Rules of engagement
You're free to say anything you want here — offensive, ignorant, hostile, provocative, whatever — so long as you're willing to back up what you say and it doesn't infringe the Wiki's TOS (since, regardless of what you may or may not think of the TOS, you've already agreed to abide by it). However, realise that this freedom also applies to everyone else.
You do not have to answer every response directed at you. Which is as well: if you were required to, then no response chain would ever end except by running up against the maximum permissible number of responses. In fact, unless you think that a chain of "'tis!" and "'tisn't!"s is likely to be tremendously entertaining to many of this page's readers, it's probably better to take any such interminable discussion to your own talk pages sooner rather than later. Sometimes it is better to walk away from a fight. However, if you constantly leave inflammatory responses and never bother to explain yourself (see above), that's called trolling, and will probably make me mock you horribly.
Debates are great! Arguments are super. Watching people having a good think on my talk page is fun. However, this is a mixed-ability place; not everyone has English as a first language, nor does everyone have equal felicity of expression. Failure to comprehend is very often the responsibility of the writer, not of the reader. Be slow to attribute to malice what may be explained as ignorance. As they say over at Wikipedia: "Assume Good Faith".
I do assume, however, that you have reasonable competence, and are capable of holding up your own end of a discussion if needed. I'm sorry if people say mean things about you. I'm less sorry if you deserve them.
Don't censor yourself — at least, not on my behalf. Prejudices and opinions that never see the light of day often fester unchallenged into faulty truths. If you've got things to say, you can't spend your entire life pussy-footing around your potential audience. Otherwise, how will you ever know if you're wrong?
If I don't respond to your insightful and well-thought-out comment, it's nothing personal. I probably just forgot it was there. You can remind me, if you want.
If I write "This discussion is *closed*" — which I do very rarely — that doesn't mean simply that I don't want to discuss the matter further here; it also means that I almost certainly don't want to discuss the matter anywhere, at least at that time. It's up to you, of course, but mentioning it to me in mail or other media will probably not be taken kindly. Please wait until I'm ready to reopen the subject if you possibly can.
Correct spelling, good grammar and tolerable style are always acceptable. You have access to tools for at least one of these things, and a brain for the rest. Use them as well as you are capable of doing.
--Kay Dekker 15:18, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- Can you say overkill? This is not Wikipedia, most people rarely use the user talk pages here, except admins saying "Don't Do That." --Club (#66669) (Talk) 22:35, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- OK, uh... "overkill"! Yep, seems that I can. More seriously, though, you're correct: it is overkill, or, as I prefer to call it, "preemptive informing". Like just about every other policy in the world, it shouldn't ever be needed: common sense and politeness should make it unnecessary. But there are always idiots out there, and, just for those idiots, and for nobody else, I prefer to set things out clearly. It obviates 95% of the whining; for the other 5%, I have a Great Big Cluestick :) --Kay Dekker 22:48, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- FYI: you might want to edit the boilerplate on the user side to be less wikipedia-specific. --Club (#66669) (Talk) 22:53, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
- Indeed, good point; thank you! I've made the relevant changes. --Kay Dekker 23:01, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
Cooking discoveries
The ingredients are listed on the page as they are in the game. The wiki tends to go to great lengths to reproduce things the same way in which they appear in-game. Which is by their item id, I believe. There is no "minor/major/alphabetical" type of arrangement to the ingredients. --Flargen 00:58, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
Arrow'd
It is not that adventure.php decrements the counter -- but that the counter is somehow initialized by a call to adventure.php. What you're seeing is exactly that, those initial putty fights are decrementing the counter because it hasn't been set yet. (I have no idea why it is coded like that, but eh.) --Starwed 22:36, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
