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Josh
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2007 19:22 Edited at: 23rd Jan 2007 20:12
Does anyone know where Jess has gone? We're waiting on Jess to reply to my email..

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Posted: 23rd Jan 2007 19:31
her == he

Probably busy.

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Josh
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2007 20:11
Whoops my bad!

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Posted: 24th Jan 2007 07:29 Edited at: 24th Jan 2007 08:13
Sorry guys!

I went to Sydney for the day, and got stuck there for 4 because of Bush Fires blocking the train-tracks
With nothing else to do, and no readily accessable computers, we just got really really drunk

Back to the topic at hand...
I've just now changed the DNS names over to the ones you sent me, Josh.

And, Matt, I'll get started on some different designs right now

Jess.

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I have emailed Rich for the original images of "The Game Creators" text used on this site, and the DBP logo's... If I can use those on the link-back images, it would look alot better
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Matt Rock
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Posted: 24th Jan 2007 21:40
Awesome, thank you! I can't wait to see them


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Tom J
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Posted: 26th Jan 2007 22:22
Would being a mod involve having a big knowledge of Drupal or any other language other than HTML or would it be straightforward like editing posts on this forum?

I was thinking about possibly being a mod on the site but if it involves knowing a lot about drupal I won't consider the role too much.
Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 26th Jan 2007 22:27
Quote: "knowing a lot about drupal"

Drupal has nothing to do with being a mod

Being a Mod is a loveless job. Your decisions will always annoy someone...

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 02:11
I agree with what nicholas said... it won't be a fun job, but it'll be a job that some of us will end up having to do. I want to do it mostly for experience, I could take lessons from being a mod in the webring and apply those experiences to moderating the forum on my own site (provided it starts getting human visitors someday, lol). Also, I feel like it's my duty to do it because I haven't contributed anything to the technical aspects of the webring, so in a way, moderating would at least keep me actively involved in its future


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Jess T
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 14:31
Um... I don't know what idea you have of Moderation, but the extent we'll have to do any work is simply doing a quick 2-minute browse over an edit or post for maybe a total of about 20 sites initially, then gradually there-after.

If there was even only one of us, the whole process would only take around 5 or 10 minutes a week at the most

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Tom J
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Posted: 27th Jan 2007 19:50
Quote: "If there was even only one of us, the whole process would only take around 5 or 10 minutes a week at the most"


In that case Matt, you might as well be the only mod, after all you seem to be the one who wants the job most
Matt Rock
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 00:16
lol I have the least experience at moderating though. If we're only going to have one mod, it should be someone more experienced than me I think


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dab
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 03:09
Nah, your idea, you're the mod.

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Jess T
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 04:09
Having only one is a bad idea.
What if they go MIA, can't access a PC, don't have time, etc, etc.

Then there's the issue of time-zones. It's always better to have at least two people from different sides of the globe so it's sort-of a 24hr watch.

As I said, it only takes a minute, but the faster we can spare that minute, the happier the users

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Jeku
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 08:03
Don't mean to be a negative nancy, but is the traffic of the ring going to be so great that you'd need more than one mod?

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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 09:28
Probably not, no

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 17:27
Well if I'm going to be a mod, I'd really like it if Jess would be one to. I have a lot to learn about this stuff and Jess is a seasoned TGC moderator whose been involved with the webring since its creation, so if I may, I'd like to suggest Jess be a moderator as well, unless you're too busy (I know you have a lot going on this year and might not have a lot of free time)... figured it was worth asking. But I definitely think we should have more than one moderator for the previously-mentioned reasons. A lot of unpredictable things can pop up and render one person incapable of performing their job. If one of us were to lose the net, or their PC were to catch fire, or one of us were abducted by aliens (hey, just covering all the bases here), the other mod could step in to keep things working.


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dab
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 20:10
err, How about the first 3 founders as mods.

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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 20:12
That works by me, and we're all in different time zones so that could help (wait... are we? Where are you Dab?)


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dab
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 20:13
Washington

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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 20:29
State? If it's state then we'd have an east coast person, a west coast person, and an australia person... that could work.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 20:58
Again - this is assuming the site gets that level of exposure You 3 could end up having the easiest mod job in the world

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dab
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 21:21 Edited at: 28th Jan 2007 21:21
That'd be fun.

Edit: Yah, the west coast state.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 22:56
My girlfriend is originally from Spokane Washington, until I got her to move out here to the east coast. Anyway, back on subject...

