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Campaigns listing
So, I have one of those weird ideas of mine again. See, we already provide space for campaign info pages, and charsheets and shitte, right?
Now, why don't we tell /tg/ to publish info about the campaigns they run on a specially designed page on 1d4chan, as well? I could make a template for campaign info and everything. The only problem I don't know how to work around is tracking which campaigns are active. We could ask the GMs to mark the last time they had a session, and once a campaign is not running for a month, move it to frozen; once it's frozen for two months, move it to dead. But is there a way to make those moves automatic? Fatum 00:24, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
PageCSS
Any chance you could install PageCSS, or something like that? Page-specific CSS would make some of my new attempts at automagical sections for character sheets much easier to set up. Leviathan 02:28, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
- Witchcraft, sorcery and character sheet creation! Fatum 03:06, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
Image uploads not workin' for me.--Seventhseal 07:13, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- The permissions weren't set up properly for the webserver to write to the directories it needed to, image uploads should work fine now. --Wikifag 04:33, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
>inserting false information
Haha, what, you don't find Louisville, Kentucky, to be a trendy place? Fatum 22:59, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
I run an alternate wiki that's in part taken over being the repository for the nine million often-abandoned Exalted campaign pages and character sheets, so I decided to move the Overgame to there. Someone is apparently dedicated to not letting this happen. If you could lock the page or something so people know where to go now, I'd appreciate it. (ty ty~) Ashel 01:33, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
4e Edit War Resolution
So, there's been a pretty gnarly edit war going on between me and someone else over the Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition page for several weeks now. It started when I added counter-criticisms to the criticisms section, and was instructed to instead make a "Benefits" section. I did, but ever since it's been under attack. Admittedly I've been in a very ruthless war with this guy, just for the last couple of hours I've been going back and forth with him. I decided to consult the main page for advice and was told to come here. This edit war won't resolve itself, the guy I'm up against is just pissed, and I'm definitely exceedingly stubborn myself. Think you could have a look and say something? Thanks in advance. I'll open up a discussion about it on the 4e talk page, so you can get a general idea of who stands where on it. --Zabasaz 05:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
p.s buttes
Thank you for the lock; in fairness, the benefits section really should go back up. --Doom
Thanks for stepping in. I don't recommend either section, they'll just cause a shitstorm. They can make pages for criticisms/benefits and link them over, but the page is about the edition, not about what Doom and I think of it. --Zabasaz 21:09, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
- Well, I suppose that works. Mind restoring the Kalashtar, Changelings, and so on to the playable race list? The addition got lost in the edit warring [1] --74.85.80.191 21:13, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Indeed, it's not what I and most other thing, or what Zabasaz thinks either. Although, curiously, the shitstorm only happens for Zabasaz and this mysterious sockpuppet. --Doom
- I've got no interest in adjudicating your argument and all the section is doing is causing constant edit-warring. Nobody wants constant edit-warring, and the section made the page damn ugly besides; the section never needed to be that long. Since we don't seem to be able to come a consensus on the specifics, for now that page is going to be one of generalities. Everyone involved should simply drop the issue for now; if the next time I check Recent Edits it's full of constant back and forth and reversion over some new page or pages, I'm going to start temporarily banning users.
- That's all for now. Try to keep things civil, and if you two really must continue to have a go at each other, take it somewhere else. --Wikifag 21:32, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I saw no reason to run to Mamma over something like this, you need not 'adjudicate' between me and Z and his sockpuppets. If the place can't handle it, the place can't handle it, no argument from me. Thanks for your time.--Doom
Spammers galore
Do something already, bro. Also, template:promotions is broken now thanks to css not working. Also, mail user function is not working. Fatum 13:06, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
- For fighting the spambots, you have my axe. ...er, 'undo' button. I'll always put the words 'spam', 'SPAM' or 'FUCKING SPAM' in my edit comments. I fear the bots will outpace the volunteer fire-fighters before Christmas. (Anyone know why the bots love Talk:Furry so much?) --NotBrandX 22:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
- This is a consequence of the ReCaptcha extension being disabled; it had stopped working so I had to turn it off. I shall attempt to make it work properly again as soon as possible. --Wikifag 09:06, 21 June 2010 (UTC)
- Test test test. --Wikifag 13:53, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
- Okay, ReCaptcha works again (I'm still not sure why it failed in the first place, but oh well). I have noticed the AddScript extension seems to have stopped working and shall look into it. I shall also investigate the e-mailing thing. --Wikifag 13:56, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
- e-mail still doesn't work. Fatum 00:28, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
"This is the weirdest spam I've ever seen..." In case you were wondering, it's software doing a spam probe. The robots (usually pwned workstations turned into zombies) are given a URL and told to make an "innocent" edit, to check if it's possible to make changes to the wiki. If the probe is successful, it notifies the other zombies in the horde that this URL is a valid target for spam attempts. The reason why you keep seeing it over and over again is because there are different zombie hordes that don't talk to each other, but the zombie horde owners all bought the same URL list. --NotBrandX 14:38, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
Touhou Power Cards
Say, what happened to the Touhou Power Cards page? Could it be that it didnt survive the server moving? I liked the cards and wanted to update them soon, as i'm actually playing 4E. Zarathustra01 08:50, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
- Oh wow. I'm not sure what's happened to the page - the article might have gotten corrupted or something - but fortunately for you all the images should still be alright, you'll just have to search through the lists for them manually for now. --Wikifag 10:58, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
4E Edit War - REDUX
Yep, the same people going at it on the 4E page are now, again, going at it on the Tarrasque page.
