Welcome lucidiot as well. We have treated some new players poorly in the past (we were awful to Cuddlebeam when e first joined) but I'd like to think we are relatively welcoming. Expectations might be high (maybe too high) for someone like PSS who holds like a million offices. I think what would be most useful to say and understand is that Agora is multifaceted enough that you can put in as much or as little effort as you like. You can hold a million offices and try hard to win every subgame, or you can just vote on proposals and judge a CFJ or two, or you can take no game actions at all and just offer your opinions/discuss things and those are all valid ways to play.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:37 PM Rebecca <[email protected]> wrote: > * What should be on the main page? [it's pretty outdated now, and I feel > like it could use a facelift and some new copy] > The Ruleset should have more prominent links and be updated to remove > outdated info and with the current name of the Rulekeepor. "As of May 2017" > should obviously be updated periodically to the current month. G. should > fix the gaps in eir CFJ database and I have pledged to give em all my > assets if e does so, so that's pretty cool. > * What kinds of tips should go on a New Player page? > I honestly think not much, maybe a few more tips on the technical side of > things (mailing lists are an old technology that it is more likely to not > be understood than was the case a long time ago). Some appealing events > from our history, maybe > * What online resources do you use the most? > The ruleset I always use from the weblink, sometimes CFJ databases, and I > really like and often read Falsifian's reportor reports: we really need to > start compensating em with game assets for those reports/ > * What resources do you wish were online? > Updated stuff for every office. HOWEVER i have no idea how to edit a > website or make my own office page or update it, so it's hypocritical from > me I guess. > * How do you access Agora? [your email's web client, a desktop client, > phone client] > gmail.com which is kind of bad. > * Any tips or tricks that you use on the devices/software that you > access Agora through that you find indispensable? > Gmail's search function is excellent and usually dispenses with the need > to use the archives for me. > * Anything else that you think would help improve the web content? > Idk > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 2:16 PM Jason Cobb via agora-discussion < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 6/13/20 11:43 PM, lucidiot via agora-discussion wrote: >> > Hello there! First time posting here! >> >> Welcome! >> >> >> > On Sunday 14 June 2020 03:27, nch via agora-discussion wrote: >> >> Some questions to help me plan some improvements to the web content. >> >> >> >> * What should be on the main page? [it's pretty outdated now, and I >> feel >> >> like it could use a facelift and some new copy] >> > Falsifian's weekly reports have been very helpful to keep up on the >> general state of the game (thank you so much!) and sometimes bring >> interpretations of the discussions that I had not understood while >> binge-reading through all the emails. >> > >> > The site could turn into a blog and show those reports (maybe along >> other 'articles' like theses or anything Agorans want to publish?), making >> the homepage get updated regularly and allowing new visitors to see that >> the game is still quite active and the type of play to expect. >> >> >> +1 on keeping it updated; when I was looking at before joining, I >> thought "oh no, is this dead?", at least until looking at the public >> archives. >> >> >> >> * What kinds of tips should go on a New Player page? >> > I haven't been sending anything on the lists for a while because I do >> not feel confident at all! There is a lot to learn and a lot of history to >> uncover, and archives, sites, repos are quite scattered. >> >> >> There's no reason to be scared of sending mail to the lists; most people >> try to be as forgiving as reasonable, especially for new players :). >> That was my experience, at least. >> >> Also, we try to keep a lot of the code and reports on the AgoraNomic >> Github org [0]. >> >> >> > This just leads me to suggest to have reminders in this page that it is >> okay to start small, to ask questions, that the expectations are lower than >> they seem to be, or that everyone is always friendly and welcoming (even >> during hard times); those are what I have been trying to tell myself to >> convince myself to reply, but reading them from someone else would >> definitely help. >> > >> > The page could also include a reference to a netiquette, or common >> practices for posting such as the DIS/BUS/OFF prefixes, referencing links >> with annotations like [0]. I had to explain what bottom-posting means to >> someone yesterday, on an unrelated project. >> >> >> The mailing lists should be adding the prefixes automatically, so long >> as you send it to the right list's email address. >> >> >> >> * What online resources do you use the most? >> > Since it is linked on the homepage, I had used the public archives at >> mail-archive.com quite a lot to get an overview of the game before >> subscribing to the lists. >> > >> > I no longer use this as I just get the emails, but I regularly use >> Gaelan's ruleset page [0]. It shows HTTP 502 errors half of the time, and >> right now it has HTTP 500, possibly due to recent changes in the FLR, but I >> still like it since it makes browsing the rules easier with hyperlinks on >> key concepts. That is a very welcome thing when you want to learn the rules! >> >> >> I've been considering rewriting the ruleset generation for a while, and >> that might permit a functional HTML ruleset viewer. >> >> >> > - A glossary of acronyms; I am still unsure about what CotC means, and >> it took me a while to understand NttPF and TTttPF >> >> >> Yes, we all have a chronic problem of not sending things to the public >> forum. I learned about all the acronyms from Murphy's old site [1], >> which is linked on the homepage. "CotC" stands for "Clerk of the >> Courts", and is an unofficial position that G. takes on in addition to >> eir role as Arbitor. >> >> >> >> * Anything else that you think would help improve the web content? >> > Some more generic thoughts: the website could probably become more >> attractive by having more graphics. ASCII art is cool, and I generally >> find the various reports to be interesting, but a benefit of the web is >> it's not just plaintext. >> > >> > This might require some effort, but a graph of the current economy >> showing the volume of currency exchanges, or one with the volumes of mails >> exchanged on each list over time would look nice. >> > Or a hall of fame showing all the winners on golden plates. >> > Or a very corporate-looking "sub-site" for the Dragon Corporation. The >> Startup Generator [1] could be an inspiration. >> >> >> Ooh I like the idea of a website for the Dragon Corporation... >> >> >> [0]: http://github.com/AgoraNomic/ >> >> [1]: http://zenith.homelinux.net/agora_acronyms.php >> >> -- >> Jason Cobb >> >> > > -- > From R. Lee > -- >From R. Lee
