User talk:Tanetris/Archive 2

Thanks!

Thank you for deleting those pages!!-- Necro Shea Mo -Gelukkig Tulp Feest iedereen!!!! 03:01, 27 May 2011 (UTC)

Not an orphan page ;)

17:07, 10 June 2011 Tanetris (Talk | contribs) deleted "Category talk:Users by god" ‎ (Orphaned talk page)

User_talk:Konig_Des_Todes A F K When Needed 21:11, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

An "orphaned" talk page refers to the fact that the associated non-talk page has been deleted, not that nothing links to it. - Tanetris 04:47, 12 June 2011 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I based that assumption from other wikis where pages which are still linked to don't generally get deleted.

Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Community portal#GW2 Fanday

That was very considerate, thank you. ^ ^ A F K When Needed 18:13, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

A question about the control scheme: how do we target in the game? Is it like in GW1, in which we can actually use the mouse with a cursor to click directly on what we want to target? Or is it like the system used in many console games (such as Assassin's Creed) or even some PC games (like The Witcher 2) in which there is no cursor, we only control the camera, and the game tries to automatically make us target whatever it thinks we are looking at? Erasculio 16:41, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

That would be the weirdest most terrible mmo ever. 16:47, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Targetting is just like GW1, click target, 'C' for closest, or tab to cycle through. Just don't try to use space to start attacking. You will jump and look silly. I did it like 20 times. - Tanetris 16:57, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

One of the first things I'll probably do in GW2 is change space to be skill 1 instead of jump. Glad to know c/tab is returning, I was hoping for that. pling 21:08, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

“I did it like 20 times.” – So you were the one jumping with me all the time <_< Not being able to press space was actually my biggest problem ^^ poke | talk 22:29, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Action throttled during a move of several files

I asked Pling about being throttled for moving images, it was suggested I ask you (or Poke). I was throttled at 5 images then needed to wait. 5 just seemed low to me, and if I read the information correctly on GWW, it is set there at 10. (or possible 2 every minute, yikes). Just wondering what is actually set over here. Venom20 22:59, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

To my knowledge, both wikis have the same limit (which is, yes, 2 per minute, unless they've adjusted it besides that request. The number 10 you see there is for how many edits you need to make before you can do moves at all). Considering you managed to get through 5 moves before running up against that limit, and considering you only need to wait (less than) a minute to continue, I don't think it's that unreasonable a restriction, but if you do find yourself running up against it often, you're always free to propose an adjustment on GW2WT:TECH. - Tanetris 12:06, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not too sure how the 2 per minute function. When I was moving the images, I did the same steps for each image. Basically, I "prepared" 13 images at first, then hit move, move, move, etc going from tab to immediate tab. 5 completed and 8 were throttled. 5 is an even number, thus could not be part of 2n. And it certainly didn't take me 2.5 minutes to go through the first 5 tabs. Anyways, just seems odd, but yes. It is only a minor inconvenience to move the images while hindered. Guess I won't be doing these myself eh. Thanks for the speedy response. Venom20 12:18, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

I'd take a guess that the first one may have just before the minute mark rolled over or suchlike (if that's how it works), or perhaps it counts moving associated talkpages, or maybe what's in the settings is different from the request, but since only Anet has access to the LocalSettings, I can't really check that. As for the moves themselves: I'd suggest either doing the moves as they're ready instead of pre-prep, or just pace yourself going from tab to tab. Also note you can always request a bot run for large move batches. - Tanetris 12:44, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

The limits were set like that for a reason, basically to prevent vandalism. If you see yourself in a situation where a lot of image moves are required, maybe you should consider asking for assistance by admins or bots. Because after all moving images is a very maintenance-y task.. poke | talk 20:56, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

late happy birthday

Your birthday isn't listed on the birthday page here! I just saw on the GWW birthday page because i checked for Konig's birthday (also not here!)... there's a lot missing ~~ Kiomadoushi 18:06, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Oh! Happy belated birthday Tanetris! :o poke | talk 21:28, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Happy late birthday Tane! Aqua (T|C) 00:46, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks guys. - Tanetris 19:08, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

I should really check the B-day page more often this is the 3rd belated Happy B-day... anyhow.. Happy B-day Tane! --The Holy Dragons 19:20, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

If a design doesn't accomodate both large and small resolutions, it needs to be fixed.

