Hey there,

During the recent change relating to utf-8 and whatnot, my account appears to have become broken. The username was "ma†echa" but now it changed to "ma�echa" and I am unable to log in. Can you change the username back to "ma†echa" , or if that's not possible, I guess just "matecha"? Thanks in advance and please let me know if you need any other info to proceed :) 

hi, sorry for the delay. I changed your name to ma†echa. 

Awesome, thanks!! :D 

Could you please rename the Quoth tricks thread to something else, so the proper progs.dat tricks thread is the first search result instead? 

 

 

curious -- what was the search string you were using? 

 

I meant browser search, not func search. 

6 out of 10 of the chronologically latest discussion threads are marked as invalid/duplicates and closed. Can I once again suggest an approval process for discussion threads? 

Make that 7 now. 

 

Add a link to Spirit's comical file packaging standards to the Submit News page so newbies have an easier time adapting to them. 

those standards aren't that comical. He spent a lot of words saying a few simple rules:

1. blah.bsp should have blah.txt and be packaged inside blah.zip

2. no directories for bsp files, mod directory for mods (should also match zip name)

As for whether adding that link to the Submit News page will actually help, not sure? Do people read those instructions? I'm willing to try it.

It makes me wonder, did this problem exist back in the old days? Were there a lot of weirdly packaged maps back then too? If not, what social pressures existed to keep people in line back then? Was the guy who ran idgames2 on cdrom.com enforcing these standards? It seems like almost every map I downloaded back then followed the standards. 

those rules are basically related to Quake Injector util, it doesnt read rar/uppercased files etc. Just guessing 

I recall there being the 8.3 file limits in the early days of Doom content, so that helped keep things tidy. Now you have what 256 characters for a filename and spaces? 

Has largely increased in quantity since removing the IP displays and has not improved in quality a single iota. Please disable it altogether. 

that prefab thread has been a cunt magnet, and i'm not talking about the good sort 

i think what we are seeing in the prefabs thread is a bunch of board regulars who have strong and controversial opinions on a quake thing and want to express those strong and possibly controversial opinions without being hounded out of this board by the usual manchildren.

but by all means stop the ability for us to do that yeah. 

Changed my mindset completely. Please ignore me metl, I want more stuff like #2267 all over the board. 

Would be fine. 

2 posts not shown on this page because they were anon idiocy. 

 

If anyone actually were to get "hounded off of this board" for a Quake opinion then I would guess that their delivery was the issue.

We're talking about a video game here. Among the possible controversial opinions you'll deal with in life, the actual content of the most extreme Quake-maps-related opinion is a bee fart in a hurricane.

I mean someone can walk in here and say "hey I think hi-res normal mapped textures are pretty cool in Quake" and they are going to get their nose whacked with a newspaper a little, but "hounded off the board"? What does that even mean? Maybe if you lead with something like "anyone who doesn't agree with me is a fascist sheeple" and then double down and escalate when that goes poorly.

Anon posting has been some of the worst stuff on this board. If you don't feel like you can shitpost under your normal handle, how about: don't shitpost. I don't think that preventing anon posting will help though, because then the dedicated shitposters will just create character accounts.