http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/tags/articles Gaming Outpost Discussions » Tag: articles - Recent Posts en-US Thu, 24 May 2012 10:22:06 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/search.php http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/adminmoderation-question-for-eric#post-17549 Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:36:18 +0000 Tadeusz 17549@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Go ahead and spam can them.</p> <p>Thanx. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/adminmoderation-question-for-eric#post-17513 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:19:45 +0000 M. J. Young 17513@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I was following your advice, but he has struck again, this time complaining about support for Israel in response to <em><a href='http://gamingoutpost.com/article/world_a_week_gather_ii/'>World a Week Gather II</a></em>, whose political content is nothing more than a test of naming the last four Presidents to see whether you're from the same world.</p> <p>I'm leaving them up just long enough to hear from you that you (Eric) agree the second is Spam, which will mean that the doubts concerning the first are resolved and we can deep six them.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/adminmoderation-question-for-eric#post-17482 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:54:16 +0000 Tadeusz 17482@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Its hard for me to say as well. It seems to be thread-jacking at the least because we weren't talking about the evils of the elite political class which is what that post seems to be about.</p> <p>If I'd read it without your suspicions, I would have passed on it and might have responded to it.</p> <p>I'm inclined to let it be, and if we see a bunch more like it appear, then we call it spam. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/adminmoderation-question-for-eric#post-17446 Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:45:03 +0000 M. J. Young 17446@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Eric Ashley--there's been a new comment on your old article, <em><a href='http://gamingoutpost.com/article/eleventh-face-of-america/'>Eleventh Face of America</a></em>. It looks suspiciously but not conclusively like Spam--a promotional name linked to a web site of some sort (I did not follow the link). My problem is I'm not clear whether the post is actually relevant to the article and ensuing discussion or is a very cleverly masked robot text response.</p> <p>I certainly do not feel that I am in a position to object to people linking their web sites when they participate in our discussions, and to some degree I don't object to people participating in our discussions partly to promote their web sites. What has to be deleted is people pretending to participate in our discussions in order to promote their web sites.</p> <p>I figure you wrote the article and were the primary voice in the discussion; you're the best person to tell me whether this is Spam or legitimate input.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13699 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:05:13 +0000 M. J. Young 13699@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I don't know, John--that's such a geek movie, I would be surprised if anyone on this board did not recognize it. I just happened to be the only one who thought it worth answering.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13676 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:33:39 +0000 JohnA1nut 13676@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Spot on. If anyone got that, I figured it would be you. </p> <p>(Doing Therapy) </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13674 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:15:08 +0000 M. J. Young 13674@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Thank you for fixing it. The Admin page came up without trouble today.</p> <p>John's reference is <em>Ghostbusters</em>, of course.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13672 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:29:13 +0000 JohnA1nut 13672@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <blockquote><p>And I have no idea why a plugin that's worked flawlessly for years would suddenly die, but, well, I guess that's just how things go. </p></blockquote> <p>It's because the Internet is becoming an evil AI bent on world conquest. The first step is code that doesn't work. But beware when the Internet becomes more aware of its power. Then we will all be in trouble.... (Don't conspiracy theories sound awesome?) </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13671 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:37:40 +0000 Aaron Powell 13671@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Awesome work, Jacob. Thank you. And I have no idea why a plugin that's worked flawlessly for years would suddenly die, but, well, I guess that's just how things go. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13670 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:25:48 +0000 JohnA1nut 13670@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Jacob, if you're the Key Master, where's the Gate Keeper? (Anyone know the reference?) </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13669 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 01:02:57 +0000 Jacob Ezzell 13669@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Resolved:</p> <p>The server admins helped out and discovered it was a bug with a wordpress plugin that had to do with caching the pages. Anyway, its functional now, and I just need to go back and remove my silly debug words from a few files.</p> <p>Sorry for the hiccup! :) </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13668 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:26:15 +0000 Jacob Ezzell 13668@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Well I finally replicated the error. That line of text was from me testing the files, trying to find where it died, I never found the bottom of the pile of includes. I've emailed the server support people to see if something in the server configuration changed. In the meantime, if you need to read an article, you can log out and then see them. