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Please be aware of the following guidelines. New conversations should be started at the bottom. If a conversation starts here, I will keep it here. If I post to your talk page, I'd like to keep it there. If it ends up here though, I will reply here. Conversations are always better when you can see the context, so I don't want any back-and-forth between talk pages. I also reserve the right to format your edits for stylistic reasons, delete your comments for whatever reason, and generally do anything else within reason. This is my space, after all. —Aichon— Archives: 2009 Barrista Feedback Hello again. I tried Barrista but isn't working properly. I thought that the others scripts/extensions could be messing with it, so I disabled them all but with no luck. Here's a screencapture. I'm using Firefox 3.0.15 with latest Greasemonkey. Regards.--telepibe 03:50, 5 November 2009 (UTC) How very odd, but you're completely correct...it does the same thing in my copy of Firefox. Thanks for letting me know. I hadn't yet tested it in Firefox, just because it and Safari usually render things similarly and I wasn't calling this a full release yet, but obviously they didn't render the same this time. Not quite sure what to make of that. I'll look into it when I get a chance, but I'm not sure what the issue is or how much work it'll take to fix. Thanks again for cluing me in. Hopefully I'll get that cleaned up so the Firefox folks can use it. —Aichon— 05:13, 5 November 2009 (UTC) Thanks Hey thanks aich, couldn't have done it without ya, im new to this kinda stuff. If you ever need any help in the survivor world, give me a holler and ill see what i can do, ill leave my contact details here: http://www.urbandead.com/profile.cgi?id=1627595 User:Medical1 19:06, 8 November 2009 (EST) Sure thing. Glad I could help (though, in the interest of full disclosure, I was the one that removed your ad as well when it was infringing). And again, if you need any help with the wiki, I'll be happy to help out a bit with the knowledge that I have (I'm a wiki rookie too, though my background gives me a leg up in learning it). As for in-game, my survivor tends to be up in the northwest, but if I ever find myself down in your area, I'll try to remember to look you up. :) —Aichon— 08:19, 8 November 2009 (UTC) Hey Aich, my recruitment poster seems to have been taken down form the page, any idea why? User:Medical1 21:29, 26 November 2009 (EST) I think one of the maintainers of the page removed it because the image you are using is too big. Basically, images on that page are only allowed to be 56KB large, but yours is 102KB. To try and help, I've made a new version of your image that's under the filesize limit (it's about 45KB), but the colors are slightly washed out. You can see it at my website. If you find the image acceptable, just save it to your computer, then upload it to the wiki. That should do the trick, I think. After that, you can add back in your recruitment ad. I'll delete the image from my site at some point (probably not for a few weeks), so be sure to grab it. —Aichon— 10:53, 27 November 2009 (UTC) Once again, i thank you aich, although i dont really see what the colour difference is... User:Medical1 23:32, 27 November 2009 (EST) It was a minor difference, and only really visible if you put the two images next to each other and looked at them side-by-side. Still, some people are very particular, so I wanted to point out that there were differences, just in case it mattered to you. I'm glad to hear that you're okay with it though, and I see that your ad is back up. Again, let me know if you need any help at some point. :) —Aichon— 19:22, 27 November 2009 (UTC) My freaking god Aicon you are the best! i only put that suburb group up there for a few seconds and yet you still found it, thanks for the help (again) and i hope you enjoy your day. User:Medical1 20:56, 7th December 2009 Character Formatting Unless you have any strong objections, I think I'm going to steal some of your formatting on your character pages. Because it's just that sexy. --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 09:48, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Glad you like it. By all means, steal away. Though, obviously, it'd be nice if they didn't look too similar, so change the colors or something, ya know? ;) —Aichon— 10:04, 25 November 2009 (UTC) I'll think of something. To be honest I was tempted to steal most of your Userpage formatting, but I don't feel particularly adventurous to make your main page mesh with what is already on mine. So just absorbing your character formatting seemed like a good compromise. :D --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 10:07, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Well, most of my formatting is pretty straightforward, at least in terms of code. I was lazy and just used very simple tables for most of it, rather than actually using divs with proper CSS like I should've. If you want more than just the character pages though, feel free. I don't have a problem with people borrowing the structure or code, so long as people