Welcome

There seems to be a lot of new users showing up, which is great.

we welcome you

Who

I've seen a fair amount of speculation on LNet as to who is controlling these forums. I am the creator/admin (my PC handle is m444w if you are unaware). I currently have given two community members moderator access: @Whirlin and @horibu because of their track records as being standup individuals in dealing with the community.

Here is a few things to keep in mind: 1. this is not the PC. We have a Code of Conduct for participating in our community. Generally if you are respectful of the dignity of all of your fellow humans, especially when expressing differences of opinion, you will be fine. 2. these are not your grand-pappy's forums. They are feature rich, and i'm sure it will take awhile for us all to get use to them. If there is anything obviously buggy or problematic, feel free to PM myself or one of the moderators. 3. There is likely to be some growing pains while we are all figuring this out. If you have questions or concerns, feel free to PM me or reach out to me on Discord/Slack/LNet/AIM/here.

Features

1. Markdown markdown is a powerful syntax to write formatted text, you can read more on it on the cheatsheet or on the official documentation. Due to security concerns, you cannot use the raw HTML feature spoken about on either of those documents. There are several scripts that allow you to dump items to .csv files and upload them to Google spreadsheets, you can also export these to tables to easily generate a wonderful markdown post using several online tools. this is one i use to generate markdown tables from item spreadsheets

2. Tags tags are another powerful feature of this forum, and they can help people quickly find relevant info and are more akin to custom topics. please be respectful with tag creation, so they still retain their power, where possible prefer singular tag names such as weapon and armor versus weapons and armors or announcement vs announcements

3. Alt Accounts Do not create alt accounts. Please maintain one identity on these forums, namely one that people can find you with. If someone is harassing you, then they are violating the CoC (code of conduct)

4. GameMasters Please be respectful of GameMasters, they are essentially unpaid volunteers that provide us with a labor of love. You can critique work, but never demean a person. GMs are humans too.

Great intro Ondreian! Thanks for all of the hard work on this.

I can't figure out how to add a tag, hehe.

The @ symbol.

Only the creator of a topic can add a tag to that topic, @ is for mentioning other users. There is an input at the bottom of the "Composer" view where it says something like "add up to N tags" where you can do it.

@ondreian said in Introduction:

Only the creator of a topic can add a tag to that topic, @ is for mentioning other users. There is an input at the bottom of the "Composer" view where it says something like "add up to N tags" where you can do it.

Ahh, thanks.

Ehh... feel free to reach out to ANY of us... not just mr overlord guy... Sure. If it's ultra technical, I'll just absolutely relay messages. but one of us is always around... clearly I'm always around SOMEWHERE.

We're all here somewhere, out there, some over the rainbow even.

@horibu said in Introduction:

We're all here somewhere, out there, some over the rainbow even.

Nice intro O

Much-needed, and well-executed. Thank you!!

This seems to have great potential, thank you for setting it up!

11/10 would post again. Thanks for the obvious work and work to come. This is a great and welcome change.

Place looks great!

Thank you for the hard work!

@parkbandit said in Introduction:

Place looks great!

Thank you for the hard work!

lol

@ondreian need user blocking ASAP please.

Nice work, Ondreian.

Hi. My name is Subzero. I like to freeze people and rip their heads off. Or just smash them. It depends on my mood, I guess. They're both lots of fun.

Nifty new boards. Cool cool. Thx.

Very nice! Thank you for the efforts.

Did you really take the code of conduct from here: https://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/

?

@sabotage said in Introduction:

Did you really take the code of conduct from here: https://geekfeminism.org/about/code-of-conduct/

?

Whirlin has stated more than once that the Code of Conduct is lifted from a generic one found via Google(maybe something else?) search.

If you actually read the one at the linked site, instead of just posting it to "LOL FEMINISM", you can see that it's been tinkered with and is different than the one here.

@peam Sorry I didn't print a copy of each and hold it up to the light to see the differences. The first half is basically word for word.

No, that is BS. There is almost zero chance they just happened upon that Code of Conduct page. That is something that was actively looked for. Do a google search for yourself and see the results.

@sabotage like this:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22is+dedicated+to+providing+a+harassment-free+experience+for+everyone%2C+regardless+of+gender%2C+gender+identity+and+expression%2C+sexual+orientation%2C%22&oq=%22is+dedicated+to+providing+a+harassment-free+experience+for+everyone%2C+regardless+of+gender%2C+gender+identity+and+expression%2C+sexual+orientation%2C%22&gsl=psy-ab.3..0i71k1l3.53642.53642.0.54078.1.1.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.0.0.Xbgsrc317Y

?

It's clearly a generic CoC that is used by a ton of different sites, most of which seem to be tech/coding oriented.

@peam

I look forward to being a positive beacon of light for future generations. First order of business... Disable gifs!

@kalros said in Introduction:

I look forward to being a positive beacon of light for future generations. First order of business... Disable gifs!

Okay, disable the GIFs, but for the love of God, please keep the JIFs.

@sacru said in Introduction:

@kalros said in Introduction:

I look forward to being a positive beacon of light for future generations. First order of business... Disable gifs!

Okay, disable the GIFs, but for the love of God, please keep the JIFs.

You disgust me.

@sacru said in Introduction:

@kalros said in Introduction:

I look forward to being a positive beacon of light for future generations. First order of business... Disable gifs!

Okay, disable the GIFs, but for the love of God, please keep the JIFs.

Creamy, or chunky?

@archsenex said in Introduction:

Creamy, or chunky?

Oh man, NOW we're talking controversy...

@archsenex said in Introduction: Creamy, or chunky?

@sacru said in Introduction: Oh man, NOW we're talking controversy...

I'll take almond butter. Kthnx.

@kalros said in Introduction:

Disable gifs!

@archsenex said in Introduction:

@sacru said in Introduction:

@kalros said in Introduction:

I look forward to being a positive beacon of light for future generations. First order of business... Disable gifs!

Okay, disable the GIFs, but for the love of God, please keep the JIFs.

Creamy, or chunky?

Creamy. We're not monsters here.

Chunky, always chunky!

@horibu said in Introduction:

Chunky, always chunky!

H8