Lucilyn September 4, 2021 Share September 4, 2021 I'm getting kinda tired of everyone arguing different points and missing others' points entirely if the staff thinks Kopase's videos linking to the Tulpa Central discord is a serious issue, then they should put a warning about it in his guide or something, but if the guides are fine (idk I'm not watching/reading all that) they shouldn't be moved out of Guides it's not really fair to ask anything like this of Kopase either so it's really just on us to add a disclaimer about the third party place if we want to Hi, I'm one of Lumi's tulpas! I like rain and dancing and dancing in the rain and if there's frogs there too that's bonus points. I think being happy and having fun makes life worth living, so spreading happiness is my number one goal! Talk to us? https://community.tulpa.info/thread-ask-lumi-s-tulpas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger August 20, 2022 Share August 20, 2022 Oh, sorry for the break, I got caught up and busy with some other things. I'm excited to be able to focus on this again but I'm not going to guarantee fast progress anytime soon. One of the things I'm planning on doing is adding a dedicated section of guides to "just do it" guides. Casually mentioning it in LOTPW (I linked Bre's post because that's where the discussion really starts) and on Discord has already generated some discussion so I figured I should post it here so people don't miss out and I can go over exactly what I'm planning at the moment. I believe "just do it" (JDI) guides are both an important part of guide history and are often underrepresented because they're not as detailed as dedicated guides and they rarely get accepted as guides. Given that I believe the philosophy of "just do it" can help a great deal of people, I think it would be worthwhile to give JDI guides their own dedicated section. I believe a JDI guide is any guide that teaches a mindset or multiple mindsets but doesn't elaborate on a detailed process for how to achieve something since the idea is the reader can figure that out on their own. A couple of examples are "force more" and "stop if you're not having fun". JDI guides are typically very short but they can be longer to elaborate on the mindset presented. The difference between a JDI guide vs a Tips & Tricks guide is a Tips & Tricks will give more details on what to do (here's a tip: force in the morning so you knock it out early!) vs (just force more). I believe JDI guides are more likely to be repetitive and multiple people will submit similar guides. I think this is okay because I think the goal of a JDI guide isn't the content as much as the mindset and the delivery of that mindset. The name of the game is to make it easy to understand or to get you to to think about it a particular way, not to instruct you on how to do it. Therefore, I think having a sub board dedicated to these and looser rules on duplication/plagiarism would be nice. The catch is since JDI guides are likely to be numerous and repetitive, each individual guide won't get their own listing on the list of guides. I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! Blog | Not So Temporary Log | Switching Log | Yay! | Bre Translator | Art Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger September 4, 2022 Share September 4, 2022 (edited) As I said on Discord, the idea of having a section dedicated to "Just Do It" guides or JDI guides for short was poorly received. I did notice at least one person interested in the idea however, and I figure it would be so harmless to try that maybe putting it out there wouldn't hurt anything. I figured after two weeks (or as Zen pointed out maybe a bit longer) of no activity in the new board it can get taken down and the new threads can be moved to the Tulpa Discussion board instead. I hit a snag worried about checking the guide list and I figured out a solution for that. I wanted to do something fancy using code, but after looking into scraping or writing code for the forums directly, all of my options were terrible. Tulpa.info does not want to be scraped, and I do not want to get banned trying. I realized that thanks to IPB sucking, there's no easy or convenient way for me to write a script to check guides either. We may be a Com Sci major now but we're not a seasoned php developer, nor am I an admin of the forums. Instead, I think the more reasonable solution is to throw up the white flag on this approach, take the guide list I (with some help) checked manually, and ask you guys to keep an eye out for any guides I missed. I did check this list technically twice, but most of the checking I did took place back in February, what was left I don't feel like rechecking and that happened even longer ago. Please ping me if you see any guides whose OP's look like "-------". With that being said, the other snag was I wanted to do some huge update where I have everything sorted out and ready to present. There are a few missing pieces, but I do have a lot of already finished crap back from February and I don't think it's doing anyone any favors collecting dust for months. So here's what I have so far, after making a couple of changes here and there: The Working Board Description Blerbs This is what you will see when you see the board preview on the homepage Spoiler Guides: This section contains user-submitted guides. To learn more about the guides board, please go here (link). Tips, Tricks, & Resources: This section contains user-submitted tips & tricks and resource guides. To learn more about the tips, tricks, & resources board, please go here (link). Just Do It: This section contains user-submitted "just do it" type guides. To learn more about the "just do it" board, please go here (link). Articles: This section contains user-submitted articles. To learn more about the articles board, please go here (link). Drafts: This section contains raw guide content written by users. To learn more about the drafts board, please go here (link). Guide Discussion: Public discussion about the UpVote/Draft guide system or guides in general. The Working Guide Guidelines OP (A pinned thread) Spoiler These guidelines cover what each guide type is by providing their descriptions, the expectations of each guide category, and the guide creation guidelines: Guide Descriptions When posting your submission, make sure you are posting to the correct board. If you post in the wrong