At 8/9/09 08:50 PM, iscrulz wrote: Oh well I like things more simple. Star Pace was something D0GMA made up and so you should be able to decide whatever the hell a Star Pace is but to bad there won't be any twinkling stars.

The basis of the many drawbacks to posting in thread is the limits of html they let us use here, and the lack of space to insert image codes for the flashy flashy stars I made was the least of the problems.

In any case, yes, 1k/week was the break point I selected for the stars. They were not common which made them more special to have obtained ... at least until Bob became unemployed for a short period and started getting them every week. Even when several people were earning them in a week, it was still a relatively uncommon event, and those were during periods when 1500+ submissions a week were coming in.

As this is your list now, set the star pace at whatever level you want. My main advice on it is to continue to make it difficult to obtain. That keeps it in the spirit in which it was originally intended ... and star pace is simply something else you will need to track. One option I toyed with but never implemented was making it a percentage relative to the total submissions in between updates. Simply note the PID of the most recent submission at the time of one post and subtract it from the PID of the most recent when you start gathering the stats for the next, with your selected percentage then dictating how points they needed to have earned to obtain the star.

Good Luck!

At 2/16/08 12:01 PM, life wrote: 064) 36919 0000 000.0 D0GMA -1

rofl ... how the hell am I still ranked?

At 8/17/06 12:18 AM, -fasdit- wrote:

At 8/16/06 02:38 AM, WestCoast_Clock wrote: Heh...shirt.

I would actually buy that one lol.

Clock Crew is actually selling shirts with that logo. Check page one, a few people posted links to it.

At 8/16/06 09:34 PM, Yokumashu wrote: my D!!! got blammed, so I can buy 2 shirts.

Actually no, you can only buy one. Happy Clawk Dai!! passed, and since you can only submit twice per day, you can't be more than one of those 114.

And "My flash work is utter shit" brown:

At 8/16/06 02:40 AM, Denvish wrote: Heh. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice shirts. You should do some in vomit green.

Hehe =)

Recently added to our production line are two more options for your wearing pleasure.

"My flash made people puke on Clock Day" green:

Official site

At 8/16/06 02:56 AM, Kiril_Tupitsin wrote: exept the 1st daily place, where can i see the all places for each day..?

Go here. Next to Time Period is a drop-down menu. Select whichever placement you wish to see.

At 8/16/06 01:48 AM, -absentminded- wrote:
Also got a savior flash out of it, but it's not nearly as bad as when I came online around 9:45 am, when the UJ submissions were backlogged throughout a good 4-5 pages or more. I think I got 5 savior flash then :o

~nod~ I got on about 7 and it took me until 8:30 just to get through all the ones that weren't on the main page. I just figured some others wouldn't know how to find the ones from yesterday ... see if pointing them in the right direction gets them finished up.

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At 8/16/06 01:24 AM, iscrulz2 wrote:
There will be a galaxy the next update.

I phear the update ...

Clock Day Clean-up Crew ... where ever you folks are, we've still got some work for you.

UJ flash are still backlogged, and quite a few of them are available to be voted upon again as they were technically submitted last week as far as the NG Clock is concerned.

Check here and here for anything still listed as Under Judgement.

Only your first (original) vote will count towards any saves or (*gasp*) blams you may obtain, but both votes from last night and this morning will count towards pushing flash towards the checkpoints. The faster we get them through, the sooner wyou'll get your BPs.

At 7/30/06 11:18 AM, the_m4_man wrote: cool thx

Just a head's up. You've made 9 posts so far, and 7 of them have an image in the post itself that has nothing to do with your comment. At the top of EVERY forum is a thread labelled: New User: Read this before posting. Obviously you haven't, and you need to make the time to do so.

"Picture spamming can get on our nerves VERY quickly. Please refrain from posting the same picture over and over. If you like it so much, put it into your BBS signature. To do so, log into your account, and click on "edit your BBS Signature Pic"."

At 7/30/06 10:35 AM, Afro_Stud wrote:

At 7/29/06 08:10 PM, The_Nameless_0ne wrote: Crap you people have been busy. It took me over an hour just to log all the stars

I suppose my constant name-changing didn't help ;)

Not particularly no :-P~~~

Hall of Fame has been updated.