don't get confused about whose pages are whose because they look similar. I was just glad I seemed to make something that could hold the inordinate amount of text I tend to spew, while still looking somewhat organized. —Aichon— 10:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Just as an FYI, I'm sure you've realized that I didn't exactly make User:Aichon/Journalbox with other users in mind, since it doesn't seem to match your color scheme. To help you out, I've now rigged it up so that the colors it uses are specifiable through variables in the template. If you go to edit it, you can see which variables correspond to which colors fairly easily, and should be able to customize it to match your scheme by just adding those variables to your page. I'm kinda sleepy, so if I did something dopey with the variables and you'd prefer them set some different way, let me know, since it's no skin off my nose. —Aichon— 13:19, 25 November 2009 (UTC) Yeah, I had noticed that too while I was half-asleep last night. I'll probably play with the variables tonight. Thanks again, and enjoy the holidays! --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 23:03, 25 November 2009 (UTC) I don't know if any of your characters use a DSS Satellite Phone or not, but that might not be a bad line to add to your journalbox. One of my characters is, and I just copied the hard code for it and added the line. Again, not sure if it's something that your characters use, but a thought. --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 21:07, 2 December 2009 (UTC) I'm afraid none of mine use a DSS (the userscript doesn't work in my browser of choice). I'd look into making it an optional parameter if any of mine did though, since it'd be useful to have, for sure. But yeah, for now, I think doing what you did is probably the best thing to do, given that I never really expected that template to see any general use. —Aichon— 22:34, 2 December 2009 (UTC) I think the template is quite nice considering it uses the UD interface color scheme (hence why I didn't change any of them) and looks much better than perhaps a bulleted list of information about one's character. --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 04:39, 3 December 2009 (UTC) On Character Names, Webcomics and Being Senselessly Pounded... Indeed, it refers to the webcomic you think it does. Yes, it is a most fun comic. Very shiny, very sparky. I take it that you're a fan of the series? -Wulfenbach 08:29, 26 November 2009 (UTC) Very much so. I haven't been following the podcasts/radio broadcasts, admittedly, but I do follow the comic, and I've been enjoying the recent arc through the castle quite a bit. I was really sad to see Buck Godot come to an end earlier this year, since it was another comic of theirs that I rather enjoyed. —Aichon— 10:31, 27 November 2009 (UTC) I agree, as I prefer it to the gaming-related one they do. Ah well, all things end. -Wulfenbach 21:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC) Indeed. Even so, GG seems to be getting better as it goes on. I remember back when they opened it up so that the 101 class was even with everything else. Felt like Christmas day when I suddenly found I had a few hundred comics to catch up on. —Aichon— 02:39, 3 December 2009 (UTC) An opinion, good sir Hey there. Since I generally value your opinions and such, I wonder if you might respond to an open query I've made here. It involves categories and subcategories of categories. I don't know if you follow that type of thing, but if you do I'd appreciate any comments you might have. thanks!--GANG Giles Sednik CAPD 01:42, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Thanks for asking (and the vote of confidence), but I'm afraid I'm pretty clueless when it comes to categories (I've mentioned it elsewhere, but I really am a wiki newb that is still learning the ropes). I don't see any drawbacks to what you've suggested, since it does seem like it'll help tidy things up, but, again, my knowledge of such things is limited. That said, you might want to talk to The Rooster about a bot if you're going to be doing a few thousand edits. He could probably rig something up that does it for you in a hurry, I'd imagine, assuming he has time. —Aichon— 02:32, 3 December 2009 (UTC) Eventual Sysopness Disturbingly being one of the "old folk" that I rapidly realise I'm becoming around here, I note that theres a small bunch of you "younguns", actually looking at improving the place, checking the categories and the like, and helping people. Yourself, Maverick, Giles, and slightly further behind yonnu and rorybob. Now in fairness, the day to day tasks are being handled pretty well. Protections, speedy deletions and the like are cleared most days, but as mis said in his promotion bid, the wiki is in places a reflection of past glories. Having written up the dark page and halloween stuff this year, i think we need to have a real root and branch review of all the important pages. Now as a person with a good understanding of wiki editing, and a desire to improve the wiki, you're half way there. I feel your self assesment is right, do you need it?, and how will you involve yourself in those areas of the wiki considered "Drama Filled"? But hey. Whatever right? I'd actively encourage you to persue it, but thats my opinion. Expect some more Recent Changes stalkers to chime in below. --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 12:29, 5 December 2009 (UTC) NO I AM NOT A RECENT CHANGES STALKERi resent that label Cyberbob  Talk  12:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC) what ross said Cyberbob  Talk  12:31, 5 December 2009 (UTC) I came back to the page for this? --RosslessnessWant a Location Image? 