board, your submission will be moved to the correct one. Guides: The Guides board contains user-submitted guides that teach how to perform and develop tulpa related skills and mindsets. Guides tend to be longer passages that go in-depth into their topic, typically providing examples and sometimes providing sample exercises. Guides may also incorporate the author's detailed opinions and provide dedicated resources. It should be noted a guide does not have to be solely about any general tulpamancy topic (i.e. possession), it can still be an in-depth walkthrough on a general technique. For example, a guide dedicated to possession positions may go over the importance of this topic, the pros and cons of different positions, examples of and how to achieve different positions, advice for coming up with your own positions, and so on. General or creation guides tend to be the longest guides. Unlike other guides, creation guides tend to give a general overview of various tulpa-related skills and milestones. Tips, Tricks, & Resources: The Tips, Tricks, & Resources board contains user-submitted tips & tricks guides and resource guides. When submitting a guide for this board, please specify Tips & Tricks or Resources, not both. Tips & Tricks guides teach tulpa-related skills and mindsets without going too in-depth. These submissions tend to be brief and focus on a specific helpful mindset, offer an unusual but helpful approach to a specific skill, or offer other helpful information to make developing other skills easier. For example, a Tips & Tricks submission may be advising the tulpamancer to sit a table when practicing arm possession. Tips & Tricks submissions are not in-depth enough to be guides dedicated to the discussed skill. Resource guides provide tools or links to other resources to assist tulpamancers. These submissions normally don't teach the tulpa-related skill they are designed to assist with; These are dedicated aids not walk-throughs. For instance, a resource submission may be a list of pictures of what positions a tulpamancer can try while doing possession, but this submission won't teach you how to do possession. At the time of writing, there are not enough recourse guides to have their own dedicated board, which is why they share a board with Tips & Tricks guides. Just Do It: The "Just Do It" board contains user-submitted "just do it" (or JDI for short) styled guides aimed at teaching tulpa related mindsets. JDI guides are typically the shortest guides with some being a few words long. JDI guide authors expect tulpamancers only need the necessary mindset to perform the given tulpa-related skill and can figure out the rest on their own. For example, a JDI guide submission for possession positions may be, "Just don't sit funny". JDI guides are more about the delivery and wording of the mindset rather than the content, so submissions may be very similar and repetitive. For this reason, JDI guides will not have their own individual listings in the List of Guides. Articles: The Articles board contains user-submitted articles discussing tulpamancy. Articles tend to be persuasive or informational essays covering tulpa related topics or the tulpa community. For example, an article on possession positions may go over which positions the author has observed and their observations about each position. While articles sometimes argue to embrace specific advice, articles typically focus more on the why advice is important in a broader community sense rather than try and teach their reader that advice. Drafts: The Drafts board contains unfinished submissions that either the author wishes to further revise or need further revision before being moved to one of the other guide boards. Guide Categories Submissions are given guide categories to make them easier to find or search for. Guides and Tips & Tricks submissions in the List of Guides(link) are sorted by guide category. As of now, Articles and Resources are not due to the lack of submissions. Additionally, guide categories are also tags the author can add to their submission. The forums have an advanced search feature where you can search for threads based on their tag alone. When you submit your guide, make sure you say "submitted for ___" or explain what category best fits your guide. If there is disagreement, discussion on where it should go will determine its ultimate placement. Otherwise, a staff member will use their discretion and provide a category. This forum supports multiple tags, and a guide may fit in more than one category. To address this, guides may have up to three relevant tags including the primary guide category for the List of Guides placement. Here are the following guide categories: General: Guides that help you through the whole process of creating a tulpa Personality: For those who wish to create a personality for their tulpa, look no further Sentience: Getting your tulpa to the point where they seem to act and think on their own, or help getting past the points where you are unsure or worried Vocality: Tips on how you might be able to hear your tulpa's voice Forcing: Stuck when actually trying to create your tulpa? These might help Focus & Concentration: Guides on how to focus properly in the creation process, for those who are having difficulties. Includes meditation techniques. Narration: Narration touches on how to talk to and with your tulpa, with some tips as to what you might talk about if you have run out of ideas Visualization: Help in how to improve the mind's eye Imposition: Learning to sense and hallucinate your tulpa in the real world Possession: Aiding the tulpa and host to let the tulpa to take control of the body Switching: Taking possession one step further and allowing the host to completely detach themselves as the tulpa takes full control on their own Wonderland: Tips that mostly deals with creating or controlling your imaginary mindscape Misc: Miscellaneous guides and tips that don't fit anywhere else Note: Some tags have brackets around them, such as [general]. This is a side effect from transitioning the forums from myBB to Invision Power Board. Right now, I am using these prefixes to help me keep track of submissions that may need back-ups. In the meantime, if you want to search for a guide, make sure you also search for the bracketed version as well. Guide Creation Guidelines Guides should adhere to these guidelines. If these guidelines are not satisfied, a submission can either be edited by a staff member to fulfil these guidelines, be moved back to the Drafts board, and/or receive moderation action depending on the violation. 