The Dink Network

Updates on the site needed and WANTED!!!

July 4th 2011, 11:03 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
1: IP ban feature.
2: All posts by unregistered members to be approved by moderators
3: A stricter qualification for becoming a moderator(so that people like Tal dont become a mod)
4: All accounts need moderator's approval
5: Report post button.
July 4th 2011, 11:05 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I gotta admit, Godley. You are smarter than I ever thought.
July 4th 2011, 11:09 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
@ Skull

Thanks.

@ mods
while you are at it, having a board like the one below wouldnt hurt anyone.

Board
July 4th 2011, 11:38 AM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
These suggestions are perfect, but again, it's not in the staff's power to implement these. It's all up to Redink.
July 4th 2011, 11:46 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
It's in the staff's power, and it is their job, to contact Redink, to make this site a better place for us all.
July 4th 2011, 12:01 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
It's in the staff's power, and it is their job, to contact Redink,

I agree
July 4th 2011, 12:15 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Note that I've already tried that, but didn't get a response. It's possible he's using a different email now that is unknown to non staff though.
July 4th 2011, 12:55 PM
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A staff member who uses Facebook should try contacting him there.

And I agree that Godley's ideas are great. Also I would suggest a temporary ban feature, as a way of warning people to shape up when we don't want them to completely go away.
July 4th 2011, 12:57 PM
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Tal
Noble He/Him United States
Super Sexy Tal Pal 
I am more capable than you may believe.
July 4th 2011, 12:58 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Have you learned the skillz to change some website stuff now? That would be kingworthy for sure.
July 4th 2011, 01:08 PM
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Tal
Noble He/Him United States
Super Sexy Tal Pal 
I am sorry to inform you that I was referring to his insistence that I shouldn't be a mod. As for adjusting the backbone of this place, it is something I would like to make a meaningful contribution to someday, but what and when are both up in the air.
July 4th 2011, 01:11 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
@ Tal

What have you done for the site, except for spam, and ofcourse, review 6 files.
July 4th 2011, 01:12 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
It's better than spamming and reviewing 2 files.
July 4th 2011, 01:14 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Hey, I am working on a D-Mod
July 4th 2011, 01:38 PM
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Marpro
Peasant He/Him bloop
 
Pic or it didn't happen.
July 4th 2011, 01:40 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
A D-Mod is about worthy of 2 reviews. So you still got either 2 more reviews to write, or another D-Mod to make.
July 4th 2011, 02:39 PM
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iplaydink
Peasant He/Him Sweden
Hmm.. 
Bad dmods and bad reviews can also be negative contributions, making you a worse dinker than one who hasn't contributed anything...

July 4th 2011, 02:40 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I think a bad contribution is much better than no contribution.
July 4th 2011, 02:42 PM
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iplaydink
Peasant He/Him Sweden
Hmm.. 
No.

EDIT: It's just like the different between people who has something important, interesting or funny to say, as oppose to those who just offend people and spamm.
Both post but one in the good way and one in a bad.
July 4th 2011, 02:47 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I've said in the past, I don't appreciate spammers all that much, but I do appreciate spammers much more than those who don't post anything on this site.

Even ABC's creator deserves credit for spending some time (be it three minutes, for all I care) just to create entertainment for us.
July 4th 2011, 03:06 PM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
Spam isn't entertainment. I'd rather read 3 interesting threads per day than 3 interesting and 10 spam threads. Having to trudge through all the useless spam to read an interesting post or two just isn't worth it.
July 4th 2011, 03:19 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Spam may not be entertainment, but at least the persons are contributing something to keep the site at least somewhat alive, unlike the persons who check the site now and then just to post nothing.
July 4th 2011, 03:24 PM
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Kyle
Peasant He/Him Belgium
 
Hmm, yes and no. I think spam for the sake of spam is worse than not posting, because it's the general image of the site that is hurt by this.

Skull, I know why you have this opinion It's because people like you and I check back for updates so often we get bored when there's no golden "new" sign anywhere

But most people check once or twice per day, so for them, the spam is just annoying.
July 4th 2011, 03:27 PM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
I see your point Skull, but for me, spam is in fact killing the site as I'm hardly motivated to even check the forum at all lately.

Spam stimulates more spam and kills worthy contributions, because most people will just leave alltogether if the forum posts don't improve. Monkey see monkey do.
July 4th 2011, 03:27 PM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
But you gotta admit, if it were for the "silent ones", this site would have been dead for the last 3 years.
July 4th 2011, 03:50 PM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
if it were for the "silent ones", this site would have been dead for the last 3 years.

Valid point. And then there's the random commentators completely unlike me.
July 4th 2011, 11:04 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Ahem ahem..

Lets stick to the topic.
July 5th 2011, 01:45 AM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
Lets stick to the tropic.

Yeah, that's what I liked about Farcry... the lush, tropical setting.
July 8th 2011, 06:20 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Can anyone tell me whom to bug with these requirements?
July 8th 2011, 06:35 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
I like the 2nd one. But I think we'll need more mods for that.
July 8th 2011, 06:52 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
It is not a choice.

I am going to bug somebody about it daily.
Provided I know who to.
July 8th 2011, 07:59 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
Stick all your demands in a PM and send them to me.

I guarantee I'll get right on it.
July 8th 2011, 08:42 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
I think he pretty much summed them up earlier.
July 8th 2011, 08:43 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Stick all your demands in a PM and send them to me.

