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Neoskel

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Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« on: March 25, 2009, 12:27:32 pm »
I've noticed something, lurking on these forums for quite a while.

People keep bringing up the same questions over and over. The people who answer the questions don't know what they're talking about and give wrong information. Things established months ago are forgotten and questioned anew. It's quite tiresome to watch.

Stray cat cancels store item in stockpile: Too injured.

Disgust. Discuss. Examples, solutions, whatever.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2009, 12:36:49 pm »
Welcome to the internet forums!

Side note, haven't had any spam from "injured" cats.  They're leaving their "gifts" all over my fortress, but no messages about injuries.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2009, 12:39:26 pm »
Edit the wiki.  People are generally good about checking the wiki before posting threads here.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2009, 01:07:03 pm »
Make mittens out of him.

Anyway, if we dont repeat from time to time we will run out of subject fast..
« Last Edit: March 25, 2009, 01:08:47 pm by Drakale »
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2009, 03:05:34 pm »
oddly, i havent experienced this bug at all,

or any of the bugs that thw wiki claims, ill go edit it severely.

i wont get banned or anything for editiong a lot, will i?

Love, jakkarra
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2009, 03:13:28 pm »
Quote from: Jakkarra on March 25, 2009, 03:05:34 pm
oddly, i havent experienced this bug at all,

or any of the bugs that thw wiki claims, ill go edit it severely.

i wont get banned or anything for editiong a lot, will i?

If your edits read like this, you might.
« Last Edit: March 25, 2009, 03:29:02 pm by Footkerchief »
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2009, 03:17:55 pm »
Then there´s the exploding booze.
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´OH ARMOK THE PAIN! IT BURNS!´

Over and over again.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2009, 03:20:36 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on March 25, 2009, 12:39:26 pm
People are generally good about checking the wiki before posting threads here.

I don't think so...not to mention that almost everyone ignores the "search" function.  ;D
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Jakkarra

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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2009, 04:00:21 pm »
Quote from: Footkerchief on March 25, 2009, 03:13:28 pm
Quote from: Jakkarra on March 25, 2009, 03:05:34 pm
oddly, i havent experienced this bug at all,

or any of the bugs that thw wiki claims, ill go edit it severely.

i wont get banned or anything for editiong a lot, will i?

If your edits read like this, you might.

Yeah, sorry about the horrible formatting. dont worry, it only happens on the forum.
(btw, it was hard to force myself to not do it again in this post) ill work on some wiki-fix right now. any specifics that require attention?

Love, jakkara
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2009, 06:15:31 pm »
New people come to the forum, ask the same questions. I think it's a good sign.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2009, 06:18:32 pm »
Quote from: Tormy on March 25, 2009, 03:20:36 pm
Quote from: Footkerchief on March 25, 2009, 12:39:26 pm
People are generally good about checking the wiki before posting threads here.

I don't think so...not to mention that almost everyone ignores the "search" function.  ;D

Search function is a serious PITA. Especially the '5 second rule'. Other than that specific problem, it's just not great in general.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2009, 06:41:32 pm »
what were we talking about again?
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2009, 03:42:48 am »
Magma.
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2009, 03:46:16 am »
!!Magma solves everything!!
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Re: Forum Short Term Memory Loss
« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2009, 07:15:10 pm »
I'd just like to clarify that i wasn't talking about the 'cat bug' at all really. I just deemed it a similar enough happening that the more senior forumers would recognize. Also, by 'lurking' i meant mostly not posting while holding an account.

An example i've come accross is every now and then some well meaning soul, having checked the wiki, comes onto the forum and starts bemoaning the sore lack of drunks to serve as meat shields in adventure mode.
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