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blackhole89
Posted on 01-01-12 01:37 PM, in Should I apply to top-tier Ivy League universities? Link | Quote | ID: 149001


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There is absolutely no reason you shouldn't, and hardly a reason you shouldn't go if you are accepted. In the end, the social environment you wind up in is of far higher significance to your development as a person both in academic and other terms, and even if were to you assume the worst about the actual quality of instruction at "high-tier" universities, the fact would remain that by simple virtue of being competitive and attracting able and like-minded people, you would be much likely to find yourself in an environment that is academically stimulating/competitive. (You can trust me it is rather demotivating to be the best at something among all the people one knows...) Moreover, it seems like in the US system, the only real way to escape the ridiculous overemphasis on athletics and socialising and underemphasis on academia is to go to one of the top-tier institutions.

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Posted on 01-02-12 03:37 PM, in Should I apply to top-tier Ivy League universities? Link | Quote | ID: 149017


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Why not MIT/Berkeley/Caltech?

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Posted on 01-04-12 08:05 PM, in Secret of Mana Editor.. part.. 3? Link | Quote | ID: 149046


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Made all your links clickable.

Glad to see this is being worked on again, and keep up the good work; I shall have a more in-depth look at it later.

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Posted on 01-05-12 02:12 AM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149052


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So here we are now - surprisingly, perhaps - nearly 5 years into the history of board2; nearly 5 years, perhaps, into our downfall, or our sequence of appallingly bad administrative decisions. We have dipped below the two-digit mark of daily posts a few times over the past month or two, and I have quite clear recollections of that having been a trigger I decided on long ago for taking steps like this one. Given that we have now also been forked by a group of people whose claim to legitimacy is indisputable, it is clear that we have reached a point at which we can not simply go on.

Let's sit down and reevaluate what we even have going for ourselves.
  • The reason we split from Jul and Jul split from us was, basically, a disagreement over the value of community values; they advocated a close-knit model organised essentially like a somewhat centralised circle of friends, with a single leader choosing who to keep and who to boot based on the informal consensus of some narrow in-group of regulars. This didn't mesh particularly well with the increasing factionalisation of the board community before Xkeeper came around, and in particular resulted in a series of purges that certainly worked in favour of everyday harmony, but increasingly turned the board into a social monoculture. Although the price is non-neglectable, that can be avoided, and we are probably more capable/willing to try to avoid it. I believe there is some value in uniting people with different ideals/values/posting styles as long as we can get past the notion that inconvenient people can just be purged if only you manage to get more like-minded ones in power; whether others do or don't, I can't tell, but if they do, I think board2's claim to greater commitment in that regard is plausible.

  • We are tenacious. Hackers have come and gone; a split has come and gone; backdoors and more hackers have come and gone; $trendynewacmlmboardoftheday has come and gone several times, also. If the past years are any indication, posting something of value here means a good outlook for it to still be around years later.

  • We are being linked. If nothing else, we still have a bit of a name among the ROM hacking communities. Google finds us, and people who actually know things lurk.

  • Although many of them have moved on, we still have a non-neglectable deal of latent ROM hacking knowledge among those who do drop by every now and then. Won't somebody please think of the ROM hackers? or something.

All being said and done, every single of the above points probably could be deconstructed thoroughly. In that light, getting to the main issue I hope to make the topic of this thread - do you think there still is a place for board2 on the internet of 2012? If yes, what do we need to do to move there? If no, by all means respond anyway - I'd much prefer to be told so clearly and have no second thoughts when choosing to pull the plug over artificially stretching out the tail end of the demise any further. Yes, this means that a termination of this board is a realistic and viable option and we probably never have been quite as close to it.

Discussion is open, and as of this moment, any rules and conventions save for the purely technical points such as the advertisment ban and the general guideline to not do anything that would be actually disruptive to the few things still going shall be suspended - in other words, bans handed out will be reduced to an absolute minimum. If you are banned but would like to contribute, please let me or another administrator know via IRC or whatever means of communication you prefer; your ban will be lifted.

