Trench Wars will be forced to shut down June 30th, 2019

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If you actually use CPanel, it would take a very long time to explain the details behind migrating a very old server. Many people with far more expertise than you (and than me) have already considered many options, and come to the conclusion that we receive...

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Also, want to apologize for coming off as a bit alarmist. We hadn't reviewed the account in a few months, so I was pretty shocked to see we only had $600 left, and that's reflected in the tone of this drive. The last few years we've hovered around $1000, which...

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Merry Xmas Myth! Great to see you around. Let's dooo itttttt!!



We run a single Linode server, which runs our array of sites, various secondary services, plus the bots and database. Wirah also runs a supplementary server out of his...

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Without your support, Trench Wars as we know it will be shutting down June 30th, 2019.

Trench Wars bots, websites and forums are 100% volunteer-funded and supported. Server costs are only $100 per month. Yet the most recent accounting puts us...

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Bit of a day late/dollar short situation, but there's finally a decent way to track this. Basically, just take a succession of screenshots in a row, and once their identity is verified they'll be netbanned:
Though, it unfortunately doesn't mean...

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Thanks for taking the time to write. I understand what you're saying, and agree that it can be a problem. But I'm ever the pragmatist. So I'll always be asking: what do you think is the solution? In the end we've got to look at solutions to the problem, rather...

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This isn't even my final form...

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The rules were updated after Azov came through as ban op, and possibly a bit before then. I wasn't involved for a few years during that time and missed out on some developments, so I can't say exactly when it happened. (By the way, I've never been Dean of...

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He's naked from the waist, he's wearing Old Spice
Gonna find some old men to play dice
Santa Claus is bumming around town

It's that time again, kiddos! Time to send in your letters to the fat man in the north in anticipation...

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A sort of trimmed-down, simplified Robert's Rules, yeah.

The problem with in-game polling/pure democracy rather than a republic/representative model is that it's very difficult to verify identity online. I could quite easily vote with several...

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Henry went against the judgment of a lot of people to rehire you, in part this was because of me ... because I've always believed you have good intentions. Pretty much universally from staff we heard, "Wait, you're actually rehiring Jessup?" Got...

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Oof, 8/10, good bait!

It's true that I'm currently overseeing a tiered command structure that I haven't agreed with since I joined it 15 years ago. I've always thought it resembled a military, which seems odd for a volunteer organization. I think...

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You weren't banned from staff; you were fired. You thought a bot was sending in an automated call about another player suggesting someone kill themselves on team chat. That's not strictly against the rules, though the banops might be able to make a case for...

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You'll be happy to learn that for all silences, mods do need to include a log and/or screenshot. (The same is not true for warnings, however.) We use a rather complex system. All warnings are timestamped as well, and recorded to the database, which is searchable....

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Vys is working on getting more caps, yes. That's the big hurdle right now. Signups are looking pretty strong, though.

Henry can handle infrastructure, despite it being in addition to his normal job on staff. Announcements, getting hosts/hosting,...

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Jessup, you not only banned the wrong person, but you did it outside the ban manual, and without providing any evidence. That made for three red flags in a single call.

At one point we had a sort of moderation "test" created, posing...

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He's the Dean of Staff, not leagues head, and anything he does in leagues is a result of the fact that he's going above and beyond his job description. I think it makes sense that you should both do more and care more than him. TWDT only works when the community...

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It's not likely to be rolled out in the next few days, but we've been testing a solution, and the results are encouraging....

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For those interested, POiD is still actively working on this project. There are quite a lot of details that go into it, especially when you're attempting to make a new client that is almost perfectly backwards-compatible. But he's continuing to develop it,...

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To be clear, this is not, in fact, an official poll. Even if it were, nothing would stop sockpuppet accounts from stuffing the poll.




But very little about how you would actually implement them.

Some examples with...