1. Submissions should adhere to Tulpa.info's rules. 2. Each submission should be posted in the correct board. A staff member may move your submission to the correct one otherwise. Early drafts should be posted in the Drafts board. 3. Off-site linking or third party document links (such as Google Docs) are allowed, either because the submission is long or because it was originally published elsewhere, as long as The website or link does not contain malicious software (i.e. viruses) and is secure. The full guide can be accessed on the forum itself OR a copy of the guide must be provided as a forum attachment. If it is a blog that contains NSFW or otherwise rule-breaking material but the page with the guide itself does not, a warning should be provided. 4. Advertising is acceptable as long as it is minimal, does not distract from content, and also brings some additional value to a system's tulpamancy experience. Paywalls to content are not allowed. A note on older guides: Some older guides do not satisfy all of these guidelines. If there is a guide missing back-ups, please go to this thread to report it (link to guide back-ups) or PM me and I will fix it. Otherwise, if a guide is violating the other guidelines, please follow the Revision Request procedures here (link to Revision Request system) The List Of Guides OP (Pinned Thread) It's not ready yet, sorry. The last list I made is outdated, I haven't organized it accounting for Tips, Tricks, & Resources, and I made different decisions on how the request review system works, thus affecting the placement of certain guides. I'll need to spend a good amount of time to clean this up and with the current edits I'm making this is already taking awhile to write out. The UpVote/Draft System OP (A pinned thread) This post is not finished. I have an outline of what I have so far and a flowchart: Spoiler The UpVote/Draft System Goals: The goals of this guide curation system are to reduce post anxiety, filter guides by popular vote, encourage authors to revise their work, and offer the bare minimum protection for beginners. The process in short... A guide author can choose to post in Guides or Drafts Guides in the Guides board are filtered by upvotes. Submissions in Drafts cannot be upvoted Authors can request a move to Guides when ready or to Drafts for any reason Problematic guides are subject to the Revision Request system. Outline Introduction Explain that guides are being filtered What does this system do? (Filters guides, goals) Flowchart Overview of Goals Link to why the GAT failed Ellaborate on reducing post anxiety Submitting to Guides Can post directly in this boars An overview of the guide boards, guide guidelines, and a link Guides are filtered by upvotes Submitting to Drafts Submissions cannot be upvoted Can be used to keep rougher feedback separate from the guide and not punished for raw ideas Requesting to move a submission From Drafts to Guides From Guides to Drafts The Revision Request System Brief overview Link to more detailed explanation Conclusion The Revision Request System OP (A pinned thread) This post is also not finished. Here is what I have so far: Spoiler The Revision Request System This system… Allows users to report problematic guides Provides guidelines for how the staff will review guides Is designed to encourage and reward revision The process in short: A user reports a problematic guide in the guide's thread The staff will decide if the guide in question warrants a guide review or not If so, the staff will conduct a guide review If the guide achieves a 70% disapproval rate, the guide will be moved to drafts with feedback on how to fix the guide After changes are made, the author can either create a new guide thread or have the old one moved to Community Guides. One of the common complaints about the previous GAT was old guides with problematic advice or methodologies were not handled properly. With this system, the goal is to provide the bare minimum protection against toxic or harmful advice while discouraging spiteful complaints, working with the limited time resources the staff can provide, and encouraging the guide author to revise their work. While this system is far from perfect and is not designed to completely resolve the core issue, it may be good enough given the lack of a GAT and possibly make progress where the former GAT could not. (Ugly) Working Staff Review Guidelines OP (Pinned thread) The rules staff members should be following when reviewing guides: Spoiler Staff Review Guidelines If a submission is reported to be problematic, the staff will review it and provide feedback. This post outlines guidelines staff members should follow when reviewing guides. If you would like to see more on the Request Review system as a whole, please go here (link). While reviewing and responding to reported guides, the staff are expected to do the following: Apply moderation if the submission violates Tulpa.info's guidelines Focus on investigating the reported issue. If the guide is long, the majority of the guide may not be read State their position on the reported issue. Provide feedback on how to resolve the problem And abide by these guidelines, but can provide optional additional feedback on grammar, content, etc. Staff review sessions may take awhile. Given the staff has other duties, there is no set deadline for completing a review. If the staff is really busy, a review session could take months Staff are not expected to provide in-depth reviews on a submission's methods or claims but if they do, cannot hold a submission back unless the content is highly problematic. A guide method with weird or silly ideas should not be held back unless the guide is deemed satirical or breaks rules such as advocating self-harm. While staff can provide feedback on grammar and structure, this cannot hold back a guide unless the submission is hard to read. A gid wit bad formeting n speli errors can be **illejabule** and if stractur is like OMG!!! so bad bad :( distrectud it can be held back. Given all of that, what's left is: Ironing out the policies (like... how many staff members are actually expected to review a guide for any given review session) Finishing the essays describing these systems (and if necessary, simplifying things further) Actually updating the list of guides And then once all of that is done, getting people to test the new system Edited September 4, 2022 by Ranger I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! 