Who would like to help out?

If I approve of your witty and eager reply, you may be elevated to knighthood and win the adoration of the peoples.

I could help out sometimes

Nicola wrote on 02/11/12 at 04:36:37:



I am well aware and already know I won’t be able to put the time into it

wimmi wrote on 02/11/12 at 05:09:11:

minutes?

I'm not really sure if I want to get into this mess again. As a note to all prospective updaters, the first week is the easiest part, after that your motivation drops like a rock. So please only volunteer if you're willing to help for an extended period of time, and not just to update your own times the second that you set them.

That was the issue in MKW, and I don't want it to happen again. As for me, I can't say I'll play this game enough to be helpful for a while, so I don't think I should become an updater.

Time on normal updating in MK7, it differs. About 50-60 new messages come in every day. If we would live in a perfect world (I mean every player would put his name in his submission, nobody would try to send in glitched times, nobody would mess the correct abreviations up, people would stop sending in a new message for every single PR in stead of just sending 1 message with 5 PRs...), then I think it would take 20-25 minutes.

If you don't know some e-mail addresses by heart (of the people who sort of always forget to include their names), then you lose an extra 15-20 minutes, because you'll have to dig through previous messages until you find the name or try to find the profile on the site that matches with the e-mail address. And with 15-20 minutes I mean 15-20 for each person.

Then we have the common errors. Nobody can be blamed for sending in an error once in a while, but with this new game and tons of messages, you'll be sure to encounter at least 3 errors in each update you try to do. Then you should try to identify the kind of error. It could be a typo in the track name (RLR in stead of RLM...) or it could a typo in the time. Most of the time you don't notice this kind of stuff, but you'll have to fix it later when someone notices.

And finally, you, as an updater, can make mistakes too. I love it when I think I finished an update only to find out that I again wrote one of those dreaded Italian names wrong. Come on seriously can't they just have normal names. This also counts for Dutch names, but I have the luck to speak Dutch myself.

If you think you have the persistance to deal with those problems, then you are needed. If you didn't even had the strenght to read this to the bottom, then you should think twice about becoming an updater.

TvK wrote on 02/11/12 at 13:01:45:


But they're so simple and easy to type!

... :'(

TvK wrote on 02/11/12 at 13:01:45:

That's why I often ignore nameless submissions for MKWii. If you let it slide, people will think it's okay to keep doing that and will never remember to add their name. But when their submissions are ignored, they usually figure out the problem on their own and start doing it right. And you're also a lot less likely to make mistakes on foreign names when the names are right there for you to copy and paste.

I'd honestly never be able to handle this.  I'm somewhat slow at updating Wii Wheel Top 10s on the mariokartwii.com forums, I'd be screwed if I tried this xD

VinNich wrote on 02/12/12 at 04:03:56:

Ah, I never realised it was you..

Anyway, would've been onto this thread earlier but only just got internet back, I volunteered to update at the start of the game, and I'd still like to offer my help now
Can't think of anything witty now, maybe I'll make an edit later..

Who's had some experience before?

Perhaps a better question might be, "who is online constantly and goes crazy if the charts are not correct"?

I also updated the wheel top ten thread on mkwii.com for quite a few months, and I must admit whenever I see incorrect and out of date times on the pp for anyone I do get a niggling feeling inside that wants it to be fixed.

No experience, but online all day, not always in front of the computer, but it's on.

But as there are other volunteers, just pick them if they are enough & motivated, if not, I'm here.