Last night I did this roundtable with JB for theory11 as one of their weekly Saturday Night Contests. Check it out, hopefully there’ll be something interesting for you in the 17 minutes. There were a lot of questions left unanswered though so hopefully I can go over those later…
Enjoy
Maybe I’ve been a bit too easy on people on Decknique. There are two hands full of people I am rather fed up with. Any bet on when I will snap? I loaded on more infractions/warnings than ever today, and things are noticeably getting a bit out of hand for a cardistry forum.
Sure, you can still have your own opinion on things. But there’s such thing as making worthless posts, trolling, and just posting to insult or jab into people. What happened to a little respect?
In an ironic twist of fate, I see DN turning into some similar things HL prominently exhibited a couple years back (maybe I feel for De’?). Members who would go to other forums (now theory11) bashing people (newcomers who are necessary to grow the art) because they are new and haven’t learned as much as other people. We even have our own members jabbing at each other. It has to stop.
Amusingly, they are shocked and outraged when they receive infractions or their posts are deleted. Yes, we might have been a bit lax beforehand. But seriously, let’s keep the discussions relevant and meaningful. Let’s stop the childish bashing (though many of you are young).
Decknique was not created to be simply another Internet forum. Off Topic and things like that are nice to have to get more friendship with the other members… but it’s not here to post obscenely large dumb pictures instead of trying to move a thread usefully forward.
And then you have others who complain about meaningless threads when they never start a meaningful thread of their own.
This month, Decknique has seen a huge burst in posts. We had record number of daily posts several times this month. Thankfully the mods and I have a better way of viewing all the recent posts which makes it even possible to decently check the posts and gives us a better chance of not missing things. That’s another reason why warnings/infractions are up.
I don’t like giving warnings/infractions. I wish things would just work out well without my intervention. But it has to be done. Keep in mind, we try to be as fair as possible and definitely hear you out when you have something to say.
Enough of a rant maybe, aye?
Jonathan Bayme approached me about paying for Decknique’s hosting maybe 2 weeks ago or so. But we’d been really busy. Theory11 is always getting multiple things done every week. I was preparing a move to the States. But I figured we would move it before the next billing cycle began.
Then 3 days ago I get a notice from my monthly bill failed to be paid on time (it’s set on automatic). Which surprised me (the failed part, not that the bill fell on that date though I didn’t know anyways).
The day before, I bought my iPhone 3G (which I used to take the photo in the previous post) and had to put a large deposit on my AT&T account because I don’t have any credit in the USA yet at ALL (and they don’t care about my credit in Canada). So I accidentally ran out of money in my “immediate spending account.”
The e-mail also said I had 72 hours to work on the bill or the account could be temporarily suspended.
So then JB and I worked hard (he found the hosting and signed up, I gave the OK for hosting and brought everything over) and managed to get it all moved in time. I spent pretty much all of yesterday moving things over, fixing bugs, and getting the whole Internet to realize decknique.net moved. My old host still hasn’t gotten back to me about the conveniently unpaid bill for next month. We’ll see what comes of that.
But I’m glad to say the new host is snappy and working great. It’s also a better price than what I was paying before, is actually managed this time (so I don’t have to spend as much time doing server software administration work and can focus on actual Decknique stuff), and of course T11 foots the bill.
A lot of time being spent right now on getting a permanent move to the USA. Not a small deal, consultant’s coming over in about half an hour to estimate the move. Then I need a work visa and travel over the border into temp housing to find a place while starting full-time work.
And then on top of that, making sure DN’s still running alright, and we’re also looking to make tweaks and updates to the theory11 shopping cart process and of course the new battle system (with over 90 completed battles).
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