Tags v Badges

[Penfold]

We did agree this at the LAN and the majority of those present still feel it's so.

TL, OB, Whitey, Armitage, myself, Gandy (I guess) and Sheepy (I guess) have not changed our stance. It's only Ron that has changed his stand afaik

No one bothered to query any of this two weeks ago when the minutes were posted up. I know, let's decide to query it just when it's being implemented - yup, that's a great idea and really makes us look like we know our s*it :eyebrow:

If the admins can't agree and move forward as one then we'll never sell it to the Community.

PEN

FWIW, I think Blunt's idea has merit and think it's a good workaround and may certainly ease some of the opposition we're facing.  I *think* we briefly discussed that option at the LAN meeting but decided that it was not good to have potentially 3 sets of people all wearing different tags on one server.  That said, it may be a small price to pay to move things forward.

[TeaLeaf]

This was discussed at the LAN and agreed as 'let them earn it' but here's my 2 cents.

I'd prefer to run with no tag rather than a mixed bag of tags.  Again the cross-game thing comes along and it is not be possible for all games to show other another game's tag.  Frnakly I think it would look extremely messy if we had a range of different tags on the one game server.  A generic 'I belong to dMw' tag then hits problems with not all games being able to use it.  If we want a consistent policy applied across all games then this is a problem we need to face, which brings us back to Oldie's comments about 'let them earn it'.  We want this place to be special.  Let's keep the standard's up?

TL.

[Anonymous]

There wasn't any confusion until the goal posts were moved this morning by Ron's post.

The minutes state we would use icons, it says nothing about game tags, you can see from that the confusion starts early.

Although we, the admins have had had our say there are many posts regarding concerns people have that they will no longer be identified as part of the community.

I'm not knocking your minutes Pen but I am concerned at how the minutes are being/have been interpreted.

This is a community, if people feel they are not being recognised as part of that community then they are going to leave faster than we can recruit them and that is going to **** all over Whiteys effort to recruit more people!!!!!!

[Penfold]

The minutes state we would use icons, it says nothing about game tags, you can see from that the confusion starts early.

They were really talked about as one as the same tbh. Perhaps I could have made the wordage clearer but the intent was always the same.

I'm not knocking your minutes Pen but I am concerned at how the minutes are being/have been interpreted.

Knock them all you like - it's not something I do very often and don't plan to earn a living from it . I don't think anyone who was present would agree that the minutes are being interpreted as anything other than how it was discussed we would proceed?

Although we, the admins have had had our say there are many posts regarding concerns people have that they will no longer be identified as part of the community.

We've stated our intentions and they've raised their concerns. I think we need to listen to, and address, that somehow.

PEN

[OldBloke]

We had a two hour meeting where it was agreed and understood by everyone there that a forum badge/icon awarded by the Section Head would determine the permission to wear the tag. Ironically, I was probably the last person to be persuaded that it was the right way to go but, the decision having been made, I am now fully behind it and I will ensure that it is implemented.

We now have no option but to adopt the idea of wearing 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.

[Penfold]

I'm sure that will address people's concerns about not being able to cross-tag (and given the strength of feelings people have expressed I think we had no alternative but to come up with a compromise and tweak our original proposal).

Looks fine to me.

PEN

Ps. Now, is everyone willing to get behind this so we can move on as one?

[smilodon]

That tag will be: .dMw

/bows in the presence of a genius :thumbsup2:

[Whitey]

That sounds like a fair compromise to me.

[Anonymous]

/bows in the presence of a genius :thumbsup2:

:withstupid:  Good plan :clap: