Hey guys... I just thought of this the other day and wanted some feedback on whether it would be helpful to you guys.
When someone makes a player comment, I currently get an email telling me what the visitor said so I can make sure noone gets out of line. The problem is that the author of the scen currently has no idea if anyone is commenting on his scen unless he checks out his own desc page all the time...
Would it be helpful for the player comments to be forwarded to the author as well? That way, if anyone makes a comment on a scenario you've made, you will receive an email with the comment, so you can respond or whatever...
Would this be helpful to you guys? We can also set up reviews to work the same way... ie. automatically send you an email if your scen is reviewed... If you think this is a good idea, I'll put it in. Thx guys!
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Gordon Farrell VIP
posted 01-23-00 02:12 PM
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SPINEY:
The forwarded comments sounds good to me.
But what I miss is the spinning coin from AoE that tells the consumer there are player comments available on any given file. These are invariably the ones I look at first --- and it functions as a tiny "badge of merit" for the designer, letting everyone know that at least people BOTHERED to comment on the scen.
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Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-23-00 05:25 PM
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i'm 14, why? what happened the "last time"?
did some idiot kid delete all the files or something?
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Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-23-00 07:27 PM
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i hope the age limit is 13 .......
although it's probably 18
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Angel SpineMan HG Halo Alumnus
posted 01-24-00 11:30 AM
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Good point Gordon - I'll have to think about how I can implement that cause I don't have a flag for comments in the table. Of course, the theory was that we'd have a lot more reviews done and comments would be secondary but so far, comments have been the primary way of determining scenario quality. It's unfortunate I didn't build it into the table in the first place... I'll see if I can make something work...
DSC: Well, I think it's officially 18 but we'll occassinally hire someone of 16 or 17 if we've known them for a long time. We have hired a number of people below that age and all of them are gone now for a wide variety of reasons. One decided that we would be a good host for warez... that almost got us kicked off Gstats. The last set were so immature they took more maintenance time than they were worth. And of course they threw a fit when we let them go. It was a disaster.
Anyway... I'm not saying that you would do any of those things but just that we prefer to have older people with more real world work experience. Nonetheless, if we don't get enough help from others, I'll probably send you an email cause we really do need the help. I'll let ya know.
Cherub Rasher Inactive
posted 01-24-00 02:36 PM
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All of them???
Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-24-00 03:44 PM
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GOOD HOST FOR WAREZ???!!! cheap @!#@!$!@#$!!!!
geez, i didn't think it was THAT bad...... you should file a lawsuit or something.... after all, warez IS illegal...
i figured that i was 18 or somewhere around that because most regular jobs' age limit is also 18...
and if people do that, you should just remove their editing rights (upload, whatever...) without explanation... and if they send you flame mail/ harrassment/ threats, just report em
hmmm... that must've been someone really retarted... they think that AOKH wouldn't notice a sudden 100-200 meg per game(and if they had a warez site, then they must've uploaded like 10 games! that would be like 1000 megs ) upload increase and a sudden 100x increase in bandwith??
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Angel SpineMan HG Halo Alumnus
posted 01-24-00 04:37 PM
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LOL - sorry Rash... I always forget you are a youngin cause you never act like one.
DSC: I think he uploaded warez for another game - meaning not one we had a site for - and it didn't happen on AoKH... we didn't even notice until gstats started screaming bloody murder - then we immediately removed the file, fired the dude, changed passwords, blah, blah, blah. Still a pain in the butt though - unpleasant for all of us.
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Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-24-00 05:26 PM
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oh, he uploaded it onto ANOTHER site with gamestats?
geez, that's GOT to be a pain... and hard to catch too
well, either way, warez is warez, and Gstats won't like/heavengames won't like it...
hay rasher, your also 14 right?
well, you don't act like it (you dont do stupid things like get involved in animated smilie face contests )
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Cherub Rasher Inactive
posted 01-24-00 06:43 PM
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I'm 15, and I just seperated my shoulder playing hockey, so my right arm is in a cast and I am typing with my right hand.
Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-24-00 09:28 PM
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ooooo, OUCH! that's gotta hurt! i smashed my wrist a couple months ago, but i still posted here as much as ever! (arrrrrrg, i got too many posts, i hope AOKH's post count gets wiped out then i won't be #1 on that list anymore but then my post'll start climbing again.......)
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Octavia Squire
posted 01-24-00 10:24 PM
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Hi,I know I broke 5 toes when I on a stage while practicing with my band.
Im Lead Vocals in my band it is cool and I'm sometimes guitar.
Demo do you remember me?
Angel Spineman cool idea therefore they will be able to respond to the comment.
Demo are you done checking my scenarios for my great Campaign .
Has anyone noticed that it mostly demo,spineman and cherubs posting here?
Like my sig?
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Angel SpineMan HG Halo Alumnus
posted 01-25-00 11:15 AM
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hehehe. Hockey rules - my favorite sport by far.
DSC: He loaded the warez on one of our sites but it was a warez copy of some other game. I don't even remember which one. It was like 80M or something though... pretty obvious. He tried to claim that he didn't know it was against our policies... duh...
Anyway - the player comments have already been converted to automatically send email to the author - so far so good.
Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-25-00 01:17 PM
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hmmmmm... warez is against policies for about 95% of places.... and it's ovious.... you can get banned for posting links to warez on the forums... how could you not brake policies by ACCUALY uploading them HERE!!
and oct, ur right! it's mostly me spiney and rasher
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Gordon Farrell VIP
posted 01-27-00 00:54 AM
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Rasher, I'm staggered that you're 15 --- and I should already know you are because of that, um, "other" project we're working on.
I also owe you an e mail. Coming soon.
Spine: Hey, dude, I'm finally doing my bit on the reviews! At least a little bit . As I do more work and start to formulate my ideas, I'll start thinking about design articles soon as well.
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Angel SpineMan HG Halo Alumnus
posted 01-27-00 12:44 PM
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Yup... I saw those Gordon. Thx! I'll be starting to work on reviews myself pretty soon since I'm getting other people to do the actual updating. Should be fun!
Demolition Ship Captain Squire
posted 01-28-00 03:40 PM
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51 / 51
****phew****
i finally fixed up my comp so i can post here again as usual!
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