12:32, 5 December 2009 (UTC) Yeh see, this is exactly why I was "saving my vote" for Aichon. You'd make a good sysop dude. What's needed isn't janitorial experts, though that is a definite plus on the old resume/CV. In fairness, none of us will ever have the janitorial expertise of Rooster, and he can pretty much do more with his terrifying bot technology than 5 or 6 of us dedicated users can achieve in janitorial departments. What the wiki needs is level-headed sysops who are interested in helping others and who will establish an environment of well-considered reasoning and helpfulness. And probably the wiki needs a strong identifiable goal, in the same way that wikipedia has the goal "to write an encyclopedia". And you're someone who will consider your opinions before making them and who will try to be productive. And if you fuck up the wiki while learning on the job, no big deal. The old-timers can fix your mistakes while you learn. =D --GANG Giles Sednik CAPD 12:39, 5 December 2009 (UTC) In terms of being a great sysop, you say that about quite a few users, none of who are sysop worthy. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 12:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC) That's ironic, you've promoted someone who wasn't sysop worthy. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 12:53, 5 December 2009 (UTC) In the eyes of a petulant infidel? Quite, --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 12:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC) In the eyes of the majority of those that took the time to put forward their opinion. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 13:07, 5 December 2009 (UTC) 10 minutes to think that up, disappointing. You are the only one still preaching aimlessly, they have seen the light. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 13:14, 5 December 2009 (UTC) I'm sorry for my bad post :( Cyberbob  Talk  12:41, 5 December 2009 (UTC) Man. How I wish I'd taken as much thought to the matter of being a Sysop as you. Now I look back on it, I was horribly inexperienced (and still am) in the drama aspects of the wiki, and wanted to be a Sysop for the status symbol, which is the completely wrong way to look at it. Of course, this completely ruins any chance of me becoming a 'sop in the future, but with my attitude to things like this, that's a good thing. --RahrahCome join the #party!18:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC) I want to address a few things, but before I start, I want to be clear that I do change my mind as I am presented with new facts and educate myself on various topics. I expect that I'll view the situation differently in a few months, but this is my stance at the moment. To get to the crux of the matter, I don't see a need for me to be a sysop right now. The two good reasons I've seen for being a sysop are if someone has a need for the buttons or has a valuable opinion to contribute to the admin pages (preferably both). My opinion on admin issues is ill-informed at the moment (especially in regards to complex issues), so while I do plan to educate myself on how things work over there, I'm currently uneducated in those matters. As for the buttons, the types of tasks I deal with have not been hindered due to a lack of buttons. So, on both counts, I'm not a good candidate, and am, frankly, unqualified at the moment. Regarding the drama areas, I do intend to dip my toes in those areas over the coming months and get a feel for them, but, at least for now, I have no idea if I'll become interested in (and capable of) dealing with drama or if I'll find the idea intolerable. As for janitorial duties, I've slowly been finding niches where I can help, and I plan to expand the work I do, but so far I've had little interest in assuming responsibilities just for the sake of assuming responsibilities. I like the freedom of being able to contribute where and when I want, without having to worry about meeting expectations. Is it selfish? Definitely! But this is a wiki for a game. If I'm not deriving some sort of enjoyment from doing what I'm doing, I'm doing it wrong. Anyway, this response is already too long. If you guys want to discuss it further, I'll still respond to any comments here, but I'd prefer that you talk about it with me via IRC, e-mail, or some other channel. I don't want to end up being an attention whore by playing coy, but it seems that's what's happening. In the meantime, I plan to continue interacting with more of the wiki over the next few months, and will continue to evaluate my own qualifications and desire to