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Anyone else think this is a Valve version of snarkpit?

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

lol its like the verc more, and ive already shoved a tutorial up :biggrin:

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I need a new sig

It might have been a Valve version of the snarkpit if I could edit your post and make it say zOMG SPANK THE MONKEY LOL. :wink:

It's a nice idea . But I think there are going to be a lot of
I'm-not-a-n00b mappers/modellers/coders who'll be running around
editing things before understanding what's happening properly. I
suppose it shouldn't make too much trouble if the original article
authors maintain it properly, but with mappers leaving for jobs and
real-life stuff all the time, it may be tough :/

Its more like....well....a wiki :smile: Therefore its really more like the HL2 World wiki than the snarkpit :razz:

I think its a nice enough idea, but from reading the comments section
it is just being left up to the community, which kinda detracts from
the "official" quality of it. If submitted things are checked over by
somebody (like they are here) then I guess it could be good.

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zOMG SPANK THE MONKEY LOL.

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"Azelito, stop being a f**king bitch. All I see you do is complain and insult people in your recent posts. We don't care, go find a razor you emo pansy..." -Windows98

As they say, never trust a company who can't spell... Well on the frontpage of that site, by Source... They can't use grammar very well :razz:

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

it even looks almost exactly like the HL2world site....

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i eat paint

It's cos they're both using the same Wiki software, MediaWiki. It's the same software that's behind Wikipedia.

As a long-term Wikipedia user, I like the idea. Even if Valve don't do
much/any adding of stuff themselves, having an "official" stamp on it
makes it more likely to be used than the other HL2-related wikis.

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VMEX, Pakrat & Entspy

Nothing is like the SnarkPit. Not only do we have professional
mappers who work in the industry, but we also have this sense of
comraderie that's hard to cultivate in a big commercially sponsored
site.

I've been to other mapping communities before, but they're far too
commercial. Without Lep's hard work and TLC, SnarkPit would just
be another one of those pay-as-you-go type of site or something that's
overrun by annoying flashing ads about the next Splinter-Cell game.

Man, how else would I be able to waste hundreds of hours on the internet?

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Yeah, snarkpit is more of a small community, here are main people who talk and help and so on and they mostly keep together.

In hl2world it is just a random spamming around... I prefer more those
community-type places. Although wikies are cool, they aren't so
commune-like.

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as long as we keep a guard on n00b mappers making retarded comments, i will be happy.

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I need a new sig

We should post an article on there about snarkpit.

There is already a link to the snarkpit there, I dunno what else we could really ask for.

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I don't think Valve likes the idea of mapping sites like this one, to be honest- though I think it's more about stopping misinformation being spread, than jealousy :razz: And yes, I agree about the community feel - there are these sad little nooks and crannies that you have to hide in, and it's the same with Wikipedia - though I hope they address this, as Wikis are quite a funky idea.

Can someone please explain the term "wiki" to me?

Its a new thing, a wiki. Its an updatable database that can be edited by anyone.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-