thudpoints

for most of us, if the reason for getting points were logged i think that would be an amasing waste of space on the site especially as if you actually want to extrapolate information form the data given you may as well divine it from pepples

extrapolate is a long word that has four syllables

[quote=Pinky]is it normal to lose thudpoints when editing posts
when i do so i have to read this:

User admin earned 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 109 points.
User Pinky lost 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 806 points.

i don't like this
and i never noticed that before

[/quote]

The node [url=http://www.thudgame.com/node/661]here[/url] describes how you many points you get for doing various things my understanding is that you should only be penalised points if you do something wrong like spamming or your post is removed for other inappropriate behaviour i suggest that if you can replicate losing points by editing your own post then you should send a description of how it happens to Lee or Dewi at the usual place ie PM them.

[quote=Pinky]is it normal to lose thudpoints when editing posts
when i do so i have to read this:

User admin earned 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 109 points.
User Pinky lost 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 806 points.
[/quote]

Hmmm, there may be a couple of things that explain what happened. a) we upgraded the thudpoints module last night, and b) I set the thudpoints module to generate some actions when someone was referred to the site by one of you all (i.e. we thought it would give you points if a referred user registers via your referral page). There seem to have been unintended consequences to doing that so I've un-set one of the parameters. You should still get points if you refer someone.

If you've lost points PM me and I'll restore them with a bit of goodwill added on. We don't want people losing points on our account.

sorry lee, but i still lose one point if i edit something

'User admin earned 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 22 points.
User Pinky lost 1 Thudpoints! Total now is 818 points.'

just happened to me, too. only that in my case it said Oograh Boike instead of admin (and obviously Ratdeath instead of Pinky).

tsk, what did ur lot do lee? did u break murphey's law?

[quote=Ratdeath]just happened to me, too. only that in my case it said Oograh Boike instead of admin (and obviously Ratdeath instead of Pinky).[/quote]
Eh? Come again? You're sure??
Please let me assure you that I DO NOT EDIT POSTS, never, ever, unless it is along the convention we discussed in the Games section for Finished and incomplete games. And when I do that, I always leave a note at the end of first post.
The last time I did that was about two weeks ago, and your name does not seem to appear in the list of games I edited (see my post of wed, 11/07/2007 in node 443).
And wait!, come to think of it, I used an anonymous sock puppet username for doing those edits. So I'm 100% sure Oograh Boike did not edit any of your posts.

Please excuse my somewhat overexcited reaction, but I take this very seriously. I have a name and reputation of which I'm very proud to uphold here, so with your permission I'm going to ask Lee to look into this, because this HAS to be a site glitch.
Thank you for mentioning it, by the way.

Happy Thudding!

OB it got nothing to do with you editing something, i think this just happens when one of use normals or may be
librarians is editing something we wrote, while one of you druids or sidegods is locked in.

[quote=Oograh Boike][quote=Ratdeath]just happened to me, too. only that in my case it said Oograh Boike instead of admin (and obviously Ratdeath instead of Pinky).[/quote]
Eh? Come again? You're sure??
Please let me assure you that I DO NOT EDIT POSTS, never, ever, unless it is along the convention we discussed in the Games section for Finished and incomplete games. And when I do that, I always leave a note at the end of first post.
The last time I did that was about two weeks ago, and your name does not seem to appear in the list of games I edited (see my post of wed, 11/07/2007 in node 443).
And wait!, come to think of it, I used an anonymous sock puppet username for doing those edits. So I'm 100% sure Oograh Boike did not edit any of your posts.

Please excuse my somewhat overexcited reaction, but I take this very seriously. I have a name and reputation of which I'm very proud to uphold here, so with your permission I'm going to ask Lee to look into this, because this HAS to be a site glitch.
Thank you for mentioning it, by the way.

Happy Thudding!
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don't worry, i know you didn't do anything. i edited my own comment and got that. it probably just chose some random name, in pinky's case "admin" and in my case you. for some reason...

it's still happening and this time i checked. it doesn't only say so, OB really gets a point everytime i edit a comment. and i really do lose one.

and admin keeps earning points on my back! sould we move this to the conspiration theory topic?

oh yes!! druids taking advantage of poor users who don't want to spam the site and instead use the edit button when they forget something...

in my defense, I told u...i always span the site...one step ahead all the time

that's what you think,i don't think you could not spam a site sgt l.by the way,i'm sick of typing sgt l all the time,so now i'm just gonna call you sl,k?!better be

sigh, sich is the evolution of my name
Sergeant Lettuce
Sergeant L
Sergeant
Sarge
Sgt L
sgtl
sl

anyone see a trend here?

soon we'll just leave you out of conversation.

but then how do you refer to the one who keeps this odd oversized family to gether? adonai?

oh, so you dont believe in god unless its you, ha?

i didn't say god, I said adonai. there is a difference you know [sigh, [i]uncultured[/i]]

besides i isn;t religious, if i were god i wouldn;t believe in myself...not that that would change my current self esteem level but hey

i dont know where you heard the term, but Adonai is another name for god in hebrew. and BTW, how can you not believe in yourself? do you put your hands over your eyes and chant "im not here, im not here, im not here"?

unless im mistaken adonai is not god, it is lord which is a euphamisn for god...whose name cannto be said for fear of taking it in vain. I saw it on a jewish info website...i was bored and your language interests me

interested in the lingo, ha? nice
fine, fine, god, euphamisn for god, same thing. the word adonai isnt used for anything else, so it doesnt really matter.

trust sl to start discussing things like language...

fine, well then what's the word for lord in hebrew smary-pants

@ook i like languages...and don;t take my name in vain

and it is still happening
you are still losing 1 thudpoint while editing
just for the few still hoping to read something about the problem

hmm, well in the meantime i'm just gonna stop editing...course if lee had it his way ur points would e all but irrelevant

@sgt: lord as in god or as in... well, a normal lord?

he just wants a name he can call himself so he feels better about himself

@BD normal

@Pinky, it happened to me too. and the thing is i told it to edit, then stoped it and told it to edit again and it took of 2 pts!

well i'm happy to see you are editing your post,i'm gonna edit this now to see if it takes points away

edit:let us see now..yep,it took points away

Lee, we demand explanation!

@sgt l: well, there is Adon and Sar, which mean master (tho Sar is much more commonly used as a gov minister nowadays), Shalit (ruler), Atsil (nobleman), Rozen (count), Dukas (duke), Melekh (king) and Keisar (caesar, emperor). i think thats it.

i shall use these next time i become a member of some site

er, ok, if thats what makes you tick.

it's what makes him tock aswell

it does