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Hello TMD'rs,
You may or may not have heard of me. I am Steve "Zherbus" O'Connell, former owner and founder of this site you spend so much time on. I left the MTG community a few years (just about 2 exactly) and I am back as Administrator with Jacob. Jacob and I are working on a batch of changes in layout, policy, and structure to TMD that will currently work toward the ultimate goal as the number one site in Vintage Magic.
So far we've implimented:
1) Eliminate Vintage Forum - Consolidate with Vintage Open Forum. Noone posts in the closed Vintage forum, and they really haven't for years since the coming of Team secrecy. As a result, TMD will be the place for the pulse of Vintage Magic via tournament reports and annoucements for the experienced Vintage player. For the newer player, it'll be a place to get up to speed on what's what. And for all, it'll be a place to discuss general Vintage theory. The changes will reflect this.
2) Re-Order Forums. Change Vintage Magic to Eternal Magic.
Order (* denotes catagory, - Denotes Subforum):
Eternal Magic
*Vintage Development Forum
-Vintage Open
-Vintage Improvement
* Vintage Tournament Forums
-Vintage Tournament Reports and Results
-Vintage Tournament Announcements
* Eternal Articles
- Finished Articles
- Article Submissions
* The Mana Leak (Legacy Forums)
- Legacy Decks: Proven
- Legacy Decks: Development
- Legacy Format Discussion
- Legacy Tournament Reports, Results, and Announcements
- Legacy Adept Lounge
3) Eliminate the Magic Community forum. There's no real reason for a closed community forum currently. We decided to combine these two and let the community... well, discuss community.
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Things to come:
There are a few things Jacob and I are talking about, and about to bring to TMD moderators. There's going to be meaningful areas for adepts, as well as full members. I'd love to disclose more details now, but I don't want to give away all the secrets just now.
Also, keep watching the Articles forums as it'll be the place for the top level of theory and primers in the Eternal formats.
Stay tuned for more details and updates. Suggestions will only be considered via PM's to Jacob or I (so don't post them here). Criticisms are likewise only welcome in private in a thoughtful manner. Please only post if you have questions that need clearing up.
-Zherbus
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« Reply #1 on: April 04, 2007, 12:53:07 am » |
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Will Moderators be changed? With less forums to moderate, I can see some people being demoted, or if you want to have more emphasis somewhere, some being promoted. Also, will the general moderation change at all? I don't really have a problem with it, but some might.
Keep up the good work, Steve, it's fucking great to see you back here. Oh, and J_Orlove too.
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« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2007, 01:09:03 am » |
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Moderators should remain the same at this point.
Thanks for the vote of confidence Juju.
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« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2007, 01:38:02 am » |
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I can't tell you how pleased I am to see you return to active Admin status. I look forward to more changes.
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« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2007, 02:46:36 am » |
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Weclome back Steve. Good to see you here again.
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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2007, 08:00:58 am » |
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Welcome back!
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« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2007, 08:52:11 am » |
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Does this mean that you're playing Magic again too?
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« Reply #7 on: April 04, 2007, 10:37:35 am » |
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The site looks good, guys. I was a little confused at first - when I tried to click on a thread in Basic User Community and got a card creation thread - but after actually looking at what I was doing it seems well layed-out and pretty intuitive. Looking forward to the rest of the changes!
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« Reply #8 on: April 04, 2007, 11:03:25 am » |
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good to see you back steve, t1 isn't the same without you.
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« Reply #9 on: April 04, 2007, 12:04:34 pm » |
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Does this mean that you're playing Magic again too?
I was gonna say... It's great to see you back Steve, now we just gotta suck you back into the game.... Ever heard of Legacy?  |
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« Reply #10 on: April 04, 2007, 12:38:10 pm » |
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Who's that Zherbus guy anyways?
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« Reply #11 on: April 04, 2007, 01:15:30 pm » |
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Yeah, is he some sort of new moderator or something It's good to have you back, we wouldn't have been here without you. |
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« Reply #12 on: April 04, 2007, 03:17:02 pm » |
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A couple more small changes:
1) Card Creation Forum is now a child board of the Casual Forum
2) Standard, Extended, Limited Forum is now a separate forum, no longer a child of the Community Forum (because that made no sense)
3) the archived boards are now all child forums of the new Archive Forum, which changes absolutely nothing, but no longer wastes a bunch of space for people who don't minimize that forum.