With all due respect, the current main page is a lot worse on large resolutions than the editcopy is. Your comments are unfair in the context of a horribly broken main page already implemented. If the current one was fine, I would agree with you that. But it's not, so I don't. A F K When Needed 19:27, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

But if we don't take the current main page in account, surely you'd agree with his point raised? I do, anyway, but I am just a single contributor. - Infinite - talk 21:08, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Replacing a format that's fine with one that's broken is stupid and shouldn't happen.

Replacing a format that's not fine, with a WIP still actively being worked on (and will receive updates)? Sounds fine to me... A F K When Needed 21:39, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

But replacing a format that is not broken, with a WIP still actively being worked on (and will receive updates) just because there is a little bit of excessive whitespace within the current's page's section that is not breaking the format? Sounds like we're going backwards by hastily introducing the WIP when we can easily afford more time spent on said WIP before we introduce it. - Infinite - talk 21:51, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

Neither is truly broken on large screen resolutions. So it's a matter of judgement which is "worse". I don't mind fixed width in small doses (e.g. not all of the wiki), but boxes being over half empty annoys me anytime I go near the main page.

Especially when they're both News sections! :P A F K When Needed 22:32, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

(Edit conflict) I would say that if there is a problem with the current main page at 1920x1080, it's that someone decided to preemptively cut down Template:News to accomodate the editcopy version. It has whitespace, yes, but not excessively so (certainly less than editcopy), and it's a reasonable trade-off for not making things ridiculously stretched out, while keeping things decent at low resolutions as well. While it may not be perfect, I certainly wouldn't consider it anything close to "broken". With a mind toward looking okay across a broad spectrum of resolutions, I consider the current main page significantly better than editcopy. So that would be the source of our disagreement on that point. More to the point, it would appear we are agreed that the current editcopy still requires more work before it is ideal, which is the point I was attempting to make, directly disputing Zesbeer's claim (and anyone who might agree with him) that it's either-or and no work on something to accomodate all resolutions will be attempted. - Tanetris 22:32, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

(EC'd by JonTheMon)

I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is to speak with you.

Also, one minor point. You're being premature; we agreed on what? I acknowledged that you made the decision that the editcopy is not acceptable as-is. I never once said anything about supporting you on that. Everyone has their own priorities and reservations when it comes to the look of the main page. I think the style of the editcopy is more aesthetically pleasing. I think it's more relevant to the game, as well. I dislike the fixed width, but I also dislike the current main page on a whole range of points. I recognize that this is all opinion and in the grand scheme of things, utterly unimportant.

However, I saw someone state that the editcopy would not be implemented as-is. Part of the reasoning given was my resolution. As someone who sees that which will not be implemented as an improvement, I wished to add my perspective. I'm not attempting to talk over you or undermine your comments at all. Merely to state that the potential assumption "everyone with resolutions mentioned by Tanetris agrees with him" is not the case.

I apologize for not originally formulating my position as I did in this edit. Regards, A F K When Needed 22:58, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

I was, perhaps, reading too much into "a WIP still actively being worked on (and will receive updates)" as a description for the current state of the editcopy. I assumed from that that, while you feel the editcopy is better than the current main page (and thus should be implemented), there's room for improvement (hence not ideal). Apologies if that misrepresents you. I, obviously, believe there's room for improvement, and in fact I agree with you that the current editcopy is superior in terms of style. The resolution issues simply outweigh the stylistic improvements, to me. Obviously YMMV depending on the weight you give improvements vs drawbacks. - Tanetris 23:24, 25 January 2012 (UTC)

