yock
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Fairfield, OH | reply to muzscman
Re: Few Ideas for the forum...
With proboards, don't your users have to signup new with each newly created board? |
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muzscman
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| said by yock  :With proboards, don't your users have to signup new with each newly created board? Nope:
»dslrmafia.proboards78.com/
Any registered user could get to any of these forums. plus the hidden mafia forum that is on there now. I can unhide the forum as soon as the game is over to expose it to the outside world (I used to do that then delete them but I figured I'd keep the other ones up so people could browse them if they wanted to...).
I can also make peeps administrator's if we need. That's easy as pie. |
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yock
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Fairfield, OH | So, there's one hidden board there now. Could there be multiple hidden boards for multiple disparate groups of people? |
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muzscman
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| said by yock :So, there's one hidden board there now. Could there be multiple hidden boards for multiple disparate groups of people? Every board could be hidden and even password protected at the same time. |
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Johnny
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Yep - every board has (or could have) the usual hidden Moderators and Administrators Forum. What I am proposing is the same idea except that the hidden forum be the Dead Players Forum.
Nothing new needs to be done except adding another forum to each moderator's current boards. You don't even need passwords really.
Of the ones I have seen, there is a switch that the Admin can use to disable a user account completely (for Town players who are alive) and a screen saying which forums which accounts have access to.
So: each mod who has a board would make these additions to their board:
1. Everyone who has been playing (i.e. active in Pub Games) gets an account on the board. As soon as a game starts, the Mafia get privileges to the Mafia Forum, which is hidden from all others, and all accounts of all living players are blocked in the Dead Players Forum.
2. As a player dies, his or her account gets enabled in the DPF. Actually, anyone with an account who isn't currently playing could be enabled in the DPF - its sole purpose is to keep out currently alive players. All of us could have an account there - just turn off access for people who are in a game and alive.
3. As a Mafia player dies, set his access on to the DPF but make his access to his Mafia buddies' forum read-only.
Yock's point about these forum softwares showing who is online and what they are doing is crucial.
The usual cure to that is to set all accounts to Invisible.
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Johnny
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Atlanta, GA | reply to muzscman
Boy, I am getting 503 errors here. |
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muzscman
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| reply to Johnny
said by Johnny :Yep - every board has (or could have) the usual hidden Moderators and Administrators Forum. What I am proposing is the same idea except that the hidden forum be the Dead Players Forum. Nothing new needs to be done except adding another forum to each moderator's current boards. You don't even need passwords really. Of the ones I have seen, there is a switch that the Admin can use to disable a user account completely (for Town players who are alive) and a screen saying which forums which accounts have access to. So: each mod who has a board would make these additions to their board: 1. Everyone who has been playing (i.e. active in Pub Games) gets an account on the board. As soon as a game starts, the Mafia get privileges to the Mafia Forum, which is hidden from all others, and all accounts of all living players are blocked in the Dead Players Forum. 2. As a player dies, his or her account gets enabled in the DPF. Actually, anyone with an account who isn't currently playing could be enabled in the DPF - its sole purpose is to keep out currently alive players. All of us could have an account there - just turn off access for people who are in a game and alive. 3. As a Mafia player dies, set his access on to the DPF but make his access to his Mafia buddies' forum read-only. Yock's point about these forum softwares showing who is online and what they are doing is crucial. The usual cure to that is to set all accounts to Invisible. proboards can do all of this. i have it set so that all accounts are invisible... |
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yock
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| reply to Johnny
I can see the desire to have a dead players forum, but in all honesty I just don't want to deal with it. The maintenance for such a forum would be just as burdensome as the mafia forums, except would require attention at every phase change. Some of these games are already technically challenging enough without having to maintain now a second set of authorizations. |
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muzscman
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I will be willing to add anyone who is modding a game as an administrator to my boards if we want one centrally located place. It will be easy and they can deal with everything. I can set the registrations to just open instead of needing verification from a mod.
Just let me know.
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Johnny
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Atlanta, GA | Or, since I pretty much follow every post of every game even though I do not play, I would be happy to handle turning the permissions on and off for players as they are killed, etc. |
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BigReds42
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said by BigReds42 :Is it possible have two sets of stickies up at the top? Would be nice if there was one for the signups and the games. No one answered me =-( |
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kewlkarim
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Houston, TX | no reds it's not
and why would you wanan stickie games ? |
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BigReds42
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| Well I don't know lol
Yesterday I guess before all th signups ended up stick there were like 5 threads that had posts and I wasn't used to that so I got lost.
also... when the signup and game threads are back to back I almost posted in the wrong one lol. |
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kewlkarim
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| lol, i saw your post about that one.
it helps if you read the [Signup] and [Game] Tags...
that's what they are there for.
and...that's your own fault for being old, not as old as Rook and TheRul....but pretty up there. these 2 combined are older than old dirt.
Rook is so old, when he farts, dust comes out.
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TheRul
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| said by kewlkarim :lol, i saw your post about that one. it helps if you read the [Signup] and [Game] Tags... that's what they are there for. and...that's your own fault for being old, not as old as Rook and TheRul....but pretty up there. these 2 combined are older than old dirt. Rook is so old, when he farts, dust comes out. Hey now, it's not my fault that I remember when Molly Ringwald was pretty. (that's be for she went to Paris for you young'uns)
and Jack Bower was nothing more than some Young Gun, and Lou Diamond Phillips liked having long hair. And Drive-in theaters we not just a novelty.
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Akasha
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| said by TheRul : And Drive-in theaters we not just a novelty. Umm... we still have Drive-in's around here. I can count about 3 of them in a 20 mile radius.
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TheRul
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| But they are considered novelties. Once apon a time they were actually considered businesses. The closest one to me is in Barstow, CA (30 min from Victorville). Got to love the Double Feature. Kids are usually asleep by the beginign of the second movie.
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kewlkarim
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Houston, TX | reply to TheRul
uhmm....who & who & who ????
and we have a drive in theater here too...
1 within 200 miles maybe ?
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TheRul
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| said by kewlkarim :uhmm....who & who & who ???? and we have a drive in theater here too... 1 within 200 miles maybe ? och. Just pull some more grey out will ya, |
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kewlkarim
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Houston, TX | you might wanna see someone about that.
i know this lady up north, does great highlights....want me to get you her name for you ?
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