"Transition 2006": Executive Changes

[DaveV]

Thanks, Markos, for all your work over the years. Best of luck to the new owners; thanks for keeping the best Civ site on the internet going strong.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar


The image looks like something Bush might put out if he ever gets around to invalidating the Constitution.
"The National Military Salvation Council has taken control....Please remain calm...."

And Locutus and Mark are real people, whilst Ming and Rah are mysterious Ming Rah entities.

[Lancer]

This reminds me. Just before the whole stinking mess goes down the toilet in Lancer's crapper there's alot of splashing and swirling which I refer to as 'Transition '06', just to add a little spin to the swirl. As the years change just update. It makes the whole toilet going experience more exciting.

I see nothing here that will grow Poly, quite the opposite, but the excitement! Wow! A Royal Flush!

[Solver]

Yes Lancer, we can all only bow to you in amazement as to how much you've done recently to make this a better site

[Winston]

Wowsers.

Thanks to Markos for your great part in establishing, developing and maintaining the site. I hope your continued presence here and "mark" on things is not in doubt despite the changes.

Speaking of changes. Don't change anything. Keep things going the way they are. It's what works, generally speaking. If it's not broken, don't try to fix it is my motto.

Congrats to everyone involved. I hope everybody were happy at the end of it.

[demon59]

Thanks to Markos for all the years of serving the community! Good luck in your future endeavors.
Congrats and good luck to Dan, Locutus, Ming, and rah.

[Lancer]

Yes, thank you Solver! But really, you are too kind...I don't deserve that.

Actually I've warned them for years and been abused for my efforts. Why try? Why not just enjoy the show? I can't think of a good reason not to have a bit of fun with this.

Originally posted by Solver
Yes Lancer, we can all only bow to you in amazement as to how much you've done recently to make this a better site

[germanos]

Can Ming get his 'Chief Minion' back? "Co-Owner/Administrator" just doesn't cut it

[Zoid]

Markos

The new administration

[Will9]

I've been having trouble dealing with the fact that half of Poly is owned by a Canadian. Now that half is the largest portion, I'm having nightmares.

Why is it that only Locutus has been givin an Admin status?

[Lancer]

"Why is it that only Locutus has been givin an Admin status?"

Huh?

[Hercules]

I know it's nothing new but

Best of luck to the new owners; thanks for keeping the best Civ site on the internet going strong.

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I agree totally with this view.

[DanQ]

Originally posted by Will9
Why is it that only Locutus has been givin an Admin status?

Hmmmm... was just an issue with Ming's badge (Locutus has fixed it). His account is already in the Administrator category given his standing status in the forums. rah previously had Administrator status as well for similar capacity.

Originally posted by germanos
Can Ming get his 'Chief Minion' back? "Co-Owner/Administrator" just doesn't cut it

Sorry, but no -- administrator titles in particular must be succinct and (relatively) clear of the holder's upper-most title. I'm sure Ming wouldn't object to keeping the "Chief Minion" title as well even though it isn't so exclusive anymore (i.e. there are now seemingly three "Chief Minion"s...)

Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have expressed their words of gratitude and support since my last such acknowledgment.

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Locutus]

Thanks for all the compliments and votes of confidence...

Originally posted by Winston
Speaking of changes. Don't change anything. Keep things going the way they are. It's what works, generally speaking. If it's not broken, don't try to fix it is my motto.

The problem is a lot of stuff *is* broken.

(Some of) the changes that have been made since Ming, rah and I have been appointed:

- A new Civ4 Content Editor appointed
- Old Contact Page restored (increasing our ability to answer feedback faster)
- Some cleaning up of the forum headers and footers (more of that will follow a little further down the line)
- Various forum bugs fixed: PM Indicator Bug, Scrollbar Bug 1, Scrollbar Bug 2, Ignore List Bug, Very-Old-Threads/PMs-Not-Appearing Bug (not previously announced but should fix any remaining PM bugs that have been reported), etc.
- Anti-bot registration field introduced (not a Captcha but so far just as effective: we went from ~2 spambots a day to 3 in total since the system was introduced almost 6 weeks ago)
- Our email anti-spam software updated and made enormously more effective, which I *think* benefits all PLUS email accounts (but at the very least all Staff accounts, which has actually made email a viable means of communication for us again -- for me anyway)

That's only the stuff I can talk about, there's a lot more going on behind the scenes, some of which you'll find out about soon enough (and some of which you'll never find out about because they affect back-end systems, but suffice to say they make the site easier to run and more secure) -- but certainly in the first weeks any further changes we'll implement/announce will probably be more of this type of stuff.

Surely you're not opposed to these kinds of changes?

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Locutus
- Various forum bugs fixed: PM Indicator Bug, Scrollbar Bug 1, Scrollbar Bug 2, Ignore List Bug, Very-Old-Threads/PMs-Not-Appearing Bug (not previously announced but should fix any remaining PM bugs that have been reported), etc.

Is the Buddy List Bug next?