Vote it's the reset!

[Zhokril]

Nameservers take roughly 2 days to update. I doubt we're losing much traffic by people being directed to blank instead of "New in 2005!"

You guys ever wonder how typing a string into your URL box knows where the hell you are trying to get to? There are actually 13 root servers around the world that keep track of it.

And people say its impossible to break the internet.

[mmajunkie]

I remember just a couple months ago when Sweden had their internet broken

I don't remember the details but basically a change/update to the servers Zhokril is referring to made a typo and basically left any .swe address out in limbo.

Imagine if DNS got broken on a global scale somehow We'd have to remember all the IPs of our favorite websites, update servers, game servers....ewww.

[English lad]

Technically that would be breaking the web - not the internet

I had the difference explained to me when I had the excellent chance to meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee as a conference recently..(Shameless plug )

[mmajunkie]

haha, yes you're right, technically :-D I'll have to look up that gent you mentioned. What's his specialty?

[Mali]

Wiki says he created the internet... but i thought that was Al gore... :eek:

[English lad]

Tim Berners-lee wrote and designed Hypertext Protocal - basically http...the program that allows us to connect to other computers via what we now call a web service. He would say he was involved in making the web - I was organising a conference where he was keynote speaker - and I fought an up-hill, and eventually unsuccessful campaign against the local media to stop calling him the 'father of the internet'.

As a funny little aside, ever wondered why you have to type http://? the double slash is actually totally uneccessary, he made a joke where he apologised to the conference for it. When he was writing the protocal he expected to have to include a second field after http: (this was before the concept of URLs really came along.) As a good little coder he built himself in some room to add additional information at a later date - which would have gone between the two slashes - and then it never became necessary, and by the time he realised it, the code had gone out to to many people so he thought, and i paraphrase;

"Its not like its going to affect a lot of people really..probably just sys admins and stuff, i'll just leave it..."

Funny who the world works out.

[mmajunkie]

That's too cool, definitely sharing that with the guys at work tomorrow.

[f0xx]

I've heard that story too hehe, funny

[Dale]

If I could voice my opinion I'd say we did a pretty fine job at voting so far. If we could do it every month it would be awesome.

[f0xx]

Hm, there is something wrong on the voting site.

Aabahran: The Forsaken Lands has not yet been validated for voting.

Information and help on why you might be receiving this message can be found in the Voting FAQ item. Please have the MUD administrator contact us at webmaster@topmudsites.com if further help is needed.

Click here for Mud Rankings Page

Also, we are not listed in the rankings at all.

[English lad]

Nobody did anything stupid like voting from all the IPs at their workplace did they? They are very strict on their rules about vote cheating there - they have kicked muds before when people have been caught voting multiple times - the rules state that each person can only vote once every 12 hours.

[mmajunkie]

are vote progs like the one people are using here illegal? If it is trying to vote multiple times a day (more than 2) it might have caused a red flag.

Should only try to vote at midnight/noon if that is the case

[Dale]

yeah you all might want to go and disable that thing, mine was still running.

I didn't even know it:eek:

[Croyvern]

are vote progs like the one people are using here illegal? If it is trying to vote multiple times a day (more than 2) it might have caused a red flag.

Should only try to vote at midnight/noon if that is the case

Ding Ding Ding Ding >>>>> Cigar Winner! We were visited recently by admin from TMS for those who did not know/catch the specific in game inquiries.

[Zhokril]

Using a program that votes for you is not against the rules as long as it doesn't vote more often than is allowed (and is voluntary and not incentived, of course). I've been away for a few days so I'm not really sure what all is going on (this thread is the first I'm hearing about the problem), so if those of you who interacted with someone from TMS could PM me what happened, that would be appreciated.

I will contact the TMS admin and find out what is going on.

[Croyvern]

All I know is I observed the questions in newbie chat the other day, sure wish I had logged it now. Questions like "How does a mud get in the top 20 with most ever of 44 on?", "What makes this mud any different from the others in the top 20?", ect. Questions that for me became to specific to the TMS site (since both mentioned the top 20) caused me to believe we were being visited.

[f0xx]

What is this newbie chat you are referring to?

And we've been in top 5 before.

[Croyvern]

What is this newbie chat you are referring to?

Its a special language reserved for the blue team.

[Dale]

Why didn't you tell him that this mud was the uber pwnt.

[Zhokril]

Yet another reason not to believe everything you hear. I asked the admin at TMS and he says that no official rep from their site visited ours.

Our rapid increase in voting activity raised a flag with them. As a general reminder, please don't try to vote from proxies. Using a proxy connection is pretty easily detected, against their rules, and could threaten our good standing with TMS.

[f0xx]

That's good Zho, but what about our current situation?

Why aren't we listed at all in the rankings?

[Zhokril]

The admin at TMS says that there were a lot of matches when he ran our votes up against a proxy list, so we're temporarily not allowed to vote until the 'proxy' votes are removed.

[Serinkane]

wheres do i get the autovoter.

[f0xx]

The admin at TMS says that there were a lot of matches when he ran our votes up against a proxy list' date=' so we're temporarily not allowed to vote until the 'proxy' votes are removed.[/quote']

Hm, perhaps that is the REAL reason for our jump then?

*shrug*

[Zhokril]

The TMS admin said it may have been malicious in order to try and get our game in trouble (perhaps by the same person who logged on and was ranting about our ranking).

If someone remembers the character name, please PM it to me.