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I don't really mean confusing, but if there was an updater for each day of the week, chances are, as Chuck said the rota would fall apart very quickly.

Also, as for news I would have to agree with Kevin. Although there might not be a lot of activity on the site having written news every week would allow more accurate POW awards and it might actually encourage more people to play when they see the site is being updated regularly. Also, to all the people that said they would be able to update if you get picked please make sure to keep up the work even after the novelty wears off because I know some of the updaters on here and the other pages' are full of enthusiasm when they start but quickly slack off!  

If people are really willing to see weekly news updates, then let it be.

Keep in mind the activity we have currently is rather exceptionnal, sometimes there are so few new PR's that you couldn't write a proper interesting news update.

Most of the time it won't be a problem for me to do weekly news, but later after the holidays, when my studies will involve doing some trips on week-ends, it will be harder, so a second-hand news writer would be necessary I guess. But we're not there yet...

^Maybe for news, but times updating was fine with me alone (hell, I've done this alone or almost alone for the last year or so), and I know I'm not the only one that feels this way. To put things in perspective, I updated 12 messages last night, which is 1.71 messages a day. I know that for putting the Yahoogroups entries into the parser, then updating them, one message really isn't worth updating, and I think that with 7 updaters, that will make the rotation fall apart. People won't stick with it if there's nothing to do...at least that's how I'd feel, because if I went in every week to not have any updates to do, I would not feel like I was needed. Plus, even if activity picks up, that doesn't make it significantly more time to put the additional entries into the parser -- all I have to do is put names to the entries and make sure that the entries are picked up correctly.

I think the big problem was news updates not getting done, so that part of it definitely needs an overhaul, but times updating is fine for the moment. Give me one or two people that I can call on when I won't be around on a particular week, but we don't need 7 updaters for a site that gets 10-20 messages a week.

I can update whenever you want; there's no particular day in my usual week, it's just school-homework-computer-sleep everyday (except Sunday).

Knowing the MKSC activity, if the times updater program is the same as MKDS' and MKW's it will take less than five minutes to do a daily update, though.

i'll write something up tomorrow afternoon in terms of who's doing what but Mick if you could do this weeks written update that would be great.

Watch this space for tomorrow.

Ok, so for all those who are going to be doing written updates, when you log into greymatter (you'll get a link from Alex P) you get faced with the options, choose Add New Entry.

At this point its pretty self explanatory, you need to fill in the top bar (name your update) and then skip to the main box to enter your text/code.

To use the default colours which i've always used then the codes are;

<FONT COLOR="#00cc00"> for the purple which i use for titles
<FONT COLOR="#ffff00"> for the yellow which i use to highlight names

I did used to use green for the awards too but you can pick any colours you want, try clicking on the colours in the two lines above this box for examples of more colours you could use.

Keep it simple though, no one wants to read rainbow road style news.. (or do they?!)

Would be preferably to keep some level of uniformity; i.e. Announcements/News/Players+movement/New Players/Awards

Ive made it so people doing the written update will be the people deciding the pow. There is a website lacey made to see the movement etc really clearly but you should also be fairly clued up on who's made what progress in order to make the call. oooOOOHh some responsibility thrown in there. If you're not comfortable making these decisions let me know and i'll make the call for you. Generally there is a loose principle i use but each to their own.

Check spelling mistakes and also keep it lighthearted and positive. If you're updating about yourself i'd try to keep it 3rd person but again, some people reference themselves 1st person and there's no harm in that.

No abusing the rights, anyone who does will be stripped immediately and may suffer more at the hands of the evil moderators

Lets see if this works, if it doesn't then we can mix it up and change it around etc. Nothing is set in stone.

I hope this works!

Reading news always motivated me to play!  

@Mick: nice reading btw!

well spotted mick - i changed the written updaters.

If anyone can't do one then let me know in the update thread or here or PM and i'll help sort it out.

the others have accounts if they ever feel like doing one :

Chuck Foster wrote on 08/03/10 at 08:19:48:


This schedule doesn't start until next week so don't worry  

Also, Mick is right that I said that I would just do time updates but if for any reason someone isn't able to do written news I could substitute sometime.

Detective Spril wrote on 08/03/10 at 09:38:07:


good idea, i'll sticky it too.

Alright Tom, it's made and ready for sticky

Roster is ok for me, but I leave for a week at the end of august. I think I can still manage to do my written update, but someone has to do my daily update on wednesday (august 25)

Ok, I suppose we haven't been added as moderators yet then. I was just wondering because your instructions in the PM started out vaguely with "approve the messages" which tells me it should be pretty obvious, like some little box that says approve or something. I don't see any of that, though.

I'll try to be patient.