Middle-earth Center Staff Blog

So a few days ago, I posted this announcement requesting gaming staff for the site.

The amount of replies I got? 0, null, zero or none. Any way you put it, this is a sad number for a forum memberbase that feels its needed to initiate a riot when an admin does not have gaming experience. I feel that a number of people (you know if this is you) just come on to criticise and sometimes even make suggestions now and then, especially during our infamous forum riots - but do not contribute anything when it is being asked.

At any rate, I realise many people here no longer play the games, but still. The only staff position that seems to be popular at times, is when a new moderator is requested. Maybe someone can explain that to me, but a writing positon allows for much more freedom, creativity and a hell of a lot less criticism then you would get as a moderator.

But meh, its probably just me. But some of these old-members-turned-lurkers are usually just pissing me off rather then contributing anything.

On a related note, Zach has been helping out on the RoTWK pages. I myself am working in the LotRO ones.

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MECNN - The place for politics nazis stalin stupidity

First and foremost, I am only going to type my entries in HTML. Why? Because I am pr0 like that. However, I must admit I forget nearly everything I memorized about a year ago. Generally speaking, I only know CSS. However, I did bother to learn HTML once but soon replaced that with C++.

As for the daily headlines making world news -

• Lenin came out of his grave and stabbed jesus with the sickle and beat him with a hammer
• The Beatles > All Other Groups
• George Bush took a swan dive into a pool of crap
• Condisleeza Rice was found nude in a bath-tub with Hillary Clinton

Well it appears that vBulletin likes throwing out minor releases before their major releases. I just upgraded the forums from vBulletin 3.6.8 to 3.6.9, which probably means you haven’t noticed anything :). All the changes are bugfixes and secuirity fixes.

Regardless, the forums were offline for a few minutes so you may have noticed that. Just thought I’d inform you guys.

In the mean time, I’ve also fixed and tweaked a few site features. The news banners will now take you to the archive for that category, which makes browsing the news for your favourite games a bit easier. All the post details and archive pages have also been altered, as these held a few bugs.The forums have received a few visual updates, including the subforums which are now presented in a tidy list. You probably also noted the strategy forums that have been re-added.

To close this post down, we are looking for staff for some of our games. Check out the news message with details. We have a number of features up and coming we think you will enjoy, in addition to the tournament still going strong with the first 2 rounds just behind us.

Stay tuned!