26 Aug, 2006, Guest wrote in the 21st comment:
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We will not be allowing anyone and everyone to edit existing information for code submissions. The comment system exists for a reason. Use it if you have relevant information to provide and we will see that it gets added.
26 Aug, 2006, Tyche wrote in the 22nd comment:
Conner said:
Why couldn't 'those who know what these files are' just post a comment so the person who uploaded it, or the site admins could 'fix' these things? I know I certainly wouldn't particularly like the idea of anyone who chose to being able to come along and modify the name, author, or descriptions of my snippets, as modestly humble as they may be, they are still my own. :sad:
If someone didn't like the changes they'd change them back. Certainly the owner of entry could always lock the entry against update if they cared about it.
Certainly it takes a good deal of persuading to convince Diku admins that persons that contribute to mud community sites are in fact peers and not prole players in a mud game. See Kyndig.
Open community sites work.
Examples:
http://www.tinymux.org/wiki
http://sourcery.dyndns.org
http://lpuni.org/components/com_mambowik...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
If the software is not capable of versioning entries, it would be trivial to add.
26 Aug, 2006, Tyche wrote in the 23rd comment:
Samson said:
We will not be allowing anyone and everyone to edit existing information for code submissions. The comment system exists for a reason. Use it if you have relevant information to provide and we will see that it gets added.
Code repository…
Mush and Muck are direct derivatives of Tiny, in exact the same way that Circle and Merc are derived from Diku. Maybe you should move them to be subdirectories of Tiny.
smug.tar.gz in Custom is later release of TinyMud.
EDIT:: Sorry it's in Other. Actually everything else in Other is a Custom codebase, except that in Other/New which most look to be Clients.
I have a ton of descriptions, author, english names for the software from game.org.
How do want it?
26 Aug, 2006, Guest wrote in the 24th comment:
Tyche said:
If someone didn't like the changes they'd change them back. Certainly the owner of entry could always lock the entry against update if they cared about it.
I don't think any of us really wants to spend the time dealing with the inevitable jackasses who like to trash fully open sites on a regular basis. Folks at Wikipedia may have that kind of time, we don't. And I seriously doubt many of the members here do either.
If the person who submits code, or submits a mud listing really wants to trash their own material, they pretty much have that ability now. They're only hurting themselves by doing so.
Tyche said:
I have a ton of descriptions, author, english names for the software from game.org.
Feel free to email them my way if there's alot of them. Or PM them to myself, Davion, and Asylumius if that's easier. We'll get to it as time permits.
Tyche said:
Open community sites work.
Open sites work, yes. But there's a balance to be had between openness and anarchy and I for one wish to avoid anarchy. Anarchy in this context would be to allow anyone to edit anything in the code repository. I'm sure the majority of people are trustworthy and will not waste their time trying to damage things. It's a sad part of the world we live in that there are those who would waste their time on such things.
If something is restricting you from maintaining your own submissions, let us know. We'll see what we can do.
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