New Articles Needed: Site and Forum now Linked
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Hrm, that's odd. I'm not sure why you can't paste it
Have you tried the paste button? It's on the second row and looks like a little clipboard.
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Don't see a clipboard button anywhere.
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This one?
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That menu hasn't appeared every time I've loaded the editor. All I get is a plain white box.
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That's disturbing.
Try again now?
If it still doesn't work, can you please let me know what browser you're using?
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Nope, still nothing.
I'm using Firefox with AdBlock enabled, but disabling AdBlock doesn't do anything.
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Is there a link marked "Toggle editor"?
Do you have javascript etc. all enabled?
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JavaScript is enabled but I see no 'toggle editor' button.
Should I email the article to you instead?
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Yeah, okay
I just wanted to resolve it for anyone else who submitted something.
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Weirdly though, in Safari and Firefox on my machine, it shows the toolbar.
I wonder if it's a permissions thing.
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Did you manage to sort the article out, Mystara? I haven't seen it on the site yet.
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Sorry, it's on my to do list.
I'm moving properties this week, so I haven't had a lot of time
Hopefully I should put it up next week
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Hi, SpectralScorpion (I'd use your real name if I knew it ). Your article's been announced on Knightmare.com, Facebook and Twitter, indicating that it's ready to read. It has been interesting to read the various analyses and opinions in the piece. I must ask though: did you have anyone proofread the article before it was published? A number of factual inaccuracies have slipped through:
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You refer to 'MacGruder' in your section on Cliff's quest. The character was credited as McGrew.
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You say that Kelly got three riddles right. She got her third riddle wrong and scored two. Unfortunately this error invalidates part of your argument.
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Your section on Mike states that 'the only other contestant in Series 8 to reach Level 3 through open play [was] Daniel'. Presumably you're discounting Dunstan and Oliver as not using open play; but what about Nathan?
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'It was established very early on in Series 8 FLOAT spells were needed for trapdoors'. FLOAT spells were often needed, but it was never a rule in the way that, say, giving the Series 4 boatman precious metal was. We don't know whether Richard would have needed to use a FLOAT spell once he'd unlocked the rune cover (nor how he'd have got one if so); Nathan used two alternative aids for safe descent; on the Golden Galleon, Dunstan fell safely without any aid (although one might argue that a ship's hatch wasn't a 'proper' Dungeon trapdoor like the others). (I'm inclined to think that Mike was in losing status for not taking the Brain Pills and would have been fireballed in the Level 2 trapdoor room even if he hadn't tried the door, but that of course is pure opinion.)
Also, in terms of grammar, 'the star moved much slower than Simon would of' should be 'the star moved much slower than Simon would have'.
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Sorry Drassil, it was written in a hurry over the course of two busy weeks. I'll admit that my research wasn't as extensive as it should have been. I did proof-read it but only to the extent of my narrow knowledge. The only other person to have seen it after that was Alan.
With Alan's consent I'm happy to make some edits to the article to incorporate your points.
My name is Alex, by the way.
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Good article, mistakes aside.
Agreed that Cliff and Leo were harshly treated. I have never considered Simon's death to be unfair, though - they guided him in completely the wrong direction, probably thinking the cave mouth was the exit, which is simple team error. I disagree about Helen too, massively unfair IMHO! As David has mentioned, Mike was probably in losing status already so his death was unfair on purpose. -
I proof read it, but not to the extent of fact checking.
If you'd like to update it, Alex, you're more than welcome. However, I think there's a certain validity to what you remember as an unfair death. A followup article, having been made aware of the facts might be a second interesting article
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Don't think I could manage a followup article - it took me ages just to think of those examples.
I've made an amended version that incorporates Drassil's observations. Could you give me an email I can send it to? You can PM it to me if need be.
Don't think I can manage another article in the near future, though I might draw another KM-related picture sometime.
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Great to see so many comments on Facebook re. the jumping the shark article – seems to have polarized opinion nicely!
With 10 years plus of the forum and all those TES articles etc. it’s very difficult to find new things to say about the show, certainly in terms of commentary. In writing my three articles, I suppose my approach has been to try to find new ways of presenting old arguments. It turns out that the ‘jumping the shark’ angle has actually been covered on this very forum, with a thread started in 2006 (Canadanne actually summing up the good/bad points of each series a little over a year ago in a post which would itself form the basis of a good article).
I have mixed feelings about this. Frustration that what I hoped would be new ground is in fact a well worn path. But also relief that I hadn’t spotted that thread until after my own article was published – if I had, I probably wouldn’t have bothered writing it and nobody would be discussing it on FB. At the same time, there is unavoidably an element of diminishing returns. My own view is that it’s probably worth treading the same ground to get more people thinking about KM, to get more people contributing to the debate - to keep KM alive.
I’m also conscious that there can be a fine line between what constitutes a forum post and an ‘article’ – I could just have used the forum for my output. Mystara could perhaps provide some stats on this, but I imagine that more people are likely to read stuff on the main page and comment on FB rather than use the forum? If so, this means that many great forum discussions will only be read by a relatively small number of people; in order to keep the site as dynamic as possible we therefore need a stream of new articles for a wider readership.
I’d be interested to get your views on this – are these articles worth doing? If so, would you have any ideas for a genuinely original article?
I’m also very aware that I’m a relatively new contributor and don’t want to ‘hijack’ the site in any way by bombarding it with my own personal musings! (though I have been an on/off visitor since my first year in uni when I discovered the site in its clara.net incarnation – blimey, 13 years ago!).
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There are quite a few different numbers but here we go:
A typical Facebook post from us receives several thousand exposures over about one or two days, along with perhaps 15 comments and 100 likes. After a couple of days it stops completely.
An article usually gets a few thousand unique hits, constantly but forever increasing. 10 per day is a good rule of thumb.
We have about 5 active forum contributors, 10 silent readers, 700 accounts, of which 200 have been used in the last 3 or 4 years.
In short, almost nobody reads the forums, which is why I push for people to use the main site more.
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