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« Reply #13 on: April 05, 2007, 12:42:20 am » |
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. Please only post if you have questions that need clearing up.
-Zherbus
So most forums, in general, are now all access to all users (basic users or full members)? I understand TMD moderating standards will still be high. |
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« Reply #14 on: April 05, 2007, 03:14:56 am » |
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Ever heard of Legacy? I sure have.  Who's that Zherbus guy anyways? A million dollar question if I've ever heard one. So most forums, in general, are now all access to all users (basic users or full members)? For now... This is just the first step in a lot of changes in policy and structure that we've got planned. |
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« Reply #15 on: April 05, 2007, 07:32:09 am » |
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Good to have you back! I just recently noticed the lack of the restricted vintage section and wandered around until I found this thread Most changes seem reasonable, I hope for the better. Just a curiosity: will be the "Full User" term still be used or not? Without a restricted access, it serves only as a title, even if it can still be meaningful just as that. |
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« Reply #16 on: April 05, 2007, 09:21:48 am » |
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Things to come:
There are a few things Jacob and I are talking about, and about to bring to TMD moderators. There's going to be meaningful areas for adepts, as well as full members. I'd love to disclose more details now, but I don't want to give away all the secrets just now.
Also, keep watching the Articles forums as it'll be the place for the top level of theory and primers in the Eternal formats.
Stay tuned for more details and updates. Suggestions will only be considered via PM's to Jacob or I (so don't post them here). Criticisms are likewise only welcome in private in a thoughtful manner. Please only post if you have questions that need clearing up.
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« Reply #17 on: April 05, 2007, 10:52:01 am » |
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I like to put in a request to have the "Upcoming Events" thing work better. There was a short time when different events should show up on that the thing. It would be great to see the event name and perhaps the state in parenthesis. That way users don't have to comb the announcement forms for events that are coming up in their area.
I'm not sure who updates that thing (a mod, the TO, ?) but it would be great to get that feature working.
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« Reply #18 on: April 05, 2007, 11:31:55 am » |
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That rests soley on the TO who opens the tournament thread. When the thread is created, they can enter the criteria of the tournament and it automatically goes in to the upcoming events. If there's a problem with it, we'll have to chase that down, but in my experience, it's a PEBKAC issue.
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« Reply #19 on: April 07, 2007, 06:15:04 pm » |
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Unstickied - I'll update it when we do more changes.
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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2007, 11:39:56 pm » |
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General is now combined with Community.
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« Reply #21 on: April 19, 2007, 08:32:26 am » |
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Good Lord... if Steve if back in charge then all sorts of old time vintage past members might start posting again... I am actually completely surprised my account is still active! Now Matt can say who is this Molot guy  Great to see Steve is back in control of this tin horn shanty Mo. |
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« Reply #22 on: April 19, 2007, 08:58:53 pm » |
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Wow, good to have you back, Tom.
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Team Meandeck: O Lord,
Guard my tongue from evil and my lips from speaking guile.
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« Reply #23 on: April 19, 2007, 09:21:44 pm » |
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I second that. Hi Tom!
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« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2007, 08:57:43 pm » |
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HOLY SHIT.
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If we're not careful we may have flashbacks to the good old days. Remember when you started up the site because BD was going kerplunk, Steve? Good times. 5 AM IRC chats ftw!
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« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2007, 11:53:22 pm » |
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Whoa, this is ridiculous! The community is back, w00t! Someone get Kerz in here... |
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« Reply #26 on: April 29, 2007, 02:06:27 am » |
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Remember that time me and Aaron Kerzner stayed up all night at Origins and then we went to breakfast at some greasy spoon? I fucking miss going to conventions.
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« Reply #27 on: April 29, 2007, 05:14:15 am » |
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Now we have a thread where SteveO, Carl and Tom posted. OMG thats unbelievable <3 you all guys.
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« Reply #28 on: April 29, 2007, 06:44:05 pm » |
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Oh Em Gee. Where's Legend? And that kid named Cid.
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« Reply #29 on: April 29, 2007, 08:21:37 pm » |
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Oh Em Gee. Where's Legend? And that kid named Cid.
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