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SLISKE'S ENDGAME

For those forum users who do not use social media & may be curious about what is being said by the Jmods on social media about Slike's Endgame that information can be found on:


JMOD TIDBITS - SLISKES ENDGAME Qfc 15-16-856-65861860


Besides a transcription of those Jmod replies that were found on Reddit, the thread also includes Tweets & what has been communicated on RSOF as well.

Rather than use JMODS TIDBITS Sliske's Endgame as a comparison point in relationship to the social media versus RSOF discussion taking place here I felt that the information fit better on its own thread.
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20-Dec-2016 16:16:11

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REDDIT WEEKEND WATCH

Who was posting on Reddit during the weekend & what were they saying?




DATE: 24 Dec 2016

JMOD TIDBITS



Reddit: Props to Mr. Mod Bond! submitted 3 days ago - 33 comments

OP: I've been hooked on Champions of Sliske and Dying Light II since i played Sliske's Endgame. Your work in Children of Mah were also great, especially Lava Falls. Thank you for creating great music :)

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A: Mod Cuppa 57 points 2 days ago: He's not in at the moment as he's off for Christmas, but I've dropped this thread to his e-mail for him to read when he returns. I'm sure the sentiment is appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to write it.

[END]

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Reddit: Upper floor level bug (NXT) submitted 2 days ago - 5 comments

OP: So recently i have been having this bug where i can't look into houses because the ceiling or the floor from the 2nd level is blocking the view, i have been trying to get rid of this by looking around in my graphic settings but none seem to help. Anyone got this bug aswell?/Possible fixes?

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A: Mod Dark 6 points 1 day ago: This is a bug caused by having all of the following:

Ambient occlusion on
Water detail low or medium (reason why we didn't catch it, low water detail with AO is an odd combination)
Shadows on

If you change any of those it will go away. A fix is in the works for the first update of 2017

[END]
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26-Dec-2016 15:41:14 - Last edited on 26-Dec-2016 15:43:13 by Windsofnight

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Reddit: Upon disassembling my zuriels robe top, I received two WEAPON gizmos instead of two ARMOR gizmos. submitted 2 days ago - 17 comments

OP: The other one was clearheaded 3. RIP The armor gizmos were from a tectonic robe bottom.

Edit: Thank you to Mod Shauny for helping me recover my perks. Additionally, superior BH items should be fixed according to him as well.



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A: Mod Shauny 32 points 2 days ago: Hey hey, I'm at home at the moment but I'll see if I can find time to take a look at this for you, No guarantees but feel free to bug report this also please :) EDIT : I think I've just figured out why, I'll pass it on for you.

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Reddit: 2 hours in, on the end of the maze and... shit. submitted 2 days ago - 5 comments

OP: anything I can do or am I f****d?

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A: Mod Shauny 7 points 2 days ago: Leave the area, go back in, go up the stairs. :)

[END]
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26-Dec-2016 15:41:29 - Last edited on 26-Dec-2016 15:44:35 by Windsofnight

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DATE: 25 DEC 2016

JMOD TIDBITS



Reddit: /r/Runescape Christmas Giveaway! (Details in comments) submitted 1 day ago by Meet_Dave - 3132 comments

OP:



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A: Mod Shauny 13 points 11 hours ago: Hey /u/Meet_Dave, If you haven't bought the Bonds already I'll see if we can sort you out. Email us [email protected] and mention me :) Merry Christmas all! And good luck <3

[END]

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Reddit: I wish all of you a...... submitted 20 hours - 62 comments

OP: Meilyr Crwysmas

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A: Mod Wolf 193 points 18 hours ago: A true Christmas cracker joke! My favourite will still be:

Why couldn't the ranger kill Nex? He didn't bring Za-ryte bow!

[END]

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Reddit: Uhh what? Can i have it back submitted 19 hours - 11 comment

OP:



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A: Mod Shauny 21 points 18 hours ago: Tagging /u/JagexSupport for you :) Hopefully whatever issue it is you can get it sorted, Merry Christmas!

[END]

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Reddit: From a OSRS player to the RS3 players and jmod team, Merry christmas and happy holidays! submitted 1 day ago - 50 comments

OP: We might argue over which game is better, but in the end both games are still runescape. and neither one is the 'better game' per se. Merry christmas! I look forward to a 2017 full of Wonderful updates for both games.