I guarantee I'll get right on it.


Read the first post.

'nuff said.
July 8th 2011, 09:36 AM
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Quiztis
Peasant He/Him Sweden bloop
Life? What's that? Can I download it?! 
I just sent some suggestions to Tal.
July 8th 2011, 10:46 AM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
But how can I ignore your PM if you don't send me one?

Honestly.
July 8th 2011, 11:49 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Mr sword fish.

I didnt send you a PM.

But honestly speaking, I fail the need to send it, when the requirements are placed in the first post of the thread itself.
July 8th 2011, 09:47 PM
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SabreTrout
Noble He/Him United Kingdom
Tigertigertiger. 
You asked who to bug.

I basically gave you permission to bug me over PM.

You have sent me a PM.

Any more thoughts you have on the matter, bump your PM with. I promise I'll read them.

Ok, chuckles?
July 8th 2011, 09:56 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
I think tal's trying to make up for what he did to you guys just give him awhile I'm sure it will be fine.
July 9th 2011, 04:06 AM
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Marpro
Peasant He/Him bloop
 
- Updates on the site

What about.... "D-Mod of the week" (or maybe month) where one of the existing D-Mods will be chosen and featured. I think it could be fun and bring more joy into playing mods and one you might never had before.

July 9th 2011, 04:25 AM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Dont we already have the RRR
July 9th 2011, 05:09 AM
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Marpro
Peasant He/Him bloop
 
I didnt mean like the RRR, obviously. T_T
July 9th 2011, 07:04 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Why would we need something like that along the RRR?
July 9th 2011, 08:34 AM
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marpro
Peasant He/Him bloop
 
Dont relate this to the RRR, it wasnt like that i meant. I was more thinking of, maybe a stickythread that feature an already existing dmod (like creeping sands by simonk) and a brief history when it was released, what it is about and the author. The thread will be a place to discuss the mod also. An interesting concept imo.

Anyway, posting from my phone so i wont go further into details now.
July 9th 2011, 08:35 AM
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Christiaan
Bard They/Them Netherlands
Lazy bum 
D-Mod of the Week sounds like a fun idea, it could be incorporated with the Let's Play, so that the community plays one specific D-Mod that week. We could vote which D-Mod will be played that week and so on. Maybe even let players make YouTube video's of their playthrough.

I like.
July 9th 2011, 12:33 PM
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Good ideas! The part about telling the history of the D-Mod is kinda like the Dinkerviews but about games instead of people.
July 9th 2011, 01:13 PM
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Godley
Peasant They/Them
 
Well then we all would have to write reviews of the file.

Look at the amount of activity that would generate.
July 9th 2011, 02:01 PM
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Marpro
Peasant He/Him bloop
 
No we don't have to do that.
July 9th 2011, 03:47 PM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 
I would like HTTPS login, if we're adding requests.
July 9th 2011, 06:58 PM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
Love! True love! 
I like the idea of a D-Mod of the Week/Month. It would be like a book club, but for cool people.

Also, an option to preview the reviews you write before submitting them would be nice, so I don't let stupid stuff slip (like accidentally making a smiley).
July 9th 2011, 08:16 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
I would like to see more contest they defiantly seem to live up the community and bring some nice quests/romps with them maybe we can even take on ancient DDC magic and revive the DDC contest to start off.
July 9th 2011, 08:49 PM
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MsDink
Peasant She/Her New Zealand
Tag - Umm.. tag, you're it? 
you can modify them pilly
July 9th 2011, 09:21 PM
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Tal
Noble He/Him United States
Super Sexy Tal Pal 
Oh, Merlin... I actually tried searching for you the other day and didn't see any recent activity, and you seem to have either obliterated your Facebook or removed me specifically. Fancy seeing you here then!
July 9th 2011, 10:58 PM
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schnapper
Peasant He/Him Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands
Let us save our effort and just lie down and die. 
I vote for Dmod of the fortnight!
July 10th 2011, 07:33 AM
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Skull
Peasant He/Him Finland bloop
A Disembodied Sod 
Merlin is a rare guy to see here now. I also heard he's getting younger by the day.

And as for some suggestions, which are within our reach, I would like to see more contests indeed. We have about one per year. I'd say even two a year would give us many more quality D-Mods.
July 10th 2011, 11:40 AM
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magicman
Peasant They/Them Netherlands duck
Mmmm, pizza. 
I'd like the site to have some proper server-side validation on a couple of forms, first <_<
July 12th 2011, 04:56 PM
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Mrgantoe
Peasant He/Him Cuba
I'm simply a distraction. 
Same^.
July 16th 2011, 03:47 AM
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merlin
Peasant He/Him
 


I deleted my Facebook account. It wasn't you. Promise.

Got a couple more, just for the record. I know we're limited without access to the pl files.
- Ability to see which threads are closed/deleted (on the topic list).
- Ability to select multiple posts for deletion, instead of one at a time.
- Display the most recent IP in the site's user list.
- The reviews seem to have moved into the nasty stash? This wasn't the case with the old G8 site (the floorboards/grass layout).
July 16th 2011, 03:55 AM
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pillbug
Peasant He/Him United States
Love! True love! 
- Ability to see which threads are closed/deleted (on the topic list).

Can't we already do that? Preferences can be changed so that a trash can shows up next to deleted threads. (May have misunderstood what you meant)