A tangent, but, if I am regarding the same dates that you are from the current Main, I feel it erroneous to connect the change of the News Template to the editcopy as the editcopy doesn't even use News Template. (It uses a page in Aqua's sandbox.) The removal of those earlier dates, according to the commented history, was due to the lapsed time. Redshift 02:00, 26 January 2012 (UTC)

A silly thing with the wiki auto-identifying a word as "harmful"

Tonight I've been copying some of the lore blog posts which were not already on the wiki onto the wiki (per some old discussion of easy/easier management). While copying "Mr. Sparkles, a Tale of the Asura" (wiki link), I was told that a word was harmful, as such in order to make the page I altered the word but, of course, cannot fix it.

Said altered line is this: Flummox coced his head, “Another problem?”

Should be: Flummox cocked his head, “Another problem?”

This is the second time wiki bothered me due to this "word" (albeit previously it was GWW with "cocky"). Konig/talk 07:47, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

I can't change it either. Either only bureaucrats are allowed to have cocks, or it's flat-out disallowed for all user groups. 07:50, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Or... an admin could add it as an exception to the filter. Just sayin. Oh, I did that and fixed it on the page as well. --JonTheMon 08:12, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

e.e 08:24, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Special:Log/delete

Thank you! :) A F K When Needed 01:52, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

And thank you! again. Erasculio 02:04, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

Congratz!

Congratulations for retaining your bureaucrat and sysop seat! --Lania 20:16, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

It was a close one, but you came out unscathed. Congrats! — Gares 01:29, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Statistics reelection of 100%. great! Lasha 07:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

Wiki guild

What would be the rules for recruitment for the guild? I'm guessing that it'll be more PvE oriented? Also can I join? :D. I'm personally planning on either Eternal grove, sorrow's furnace, or yak's bend. I got my BWE confirmation this morning, and I downloaded the client... it's about 14GB in size which took a while even on a 50MB internet connection (through work). --Lania 18:00, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

I'll be joining it with Infinite (I do hope I can register as Infinite) from the three days head-start onwards, but not during the beta itself. Hurray for you leading! :) - Infinite - talk 18:11, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Count me in most likely, though I have some real life friends who might give me crap. 18:41, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

At least for the moment, the only requirements are wanting to join, and not being a pain in the ass on guild chat. So yes, Lania, you are absolutely welcome. I'll probably give sysops officer, as I can't think of any sysops I wouldn't trust with it.

Personally I'm mostly a PvE guy, but I'm certainly not going to discourage PvP or WvW. At least for the beta, I figure most people are going to want to try a bit of everything anyway, so I'd be going for an "all-purpose" guild. - Tanetris 18:56, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Not going to RfR at this time

If you could remove my current sysop status, given that I don't plan to RfR right now. I may RfA at some point in the future if I feel it would be useful, but I'm not currently incredibly active in the wiki community and thus it probably is not worth the time to deal with RfR stuff for the moment. :) (Aiiane - talk - contribs) 02:53, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Done. Hope you find the time in the future! - Tanetris 02:58, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

I will not RfR at this time either :) I'm looking forward to coming back to this wiki community, but it won't happen until the game is released, most likely. And until I've "proven" myself again I don't want sysop rights :) You need active admins ^^

Besides, having been a sysop I know it means very little and I feel fine being a "normal user" ;) - anja 06:30, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Fair enough (and that was either incredibly prompt response or amazing coincidence ;)). Done. Looking forward to seeing more of you again at release time! - Tanetris 06:35, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

You can call me "the quick one"! :P - anja 06:39, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

As above

I currently don't have the time to effectively maintain a presence here. Perhaps at some point in the future I'll have enough time to submit a legitimate RfA, but doing so now would achieve nothing; it would be great if you could demote me to save a little bit of trouble. – Emmett 04:41, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

Understood and done. Hope to see you back in the future. - Tanetris 06:35, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

"Deep Sea dragon"

You deleted the page "Deep Sea dragon", and now, there's a red link in the main page... Can you fix it? Please, check this to don't happen when you delete a redirect. (Checking internal links)

PD: At least, delete the "When to use redirects" part where they use that as an example of a correct redirect... Help:Redirect

And check there are no more... Or more simply, put it again.

