staff is needed, we need you to come and lend us a hand to solve some problems.

This would only work even the least bit if everybody cooperates, though, and if we don’t all “watch” (again, illuminati reference not intended) each other and report whoever’s misbehaving, that could just result in everything reoccuring.

So basically all I’m saying is please, everyone in the community, don’t feel as if the mods have too much more power over you and that they can take advantage of you with their powers and you have nothing to do. If any mod is being unfair, feel free to report them! Don’t be like “but I’m a whitehat” or “but I’m not a mod”, everyone can play a part in this. I’m not just saying this as some lame encouragement thing, because it is true, because everyone IS a part of the community and everyone CAN help to make the community a better one.2.

agree with @nietzsche — the mods have to play a part as well and be GOOD mods. Remember that you are not helping anybody by trolling in chat, and that you were made a mod here for a reason. For once, you displayed yourself as a good editor, and for another, you were seen as a good potential mod — a good potential helper to improve the community. So don’t just sit there trolling or WHATEVER, get out there and be what you are supposed to be, be what whoever modded you wanted you to be, be what the community NEEDS you to be: a GOOD, BENEFICIAL MOD.March 3rd, 2015 - in MyNamesCody's Mediator Discussion Thread

@MFVoltron congrats for being promoted from whitehat at last :)

I know I’m not a Mediator, but I’m just going to say this:

I’m really glad to see that, actually, because you’re not the only one who has been discouraged by being considered “not worthy to be editor” by others, AFTER someone editored you. Now that we have this mediator role, we will have much fewer struggles with de-editoring. Having more than one option for promotion makes the idea of promotion itself less pressuring for normal users, and that’s definitely an improvement in the general direction Genius is moving! Great job people!