ENSL Weekly, 3rd October
New Forums
We've got now new forums fully integrated to the site. But beware, these new forums have much stricter rules and your forum boss is a norwegian historian taking his ruling practices from likes of Julius Caesar and Leonidas!
You can post using your website account, and set your avatar / signature on the site profile page.
The old forums contaminated with flames and trolls are still available, but will be archived soon.
Voodo Departs
With over a year of activity within ENSL staff, our Head Admin Voodo decides to become a sailor and make money out of floating around the oceans. Rumours tell the ENSL doesn't pay him enough, but they are all nasty lies.
We thank him for all the work he has done (and all the fish), and hope he doesn't get pwned by an iceberg.
Site Upgrades
Now you can set all kinds of email notifications in your profile. Only notifications for contest challenges and private messages are enabled by default, but you can activate notifcations for news, articles, movies etc. Behind the scenes, all kinds of bug fixes and performance improvements were made.
Unfortunately there hasn't been any ladder games recently, but instead there have been 36 gathers during the past 2 weeks. Awesome job guys! I will keep on improving the gather, and now it is possible to vote for a captain, and eject one. Also if a player goes AFK while picking, another can automatically take his place.
IRC stats are available here for anyone interested. Webstats are not available for public, but for example search queries are interesting. Some fanboy had found us with "wltrs mouse sensitivity", other queries make no sense such as "que significa jumalauta", and I don't want to know what the person searching with "in wear jiriki" was looking for..
Server Stuff
We're moving to a new server (78.46.36.107) which is a juicy Intel i7-920 QuadCore with 8GB or RAM, which should be enough for NS2, even if the dedicated server turns out to be a resource hungry sherpa equal to old 1.03 NS1 HLDS. The server has already NS servers (ports 27015, 27016), and we're moving other services gradually.
While we're at it, I'd like take the opportunity to thank the following people for paying for the server and Clanhost NS Servers we've had, and we're talking about over thousand euros per year. They've made it possible to have all these services.
- Mika "mixu" Järvinen
- Petri "vartija" Ryhänen
- James "Admirable" McDonnell
- Pekka "Peach" Antinmaa
- Henri "Talis" Junttila
- Hannu "rapsutin" Jaara
Also, if you got your own server, please add it to the server page. You can use the website to rcon the server and the website stores all kinds of interesting statistics about it. But more importantly, you can use that server in officials.
Stay tuned for more news next week.
Yours,
ENSL Staff
Comments
Be more careful with what you write.
3 October 2009, 11:57
3 October 2009, 13:20
Functionality, layout or graphics/colors?
I haven't added extra functions (such as extensive search) until we have some content.
3 October 2009, 13:24
3 October 2009, 13:52
Isn't it a bit tasteless (and unprofessional) to compare your forum admin to SS divisions?
3 October 2009, 17:25
3 October 2009, 17:28
There are unprofessional jokes? Well im not comedian, guilty as charged.
Cmon! When I was a sysadmin in sixth form, we used to make all kinds of nazi admin jokes, my friend even took fake SS uniform to "masquerades". Its not like we have extreme right opinions or anything.
Now comparing would be bad, if it was serious, but it isn't. I suppose nazis are just a big taboo in Germany.
Reminds me when when someone got banned from Cod server for having name "GoRing" on a german server, but whatever floats your boat man!
Also in case you didn't know, Division Wiking (DW) was a Scandinavian 1.04 NS clan.
3 October 2009, 17:39
Well, there is a difference between joking around and linking to wikipedia, don't you think. ;)
Usually I wouldn't even care, but that was worded quite badly.
3 October 2009, 17:51
3 October 2009, 17:52
3 October 2009, 18:00
Well, you can't be trying to enforce one thing, like stopping racism, then do the crime yourself and twist it as a joke.
You could put down Jimmis calling everyone "downies" and "niggers" just to being a joke.
3 October 2009, 20:43
I have to agree with GibbZ here, you started a new forum to clean the slate, enforcing stricter rules and what not, but yet you start of with a fuhrer joke.
I know its purely ment as a joke, but those kind of jokes are better left for private use.
About the forums, they are looking good, i guess its just that it is still quite empty in there :P
3 October 2009, 21:38
the joke is self directed not at someone else.. big difference.. and it's also not actually discriminating apart from talking down about the nazi party... i dunno.. is anyone pro nazi here because I certainly wasn't offended by it.
Can't see the rules guys, it tells me to log in..
