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Post by takewithfood on Oct 7, 2013 18:41:13 GMT -5
Hey guys, Long story short: I'm an admin, now. Yay! Short story long: Basically, I've been wanting to run a Marvel Heroic game for months now, but I haven't been able to since the dice roller script was voided when Proboards upgraded us to v5 way back when. Without any currently active admin, we can't upload the script for a dice roller (or do any of the other admin stuff that we've needed to do), so no dice rolling for me, or anyone else. I tried messaging Rushlock and i3ullseye, our "Eternal" admins, but they haven't been on in a while. I tried emailing them, but their listed addresses are defunct. So, out of options, I had to resort to my creepy stalker abilities. And I spent a little time on it today, and managed to track down i3ullseye: And because he is awesome, he was nice enough to give me Admin privileges. So, now that we have access to neat admin features... uhm... what do we actually want to do with them? I've decided not to go ahead and touch anything until we all talk about it and decide together what's a good idea and what isn't. With that in mind, though, here are my suggestions: - discuss making more/different admins (I don't even have to be one in the end)
- install a dice roller, like VDice
- revise the censored word list (no more "wee weeing" guns, or sitting in the "wee weepit" of a plane)
- ban a whole bunch of spammers; ip ban them if possible
- look into hiding some profile information (ip addresses, email addresses?)
- discuss changes to the theme (I sorta miss the old MURPG banner at the top of the page lol)
If you guys have any suggestions, let's hear 'em. ~TWF
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Post by Gris on Oct 7, 2013 18:53:40 GMT -5
That's huge news you creepy stalker glorious admin! It should be more than one admin, whoever they are, just to prevent being left in the same situation than before. Well, yes, whatever works, but it's needed. Better than the workaround of inserting [b][/b] or any similar tags in the middle of the word, that's for sure. But the kitchens! Where will we be shopping for kitchens? Someone said something time ago about... some kind of chatbox or similar tech. I can see it being useful (even if now back and forth PMs are better than before) but we got one, it should be as discreet as possible to not be a nuisance.
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Post by Savant on Oct 7, 2013 19:00:12 GMT -5
Huzzah!
How about dynamic themes?
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Post by takewithfood on Oct 7, 2013 19:00:55 GMT -5
That's huge news you creepy stalker glorious admin! lol But the kitchens! Where will we be shopping for kitchens? double lol Someone said something time ago about... some kind of chatbox or similar tech. I can see it being useful (even if now back and forth PMs are better than before) but we got one, it should be as discreet as possible to not be a nuisance. Yes, that's a very good idea. I'll poke around the proboards plugin database and see what I can find; I'll try to post links to whatever I find. It also occurred to me that we need a good "spoilers" plugin. Not only is it good for hiding actual spoilers when we're talking about movies or tv or comics, but it can be useful in-game for keeping OOC clutter from, well, cluttering up a thread. In most other roleplaying forums I've been to, people put their dice rolling and energy/stone stuff in spoilers, and some players/GMs may want to do the same. Great feedback. ^__^ ~TWF
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Post by Gris on Oct 7, 2013 19:04:35 GMT -5
Ohhh, spoiler tags, didn't remember that, very useful. Like in it's late here, I'm going to sleep now with a stupid "we got an admin" smile on my face EDIT: THE HELL, it worked, didn't expect that, did you touch something?
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Post by takewithfood on Oct 7, 2013 19:05:20 GMT -5
Huzzah! How about dynamic themes? Sent from my MB855 using ProBoards You mean, like, with moving pictures and sounds and stuff? I'll see what I can find. I think there's at least a way to design alternate themes that users can choose from, so that we aren't all stuck with these Adam-West-Batman colours if you happen to not like them. ~TWF
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Post by takewithfood on Oct 7, 2013 19:06:01 GMT -5
Ohhh, spoiler tags, didn't remember that, very useful. Like in it's late here, I'm going to sleep now with a stupid "we got an admin" smile on my face EDIT: THE HELL, it worked, didn't expect that, did you touch something? Holy hell, how long have we had that?!?! NICE!! I totally didn't add that. ~TWF
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Post by Dionon on Oct 7, 2013 19:07:59 GMT -5
Count me into this ride. I'd love to help this site continue being one of my favorite sites, and honestly, I miss the dice roller. Plus, I could even use the settings I have over on my personal board to help this one out.
As for your suggestions: 1. Wildknight should be an admin, bar none, I think he's one of the oldest members of the site (And I don't mean by personal human age, I mean by being on the board) 2. Yes... Yes and yes again 3. I say get rid of the censored word list, just because we're all mature enough to realize that this is a PG-13 website. 4. Ban them.. Burn the wit.... er... Yeah, banning spammers is a good thing 5. You can't hide that profile info from Acolytes or better, but hiding them from the public is a good thing. 6. While I don't mind the whole theme change, I would like to recommend we get some plugins before we do anything. Like V.Dice, we need V.Dice advanced so we can actually roll properly. We could use the "Header goes under the advertisement" thing. Uh... hold on let me look at the installments I have on my site...
