All you do is be yourself. When everyone does the same and they stumble upon something that you or anyone else who's out to really make that change for the better, if it's a good thing they like for you to continue I'm sure they'll let you know either by posting to you that it was a good thing or PMing you. If they give any of you advise then your best bet is to follow it, but if you're unsure if you should follow a certain piece of advise then well.. I'm sure you and Sierra will know that you can always send a staff member, Heh Or should I say "Your big sisters" a PM or IM us and ask about it. Yet when we staff members aren't around
please do not be afraid to go to the other fourm members. They're your
family too here. Then after that if they feel what you're doing is something worth 'rewarding' you for they'll come here and let us know.
When you do something good they'll leave a post in this thread saying they want to give you a cookie. So say if you did do something they liked, a good deed or the right thing to do (i.e. Following the rules, not telling anyone a lie but telling them the truth, not starting any fights with anyone or even returning a petz that someone requested from you and not adopting them out without asking that person if it's okay...etc)
Their post might look like this:
Just dropping by to let you know I wanted to give 'Petzlover and Sierra' a cookie because ..etc..
If the good behavior was noticed in threads they can leave a link to the thread or even multiple threads as a way of showing proof that you've done something good.
Same thing goes for Bad behavior so do be aware that your other 'siblings' are watching over you. If you do something they know you shouldn't be doing they can drop by here and tell us they want to 'take' a cookie from you instead. Which means one of your good cookies turns into a bad burnt cookie
And you know we can't eat those. Plus when the end of the month comes along
; All of your nice siblings that have set up shop with nice rewards you can trade the nice yummy good cookies for... they won't accept any burnt ones
Now here's the thing about your Good Behavior and Bad Behavior cookies. Good ones as well all know can be traded in for One special reward at the end of every month unless you have enough Good cookies to trade them in for something else. What each sibling will charge in good cookies for their reward only they and 'your big sisters' will know. Also you can't borrow someone else's cookies because those cookies are like magic.
You see when you do a lot of good things and little to no bad things in a month sometimes one of your big sisters will give you something extra special. What you ask? A Golden Cookie!! These super rare and special cookies cannot be eaten, traded for a reward or even borrowed like the others. These cookies are special because you can carry them around with you in your siggy. There are six of these... Each one shaped differently because there is one golden cookie for each Big Sister. What they look like... You'll have to find out on your own. Yet there is said to be a Seventh golden cookie... Or so that's what the shadows whisper, no one knows how to get it not even The Six Big Sisters
A golden cookie is only given if your Good Behaviors outweigh you bad ones for the month. Meaning your bad behaviors can be no greater than 20% of your total good behaviors. So yes, math is involved for those keeping count. O___O The horror!
I want each of you to keep in mind that this forum is like a really big family. Treat everyone like they were your brother or sister. This means "Don't take their stuff (hexies, petz, breedfiles, pictures and so on) and say that it's yours (claim the things saying you made it, or that a petz in a picture is yours when it isn't..etc)" , You wouldn't want your brother or sister to tell you a lie ... so that means You shouldn't lie to them! Fact is you should never lie to your family online or offline.
Now if you feel like something's brothering you let it be something dealing with your real life or just something on the forums, turn to your 'siblings', yes the other members of this forum... Find one of them, any of them and PM them...ask them if they have a moment to talk with you over IMs if you like, If you like to talk to them using PMs then ask them if they can. When you're lost and don't know what to do.. turn to the ones who are around you. To be honest we don't bite (well some of us do
but we don't bite you when you come to us seeking help). If they don't have a spare moment then and tell you that, make sure to thank them for taking a moment to try and help you then
'run next door or to the next bunk bed' and contact another one of your 'siblings' (fellow forum members).
If it's something you feel is more personal then yes come to staff if you feel we're the ones best suited to help you at that time.. That's what big sisters are for right? If none of us are around at that time, just leave us a message in our PM boxes, that's sort of like you're sticking a note under our bedroom doors ...and trust me we pay attention to the letters stuck under our doors and read every last one of them. When we come around and you're around at the same time, We'll talk to you about what you wanted to discuss.
Now remember you have to really earn your Good Behavior cookies and try not to end up with Bad Behavior ones. When you get too many bad behavior cookies in a month and you've "burnt" all your good ones:
Say someone had 10 good cookies but they ended up haveing 12 taken away that week. It means all of their good cookies burnt themselves because of the bad behavior. So we all know 12 - 10 = 2 right? That means when the next week starts instead of starting with 10 new good cookies ... Two of those cookies will end up turning burnt.
I know you're going how is that possible?!
Well see the cookies react to all that you do here. I didn't really wanna take out the jar but I have to now seeing as you all need the help. When you get fresh cookies at the begining of the week and if you did too many bad things last week...and your plate of cookies were all burnt, The Magic on the cookies allows them to pass on your Bad behavior deeds to the next because we have a "Cookie Imp" that can read the burns on each of them. Thus when we give you new cookies to start with for the week, the cookie imp will come by remember how many bad behavior reports you had and take his 'payment' of whatever cookies he didn't get last week.
Get too many Bad behavior cookies and he'll dump all of them in the box he has with your name on it in the Staff lounge ;.; Too many bad behavior cookies means
trouble. We all know that's not good... It means you'll have something taken from you... Like no adopting for a week, no rewards for the month or worse
getting 'sent' to your room (The one thing we hate to do... ban someone that is. And Yes we can do it for strange lengths of time)
Depending on the number of Bad behavior cookies that gets dumped in our lounge will determine what happens. Trust me one thing we hate is the smell of burnt cookies all in our good carpet in the lounge!