Congrats to Afro (of the many names) on 10 more stars ... 1 for every week I was gone lol
Congrats to Denvish on 6 more, and enough to retain the "top dawg" slot over Afro.
Congrats and welcome to Fermion, going from 0 to 6 stars in my absence.
Congrats and welcome to JoKeR_ADT, who obtained his 1st and 4th over that time frame.
And finally, congrats and welcome to our new one star wonders: DrJam, Ghost_Phantom, harryjarry, pepeatumi, and SeaMonky.

Cheers =)

At 7/28/06 05:01 PM, Denvish wrote: Nah, I'm dead.

Damn, and I was even in England twice this month ... granted it was only for a total of 6 hours, but still.

Whistles levels operate the same way as XP levels, they are both static and dynamic with respect to whomever happens to have the most points.

Whomever has the most Whistle Points is the Deity. In the same way that there can be multiple level 30s when two or more people have the same amount of XP, there can also be mutliple Deities, but it is impossible for users to know the actual values required for any given Whistle Level. On two occassions (might be 3, I always forget) Joe and ramagi had Deity level simultaneously.

The amount needed to become Gold is known to be dynamic with respect to the Deity's total points, and is an extremely high percentage of their points; at least 50% and probably 75%. As such, there can be 0, 1, 2, or 400 Gold Whistles, providing enough people have a sufficient number of Whistle Points to qualify for Gold.

The amount needed to become Silver is believed to be static, as no one is known to fall from Silver to Bronze through mere inactivity. This is a fairly low amount as, when backlogged flags are finally processed, it is not uncommon for people to skip Bronze entirely and find themselves moving from Normal directly to Silver. Think of this as XP level 9, although it might be 10.

The amount needed to become Bronze is known to be static and is an extremely small amount; perhaps 10 points. Think of this as XP level 4 or 5.

Normal is a range of ponits +/- around 0, perhaps -5 to 9. Think of this as XP level 1.

Garbage can only be achieved by bad flagging, and having points removed after flaggings are processed.

Each Whistle level has a Whistle Power, similar to Vote Power, inherent in each individual's flagging. Garbage counts for 0, and is simply a way for people to get themselves in deeper trouble or get back up to normal. Normal whistles have a range of something like 0-0.5, Bronze from 0.5-1.0, Silver from 1.0-2.0, Gold from 2.0-3.0, and Deity 3.0. At one time my WP was 1.61, but I'm sure it's slipped down below 1.10 by now lol

Flagged flash need X number of Whistle Power cast against it to set it aside for review, Malicious needing significantly fewer points than the other two categories for it to be removed from the Portal. Flagged reviews need to get to a certain value, or perhaps simply a certain number of votes, before they are brought to the attention of the Review Mods, but are not removed from view until reviewed and only if the Mod deems it to be sufficiently bad.

Although there is no way to lose experience points, there is a way to lose Whistle Points. The only way to lose Whistle Points is to unnecessarily flag flash or reviews. This is the only way to drop from Bronze to Normal or Normal to Garbage, and is believed to be the only way to drop from Silver to Bronze.

It is also believed that flagging a flash earns more points than flagging a review. To my knowledge, this has never been confirmed nor denied by liljim & company. It makes sense that a flash would earn you (or cost you in the case of bad flagging) more points, as it is more difficult to be able to flag a flash that is only in the Portal for 30 minutes than to flag a review that is available for flagging for days or weeks. Just because it makes sense doesn't make it true, so take that with a grain of salt.

GIMP is supposed to be good as well. Never used it myself as I have a couple versions of PhotoShop, but it's supposed to have most of the same capabilities and is freeware so won't cost you anything.

Yeah, so umm ... whoops! So I went back to Germany for the Final. After that I started hanging out with Kerstin in Leipzig, then stuck around for Love Parade in Berlin, then decided to make a side trip to Budapest to hang out with some friends of mine who happened to be there, and then well, Kess is that cute so I kind of kept missing my plane ... Six time zones difference definitely qualifies for the "geographically undesireable" classification, but I'm having a hard time giving a shit.

