Cheers brother. Thanks for all the good work and the good times.

Well then.

How about a well-positioned person who i opposed to issues relating to RPSC, should this be ok for should it be enouraged?!?

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I don't mind myself, but I know plenty of people didn't like PPSC and I'm sure the change was well thought out. Sum of squares seems fairly similar anyway, and this wouldn't be high on the todo list since I know there'll be disagreement however the scoring works
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I think that SoS is much less popular than PPSC. Those that complain the loudest about PPSC are the ones who only play WTA.
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I remember someone noting on this forum that PPSC and SoS are both specimens of "Sum of n-th Power", with n=1 for PPSC and n=2 for SoS. So we may also have "Sum-of-Cubes" etc :shock:

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[quote=byter post_id=339078 time=1681373710 user_id=25121]
Hi,

[b]get paid enough to comfortably buy a home in Colorado's Rocky Mountains[/b]. The long list would be lengthy if I gave it, but the point is that this facility is really amazing. It is great because of the people here collectively; it has nothing to do with diplomacy. If you work online you earn very well.
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What?
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webdipcoin. You didn't know about it???

[quote=kestasjk post_id=339198 time=1681447483 user_id=2]
I don't mind myself, but I know plenty of people didn't like PPSC and I'm sure the change was well thought out. Sum of squares seems fairly similar anyway, and this wouldn't be high on the todo list since I know there'll be disagreement however the scoring works
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I think that SoS is much less popular than PPSC. Those that complain the loudest about PPSC are the ones who only play WTA.

<3

I don't mind myself, but I know plenty of people didn't like PPSC and I'm sure the change was well thought out. Sum of squares seems fairly similar anyway, and this wouldn't be high on the todo list since I know there'll be disagreement however the scoring works

In a previous thread, bo said that PPSC wouldn't come back on his watch.

Since bo is now gone, does that mean we can bring back PPSC?

Is it not obvious? It's nowt to do with diplomacy, but he has a facility for doing online collective work generating lengthy lengths of long listiness, and if you join in you get to live in Fraggle Rock.

I'm well tempted

[quote=byter post_id=339078 time=1681373710 user_id=25121]
Hi,

[b]get paid enough to comfortably buy a home in Colorado's Rocky Mountains[/b]. The long list would be lengthy if I gave it, but the point is that this facility is really amazing. It is great because of the people here collectively; it has nothing to do with diplomacy. If you work online you earn very well.
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What?

Nicely written!

Cheers, bo!!!

Bo, you're up there in the list of best admins the site has ever had. Thank you for everything you've done to keep webDip running these past six years

Agreed bo, will see you around. Maybe you can stay on just retired if nothing else. Keep us posted on the photography and play a game. Thanks for all you've done, hoping the best for the project also, should be good.

Ah, bo... or Mr. Sox, as I first calked you. In many ways you are this site for me. (Not because you have 7 personalities vying for control...) You conversed with me, taught me, befriended me, modded me, and almost stayed in my house during tornado season. Don't be a stranger. This place feels a little hollow without you.

Who made bo an elder statesman?

You should still play mafia. Don't listen to ghug, most of us think you're pretty cool.

Cheers Bo, thanks for all your efforts. Don't be a stranger. You're an outstanding member of the community.

Several of you have already put the pieces together, and I appreciate the concern. My name isn't red anymore because I resigned my position as an admin on this site a few days ago and this is being posted here because I can't post in the announcements section anymore, so this goes here unless someone feels like moving it :lol:

Thank you all for being the awesome community that you are, even as things change and people come and go. I have real memories from this website - from being backed into a corner in an after-school club as a teenager and told that I should join this site or else (thanks, KB) to crashing in Valis's spare room for a few nights because I was too broke to pay for real accommodations, smoking on Yoyoyozo in a game of 8-ball to determine who got to sleep on the only bed in our hotel room, or quietly laughing with everyone as they reacted to me becoming a moderator (thank you zultar and jmo for being convinced I could be better than I was back then for some reason, and thank you abge and 2WL in particular for pretending like you agreed with them when I was around), this place has been nothing but good to me. Yet it's more than just good memories - ghug and jmo helped me kickstart a career that upended my life in a good way, and for some reason I get paid enough money to comfortably own a house in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. If I gave out the whole list it would go on awhile, but the long story short is that this place is pretty great. It has never had anything to do with Diplomacy; it's great because the people here collectively make it great. I have probably been one of the biggest beneficiaries of that of anyone here and it's made a real difference in my life.

The direction of the website going forward is aimed toward modernization, and that's for the best. Dark mode and player AI were just the tip of the iceberg. webDiplomacy is going to grow, and it's going to be exciting. I got to be part of those conversations and I genuinely hope it turns out to be as cool as I think it will be. I haven't had the time or energy to contribute to those projects in months and that was not about to change, and reworking the moderator team again to come up with a way to go forward from that angle is just not on my to-do list at the moment. There will be people who step up to push that forward, and they deserve the respect and trust that you all have for some reason decided to show me for the last several years. It's going to end well.

I'm stepping away from the site for a little while. I'm reachable on Discord, and if you're interested in my dumb tornado and aurora photography exploits in life I'll share my public social media with you. I'll be back at some point, and might even play a game of Diplomacy again, if I can still remember how to do that. I look forward to seeing you all then. 8-)