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Apr 19 2008, 9:41 am
What determines which guilds are listed when you click this link from a game's hub page?
Apr 19 2008, 10:21 am
At present, this should go by the following criteria:

  • Any guilds the user belongs to, and has game submission privileges in, should be listed.
  • Guilds where the game has already been accepted are not listed.
  • Guilds where the game has been submitted but not accepted, are listed but marked as already submitted.
  • If the game has been accepted into any of the old official guilds (RPG, Action, Strategy, Casual, Anime), the other four are not listed.

    Lummox JR
Apr 19 2008, 11:05 am
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
If the game has been accepted into any of the old official guilds (RPG, Action, Strategy, Casual, Anime), the other four are not listed.
  1. A casual game cannot also be an Anime game? A strategy game cannot also be an action game?
  2. <li> elements must be placed inside an ordered or unordered list. Relying on quirks mode to render your ill-formed syntax correctly is awfully lazy. (And I dunno about what browser you use, but quirks mode rendering of that ill-formed syntax does not look good in Firefox 3.0b5.)
  3. The styles for lists on this forum are terribly wasteful. Look at how much space is put above and below this list, and between elements. What gives?
Apr 19 2008, 11:11 am
In response to PirateHead
PirateHead wrote:
Lummox JR wrote:
If the game has been accepted into any of the old official guilds (RPG, Action, Strategy, Casual, Anime), the other four are not listed.
  1. A casual game cannot also be an Anime game? A strategy game cannot also be an action game?
  2. <li> elements must be placed inside an ordered or unordered list. Relying on quirks mode to render your ill-formed syntax correctly is awfully lazy. (And I dunno about what browser you use, but quirks mode rendering of that ill-formed syntax does not look good in Firefox 3.0b5.)
  3. The styles for lists on this forum are terribly wasteful. Look at how much space is put above and below this list, and between elements. What gives?

  1. No, an anime game is an anime game, and a strategy game is a strategy game, not an action game. They're different categories of games. Deal with it.
  2. Why are you even making an issue over how someone formats their post?
  3. List styles work fine, its the extra line breaks that the forum ads that cause the problems. Get rid of those and it displays fine.
Apr 19 2008, 12:35 pm
In response to PirateHead
1. While I think the demographics-based Casual should not limit the mechanics-based guilds and vice versa, listing anime games in any other guild would result in anime games flooding everything else out again. The guilds were created in part to stop that nonsense.

That said, it's only the ability to add games from their hub pages that is restricted. There have been some games with hybrid mechanics, but those with with the right to Manage Favorites can add them directly. It's not a hard-coded way to run the guilds so much as it is spam protection.

2. How do my Tech Tree posts look in Firefox 3.0b5?

3. The spaces between list items are not from the list styles. They're from the automatic line breaks.
Apr 19 2008, 12:47 pm
In response to ACWraith
ACWraith wrote:
1. While I think the demographics-based Casual should not limit the mechanics-based guilds and vice versa, listing anime games in any other guild would result in anime games flooding everything else out again. The guilds were created in part to stop that nonsense.

That said, it's only the ability to add games from their hub pages that is restricted. There have been some games with hybrid mechanics, but those with with the right to Manage Favorites can add them directly. It's not a hard-coded way to run the guilds so much as it is spam protection.

That makes sense.

2. How do my Tech Tree posts look in Firefox 3.0b5?

They look okay to me - I don't know whether they're necessarily rendering the way you want them to, but nothing looks really out of place.

3. The spaces between list items are not from the list styles. They're from the automatic line breaks.

That sounds like a bug. Perhaps the automatic line break code should have a corner case to better deal with lists? Foomer pointed out that you could write them out without any line breaks, but that sort of defeats the purpose of using nice HTML markup instead of doing your formatting manually.
Apr 20 2008, 12:40 pm
In response to PirateHead
PirateHead wrote:
A casual game cannot also be an Anime game? A strategy game cannot also be an action game?

If a game is tainted by anime, then anime it is, regardless of its other categorization. Otherwise RPG would be overwhelmed by a crapload of rips. Most of the anime games are RPGs by nature.

Likewise an RPG with action is still an RPG, or a game that has both strategy and action elements is usually closer to one or the other.

This basically applies just to the "big five" though.

<li> elements must be placed inside an ordered or unordered list. Relying on quirks mode to render your ill-formed syntax correctly is awfully lazy. (And I dunno about what browser you use, but quirks mode rendering of that ill-formed syntax does not look good in Firefox 3.0b5.)

I'm still using Firefox 2. However, you will note that the strict doctype is in use.

Aside from the forum filter, which could potentially use some upgrading, where else on the site do you see <li> tags without a proper list? I can address that for those cases.

Lummox JR
Apr 20 2008, 1:10 pm
In response to Lummox JR
Lummox JR wrote:
I'm still using Firefox 2. However, you will note that the strict doctype is in use.

Aside from the forum filter, which could potentially use some upgrading, where else on the site do you see <li> tags without a proper list? I can address that for those cases.

Nowhere that I have noticed - I had heard somebody complain about list elements rendering poorly but hadn't seen it myself until your post, which I figured must be because of the missing list container element.

An upgrade to the forum filter would probably fix things.