DIS: Re: BUS: Future of Agora
t one of > Agora’s big bursts came after getting linked on Slashdot. Today there are > Reddit and Hacker News, and Agora might well reach the frontpage of an > appropriate subreddit or of HN, if submitted, but those aren’t > sustainable. As an alternative, why not go for real Internet ads? I could > pay for a Reddit ad campaign, or even Google ads. Target programmers. Of > course we’d need to improve the website first, as I described above. > > > (Incidentally, I’ve had agoranomic.org as my Twitter homepage for years, > but I don’t think anyone has actually joined from that. I have 200,000 > followers but they’re mostly old dead accounts.) > > > > So… I think I could say a lot more, but I told someone I’d do something > with them half an hour ago, so I need to wrap this up. Basically, with > respect to reviving Agora, while I could just do the usual thing and start > proposing things or assume some offices, I don’t want to muddle along > anymore. At this point I want Agora to get a proper rebirth - or die. > > > If it’s going to be rebirth, I want a real process. First a multi-step > plan to make big changes to both infrastructure and the game itself to > attract new players, and then a predecided date some time in the future to > have a big bang - get a decent number of longtime players to commit to > coming back on that date and actively participating for at least a month if > they possibly can, to provide enough catalyst for the reaction to become > self-sustaining. > > > Is anyone interested? Comments and questions appreciated. > -- Noé Rubinstein.
DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Promotor] Distribution of Proposals 7281-7283
I vote FOR every proposal on which I can currently vote. -- Noé Rubinstein.
DIS: Re: BUS: Fwd: OFF: [IADoP] Promotor Election
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 12:27 AM, ais523 callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Oh, and I vote for scshunt in the Promotor election. So do I. -- Noé Rubinstein.
DIS: Re: BUS: Fwd: OFF: [IADoP] Promotor Election
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 July 2012 14:26, Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com wrote: Ｉ ｖｏｔｅ ｆｏｒ ｓｃｓｈｕｎｔ． Fine, I'll do it. CFJ: I have cast a vote in the current Promotor election. Arguments: I've honestly forgotten our precedent on this. How the hell would this not be trivially TRUE by rule 754/1? -- Noé Rubinstein.
DIS: Re: BUS: Cleanup
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Aaron Goldfein aarongoldf...@gmail.com wrote: For each player, I intend, without objection, to deregister em. I abject. -- Noé Rubinstein.
DIS: Re: BUS: hello world
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:19 PM, ais523 callforjudgem...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Arguments: The usual CFJ, despite being established in game custom, doesn't have a standard phrasing, although there are some common ones. (I am a player or Phlogistique is a player are two plausible wordings.) I'd say that the meaning of the statement of the CFJ is unambiguous, but the exact statement of the phrasing is ambiguous. Does that matter? I would have thought that the specific wording of the CFJ created by my message would be Also, the usual CFJ. (Not sure if and how that relates to your point.) -- Noé Rubinstein
DIS: Re: BUS: hello world
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Arguments: In context, I consider here I go a reasonably unambiguous equivalent of I become a player. Gratuitous: I intended here I go to reference the act of posting a message, not the act of registering. -- Noé Rubinstein
Re: DIS: Re: BUS: hello world
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:34 PM, Ed Murphy emurph...@socal.rr.com wrote: Context for the newcomers: http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=1260 http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=1261 I would normally have complained about explaining jokes being unfunny, but even though I was aware of AGAINT being a thing, I did not know about the original CFJs, and so they were quite a good read. As a side note: users of Yubnub http://yubnub.org/ can now use the command cfj 1885 to get to http://zenith.homelinux.net/cotc/viewcase.php?cfj=1885. -- Noé Rubinstein
Re: DIS: Conversation Test
Hi, On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Benjamin Schultz ben.dov.schu...@gmail.com wrote: I find it curious that GMail puts the insertion point at the top, but adds the .sig file at the very end. This makes the .sig file semi useless. I see it as encouraging bottom posting, except they want you to say hi at the beginning of every other mail. -- Noé Rubinstein tel: +33 6 36 13 05 33
DIS: Re: BUS: Re: OFF: [Golemkeepor] Golem Census
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:15 PM, Kerim Aydin ke...@u.washington.edu wrote: (I don't want to deregister to test this, but I'm happy to make a golem as a gift for a current non-player to test it). I can do it, if you want. -- Noé Rubinstein
