Community Changes

[Grimnar]

The idea is good blunt.
 
But as SOG is gone and now has the same tag as the racing one...
 
 
Dead Men Raiding
 
and
 
Dead Men Racing
 
 
so what tags make we from that?

[Jabbs]

A community 'tag' for when in a non primary game sounds cool, something like:

dMw | Jabbs (c)

(c) standing for Community of course

[Dr Sadako]

So a list of suggestions then

-=[dMw]=-PlayerName for CSS/Insurgency/L4D

dMw|PlayerName for CoD 4/5

dMrPlayerName for Racing

dMp|PlayerName for WoW (P for pixies :flirty:)

dMc|PlayerName for community badge member participating in a new game on our servers.

:byebye:

[Doorman]

The idea is good blunt.
 
But as SOG is gone and now has the same tag as the racing one...
 
 
Dead Men Raiding
 
and
 
Dead Men Racing
 
 
so what tags make we from that?

Not quite. dMr is racing and DMR is raiding. It's all in the shift key. :flirty:

[Blunt]

So a list of suggestions then

-=[dMw]=-PlayerName for CSS/Insurgency/L4D

dMw|PlayerName for CoD 4/5

dMrPlayerName for Racing

dMp|PlayerName for WoW (P for pixies :flirty:)

dMc|PlayerName for community badge member participating in a new game on our servers.

:byebye:

well as far as I see, nothing really changes. We just rule that Tags must be worn on our servers.....oh hang on...

As long as the tags are slightly different, we should all know who's who.

[Jabbs]

well as far as I see, nothing really changes. We just rule that Tags must be worn on our servers.....oh hang on...

As long as the tags are slightly different, we should all know who's who.

lol true - all sounds good to me except the bosses will discuss it and come back to us with their decisions :norty:

[KKND]

lol true - all sounds good to me except the bosses will discuss it and come back to us with their decisions :norty:

Only boss i have is my gf..:crying:

[Jabbs]

Only boss i have is my gf..:crying:

Poor you ;-)

[OldBloke]

lol true - all sounds good to me except the bosses will discuss it and come back to us with their decisions :norty:

And as if by magic ...

We now have a tag that identifies a dMw member who holds a gaming badge but not for the game being played.

That tag will be: .dMw

The tag will be placed after the player's name i.e. OldBloke.dMw

If the game does not support the fullstop character then it can be replaced, in order, by ...

an underscore: OldBloke_dMw
a hyphen: OldBloke-dMw
a space: OldBloke dMw

This eliminates any complications around "Which of my tags should I wear when I play X"

So if Lee (who, in this example, has a badge for both CSS and CoD4) wants to try LFS he would join with the name of Lee.dMw

This lets every dMr tag wearer on the server know that here's a member of Dead Men Walking who has been awarded a badge in a game other than one supported by Dead Men Racing. It will be a beacon to Doorman and his team of admins that here's a dMw member who knows all about the dMw ethos and who might be looking to achieve his Dead Men Racing badge.

With this now decided it is time for the debating to stop and for us to get on with the considerable work necessary to implement the changes. I appreciate that there might be more 'What if ...' scenarios demanding answers but they will now have to wait until after we've rolled out the new system.

Many thanks for your input. :dmw:

[Doorman]

With this now decided it is time for the debating to stop and for us to get on with the considerable work necessary to implement the changes.. :dmw:

Here here! :yahoo:

[TeaLeaf]

The idea is good blunt.
 
But as SOG is gone and now has the same tag as the racing one...
 
 
Dead Men Raiding
 
and
 
Dead Men Racing
 
 
so what tags make we from that?

Actually it's remarkably simple IceHawk, which I figured you would have known as you are a Wow player!  You cannot have a tag for Wow, so Dead Men Raiding is known as just that, or if you are writing in shorthand on the forums and need an acronym then DMR as Doorman said.  

The suffix tag posted by Oldie solves all problems though, so go pay Blizzard £10 and go change your name to Icehawk.dMw in-game! :roflmao:

Now let's go implement! :clap:

TL.

[OldBloke]

Just to make you all aware that the forum changes necessary to align with the new structure were implemented yesterday and that some further testing is ongoing. You will see that some of the Section Heads and Senior Admins have some of these badges already allocated. This is all part of the testing process and does not mean that the new system is live. Before that happens we will make sure that all the documentation is in place to ensure that, as far as possible, all your questions will be answered.

Not long now

[OldBloke]

Just to make you all aware that the forum changes necessary to align with the new structure were implemented yesterday and that some further testing is ongoing. You will see that some of the Section Heads and Senior Admins have some of these badges already allocated. This is all part of the testing process and does not mean that the new system is live. Before that happens we will make sure that all the documentation is in place to ensure that, as far as possible, all your questions will be answered.

Not long now

Next stage is being implemented before the official rollout which is now planned for Monday 5th January 2009.

You will soon start to see your badges appear in your profile. Please be aware that they will not all appear magically at once so be patient and rest assured that any badges found to be wrong/missing will be sorted.

[OldBloke]

We're not quite finished with some of the detail surrounding the awarding of the badges but we will be going ahead with the rollout.

What needs to be done?

Gandalf is building a forum script that will ensure that members who are awarded an admin badge will get automatic entry to the 'Game Admins' section of the forum. Currently this has to be done manually so if you are an admin but cannot 'see' the admin section let your Section Head know.

Only 'Supporting Members' will be allowed to have a forum avatar and signature. This will not be ready at rollout but will be implemented in the near future.

Subscription/Donation

To avoid any confusion let me inform you that the 'Supporting Member' badge is only awarded to members who have setup a subscription - not to those making a donation. The two are totally different.
However, we are aware that some of you have made recent donations to the community that match or exceed the subscription fee. If you are such a member then please contact Penfold with the details of your donation and he will convert it to a subscription.

Finally, my sincere thanks to all those that put in so many hours of work in making this major change possible. :toast:

[OldBloke]

New Management Structure

TeaLeaf and I identified a problem with our old management structure that we felt would restrict the growth of the community. Under the old structure we empowered the 'Section Heads' to not only run their gaming section but also to help us run the community as a whole. This meant that when we look to support a game we have to try and find a suitable person to be appointed Section Head who can lead on the game and help run the community. There is a finite pool of suitable people and this ultimately leads to problems when we might want to adopt a game, but might not be able to find someone who is (a) committed to the game, (b) has the time to manage the new section and (c) is of sufficient standing to be involved with running the community.

To ensure that we continue to offer the greatest support to the maximum number of games, we will be making the following changes:

1. 'Section Head' will be renamed as 'Section Admin'. A Section Admin will run their own section in accordance with the community's rules, guidelines and standards but will no longer make decisions on the running of the community as a whole.

2. A new tier named 'Community Admin' will be created comprising no less than three members from the Community. These people, with the addition of TeaLeaf and OldBloke, creates a minimum group of five people working together to see that our standards are maintained, our reputation is upheld and that we are serving the needs of the community.

3. 'Community Leader' will change to 'Head Admin' with both TeaLeaf and OldBloke remaining as such.

The adoption of the term 'Admin' in the new structure is deliberate and is there to remind us that we are gamers and that gaming is fun.

By separating the functions and responsiblities we hope to free up the community to support games more easily as the Section Admin only has to look after their own game section. We feel that these changes will allow us to react more quickly to new games as they come out.

More details can be found here.