be a sysop. I probably won't seriously consider the idea of being a sysop until closer to March anyway, since I'll be ramping up work on my thesis until then. —Aichon— 00:29, 6 December 2009 (UTC) ALL ThIngs D3ad's recruitment ad I changed it to make it clearer for the user (in this page he got it kinda wrong). :) --Janus talk 22:14, 7 December 2009 (UTC) That's like a double-impersonation, since you changed what I said he had said when he got it wrong the first time today. Anyway, 'tis fine by me. I certainly don't mind. And I hope you don't mind that I changed your link too. :P —Aichon— 22:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC) OMG VANDAL! --Janus talk 22:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC) I haz dizclamer at top. —Aichon— 23:05, 7 December 2009 (UTC) Awesome! A FREE COOKIE Maverick has given Aichon a cookie for his most excellent work in helping solve an inter-browser template coding issue! Thanks again, dude. --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 09:21, 8 December 2009 (UTC) Sure thing. *adds cookie to main user page* And now I'm going to bed. Really. I mean it this time. I swear I'll do it. —Aichon— 09:41, 8 December 2009 (UTC) I hope so. Otherwise I'm going to make a template that says you don't get any sleep because you're always on the wiki. Harhar! --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 09:55, 8 December 2009 (UTC) Damn. Just noticed you already have a template for that. --Maverick Talk - OBR 404 09:57, 8 December 2009 (UTC) Heh, yep. Come next week though, I won't have a reason to be up at specific times any longer, so I'll probably be awake at all sorts of odd hours. —Aichon— 19:03, 8 December 2009 (UTC) CHUD I'm flattered that you decided to use the CHUD codebase for one of your GM scripts! :) Just a note--jimflexx took the script and ran with it, implementing several new features. Should you want to peruse the changes, just pick up a fresh copy of CHUD. Happy scripting! -   HaliphaxTCS 16:46, 8 December 2009 (UTC) Well, you're being very gracious, and I appreciate that, especially since I'm taking it in a different direction than your original vision. So, I do want to thank you for letting me use your code. As for the update, that's actually what I started from. Prior to that, I didn't know why it wasn't functioning for me (GreaseKit can't do as much as Greasemonkey, and I thought that might be to blame), so I had never looked into the code to try and fix it. I had always planned to write up my own script to meet that need, but once his update came out, and I saw that it worked, I used that as the basis and ran from there. All of the code I've posted has been thrown together in the 3-4 days since I saw that chud had been updated. I'll add in credit for him where appropriate on my page, since I hadn't done that yet. —Aichon— 19:13, 8 December 2009 (UTC) Reply to ingame statement ^_^ --Haliman - Talk 23:38, 10 December 2009 (UTC) I was beginning to wonder if you had seen it since I made it a day or two ago. Anyway, the group my survivor is in is going to be in the suburb for the next few days at least, so we'll probably be bumping into each other. :) —Aichon— 23:41, 10 December 2009 (UTC) The Daubeney Building I see one of your characters is in there, now. If you want to meatshield the place, fine, but you might want to keep an eye on your fellow survivors while you're in there. You seem an upright sort, and we've had issues with breathers resorting to zerging to take and hold the place, notably Knights of the Eternal Flame and Bonphire/phirefly. --Mold 11:56, 12 December 2009 (UTC) Yep, that's me. And I see that a character of yours is one of the usual residents. The group my character is in seems to have made it a personal project to hold that building while they're in town, but the SoC doesn't believe in zerging. I'll be on the lookout for any occurring, but if you see ANY zerging with our group (or even other groups), you let me know. Just as a heads up though, we are a pretty large group (50+), so it's not too difficult for us to keep a place full of bodies around the clock, especially a TRP. I doubt we'll be in town for too much longer, since we're looking to get back into some action (the only action we're seeing in EB is with you guys, honestly), and I'm sure you guys are eager to reclaim your home. As an aside, I know you weren't accusing me or anyone else of anything and were just advising caution, but if you are ever curious where my characters are, I have the locations of all of them (except the survivor you spotted, due to a request from leadership) visible on this page. To say the least, I take zerging concerns seriously, and want to make sure it doesn't happen, even by accident. —Aichon— 21:56, 12 December 2009 (UTC) It is a pretty dead suburb, though I'm surprised to hear the Daubeneys are the only opposition you're running into. I already do report obvious zerging and suspected zerging I encounter to the ZL (including zombie zerging, though that's a bitch and a half to spot), any special reason you'd like to be informed personally in addition? I just pointed it out to you because you seem an honest