Building a Community

[Buster's Uncle]

I'll think of something a little bit funnier so you can look like a enlightened teacher.

Sure!

[Flux]

0000b8 it is.  The HTML notation is the number the forum will want when you have an icon ready.  (28x35 is ideal, but wider would be okay, if needed.  Keep it down to 35 pixels tall, though.)

Maybe if you added a Robin mask to the attachment before you reduced it?  Think of something funny...

I'm just really not in the mood for this right now.
Tomorrow. But I'll make you look enlightened....
I'm tempted to put an all-seeing-eye on your forhead, but that symbolism goes against everything I stand for. So I won't be able to morally.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm busy with people in the house, so no rush.

Let's do it right, instead of fast, 'cause I can't change an individual usergroup casually the way I could click on your profile and change "Boy Wonder" to "Li'l Stinker"...

[Flux]

Title Request: "FluxBunny"

[Buster's Uncle]

Done.

We aim to please.

[Flux]

*Looks at BU's new profile pic*


Oh god....
It's so....
Disgusting!


You made a bunny cry! You should feel ashamed!
Welp, at least it's not you. It has no beard....

[Buster's Uncle]

Looks a lot like my late dad, though.

I'll probably switch back to the self portrait soon enough...

[Buster's Uncle]

Have you seen this?

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1377.msg3516#msg3516

Best story I ever wrote, I think.

[Flux]

Have you seen this?

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1377.msg3516#msg3516

Best story I ever wrote, I think.

Reading it now...

[Valka]

Have you seen this?

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?topic=1377.msg3516#msg3516

Best story I ever wrote, I think.

MOAR!

Yes, I think it's really good.

[Valka]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place to mention this, but here goes anyway (feel free to move it if this isn't the right place):

The profanity and other filters have been set in such a way that results in this:

Walter Koe[person of African ethnicity](the navigator, Chekov).

I get that the "n-word" is prohibited. But when that results in an inability to type an actor's full last name, that's ridiculous.

Can the profanity/objectionable word filters not be set for the exact word instead? It's downright silly that on a forum where there is an active group of Star Trek fans, we can't even have one of the Original Series' actors' full names showing.

[Buster's Uncle]

Most of the items in the swear filter are racial/ethnic/national slurs, put there by sisko, to whom English is not a first language.  I basically need to overhaul the entire list - our membership is unlikely enough to use said slurs that I'd rather just take care of it manually if it ever happens.  That particular one that ends Mr. Koenig's name (I know several bypass tricks for our crap swear filter) comes up a lot, also occurring as a common typo in gerunds, as it does - and before I added a space at the end, it used to come up every time people used common words like "night".

Basically, the problem is that if I change anything, I have to change everything; the interface is a nightmare to deal with.  -So it goes on my to-do list, at the top, but I'm not looking forward to it.

[Flux]

-So it goes on my to-do list, at the top, but I'm not looking forward to it.

[Buster's Uncle]

No refunds.

[Buster's Uncle]

Has anybody else noticed what all Mart's been up to since he got active late last year?  He keeps generating fun activity-raising projects - GotMs, AARs, his MP CMN organizing/leadership, the succession game - we'll have a good great demogame going before he's done, and I'm looking forward to it.  He's doing the right things - even the TOE polls that always turn out to relate to something he's working on have their own value for generating activity.

ete has done a lot of this kind of thing, with the wiki, participating in faction modding, AARs, organizing for the .exe patchers and many other things, and the value to our community is beyond price.

t_ras has done a lot of good things beyond CMNing, with an attempt to get a collaborative AAR going, and a lot of stuff that doesn't show on the tech end, and taking initiative on recruiting activities.  I've always loved, too, how completely he got what I'm doing at AC2 and what and how I want others doing.  I selfishly wish he didn't have a life.

The thing these guys have in common?  Industry, good ideas, a lot of stamina and patience in working for the good of the community and -this is key to me as a manager who spends a lot of time trying to talk people into things I believe will be good for them and the rest of us- they constantly take initiative.

If I had ten more of these guys, I'd have to shift my activities over to moderating full time.

And THAT's why it says "MVP" over Mart's handle.  -Just so everyone knows how much it pleases me when members do recruiting and content/activity-generating projects, and keep at it.  If you have something in the back of your mind along those lines that you've considered taking initiative on - my reaction is most probably a very supportive and pleased YES!

This is YOUR community, and it depends on your industry and contributions, even just trying to post more.  Everybody has something -and most likely several things, because you're a bunch of gifted people to an astonishing degree- and we can do it.  Our future is in your hands, if only you'll take it.

Thanks Mart.  Thanks everyone.