User talk:LonianDave

Hey! This is ShrimpPin (Edward). I think that the current editors of this wiki need to find some way to keep in touch. This could be through an IRC channel, a forum, or a collective talk page... What do you think?

Thanks! -ShrimpPin (talk) 00:00, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

To contact me
If anyone wants to get in touch with me for any reason at all, send me a private message on my Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Nl9YOCjLjwKEnB1tbSpOg. This should help me get in touch with people about Planets³ without getting my email address spammed.

Thanks all, -LonianDave 19:08, 10 April 2014 (BST)

Response
I cannot respond to Youtube at the time, so I'll do it here. I think that's a very good idea, and we should also have contests before the alpha releases! We can have design contests, idea contests, etc... And I personally think the votes should be through a public poll, but we'll see once a contest starts. Also, I think you should apply for administrator abilities. It would be very helpful if the three of us had administrator abilities, so we can better manage the wiki.

-ShrimpPin (talk) 19:44, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Contests and Points
I found a Special page involving wiki points; you earn points by editing pages and simply contributing to the wiki. Since we are admins, we can manually add or subtract points from users. This can be used as a reward system for those who win building or idea contests, and it will also encourage wiki activity as users race for the top spot. For example, if you win 1st place for a contest, Rom wins 2nd place, and I win 3rd place, the admins can give you 100 points, Rom 50 points, and me 20 points. Depending on how many people participate in the polls, the values will change.

1st place's point value will be calculated using y=.7x2-0.714, with x standing for participants and y standing for total points rewarded. 2nd place's point value will be calculated using y=.4x2-0.714, and 3rd place's point value will be calculated using y=.2x2-0.714

Does this sound reasonable?

Thanks! -ShrimpPin (talk) 18:19, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

RE:
Surprise! There already are leaderboards! Haha, you can edit points here, and you can view the leaderboard here. The leaderboards obviously haven't been automatically calculated yet for some reason, so I guess we can keep checking to see if they're available soon. I also have checked our rights, and apparently, none of us are technically administrators or bureaucrats. We're "wiki guardians," which has the same rights as an admin (I assume). This is kind of frustrating, because if we want to run the wiki and its community, we also need bureaucrat rights at some point (I guess we can check into that later). I don't really know how to label this, and that's why I deleted the content in our administrators page... What should we do about this?

-ShrimpPin (talk) 19:08, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

RE:
True, I just think it might be hard to manually reward users for every action they make. And as you said, the leaderboard can be used for points farming... However, admins can REMOVE points from users, so people trying to gain points illegally can get their points reset to 0 with the snap of a finger. I do like the idea of specific building/designing leaderboards, but I really dislike forums, personally. We'll see what happens.

-ShrimpPin (talk) 20:29, 12 April 2014 (UTC)