player from your posting habits, and you've currently got a much better view inside the place than I do. Regarding zerging zombies, perhaps you could make that substantially easier to spot for some of us, in addition to just making life easier for folks whose friends are mostly dead. Among udWidget's features is a zombie name display function; that feature alone would be worth using udWidget for some zombies and zombie sympathizers, but the extension doesn't work for players using unix-like operating systems such as Ubuntu. I tried to get that portion of the widget working as a greasemonkey script, but I don't know jack about javascript. Judging by this you're fairly interested in and capable of solving these sorts of problems; do you think you could come up with a zombie name display tool that doesn't depend on or exclude any specific OS? --Mold 11:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC) Regarding zerging, you might have picked it up elsewhere, but I'm actually a pretty new player to the game still, so, embarrassingly enough, I honestly don't know how to definitively pick out zergers from a crowd. Is there anything in particular you look for? Is it just a matter of similar names and join times, or is there something else? As for informing me, we don't go out of our way to hunt down zergers (or PKers, for that matter), so we don't check the ZL regularly, but when we do find out that people are zerging, we make a point of distancing out group from them and avoiding them. I was just thinking that, at least while we're in the suburb for the next few days, if you saw anything improper occurring, it could clue us in to unscrupulous folks that we wouldn't want to be associating ourselves with. I don't want to put any undue burden on you though, nor did I have it in mind that you should keep us in the loop for all future zerging reports. :P Onto the script idea, I know exactly which feature you're talking about (it's one of the niftiest things), and I wish I could make it into a userscript, but I'm afraid it's beyond where I am right now. The problem for me is that it relies on making additional server requests in the background as the extension is running (the names of the zombies aren't loaded with the page, so they have to be retrieved in the background from the profile pages of each of them), which I don't know how to code up. And if that hurdle were jumped, I believe that the browser I use, Safari, locks out those sorts of things due to security concerns. I'll take a peek again at it at some point and see if it might be possible to get it running in Firefox (and if it's an issue with *nix, then I should run into it as well since I'm on a Mac), but I wouldn't count on me coming through on this one, since I think it's just a bit too far beyond my knowledge and capability. Sorry. —Aichon— 13:13, 13 December 2009 (UTC) Well I'll say right out that there's no way to be 100% certain what you're looking at is zerging, but that can open up the can of worms about fallibility of the senses and the sentient mind and whether a human can be certain of anything it knows or experiences, and I really don't like getting into that particular philosophical discussion. Just take it as a caveat that mistakes can happen. Name similarity is where it starts, and close join dates helps, but that alone isn't enough. You watch for patterns, and other weird little details that don't look quite right, those will add some weight to the initial suspicion. For an example, this guy attacked me in zombie form a long while back, I only bothered checking the profiles because ZKing is pointless except for XP-desperate newbies, so it's kind of confusing to see. The characters essentially have the same name, just with slight variations (how many Filipinos named Kevin exist, anyway?), they joined UD less than a week apart, and to add some weight the attack timing was weird. It was one long stream of incoming attacks with no breaks, as if they'd both gone active simultaneously, except there was zero overlap between them - one burned itself out completely and then the other started up immediately after - looking more like one player finished one of his characters and then logged on the other quickly, rather than two guys hitting at the same time. Another example of one I happened upon was Ivan2X/CrazyIvan2X. Being extremely generous, they have different names in their Real Name slot, maybe they're just fans of the same fictional character, one found UD and told the other about it 5 days later, and they have the same shirt size or something, but it does look bad. However, when I found them, they were in the same building with one Rob Kohler, with the same Real Name entry as CrazyIvan2X. At the time, CrazyIvan2X and Rob Kohler had identical survivor form descriptions (they might still, but I can't tell right now, one's alive and the other's undead). So now we've got CrazyIvan2X looking a lot like he's also Rob Kohler, and it's a lot harder to give Ivan2X the benefit of the doubt because CrazyIvan2X is already looking guilty. One more detail that isn't a problem on its own, but doesn't make Rob/Ivan/Ivan look much better, they