Special:WhatLinksHere/"Deep Sea dragon" --Desaroll 18:48, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

I have changed the links on the help article. Unfortunately I have no access to altering the main page. - Infinite - talk 18:50, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Aqua's RfA

I'll be direct: it bothers me a bit to see a RfA decided entirely by the opinion of bureaucrats, when the community has given such a consistent different opinion. I have had two beliefs:

• That bureaucrats are not expected to just count the number of votes, but at the same time they are not expected to apply a decision that goes directly against a clearly established consensus
• That, if the community manages to reach a strong consensus and happens to be wrong about it, the community should pay for the consequences of being wrong in order to hopefully learn from the experience

Aqua's RfA is showing both those beliefs to not apply here. It feels odd, then, to have our current RfA system - if the goal is closer to convincing the bureaucrats to RfA an user than to reaching a consensus, knowing the bureaucrats' opinions before the end of the RfA would likely be more efficient, so we could argue around it. As things are, it feels like the community write-ups can't really be used to predict the outcome of a RfA, giving them an entirely subjective feeling. I appreciate how you took your time to give us an explanation about the result, though; would have been nice to see the same thing for the two successful RfAs that were closed today. Erasculio 23:00, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I agree with Tanetris and Pling's decision on this matter despite the fact that I was the one that created the nomination in the first place. This [1] and this among other things do make me nervous about aqua's ability to judge situations correctly to take admin action. Aqua is an amazing editor and I had thought that perhaps some of the issues from the 2010 rfa has been somewhat resolved. But this recent rfa made some other issues to surface, and i feel that my nomination was premature, and may have caused some unnecessary drama. --Lania 23:46, 07 June 2012 (UTC)

I actually largely agree with your first point, Eras. A bcrat decision that goes directly against a clearly established consensus isn't something that should be expected. If that were happening on a regular basis, I would be extremely concerned that something has gone terribly, terribly Wrong, whether with the bcrats, with the RFA process, or with the community. It's certainly not something I intend to be in the habit of doing. That being said, I do think that there's a reason bcrats are chosen with the care that we are, and I think one reason is that sometimes we do need to serve as a "sanity check", so to speak, on RFAs. This leads into the other way to look at your second point: the community also picked Pling and me to be bcrats (you may remember our recent reconfirmations), so now they are either enjoying being right about placing their trust in us, or suffering for being wrong about placing their trust in us (I am inherently biased to think the former, your mileage may vary).

Regarding the other two RFAs: I didn't provide the same sort of explanations for these because they both seemed fairly straightforward and uncontroversial (whereas both Pling and I knew Aqua's was going to raise some eyebrows and almost certainly ruffle some feathers), but I'm always willing to explain things if asked. If you're interested, I can probably whip up some sort of brief WoT on Ish (possibly tonight or possibly tomorrow), but Infinite's was really as simple as Pling and I looked at the RFA, we both said yes, we moved on. - Tanetris 00:52, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Support, for the sake of reference and also some transparency, that it would be useful to have some record/explanation of what lead to the resolution made, yes. I'm hesitant about this in that it might come off as being 'o our bureaucratic overlords,' but the absence of such in the long run might come off even more so. No need for great WoT, especially in simple cases, but I think it might be useful for the general understanding.

