What's this 'money' thing?

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Apr 22, 2004

ph34r said:
Yeah we do. If you battle alot it's really hard to try and keep your pet fed and happy.

Its a challenge...just have to balance how many fights and choose the right ones. I'd like to win one sometime, though.

Morrus · Apr 22, 2004

I'm trying to implement code to give big bonuses for posting news scoops. I thought I had it right, but it didn't work (didn't break anything, but didn't work).

However, I'm feeling generous.

I will manually give anyone who posts a relevant and interesting sci-fi/fantasy news scoop on the sci-fi news page in the next hour (from the timestamp of this post) up to 100 points. The amount will depend on how detailed and well formatted the news scoop is - an illiterate sentence will net you about 1 point, whereas a couple of detailed paragraphs with quotes and maybe a picture will net you an awful lot more.

You can do this multiple times to get multiple awards, as long as they're within the next hour.

If you quote anything, use one of the following tags:

{hq}Your quote goes here{/hq}

{bq}A large block-quote goes here{/hq}

Obviously, replace { with [ and } with ].

Feel free to link to off-site images. Use the WYSIWYIG editor to make it look nice.

Your scoop will enter a moderation queue. The award will depend on how much editing/formatting I have to do before it gets posted on the news site, so refer to older items for style guides.

Remember, this is for the sci-fi page only. Your hour starts now.

Hypersmurf · Apr 22, 2004

MerricB said:
Well, in the words of Teal'c, "That did not go well."

It was hardly one-sided... counters can be nasty!

I'm assuming they're agility-based, which puts them rather out of the reach of a turtle for the moment

-Hyp.

Morrus · Apr 22, 2004

Less than half an hour left to earn your bonus points, folks! So far, only Ankh-Morpork Guard and MacMathan have submitted items.

Ankh-Morpork Guard · Apr 22, 2004

Morrus said:
Less than half an hour left to earn your bonus points, folks! So far, only Ankh-Morpork Guard and MacMathan have submitted items.

...would have submitted more, but I can't really find much else that's news worthy. Ironically, I'd meant to post more news items today anyway. Thanks Morrus!

ph34r · Apr 22, 2004

What does this involve me doing? Do I just go to the Science-Fiction and Fantasy news page and submit a scoop? Sorry, but I've never done this before.

Morrus · Apr 22, 2004

OK, time's up!

That's 100 points for Ankh's excellent article; and 50 points for MacMathan's.

Ao the Overkitty · Apr 22, 2004

Heh. when it comes to news, sci-fi or otherwise, I'm pretty much as out of the loop as it gets.

It's a good offer, just can't really participate in it.

MerricB · Apr 22, 2004

Hypersmurf said:
It was hardly one-sided... counters can be nasty!

I'm assuming they're agility-based, which puts them rather out of the reach of a turtle for the moment

-Hyp.

It wasn't one-sided, but neither did I win.

You didn't have the option of counters? Interesting.

Cheers!