were arranged quite neatly in the order of active character timing, one after another. Then you find people like Rathar of KEF and KEF Rathar. Join dates aren't too similar but you really don't need it. Guy's got the same name in two different forms, same Real Name too, both in the Knights of the Eternal Flame (KEF) group. In the same group you find Egan of KEF and Ray of KEF. We're starting to see an X of KEF name theme, here. Note also that Egan and Ray both have "A Pristine looking uniform in these times. A Patch with a silver shield with a Red and Yellow Cross in it." as their survivor description, right down to identical grammatical errors, and this is copy/pasted (again, including identical grammatical errors) from Rathar of KEF's description. (And though I'm ashamed it took me more than two seconds to notice it, and don't currently have the UDID handy, there's also a Peter running around... somebody is a Ghost Busters fan.) The same group also includes Kimmuriel of KEF (identical description to Egan and Ray), Redgar of KEF, and Sir Robyn of KEF, are we starting to notice a pretentious quasi-medieval names pattern yet? Redgar looks like a dwarf and has a fantasy dwarf-like surname in his Real Name blank, and Sir Robyn actually claims to be wearing chainmail, I guess he likes D&D too (can't fault him there, so do I). I think Major Rager might be the only non-zerg member of KEF, and that's assuming the Real Name of "pete" doesn't indicate he was Peter of the Ghost Busters (pretty weak link there, though, not really worth pursuit). And then you've got some people so obvious you don't even bother making an explanation of your reasoning. Can I say I'm absolutely certain all these people are zerging? No, I can't. Would I put money on them having been zerging if it could be proven for or against, before the big reveal? Sure would. It's a gut feeling thing, but I think you can probably see from the examples I've given that some gut feelings can be fairly compelling. Regarding the zombie namer script, hey, don't worry about it. Maybe you'll get there some day, and if not, oh well. Just thought I'd run the idea by you, since it'd make spotting zergers hiding behind zombie anonymity easier, and you do get your script on. Certainly didn't mean to imply an obligation. --Mold 14:47, 13 December 2009 (UTC) Wow! That response was a lot more detailed than I expected. Thanks for going to the extra effort! I guess one of the things that's always confused me is how to tell the difference between a coordinated group and a single person controlling multiple characters. For instance, I strike with MOB, and we effectively have no break between when one zombie is attacking and the next one starts. Granted, the names and join dates are wildly different, but the pattern of attacks is there, nonetheless. Some people are obvious, of course, but I always wondered about those coordinated groups. As for the script, no worries. I didn't feel any obligation, but I did want to explain the problem. It was actually something I had considered trying to implement at one point, until I thought through what it would require. —Aichon— 00:44, 14 December 2009 (UTC) Real coordinated attacking can look iffy, and as I said, mistakes can happen, but strike teams generally don't have spelling/grammar variations on the same name, and they usually aren't cooperating to do something bizarre like Team ZKing (how often do you expect to find that happening, anyway?). I know some strike teams will take turns to avoid tangling grasp conflict, but even then you'll tend to see timing overlap like A zombie (deadboy) destroyed a generator (2 hours and 36 minutes ago). A zombie (genericzombie) clawed you for 3 damage. (2 hours and 35 minutes ago) ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. (2 hours and 34 minutes ago) ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. A zombie (deadboy) clawed you for 3 damage! (2 hours and 33 minutes ago) ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. ...and again. (2 hours and 32 minutes ago). It is unfortunate that a lot of people (me included) will tend to take a "guilty until proven innocent" stance on the issue, and some people get wrongly accused, but it's the way things go. It's also problematic that zergers with the sense to know what looks iffy and avoid it won't ever be caught. It would be nice if there was more on the game side toward avoiding or punishing zergers, or better yet, more integrity in the community (like that'll ever happen), but as it is all we can really do is keep our eyes open, guess carefully, share info and hope that each individual's negative reaction to the zergers builds up to collectively grief them out of the game without any individual actually having to be guilty of griefing. --Mold 01:11, 14 December 2009 (UTC) Honestly, with the coordinated groups, they tend to get known for being coordinated groups, and distinct members can generally be identified in other ways (they chat on IRC somewhere, have a presence on the wiki, etc.), so oftentimes I do think the "guilty until innocent" approach is simply more practical in the case of UD. Even so, I do have to say that