How moderation and the point system work

Here's a another quickie faq going over the submissions system here.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to have these FAQs stickied?

cool, i'll do my best

But I have a question. Everytime I go to edit a page for Mercs2 etc. I cannot add stuff if there is nothing there

I wanna add locations and objects but when I pull up the edit page all I get is a search thing. Help me staffer dood

Iim just wondering: How do the points work? 1 point for 1 submission? Do you get more points for longer submissions? What about images?

Nice post, answered some of my questions

thanks for posting it, i was wondering about that

Hey come back dude!

I was wondering how the points work too. If it's a point per submission, or even 10 points per submission, 1000 points isn't going to be an easy feat.

Hopefully this will stop all the "I want to be a mod" topics

Thanks!

"cool, i'll do my best

But I have a question. Everytime I go to edit a page for Mercs2 etc. I cannot add stuff if there is nothing there

I wanna add locations and objects but when I pull up the edit page all I get is a search thing. Help me staffer dood"

"cool, i'll do my best

But I have a question. Everytime I go to edit a page for Mercs2 etc. I cannot add stuff if there is nothing there

I wanna add locations and objects but when I pull up the edit page all I get is a search thing. Help me staffer dood"

"Nice post, answered some of my questions
"

okay, i'll let ya know if it works...if it does Peewi you rock

You know, I would love to be a moderator who approves images/game information. Currently by going through some game libraries of images, there are a few images that are duplicated, really low quality, or even other images from other games in a certain games gallery.

I also think that the boxarts of all games could be improved greatly, slimming down the variations of boxarts. Like a multiplat game with the boxart for the PS3/360 version only, stuff like that could be streamlined I suppose.

But this was helpful though, perhaps you can go in depth a bit about the points though, I would like to know what generally equals what, you know.

Thanks for the QAF of sorts, sites shaping up good.

yeah, thats not what I mean

I'll click on oh lets say "Locations' and then I click edit...and then the Luchodeer appears, and then it goes into edit mode but theres no Text box or anything, just a search thing saying "Search Locations" and its not in there. Help me Staff or users

Thank you, this answered some of my questions.

"yeah, thats not what I mean

I'll click on oh lets say "Locations' and then I click edit...and then the Luchodeer appears, and then it goes into edit mode but theres no Text box or anything, just a search thing saying "Search Locations" and its not in there. Help me Staff or users"

Why? That makes no sense. The idea is to add stuff

How do I create the Location then?

great this post was so needed thanks snide

Useful Information indeed.

Oh dear, I didn't know taking wikipedia content wasn't allowed :(

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How do I create the Location then?

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thanks lady

are we allowed to post videos of games

This would be beneficial for people looking for information on games like Rock Band or Guitar Hero to show them what the note charts look like

 Hyperesthesiac said:

"Thank you, this answered some of my questions.
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Awesome, okay, NOW im good

sounds good to me

Thanks for the FAQ. Answered a few things I was curious about. Still that 1000 points thing seems an age away right now!

I'm unsure letting people do live edits when they get 1000 points. That can be abused, but I guess anything can be. But is that the only thing points will be used for?

I think once we hit 1000 points, then the mods/admins approve or deny us depending on our history... something like that.

What about character additions and similar things? Do those take longer?
Also, will we get a message if something gets rejected? That would be nice.

If I want to write an entire article on the Wu-Tang Clan. what do I categorize that under?

Thanks a lot. Maybe sticky this....

I really like being able to add screenshots. A lot of the game pages are kinda deprived of those, so its really cool. Thanks for the post Snide.

Oops double post. Please delete.

What happens if someone submits something, then, before it's processed, someone else submits the same or similar? Presumably if the newer is obviously better it will replace the older, and if it's obviously worse it won't, but what if they both have strengths? Will the editors attempt to combine them, or is that beyond their job description? And how will points be handled in such situations? For example, I was reading the Tails article, and I noticed only two games were associated with it. "My my," I thought, "this could do with a little work." I started adding a whole load of stuff (all in one edit, incidentally), only to remember that edits take a while to process. I imagine that's a pretty high-profile page, so perhaps all my contributions had already been submitted. I'm not too bothered about the points thing right now, but it made me think of it, and it would be good to know how it works.

On a tangential note, should we avoid making too many submissions to really obvious articles? I imagine everyone's going for the really big franchises right now. Would it be more constructive to focus on more obscure articles? Or should we not really worry about that?

How do we cancel edits that we submitted, but are still pending (I forgot to add a comment). And also shouldn't forgetting to add a comment be a common reason for edit being rejected?

"I'm unsure letting people do live edits when they get 1000 points. That can be abused, but I guess anything can be. But is that the only thing points will be used for?"

Good to know.

I'm pretty sure I broke one of those rules. Sorry... it won't happen again. Thanks for the thread. :)

Cool!!! :d

"I'm unsure letting people do live edits when they get 1000 points. That can be abused, but I guess anything can be. But is that the only thing points will be used for?"

"What happens if someone submits something, then, before it's processed, someone else submits the same or similar? Presumably if the newer is obviously better it will replace the older, and if it's obviously worse it won't, but what if they both have strengths? Will the editors attempt to combine them, or is that beyond their job description? And how will points be handled in such situations? For example, I was reading the Tails article, and I noticed only two games were associated with it. "My my," I thought, "this could do with a little work." I started adding a whole load of stuff (all in one edit, incidentally), only to remember that edits take a while to process. I imagine that's a pretty high-profile page, so perhaps all my contributions had already been submitted. I'm not too bothered about the points thing right now, but it made me think of it, and it would be good to know how it works.

On a tangential note, should we avoid making too many submissions to really obvious articles? I imagine everyone's going for the really big franchises right now. Would it be more constructive to focus on more obscure articles? Or should we not really worry about that?
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I'm just happy the site is fairly self explanatory.

Thanks man :D

"Thanks for the FAQ. Answered a few things I was curious about. Still that 1000 points thing seems an age away right now!"

"Question: Is there a way to edit the box art? I noticed Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando has the box art for Ratchet & Clank: Locked & Loaded, for example, and couldn't figure out how to submit an edit for that."

Yeah 1000 won't be too hard, I already have 20 something and I didn't even really start yet, it is like 3:00AM here in Egypt and I have yet to sleep, so once im awake im going to be pumping out content. :P