We've also tried convincing the powers that be that we should integrate GR so it automatically updates and posts to this site.

We've been shot down numerous times, although to be fair, I recall that there were valid reasons for it that I cannot recall.

Pretty sure it's been announced as an upcoming feature already.

ATC mentioned it as a future plan at the same time as when they released the colorblind options IIRC.

Sorry everyone, my laptop (where I develop webdip) died. I've managed to recover most of the data, and June GR will be out soon. Categories might take a bit longer.

My condolences! Buy an SSD for fun and profit.

I did! It is fun, but I didn't profit from it :(

You will! I've used a few dozen in the biz I work for and it's a cheap and easy way to get a massive performance in speed and reliability/less problems. Have not had a fail yet. Touchwood. Am now drooling over some server SSD's as they creep nearer to a reasonable price point.

Buy 2!! Install 1 and once every so often clone it onto the other. Fact of the day: SSDs have a finite number of read/writes. When they hit the limit - zilch; I use 1 as the boot and have 2 HDDs in Raid 1 for my data... SSDs in Raid? Nope - See: Fact of the day!

Eh let's not go crazy, you are of course doing daily image backups anyway, right? :)

ATC - you should crowdfund your laptop. I'm sure there's plenty of people here who would help as thanks for the work you do.

I'll give you $10 for each slot in GR you bump me up due to "Algorithm enhancements"

I'm happy to announce that we have a new GR that is undeniably objective: the ranking is based on the amount of money you donate to the GR fund. In case of a tie, "extra" donation can be sent to me to adjudicate your worth as a Diplomat. It also resets every calendar year to encourage competition. As of this point, abgemacht is #1 on the list with a donation of $390. Please use the Help link and donate as usual and put "GR fund" in the subject line. Thanks, abge.

I live to serve.

<pushes button> That was easy

Do you get extra points if you build ATC a really powerful computer?

Ooh, that would definitely boost your GR by 10 spots.

And NO, no bitcoins.
Also, no time donated and accounts banned DO NOT count towards your GR. Only hard cold cash.

<begin commercial>
A young man in his mid 20s hunched over a brandless laptop. He has an intense, concentrated look on his face, busily typing on his overused keyboard and clicking his well-worn mouse. Once in a while, he looks up and crackles as he wields the might banhammer.
The camera pans out and a caption appears on the screen:
There is much goodness in time donated and accounts banned, but for GR, there is only hard cold cash. <end commercial>

"And NO, no bitcoins"

thats funny

10 spots, what kind of cheap establishment is this? Abge was asking for $10 per spot, a good computer is probably $800 or so depending on what you want it to do, maybe 300 bare minimum. That's like 30-80 spots right there!!! I demand justice!!!

BTW you should make that brandless laptop into a branded one instead, set up some paid advertising to pay for the laptop, you might even get a free one for use in the commercial!

Perhaps I misunderstood when you said "built." If you mean you just give ATC a completely new computer for free, then it would be much more than 10 spots. PM me for details.
This new GR system seems to be working pretty well. There is interest in it already and profit to be made.

Sorry zultar, im saving up for my own pc to build right now :( I will have to earn my GR the hard way.

How much money would we have to donate for zultar to actually play a game?

10 billion

i offered $100, he turned it down

I think Big Z, has to show the likes of Semck and Orathaic that this is a gaming site---and play

Actually, on a serious note, I've thought about asking for donations that we can use to advertise the site or to partly pay for mods and admins to go to face-to-face competitions to advertise for the site and make connections. We have fundings to cover site fees and maintenance until 2017, but we don't have any funds for things like that yet.

Do you think there would be interest in people donating to such a fund and I will play a full press game with the top six donators?

Most likely yes, or at the very least you could buy a small kit that you can ship to members going to FTF so that they can advertise for you. I think anything that would get you to play a game would bring in a lot of money.

People funding my trip to Milan? Excellent.

HR, when you going?

I would also suggest allowing the top donator to have a say in which mods/admins go where.

I believe that's where the European Championships are this year, ssorenn.

I'd be more interested in putting more support behind publicity that doesn't cost money, like getting more articles from webDip in zines, following the twitter account, and getting a banner for the webDip F2F. I think things like that will go a lot further than paying a mod to go to a tournament, especially since there usually already a couple members that could represent the site.

Did I ask "what was there" nooooooo. I asked when are you going?

I'm not really; unless people actually did donate for that. ;)

The usefulness of the advertisment fund aside, I don't think there is enough interest or people to donate to the site just to play a game with me. :)
It's really just me finding another way to weasel out of playing a game.

Do you just like the number 3830 zultar?

If we did start looking for donations then we'd have to go through the hassle of figuring out a clever nickname for the site. Something like "WebDipintomypocketslookingforloosechange".

Or "Thesecretfundforzultar'ssecretstuff"

Or, possibly, "PlayDip"

They'd probably get mad at us for using their name without proper credit, even if we edited it to take away limitations in the font and style and such.

I know. The suggestion was really just a jab.

What about PayDip?

.. dipping into the power of the dark side Luke struck down the evil Darth Vader. Pulling back the mask he saw his own face.

We wouldn't have to play with zultar would we?

Wow, you toss a soft ball in here and 20 guys come running out swinging their bats like crazy.

I'm really just kind of disappointed zultar got more +1s than me in my own thread.

I agree with abge - I think there are plenty of avenues for advertising the site that don't cost money.

HR: EuroDipCon is in Leicester, not Milan, this year. WDC was in Milan last month - maybe you were thinking of that?

sorry if I'm the nagging one here, but the GR are still not up, and it's the 18th on this post. I don't have to see the rankings to know that I'm awesome, I'd just like to see ma placing