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A: JagexSupport 45 points 21 hours ago: Merry Christmas everyone. :) Customer Support Jmods are the only ones in-office over Christmas, but we hope you have a wonderful too! Happy 'Scaping! Mod Cake.~

A: Mod Infinity 15 points 20 hours ago: Merry Christmas to all. :)

A: Mod Jack 16 points 20 hours ago: Merry Christmas everyone!

A: Mod Shauny 12 points 18 hours ago: Merry Christmas. :D

[END]

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Reddit: Thank you Jagex! Merry Wintumber to you too! submitted 1 day ago - 10 comments

OP:



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A: Mod Wolf 23 points 1 day ago: Have an awesome day! :)

[END]
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26-Dec-2016 15:41:37 - Last edited on 26-Dec-2016 15:48:01 by Windsofnight

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:( MISSING THE GOLD ON REDDIT :(


REDDIT

DATE: 23 Dec 2016

Reddit: ATTN: Everyone who wants a jmod reply submitted 3 days ago - 73 comments

OP: Its coming up on Christmas weekend. They aren't at work. They aren't going to reply. Let them spend some bloody time with their families and not have to reply to ninja requests or your rants about the maze. Let them have a happy holiday.

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A: Mod Wolf 147 points 3 days ago: A lot of JMods still look over posts in their free time though so don't be disheartened if there's not a response - it's usually been read! I also believe customer support will be working hard during that weekend so make sure you guys send some thanks over to them! On a side note: I'm not going home for Christmas this year... :( So I hope you all supply me with laughter on Reddit! Edit: I quite like the irony of the thread's title and the Jmod reply tag in the same line. :P

Comment: Well, d***. Have a Merry Christmas . . at work. I'm spending mine at work too, so I feels :-|

A: Mod Wolf 12 points 3 days ago: Have a good Christmas bro :) I'm not at work but I'm not particularly close to where I come from! Hence why I can't go home.

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A: Mod Cuppa 20 points 3 days ago: I'm not leaving you alone, I'm here for you. We'll have our own Christmas. With blackjack...and...runelink?

A: (Reply) Mod Wolf 21 points 3 days ago: With blackjack and Troll chuckers ;)

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A: Jagex_StuMod Stu 2 points 2 days ago: I am always watching. Even when I'm not

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A: Mod Stevew 9 points 3 days ago: Customer Support continue to work 24/7 over the holidays - just sayin' ;)

A: Mod Jack 11 points 3 days ago: It's so quiet in the office today

A: Mod Cuppa 9 points 3 days ago: You can fix that. You have the power. Also, I think Mod Shogun left behind his bag of party poppers.

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Comment: they shouldve thought of that before releasing a stupid maze quest right before the holidays

A: Mod Cuppa 11 points 3 days ago: I worked on Endgame. I'm still right here.

[END]
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26-Dec-2016 15:53:27

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TWITTERMAS SEASON TWEETER CARDS of sorts

Season's Greetings!

I hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season! Wishing you all a happy, healthy & prosperous year ahead.

For those that may not use Twitter the following are some Twittermas season tweets that have been posted thus far. Some tweetmas tweets are player tweets that have been retweeted by the Jmods. Foreign language tweets have been translated to English (via Google).

























































RSOF : Merry Xmas from Mod Osborne Qfc 14-15-997-65862846 - 23-Dec-2016 08:40:23 - Last edited on 23-Dec-2016 08:43:42 by Mod William



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26-Dec-2016 18:36:48

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NUMBERS

Naysayers beware. You might not want to read this post if you think that the forums are dead. Especially if you are one of those naysayers who use the active user counter at the top of the forum as the means to support that contention.

There is more than one way to gauge forum activity than the useless active user counter at the top of the forum. The active user counter matrix has been out of kilter since the forum reskin, which was a awhile ago, thus making it useless as a point of contention.

Early on in this thread, Erehk & Wilf had provided some numbers that are insightful into how many threads & posts that had been made within the forum during a given time. This method of measuring activity provides a different perspective on form activity. This type of measuring activity tends to dispel the notion that the forums are dead too.