As for the topic at hand, ah, well, shoot, that pains me--this was not one that I spoke in comfort on. But shall we move forward, then... Redshift 02:35, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

I see explanations on decisions of this sort to be roughly equivalent to when the justices on a federal court write the opinion after declaring their verdict. It provides valuable insight into the decision-making process that can be referred to in the future as established precedent. However, I agree with Tanetris that it shouldn't be required for every single decision - if the b'crats feel that their decision was against consensus (Aqua) or without a unanimous consensus (me(?)), then it would probably be good for the community for them to give at least a short explanation. If their decision went along with an obvious consensus (Infinite), there's not really any need. —Dr Ishmael 02:54, 8 June 2012 (UTC)

Mtew *sigh*

While I firmly agree that a timeout is required (and therefore a block was warranted), I think that a 1-year ban may be too stern. Of course I may be missing something. I believe he is incredibly disruptive and appears to believe everyone is after him, but as a first ban (again i believe so) i think a year is too long. May I suggest a 3-month ban to allow him to cool off, or at least until after release. I have no actual reason for the shorter ban aside from the fact that I feel it to be too stern. Please provide some input, maybe some others can weigh in. Venom20 23:14, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

Whether it pertains to this wiki or not is up to the others, but Mtew has been blocked on the GWW a few times for very similar issues. -- Traveler (talk) 00:19, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Look at his contributions from *years* ago - they're the same. Constant conflicts with everyone over everything, and an unending paranoia/belief that because his ideas are unpopular, he's universally hated. He went farther this time with the whole "everyone is inherently evil" thing, but the base argument hasn't changed at all. He suggests a lot of weird shit that nobody is really keen to implement, then flies off the handle when pressed on the matter. He hasn't improved since 2010 - what good do you think 3 months will do? (Honestly, I don't think he'll be any better in a year, either - but at least then we can escalate it to a perma without much trouble). -Auron 05:28, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Actually, you don't even need to look at GWW; it's his 3rd ban on this wiki. As others have said, the latest incident is part of a pattern dating back years at this point. I did consider a shorter ban (not 3 months, but 6 months) and I also considered permabanning. I think a case could be made in either direction, but what it mostly comes down to for me is, if you don't change in 2 years of voluntary absence from the wiki (if you check his contribs, there's a gap from 22 June 2010 to 13 June 2012), then you're probably not going going to change in a small fraction of that involuntary absence either. I'm frankly not all that optimistic the 1 year will change anything, but who knows. Permabans aren't something I hand out lightly, and I felt it was worth leaving one extra chance before we move to that. So 1 year is my middle ground on this. - Tanetris 08:03, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the response, sorry about the delay. I see why the ban was so long, I was unaware of these past events. I understand why the ban was so long, good job. Venom20 14:05, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

BWE3 server selection?

What server will you be playing on for BWE3? Eternal Grove doesn't exist any more. Will you make a Wiki guild on the server? I'm Steven.8027. Arnor 12:46, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Yak's Bend and yes. - Tanetris 00:20, 20 July 2012 (UTC)

WTB Radiant Dust in BWE3

If anyone's got any, I really need 1 pile of radiant dust. Char name is Tanetris. - Tanetris 01:39, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

did he die?

Or did you just get busy over the weekend and forget? —Dr Ishmael 15:45, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Are you referring to http://wiki.guildwars2.com/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=rights&page=User%3ABot+ishmael ? - Tanetris 16:00, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

Massive d'oh. I was super-busy on Friday so I scanned through RC super-quick in the morning and must've missed that. And since you didn't post on my talk page to notify me, I went all weekend under the assumption that it hadn't been done yet. My apologies for being unobservant. :P —Dr Ishmael 16:07, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

You should probably watchlist the bot's userpage (both because it would show the rights-change on watch, and because it just seems like a good idea in general). That said, apologies for the lack of explicit notification. - Tanetris 16:16, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

It'll be on my watchlist once I create it. I'm working on the P&P page for bots right now. —Dr Ishmael 16:28, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I dreamed about you last night

I dreamed that I said "fags" in #gww and you banned me forever and then PMed me and asked me to proofread a paper or something and I was like "Aww hell nah dawg." 20:41, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

That's ridiculous. I know much better proofreaders if I needed one. - Tanetris 20:57, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

And I know much better ways to get banned. 22:09, 7 October 2012 (UTC)

Pink Day in LA

Hello, Would like to talk to you a lil about Pink Day in LA.