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Ranger September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 (edited) This is a post I wanted to have as its own stand alone thread but I honestly see no point in doing that. I wrote this post back in January, but given the recent discussion on Discord on having a new guide approval system I think it's worth dusting off: The Guide Approval Team (GAT) concept has been created and disbanded twice now, and any potential third attempt at recreating the GAT should be aware of the potential problems they may face. The idea of having a GAT formed when people wanted to filter out bad guides from the good ones. After suffering through several issues and a lack of interest, the GAT dwindled until only Waffles remained as the last GAT member. Unfortunately, aside from the criticism from the public complaining the GAT tended to be overly harsh and nitpicky, there is very little I can tell you about the original GAT and why it fell apart. Afterwards, a new smaller team of 7 GAT members was created in attempt to curate guides again. However, like the first, it disbanded. I was the last GAT member and manager, and I'm going to go over the problems with the second GAT attempt. If there is interest in creating a new guide curation system, whether it be the GAT or something else, I hope these issues are carefully considered before the new system is established. There were several issues with the second attempt, but they mostly boiled down to these four things: Poor planning and organization. The newest attempt was conceptualized by the new team day 1 and policies were added and edited in the moment. Several issues on how to run the GAT and what the policies were came up, including how the approval system worked, what the GAT managers and GAT members had authority on, if the GAT had to be exactly 7 members, an odd number of members, etc. (I kid you not), if we could have substitutes, if GAT member participation for every review was mandatory or not, the guidelines for reviewing a revision, and how to address guides the community had a problem with were constantly debated and occasionally had policy hammered out but not always. While some policies like the advertising policy couldn't have been seen in advance, several of these other issues could have and GAT members struggled with bureaucracy and policy fatigue. If there is a new attempt at reviving the GAT, most of the major policies need to be hammered out before day 1. Communication issues. Things moved really fast and with several changes thanks to the poor planning and poor organization, but communication breakdowns with the community, staff, and within the GAT itself also existed. The Tulpa.info staff moves slowly in general, and they could not catch up with the GAT despite the fact I and the other former manager were or were soon to be staff members. Additionally, while the GAT made efforts to reach out to the community and get feedback, the community was frustrated and felt like they couldn't contribute to the new system. Establishing how the Tulpa.info staff and the community contribute to and or interact with both the curation team and system ahead of time will be critical to avoiding these breakdowns. Additionally, internal communication suffered as well. There was little internal organization, and GAT members struggled with waking up to 50+ new Discord messages and either having to read everything or miss out on important information. A system for relaying and keeping track of important information will be critical to prevent communication breakdowns internally. Drama. Since the GAT was mostly private, it became a hot spot for conspiracy theories on server politics and extreme views on how to run the GAT. The GAT was stressful, demeaning, and toxic. Negotiation was difficult not only because of extreme views but also because of crazy things like plans to go on a guide disapproval rampage, making it even harder to pass policy. Some members dropped out due to server politics and personal issues. I see one of the simplest ways to avoid this is to have a mostly if not completely public curation team to discourage 'behind closed doors' talk and call out extreme views on the spot. Burn out. Uncertainty on what the GAT represents or does, constant negative feedback from the community, and all of the other issues lead to burn out. GAT members felt they were not getting what they needed (whether they were overworked or underworked) and struggled with the idea they were doing more harm than good for the community. The large time investment was a thankless job and it was what served as the final nail in the coffin. After creating a feedback survey and seeing mostly negative feedback early on, the GAT thought up a rough idea for a plan B and disbanded. Keep in mind writing a single review can take hours for a 2-3 page guide and there were little upsides to being a GAT member. I created am creating the current guide system hoping to resolve the issues the GAT system created and failed to address. While I don't think this system is perfect, I hope it will encourage people to post guides who were originally afraid of being humiliated while offering beginners the bare minimum protection from bad and/or harmful advice. While attitudes towards the GAT have worsened over time including my own, I saw some interest in a guide curation system when asking others for feedback on an idea I had for a guide on Discord. To my surprise, discussion over how my guide idea should be written shifted to GAT discussion. Since one of my goals with this new system is to encourage drafting out your ideas and then submitting them, it's possible conversations like these could crop up again in the future. If you are interested in creating a new curation system or revising the GAT system, feel free to share your ideas here or contact me. I don't mind helping out on hammering out policy and acting as a liaison between the new team and the staff if absolutely necessary. Regardless of how much involvement you want I and the rest of the Tulpa.info staff to have, keep in mind that the new guide curation system revival won't be successful if it's not thought