Captain Jordan

Rabbit Doubt: The Vacation Murders

Seravee said
Because, in a sense, being able to place our lynch on a person being killed already is a gift for us. We aren't risking anything. I know others have voiced that they like the risk, but I hate it. First round lynch votes always feel like a waste to me. The author of the post is never going to be foolish enough to give away the killer, so whatever vote we make is probably wrong. This way, we will get the information we want from Alpha's death without taking the additional hit of killing someone else (who most likely is not the killer).

Plus you avoid the concern that I voiced to Lady Squee in PM, that is the killer being able to see who is voting for her/him for the right reasons and arrange an...accident. Though I'm keeping my vote as is, it's purely random and I can't see someone truly having a problem with a random vote on a first RD post.

SPAM NEWS: The Roleplaying Minstrels Perform an Ode to Mahz

I like it, although I feel like some of the word choices are too long. You could easily substitute some of the higher-syllable words for better flow.

I know you did not ask, but just a suggestion

This in an ode to our saviour and king
Who built a new world for all the guild-kin
He slew the script mages and the bug dragon
Saving us all from bored ob-liv-ion

The troubles began when lord Mahz was betrayed
When the armies of Adsense began to invade
He ravaged our kingdom with unholy crusade
But soon he fell to our lord Mahz's Blade

Now Mahz rebuilds his kingdom, a new design
So that the stories continue of all the guild kind
I cannot debug nor program script
So I wrote this song as a musical gift

Martin Freeman

Chocobo said
Y'know, I've never actually watched Sherlock.

BLASPHEMY!

Chocobo said
I should watch Sherlock

So get to it!

Rabbit Doubt: The Vacation Murders

Zed said
Hi folks.Are you happy now, Squee?I voted.

*does a happy dance for Zed's vote*

Spam Hunger Games [Closed]

Lady Squee said

Captain Jordan

STR: 13 (+1)
DEX: 8 (-1)
LUCK: 16 (+3)
END: 8 (-1)
INT: 13 (+1)
WIS: 11 (0)
CHA: 17 (+3)
Training Score: 8

You know, I think I'm okay with these stats. I'll look into writing up a CS if I find the time.

I Have So Many Ideas For My Oldguild Name

Mahz said
It's not a system for fun and jokes. It's a system to find lost kin.

But can it be exploited for fun and jokes...or harm? Is the field sanitized?

Pros and Cons of new Guild

Drakel said
I'm honestly trying to learn coding though I'm just beginning... On February or march I'll be starting my first classes for the subject. Though overall I'm absolutely no help right now other than possibly watching in amazement on Mahz's work.

I'm a senior at the U of MN right now going for my Computer Science degree. I just don't think I have time to learn a new language with my current courseload. If it was in Java or the like it wouldn't be hard.

Pros and Cons of new Guild

Hank said
Pros: fully custom forum software built from scratch.

Cons: ... fully custom forum software built from scratch

My thoughts exactly.

Bespoke software is awesome....when it's done. I wish I knew Clojure so I could help Mahz, or even regex so I could figure out a dozen BBCode formulas.

[New Feature] Subscriptions

Mahz said
I still need to create an admin panel to update it without rebooting the guild.

Yeah, that might be useful.

No way to report threads?

Mahz said
- Everything should pipe through the report system, and acting upon reports should be as effortless as possible. In fact, the member that reports a PM/user/post/topic should be able to actually act on it themselves. Like, the report should show up as "KittyGiggle wants to [Nuke] this user" with the attached message "Obvious spambot". A moderator reads it and just clicks "Confirm [Nuke]".

Oh yes! Every fucking forum software should have this feature. Report needs a "Suggestioned action" dropdown in addition to the text box, where sensible people can just say "Ban" or "Move to [properly populated forum name]" and so forth, making it simple for a moderator to click a button and move on. Being an admin on other forums in the past, it's amazing how quickly the browser tabs increase when doing a simple moderation task.

Mahz said - The mod kit should empower people to help the community, not shackle them into a customer service position and drape them in awkward political anguish where they suddenly have to openly moderate their own friends. It just feels lame when last week you were trolling a topic with your buddies and now you have to get "Um okay guys stop it it's not right" like a prat. Ideally when someone submits a report, it becomes a rendezvous channel between the reporter and the moderators. Except it'd be better if the user only sees "Moderator 1" and "Moderator 2" rather than real usernames.

Nice touch.

Mahz said - Roleplays should be self-contained ecosystems if they want to be. Within them, they should have their own little serfdoms where little knights can stick their own topics and create their own tabs and moderate their own serfs. I haven't even begun to ponder how that would actually work particularly from a UI angle, but it's what I mean when I say that users should be able to manage their own going-ons.

This makes me smile. It's something similar to how I had tried to set up the one RP I lead in oldGuild utilizing the vBulletin Groups feature to have more 'private' (maybe secluded is a better word?) topics that wouldn't spam the regular forums.

I'm in support of anything and everything here. Bravo for this ambition, I only hope to see it become reality someday.