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13665 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:12:25 +0000 WilliamTWodium 13665@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <blockquote><p>I can get to those pages, but I see</p> <p>hello againhello again 1hello again 2hello again 3config 1config 2config 3config end/nSettings:12 </p></blockquote> <p>Likewise. White page, plain line of text. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13664 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:23:53 +0000 Aaron Powell 13664@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I can get to those pages, but I see</p> <p>hello againhello again 1hello again 2hello again 3config 1config 2config 3config end/nSettings:12 </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13662 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:17:10 +0000 Jacob Ezzell 13662@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I'm able to get to the following pages without a problem:</p> <p><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/a-critique-of-the-replacement-theory-of-time-travel/" rel="nofollow">http://gamingoutpost.com/article/a-critique-of-the-replacement-theory-of-time-travel/</a></p> <p><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/blog/i-did-not-kill-my-grandfather/" rel="nofollow">http://gamingoutpost.com/blog/i-did-not-kill-my-grandfather/</a></p> <p>I did this logged out, then I logged in from the discussions, and still could go to both without any trouble. Can you guys get to them? </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13660 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:02:44 +0000 Aaron Powell 13660@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I'm going to pass this along to Jacob as it looks like it may be a technical issue with the server. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13641 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:40:03 +0000 JohnA1nut 13641@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Yeah, I got the same thing. Blank screen on the opening page. </p> <p>(Doing Therapy) </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/articles-side-glitch#post-13640 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:32:19 +0000 M. J. Young 13640@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Upon arrival here today, I (as usual) opened the articles side in a new window, and got a blank page.</p> <p>I can report that I was logged out, and logged back in on the forum side; that did not open the other, for reload nor for a second attempt to come in from the main page.</p> <p>Probably a database glitch. I attempted to access the last blog entry I posted, and that, too loaded as a blank page.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/heads-up-eric-1#post-10636 Sun, 03 May 2009 14:03:42 +0000 Tadeusz 10636@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Thanks. That is a hot button article.</p> <p>I've gotten a few comments, but mostly they just seem to want to push out their pov,and move on. It'd be nice if I could get some of them to slow down enough to actually spin out an article based on their conceptions...of course, I'm a little skeptical of certain 'America is fascist' conceptions too which might repel some of those who find the article interesting.</p> <p>I am thinking about trying to get some more stuff published on Lulu (got about eight projects so far at Lulu.) after I take my upcoming year long sabbatical from worldwalker.</p> <p>Anyhoo, thanks. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/heads-up-eric-1#post-10635 Sun, 03 May 2009 00:45:10 +0000 M. J. Young 10635@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Eric, there's been a new comment on your article <em><a href='http://gamingoutpost.com/article/grim-futures-second-american-civil-war/'>Grim Futures:&nbsp; Second American Civil War</a>&lt;/i&gt;.&nbsp; Thought you'd want to know.</p> <p>--M. J. Young</em> </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6762 Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:48:56 +0000 M. J. Young 6762@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Thanks, Jacob.</p> <p>It's an unfortunate loss, but understandable.</p> <p>--Mark </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6752 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:56:25 +0000 Jacob Ezzell 6752@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Sorry MJ, those old PDF's and images aren't around anymore. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6692 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:46:04 +0000 Aaron Powell 6692@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>If you manage to track them down, I'm happy to upload the files to GO's server. Just let me know where they are. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6680 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:30:47 +0000 M. J. Young 6680@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I've got the box; I'll have to look for the "Users" controls.</p> <p>It strikes me that most of the archived articles are probably still duplicated on the archived site; I know that my Game Ideas Unlimited articles are mostly there. It is possible that the old URL would pull up the old images and such, although whether non-html files still exist I couldn't guess.</p> <p>Thanks.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6678 Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:52 +0000 Aaron Powell 6678@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>#1: If you edit an article, way down near the bottom of the edit screen is a box you can open up for "Post Author." That'll let you pick a new author from a drop down box. If that box isn't showing up for you, let me know and I'll see what's up. If you need an author who's not there, click on "Users" on the far right of the admin area, and scroll to the bottom of the page for a form to fill out.</p> <p>#2 and #3: I don't think any of this stuff still exists, but I'll pass this along to Jacob and see. