As I'm sure you'll all aware, site owner Leperous isn't around these days, leaving the running of the site to myself and Gwil. Thankfully its a fairly easy task, owing mainly to Lep's nice and automated site design, however neither of us have a lot of spare time on our hands just now and find ourselves being fairly inactive on the forums. For this reason we have decided to promote a couple of our more active, experienced, and helpful members to site admin to provide a more visible staff presence, and hopefully get tutorials/news/etc... dealt with a little quicker :smile:

It took a fair bit of thought, and anybody who feels they should have been considered, well you almost certainly were! The decision wasn't just reached by membership number or post count, but was a combination of how active they were both on the forums and in producing (or encouraging) work, knowledge and helpfulness, and of course being well liked, level-headed folks :smile:

So welcome Fishy and Addicted to Morphine to the site staff. Thanks to both for agreeing to take on the extra (but really rather meagre!) workload, and congratulations :smile:

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Congratz

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

Congratulations fellows. :smile:

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Congrats lads! Now fix the FireFox problem ^_^ J/K.

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RUST Gamedesign
pepper design

The strength of the turbulence is directly proportional to the temperature of your coffee.

What about me!

I'm the invisible uberlord of the site :biggrin:

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

YAY! поздравлаю!!

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I tried sniffing coke, but the ice cubes kept getting stuck in my nose.
http://www.dimebowl.com

<span style="color: silver;">Congrats!

Hmmmmmmmm.....when do you get to pop your 'BAN POWERS' cherry?
</span>

congrats. 2 mature, neutral, active and helpful guys + dedicated imo

ps: sorry for bringing this up, but what was the deal with orph first getting adminship and then losing it? or was it temporary, for the contest? i dunno who to ask this to, and i'm just wondering. (seems to be the cause for his absence too)

he only wanted to be admin so that he could manage the comp. he said that if the comp was a failure, he'd leave, and never come back. it seems he thinks the comp was a failure.

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i eat paint

that could be the case, but that's not what his profile says. also, he was un-made admin before he left, so maybe someone else thought the contest was a failure. also, while in many regards it could be classified as a failure, certainly that had nothing to do with orph, imo he did it in the best way possible.

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These words are my diaries screaming out loud

Zoinks! Yay for Fisheh and the morphine-junkie.

when do you get to pop your 'BAN POWERS' cherry?

RIGHT NOW! ON YOU!!!! POP!!!!!!

:smile:

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well, i wasn't party to the reasons, but if being un-admined was the final straw, then he set himself up for it. he did only ask for it, and i believe it was only given, so that he could manage the competition.

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i eat paint

I don't see how the copetition would've failed. :smile: We got entries in
both categories and people even voted on the entries. :smile: And the
mainpoint of the competition was to get people back to the mapping tools
and as far as I'm concerned it worked. :smile: I think it was a success. It
coud've been a bigger success, if some of the 'real' oldies would've
partaken or voted, but the thing worked like it was supposed to. :smile:

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

It's weird indeed that a sticky thread is less eye-catching than a random, normal one! :biggrin: Congrats to the new admins! I think you will do you job excellently, both.

i'm not claiming the competition was a failure. i just remember Orph saying he wouldn't be back if it didn't do as well as he wanted it to/thought it should. with his apparent departure, i thought that may be the case. that's all i meant.

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i eat paint

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting fishy</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>it seems he thinks the comp was a failure.</DIV></DIV>

No its not. I swear, some of you have all the sensitivity of a s**thouse seat with splinters. I did not leave because of the admin issue but just once I would like to step down with the same degree of ptroffessionalism that I took the posisition. Every f**king tome I get a green name, some asswipe starts an argument and I lose it before I can return and log in the next time. My green name this time was primarilly for the competition but since I did an exemplary job while I was an admin, I assumed that since there was a shortness of green names actively here that keeping it was something I was going to have to deal with for a while. I did talk to Duncan and Gwil about recruitments.... I assume that this is partly why we have two new faces that are now green. Losing it right after an argument looked like I lost it due to something I did instead of in reality losing it due to its limited nature which was for the competition. It was just really bad timing and I was depressed about my home situation.

My woes are numerous, and coming here is only adding to them, not reducing them like it should be. The childishness of late is just more than this old man can deal with. Whether you all have the ablity to not take what happens here serious or not is illrelevant, I cannot just let bygones be bygones. I am quite honestly tired of having to explain my thoughts to people half my age and with probably less than a quarter of my lifes accomplishments. THAT doesn't reduce their accomplishments, but that also doesn't elevate them to my level either... Online, everyone may be equal, but we discuss things that transcend online. Especially whenever it takes on personal belief systems.

