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Title	Law Bringer
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Registered	Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 21:09 Profile Homepage #4 Apparently, you believe that to give up your sanity, you need to post large quantities of emoticons. A common misconception. It merely causes insanity in others. [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 21:10: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SMBTI redesign in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 21:05 Profile Homepage #14 quote: Originally written by ben12C8: Actually, the conservative versus liberal distinction is very one-sided. So you can probably guess which side I'm on. :P You can separate Spiderweb members into these categories: Lurkers: Those looking through the keyhole. Arctic Food: Those who own unused accounts. Inquirers: Those who come to ask a question and leave. Half-Sanitied Ones: Those who start a big welcome topic but are never seen again. Spammers: Those who love to post and post a lot and have little to the post. (^___^) Trolls: Those who don't post much but do not actually read the topic. Oldbies: Those who have a lot of posts and are still here. Newbies: See spammers. Semi-Lurkers: Those who read the board and only post when people get suspicious of their death. RW: He who does not post anyway. A new theory: RW, at one point in His earthly lifespan, posted on these forums. After all, section 13 could be said to be his company message board. However, since no posts (nor an account) made by RW remain, I surmise that the first has been lost to a purge, and the second to a crash. Unless it was not deleted, but is unrecognizable from the profile. What would happen if it were to be found? It would be a religious upheaval among the Cult! o_O -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 20:11 Profile Homepage #6 The post statistics monitor I was talking about above so far only grabs the post count on General, but I could easily modify it to count the other boards as well, in the future. In fact, I was planning to do so this weekend. As for actual member/forum statistics, that's currently impossible. I'd need every single thread page and post saved and then identified according to member - and even if I could do this with the archives I have now, it would be a bit of a hassle to restart PPP every month just to count stats... ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Let's Go! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 19:22 Profile Homepage #27 quote: Originally written by Ash Lael: You're making up a language. That's so cute! Wait. Which is cute - that someone is making up a language, that Nicothodes is doing something, or only both when put together? I mean, you haven't yet called Drakey, me or Thralni cute yet. :P (and no, that wasn't supposed to sound disappointed...) [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 19:23: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
It ain't over til the diva chokes on her tongue in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 19:16 Profile Homepage #30 Indeed so... quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: a warm, delicious chocolate chip cookie Edit: Kel was first, again. [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 19:17: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 19:12 Profile Homepage #2 Usually only from the new guys - the others have gotten used to it. :P -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
A Year of Stats in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 18:37 Profile Homepage #0 You're probably wondering why it is supposedly a "year" when the first statistics topic was clearly posted in April, and quite a bit less than one year ago. In a moment, you will also wonder why, instead of just posting the goddamn stats, I ramble on and on about old times. In one week, a year ago - on February 24, 2005 - was the first day that I started running the hourly "post monitor" for the General forum. Since then it has - with a break of about two months last summer - run unceasingly and unerringly, querying the boards every hour, on the hour, to find out a) how many posts are on General, b) how many topics are on General and c) how many members have registered. That was my first venture into the world of PHP scripting, incidentally (I tried to make a guestbook back in August 2004, but that was a spectacular failure). This monitor script has seen a lot of changes in the days since it began. It started out using flat text files (comma-separated) to store the numbers, which I would have to laboriously copy into an Excel spreadsheet I was storing locally. Ever so often, I would neglect this for a few weeks on end, and would then have to spend hours updating everything. There was trouble on the Spiderweb end as well - not 48 hours after it started, we had a board crash during which Saunders' account died and a few dozen posts were lost (this has, of course, been dwarfed by the loss of about 40,000 posts last month in the purge) Also, on the server it ran on, there were no cron jobs (scheduled tasks to run at certain intervals), and I had to literally run it myself every hour - or put a code snippet on a high-traffic webpage so it would be triggered by the visitors. Not very reliable. Around August, when I learned a bit about MySQL, I managed to move the whole thing from a flat file to a database table, which made everything a lot less tedious and faster. In October, when I learned how to do dynamically generated images with PHP, I made a neat graph ( www.ermarian.net/stats/ ) for displaying this. Finally, in December I moved it to a new server where I could use cronjobs, and since then I haven't really had to maintain it. Patience, we're almost there. Stats will follow right away. -- Updates: - As I might have posted a couple of weeks ago, there is now a Search Function that allows you to search within all the monthly tables. - There is now a profile page that can display all of a single member's data in a given month; it is reachable from the search results. - A few days ago I found a few old Excel tables - namely for May, June and July 05. These are now in the database. At that point I was only saving member number, name, posts and title, so the other data is missing (or rather, copied from the August table). - The birthday field behaved a bit weirdly for people older than the Unix Era (ie born before 1970), this should be fixed now. If you were born before 1970, check if your birthday is correct in this month's table. - I just noticed I royally screwed up the joining dates this month. Since those don't change, and aren't essential, I just leave them as they are now and then fix them in the next update in March. In other news: Polaris, which was stuck since late November last year without a domain name, has now been given the freshly registered www.polarisboard.net. Be sure to update your bookmarks. :) And now, finally, the stats. I. Joining Rate There are exactly 100 new members. Actually, those would be 101 by now, but the last one joined while I was making the update and didn't get counted. Of these 100, 59 posted. All in all, not bad compared to the recent months, but a noticable drop from January. Monthly Overview: April 2005: 151/87 May 2005: 78/43 June 2005: 147/91 July 2005: 153/88 August 2005: 108/62 September 2005: 91/52 October 2005: 81/43 November 2005: 83/41 December 2005: 85/52 January 2006: 136/86 February 2006: 100/59 II. Activity 268 members have posted since the last update, this includes 59 new members and 209 old ones. Here, too, a downward trend. Monthly Overview: April 2005: 360 (273) May 2005: 262 (219) June 2005: 325 (232) July 2005: 352 (264) August 2005: 293 (231) September 2005: 256 (204) October 2005: 229 (186) November 2005: 234 (193) December 2005: 239 (187) January 2006: 333 (247) February 2006: 268 (209) III. Postage 4555 posts were made this month, which is the third lowest so far. This comes to 153.24 posts per day, 17 posts per member, and 0.572 per member per day. Monthly Overview: April 2005: 7576 \| 186 \| 21 \| 0.47 May 2005: 4723 \| 169 \| 18 \| 0.52 June 2005: 7267 \| 251 \| 22.4 \| 0.77 July 2005: 8691 \| 271.6 \| 24.7 \| 0.77 August 2005: 5917 \| 190.9 \| 20.1 \| 0.65 September 2005: 5412 \| 174.6 \| 21.1 \| 0.68 October 2005: 4477 \| 149.3 \| 19.5 \| 0.65 November 2005: 4389 \| 141.6 \| 18.8 \| 0.61 December 2005: 3958 \| 131.9 \| 16.6 \| 0.55 January 2006: 6580 \| 204.3 \| 19.8 \| 0.61 February 2006: 4555 \| 153.24 \| 17 \| 0.57 IV. Rankings This month's rankings are available here. Amazingly, I "win". Or tie with Dikiyoba, rather. The order in which the first two are positioned is not biased, but rather based on total postcount as a secondary sorting key. Since I have more posts in total, I'm before Diki. Last month, I said I took 8 hours for the stats. Fortunately, this trend is not continuing, this time it was only from midnight to 4:37, and I had time to do other things while it was running. :) [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 18:40: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
"About Us" page in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 17:35 Profile Homepage #4 quote: Originally written by Arancaytar the Grey (in "Runescape anyone?": quote: Originally written by Kaemin: i'm just stupid quote: Originally written by Prometheus: ... There is an "about us" link right on the menu bar on the main page. OMG role reversal! :eek: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 15:32 Profile Homepage #526 OOC: I wouldn't mind if Sequoia woke up again soon. You've spent enough of the time unconscious for three roleplays... ;) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • The Stats • Polaris • IRC• RSS [Topic / Forum (redirect)] The awful doom of Yaddith we evade Will soon be snuffling at our heels again The snouted worms can track us through our dreams. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
It ain't all over 'til...Oh...Erm... in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 15:21 Profile Homepage #12 Lord of the Rings. :P My mind is frequently set in another world entirely, like this movie. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Runescape anyone? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:36 Profile Homepage #442 quote: Originally written by Kaemin: i'm just stupid Wait. I'm not TM. Whatever. :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 08:23 Profile Homepage #9 There is a kind of irony in the dilemma that releasing the source could be the single greatest step towards reviving the BoE community, while at the same time Jeff would not want to release the source until he is sure he cannot sell the game anymore... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Hanged? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 07:18 Profile Homepage #68 quote: In reality, I, and no other Christian, can offer any unbeliever enough proof to change their mind. From the context, a negative is missing somewhere in that sentence... --- Also, since I like to be devil's advocate (and I myself am agnostic): How can we know whether TM is sincere in his belief or not? Apart from educated guesses, what would be the deciding difference between the possibility that TM does not actually believe in a pissgod and is just lying, and the possibility that he is in fact believing in it? That's the kind of thing we had to debate in Theory of Knowledge... :rolleyes: -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Let's Go! in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 06:51 Profile Homepage #23 quote: Originally written by Resident Angel: I see an urgent need for an EV:N total conversion to explain how the vahnatai went from starfaring to living in caves beneath the surface of Ermarian. Come on. When else are you going to have a chance to actually use Alxus in a meaningful context? —Alorael, who wonders whether space chitrachs and star hydras are significant threats to vahnatai waveships. That would be awesome. I'd do it, if it weren't for the two problems that I have no idea how Nova plugins work, and Jeff would probably disapprove. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
What to be added in Avernum 4? in The Avernum Trilogy
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 06:42 Profile Homepage #11 Where "stuff I no longer want" is, of course, loosely defined depending on the current party level... :P Mid-game, the trash I need to get rid of tends to consist of things like firebolt wands, scrolls of summoning, steel longswords... -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