I decided to take a snapshot of the main forum menu on 01 Dec 2016 & again on 31 Dec 2016 to find out what numbers that data produced. As you will notice these snapshots only includes the generalized forums. I did this for conformity in keeping with the same standard used for the 24 Hour Posting Comparisons.

Following the series of snapshots of the main forum menu are two images of a spreadsheet that compiles that data into a monthly total for threads created & posts made to the generalized forums. Totals do not include threads or posts made to the Rants forum or any of the specialized forums.

01 DEC 2016








31 DEC 2016








SPREADSHEET





8,578 Threads were created in the generalized forums in December 2016.

204,432 Posts were made in the generalized forums in December 2016.
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01-Jan-2017 20:53:15

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THE X FACTOR


Commentary

The number 204,432 doesn't appear to be such a shabby number to me. Neither does the number 8,578.

I have to wonder what number is needed in order to dispel the notion that RSOF does not have a vibrant community or that it may not be worthy of visible active engagement? It is not like the 20 or so active users that are typically shown on the active user counter are going around posting 8,578 threads in a month or making 204,432 posts either.

The low numbers the active user counter reflects is the main point of contention that is cited by folks making the claim that 'the forums are dead' but yet these numbers provided by Jagex in the above totals reflect that the forum is far from being dead.

Why not just get rid of the active user counter? After all it does not appear to be a true representation of active users. Pretending the number is correct & by not addressing the community concerns regarding it, as well as, not being transparent about what that number represents tends to exacerbate the notion that the forum is dead. It is no wonder that so many folks use it as a point of contention. Is it somehow the communities fault the active user counter is out of kilter?
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01-Jan-2017 20:53:28 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2017 21:12:34 by Windsofnight

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The numbers 204,432 & 8,578 would be considered a factual method to gauge forum activity. The numbers used to arrive at those totals were provided by Jagex after all.

How do these numbers stand up in comparison to the amount of posts that are made on Reddit? It appears that the RSOF posts made per week does surpasses the amount of posts made per week on Reddit even though the active user counter on Reddit surpasses the active user counter on RSOF. [1]

On post 2.3, Erehk cites that the average number of posts made per week on Reddit is around 15k. My research tends to support that number (+/-) as well. I welcome any administrator from that site to correct that number should that average not be within the standard norms.

Yet, it appears that the number of gold posts made against the number of end user posts made on Reddit surpasses the number of gold posts made against the number of end user posts made on RSOF. This appears to imply that less end user posts equals more gold posts.

Included in this thread are two 24 Hour Posting Comparisons. They compare a 24 hour posting time frame on Reddit versus a monthly posting time frame on RSOF that are supported by the Reddit posting profile & the RSOF forum profiles. In addition, included in this thread is the number 319.
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01-Jan-2017 20:53:34 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2017 21:01:58 by Windsofnight

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319 is the number cited in the OP as the number of gold posts made to RSOF during the month of July. It would appear that the number 319 most likely would have included posts made to the whole forum, (generalized, rants, the specialized forums & may have also included posts made to the staff/moderator forums). 319 posts made to the 'whole forum' would appear to be the only way that number would be able to be reconciled in light of the data provided using the forum profile feature.

If we use the number 319 as a monthly average & use the 204,432 posts as a monthly average, the number of gold posts made against the number of end user posts made would work out to be 1 gold post per 640 end user posts on RSOF. This appears to be far less gold allotted to the end user on RSOF than gold allotted to the end user on Reddit. This appears to imply that more end user posts equal less gold posts. Wait, What?

Keep in mind the number, 204,432 only represents the posts that are being made to the generalized forums. If we included all of the end user posts made to the rants forum, the specialized forums & the staff/moderator forums & used that number, then the number of gold posts to end user posts may not even appear as a whole number. Yikes.

Rather than ponder the question regarding the notion of less posts equal more gold? Or ponder the notion of more post equal less gold that ends up with the big Wait, what, why not look at root cause? It is beginning to appear that it boils down to preference rather than activity no matter what method is used to gauge forum activity or what type of active counter matrix is used.

Addressing the issue of preference during working hours & adjusting those preferences would be a great starting point that will make a difference. This would also be a great way to start the New Year off by making RSOF a priority again.

[1] Post 10.10
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01-Jan-2017 20:53:40 - Last edited on 01-Jan-2017 21:15:44 by Windsofnight

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