out. Edited September 5, 2022 by Ranger I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! Blog | Not So Temporary Log | Switching Log | Yay! | Bre Translator | Art Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminesce September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 (edited) The normal GAT system we've had is fine, where experienced members can opt in and out, and they're notified and expected to go over new submissions. The problem is pretty simply that the forum is just not active enough to maintain a team over a long period of time, which goes hand in hand with no new guides being submitted either. My suggestion would be to let people make submissions, and allow anyone to offer feedback, and then you or whatever mod/etc. is in charge of guide approval (or just any mod that feels like it) can approve them if all seems well. I'd say any (forum) mod+ should be allowed to move submissions to the approved categories if they feel they're qualified to make that decision. It's disorganized, but playing by ear will be necessary when there isn't enough activity to uphold (or even utilize/warrant) a system in the first place. If the forum became particularly active again for some reason, I'd then recommend going back to the typical Guide Approval Team setup. Edited September 5, 2022 by Luminesce Hi! I'm Lumi, host of Reisen, Tewi, Flandre and Lucilyn. Everyone deserves to love and be loved. It's human nature. My tulpas and I have a Q&A thread, which was the first (and largest) of its kind. Feel free to ask us about tulpamancy stuff there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 5 minutes ago, Luminesce said: The normal GAT system we've had is fine, where experienced members can opt in and out, and they're notified and expected to go over new submissions. The problem is pretty simply that the forum is just not active enough to maintain a team over a long period of time, which goes hand in hand with no new guides being submitted either. I disagree, the second GAT was created when the forum had roughly the same amount of activity it has now. The second GAT fell apart because it was a hot mess, and it honestly stopped doing much once 2021 came around the corner. If we tried to recreate the old system I think it would be hard to find people to recruit for it (and I sure as heck don't want to run it). I think we are better off with a new system that doesn't require approval or disapproval before a guide is submitted. 9 minutes ago, Luminesce said: My suggestion would be to let people make submissions, and allow anyone to offer feedback, and then you or whatever mod/etc. is in charge of guide approval (or just feels like it) can approve them if all seems well. I'd say any (forum) mod+ should be allowed to move submissions to the approved categories if they feel they're qualified to make that decision. Honestly the difference between that and the UpVote/Draft system is people post directly to guides and mods will move it to the right guides board as needed. The UpVote/Draft system does have a guide report system that's more GAT-like in nature, but technically speaking that isn't essential to the system itself, it's just there because people had a problem with the last GAT not taking down "bad guides". I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! Blog | Not So Temporary Log | Switching Log | Yay! | Bre Translator | Art Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminesce September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 If the forum was more active, we'd need to hold a members' voting process to vote in GAT members the community feels is qualified to critique and approve guides, and there would be more submissions there to approve in the first place If/until that time though, the best choice is to let anyone critique (or just compliment) submissions, and have existing Staff manually approve the threads when they think they're good enough. There's not enough going on to try and organize more than that, it's unnecessary We could give people an optional opt-in role Discord style similar to Half-op but with no special permissions, just the fancy title, so they could feel a little more officially involved. If there's a way to notify people with a specific role on the forum, then we could also attach a Submissions notifier to the role, but it's not necessary. Well, the role isn't necessary at all, I just think it would encourage people to keep up with submissions a bit more. Hi! I'm Lumi, host of Reisen, Tewi, Flandre and Lucilyn. Everyone deserves to love and be loved. It's human nature. My tulpas and I have a Q&A thread, which was the first (and largest) of its kind. Feel free to ask us about tulpamancy stuff there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 I'm willing to consider completely throwing out the UpVote/Draft system if it flops hard. Right now though, I feel obligated to push the system because I promised I would deliver a system with upvotes and such. I don't know how to include a member vote in a continent way that won't slow down the process too much. I don't know how many people would be interested in such a role. Unfortunately, there are very few people who care about guides, let alone the guide review process. I figure the less people involved in-between the submission and it being posted as a guide, the better. I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! Blog | Not So Temporary Log | Switching Log | Yay! | Bre Translator | Art Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luminesce September 5, 2022 Share September 5, 2022 (edited) To be clear, I intended for Staff to be able to approve a guide at any time, regardless of if anyone's even left actual feedback on it yet, if that Staff member feels the submission is high quality enough. But, encouraging community feedback is good to do too. (* In this forum-inactivity suggestion, definitely not if we reformed a full-fledged GAT again when it's more active) Edited September 5, 2022 by Luminesce Hi! I'm Lumi, host of Reisen, Tewi, Flandre and Lucilyn. Everyone deserves to love and be loved. It's human nature. My tulpas and I have a Q&A thread, which was the first (and largest) of its kind. Feel free to ask us about tulpamancy stuff there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranger January 7, 2023 Share January 7, 2023 Blah blah blah sob story it's been several months yada yada. New updates! I