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/working-on-the-archives#post-6645 Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:29:20 +0000 M. J. Young 6645@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>I haven't touched them in a few months, but am back working on the archived articles. I need to get some of them organized so that I feel justified in continuing to work on my own <em>Game Ideas Unlimited</em> series. This is mostly a communication for Aaron and company, noting specific details that need to be addressed that are beyond my current scope, or at least knowledge.</p> <ol> <li>I had mentioned previously the desire to edit author names. I think there are quite a few authors listed who have no articles and no posts, and ought to be removed (if not for the sake of the database, for the sake of those trying to find specific authors). More pressing, in some ways, there are articles whose authors are clearly identified in the text but for whom no listing exists for assigning them. These are all listed as "Lost to the Ages". I'm creating tags for them as I go, but that's not as satisfactory a solution as creating author identities.</li> <li>The article <em><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/narcissist_05/">Narcissist 0.5</a></em> contains a link that is supposed to connect to a <a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/contentimages/narcgloss05.pdf">pre-release PDF</a> of the game. It's a dead link (or at least a database error). I was going to remove the link entirely, but the bulk of the review-like article really is that Gaming Outpost has the game available. Is that hiding somewhere that we can link it, or should that piece of the article be removed?</li> <li><em><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/episode_18_three_for_the_price_of_one/">Game Designer's Journal: Episode 18: Three for the Price of One</a></em> is missing all the pictures. There are pictures missing from most of the articles that have them, but they matter to this one. Are the pictures still archived somewhere? If I knew how to find them from the old links, I could just reinsert them when I hit them.</li> </ol> <p>Thanks. If you need to reach me by e-mail, it's still <a href="mailto:referee@mjyoung.net">referee@mjyoung.net</a> for gaming-related mail.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-4002 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:48:28 +0000 Tadeusz 4002@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>And it had fooled me, but not the professional spam killah' Aaron... </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-4001 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:30:42 +0000 Aaron Powell 4001@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>MJ-</p> <p>It's more than likely spam, as well. The give away is the bold first line that repeats the poster's name. Pretty much any comment you see with that pattern is spam. I don't know why spammers have adopted that, but there are thousands of spam in GO's quarantine that are similar. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-3981 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:38:35 +0000 M. J. Young 3981@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>O.K., I'm stumped again. There's a <a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/jon_quick_boy_genius/#comment-40800">comment on Eric's article <em>John Quick: Boy Genius</em></a> which is either genuine or one of the most intelligent robot comments I've seen. Three things make me suspicious:</p> <ol> <li>The author gives his name, first name only, as the same name as the author of the article, which is at least a remarkable coincidence.</li> <li>Although the post is articulate and somewhat relevant, I am not certain that Eric's article has anything to do with "accelerated learning ideas" despite being about a "boy genius". I think a human reader would have recognized that this was not to do with that. On the other hand, I could be mistaken--this could be exactly what he means, stories related to genius.</li> <li>The link, though, causes me doubt. It's for information for speed reading courses, which is something to do with accelerated learning and nothing to do with what Eric wrote. It makes me think that this was a bot--an extremely well designed bot--Spamming the articles to get that link in place. I hesitate, though, because my stuff is connected to a commercial link, promoting my books and game materials, and that in itself should not be damning even if the link isn't totally relevant to Gaming Outpost's purpose.</li> </ol> <p>On the one hand, I try to err on the side of caution, and do not wish to delete anyone who is genuinely interested in participating in discussion here. On the other hand, he suggests he'll be back next month to discuss this further, and may be counting on the possibility that in a month we'll have forgotten his link is buried here.</p> <p>I was tempted to unapprove the post, but I'm not certain whether he would be able to see it if he returned, or if I would ever get back to delete it the rest of the way.</p> <p>It's your call, of course.</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-3902 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 22:39:51 +0000 Aaron Powell 3902@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>It's spam. You can tell since it repeats the commenter's name in bold at the start of the message. My personal site has been getting a ton of those.</p> <p>I've taken care of it. Thanks for pointing it out. </p> http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/topic/possible-spam-comment#post-3868 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:19:12 +0000 M. J. Young 3868@http://gamingoutpost.com/discussions/ <p>Aaron--</p> <p>Someone posted a comment this morning (2/20/8) on the article <em><a href="http://gamingoutpost.com/article/world_a_week_axe_age_above/">World a Week: Axe Age Above</a></em>. I've disapproved it but not marked it Spam because I wanted to check it with you. He writes under the name Bull Dagger, and it appears to be an effort to get a link to a site that sells weapons made of Damascus Steel. The comment itself is not entirely out of character for Gaming Outpost, but has nothing to do with the article to which it is attached.</p> <p>I wasn't sure whether to delete it; after all, we do talk about stuff like the quality of weapon materials, and I don't know that this is not a new member. However, I don't see an e-mail address so I can't ask him who he is.</p> <p>Thoughts?</p> <p>--M. J. Young </p>