Flight Rising Discussion

PSA for the General Accents and Skins Pinglist (aka GASP)
stop pinging for the jewelry/silks tag on accents that don't actually have jewelry or silks.
I gather people probably add it to their accents in hopes to attract the very popular jewelry/silks market of UMAS but not only are you mispinging people who actually want accents with those items, you are driving AWAY people who have the term blacklisted because they don't want accents like that.

I have lost count of the times I was looking through an accent shop, found a really gorgeous accent, wondered why I wasn't pinged for it, look for the gasp ping and find out the author included the jewelry/silks tag, that's why I didn't.
chains and spikes are not jewelry
a flowing shape drawn on the wings is not silks
Jewelry/silks is a tag for accents that mimic jewelry and silk apparel, or jewelry and silk adornments on the body. that's it. Please stop putting the tag in accents that don't have that, you will lose potential clients.

Thank you for listening.

i didnt know this was a problem, but that sure does sound annoying being mispinged for something you don't even want.

thanks for letting ppl know!

Some of it can be subjective.. mainly when you say "chains aren't jewelry," because to me they can be jewelry.. And perhaps someone was trying to create silks, but didn't do it up to some people's standards..

But I understand the frustration. I have a very general ping on the list, but sometimes I get a misping for things I'm not interested in at all, but usually they turn out to be mistakes, such as misclicks or misunderstandings. But I think a huge part is people copy and pasting from other people instead of the from the list itself. It' obvious that's a common issue from how many times the thread tells people to refrain from doing it, so that could be the issue at hand.

I second this because I’m on a breed pingslist and one was pinged for faes and there were NO FAE ACCENTS and that’s super annoying.

i third this. i am only on the jewelry/silk tag for veilspuns. i have yet to have this happen to me but it would make me miffed if i was pinged for the jewelry/silk tag on breeds that i did not sign up for. besides, isn't there already a tag for chains/spikes?

[quote name="KnucklePuck" date="2021-01-11 10:21:25" ] Some of it can be subjective.. mainly when you say "chains aren't jewelry," because to me they can be jewelry.. And perhaps someone was trying to create silks, but didn't do it up to some people's standards.. [/quote] I agree with this. I also think that pinging extra people on purpose even when you are aware that they don't want to be pinged for what you've got isn't cool.

huh, I had no idea this was happening....but yeah, I can definitely imagine people pinging people of the unrelated but successful market gjkghjkhd, that's pretty mean.

However, while some chains truly are just chains, chains absolutely can be jewellery. And it's true that some silks just might not look entirely silky but should fall under that category. Perhaps the tags should be edited a bit more, I have no idea.

idk if accent makers will actually see this, but honestly the problem is more widespread than the jewelry/silks:
stuff like getting pinged for "nature" accents for a vaporwave-style accent that has a palm tree (this specific thing is thankfully no longer an issue now that vaporwave itself is a tag, but I give it as another example).

One of the main reasons why I asked to be taken off GASP was because of this