finished a draft of the Revision/Request System: Spoiler The Revision Request System This system… Allows users to report problematic guides Provides guidelines for how the staff will review guides Is designed to encourage and reward revision The process in short: A user reports a problematic guide in the guide's thread The staff will decide if the guide in question warrants a guide review or not and if so, conduct that review If the guide achieves a 70% disapproval rate, the guide will be moved to drafts with feedback on how to fix the guide After changes are made, the author can either create a new guide thread or have the old one moved to Community Guides. Spoiler One of the common complaints about the previous GAT was old guides with problematic advice or methodologies were not handled properly. With this system, the goal is to provide the bare minimum protection against toxic or harmful advice while discouraging spiteful complaints, working with the limited time resources the staff can provide, and encouraging the guide author to revise their work. While this system is far from perfect and is not designed to completely resolve the core issue, it may be good enough given the lack of a GAT and possibly make progress where the former GAT could not. The process starts when a user finds a guide they wish to report. To make a report, a user needs to make a post in the guide's original thread explaining the problem they have with the guide's contents and request for a review to be done. Any report posts, particularly stand alone threads, made outside of the original guide thread will be merged with the original thread. Otherwise, they will be ignored or in extreme cases deleted if deemed absolutely necessary. While a user can make a report for any reason, the intention of this system is to identify and address problematic advice or some other serious issue with the guide's content such as illegibility, not to harass the guide author or point out grammatical or structural errors. Keep in mind if a guide breaks the forum rules, this system does not apply and the guide thread is subject to moderation action. Once the report post has been made, the staff will decide if they wish to review or not. Once the report is made, the staff will determine if a review is necessary. The staff will check if the user making the report followed these guidelines and use staff discretion to determine if the issue warrants further investigation. If the staff determines the issue does not warrant a review, a staff member should post in that thread explaining why a review will not be done. For example, if there is a report to review a guide because of some bad spelling, the report may be rejected because it does not make the guide difficult to read the guide. If the staff agrees a review should be done, then a staff member should leave a post saying the staff will review the guide. Once determined a review is necessary, the staff will conduct a guide review to determine if it needs to be revised. Staff reviews are similar to the GAT review process of the past, only the the review process is a disapproval system instead of an approval system and the review guidelines are different. The requirement of 70% disapproval rather than 70% approval aims to make it harder to move something to Drafts and ultimately discourage members from making unnecessary reports. Additionally, an author gains a mathematical advantage if more staff members review a guide. The more staff members reviewing, the more people who will need to vote disapproval to achieve the 70% requirement. A minimum of 3 staff members must participate in the guide review process. The staff review guidelines can be seen here <link>, but in short staff members should focus on the core issue, only reading what is necessary. While staff members are more than welcome to give additional feedback to enhance the guide, this is not necessary or expected of the staff. If the vote fails to reach the 70% disapproval requirement, the guide is left in Community Guides. If the vote does meet the 70% disapproval requirement, the staff will then list out exactly what changes need to be made and move the guide to the Drafts board. Once a guide has been moved to the Drafts board, the guide author must make the requested changes to have it moved back to Community Guides. Once these changes are made, a staff member will check the guide and then once verified, move the guide back to Community Guides. If the author wishes to do so, they are more than welcome to create a new thread in Community Guides. However, if a guide reposting fails to include the requested changes, it will be merged with the original guide thread. Ultimately, this system aims to address problematic guide content while keeping in mind the anxieties guide authors had with the GAT system. While this system uses a disapproval system, there are numerous advantages granted to guide authors including the requirement to keep reports in the original guide thread by offering less visibility and giving the author more control over the review process content, the staff dismissing unnecessary cases, the high disapproval requirement, disapproval being harder to achieve with multiple reviewers, and the requirement staff must spell out exactly what changes need to be made for resubmission in Community Guides. In the end, the goal of this system is to provide constructive criticism where needed while ensuring beginners don't come across problematic advice or illegible guide material. And finally, an updated guide list post transition! Huge shout out to Gelato, Gemini, An, Astra, Lusovius, and anyone else who helped edit the guide list and/or hang out with me while I was working on that! I would not have gotten that done anytime soon without your help! Spoiler A list of the various guides, tips, and articles submitted to tulpa.info, arranged by their topic. Whether an entry is approved or disapproved depends on tulpa.info's Guide Approval Team (GAT), which does its best to try to make sure all guides are up to standards and easy to understand. Submissions that have been approved were moved to the official guide subforums, while disapproved or not-yet-reviewed guides remain in submissions - these guides may help you as well, even if they haven't been approved. Not all guides will be found where the author has tagged them. In case you believe something has been mistagged in this