Elim: Jav bombs on radar

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Ah, there was a faulty check for !myfreq when checking borrows, should be fixed on next TWD reboot.

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I think both are sent as squad PMs, which are sent to anyone squadjoined. It's been that way for a very long time. Even those who aren't caps/asscaps might want to at least be able to see when chals come in, regardless of if they can be accepted. Anyone else...

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It'll show that when multiple people have sent in reports about the player either recently or in the past (expired reports). More expired reports are required for the message to be sent. But as of a recent update, it should send that message after every new...

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It's been active a while. Any thoughts? Distracting, useful, changes strategy too much?

If you think it's a positive change, do you think it should be expanded to any other arenas?

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Just having it announce total star count and announce over-star lines rather than block subs/switches would allow it to be done easily from a technical standpoint, but would require manual oversight....

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Good solution, added. Will also message the freq and PM caps after an accept, as the arena msg is easy to miss among the greenspam.

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Those are both somewhat up to interpretation. Though obviously there are many derogatory slurs that go totally overlooked, in large part because they are not enforced anywhere online anymore, except perhaps in family-friendly/child-oriented areas.
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Rab Good analysis -- that's all true. WingZero was the man who took on the job of reworking how TWDT is handled by the bot/in the db. Changing to have three different ratings is fairly trivial (assuming specials use Spid rating), but the issues with subs...

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POiD was working on an alternate version of the biller in which only two aliases are allowed. However, I'm not sure how easy it would be to bypass. (Undoubtedly there would be a way; then the way would be patched; then another would be discovered, and so on...

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I hate to sound like a broken record, but there is absolutely no objective standard being applied here for what is offensive. It just needs to be several people reporting the person for speech they find disruptive or offensive. The likelihood that many people...

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Signup bot is now live in ?go TWDT.

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So far there have not been any silences issued. As far as I know, there have not yet been any cases that have been sent to staff as a result of this system.

A player can take a one hour silence if many people in a short amount of time agree they're...

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Seems reasonable.

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We've used additive punishments for a very long time, and it does have some success.

But in this instance, as players' chat is not violating a rule, and the mute is not a punishment for anything, additive "punishment" doesn't seem to...

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To be absolutely clear, these silences have nothing to do with breaking any rules. Those being silenced are not offenders except in the sense of the public taste. It's a way for the community to enforce its own standards. Which standards those are depends...

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Wirah took the time to re-edit and upload. If the issue is caused by long images (which I believe is true), this should fix the problem for you and others experiencing it. Can you try checking one of the TWDT arenas and seeing if it now loads?

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Players are once again able to appeal bans and report staff abuse via our ticketing site:

http://www.trenchwars.org/support

For those who have attempted to access this site to appeal bans in the past, we apologize for the lack of...

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Shouldn't be too tough. I'll add a ticket for a finals mode with these details.

Unless I'm able to get to this in the next two weeks, I will not personally be available for this work, however, as I'll be taking an intensive course through October...

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Thanks for mentioning, updated.

Thought Wirah got it, but I was mistaken. Been traveling around quite a lot so I haven't been able to keep an eye on things as much as I'd like. It's not so much that skins are a bigger deal so much as that efforts...

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No problem. We can test later if it's just the length of the images. You might have some luck running in compatibility mode as well (right click, Properties).

Does anyone remember offhand if the option to use optional level graphics/sound is enabled...