Mahz is the Admin. He's the man with the plan and the Guild's head honcho.
Mahz
Admin
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- Old Guild Username: Mahz
- Joined: 12 yrs ago
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1 yr ago
Ok, I made a major change to the database (but I'm not done). Please hop on discord if you find errors doing something!
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1 yr ago
I'm making some upgrades to the guild database. Sorry for any errors!
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3 yrs ago
I'm working on experimental server changes. Email mahz@roleplayerguild.com if you're having problems.
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7 yrs ago
Getting some more work done on the Guild today and tomorrow.
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8 yrs ago
Investigating the catastrophic performance issues.
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Bio
Some favorite links I find while scrolling around.
- @Roach: Advanced BBCode Hacks (Part 2, Part 1)
- @Exit: C O N C E P T S ᵇʸ ᴱˣᴵᵗ – Amazing experiments in BBCode design.
- @BangoSkank: RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer
- @Roach
- @Exit
BBCode
- @Roach: Advanced BBCode Hacks (Part 2, Part 1)
- @Exit: C O N C E P T S ᵇʸ ᴱˣᴵᵗ – Amazing experiments in BBCode design.
Articles
- @BangoSkank: RPing Ain't Always Easy : A Collaborative Guide to the Stuff that Makes This Hobby Less Fun Sometimes And How to Make It More Betterer
Bios I love
- @Roach
- @Exit
Most Recent Posts
Bump to get replace the current "Latest Post" for the news forum.
SeventhKnight said
Been on for all of about ten minutes and already have about thirty pop-ups originating from this site alone. It's hurting my ability to use the site properly as every other click ends up whisking my pc's resources away to porn, crappy mmos, or tax refunding companies. Way too many ads are popping up and it's somehow going around all my security.
I've booted and rebooted but the ads and popups only appear when RPG is open. Quite annoying, and I wish I could get it to stop. I was happy to see the site even after such a tragic event with the data loss. That happened while I was away from the internet and I would have been heartbroken if the site was gone, but as of right now, I can barely use the site without running risk of downloading a bunch of random stuff. Is there anyway I can reduce the ads coming from this site?
Sounds like you've got malware on your computer. That isn't us.
What happens when you open the site in other browsers. Maybe you can narrow it down to an infected browser.
Rule #1: Don't troll.
A troll is anyone that intentionally does something that wastes my time.
That's the new umbrella rule of the Spam forum and the Guild. It's laissez-faire until you waste my time. It's much more obvious to know when you're breaking this rule than rules like "Be Fonz-cool". Being Fonz-cool is just a pre-requisite for not wasting my time.
Some common ways people waste my time:
- Being super edgy
- Getting in e-fights
- Instigating
Rule #2: Don't acknowledge trolls.
- Don't talk about people getting banned.
- Don't say their names.
- Don't post in their threads.
- Don't make threads about them.
- Don't even acknowledge other people that are feeding the trolls.
Instead, just let us know.
If a troll gets off on getting other people banned by compelling them to post, then they are doing the Guild a service by revealing other people that waste my time. Symbiosis.
Determining whether or not a ban was fair is also a waste of my time, so err on the safe side.
Good luck.
A troll is anyone that intentionally does something that wastes my time.
That's the new umbrella rule of the Spam forum and the Guild. It's laissez-faire until you waste my time. It's much more obvious to know when you're breaking this rule than rules like "Be Fonz-cool". Being Fonz-cool is just a pre-requisite for not wasting my time.
Some common ways people waste my time:
- Being super edgy
- Getting in e-fights
- Instigating
Rule #2: Don't acknowledge trolls.
- Don't talk about people getting banned.
- Don't say their names.
- Don't post in their threads.
- Don't make threads about them.
- Don't even acknowledge other people that are feeding the trolls.
Instead, just let us know.
If a troll gets off on getting other people banned by compelling them to post, then they are doing the Guild a service by revealing other people that waste my time. Symbiosis.
Determining whether or not a ban was fair is also a waste of my time, so err on the safe side.
Good luck.
An avatar is always saved at the same URL on the server, so the browser just re-uses the image in its cache (the old one). The browser doesn't know that it should fetch the updated image from the server.
I need to bust the browser cache when a new avatar is uploaded. Low priority since it's only on the user side and eventually fixes itself when user browser cache times out.
I need to bust the browser cache when a new avatar is uploaded. Low priority since it's only on the user side and eventually fixes itself when user browser cache times out.
Avidgamers. 
Such a big part of my preteens yet its name hasn't even crossed my mind since I last uttered it a decade ago. Until now.
This grotesque specimen should be a refresher for anyone else:
Yeah, the high level idea here is to simply expose a toolkit that allows roleplaying at a scale beyond one roleplay. If a GM right now can control the scope of one roleplay, then the idea proposed in this topic just allows GMs to control the scope of multiple roleplays.
It's a pretty obvious iteration. It just so happens that once you follow this idea to its end, you realize you're just a stone's throw away from the reason why all those RP forums on Proboards exist. But since the Guild is one large ecosystem, the possibilities are much more interesting.
The other idea I work on when I have time is how to give individual roleplays the toolkit to be their own self-contained ecosystems. Custom tabs seem promising at first, but it doesn't scale.
If you think about it, a single roleplay topic with its single IC tab is pretty much just a narrative sequence that tells one story. Even if the IC posts do some nonchronological time-hopping like Memento, it still tells a coherent story. So the single-IC-tab-per-roleplay constraint makes sense. It's the single OOC tab that's the showstopper. It's impossible to coordinate any discussion at depth in a single thread, so that's a real problem I want to solve.
One simple idea would be to add a third tab (keeping the OOC tab around as more of a light-hearted chatbox):
Both ideas are half-baked, but the point is that player coordination can be dramatically improved by reapplying the same tools that a forum already provides.
Such a big part of my preteens yet its name hasn't even crossed my mind since I last uttered it a decade ago. Until now.This grotesque specimen should be a refresher for anyone else:
Yeah, the high level idea here is to simply expose a toolkit that allows roleplaying at a scale beyond one roleplay. If a GM right now can control the scope of one roleplay, then the idea proposed in this topic just allows GMs to control the scope of multiple roleplays.
It's a pretty obvious iteration. It just so happens that once you follow this idea to its end, you realize you're just a stone's throw away from the reason why all those RP forums on Proboards exist. But since the Guild is one large ecosystem, the possibilities are much more interesting.
The other idea I work on when I have time is how to give individual roleplays the toolkit to be their own self-contained ecosystems. Custom tabs seem promising at first, but it doesn't scale.
If you think about it, a single roleplay topic with its single IC tab is pretty much just a narrative sequence that tells one story. Even if the IC posts do some nonchronological time-hopping like Memento, it still tells a coherent story. So the single-IC-tab-per-roleplay constraint makes sense. It's the single OOC tab that's the showstopper. It's impossible to coordinate any discussion at depth in a single thread, so that's a real problem I want to solve.
One simple idea would be to add a third tab (keeping the OOC tab around as more of a light-hearted chatbox):
Both ideas are half-baked, but the point is that player coordination can be dramatically improved by reapplying the same tools that a forum already provides.
Spare us.
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