My German was "so-so" before I left, and is a step or two above "decent" now. My current running joke is: they say that, "the best way to learn a language is through immersion." It's actually a close second to, "trying to chat up a really hot woman who doesn't speak any Englisch." You learn in a mighty big fucking hurry =)

Ah well, at least it means I'll be up early tomorrow so we can chat between her shifts. While I wait for her, I'll start going through the old posts looking for the star pacers and playing catch up on them. Maybe I'll even get Nameless back in the 100 in the next week or two lol

Hier ist euch erster Blick der Dame, die mein Herz besitzt =)

And one last one for the girls:

That guy was wearing the only American flag I saw on the entire Fan Mile lol

And one last go for the boys:

and for the girls

Hehehe, OOOOPS!! After I ran into my 50th person asking me when I was heading back to Germany for the last games of the Cup, I finally said "Today", went home and started buying plane tickets. My connection has (again) been spotty while I've been here, so haven't been able to get any of these up until now. No game tickets for this go, just a lot of shots from the Fan Mile during and after the Final.

You can see the rest at my site, or just go directly to the Fan Mile pages. Second link will be broken once I get home and start being able to move them into the People section, but that's going to be at least another week.

I'll waste my 4/hour posting a few. Had to hack them down a bit to get them under the 50kb limit. First for the boys:

At 6/24/06 04:37 AM, BigChave53 wrote: Why does the U.S. suck this year? Wasnt this the year we were supposed to go deep?

The US had no strong midfielders to even attempt to control or direct play. Donovan is the "best" the US has and I just don't like him. To my knowledge, he's never said or done anything wrong, I just never liked him from the first time I saw him. He didn't do anything right in the Cup either, so my opinion has not been improved. Even beyond him, the overall play was uninspired, slogging defense looking for a breakaway ... which works if you don't constantly fuck up your passes and fail on your offside traps 75% of the time. IMO most of he blame should go to Arena, for what they did, and FIFA's ranking system, for what was expected of them

At 6/24/06 10:53 AM, -Markus wrote: You think Poll is bad? For fucks sake Portugal will have to deal with that Russian cunt Ivanov who fails game after game.

A prediction that proved far too accurate ....

At 6/24/06 11:14 AM, -Rule- wrote:
Germany is gonna win the world cup

They're actually playing like they want to win now. Much better than I expected, though I still don't see them progressing to the Final. Friday's match against Argentina should be one of the better of the tournament, no matter who wins. I'll be rooting for Deutschland, but I don't see them pulling it off with Lehman in front of the net.

At 6/24/06 05:05 PM, wismty wrote: I hate to admit it, but that was one hell of a goal....

Mexico is one of those teams that you look at and think that they deserve a top finish, if not actually winning the Cup. A goal like that though, dream shot ...

At 6/24/06 05:32 PM, pepeatumi wrote: And Argentina wins 2-1 and they'll face Germany in their next match.. But let's be honest both teams deserved to win this game they went out played a great game and left it all out on the field and it took one hell of a goal to decide the game. So props to Mexico for giving Argentina one hell of a battle and props to Argentina for winning what was a tough game for them.

Probably the best summation of what this is all supposed to be about, though I'd have to say that this is the toughest challenge since they faced Brazil in qualifying ... unlike the Portugal-Netherlands crap where they just picked up where they left off at the Euro 2004 brawl.

At 6/24/06 05:50 PM, m4ilm4n wrote:

At 6/24/06 05:19 PM, -Rule- wrote: Even if Argentina passes, Germany will rape them 4-0.

Why is everybody so optimistic about Germany? I didn't even think we'd get past the group stage (or what ever that's called in English).

Group Stage/Group Round/Group Phase ... all the same really. Save for Ecuador, we had a pretty weak group and odds were we'd make it out to the 16, but I don't see us making it past Argentina without some truly inspired play. Podu was great yesterday, but everyone will have to step it a notch or three to win.

At 6/25/06 04:55 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: What a game. Oh well, England vs Portugal it is then. Our arch-rivals, no less.

Yeah, but after that brawl ... err game, Portugal is down two starters for at least 1 game and has half a dozen players carrying yellow. Didn't one of their guys catch a 4 match ban off a red as well? No telling if Ronaldo will be fit either. I won't say it will be a walk in the park, but the edge is definitely to England for Saturday's match.

