I just went to games.byond.com and did clicked search without typing anything in. 211 pages came up.
Can I look through a couple pages of hub entries, find things that might be a rip or against hub terms, and submit it to the staff using the support form? I dunno, might make things a little easier on you cleanup guys.
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 Dec 12 2004, 10:06 am
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I get very bored after school and on weekdays. I'd dedicate that time to submit via that support form every zeta rip I can find, :P.
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Eh, I was also wondering, what's the policy on "empty" hub entries? There's a lot of entries that have very little description, no download link, never hosted, and a creation date of a few years back. Are the hub mods going to delete these after they've been inactive for x amount of time?
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I do that occasionally, and the next day they are surpressed usually >.> . Why ask just do it, would it really hurt them if you help them?
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Last time I submitted all the Zeta rips I could find via Support, they sent me an email copy of the Help Center <_<
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Elation wrote:
I think I could clear up the hub in around 3 hours. [Wonders who Elation is] $5 says you can. | |
There's no way, I spent an hour combing through 12 pages. How many were there total? 250 some-odd pages.
Good luck. | |
So theres 250 pages, Pick 25 People, Assign them 10 pages each. Give them a week or 2 cause they have Lives and such and By the end of the of the 2 weeks all should be done.
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That's just an automated response. If you'd read that page thoroughly, you'd know what to do to contact an actual human being! =) (Hint: http://www.byond.com/support/support.cgi)
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Pennywise99 wrote:
So theres 250 pages, Pick 25 People, Assign them 10 pages each. Give them a week or 2 cause they have Lives and such and By the end of the of the 2 weeks all should be done. Not so easy. When we review hub entries, we have to play each game or check out each library or test out each tutorial, review it (is it finished? what crippling errors are there? is it charging for a fan game? does it have appropriate hub content (language, false advertising, etc.)), write up the email to send to the game author, move on to the next entry. One entry alone could take anywhere from 10-15 minutes, depending on how much effort is needed to deal with the entry. Opening up review powers to just anyone can lead to more headaches down the road if one of the reviewers decides to whack games because they don't like the author, or not like DBZ (for example). Reviewing has a basic set of guidelines, and personal feelings about an entry cannot enter into it. The majority of the community are 13-16 year olds are generally controlled by their emotions or hormones and would not make good candidates as reviewers. Current reviewers are people who have been in the community for a long time (if not at the beginning), shown themselves to be responsible and mature (and honestly, 90% of the community is not), and who Tom and Dan trust because of past history with them (via conversations or contributions to BYOND). This is not a job that can be just 'given out'. Rest assured, reviewers are working as often as they can, as quickly as they can. The hub will eventually be caught up. | |
I didn't mean to make it sound as dantom/staff needed to appoint new reveiwers. I meant it to be like, the staff could post exact guidelines, some volunteers could run through a few pages on the hub and forward anything that might be wrong with it to the actual reviewers. The actual reviewers would then check it out and verify what's wrong, and then do something about it if needed.
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Crispy wrote:
That's just an automated response. If you'd read that page thoroughly, you'd know what to do to contact an actual human being! =) (Hint: http://www.byond.com/support/support.cgi) Thank you so much, Crispy. I was emailing [email protected] before <_< | |
http://developer.byond.com/hub/Robot100
People like this, Digi, are what I was looking for. Projects with no download, or projects that had no information or offensive hub descriptions. I wasn't just pointing out: "Rip, rip, Dragon warrior game, rip, naruto game..." | |
thanks for the tip. in the case of Robot100 (aka GreenLime, aka Gamelord) these entries are from 2001, and will eventually get taken care of. they pose no threat, and don't really violate any standards that i could see except maybe the fact that these games were never developed and the hub entries forgotten.
they'll get taken care of eventually. | |
~~> Dragon Lord