Grock Posts

IS THAT A CAT REFERENCE OR DO I JUST HAVE A HARD-ON FOR KITTENS TONIGHT

*SLOWLY REACHES OVER TO DUTCH-RUDDER*

YOU SHOULD TRY LEARNING CAPITALIZATION NEXT

I BELIEVE THAT IS CALLED SCATCAT AND I WILL CONCEDE THAT I ENJOY IT AS WELL

THIS IS WHAT I THINK ABOUT YOUR MOMENT

(MAKE SURE TO WASH YOUR HANDS ON THE WAY OUT)

WHY YOU GOTTA BE IN MY FACE ABOUT IT

WHAT'S THAT VOMIT-FETISH CALLED?

Minami-ke as well

Mio = Kagami = Chiyaki
Ritsu = Konata = Kana
Mugi = Miyuki = Haruka
Yui = Tsukasa = Tomo

YOU JUST GOT TROLL'D BRO

obvi it makes no sense to make sense

can't break the chain.

also post pics

I FUCKING LOVE KITTENS

YEAH GIRL

Haha, I know, I was the one doing the merging :D

Was playing around with the mod tools and it turns out they're pretty fucking glitchy. Fixing them (and writing an admin interface) is on my list of things to do now ffs :|

Also there are now sort/ordering options on the forum search (which is the searchbox on the top-left of the main forum page). The pagination on there is still completely fucked (not sure why it's broken) and it needs a couple more features (limit search to specific forums, etc), but it's a step in the right direction.

And maybe just maybe we'll have the image section back up for Christmas. No promises ;_;

I'm on a hotel connection right now (lol traveling~) and it times out while trying to upload at 2KB/s. I'll give it a whack when I have a real connection later this week.

Ah, yeah, the PS3 POS browser probably doesn't support javascript. I'll hijack in a redirect to point that user-agent back at some fallback code, gimmeh a sec.



trololol.

EDIT: Okay, it should now kick the PS3 browser over to a failover non-javascript version of the page.

USUAL SAFETY WARNINGS APPLY -- IF YOU START TO FEEL FRICTION APPLY MORE LUBE.

IF YOU OBSERVE SMOKE RISING FROM YOUR GENITALIA PLEASE CALL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

PLEASE HAVE A WONDERFUL AND SAFE SELF-SERVICE SESSION.

I have a couple of ideas, but auto-gen'd art is never going to look as good as hand-created stuff, unfortunately. That's just overhead that I think we're gonna have to sit with for awhile -- it would take more than a week to write a system which takes two pools of images, finds ones that have similar/contrasting color palettes and outline schemes, finds the rough centershs of the depicted characters and works them together.

THAT WOULD BE A COOL SIDEPROJECT THOUGH.



Hrm, other than putting up the polls and maintaining the stickies, what other time-critical tasks were there? I'm not familiar enough with the game :<



Oh shit, that's a good idea.

EDIT: Anyway, I think I'm gonna call it a night. I'm gonna brew on all this and run it by Jacob tomorrow to see what he thinks about it. In any case, we have to wait a week before doing anything to make sure the servers aren't going to keep pooping themselves while we're running an event (because that would be shitty, pun intended).

Well, I think he'd still be necessary for keeping the discussion and stuff in-track. The moderators have enough work as-is reading through and policing all the other forums. That aside, I think the report system is enough to manage the post-related issues.



Brm brm not telling!

Well, I can't fix the moderation bits (post deletions and rule enforcement), but I can definitely automate the sticky/unsticky process so that it automatically makes the daily battle threads, sticky/unstickys them, keeps track of the developing bracket and updates a central status post, generates bracket images, etc. I don't know what proportion of the overhead that would eliminate for you guys, but it would at least remove the "oh god need to stay up to put the thread up at the right time" factor.

The fancy landing page is really just icing on the cake. The real timesaver is the automated system which takes care of the bruntwork for you guys.



I think the main reason to have a dedicated moderator would be the whole "maintain this forum as something other than a forum" issue. An automated system would fix that need, I think. There are still the usual forum moderation tasks (deleting bad posts, keeping everyone in line, etc), but I feel like the reporting system can be used to take care of that.