At 6/25/06 05:04 PM, Denvish wrote:

At 6/25/06 04:56 PM, wismty wrote: 4 Expulsions, 16 yellows!

Outrageous.

Have to agree, once again the refereeing ruined what was potentially a great game. It's been ridiculous in this tournament.

This is the worst I've seen it. Robben going up for a header in the box and getting kicked in the shoulder and the ref making NO CALL was utterly ridiculous. With everything else that was getting carded, how was that not even a foul? Half of both teams should have been tossed for those altercations, but hopefully FIFA, UEFA, or both will at least follow up and hand out some sanctions and fines for it. Bad officiating only made things worse.

At 6/25/06 05:12 PM, AloneInTheDark wrote: Well one thing is sure, portugal and holland are pretty equal opponents when it comes to taekwondo.

Thanks. After that fiasco, I needed a good laugh =)

At 6/25/06 05:59 PM, -Markus wrote:
But my biggest disgust, that actually made me want to win the match for justice mostly is when the Dutch broke an age old tradition/ etiquette. Their player was down, the ball went of the game while we where attacking. When the game gets going, initially it looks like Portugal is getting the ball back and we where waiting…but no. the pass went to Heitinga who just took off with the ball leaving the Portuguese players glued to the field because they expected the ball. And that for me was absolute foul, just foul. I have seen losing teams with 5 minutes left to play give the ball back to the other team. It was a big disgrace that act of shit. Am I wrong?

Not in the least. I gaped at the TV when I saw him make a run and finally managed to yell, "what the fuck do you think you're doing?" right before they tackled him. Quite frankly, he deserved that hit ... and the stern talking to that Portugal was giving him while he was on the ground.

The Holland players' reaction, pushing them away from him, was understandable, but they could have handled it soooo much better. Instead they earned a couple extra yellows while Deco got his second, and all because Heitinga decided to be a nitwit.

At 6/25/06 07:41 PM, SpongeMan wrote: Is the USA still playing or not?

Long gone. Czech Republic handed them their asses back in Group, and their best result was a 1-1 tie against Italy. They ramped up their play against Ghana but it was too little too late and still got beat, so now they are back in the States watching it on TV.

At 6/22/06 11:56 AM, -Alex- wrote: USA can't beat Ghana. Ghana is the size of one of our states for fucks sake.

Two. It's the same size as Illinois and Indiana.

Root for Togo!!

Rick's version: "Hey, I have to root for Togo. The country is twice the size of a football field and half their population is playing on the team. How can you not root for Togo."

My version: "If Togo ties or wins, France goes home."

At 6/22/06 11:59 AM, mighty_potato wrote: This just tells me that the FIFA ranking system is completely wrong. Fifth ranked USA should have had no trouble beating Ghana. Also, the second ranked Czechs are out of the group round too. I definitely did not see Italy and Ghana coming out of the group. Group E was definitely a shocker.

Go back to page 2 or 3 when I was trying to see how I did against a FIFA re-rank; these people are as bad (or worse) than the BCS. Among other goofiness, Czech played Turkey and tied. For that match, Czech lost 4 points and Turkey lost 3 ...

At 6/22/06 12:16 PM, --Hybrid-- wrote: I wish all you fans out there could be over here right now, it's absolutely fantastic!

Unfortuately, I was there until last week, then had to go back to the States for my brother's wedding tomorrow. Leipzig last Sunday (save for the "eins ist genug" nonsense) was all I had hoped for. Holland needs to stop playing "enough," and actually play a full match or they will get their asses handed to them by Portugal or Brazil.

At 6/22/06 02:20 PM, jonthomson wrote:
Well, Brazil and Japan play out a meaningless game tonight, leaving Australia and Croatia to playoff for second. It's got the potential to be a very good match.

It wasn't exactly meaningless. If Japan had managed to hold on and win, while Australia lost or tied, Japan could have been through. My hope was that Japan won and Australia won by a lot (enough to make up their 3 goals behind Brasil), making Australia first in Group and sending Brasil to the other bracket. Pipe dream it was, but one had to hope.

