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1) In the 2009-2010 time span, TFN has received a total of 13 contributions. 12 of those are from yours truly (I make no claims as to their quality), 1 is from Kodan and is very relevant to our discussion for a reason I'll get to in a moment.
2) Years prior, back in ye olde dayes ofe yoree, we had a number of frequent contributors. Ogor, Burgess, Epsilon, yours truly <_<, and a few more who didn't contribute as regularly.
We can easily match those four frequent contributors with our userbase, small though it may be. So here's my idea that I'm gauging interest for: we get a handful of people to sign on, to write articles/reviews/fanfics/whatever about whatever they want, at frequent intervals (once a week, twice a week, twice a month, whatever). And we try to get as many people to sign on as possible, regardless of their own perceived writing ability, or whether they think their topics will be interesting, or any other roadblock.
These could have an actual ongoing theme/topic (User A reviews RPGs; User B comments on current events), or just be general articles where you ramble about whatever's on your mind (as my old articles often were), or be something different every week.
Because, as Kodan said, it's better than NO ONE contributing anything.
So! Anybody up for this, or am I just talkin' crazy? >_>
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"What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live
http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
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>_>
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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I forgot about that >_>
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"What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live
http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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(To elaborate on options, TFN has three basic categories for contributions: reviews, (fan)fiction, and articles. The first two are self-explanatory. The last one be just about anything. So, the options are surprisingly many.)
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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I think this is a fine plan, since it was more or less the plan all along before the whole contribution system fell into disrepair. I'll see if I can write something (a throw away rant about politics, as always!) in the near future and thereafter on a weekly basis.
Also, the contribution system is in my "fix this" queue as far as work on the code goes, but recently I haven't actually done much work on the site because I'm so damned lazy, so it will be a while before it gets better. :\
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Make it so that users can pull down their own articles ala GameFAQs, that way if a user makes a mistake they did not notice (e.g some html code gets broken, as in my case when I subbmited the Halo 3 article) they can pull it down themselves, make an edit and then resubmit it.
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"What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live
http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
Liberal Arts Major
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Make it so that users can pull down their own articles ala GameFAQs, that way if a user makes a mistake they did not notice (e.g some html code gets broken, as in my case when I subbmited the Halo 3 article) they can pull it down themselves, make an edit and then resubmit it.
I think I fixed this using my awesome editor powers. You'll have to tell me if I messed anything up, though.
That said, a preview and/or removal option would be nice.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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"What the fuck is Alice doing in Wonderland anyway? Who the fuck told her she could leave the god damn kitchen in the first place?" -Random guy on Xbox Live
http://www.backloggery.com/kodan882
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This has happened to me a lot.
But I feel like if other people are contributing I'll be more likely to stick to a schedule and actually post things. <_<
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Alestra77: you seem to have glossed over the fact that you treat all women like prostitutes
Alestra77: "k, so, I bought you coffee... when do I get my handjob?"
Goddammit, I hate you so much. ~ Kenri to me (3 times)
Alestra77: who the fuck is porky
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"That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!"-Id, Xenogears
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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So now we just need to... recruit more people! We need to get some DSBers in here, tbqh. <_<
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu
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Well, I mean. If we ever have a significant amount of content, some better sorting would be nice. For instance, fiction could be sorted into fanfiction and original fiction, and then further into comedy/drama/action/etc, and list the number of chapters and whether the work is completed, on-going, or orphaned, etc. But seeing as how our current page looks like this, it's not a big deal currently.
...Also, not quite the same thing, but I don't know what kinds of HTML are allowed in articles/other contributions and that would be a good thing to know. <_<
Oh. And I guess for reviews, it might be nice to allow the contributor to select a rating, which would then appear as a nice, large graphic on the actual review (see 1up.com for an example). In fact, ideally, it would just allow the contributor to upload their own graphic of a set size (as with avatars), so that it could be both optional and allow a degree of personalization.
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"There's a pony in the shop, but don't buy it. It might do something unfortunate to you." ~from the first Summoner's Seal topic
Liberal Arts Major
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~ Ogordemir ~
"The sciences have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." ~ H.P Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu