Five bazillion updates
Poll: What's scarier, Halloween Night or Election Night?
The team has been in a frenzy improving the site. I can't stress enough how important the community itself has been in our continued growth. A dozen individuals have volunteered their talents and time to keep the cheaters down, the server up, and the new features rolling. It has been a real treat! Click 'Continue reading' for the tricks.
We shuffled some services off the BlogShares web box, so average response times from the site should be lower.
We caught some cheaters; the BSEC is one of those community volunteer groups that makes all the difference in our week to week operations. They bring fairness to the game.
The Editors are holding firm to their documentation release date, so newbies to veterans should have a valuable new reference here in a week or so.
Speaking of editors, if you've made it this far into the post, you probably read everything of interest at BlogShares. I'm looking for a couple folks to help me keep the membership clued in on all the great things that happen in the game and on the forums. If you'd like to blog for us a couple times a week, email me (jay@blogshares.com) an example post of interesting things from the bulletin board this past week.
There was a problem with Press Releases which is now fixed, so you can again use that tool (along with textads) to make announcements about your blog.
We made a layout fix to the Ideas page, removed extraneous backslashes in mail, and added 10 new Artefacts with more coming.
We'll be rolling out a new role, Index Manager. These folks will be able to make non-game changes to the Industries list and the blogs therein, and manage merges, alt-urls and delistings. Please don't ask to be put on this team; we're inviting individuals we see as knowledgeable and impartial enough to guide the index wisely.
We've had a backlog in the support mailbox, and I apologize if folks haven't gotten timely responses. That's another department that's being delegated out the community, and Raymond and others in the informal support team have made a real dent in the list. On a related note, Island Dave has a pile of chips to award individuals who step up and supply good answers in the Technical Support bulletin board.
So which is scarier, Halloween Night or Election Night?
Comments
Well, probably election night. Depending on which way you lean though. :-)
Posted by: MrPilot | October 26, 2004 02:20 PM
Election Night... of coarse! At least the masks and costumes are visible on Halloween ;)
Posted by: Island Tiffiney | October 26, 2004 02:20 PM
I would like to extend a HUGE thanks to the admins for all their hard work!
Posted by: Nick | October 26, 2004 02:20 PM
This week those thanks go to the active membership.
Posted by: jay | October 26, 2004 02:25 PM
Jay, congratulations on making BlogShares even more fun to play and for fostering a sense of community amongst the players and volunteers.
Seldom do organizations find so many talented volunteers gathered in one place AND willing to spend untold hours to further your dream.
This is a tribute to your ability to inspire and lead.
Posted by: Linn | October 26, 2004 03:02 PM
Halloween or election night? *grin* I've written a haiku about that, it's in haiku competition #3. Go check it out.
Posted by: autolycus | October 26, 2004 07:34 PM
Just curious: was one of the changes in the handling of idea cycles? I notice my totals aren't changing every 15 minutes any more; they capitalize less frequently but for more money when they do.
Posted by: tuwa | October 26, 2004 07:39 PM
Hmm ...
Posted by: Farzad Esahaghi | October 27, 2004 09:04 AM
Run away! Run away!
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin | October 27, 2004 01:46 PM
i prefer night before final exam hehehehe.....
Posted by: Fire Blazt | October 29, 2004 05:01 AM
Hey,
Just wanted to stop by as promised and say thanks for commenting on my blog. Drop by again soon as I am continually updating it.
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Posted by: averagejoe | October 29, 2004 05:59 AM
It's the anticipation of the election which is killing me... get on with it already!
Posted by: Alden Bates | October 31, 2004 01:22 AM
It's now Halloween where I live, and I'm not scared, except that I might have to eat all this candy myself!
Next Tuesday? Holy shit! I'm terrified. What if I make the wrong choice? What if I make the right choice? Either way, it's scary!
Posted by: geo | October 31, 2004 10:56 AM
Why did you remove the S/D column from the ideas page? I found this info to be very useful. Is there any other way to get at this info besides pulling up the heavyweight industry page?
Posted by: Scott Johnson | November 3, 2004 04:13 PM
Nice work.
Posted by: Dave | November 19, 2004 01:13 PM