Sean Mahan / Texts
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Busily preparing for a collaborative production Lara Black and I are working that's "due" in September. Since she and I met through SFZero, our little game will (arguably) deserve some credit for creating a life!
The offending gremlins have been humanely trapped, and relocated to my washing machine.
This may be the finest task I've seen in years.
One might reasonably have thought, "40 characters is enough for anybody"...
In lieu of vigilance, you can just add "&p=[player id #]" to the end the url on the tasks page. e.g. look how many Babe tasks there are:
http://sf0.org/tasks/?order=score&grp=false&p=3041
Or how many pretired Burn Unit tasks there are:
http://sf0.org/tasks/?order=score&grp=false&status=unscored&p=274
Or how many approved EquivalenZ tasks rongo rongo has:
http://sf0.org/tasks/?order=score&grp=false&g=2&p=1221
A player's ID shows up here and there, but I've found the most convenient way to look it up is to try to send that player a message. The new message popup window's URL will end in "&tpID=[player id]"
(it means "'to' player ID"; "'fpID' is the "from player", i.e. you)
Maybe next era should be named "The Great Awakening"?
Should this be documented? Yes. Is it? No. Anyway:
For each thing (person, task, completion, etc), each player can assign a group of terms. If you click "edit" next to terms on this completion, you'll see a blank text field (unless you're jjason or babe). So type (in this case) "votelater" (it should autocomplete once you start typing), then hit "add terms".
That'll mean that both you and jjason have termed that completion "votelater", which also increases the weight of that term for that completion. Terms are displayed in order according to their weight: if you termed that completion "babesvotereminder", then "babesvotereminder" would have a weight of 2, and would start showing up in front of "votelater" (which currently has a weight of 1, since only JJason termed it that).
Mouse over the term "votelater", and a tooltip will pop up that says, "Termed by: jjason, [whoever else]".
To change how you termed something (say, you voted and want to get rid of "votelater"), hit "edit" again and just delete the term you want to clear out. Poof! If someone else also termed it "votelater", then that term will still be shown on that completion.
Finally, you can use negative terms. Computer nerds use "!" to mean "not" - for SFZero terms, you can also use "-". So, you can tag a completion "!boring" (or "-boring"). That means that, for that completion, the "boring" term will have a weight of -1, and will show up last in the list of terms. If a term's weight is negative, it'll display as "![term]".
For good and ill, this means you can have term wars: if I term a player "!boring" (so boring weight of -1), and you term them "boring" (so boring weight of +1), they cancel out, boring has a weight of 0 for that player, and the term won't display on their page.
I submitted another task, just picked one at random, and submitted it. Then I hit un-submit, and while I got that warning screen shot asking if I'm sure, I copied the IP address for that page. Then I took the end of the extension (&unsubmit=1) and pasted it onto the end of the High Score Task edit page, and was able to fool the page into thinking it was getting an un-submit command and I was able to get away with un-submitting it like nothing had ever happened.
How embarrassing :[
KYLE! In honor of your return, let it be known that you can now add more points to a previously-cast vote (the 5pt cap remains in effect).