In post 215, Tierce wrote: In post 206, Zachrulez wrote:The point I'm making is that since I don't have the permissions to use private topic prior to submitting, I am just going to continue designing setups in QT and then porting to Private Topic since it's been required for reasons I can't fathom, so the reviewers will not see that benefit from me anyway.
I have not asked you for your full game information yet, but I fail to see the issue when it comes to designing in BBcode even if you don't have access to private topics. If you have no other place that uses BBcode, you can use the private message system on the forum--that gives you the necessary BBcode, and you're going to need that format
anyway
for when you actually run the game.
Well technically, I can just put the bbcode tags in...
But the whole concept of coding the role pms is a stylistic choice anyway. I could write the things in pure text and it wouldn't make a difference to the text content of the actual role pms.
In post 215, Tierce wrote:What happened previously was that I (and before me, Zito) had to convert
every
game design into something that looks decent in HTML. I didn't have a choice, the users didn't have a choice, we were all using QTs. By using Private Topics for Normal reviews, I'm removing that step for myself and keeping things in a place that is much easier to organize, sort, and search through than QTs. I'm making things easier for myself and for most others. You're going through the extra step of using QuickTopics because you want to, so I really don't see what's the big fuss in me requiring moderators to use a native system when the
vast
majority of moderators have always sent me their designs optimized for BBcode anyway and you have an alternative that works in this forum already. A system that you can request access to, a system that people can give input on regarding features, a system where you actually have control over who sees the topic. You're making things more difficult for everyone involved, including yourself. We're offering you a system here, the possibility of "early design" access to it,
and
an alternative to that system that does not require change and/or social contact, but you're saying this whole new thing is being forced on you. What is the point you're trying to defend?
See above. What I'm basically saying is that you don't
need
to see the styling of the role pms. You only need to be able to read the text and determine the normalcy of the role pms. It doesn't matter what's bold, what's big, or what color the text is in. It's still there.
So while you're having trouble understanding what I'm defending, I'm having trouble understanding the justification for the requirement. My thought is that it isn't necissary, but I'm probably putting too much effort into fighting it because it's much less of a big deal than my emotions are making it, but from a logical standpoint, I'm not seeing an argument in it's favor other than the fact that the combination of the argument and the fact that "it's not a big deal" prevail.
Anyway, it doesn't take much time to actually code the style of the role pms, but it's something I usually save for when I'm actually sending out the role pms. When I'm going through everything else in the design, I don't want to go through the stress of figuring out the coding.
In post 215, Tierce wrote:I understand asking for things may be difficult for some people, but if asking for permission to have access to a system is too much change for you, you already have private messages that give you BBcode formatting that I can then port to private topics; you're inflicting stress on yourself for no good reason.
In a perfect world, I would be given access just to be shut up... just sayin.
But it's a combination of having to do it, and also with having to do it everytime I have to design a game because somehow I don't see myself staying in the moderator group. It's admittedly a silly thing to complain about, but it's important to me dammit!
On that thought, on another forum I was on, there was a BBcode tag that allowed HTML to be recognized on the forum. Is such a thing possible on these boards?
I'm just really resistant to change in the end, and I'm generally skeptical said changes won't result in more work for me.