1. Where you going to help out on the Desolation server? (since that is something most are expecting)

2. Would you also know a few that would like to help out aswell? (We would need 10 to host a server)

I would like some answers on these aswell as I would want to arrange a meeting with you, some volunteers and another GW-EN DJ Host if that would be possible. (To go through some of the information)

Thank You for your time reading this and hopefully answering the questions.

Skill

Problem is, I'm on Yak's Bend, which apparently won't be seeing any festivities. I talked to Pling (the other guild leader who is on Desolation), but he doesn't seem interested. If you wanna check with some of the other guildies (off the top of my head, Rhoot, LordBiro, Infinite, and Naut are all on Desolation and are good people), you can ask them and they have my blessing to act in the name of Edit Conflict. Not much else I can do. - Tanetris 22:58, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

sitenotice

Oooh, what sort of maintenance? —Dr Ishmael 17:36, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I'd assume backend stuff, probably not an upgrade or SMW, since it's going to be affecting the forums and the other-language wikis too. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/news/Forum-and-Wiki-Maintenance-20-OCT-7-00-PM-PDT - Tanetris 17:43, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Oh, I hadn't seen the forum post. Assumed it was some sort of inside info that Stephane had given you. I wasn't expecting much anyway given the short notice. —Dr Ishmael 18:01, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I would hypothetically not be at liberty to divulge any inside info Stephane may or may not hypothetically give me. Hypothetically. - Tanetris 18:27, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

Request for arbitration

Hi Tanetris, I posted a request for arbitration here. --Santax (talk · contribs) 20:11, 28 October 2012 (PDT)

I've got a hurricane going on here, so... I'll get back to you, if it's not resolved in the meantime. - Tanetris 22:05, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Bot account request

Yesterday I wrote a bot script to go through and categorize all of the armor icons into detailed categories, such as Category:Heavy footwear icons or Category:Light headwear icons. This was the first of many script ideas that I had that I would love to have work on the wiki, especially on a reoccurring schedule. I was wondering if I might be able to have my alternate account User:Ahlec be marked as a bot so that I can run my bot scripts through there and not pollute the recent changes log. Many thanks! -Jyavoc 17:42, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

As an aside to the above request, please ensure that you discuss any category changes at the organization page. The contributers to that project have worked extensively for the current categorizaztion. Prior to making any changes, please check with the contributors and discuss the changes on the talk page. Venom20 18:20, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Thanks

... for the merge! Steve1 (talk) 18:59, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

RFAs

← moved to Guild Wars 2 Wiki talk:Community portal#RFAs

Karma

We should probably plan on a day to use a Guild Karma bonus so everyone in the guild can get the extra karma before the changes are permanent. 05:32, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

I've queued up Economy level 3, which'll take 3 days. After that we'll need Economy level 4, which is another 10k influence (we currently have 8,800)... Which is doable at the rate we're earning influence with the invasion events, but is going to pretty much wipe us out. We really should get some people together to do those 10 guild bounty trainings we have sitting ready, then we could unlock actual guild bounties. If there's anyone in the world who doesn't already have a side-guild that does bounties anyway. - Tanetris (talk) 07:04, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

We now have enough influence. There's 2 days left of build time for Eco 3, Eco 4 will take 4 days, and the boost itself will take 2 days to build. So if I watch the upgrade queue like a hawk, we can theoretically have a karma boost ready to go by Friday the 30th. Karma's supposed to get changed back to its boosterless state September 3rd (citation), so there's time there. I think what I'll do is build 2 (we do have the thing to build 2 things at a time), and activate one Friday night/Saturday morning, the other Saturday night/Sunday morning so it'll cover that whole weekend. This would be available to anyone in [wiki] whose home world is Yak's Bend (sadly guests do not benefit), so you guys let me know if that works for you, or if you'd rather I hold one till Monday (Sept 2) if someone's going to be out of town or whatever, let me know. - Tanetris (talk) 09:30, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

