Holy Influx of Articles, Batman!

Ransac

CPA Trash Man
Wow! 4 articles in the past few weeks, 3 of which by new members! Keep it up!


Ransac, cpa trash man
 
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Modus Pwnens

Guest
I'm glad you like it. I do have some other articles in mind, but I would like some help on layout first. Is it allowed to submit HTML, because I would like to use some things like headings, italics, maybe some pictures etc.
It's currently just plaintext, which is a bit boring to read :(
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
You can't use pictures, although you can link to them.

But basically, any of the tags used in the forum (brackets, not <>) can be used in the articles.
 

turgy22

Nothing Special
Spiderman said:
Like who?
Like everyone. I'm not going to call anyone out, but we have a lot of active members participating in the games forum, among other things. How hard is it to write 400-500 words about the latest games going on or a deck you're playing? If every active member did one little write-up every other month, we'd have weekly content. I understand that not everyone can be such an uber-talented, sophistimacated writer like myself, but anything's better than nothing. I really like BPC's contributions, simply for their enthusiastic style.

Modus:
You can basically do anything you want with the front page. Most of it is straight UBB code, like we use on the board (although the URL tags are really picky about quotation marks). If you want to do pictures, I suggest opening a photobucket account. You can PM or email me if you need any help with anything about posting (or if you want something proofread). I've been submitting for a while and have to tag all my stuff, since the moderators around here are so lazy. :D
 
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Budget Player Cadet

Guest
I just wrote the second article in my weekly set, '... for the budgetarily challenged!'!!!
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
You can call me out :D

Speaking for myself, playing a series of Mindmaster games does not an article make. And aside from long-running tribal games, only recently have we started other types of games: Chaos, 2HG, and Build-A-Deck.

All of that aside, I'm just not a writer :)

And what do you mean you have to tag your stuff? What tags? What stuff? ;)

It used to be here on the forums that you had to have the quotation marks in the url tags too, some "recent" upgrade allowed them to be removed in the forums but not the front page stuff (which is custom code that Ed did, I believe).
 
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Budget Player Cadet

Guest
What's Build-A-Deck?

On an off topic, I just started sorting my 10,000+ card commons bin that I inherited from one of my friends, and in there, I found a 4th edition StP and a 5th Ball lightning!
They're heavily battered, but man, that's an awesome find!
eight thousand cards left to sort...
I sold off a bunch of white commons and uncommons to one of my friends who started to play, that'll pay entry for extended this saturday!
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
You know that Build A Deck we're doing in the Decks forum right now? We did a several last year based on certain cards and that's what some of use are playing against each other now.
 

turgy22

Nothing Special
Spiderman said:
Speaking for myself, playing a series of Mindmaster games does not an article make.
Sure it does. And it's not like this is an article, but it's still something to post on the front page to at least create the illusion of activity on the site.
 

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
That was just posting the results from the *real* articles that came before. I didn't have to do any "thinking" about it, just posting it :)
 
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Modus Pwnens

Guest
Well, I've done some thinking, and I think I can easily write another 10 articles, all part of a series. I'll get some stuff on paper, and might even make use of Turgy's offer of proofreading.
I'm quite "temporarily challenged" at the moment between work and study, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to get something ready next week, but I"ll see what I can do.
 
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train

Guest
It is nice to see the articles and maybe at some point I can get back to writing...
 
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Modus Pwnens

Guest
Hmm, I seem to be having difficulties posting a reply, it says it's posted, but my reply doesn't show up. BPC, if you read this, I don't really know what statistics you mean in your reply, could you please clarify yourself?
 

TomB

Administrator
Staff member
Article replies are moderated...Spidey will hopefully be able to approve your reply tomorrow, and it'll be posted then...:)
 
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Modus Pwnens

Guest
Oh, ok, sorry Spidey then, I think I've tried 3 times :$
 
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