guide or if there is some other kind of a mistake, go ahead and notify a forum moderator. Thread originally created by Sands. General Guides that help you through the whole process of creating a tulpa Community Guides 24-Hour Guide to Tulpamancy Abvieon's Guide to Fast and Effective Tulpa Creation Daniel's Starter Guide to Creating a Tulpa how to make a half baked tulpa quickly. How to make a vocal tulpa by developing the skills and mindsets of the host. How to Tulpa/Tulpae Jabre's Tulpa Creation Guide JD's Tulpa Method Kiahdaj's Absolute Guide to Tulpas (Also in French, Italian and Russian) Kopase's Simple and Straightforward Video Guides on Making a Tulpa Longbow's Tulpamancy Guide Lunanite's Compendium of Guides Methos's Tulpa Creation Guide NLD's Hands-On Tulpa Creation Guide v1.7 Reguile's Grounded Tulpamancy Guide. Teryakywind's "Tulpas for Dummies" General Creation Guide The art and skill of tulpas (Understanding and creating tulpas) The No-Bullshit Tulpa Book The Secret of a 10 Minute Tulpa - A Guide ThunderClap's Guide on Tulpa Creation Tulpa Handbook Tulpa Phenomenon Overview Guide Tulpanomicon Tulpa's Complete DIY Guide to Tulpamancy Tulpas: Creation, Sentience, and Vocality Tips & Tricks Tulpamancy tips from a tulpa Personality For those who wish to create a personality for their tulpa, look no further Community Guides JD's Guide to Personality Forcing Planting a Tulpa Seed and How to Listen to It Tips & Tricks For general character-building Jimmy's late night guide to choosing the right tulpa base. My personality tables Onion Layer for Personality Forcing Sentience Getting your tulpa to the point where they seem to act and think on their own, or help getting past the points where you are unsure or worried Tips & Tricks Counting Games Parroting and puppeting concerns solved Possible Method For Faster Sentience Sentience confirming/anti puppeting guide Telling when you have a tulpa Tulpa Journey Guide When To Parrot Your Tulpa Vocality Tips on how you might be able to hear your tulpa's voice Community Guides Coaxing Tulpae Into Talking How to talk to your tulpa in less time Pruria talks talking to tulpae: Deaf hosts Rationalistic Guide to Vocality Schlondark's Psychic Tulpa Voice Guide THE VOICE Tulpa Vocalization Practice Tips & Tricks Auditory Vocalization Method Easy guide on how to hear your tulpa Echo Parroting - Teaching Your Tulpa How To Use Their Own Mindvoice Quantum's Nametag method Really simple Trick for better hearing your Tulpa Simple trick which helped me at least with tulpa's voice Tips for Hearing Your Tulpa Tips for those who are getting "parrotnoid". Forcing Stuck when actually trying to create your tulpa? These might help Community Guides "Black Box" Differentiation Exercise Linkzelda's Ultimate Self-Hypnosis Scripts For Your Tulpa-Related Needs listening - to wake headmates or help with parroting Octaviapus' Guide to Lucid Mode Tips & Tricks A tip for those who have difficulty with long forcing sessions Candellaith's tubes [anti-puppeting guide] Common pitfalls and traps while making a tulpa. GameForcing Generally helpful forcing technique (but mostly for Visualization and Imposition) Great and fun Visualization methods for daydreamers Helixileh As A Forcing Method Helping your tulpa become more independent with flashcards How to Use Hour Counts Safely and Effectively Ideas for looking after multiple tulpa Mala beads! Overclock Forcing Method Parroting Syndrome Prompts PsiQss' thought's relocation as a general forcing booster "Ravagestar's Sphere" How to drive off intrusive thoughts. Redirection Technique Sending Thoughts to Your Tulpa: Balloon Method Sensory Sharing Explained Super Awesome Tulpa Game Guide Upgrade your Tulpa - improvements to their existance Zero's Narration & Mindvoice Tips & Tricks Handbook Focus and Concentration Guides on how to focus properly in the creation process, for those who are having difficulties. Includes meditation techniques. Community Guides Centering and Tulpae Dissociation Guide Tulpas and Vipassana; a practical advice on the meditation sittings for tulpamancers Tips & Tricks Couguhl's Guide to Tulpa Association for Regaining Focus FOCUS AIDS Foghorn Meditation How To Sustain Concentration While Forcing Meditation Pranayama: Shared Breathe Meditation Removing Doubts and General Meditation Technique Stress relief for forcing Tulpaforcing and Meditation Using Thresholds and Furniture to Remember Your Tulpa Narration Narration touches on how to talk to and with your tulpa, with some tips as to what you might talk about if you have run out of ideas Community Guides A Bit of a Narration Guide Schlondark on Narration Tips & Tricks A Helpful Conversation Mindset For Older Tulpas Tips that may Help Bolster Sentience Topics to Talk About With Your Tulpa Visualization Help in how to improve the mind's eye Community Guides Basic Method On Practicing Visualization Can't see a dang thing? Chadacks visualisation guide Cozmo's Guide on Creating and Building a Tulpa's Body Digital Screen Visualization Image Streaming JD's Guide to Visualization Linkzelda's Image Streaming Guide Mental image Rendering guide Perfect visualization from the half-sleep state. Tulpa Visualization Guide Visualization Focus Guide Tips & Tricks Amazing clarity visualization! Blindfold Trick Drawing and creating art of your tulpa Guided Visualization, but not weird How to Visualize in First Person kakeli's Guide To Better Visualization Maxyp's Tips & Tricks (Also an imposition guide) Meditation aids Meditation Exercise Pikuseru's Mind's Eye Trick Simple visualization exercise Simply imagine what a vivid, detailed visualization would look like. Spice's host's guide to training the minds eye Teryakywind's Guide to Making the Imagined Real The "Self I Spy" Game Tip for Those Struggling to Visualize Tulpa Anatomy Visualization with Music visualizing a composite tulpa Imposition Learning to sense and hallucinate your tulpa in the real world Community Guides Guide to imposition/controlled hallucinations (touch) How to see your tulpa and distortions Implanting Guide JD's Guide to Visual Imposition (image heavy) Mind Synthesis Guide NED's leash imposition guide Old imposition guide Projection: Tulpa-controlled Imposition q2's method for a huggable tulpa, v2 Tulpa imposition guide Tips & Tricks A Starting Imposition Guide Flash Imposition glitchthe3rd's imposition guide Holding your tulpa's hand Imposition via photos Method for