Entailing the section on how to kill a Tarrasque with a fighter, someone made another section with a wizard in order to criticize the balance issues between the classes in a humorous way. His tactic involved using a shade to bypass the tarrasque's abysmal touch defenses to damage its mental stats and then suffocate it while its unconscious so it can't regenerate.
The 4E-attacker from the 4E page has assumed a couple of new IPs (all the while accusing any other editor of being a sockpuppet of User:Zabasaz) and, as revenge for the ATROCITY of insulting the 3.5e tarrasque, began vandalizing the before-mentioned section and added a new, long-winded section about how to kill a Tarrasque in 4E. Other people (SOCKPUPPETS HERRDURR) criticized the section and so it became a sort of pile-up, but that's not really the issue.
The issue is, someone who I SUSPECT is just a registered version of the 4E vandal blanked the Wizard-killing-Tarrasque section entirely, claiming it was "plagiarized." He failed to provide links but I checked google and found out there is indeed a page where someone explains how to use an allip to kill a Tarrasque. What he fails to mention is that not only are there notable differences in the tactic, but its not copy and pasted at all - the wording is entirely different and there's no way to tell it isn't just a coincidence. And if it was used as a reference, it isn't plagiarism anyways, two players are entitled to use the same tactics in an RPG, there is no ownership. If you actually care to settle a plagiarism issue, though I don't think its worth anyone's time much less yours, here are the links:
[2] - Page from which I think he says it was plagiarized. Tarrasque "How to Defeat a Tarrasque in 3 Easy Levels" is the "plagiarized content."
That said, I issued a warning that I would e-mail the admin if he continues to blank the pages or add unorthodox commentary into the sections he doesn't like, so I doubt this problem will persist, but if he is who I think he is, he is legendary for moronic persistence.
That said, thanks for your time and I love you.
TL;DR version: 4E edit war is now taking place on the Tarrasque page, but this time it's not as bad and you should probably keep your eye open or lock the page.
--76.94.191.184 00:50, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
Please note that the previous post is from one of Zabasaz's sockpuppets (he just edited his own user page from the IP given), as the logs show.
Note also, Zabasaz has written the previous post as though he were not sockpuppeting, even as he denies his plagiarism, taking pride in it, no less.
Note also, the "long winded section is written primarily by NotBrandX, as the logs show.
In short, this person is blatantly trying to play you for a fool. Sanity
- Everyone knows this is my laptop IP. I see you blanked the section again.--76.94.191.184 07:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
So, basically, Zab not only passes off other's work as his own, he tries to pass of his work as others. You not mad, bro, you crazy! -- Doom
- Hey Wikifag, sorry to bother you, but the guy you banned for 30 days is back, and flipping the fuck out over that Tarrasque page again. Have a look at these links and you'll get the general gist of the situation.
http://1d4chan.org/index.php?title=Tarrasque&diff=67659&oldid=67639 - His revisions
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/User_talk:BobtheMighty - His talk page, in which NotBrandX tries to reach out to him, and Doom proceeds to go apeshit, himself.
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Talk:Tarrasque - Where NotBrandX brought the issue up in the talk page.
Doom seems to have made some blanket e-mail so that he can privately exchange insults about me, and plan on how to bring me down or something. I'm not particularly bothered nor intimidated so it's not an issue, but I thought it might help you make sense of some of his posts. I'm going to send you an e-mail to alert you to the situation, since I don't know how consistently you check back here. --Zabasaz
I had no idea the crap I was stepping into when I decided to have some fun with what I (and others) thought was just another 4chan joke; I've enjoyed much of the humor of the site, didn't know I needed permission to contribute. Now that I know the truth about Zabasaz (or whoever the hell he is), I want nothing to do with that fucker. I see he's sending you e-mails, probably the better to hide his lies; you might want to read NotBrandX's discussion page (among too many other sites to list here) to get a better idea of what you're dealing with, in case you don't already know. Anyway, I know it sucks to be a moderator, but it sure looks like you're banning the wrong guy, IMO, at least consider banning the one that keeps bugging you, is all I'm saying. --BobtheMighty
OCDfag here
Three trivial corrections to the D&D 4e page, in order: "time consuming" -> "time-consuming", "huck" -> "chuck", and "weaboo" -> "weeaboo". If someone who has admin access and a few spare seconds could change these, I'd appreciate it.