before I learned about zerging concerns, I always thought it'd be fun to get a group of my real life friends to join, work closely together, and have very similar names, just to confuse the people we're attacking. And I do agree that more integrity would definitely be nice, but won't be happening anytime soon. —Aichon— 01:51, 14 December 2009 (UTC) Heh, hope the impression I made was a good one, or at least got an entertaining reaction, and no zerging suspicions. I don't think I could pull off a slaughter like that every day, though. Some of those guys were injured, I think only one of 'em had a flak on, I have a crapton of ammo, and I was right outside the building which was VSB when I first stood up. You can thank Davo for me being alive, preferably with bullets. ;) --Mold 12:57, 15 December 2009 (UTC) They only had nice things to say about you. Well, while they weren't cursing you and stuff, of course. :P We also had a few people reiterate that this is the sort of reason why we shouldn't be CRing zombies. —Aichon— 13:52, 15 December 2009 (UTC) omg A shadow with a signature, trippy :S --         00:48, 17 December 2009 (UTC) I know! I really like it, but I can't say I came up with it first. I noticed Chief Seagull's signature here and modified the code to make it stand out a hair less than his does. —Aichon— 00:54, 17 December 2009 (UTC) Too bad icon sucks at making signatures. Tip, it's broken.-- ¯\(°_o)/¯ 02:17, 20 December 2009 (UTC) Grumble grumble...I know what the problem is... —Aichon— 02:40, 20 December 2009 (UTC) Fixed. Thanks for calling it to my attention. —Aichon— 02:40, 20 December 2009 (UTC) Welcome! :) -- ¯\(°_o)/¯ 02:46, 20 December 2009 (UTC) Great Suburb Massacre 2010 You get this message because you've expressed interest in contributing to the upcoming GSM. I have created a page in my user space so we can discuss the project and iron out any potential problems. Feel free to add any thoughts/questions/queries/improvements/random insults. Post directly on the main page, I've had the talk page protected to allow work to actually get done. -- . . <== DDR Approved Editor 07:44, 18 December 2009 (UTC) Hello, I'm Mr. Snuffleupagus A vampire snuffleupagus, that is! {opens mouth wide with fangs showing, eyes turn red} RARRRGGHH! --Vampire Snuffleupagus 03:29, 19 December 2009 (UTC) Hi there! I just want to drop by to say thanks for your help, and for that welcome. I'm a tad clueless when it comes to technical things, so really, your help was greatly appreciated. I don't feel that clueless anymore :P Have yourself a good one fran. --BrainBanana 04:02, 20 December 2009 (UTC) No problem, and I'm just glad I could help. We all had to start as a wiki newb at some point (I still consider myself one), so I'm always glad to help out someone who is genuinely making an effort to understand and make things better. Again, let me know if you run into any problems along the way, and I'll see what I can do to help. —Aichon— 04:10, 20 December 2009 (UTC) Meh, random moo'ing Hola, I thought to bring your attention towards the wall-of-text/11 point font masturbation taking place over here and here. Oh, and Merry Xmas and Happy New Year. -Wulfenbach 12:21, 29 December 2009 (UTC) Well, I've been involved in that first conversation for awhile now. :P As for the second, I was gonna get around to it in a bit. Been tying up some wiki coding (check RC and I'm sure you'll see lots of stuff from me) for a project and finally just about have it all worked out. Link and I were talking on IRC a few hours back though, and I think he's moving it in a MUCH more intelligent direction than the policy was going, since he's essentially calling for what you were wanting in terms of bolded votes. —Aichon— 12:29, 29 December 2009 (UTC) See, that's what's confusing me, because all I'm really asking for is for people to follow the voting section on each page as appropriate. I know common sense is not common, or sensible depending on sides of the argument, but I find it pretty gob-smacking that we'd even attempt to regulate intelligent discourse on a wiki like this. ' In fact, I would characterize both being a sysop and trying to regulate intelligence on this wiki using the following well-known commercial. -Wulfenbach 12:42, 29 December 2009 (UTC) Yeah, pretty much like you said...herding cats. Still though, common sense isn't as common as we'd like to think, so some times it's necessary to regulate it. As a guideline though, the change wouldn't be as binding as it would be if it had been a policy, and it could be more easily changed later if need be. Anyway, let me catch up on those arguments in a sec, that way you and I don't end up covering territory that you've already gone over. I'll respond over there once I have some thoughts together, but it'll probably be a few minutes yet. —Aichon— 12:46, 29 December 2009 (UTC) UD Better Name Colorer Haven't had a chance to try it out yet in-game, but nevertheless it has had an effect on the world in which I browse. Specifically, it makes all of the links in the wiki a rather light blue of colour. This all happened on a Wednesday, in Chrome. User:Pyxzer/sig 22:44, 5 January 2010 (UTC)