My problems are mostly real life ordeals. The price of fuel has reduced my income to near poverty levels. I am still living in a motor home because every damned time I find a new place, someone beats me to the owner and buys it out from under me.I absoluetely must have a place of a certain size and location and that severely reduces my options when moving. I am not even able to remain online for more than a few minutes because my new 56k modem hates my computer. It literally locks the system up now. My being on 56k is nearly insurmountable and quite frankly, more trouble than its worth since coming here was my only motivation for being online. This place is litterally no fun to be around anymore.
The fact that I seem to have some sort of spyware thats so bad, that adaware locks up trying to remove it. Spybot cannot even find it so I am forced to remove my modem in the control panel daily and allowing the machine to reinstall the drivers every time. I am now in fact writing this via notepad so that I will have some semi-permenant record of my words in fear of losing them to the nether regions of a reboot. It has literally been so bad, that I have not been online more than 3 times since my past login. If I cannot find some way to fix my spyware situation, I will give up totally untill I can again get broadband.

On the plus side, I am working out a possibility of moving to Phoenix. The job I might get pays substantially more and the hours would be reduced considerably. My job however would remain driving but sadly, not nationwide. I would be restricted to the Arizona area only.

I have also recently rediscovered out-of-doors. Since my connection issues I have been spending much more time outside.

My tan lines are deep.

[edit] Good f**king god notepad sucks. :sad:

Sorry to hear that Orph, I wish you the best of luck with your issues.

But I've spent less time online and rediscovered the world beyond the internet too :smile:

And Congrats Fishy and AtM.

well, if you knew it was for a limited time, why throw the dolly out of the pram when it's gone? you bleat on about childishness, yet you act like the biggest child here.

growing old is no indication of growing up, it seems.

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i eat paint

Fishman, you obviously do not need my support for your new position/title but do not make me regret suggesting you for it.

If you are trying to tell me that you have never had something totally unrelated cause you to say "f**k IT I QUIT!" I will just have to call you a liar in public.

The admin position was most definitely temporary, however the timing about giving the position up was not the best. The fact that I am having terrible problems is the main reason for my recent.... bad temper.

My being gone recently however is mainly due to my connection issues... I really do not have any motivation to strive to fix it either, not with the combination of the problems compounded with the arguments of late.

However, lets not trod the path of who's most childish since you and I have walked that path together far to often for either of us to accuse the other of "more"

My belated congratulations to you both. I can think of only a few others that I would have chosen in lieu of.. I can only assume there were extenuating circumstances why they were not chosen.

I am also happy to note that Master Gwil listened to me when last we met and returned to his valued position as headmaster.

My deepest apologies for my recent grumpiness. I will not however be around as often because of the connection issues. (at least that will elevate my participation in ruining someone's day)

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The best things in life, aren't things.

This is all my fault - I took Orpheus away in a spur of the moment
decision after a heated thread. This is just to reaffirm that Orph
didn't kick off all hell or something!

However, i'm sure i'm not the only one who feels that both Orph and
myself step back for a while - hence i'm going back scenes and picking
up the code pen to try and get the problems ironed out, while I hope
Jon will take the opportunity of having a vacation from the pit to
reanalyse and order his real life issues.

Whatever happens i'm sure AtM and Fishy can do a good job of managing
thread content and question/tuts backlogs, and in the meantime inject
some life into the community.

It's almost irony that destructive moments gear up the community to new levels, in a way.

Thanks for the well wishes, but sorry to hear about the problems.

I'll do my best to get content approval flowing a little faster :smile:

If my continued assistance is no longer needed, it is now safe to remove my green name. If I arrive later and its still green, I won't fuss about that either. I can help someone with or without the title.

sighs

(That felt much better than arriving with my nose bleeding from a reprimand I didn't know about.)

Nite-nite folks.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Personaly I think all members should be admin, apart from a select few who are non-admin. The non-admin should have the power, and thus perfect.

I seem to have become less observant, or maybe I was blinded by the chance of a radical change (sure, something like that).
Congrats, regardless.

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Also change the texture of the dock. Docks are rarely tile. -Facepunch
As I Lay Dying

Personaly I think all members should be admin, apart from a
select few who are non-admin. The non-admin should have the power, and
thus perfect.

Nice idea, but the utopian "power for all!" approach is filed under pipe dreams like real communism, i'm afraid :razz:

I think Doc Glass has been hanging around AtM and his opressive bird flu SARS communism.

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o

Oh, great, pick the two worst power abusives.

:razz:

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:: Forceflow.be :: Nuclear Dawn developer

no no you don't understand, we would all get the "power title" but have no power, and the few without the power title would run the site. Think of it like reverse American "Democracy"

democracy is where the stupid majority get to choose their own downfall.

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i eat paint

After seeing that picture.... Let's just stay in this despot system we have now, shall we?

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''Everyone wades in s**t until they're competent enough to walk on it. Jesus style.''
Dystopia - Empires

Vote Snickers for head admin! As head admin my first act would be to replace all other admins with friends and business associates, then we'd figure out some excuse to invade TWHL. Once we have a firm foothold at TWHL, we'll preemptively strike HL2World before they can build WMDs with materials they're buying under the table from interlopers.net. Snarkmark prices will skyrocket, but we'll have ties with all the major suppliers, so my administration would stand to make billions.