Let see: I have: Yootil Library (Going to need that for other plugins) Floating Digital Slide Clock (Not needed, but a nice touch) Sidebar Redux (Don't know if we need a sidebar, but it'd be nice to have, like I have on my site, a quick PM button to the Acolyte+'s) Back to Top (A handy little plugin to get viewers to the top and bottom of the site quickly) Karma System (Don't get this one. It doesn't work anymore) VDice advanced (We're going to need this) Welcome Header Below Advertisement (Just looks better...) Signature Manager (We don't really need this one. I have it because I wanted a character counter for my site) Spoiler Tags (Another non needed one) Thread Descriptions (Something neat I picked up) Notifications in Browser Tab (So if you're clicking up a storm, it'll say how many messages you have in the tab of your browser) Drop Down Nav (In case we have any links we want to sister sites or something) Posting Templates (For people who post in a specific manner) Quick Reply BBCode Buttons (Cause we could use that ability) Forum Age (Not very accurate... Counts each month as 30 days... not recommended) Multiple Avatars (I have it so that the Admins, Global Moderators and Moderators have a separate tag... Not recommended for here.) Stylized Member Names (Something cool, like on my site, my name comes up Red, for Administrator... It's pretty cool) Easy Affiliate Table (In Case we want to affiliate with other sites. Warning we'd need an 88x31 button first) Member Gallery (It's stupid really, but I have it for some reason) VDice (So we can rolls the dice)
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Post by Savant on Oct 7, 2013 19:08:16 GMT -5
Huzzah! How about dynamic themes? Sent from my MB855 using ProBoards You mean, like, with moving pictures and sounds and stuff? I'll see what I can find. I think there's at least a way to design alternate themes that users can choose from, so that we aren't all stuck with these Adam-West-Batman colours if you happen to not like them. ~TWF I prefer the latter against the former. Wouldn't want my processor speed going down. Sent from my MB855 using ProBoards
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Post by Gris on Oct 7, 2013 19:09:54 GMT -5
My guess is that as it doesn't appear as a button up here, nobody tried to actually [spoiler][/spoiler] something. Funny accident. A board member, after a freakish accident coding text, gained the extraordinary power to hide ideas from people! Stan Lee presents... Spoilerman! And now I'm definitely going to sleep with an even stupider smile
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Post by arobotnamedbender on Oct 7, 2013 19:56:57 GMT -5
I'm gonna pretend like I know 100% of what's going on here and say a few random words to make it seem like I contributed something here...
*cough* ahem... *clears throat*.. ...bananas, apple, orange. Fruits that I like to eat.
Ok.. I'm done now. Just to be clear, I like this site, so really anything that's done to make it better I'm all for.
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Post by Ushima911 on Oct 7, 2013 20:36:47 GMT -5
Aww man, you beat me to it TWF. I also have been messaging Rushlock and Bullseye. Even tried looking for them on alternate sites, and looking for their email addresses. Oh well, you won. Anyways, I'm glad we have full control again! A lot of good things have been suggested already. The only thing I request is a Newest Thread button where we used to have fun. It'd be nice. I played around with my own proboards site, so if you dont know how to do it, I can help ya.
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Post by Dhark on Oct 7, 2013 21:56:38 GMT -5
Plenty of people predate WK (I know I'm far from the only one, IIRC Brainy for instance? OLW? Rox?), although I would agree if he ever returns to full time posting he'd make a fine candidate. DK would be a solid as well, who I'm pretty sure I recall seeing around these parts before WK also.
If there's a way to make "Character" names of posters change in threads that'd be AWESOME (ie in the public and OOC forums I'm Dhark, but in games you'd you the character name I'm playing instead). Not sure if Proboards supports the display name changing like that though.
Private Messages in thread? Allows for GM to let certain players in on secret info without having to use the inbox/outbox where it might be forgotten if read before sitting down to post.
Totally agree that we need a Marvel banner again. An active one might be cool, but not at the cost of board stability (I've seen that stuff go bad before)
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Post by Dionon on Oct 7, 2013 22:34:52 GMT -5
Plenty of people predate WK (I know I'm far from the only one, IIRC Brainy for instance? OLW? Rox?), although I would agree if he ever returns to full time posting he'd make a fine candidate. DK would be a solid as well, who I'm pretty sure I recall seeing around these parts before WK also. Heh, yeah I know he's not the OLDEST on the board. I was mentioning him because it was mentioned before to make him one of the Admins, and I was just reminding TWF about that. Also, he's got the most posts on the board, topping even me (Who's second)
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Post by Dhark on Oct 7, 2013 22:56:15 GMT -5
Yeahup, which is in itself a better indicator than age (which is lost with account deletions and hiatuses)!
Now we just need him to end this hiatus, so we can vote him in.
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