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Tom Achronos
Bungie.net Overlord
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"I have no words that would do justice to the atrocities you commit to the English language, as well as your continued assaults on the concepts of basic literacy and logical reasoning."
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Achronos, I appreciate you taking the time to entertain the suggestion/idea. Thank you for responding. I understand the downside of addressing symptoms rather than the actual problems. The difficulty is both the core problem as well as the symptoms are mostly from kiddies acting like kiddies. It's very hard to come up with a technological solution to a human-nature problem.
True, but what we're talking about is making the consequences of violating the rules painful enough, as well as given the moderators more control over dealing out such punishment. There will always be spammers, but a lot of them do it because it is fun - make it not fun to be an -blam!- by unleashing some ninjas, and the less of a problem it is.
If I may, is this (the New Hotness) all custom-code or based on one of the "mothership's" products? If I squint really hard, I can see hints of SharePoint here and there that appears to have been hot-rodded. Or was that question REALLY insulting and I should just sit still and await the throngs of blood-thirsty ninja?
Sharepoint probably stole from us... hehehe. No, this is all custom code. The new 7th column is similar in functionality to the perl site at seventhcolumn.bungie.net, but none of its code or database schema will remain. The new forums were written by Ideal Science, and were based off their IdealBB product, except targeted at the C#/ASP.NET platform. Basically, if you buy their upcoming IdealBB.NET forum product, you get a forum product that was spec'd in collaboration with us, except it won't have my extensive customizations to it.
Aside from that though, the rest of the site is written by myself (on the backend code) and our old front-end developer, Claire (who works elsewhere in MS now). Our new front-end dev, Chris, will have his stuff showcased in the new 7th column and, uh... a different section. And, of course, Lorraine and Zoe continue to make everything look pretty.