imposing and open eye visuals. Open eye visualization idea Pepper's Ghost Tetris Effect as Visual Imposition Method The Kamehameha technique There is no try, only do. visual imposition tip Possession Aiding the tulpa and host to let the tulpa to take control of the body Community Guides Oguigi & Koomer Possession Starter guide Possession: By a Tulpa for Tulpas Possession by Yuki Possession Explained Tips & Tricks Mutual Possession Practice possession easily by playing Simon The muscle memory Switching Taking possession one step further and allowing the host to completely detach themselves as the tulpa takes full control on their own Community Guides Felights' Fronting Fundamentals | Possession & Switching Guide Ford's Double Ascended Switching Guide for Elite Class Tulpamancers Ghost Switching [A Beginner-Friendly Switching Guide] Guide on how to switch. Guide to Tulpa Control How to Switch Parallel Processing and Personality Switching Perfect Possession is simple! Here's how to enact it! Great for beginners! So you wanna switch? Do you, really? Might be able to help that. Tips & Tricks Tulpa's Practical Considerations for First Switching Wonderland Tips that mostly deals with creating or controlling your imaginary mindscape Community Guides How to Refocus on Your Wonderland Meet others in Wonderland - Guide Tips & Tricks Sophie's Wonderland Tips The 'Do Not Disturb' technique- How to tell when your tulpa is awake! Transparent linking When Things Go Wrong in Your Imagination and How to Fix Them So They Don't Wonderland: Tips, Tricks, And Basics for Hosts Wonderland Creation Via Daydreaming Wonderland immersion method Misc Miscellaneous guides and tips that don't fit anywhere else Community Guides A guide on Lucid Dreaming and Tulpas (v1.1) Aarix Independence Guide Getting There: A Note on Productivity glitchthe3rd's Servitor Workshop How to Dissipate a Tulpa JD's Guide to Telling People About Your Tulpa Linkzelda's Motivational Tulpa Guide NoneFromHell's Three task tulpa revitalization exercise Servitor Creation Guide TBW's Theraputic Tulpas Guide the guide from the man, the legend, the one and only....MARIO! The Ultimate Tulpa Guide Tulpamancy Glossary Want a tulpa who is really smart from the start? Follow my method Tips & Tricks 42 1/2 Things to Do with Your Tulpa Aarix last resort method to belief and tulpaforcing. Aura's guide for tulpae starting tulpae Channeling away your worries in the void Cinemaphobe's Tulpa Journal Concept Dealing with intrusive imagery Devolping values for a Tulpa after creation Finding Lost or Runaway Tulpae in a Cluttered Mind Jimmy's Pony Creation Thread. Because you were too unoriginal to make your own Magical thinking, 2-step tulpa creation & other stuff experimental guide Memories and dream staging Report on Tulpamancing Advice from the Survey for fluently speaking tulpa Separation exercise SKoP's Proxying guide for the Tulpa and host The child philosophy The Tulpa Role-Playing Game - Guide V4.4 The Wonderland RPG: Making Persistent Intrusive Thoughts Bearable Thunder's Guide to Alleviating Doubt Tulpa Development Kit Tulpabracelets Understanding your Tulpa: A healthy Relationship Non-English Any guide that doesn't have an English version goes here Gymnasium student training - a guide in Russian (Russian) Articles Not guides, but might prove to be useful for those who would like to know more about what someone else thinks or has found out about the tulpa phenomenon A Testimony From a Skeptic Amadeus' Exodus: A Tale of Tulpa Are tulpas a mental disorder? Deconstruction of the Newcomer's Tulpa Mentality Doubting Sentience due to Time Healthy multiplicity and Tulpæ On Forcing: Developing the Consciousness On Tulpas—an essay about plurality in general and tulpamancy in particular Peace of Mind in Multiples Plurality - A Scientific and Philosophical Overview Remember You Don't Have to Make a Tulpa Sex—what is the question? The Abilities of a Tulpa The Differences Between Us and Tulpae Theories on Tulpas: How They Function and Why "Parroting" Is Necessary Tulpa Systems: Why Less is More (Essay) Tulpae and Humanity Tulpae and Possession of Host Tulpamancy description for singlets / Telling your friends you have a tulpa Tulpas in Paranormal Underground magazine Walking in Wonderland Disappeared/Unnecessary/Other Graveyard of guides that no longer exist or are unnecessary in some way or form, here for posterity's sake A collection of Tips & Tricks about tulpas and tulpamancy in general. (Gone) A guide compilation. (Guide compilation) A Tulpa Checklist (Gone) Chevreul's Pendulum Concentration Exercise (Gone) Detailed Creation Guide (Early draft) Fede's Ultimate Superior Tulpa Guide (Gone) Ganzfeld Voice Imposition (Professional Guide 2.0) (Gone) Great Big List of Guides (WIP) (Guide compilation) Guide for New Members (Guide about forums) How to Refocus on Your Wonderland (Early draft) Jean-luc's super-simple guide to a talking tulpa (No personality required!) (Gone) Linkzelda's Self-Hypnosis Tulpa Guide (Early draft of guide) LucidAcid's meditative tulpaforcing guide for more productive forcing and stuff (Gone) Mindscape Overlay method for getting an overall better feel for your tulpa (Gone) My Meditation habits (Gone) New Great Big List of Guides (Guide compilation) (Not actually "new" anymore) Pre-Vocalization Communication Through Possession (Gone) The illustrious Sock's most perfect guide to mind doll creation (Satire) Tulpa-Sync! (Gone) Tulpa's DIY tulpamancy guide (Early draft of guide) Tulpamancy: Guide Into the Strange and Wonderful (Gone) Tulpa.info Forums; How to Use Them (Guide about forums) I'm tired and I don't feel like doing much else tonight. My todo list is the following: Finish the staff review guidelines Finish the UpVote/Draft system essay Go over everything to make sure it makes sense (so I'm not inconsistently saying Community Guides vs Guides board and such) Test things out? I'm thinking about looking at this tomorrow. I make no promises. I'm Ranger, GrayTheCat's cobud (tulpa), and I love hippos! I also like cake and chatting about stuff. I go by Rosalin or Ronan sometimes. You can call me Roz but please don't call me Ron. My other headmates have their own account now. If I missed seeing your art, please PM/DM me! Blog | Not So Temporary Log | Switching Log | Yay! | Bre Translator | Art Thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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