Tagging Announcements

[Chewett]

We are going to tag announcements from now on, This will help finding things you want in the announcements.

 

Each announcement can have more than one tag. Please suggest adding/removing tags. Ideally every announcement would have a tag.

 

I suggest these tags:

Feature

Bugfix

Ruling/Rule

Automatic

Reward

Punishment

 

Example Post:

 

ADD tag X Reason: Because I like X

REMOVE tag punishment Reason: Ruling fits this better

[Rophs]

ADD tag "Contest/Quest/Event" Reason: there are announcements announcing contests/quests/events, adding a tag would be nice

 

ADD tag "Small Change" Reason: announcements indicating fixing of typos or the title of the logout page aren't bugfixes, despite being the pinnacle of change in MD

 

Ann. 3062 - [2014-07-06 12:24:08 - Stage 12] Posted By Chewett 
The title of the logout page has been successfully changed to "Logged Out" this important change will be the pinnacle of change in MD.

 

 

ADD tag "Server Elf" Reason: things such as planned downtime or server elves get their own category too!

 

Ann. 3080 - [2014-07-19 14:19:23 - Stage 12] Posted By Chewett 
A passport has arrived for one of the server elves so they can travel to a new locations in London to store the backups. Each day they travel to London to store the backups in a second location. This will mean that the database backups are also located in a second place should the server have hiccups.

 

edit: Announcements below potential tags are examples of what types of announcements the tags would be applied to.

Edited July 29, 2014 by Rophs

[Shadowseeker]

Add tag:

 

Misc? - anything that fits nowhere else

Quest- as Rophs said, though I can't think of many things for this. Maybe not necessary

Mur- he did put a lot of announcements about things not mentioned in those categorie, clarifications etc

[Ivorak]

ADD "Request for comment" or something along those lines, as there are a number of announcements, often referring to forum posts, asking for feedback/ideas regarding a certain topic.

[lashtal]

By Automatic you mean like: 

 

All shared items have been returned to their original place

All counters for permanent spell/abilities were recharged

 

?

[Chewett]

New list:

Feature

Bugfix

Ruling/Rule

Automatic

Reward

Punishment

Event - added

Minor Change - Added

Server Work/Game Adminstration - added

Discussion (previously request for comment)  - added

 

 

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misc - avoiding this for now, use minor change?

quest = event

Mur - give examples?

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@ lash: yes

Edited July 29, 2014 by Chewett

[Syrian]

By Automatic you mean like: 

 

All shared items have been returned to their original place

All counters for permanent spell/abilities were recharged

 

?

 if yes then i would think "System" would be a better tag for such announcments, but thats mostly be being picky :P

 

Sy

[Chewett]

 if yes then i would think "System" would be a better tag for such announcments, but thats mostly be being picky :P

 

Sy

 

as above, yes. Could change name later, its the same ilk

[Kyphis the Bard]

Add:

Heads Contest

Reason:

There are a lot of announcements about the heads contest(s) that people often want to look through (frequency, rule changes, results, etc)

 

Add:

Torch Contest

Reason:

There are a lot of announcements about the torch contest(s) that people often want to look through (frequency, rule changes, results, etc)

[Chewett]

New list:

Feature

Bugfix

Ruling/Rule

Automatic

Reward

Punishment

Event - added

Minor Change - Added

Server Work/Game Adminstration - added

Discussion (previously request for comment)  - added

TC - Added

HC - Added

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misc - avoiding this for now, use minor change?

quest = event

Mur - give examples?

[Syrian]

Item /Items

 

for things such as jadens vial of hope, possibly for shared tools also, player useable items that have been coded and put into the realm, slightly different from a feature in that a feature doesnt have to be an item.

 

Sy

[Rophs]

Wouldn't those fall under Rewards?

[Eagle Eye]

What about:

BHC - Battle for the Strongest Fighter  

 

JAILED- We can check who's on jail

 

Council - We can check who's online( no name of the council ) but appear online

[Syrian]

Wouldn't those fall under Rewards?

cauldrons and shared items would not be rewards

 

Sy

[Azthor]

Tags such as TC, HC, BHC, Items, Server Work and Items  are tags that you are unlikely to see standing on their own; generally, TC, HC and BHC fall within the purvey of Events (though not Quests), Items fall within Features/Rewards and Server Work falls within System (though not Automatic), just as Jailed would be a subcategory of Punishment.

 

To add them is to have finer search options, and while it also means to have to keep track of more tags when assigning them, and hence more room for error, the volume of announcements is not large enough to burden anyone so, the initial would be retroactive tagging of those already existent announcements aside.

 

Some of those subcategories are suitable for recurring matters, but might be developed in overabundance if extended to isolated announcements. For instance, one could simultaneously have an announcement pertaining to the HC be under the Events, Contest and HC tags, but going further than Contest without a well-established event, as is the HC, would be pushing it.

 

That said, it must first be asked: would you deem the use of subcategory tags (Contest and Quests for Events, for example) desirable in the first place, or should the broader tags be stuck to?