At 6/22/06 03:19 PM, Bluefalcon92092 wrote: i think argentina will win.with that 6 to 0 victory that was cool.

6-0 over Serbia means nothing, just like 8-0 over Saudi meant nothing to the Germans last Cup. It's how you play against quality sides that matters ... and Argentina-Holland playing for nothing except getting out of the match without anyone having to sit out the next match means even less. The game we all expected to be (one of) the best Group games went out with a whimper.

At 6/23/06 06:12 AM, JesseRay wrote: Is it me or does FIFA need to re-access Australias world ranking (42)

Rankings were last done in mid-May, and won't be re-done util mid-July. They held off in June as the pre-cursors to the Cup and the Cup itself were about to begin, and are waiting until the Monday after the Cup is over to tally up the results of the last couple of months. Even when they do that, see my comments above for how little you should trust the rankings.

At 6/23/06 06:47 AM, madknt wrote:
seriously.. most international sports have points system but it resets with the world cup.

Nothing resets. Matches from 8 years ago are still factored into the point total, expiring as time moves on. When this Cup is over and they redo the rankings, all of the rankings from Cup '98 will expire ... so expect France to take a huge point and ranking hit, even if they do manage to make it out of Group this Cup.

At 6/23/06 07:41 AM, JesseRay wrote:
Also how did USA score 7th I think it was in the FIFA world rankings, commercial ploy or what?

They made it as high as 4th back in April. What happened was that 8 year expiration bit affected Argentina more (dropping from 4 to 8) than it affected US, Mexico, and Spain, by retiring more points from Argentina than it did from the others while not replacing it with new points earned in April ... since pretty much no one played anyone. Going from April to May, Mexico had no points retired, but the US did, so US slipped a rank below Mexico. It will be only slightly less nonsensical after the Cup is over.

At 6/21/06 06:17 PM, Vertigo200 wrote: The Argentina - Holland game was a very good, technical game, with neither side risking too much,

I always root for Nederland, but they've yet to actually play a full game. With today's game, I'd have been better off watching the Côte d'Ivoire-S&M match with Argentina-Hollan in PIP than the other way around. I sat in the stadium in Leipzig and watched them play a good 30 minutes, after which they sat back and tossed off for the rest of the match. Against Ghana, they played a great half ... then tossed off for the second. This time around they played a good second half. Against Portugal, thay are going to need to play a full game for the first time this tournament and one can only hope they finally bother to do so ... because unless Japan pulls off an amazing upset while Australia wins sunstantially over South Korea, Holland is in the same bracket as Brasil. "Eins ist genug," ist jetzt nicht genug. That kind of play and thought process will see them out in short order.

Tomorrow should see some brilliant games, as any mistake can cost any team a chance to go the next round. My verdict is that Ghana and Italy should clear through, barely.

Ghana has been playing some amazing football this tournament. After the US-Czech match, we were hanging out in an Irish pub in Gelsenkirchen with a bunch of Americans watching the Italy-Ghana match. They were all rooting for Ghana, of course, and there were also quite a few Italian fans there as well. By the end of the match, even the Italian fans were rooting for Ghana to at least score a goal .... not to win, mind you, but to at least score. US stepped up their play to "merely mediocre" against Italy and will have to do substantially better than that to survive Ghana. Ghana wants this match win, and you've yet to see that from the US side. Czech played a great game against the US, but folded against Ghana, and will likely rebound to turn Italy-Czech into a good matchup.

The match I'm really waiting for is the Togo-France game. If Togo at least ties, it doesn't matter what happens between Switzerland and South Korea ... France goes home muahaha

At 6/21/06 07:54 AM, Mr_Pope wrote:

Who it is likely we'll play in the quarters if we get past Ecuador, anyone know?

Argentina is a good bet, but still open. Argentina or Holland out of C and Portugal, Mexico, or Angola out of D will play and winner plays winner of England-Ecuador

~piffle~ posting the link was apparently an utter waste. Sorry, I'm not destroying my pictures from the Cup matches by dropping them to under 50k for posting here.

Am Morgen ist der Oranje Tag, so muß ich schlafen. Tschüß :-P~~~