becerra95 : added it in


pokemon x : that's a fair enough point if you can edit one to be ready for that you can start getting one ready if you want if not I'll have to get on that before I completely forget again

If we are going to include the "one post per day in a thread" then sandwich posting is perfectly allowed, in my opinion. That new rule allows a wide gap of time for people to reply before you're actually allowed to reply back, and to me the fact nobody else replies is out of the user's control thus any sandwich posting is accidental. If we see several occasions in which it's not accidental then we can talk again, but for starters I'd let it be.

As for the staff advantage in the CP jerseys, like we said, nothing we can do about it. It can't be kept up manually, either by the users themselves or by the staff team monitoring results, and not awarding CP isn't an option either because how much someone contributes to this site shouldn't be limited by a competition. So yeah, only David himself can do something about it.

I'm not keen in making the DQ discussion public, because it can be used rather badly. With the rules as they are right now I think it's pretty clear when does someone break them and be DQed. And while we may need to be swifter and better at communicating, when at all feasibly possible, I don't see how exactly would a public thread help in that. I only see it as another thread people can post in, and enlarge posts with details to not bet DQed while at the same time enhancing word count. To me it's not necessary, but if everyone's in for it I'm open to being proven wrong.

EX Palen : Just a note on the Public DQ thread discussion is that everyone would have access to view but only staff+ can post in it. Which is possible to setup without David having to code something new.

https://www.vizzed.com/boards/thread.php?id=105138

I know you can post in this thread but for example that forum above is what can be done.

SonicOlmstead : another thing, it’s just for preference to myself, if someone is not competing and is posting multiple times on a thread, then it shouldn’t affect them competing for future TdV right? Like he or she isn’t competing, should we make that clear so there won’t be a misunderstanding between both parties? Because like I said I’m most likely not competing in January due to work and you know how much I like to post and be passive aggressive on most users and all. Should I just go “hey losers I’m not competing so write me off this scrub” or just get the DQ’s and not worry about any future repercussions?

Hey long time no see!

I did skim through a lot of the posts so if any of the points are redundant ignore them or let me know so i can just edit it out whenever.

A simple question first though,
Are you asking what changes you think would work in the spirit of the TDV being a competition, stuff like fairness, clarity of ruling and the dq's that come from it and so on. OR are you asking how can we make the TDV more fun?

For the first part i totally agree with the 1 post per day per thread. Or at least enforce it on certain forums. I know i'm not active here but nothing dulls the brain and the want to compete more than just the simple spam of elimination type threads for example. It's lazy word count that anyone can do in 10 seconds and nobody actually truly cares what someones choices are. (also i mean this jokingly, but it'd stop people using multiple accounts to inflate their posts by replying to themselves to avoid double posting *plays x files theme song*)

The reason i asked for the clarification is that simply put if people are being super competitive (which they often do on TDV) it inevitably leads to breaking some of the more lenient or harder to define rules.

Heck if you really want to consider the suggestion of DQ's not being month long.... just remove 10 points on any jersey their rule breaking gave them an advantage on.. The upside is that it'll make people more observant of the rules they may be close to breaking, the downside is that it's more tedious work for mods.

As for the fun part. It's always going to be harder to have fun when the userbase is so limited. More people = More competitive people, means more challenge/enjoyment and more people to interact with. I don't really have a way to make it more fun currently. I do think enforcing the 1 post per day per thread would work to make it more fun. or at the very least make users contribute more in terms of discussion and thread creation perhaps.

Also random quesiton as i'm here and i don't want to make a thread for it.
Has anyone considered a game highscore jersey? y'know who can get the high score on this game for this day etc. More mod work i know and it'd probably have to be tallied manually but /shrug

Anyways this was the mumbling of a passerby. Take care

sonicmcmuffin : Heyo it's been a while!

I was asking for both truthfully and I also was trying to work on clarifying things cause I noticed we had a lot harder time defining the rules last go around on when they were broken or not or thinking something was pushing it but wasn't in the rules. As far as I know a game highscore jersey hasn't been considered but I imagine wouldn't be able to happen for a long time since it'd involve coding from david though getting the rgr involved in a way is an idea I like.

As for the removing 10 points idea while I think it would be interesting I have no idea on how much David would have to do with that but it's definitely interesting.

1. Not a fan of the One post per day in certain threads as that can lead to other rules being broken. Until a few years ago elimination, hangman, and ABC games were closed during the TDV and I think it should go back to being like that. Because of the nature of those kinds of threads, you could also move them to Crazy House and have them fall under the CH rule.


2. Just like how the gray banner was added for veterans, I think it would be cool if there was a new banner that was exclusively for staff.

3. I think it would be more fair to more users if the final hour of the day rules are changed. Maybe make it a two hour window or change the %.