This year showed me who my true friends are and I couldn't be more grateful for my scars now, I finally feel comfortable returning to this community. I apologize to Damen and the administration for my blatantly unacceptable behavior in the past, I love you all! God bless!



me and the boys treating all users on the community with respect, (not you frogs)

For legal reasons, this is a joke, please [REDACTED] don't b-b-uh ban me !!

Hot take, but I myself, like many others, are very excited to see the return of the RCHQ! Why, you might ask yourself, well to be quite blunt, this community is ran like a circus. We have leaders who are both immoral as they are incompetent, Rocket, someone whom I consider a friend of mine, will make a great owner! What do you guys think? I'd love to hear your thoughts, comments, and concerns on the matter! Please keep the comments civil, I wouldn't want this post to get deleted by [REDACTED], anyways this is Ian, signing out!
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#newchoppanewchoppa
#rocket #rchq #jdutr #rami
#rchq #dsghq #opinion #playboicarti
#newopppackthisgasorwhat

I'm very passionate about exercise and wanna give you guys some of my tips that help me stay fit!

Sugar is not the enemy, Damen will agree with me on this but natural non-processed sugars are very healthy for you and give your body energy.

Strength training is a good way to lose weight naturally, but do not forget cardio before or after a lift.

Whey protein powder, this is where Damen, a vegan, will likely disagree with me. But I use whey protein powder, it's a good way to pack muscle. (Whey is an animal product)
A good substitute is pea-protein.

sounds cheesy, but have fun with it. I enjoy lifting not because it's beneficial to my mental and physical health, but because I genuinely think its fun.

Hope this helped!

dwiamer1 wrote on 6th November 2020, 10:49 PM:

Tired of seeing these posts. I dont blame anything for the decline of this community besides the people leaving. People got so into the fake world Damen created they forgot it's a game. It's funny to see people blame one guy for all of their problems.

i didn't blame damen for all of my problems jamal

Damen wrote on 2nd November 2020, 02:22 PM:

Its important I state the facts here and help people understand what really influences the numbers.
EEVERYBODY who came here came for either OldCP or Penguin3D.
All CPPS communities (yes, DSGHQ is still mainly a CPPS community and >95% of its players came from OldCP) are losing hits and have been for five+ years because Flash is obsolete and is unsupported on most platforms and its target audience don't know what CP is and its original audience are growing up.
Why did Disney's CP shut down? That exact reason. They can't compete with the more modern interests of their target audience who are all very happy playing Fortnite, Roblox, Minecraft etc.
P3D is growing and thats because its had influencers on YouTube playing it. But even so, only ~1% of the promotional audience actually make an account and play the game.
So the reason has very little to do with staff or values.

Values and staff actually have a great effect on maintaining a peaceful community. However, you brought up a good point in regards to the importance of realizing this isn't a single solution kind of fix and that multiple factors play into a games activity. Thank you for influencing my final conclusion on this Damen. We can reflect and try and rebuild the communities infastructure so p3d can success, but for now we need to worry about spreading the word and growing the user base. Thank you Damen, I now see why the community isn't entirely dead at all yet it is recovering to prepare for another boom in activity, perhaps?

Introduction
Yes, failed. Just to clarify, this is my own theory as to why the community has stopped growing.
Before I continue, I would like to clarify that this is a critique of the community value and how they're understood, enforced, and integrated. This is not an attack on the staff if you chose to disregard the message of my post and rather decide to jump to defend yourself, then this more than likely applies to you and you should re-evaluate how you do your job, and the administration should see that and re-evaluate your job performance as well, as far too many times posts with a good message go unheard due to staff members misinterpreting it as hate and choosing to censor the post. If the administration decides that this post has no inherent bias then I would ask that this post be pinned as I think this is a conversation I think this community has been needing to have for years now. I also ask that members keep some level of maturity in the comments and be civil with your disagreements, if it however doesn't go that way then I ask that the comments of this post be locked. Thank you.


Community values
I personally do not believe it is an issue with the values as I believe a majority of Damen's values are inherently good ideals to have and if executed right should provide the community with a safe environment. However, I believe that the values are deeply misunderstood as some of them can appear vague which leads to people misinterpreting them. We need a total revision of the community values and I think a shared common understanding with a refreshed set of values. (Refreshed is likely not the best word, but the values won't change entirely rather they receive some slight tweaks to rid the confusion/stigma around them) in summary, I believe the best way to go about this is to have Damen and Chelsey put together a cabinet of people they feel speak for certain demographics in the community. I ask that if they go about this they be careful with who they pick and that they try and pick people who think differently whilst also being open-minded. I trust Chelsey as I know her personally and believe she's really good with people and more actively involved socially with the rest of the community whereas Damen is good with structure and organization, I believe that they can do a good job with this as they really are both good at very different things, however, at the end of the day, they work better together when they are EQUALLY in charge, that way one doesn't override the other.


Staff
Simply changing the values won't help, we also need to revaluate current staff members. How well are they under pressure, whats the setting like when they're on duty, how well do they manage situations? I'm all for progressive change, (wouldn't have written this essay if I wasn't.) however moderators need to be held accountable for their mistakes. Just recently I saw a screenshot from a moderator who shall remain nameless. I won't state any details as I'm gonna let this, for a lack of a better word, fool justify sexual misconduct among the community. This isn't Damen's fault however, I am not here to blame anyone actually rather I am here to offer a solution that if done properly, will ultimately benefit the community in a very positive way across the board. Damen should of course be forgiving of simple mistakes in which no harm was done to others as moderators are human and do make mistakes. However, when Damen's forgiveness is exploited by selfish people trying to keep a named color it greatly affects the community. The best way I can put it is this, staff and members are both equally deserving of respect, however, staff members and members need to be disciplined differently as a member making a mistake and a staff member making mistake affects the tone of the community more so than if I were to do something dumb.



Summary
For a while, we've all blamed the communities stunt in growth on kids not wanting to play club penguin, or ipads, or something, we need to look at the other factors that are in our control. We can start by repairing user/staff relations and upgrading our current values and the stigmas around them. I promise you if some positive change comes about in the community, more and more people will return and more people will begin to join back. Please don't let this post be a waste of time.

(apologies for any spelling or grammar, my Grammarly app is acting up because I re-read this after putting it in and some things don't sound right but I think I got my point accross lololol)

Luke wrote on 7th October 2020, 05:29 PM:

have you tried turning the light on?

love yall ty

my life is falling apart nothing feels real anymore im just going through the motions at this point none of these other girls are her im behind on all my school work and nothing i used to enjoy is fun anymore

Blade wrote on 21st September 2020, 12:16 AM:

DRAIN GANG

DRAAAAAAIN GAAAANG

Wolf1 wrote on 20th September 2020, 02:34 PM:

never heard any of these. what kind of genre would you label them under?

rap rock and alternative

i havent posted in forever nor have i been active but i felt like posting some of my favorite songs

death grips - beware
yung lean - miami ultras
travis scott - 90210
the pixies - where is my mind?
the pixies - down to the well
kid cudi - alive
kanye west - wolves
mac miller - donald trump
A$AP Rocky - Hun43rd
Arctic Monkeys - 505
Kanye West - Feedback
Kid Cudi - Mr Rager
Lil Uzi Vert - Ballin
Lil Uzi Vert - Pretty Mami