It's not that I hated you all and was denying it out of spite. Everytime it was brought up, people would google-fu me with the plugin (that I found a long time ago) and it was never actually complete. I checked on it rarely, but it was WTFE's most recent request for it that prompted me to look again. Except for the lack of english translations, it seems to work fairly well. You can also go to your own user page and see the list of ignored users you have from the dropdown menu.
Glitch writes a script to clear out @Coin's ignore list every 30 seconds.
So it looks like the ignore plugin was completed. You may all thank @WTFE for its installation. I don't know how well it works, if at all, but feel free to make use of it. There should be a little eyeball crossed out next to people's names on posts, and if you go to their user page, should be an option to "ignore_user" in the dropdown menu.
Introducing our second contest and one perhaps better geared to the community: a short story judged by @EmmahSue, @Thenomain and myself. At least four entries need to be made by the deadline to make this happen.
First Place: $30.00
Second Place: $15.00
All prizes will be delivered via paypal to an e-mail designated by each winner.
Feel free to post questions for clarification or further information in this topic. Entrants, please make sure your link is clearly marked when replying.
In the interest of filling out our How-Tos section a bit, we'll be having a content contest for the category. It'll be judged by @EmmahSue, @Thenomain and myself and will end June 30th, 2016. You must provide a link to the How-To in a response to this message noting that it is your entry. You may make multiple entries if you so choose, but can only win one of the prizes. This topic will be locked at midnight EST of the ending date.
While there are many MU-related possibilities for a tutorial, the following are criteria that will be used in the judging:
First Place: $40.00
Second Place: $20.00
Third Place: $10.00
All prizes will be delivered via paypal to an e-mail designated by the winners.
Feel free to post questions for clarification or further information in this topic. Entrants, please make sure your entry is clearly marked when replying.
I still think you're missing the reason behind the shaming. There is definitely an element of shaming in many of the Hog Pit type posts, but it is punitive rather than rehabilitative.
@Ganymede I'd probably adjust the progression a little on this myself, but I like this system. It makes it a bit more beneficial to be a small bit better than someone and not as much benefit to be tremendously better, but as a quick and simple system, it's pretty great.
@mietze I, however, do see the last sentence of the latter as a variety of metaposing that would turn me off from the person playing if I don't know them. To me, this is the definition of passive-aggressive metaposing. You're effectively insulting the other character with no way for the player to reasonably respond.
It comes down to trust and comfort. There are people that can powerpose any of my characters at any time or metapose freely. However, I don't think it's good etiquette to do so upon first meeting or before permission to do so has been granted.
@Lithium Diku and Circle are both written in C and neither of them use MUX softcode that I know of. If you wanted to make a more traditional MUX, I probably wouldn't say anything, but with your desire for a highly coded game, evennia is very much a better choice if you don't know C.
@Insomnia Anyone that maybe made an account to read, and maybe keep their place, but never post, who has not verified their account, will be deleted. They can continue to not post if they like, after verifying.
This is solely for housekeeping purposes. If someone would like an account it must be verified, that is all. What they do with the account after that point is entirely up to them.
If you can post, you're verified. You'd also see an alert when you login saying you need to verify.
This weekend, I will be going through and deleting accounts created before this month that are unverified (have not verified through e-mail).
As @EmmahSue said, it is more about trying for a different focus than a direct response to our recent spate of darlings.
@Admiral
I think you might misunderstand. Hog Pit is where posts with high levels of vitriol belong, which means there should be commensurately less of it in other categories.
@Arkandel and @icanbeyourmuse have the right idea, I think. The occasional topic move or split isn't a big deal, but it'll hopefully encourage thought about where you're making a response when you're considering how to convey your message.
@Apos I still feel like the original "baby with the bathwater" complaint stands, here. Deus ex machina level magic is not the only level of magic possible by any stretch.
@Kanye-Qwest A setting with magic and no system is still rather close to no magic at all for people that want to play magic users.
I think you can look at almost any Brandon Sanderson book for ways in which magic can still be an integral part of setting and theme without being the solution to everything. Some of his magic systems are a bit higher powered, but I'm also a fan of actual magic in a fantasy setting.