The easier the better. I know Jess has a lot going on this year, I have six games to release by the end of 2007, and I'm not sure how much Dabip has going on but I'll just assume he'll be busy too, so I think having three would definitely make things work out well. But then I have no experience moderating so I could be wrong here. But it *seems* to make sense, hehe.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 23:49
3 would be easier than 1 or 2 - if there is good communication... but the point is, there wont NEED to be more than 1 unless there is a constant flow of incoming links.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 23:53
Yeah, I'm sure we'll mostly sit around and look at other people's sites, but my motto tends to be "better safe than sorry." I can see a bad event rendering one, maybe even two of us incapable of moderating the site, but all three? Highly unlikely.


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Josh
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Posted: 28th Jan 2007 23:56 Edited at: 28th Jan 2007 23:57
@ Jess:

What was the web ring domain again? And are you sure the name servers have been set correctly as the domain still doesn't seem to be pointing to the server.



WEB RING POLL

It's time for you guys to vote! (Yes you do need a Coders Turf account.)

Jess T
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Posted: 29th Jan 2007 03:25
I'm happy to mod. Like I said, the amount to mod will be small.

Josh, yeah, the Nameservers are pointing to the ones you gave me.
Whois lookup

The domain's [href]http://www.tgcwebring.info[/url]

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Josh
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 22:29
OK the domain is go.

Remember guys, I need you all to vote!

Tom J
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Posted: 30th Jan 2007 22:35
I made my vote
Jess T
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 13:54
Good to hear the domain's up.

Hopefully once the vote is complete things can move along smoothly and quickly to ensure we have a new, official home for our Webring, and we can start to really pimp it

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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 31st Jan 2007 23:04
I replied / voted... can you guess which way I went

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 09:40
Joomla!?

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 10:20
Not quite...

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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 11:30
"har - har - har"

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Tom J
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Posted: 1st Feb 2007 17:45
Quote: "can you guess which way I went?"


Hmm, I wonder
Tom J
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Posted: 10th Feb 2007 14:55 Edited at: 10th Feb 2007 14:57
*huge bump*

Voting ends tomorrow so make sure you voted.
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Posted: 10th Feb 2007 18:57
I did And I've been spreading goodwill about the webring on the FPSC forums as well, so hopefully we'll get some of those guys interested in this as well


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dab
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Posted: 10th Feb 2007 19:09
Let's hope they don't submit sites like they post in that area of the forums.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 10th Feb 2007 19:22
Eh, they can't be much worse than my site, lol. Oh, before I forget, if anyone gets a chance, I changed the font and word coloring on my site, and I truncated several news items, all of which several people suggested, let me know if it works or if I just made it more of an eyesore, hehe.


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Tom J
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Posted: 11th Feb 2007 21:31
Matt, did you make a post in the FPSC board about the webring because I can't find it if you did
Matt Rock
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Posted: 11th Feb 2007 22:23
Not a new thread, but I bring it up a lot in other people's threads, and link to this thread. I didn't know if it would be alright for me to post a whole other thread about this topic when we already have this one going. I super-touted the webring in a thread about selling FPSC games, pointing out that it already has driven up hits for some of us and that it's a great marketing tool


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Tom J
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Posted: 12th Feb 2007 12:51
I just saw the results,

the winner was:

*Drum Roll*

Josh
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Posted: 13th Feb 2007 17:58
Ok kool. I'll continue development of the web ring.

Tom J
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Posted: 13th Feb 2007 19:52
Hey just out of interest who did you guys vote for?

I voted for Drupal Shame we lost but I don't mind too much.
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Posted: 14th Feb 2007 02:25
I don't kiss and tell


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 14th Feb 2007 10:32
Do you really need to ask which I voted for

Matt - those who say "I dont kiss and tell" tend to never "Kiss"

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Posted: 14th Feb 2007 13:07
So by that analogy, he didn't vote on anything, so he can't tell.

*gasp*!

You didn't vote, Matt..?

Just Kidding.

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 15th Feb 2007 00:12
I voted, I voted! But I don't want to say what I voted for, I'm trying to be bi-partisan here lol after-all, I'm the least-talented web developer of the group and just barely have an understanding of the differences, lol.


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Nicholas Thompson
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Posted: 15th Feb 2007 09:55
Matt - most people dont know anything about politic, but they still vote (allbeit a tick in a random box).

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Matt Rock
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Posted: 16th Feb 2007 22:50
Well, I definitely did vote... to be honest, I don't remember which I voted for lol. I think it was custom but I remember thinking Drupal seemed awesome, so I don't know which I did . Give me a break guys, I've been releasing a game lol


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