If you really want it sooner, I'm an officer in a guild that is building the boost right now. --JonTheMon (talk) 12:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Wait, crap, wrong world.... :( --JonTheMon (talk) 12:33, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

What realms are people even on anymore? I'm still on sea of sorrows, but some are on yaks, and then some are on others? -Auron 13:41, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

After some consultation and pondering, here's my current plan: I'll pop one karma boost late-night Saturday (Aug 31) that should cover all of Sunday (Sep 1). The other I'll pop Monday (Sep 2) evening which will therefore extend to Tuesday (Sep 3) evening, hopefully all the way till the update, so anyone can chug any last-minute karma they might happen to get.

@Auron: Me, Purp, Bin, Pling, Felix, and a couple other people who don't really log in anymore (Gares and his SO, Emrot, Grinch, some non-wiki friends of mine) are all on Yak's. Not sure if Rud is on Yak's or if he just visits sometimes. Ish is on Tarnished Coast, and that Yoe Dude guy is on Borlis. And I guess Jon is somewhere? I've never actually noticed. I think everyone else who still logs in regularly (Poke, Sirrush, Zeezles, maybe a couple others) is EU. - Tanetris (talk) 22:23, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

So, what I have discovered is that you apparently cannot have more than one karma boost built at a time. Given this, and given that I know the people this would affect already chugged the lion's share of their karma the other week, I'm going to skip sunday and activate the one karma boost Monday evening (maybe around 5pm EDT). The boost will last 24 hours from that point (so til around 5pm EDT Tuesday). The Tanetris has spoken. - Tanetris (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

*poke*

Just one of Wyn's old allies looking for an old friend. Just ignore me if you're not him. :) - Jes

Hi Jes! - Tanetris (talk) 12:58, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Curiosity

Did that Dawn drop for you, or did you spend great monies? I assume the former, otherwise you wouldn't be trying to get shot of it. Details! — snograt 23:28, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Your assumption is correct that it was a drop. More specifically it came out of the Magic Toilet when I was throwing rares from Scarlet's Lair chests in there. - Tanetris (talk) 12:57, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Hmm, I recently stopped feeding the toilet after many months of trying. I could probably count even the exotics on the fingers of one hand. I suppose I will give it another go once I've finished collecting all the crap on my shopping list. — snograt 13:18, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

tanetris

give extended editor stuff.--Relyk ~ talk < 16:23, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Eh. Not sure. Why do you want them? - Tanetris (talk) 16:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Am I not good enough for you Relyk? :( poke | talk 16:45, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

For the editing features. poke is definitely good enough too.--Relyk ~ talk < 20:07, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

*a poke is fine too 21:26, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Similar request, but I put it on Guild Wars 2 Wiki:Bureaucrat noticeboard instead (a new page for your watchlist)... this way i don't have to declare which of you two is my favourite b'crat each time I need something done. -Chieftain Alex 21:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

For the love of monkeys, man, I saw it on the bot talk page, I saw it on IRC, I saw the new page, I've seen this. I'm considering. - Tanetris (talk) 22:20, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

ahahah. "considering" is allowed. Guess I must have logged out of irc before I saw your acknowledgement :p-Chieftain Alex 22:44, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Regarding your edit summary: adding blackmail to your shameless powergrab? ...I couldn't be prouder. <3 - Tanetris (talk) 23:12, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Oh don't worry, setting up the abusefilter to demote b'crats and admins who visit Special:UserRights was my next suggestion. -Chieftain Alex 23:20, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, much appreciated as always. I love how you don't trust me at all <3, just like poke. -Chieftain Alex 23:31, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

My primary job around here, besides preserving the space-time continuum, is to see to the health and well-being of the wiki. When it comes to that, I trust what I can verify. - Tanetris (talk) 01:26, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

“For the love of monkeys, man, I saw it on the bot talk page” – Same. Really, the kids these days need to become more patient. Back in my days, I would have waited weeks for this! (and I’m not even kidding :P) poke | talk 07:33, 23 February 2015 (UTC)