Edited July 30, 2014 by Azthor

[Kyphis the Bard]

Wouldn't those fall under Rewards?

Usually the point of a tagging system is to let people find things they are interested in, so considerable overlap if often desirable. Usually.

[JadenDew]

Add Tags:

MDShop - For announcements related to the shop (eg. new release/removal of MDShop Item or changes to the shop)

Creature - For announcements related to creatures such as releasing of new ones (eg. Toxicodendrite, Elucubration)

 

Thinking about the rarer sort of announcements in my memory, I was wondering what would you tag the announcements about "Master the Void" with..? (tag as Mur? :)) ) What about those nice messages like Ann. 3018?

Edited July 30, 2014 by JadenDew

[Chewett]

New list:

Feature

Bugfix

Ruling/Rule

Automatic

Reward

Punishment

Event - added

Minor Change - Added

Server Work/Game Adminstration - added

Discussion (previously request for comment)  - added

TC - Added

HC - Added

Change - Added, used for stuff when features change

Personal - Random not necessarily MD things

 

Not adding yet:

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misc - avoiding this for now, use minor change?

quest = event

Mur - give examples?

item/items - jadens is a reward, shared items are features

BHC - too rare

Jailed - punnishment

council - unsure what you mean here

md shop - feature

creature - feature

 

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@Azthor - more narrow tags where appropiate. such as HC/TC wont go under events since they occurred quite a lot so they get their own tag.

[Azthor]

I require a minor clarification, if I may; is that to say HC would go under both its own HC tag and the Event tag, or would it only go under the HC tag? And, if the later, would the omission of HC from the Event tag not potentially add confusion in that one'd otherwise also expect to find it under the aforementioned tag, and might deduce there was no one such a new announcement, as it was not found therein?

[Shadowseeker]

I can agree with this:

misc - avoiding this for now, use minor change?

quest = event

 

As for Mur, I was thinking of these kind of announcements, which are rather personal but also have game impact etc.:

Ann. 3026

Ann. 2791

Ann. 2730

[Chewett]

I require a minor clarification, if I may; is that to say HC would go under both its own HC tag and the Event tag, or would it only go under the HC tag? And, if the later, would the omission of HC from the Event tag not potentially add confusion in that one'd otherwise also expect to find it under the aforementioned tag, and might deduce there was no one such a new announcement, as it was not found therein?

 

I am planning to add tag hierachy, in that HC falls under events so tagging with HC makes it be tagged with event too.

Will check the announcements later SS

[Chewett]

New list:

Feature

Bugfix

Ruling/Rule

Automatic

Reward

Punishment

Event - added

Minor Change - Added

Server Work/Game Adminstration - added

Discussion (previously request for comment)  - added

TC - Added

HC - Added

Change - Added, used for stuff when features change

Personal - Added, Random not necessarily MD things

Role - Added, Role appointment, announcement, similar

 

Not adding yet:

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misc - avoiding this for now, use minor change?

quest = event

Mur - give examples?

item/items - jadens is a reward, shared items are features

BHC - too rare

Jailed - punnishment

council - unsure what you mean here

md shop - feature

creature - feature

 

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@SS

 

Ann - 2791 would be role (new)

 

The other two would be personal. If its being announced its related to MD so personal doesnt mean "not to do with MD", personal just means its specifically relating to someones personal aspect

[Eagle Eye]

Council: Adding tag how many council online (no player name appear) only council 1, council 2, council 3. We can see the council is alive

Market: if we have a market we can exchange gold to silver and silver to gold. We can buy creatures/item/spell using Market

[Kamisha]

I require a minor clarification, if I may; is that to say HC would go under both its own HC tag and the Event tag, or would it only go under the HC tag? And, if the later, would the omission of HC from the Event tag not potentially add confusion in that one'd otherwise also expect to find it under the aforementioned tag, and might deduce there was no one such a new announcement, as it was not found therein?

 

The normal HC I think would also classify this as a system message. Although I think there should be a HC tag I wouldent make it a huge priority though. There needs to be one actually currently taking place to actually add any value. Though I would just put HC under the system tag. It falls in that area and the only thing that the system controls is regroup right now. When HC would become a relevant tag it would be rather near the top.

[Chewett]

Council: Adding tag how many council online (no player name appear) only council 1, council 2, council 3. We can see the council is alive

Market: if we have a market we can exchange gold to silver and silver to gold. We can buy creatures/item/spell using Market

Is this a feature suggested Eagle?

 

The normal HC I think would also classify this as a system message. Although I think there should be a HC tag I wouldent make it a huge priority though. There needs to be one actually currently taking place to actually add any value. Though I would just put HC under the system tag. It falls in that area and the only thing that the system controls is regroup right now. When HC would become a relevant tag it would be rather near the top.

 

HC would be system message and HC, Which would also encompass events., so HC would then be under system, HC and events

 

Also spell recharges fall under system.