omg I am teh USPS in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 06:34 Profile Homepage #25 Alex, I can spare some webspace and probably more than enough traffic volume, including FTP access. You could either make a new folder on http://stuff.ermarian.net (access info is on the site), or I could set up a new subdomain or something. (I'm already hosting my sister on a separate subdomain with her own ftp account, so that seems to work all right). :) [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 06:38: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 06:05 Profile Homepage #7 If Jeff would bother at all, he might possibly release the source of the scenario editor, since that is a free tool not connected to the paid program - he did the same for BoA after all. However, since the game is equally buggy, it is not clear how much this would change. Except that editing could become a whole lot more convenient if tools like a better dialogue or node manager were built into the editor. [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 06:06: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Mountain of Shadows RP in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 04:58 Profile Homepage #524 OOC: Since the seven remaining characters are currently split in two parties (Lisha, Edith, Cain and Filbert; Melora, Sequoia, Tuulentekija), and I'm the last poster in my party, Ephesos or FF need to post again before my next IC. I mention this because over the next few weeks I will have time to write regularly again. Or we could join the parties again, which would be great because we could move a little faster. That'd be a good thing. I never thought I'd say that about any RP, but this one has been running for more than half a year... Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 04:46 Profile Homepage #5 2 have been being made since the dawn of time, if you want to go by that. One is mine, and it just passed its fourth anniversary back in October. The other is Drakefyre's, and it was already ancient when I joined this place. So if you go by that, Blades is never going to die. In a manner of speaking. -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Hanged? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 03:59 Profile Homepage #66 quote: Originally written by ef: If that is so, could you point me to some more recent and more liberal interpretations of the islamic faith and its interrelation with other faiths? Many adherents of such liberal interpretations can be found online, both on their websites and in forums (I haven't got any specific examples right now, though). From what I've seen, the fundamentalists are actually in the minority on the internet, but like with Christians it is a very loud and very angry minority. [ Thursday, February 16, 2006 04:00: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
The Spiderweb Instant Custom Title Generator? in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Thursday, February 16 2006 01:06 Profile Homepage #151 quote: Originally written by The Stew Boy: You know, I never realised we had so many members. Just by looking at the first page, I'm surprised. But you haven't done one for me yet... The active posters usually number above 300 over any given 30-day period, judging from the monthly stats. Considering that, 35 members in this list is actually not a lot by comparison... (Which also just made me notice that I once again messed up my own updating script by uploading an older version onto the newer one. I probably deleted the local version as well. :rolleyes: ) -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
"The End of Blades" Discussion in Blades of Avernum
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 15 2006 23:19 Profile Homepage #2 quote: Originally written by i: The time has come. Blades has been host to great minds and innovators, but now the community is moribund. One of the last vessels of creativity and inspiration in cyberspace is but a fleeting memory. The demise of Blades was long foretold and is now at hand. All things must die, all circles must close, and Blades has reached its silent end. This will be the topic of the next (and perhaps the last) Blades Chat on Saturday, February 18 at 6 pm EST. My sarcasm detector is giving me strange signals, but I never knew i to be sarcastic. Is the detector functioning correctly? -------------------- Encyclopaedia • Archives • Members • RSS [Topic / Forum] • Blog • Polaris • NaNoWriMo Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. I have a love of woodwind instruments. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
SMBTI redesign in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 15 2006 23:13 Profile Homepage #3 Deep conflicts appear mainly in political debates and roleplays. From the traditional divides in those areas, perhaps we can map the differences onto this personality scale in some way? -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Behold the SMBTI in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 15 2006 20:56 Profile Homepage #9 quote: Originally written by Slartucker: Edit: It occurs to me that these line up with the actual MBTI in some amusing ways. MBTI Ns tend to be more verbose than Ss online. Thinking/New Age is obviously Thinking/Feeling. And Prescriptivism and Descriptivism actually parallel J and P pretty closely. In that case, this thread may be of interest for comparison... -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00
Behold the SMBTI in General
Arancaytar Law Bringer Member # 2984	written Wednesday, February 15 2006 20:31 Profile Homepage #5 V/F seems much more related to Newbie/Oldbiehood than to personal levels of aggression. Or, looking at it another way, perhaps staying around Spiderweb a long time induces one to build a basic level of online aggression? FSNP, perhaps? I tend between idealism and cynicism quite frequently, but compared to the average I'm rather on the New Age, Prescriptivist than on the Thinking, Descriptivist side. However, without a quiz to go with this four-scaled system, self-analysis is worthless. :P [ Wednesday, February 15, 2006 20:33: Message edited by: Arancaytar the Grey ] -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 \| Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00

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