Conversation started Jan 5, 2011 at 18:08.
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:08
A copyright violation?
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@badp @brant gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/11994/… Better get on that before everyone else shows up.
badp
badp
Mindstealer merely copy pasted the build order from @bwarner's answer.
Brant
Brant
heh
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
Well, it isn't copy pasted.
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Copypasta*
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:12
Eh, no need to get in his face about it
you expect useful info to get copied around
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
Erm, there is.
Here's the reason:
Brant
Brant
plus we have no way of knowing if he just copied it from someone else's post
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
user image
Brant
Brant
maybe he's never even been to SE
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Loads of stuff in my town is copied directly from gaming, but I always linked back to it.
Wait, Mindstealer?
I think he was in another town of mine before.
He probably got to G.SE through me.
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:15
It's a private forum viewable by, at most, 40 people. Who cares?
Just drop in a link to the source, no need throw insults around
especially when the point of him posting it is to encourage everyone to work together.
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
I've played with Mindstealer before.
I think he's alright.
Arda Xi
Arda Xi
I also think posting an entire schedule and saying "this is how we do it" without even introducing himself is really arrogant
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
He's just trying to get a jump on it before everyone else shows up.
That's basically what I did in my current town.
Whatever you do, make sure you establish an organizational system for the forums.
I can't believe how much more smoothly my current town runs now that I've taken my own advice. :P
Brant
Brant
> If we hit 40 people before midnight then yes. Otherwise you might as well stay outside and autoscavenge for another day.
I just posted that but I'm not actually sure if it's true
c/d?
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
My day 1 lasted for like five days.
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:23
are you safe outside of town?
badp
badp
I've just updated the post.
Brant
Brant
I think that's kind of silly, honestly.
badp
badp
Not my rules to make.
I don't see why we should encourage rule breaking however.
I mean, that doesn't agree with the white hat vibe I get off meta.
Brant
Brant
Information gets copy-pasted verbatim all over the place. The least of our concerns is people doing it to private forums for others' benefit.
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
Have you guys familiarized yourself with the new policies about external links?
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:29
Stuff like @bwarner's build order post are why gaming.SE exists.
badp
badp
@GnomeSlice My main worry is that that answer isn't really perfect enough to be posted verbatim as is without context as if it was some god send truth to knee at.
Brant
Brant
actually no
badp
badp
If you just copy paste it you're misrepresenting it.
That's what bothers me, rather than just blind application of the "law."
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
You guys need to check the global forums.
There's a big thing about how they're going to be cracking down on any external links.
yesterday, by GnomeSlice
"People seem to miss this, but giving out external links in Town Forums is not permitted either. It's not just the World forums. If you see somebody giving an external unapproved link (at this moment there are no approved ones but that will change in the future - keep watch of the little icon in the upper left to see) - please report the post.
yesterday, by GnomeSlice
It doesn't matter if you believe it's not hurtful, or if it's a "helpful tool" - if it's not approved you are not allowed to link it in any forum. There are reasons we do not want people using such links which I can discuss in more length elsewhere.
yesterday, by GnomeSlice
Unfortunately even the English Wiki is not an approved link - as much as people are used to giving that out, it constitutes as spoilers. You aren't going to be punished for looking at it of course, but if you link to it and we see it - it will be deleted"
That's one of the more pertinent paragraphs.
Brant
Brant
Yeah, good luck with that, admins
badp
badp
Jan 5, 2011 18:31
@Brant Just set up a regexp for anything that looks like a link and monitor those.
if needed, give a free hero day for every successfully reported link. :P
user30
Evening
badp
badp
Evening
GnomeSlice
GnomeSlice
@badp > Well our Important Links thread hasn't been pruned yet, so I'm thinking that as long as no one flags it, we're good.
Brant
Brant
I don't think a big reminder about SE's copyright policy belongs at the top of that answer.
Just because we happened to see one guy on a semi-private game forum copy and paste its content for the (intended) benefit of other people
badp
badp
@GnomeSlice It is.
@Brant Revert then.
WP:BOLD
I'm not going to edit it back in. Promise.
Brant
Brant
Jan 5, 2011 18:34
I did. I just wanted to explain myself first. :)
user30
Right
user30
Whass occurin
Brant
Brant
Cliffs notes version: someone in the town we just joined copy-pasted this answer in our town's forum, without a link back to the source.
 
Conversation ended Jan 5, 2011 at 18:36.