Holy cows shall be minimal in number. If you want to gloat or troll, go ahead; do, however, consider the possibility of using your time in some better way as it is perfectly clear to me and everyone else in authority that we have failed in proportion to the amount of power we held to avert this situation anyway. Whatever useful suggestions you might have regarding the course of action to take, bring them on.

Sincerely,
Your autocratic overlord

PS: I hope you all like the forced theme. I hoped to convey a certain atmosphere of despair and stringency; the only actual feedback I've heard so far called it "winterish".

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Posted on 01-05-12 05:39 AM, in Forced theme Link | Quote | ID: 149067


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KP9000 hates it. I like it, but then, I made it, so my opinion hardly is unbiased.

Whould should be done?

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Posted on 01-05-12 02:45 PM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149094


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First of all, thanks for all the encouraging posts... however, I fear most of the replies seem to slightly miss the point. It's not that I'm trying to say I will take down the board unless enough people tell me not to in a sufficiently convincing tone; rather, I have come to believe that we can not go on as things are at the moment and am asking for suggestions, possibly of a radical kind, for changes to make to the board, staff composition etc. that could plausibly reverse this trend of inactivity. A simple "please keep going, I'd hate to see it go as long as somebody drops by and posts once in a week or so" is not really satisfactory, and while I would see to it that archives are put up in one way or the other, I believe that the board has deserved a better end than one of being gradually forgotten completely.

Also, most of the views are from a ridiculous onslaught of bots that has been going on since the time of posting. They seem to like everything that's linked from the front page to a creepy degree.

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Posted on 01-05-12 07:13 PM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149101


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Posted by Mega-Mario
I think we should look at what's the trend of the internet in 2012, and follow that. Though, it's hard to say. It appears that most of the trend is Facebook and other social networking bullshit. I don't want Board2 to become a social networking site, and it may just not be possible, as it seems that in that domain, it's a monopoly or almost, you have to be large or noone will care about you.
A board is distinct from a social networking site by design, but, looking at other forums, it seems evident that, in principle, it is still possible to provide something that fundamentally is an alternative way of social interaction (as opposed to the one championed by Facebook) and not be completely ignored. The question just is how to go about it.

We could try and make Board2 the place for next-gen hacking, such as hacking the newest consoles (3DS, PSVita, and soon enough Wii U), or hacking games meant for these consoles (NSMBWii, SMG1/2, and soon enough Mario Land)... all of that while retaining the nostalgia and retro hacking (SMB, SMW...).
That's easily said, but you can't just proclaim it to be a board for so-and-so and then expect someone to actually come around and talk about or do it here....

Otherwise, I don't have much ideas to revive the board. And I may be repeating myself here, but in my opinion, dropping all the rules and letting everyone in is a bad idea. If too many spamming dumbasses appear, the board will turn into a huge spamfest and good members will leave out of disgust.
Actual spam was meant to be covered by the "disruptive" clause. Sorry if that wasn't sufficiently clear.

Posted by Green-Kirby
The reason I left and the reason I mainly lurk even when KP got me back is that the community is simply way to hostile for me to give a shit about being here.
This seems to be a sentiment that is expressed rather frequently, and I do realise that it has been a problem. However, my observations from the past few years are essentially to the effect that there seemed to be a small core group of long-term members who keep being involved in hostilities - either being primarily on the giving or on the receiving end of them, but still universally considering the continued presence of the other side unacceptable. This seemed to contribute a lot to the perpetuation of inactivity, as the only options were to either dismiss or even punish the members of said core group, causing outrage among the "oldbies", or to dismiss or even punish the other faction involved, causing people who are not part of said group to be alienated. I am inclined to think that said core group mostly making Kafuka their new home might well be a chance for improvement in that regard.