Who wants to be my running-mate?

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Wow, you put forward a good case! I'm demoting Gwil and putting you in charge :biggrin:

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Designer @ Haiku Interactive | ReNo-vation.net

ReNo, you're a good guy, I like you, that's why it's so hard for me to do this...
I'm exiling you to a remote, undisclosed location in Africa, no hard feelings eh?

Should you escape the jungle and seek revenge, I would recommend against trying to incite rebellion, for by then it would already be 1984 with the world firmly in my grasp and the grasp of a couple other world powers, and you'd end up having the one person you'd loved in this mad dystopian world betray you, and you'd betray them and die a sad, defeated man. Best to go with the flow, not make waves, etc.

Nickelplate can be Secretary of Defense. UHHHHHHHH French Toast, you can be Secretary of State... or something along those lines. Jimmi will be the royal jester, of course, so feel free to pelt him with rotten food. :razz:

Oh yeah, and voting will no longer be carried out on paper ballots, it's all electronic from here on out. In addition there will be cameras on street corners, alternative fuels will be squashed by big oil companies, cell phone conversations will be monitored for key words and phrases (such as "civil liberty" and "constitution"), and of course vaccinations for all and "ADD" drugs for the disruptive.

Waaaait a second, I think I'm confusing Snarkpit head admin with something else.... Eh, go ahead and come back from Africa and reinstate Gwil. This job sucks. :razz:

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Can I still be secretary of state?

can I be Dick Cheenee and shoot someone?

Can I congrat our two new moderators?

Yeah?

Here goes: congrats, fishy and morph! :smile:

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Create-ivity - a game development blog

I'll get it one day.

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[Im_invisible] "I would suck a man off, but only for sustenance."

Ditto.

Cassius said:
I'll get it one day.

Campaignjunkie said:
Ditto.

If its any consolation, you two have my vote and I would join any champaign that would lead to your being such.

I feel honestly that either of you would do a superb job, and given the choice, I'd grant you my slot as admin.

My views on this subject are thus: Snarkpit needs leaders who are not followers but who are distinctive unto themselves. In other words, we need some who are "Yin" and some who are "Yang"

In this way, if in some future time a debate needed the admin to remedy the discussion, you wouldn't have ALL OF THEM for you, or worse, against.

We need, and/or must have leaders who do not think alike like some cookie cutout versions of leaders.

(this is not to say that we have leaders who are not impartial, but I always felt we needed a bit more people who thought in opposition of the norm)

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The best things in life, aren't things.

We should elect the admins. We have to have votes and they have to campaign, and oh boy! it'll be good fun.

I like abusing power make me an admin.

We should elect the admins. We have to have votes and they have to campaign, and oh boy! it'll be good fun.

This site has never been a democracy, its been a dictatorship, rulled by the one and only Lep.

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Posting And You

What we really need is server access and some serious recoding, as well
as hive of activity relating to maps - not just General Banter.

We should elect the admins. We have to have votes and they have to campaign, and oh boy! it'll be good fun.

This site has never been a democracy, its been a dictatorship, rulled by the one and only Lep.

Except that Lep isn't here, and his people have been thrown into chaos. And out of that chaos rises a new government, a government for the people etc. blah blah

Gwil said:
What we really need is server access and some serious recoding,

I would be more than willing to assist in buying this right of access. I mean, if Lep would consider selling the site, I am sure that we could elect a suitable replacement to his leadership and/or coding interactiveness.

I have offered this many times before and have been more/less ignored in favor of what I can only assume is some pride issues involving the leadership of this site.

I would be willing to donate a considerable sum, with no strings attached. (other than my being permitted to remain here indefinitely)

There has got to be a solution to the stagnation presently in evident. This site is still awesome, but it is also a pale shadow of its former self.

I honestly feel that our current dependency on the owner, and its dependency on only Half-Life will be its eventual demise.

I am sorry if that sounds ungrateful. I don't mean for it to be since I would be willing to do anything to help.

/2 cents

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The best things in life, aren't things.

"its dependency on only Half-Life"

You think the site should be opened more for other games?

reaper47 said:
You think the site should be opened more for other games?

I had plans on starting a website dedicated to "All Gaming Cartography"

I was talked out of it but the premise that this site should be dedicated to all game engines that involve mapping is still my goal. I would have hoped for more support but... Back then Snarkpit was at its peak and no one really wanted to talk about expanding.

Our half hearted attempt at expanding into Unreal's engine is proof of that. :sad:

Perhaps we could consider it again... If I could gain enough support and Lep would release the site to someone he trusts.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

[the following text is blue]I think this site could use some web2.0 graphics.[/]

While it would be nice to see it expanded to other games, I've never seen a website that covers a large selection of games be a success (spread themselves too thin?), though by saying that I have probably just given an open invite for everyone to show me sites that prove otherwise :biggrin:

+ I think a web2.0-ized snarkpit would be well worth seeing :biggrin:

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