Whistle Orga

Maybe not edt but it is 1 pm somewhere.

you're getting an uncomfortable talking to from @Semiotiq soon.

:P

Thrakazog

Heh. I’m not trying to rush it. I must admit to wanting to see some squirming.

Terran was KC POC

😆

You have to seed it to start at whatever number the count is for users. :)

There are a few res i know on that list that are good people

But.
If youre gonna get caught up in not so great things.

Good people and scraping are not actually incompatible.

Nevermind.

Oh forsure

Especially if this is presented as normal

And honestly, with 900 people

Mystickittie is on there ... interesting.
Thats where wutangsammich gets his fuel to keep spoofing.

How could you not see it as normal?

“Normal” and “wrong” blend together at that point

You have been inducted into the Cool Kids Club. It is an honor and a privilege and you'd better be good or we'll kick you out. Please do not reveal the shitty secrets the Cool Kids Club is built upon.

Basically.

Your community needs these services. Your community needs you in a position of power to advocate for them.

That's much more damaging.

their hierarchy is clearer, and they can earn more access

Also, yes, I saw Hosette.

Righteous indignation is a hell of a drug.

I had a conversation with her post-Russell in which she explained she didn't do this.

There are good people on this list, who honestly believe this is ok

And there are good people on this list who have explicitly lied to us about such a thing existing.

Yes

We've probably lied to them too.

That they would have been stopped if something so widespread and blatant was actually against the rules.

My people in this tell me that they get their info from others

While theyre admins in this

worst thing

Lying to the other faction is something we all do

This is how I participated in a UIGEA violation back in the day.

THAT is why i’m so against this on a personal level, betrayed trust.

They have devs in chat ffs

“I’m at work”
/farms keys

Is like Joe Philley talking about how cool drones are

Isn’t ours built on liver stretching and cats?

That doesn't make this violation okay in my book. But recognize that it's a matter of degrees

"These companies are advertising on Network Television, their workaround has to be kosher and not money laundering."

im trying to make sense, which is more restricted access, radar, riot, or bot

I'm getting so grr about this. I think I need to step away

Exactly.

Theres a degree on what is lying for opsec reasons and what is lying for things like this

Worded poorly but you get what I mean

The devs in chats insulates everyone else.

I agree. They may not. Be prepared for a lack of shame

Clearly this is OK, because otherwise the adults would have made us stop.

Yeah. It definitely feels like old ingress... Res play on easy mode, Enl play on nightmare mode

....but aren't you the adults?

I’m going anon with this to see how my res react toorrlw

Some of us play nightmare.

I play fixed zoom in the boonies mode

Lol

People have a way of self-deluding on this subject.

Can I just say how inordinately proud it makes me that I picked green and not blue? Like, they just cheat their way through and constantly harangue us in comms and social media for being cheaters ourselves... It's so gross from the outside, and now I can see how gross it is on the inside... I know there are bad actors who wear green too, I'm not naive, and I try to consider everyone as an ingresser not matter the color but this feels... Fundamental to the differences in our factions.

Everyone who plays this game for pink slips knows that if you fuck up, you're going to get smeared.

They're about to get smeared at an insitutional level. It's fine. Keep it professional.

Where do I see the new names list?

check pin

I did. Were the new names simply added to the existing list?

yes

also in the riot tab

Yes, incorporated into the master.

...ok. I'll recheck it in a bit

ok time to attack this website with a monocle and a whisk

what copy still needs written?

ready to take a crack at a page

roster doesnt include riot

its about to

I need RADAR

And riot.one

Would like to a simple statement to head the right side column when I'm first looking at the page.


"Riot is..." etc.
Then the screenshot

I know this is nitpicky AF but I hate mixing serif and sans serif fonts

This is a big one

Ok. I'll start with RADAR. and then move to Riot if no one else has taken it when I'm done. I

Lead statement language change recommendation:


"
RIOT is a database application that aggregates information scraped from intel.ingress.com and agent scanner data and makes it available for agents to search."

the differences are subtle but important. Databases don't aggregate things, applications do. The scanner implications are important.

It reads like


"WHAM"


//screenshot


*tos in case you forgot*

[[GIF, size 76'206 bytes]]

Right, because we got the scanner stuff after writing the first draft.

so where does the TOS definition go?

my recommendation would be:


lead statement
screenshot
TOS stuff

a pop up

kidding

Use frames and have it ALWAYS THERE at the top

I'm going to be a total pain in the ass for a while. Please forgive me. Nudgy language recommendations coming, please take them or leave them.

I tried that and it weakens the flow

Weak flow sounds like a side effect of certain medicines and something that may be worth a doctor visit

(sorry)

ok, refresh and look again

you are so close to a your mom joke

People really don't know what scraping is

Recommend changing:


"Access and maintenance of the RIOT database occurs in a Slack team called The Brokers Guild. Using this Slack, authorized Resistance agents can find in seconds:"


to


"Access to and maintenance of the RIOT database is centralized wihin a Slack team called The Brokers Guild. Using this slack and associated automation tools, authorized agents can find in seconds:"


Notes:


- 'centralized within' versus 'occurs' nods to the distributed nature of the system
- removing 'Resistance' makes the website more neutral
- And associated automation tools nods to the distribution network (there is more than one devil)

centralized *within

lol

took out associated