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Posted on 01-05-12 09:00 PM, in Can you remove files from the uploader? Link | Quote | ID: 149106


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Done, and sorry. I believe the functionality was disabled at some point because people were complaining about files vanishing for no apparent reason, making us suspect the presence of some hard-to-identify security hole in the deletion function.

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Posted on 01-05-12 09:09 PM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! (rev. 2 of 01-05-12 09:09 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 149108


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Since the sprawling tumbleweed has been mentioned several times, as a first step, the following sections have been closed:
Debate
Officer's Club
Story/SimBattle Forum
Entertainment

Please make it known if you think more should go, or you see some urgent reason why any of them should be resurrected. Topics that previously would have gone into either of them may as well go into General Chat.

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Posted on 01-05-12 09:41 PM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149111


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Refactoring any of the ROM hacking sections is a bit problematic because they have high archive value that goes beyond the possibility of any new activity happening there. However, if anyone wants to clean up stickies and is reasonably committed and trustworthy, please let me know. We have a notable shortage of global moderators at the moment.

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Posted on 01-05-12 11:15 PM, in Spark Spectra Link | Quote | ID: 149123


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The concept sounds somewhat like Warning Forever...

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Posted on 01-05-12 11:18 PM, in Should I apply to top-tier Ivy League universities? Link | Quote | ID: 149124


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On the other hand, I found that Berkeley's grad application form was second only to MIT's (which was pretty peculiar anyway, being a set of textareas on a hierarchy of pages of spartan design) in terms of cleanliness and ease-of-use. Most universities used some broken, sluggish and overloaded with pointless javascript common application provider site like Embark.

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Posted on 01-05-12 11:20 PM, in Spark Spectra Link | Quote | ID: 149126


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Ah, I see. Should have gotten that from your initial post, sorry... either way, it still does seem like a sort of evolution of WF's concept.

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:05 AM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149129


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Well then, that's a good start. You are hired.

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:17 AM, in Secret of Mana Editor.. part.. 3? Link | Quote | ID: 149132


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The board wouldn't let me register at all (repeatedly claiming that the name was already taken), and it seems that I need to in order to be able to download attachments. Could you please upload a copy on this board's uploader (linked at the top), assuming it's not too large?

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:28 AM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149140


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Well, we've probably got the bases covered as far as moving threads goes, but generally, I think you would do a great job as a moderator (and hope you have some ideas for things to do), so welcome on board, I guess.

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:33 AM, in NYT Op-Ed: Internet Access is not a Human Right Link | Quote | ID: 149141


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I agree with what seems to be his central point to me. A concept as lofty as that of a "human right" seems like it ought to be agnostic of circumstances and technology to a sufficient degree that it can be written down as an actual lasting maxim for humanity that would make as much sense to a human specimen 2000 years ago as it will make sense to somebody 2000 years from now. A more neutral formulation of this right would be some sort of general notion of freedom of access to information that is required to make the informed decisions that you have to make by delegating part of your natural power/authority (in the Hobbesian sense), or a right to social and political participation (which would then also imply other, well-established concepts like freedom of assembly).

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:36 AM, in We have reached an impasse, and now a wall! Link | Quote | ID: 149142


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Posted by Synthetekh
what if we started some group projects
Has been tried...

And yes, I agree that we need to find a new direction, for whatever meaning of "direction" one chooses to prefer. The question, then, just is what this direction should look like...

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Posted on 01-06-12 12:56 AM, in Secret of Mana Editor.. part.. 3? Link | Quote | ID: 149150


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Thanks! Confirmed to work in Wine:



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Posted on 01-06-12 01:08 AM, in Collaborative language learning Link | Quote | ID: 149155


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Tones... if you don't annotate it with the tones, the romanised writing does not convey enough information.

Well, I, for my part, agree with the sentiment that knowing the language of our future Chinese overlords can only come in handy. Whether the board is the right medium for it or not, I do not know.

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