3 October 2009, 23:19
boohoo guys.. I think jiriki's comedian skillz have increased since this post gave me a giggle :D
Jiriki goes level up :>
4 October 2009, 04:18
Where did I have racism? False logic Gibbz.
Tbh, alteast here where I live there's a difference making parodies and jokes about nazis, and saying "why is this nigger admin banning?!!! fucking RETARD!". Don't you think?
I removed it. Happy now?
4 October 2009, 05:42
4 October 2009, 06:18
By: fortune ( Demonic Soul ) on 04 October 09 05:19 [ Quote ]
the joke is self directed not at someone else.. big difference.. and it's also not actually discriminating apart from talking down about the nazi party... i dunno.. is anyone pro nazi here because I certainly wasn't offended by it.
I PREFER A KIM JONG IL JOKE INSTEAD
4 October 2009, 06:38
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4 October 2009, 08:21
4 October 2009, 09:18
Feeling offended by that kind of stuff is what makes me throw up sometimes.
4 October 2009, 11:06
Obviously it's a joke. Please don't get me wrong. Personally I have nothing against it. All I'm saying is you can't be getting down and strict and then make political jokes like that. Don't get offended by my point jiriki. It's not personal at all. I just don't see it as the best way to kick things off. If you're going professional then do it. But don't say one thing and do another.
Forums do look great though jiriki. They look alot more professional and neat then the last lot.
4 October 2009, 11:50
4 October 2009, 12:09
I didn't know political jokes were forbidden? Just read the rules. Its not double standards.
Again there's a difference between political jokes and offensive racism.
4 October 2009, 12:23
Dude your toilet must look disgusting.
4 October 2009, 12:38
4 October 2009, 12:41
@ tweadle
http://forums.ensl.org/
4 October 2009, 13:17
Shut up voodo or I will punch your face.
4 October 2009, 14:20
4 October 2009, 15:14
I think I know why; there's no clear demarcation between posters (but there is the blue bar between the actual posts) and the forum doesn't extend across my entire monitor any more. Also there's no who is online/viewing this post any more. A few fairly meaningless gripes really but I thought I'd suggest it in case you feel like changing it.
I can't actually believe you didn't see this reaction coming from the DW joke. Most people don't know about it being an old clan. Also if you want to make this zero tolerance absolutely no drama NS ethic to work, you have to be as dry as a recovering alcoholic.
Yes this place is going to be very boring from now on...
4 October 2009, 15:55
If you have any suggestions for changes to the forums, please post them in the feedback forum.
4 October 2009, 16:08
4 October 2009, 16:53
4 October 2009, 16:58
While I agree using the whole "NAZI ADMIN" schtick is pretty boring, this is such an over reaction.
You guys should also bear in mind that jiriki has been slaving away on this site for months now, for no other gratification than what we give him in terms of feedback. Flaming him for making bad jokes is pretty bad form.
4 October 2009, 17:02
4 October 2009, 18:29
No one has flamed him Fana. People were just stating their views?
I also agree with doogie.
4 October 2009, 18:32
I suppose "flaming" was an over reaction, too. My point was that you were making a big fuss over nothing.
I know you guys love my handsome facade, but this time it wasn't even my fault. Jiriki added it to the news post without telling me.
4 October 2009, 19:14
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5 October 2009, 07:19
It's a simple of case of something that should be allowed but not encouraged by admins. Stay on the safe side just to be safe, hoho.
Besides, if you're wanting this to be the new NS2 site and professionalism is what you're after, then you're even going to have to stop referencing players like Sherpa just for humour. It's pathetic but if you want the site to be accessible to all the new players for NS2 then you're going to have to at least start out that way.
If I was new here, i'd already feel left in the dark ;).
5 October 2009, 08:51
5 October 2009, 09:01
5 October 2009, 11:25
"Besides, if you're wanting this to be the new NS2 site and professionalism is what you're after, then you're even going to have to stop referencing players like Sherpa just for humour."
That's just not true. People don't just automatically go "oh hell I don't understand that one joke in that news post I'm outta this shit hole". As long as you don't plaster every sentence with it, private humor doesn't hurt community recruitment. It might even help it, as it acts as a sort of glue, helping to bond the community together.
5 October 2009, 13:31
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6 October 2009, 22:02
You're probably right but it'd be nice if someone was devoid of all that subjectivity and humour. I'm not a cranky twat; I just think there should be at least one tier of authority that is impervious to all the banter. That's not to say I want to bestow that responsibility on Jiriki necessarily, either.
7 October 2009, 06:54
Arnold Schwarzenegger for ENSL admin! I'll make the call.
7 October 2009, 09:37
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