The spice must flow!

RTM REPLY - that's a very valid point. Initially refs were hand-selected by the management team based on our personal experience in dealing with them. The process was slow at first but in time things picked up. By 2005 there was a larger influx of referees and it was hard to keep track of who was a...

wow two apolgoies from me in one thread, this is embarassing. my apologies to ersatz for forgetting that. i do recall it now but forget as i read through the other stuff. Other than that my point remains, jace please answer the question, this can be ended.

Echoing Snowflake, just wanted to point out that ersatz_cats posed the question in a post on 8 Dec 2019, but was apparently overlooked. Okaaaaaaay. What was your actual motivation, then? [/QUOTE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE5LFUknr8Q Hey Charlie!! 100%x

wow this has been a real eye opener. is this what i sound like fighting with rtm or a.d.? i read every comment and its taxing. i dont wanna skip anything unless theres something important mixed in. you've both made your point thoroughly, and you havent you never will. ersatz, there are...

"Hey guys TG is irrelevant but I feel the need to log in and tell you it's irrelevant". -golf clap-

Ok real fast responses for @! Nope. Wrong again. A quick step-through: 1.) Needed to remove from my wall (my reason for doing this is unstated) 2.) Didn't want to just delete the work into the nothingness. It was lifted from the adjudication thread, properly formatted and structured for...

Twin Galaxies is irrelavent anyway but look its not even worth 50k anymore Jace hall paid 200k for this defunct site and now its only worth 43,000 dollars LOL what a horrible investment jace hall has made theres no way poor jace is gonna turn A profit by selling this crap site check link...

Took a day off for football and work, but don't worry, I haven't disappeared. First it was "It should be on your wall instead of mine, because you're the creator." Then it was because "I didn't want to just trash all your hard work." Then it was "I've never given you a reason." And now...

lol well stated rtm well stated indeed. i have more to say on this which i will save for other comments

havent caught up on all the comments, but i can see i owe jace an apology so i want to do that before forgetting. I did not realize honored veteran was based on comment count. I incorrectly concluded it was a title you handed out to select members like "legendary" (which i'm pretty sure cant...

Gee, it makes you wonder what the motive was for active competitors wanting to "help out" by becoming refs knowing what we know now...

I want mine to be "Legendary In His Own Mind"

RTM REPLY - I honestly don't know as the "splintering" occurred much earlier. When I joined the old TG site back in the late 1990's approx 1997-1998 range, by then the "Snipercade" site was already there as was the "Cubeman" site. I never saw a posted explanation as to why that was only that these...

One more point of note from back in the day (pre-2003). There were two off-site databases maintained by TG referees...the "Snipercade" database comprising Atari/Intellivision scores and the MAME database comprising MAME scores. These sites were pretty much free-form text as maintained by their...

I know from my own research there seemed to be a lot of different web sites holding the scores. Would you say the main web site was the cause of the splintering of the scoreboard across many others or some other factor?

RTM REPLY - No referee back then should have been engaging in "score padding" and it is very unfortunate that some did. To be fair the rest did not. The problem with disallowing referees from actively competing back then was this...back in those days the active members expressing an interest...

I'd be okay with staff members competing now because the scores go through TGSAP. I agree there was zero control to a ref just entering their own scores and not knowing what is and isn't legit. With TGSAP it's not possible for self entry. Keeping the voting collusion out of it...I'm just talking...

You know a lot of the problems that are popping up from the past could of easily been avoided if refs weren't allowed to submit when they were active staff members. The questionable score padding from Tom Duncan, Todd Rogers' self entry, questionable verification and score submissions from Rodrigo...

The "Metroid Team" (or "Team Metroid") first surfaced at Twin Galaxies within the April-July 2001 range closer to July when the original five (5) "Crazy Taxi" bounty contest was being held. Member Cristiano Assumpcao claimed the "Crazy Party" bounty with an inspiring performance of 59.87...

Thanks for sharing that - very helpful context. At minimum, considering what's been shared thus far around referee roles and responsibilities, that there could very well have been conflicting interpretations around discretion and what was permissible in a verification context among the different...

According to these article, the members are: Rodrigo Lopes Carlos C. Krueger Cristiano Testai Valter André Treib http://g1.globo.com/Noticias/Games/0,,MUL330401-9666,00-BRASILEIRO+E+RECORDISTA+MUNDIAL+DO+JOGO+PITFALL.html ...

Four Brazilian gamers named themselves that. A brief search on Google should find them.

Doing something like this will only encourage nonsense posting. (Not that there is a significant amount of it already in this very thread even.) I get the idea behind it is to encourage participation. What would really be the end goal of it all? There is already a way in which someone can say "I...

As I'm not religious, there's no way for me to confirm you've cleansed your soul. However, this portion of the forum remains editable: cleanse away & I'll follow suit.

It was bookmarked on your browser. I was just seeing where you spend most of your time. Shocking, really. Not really. Are we going to continue our spat, or do you want to be pals again? It is a new week. I say forgive and forget.

LOLs... :D (Though I do agree to change the wording on them.)

RTM REPLY - Jace, that's a step in the right direction. Best to avoid user-defined status terms at all costs as it could lead to confusion as well such as if some users chose to give themselves a status indicating some form of administration, management, moderator or other potentially...

I'm glad you've discovered self-labelling: Why did you feel the need to frequent a racist and homophobic discord group aiming to cleanse TG? Was your White Supremecist tendancies threatened?

Hey @, I took a look at how the default system functions and it is purely based on posts. This is the current set up: Now its very easy for me to alter this and create more tiers, until a more complex system can be custom made to perhaps measure other achievement beyond "posts" to...

i total agree self selection would get out of control. the signature is what we have for self selction Nicknames and accolades should be earned. you dont get to call yourself t-bone. if you want that nickname just keeping t-bones until someone names you that on their own.

RTM REPLY - no idea why my own status indicates what it does...I did not choose it myself. One site started out forum post status using a "cherry" and worked your way up the "Ms Pacman" fruit line depending on quantity of posts, but only forum admins and mods received custom...

Can we pay to have someone's legendary member status removed? Asking for a friend.

I like the idea of customizable status or whatever it is. using submission points purchase them makes sense. But there's also something more interesting when a system or a group of people decide what the status or moniker is. for example if I change mine to say best video game player ever it's...