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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 3, 2022 19:16:56 GMT 10
Aberforth Dumbledore Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Dedalus Diggle Fleur Delacour Kingsley Shacklebolt Lily Potter Mundungus Fletcher Nymphadora Tonks Oliver Wood Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Hedwig's Killer Igor Karkaroff Lucius Malfoy Pyrites Regulus Black Rodolphus Lestrange Travers I know this isn't the announcement y'all are waiting for (that one will come with the Challenge results). But I just want to let you know that we're aware the board has been lagging and cutting out intermittently today. Proboards hosts the site and have announced that they're doing everything they can to solve the problems ASAP, but they're all far beyond our control. What we can do is offer some tips for working around the angry bear attacks: 1. When you know the site is playing up, the safest thing to do is to type your posts and PMs out somewhere else (Notepad, Word, whatever), then copy them across when you're done. 2. If you get surprised by the site being down after you've tried to post something, follow these steps to get back what you wrote: - Immediately duplicate the tab in your browser. (Right click -> Duplicate) - Use a new tab to load the home page and check if/when the forum is back online. - Once it's back, use one of your duplicated tabs to go back and see if the post you typed is still there in the reply box/window. - If that doesn't work, hit refresh on the other duplicate tab and it should ask you to resubmit the form, and then post whatever it was you tried to submit. I've suffered through this plenty of times (through the angry bears and also internet outages on my end), and at least one of those two options has always worked. Still it's no guarantee, hence recommending you type things elsewhere if you know there are issues. 3. If you're in the middle of a Challenge when the angry bear strikes, contact me off-site wherever I sent you your login (if that's a proboards site as well and also down, try my Discord JustJaking#5261). The Ministers will verify that the site is down and find a way for you to complete the Challenge fairly. This happened earlier today with one of you and we offered them extra time to complete the Challenge, though in the end this extra time was not required as the site was back up and running fairly quickly. We'll be using this thread for random announcement from now on, by the way. And hoping that we don't need too many more surprise ones.
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Post by Oliver Wood on May 3, 2022 19:21:03 GMT 10
Dinnae worry Peter Pettigrew. A'll get the bea'ers to sort those bears oot.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 3, 2022 19:23:52 GMT 10
An addendum to point 3: Obviously I'm not constantly online so please don't rely on me responding quickly while you're playing the Challenge. Keep refreshing the board and try to do the Challenge as best you can, even if you run overtime. And we'll sort it out later, trying to be as fair as we can.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 5, 2022 10:13:22 GMT 10
Aberforth Dumbledore Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Dedalus Diggle Fleur Delacour Kingsley Shacklebolt Lily Potter Mundungus Fletcher Nymphadora Tonks Oliver Wood Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Hedwig's Killer Igor Karkaroff Lucius Malfoy Pyrites Regulus Black Rodolphus Lestrange We've had to issue a few warnings to individual players for minor breaches of PM Rules. None of them have impacted the game, and nobody has been punished... yet. But we have passed the point by which everybody ought to know the Rules. And so from now on there will be no more tolerance on these points; any breach will receive a penalty, however inadvertent or well-meaning. The list of things we will no longer be lenient about includes: 1. You may not directly quote from PMs. Learn to paraphrase and retell things in your own words. 2. You may not directly quote in/from Owl Post letters. You may not directly quote from posts Ministers have made inside your Diary Journal board. 3. If your Side is attending Magical Council, you may not send PMs during it - from 9:15 AEST until a Minister proclaims the Magical Council over. If you're logging in close to this time window, check your notifications before your PMs as you will always be tagged the moment Magical Council begins. If you're still composing a last-minute PM, check this before you press send. 4. Do not compromise your ID in any way. This is particularly vital in this ORG due to the PBvO twist, and you will note that all the other Ministers are holding themselves to the same standard. If you are not certain about what is and is not allowed, feel free to ask us and/or reread the Rules & Expectations you signed. On a different note, please ensure that your bidding for tasks in today's Immunity Challenge progresses and concludes as quickly as possible. If you do not respond to bids in a reasonable window and the deadline is approaching, we will automatically assign the win for that bid/task to the player who has not delayed or exploited the deadline. Remember that the goal is to enjoy this, so please don't let it come to that. Finally, please take care not to spoil anything about the new Survivor episode for at least the next few days. Even if you're PMing someone who has already watched it, remember that the Ministers need to read through your Missives and are quite possibly devoting too much time to this Game to watch their favourite show ![:P](http://images.proboards.com/new/tongue.png)
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 16, 2022 22:02:45 GMT 10
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Barty Crouch Jr Corban Yaxley Dedalus Diggle Fleur Delacour Lily Potter Lucius Malfoy Oliver Wood Regulus BlackWe figure you've all earned a bit of a breather ![;)](http://images.proboards.com/new/wink.png) so Episode 11 will be played over the course of two days. This effectively gives you a night off! ![:butterbeer](https://yoursmiles.org/tsmile/drink/t0325.gif) Here's how the deadlines will shift: - I'll have the round's Immunity Pairs Draw posted for you shortly. - There'll be a small activity for you all to do privately during the day off, as preparation for an upcoming Challenge. More details of that in your Journal Diaries. - No deadline tomorrow morning! Instead Switch/Flick Charms will be due by 8:30pm tomorrow/Tuesday (the usual Challenge deadline). - I'll post the next Immunity Challenge for you at 8:30pm tomorrow as well. - You'll have until 8:00pm Wednesday to complete that Challenge (it's a tricky one to score, and this actually give you more time than usual to get to it). - Owl Post for the round will be delayed until 8:30am Wednesday. The owls are all too busy celebrating to care about the missing day. - You can all PM through to 9:15pm Wednesday, when we'll have one Magical Council for all of you. Votes will be due at 9:30pm Wednesday. If any of that is unclear, please ask us to clarify.
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 16, 2022 22:50:27 GMT 10
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Post by Dolores Umbridge on May 16, 2022 22:53:46 GMT 10
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 16, 2022 22:55:12 GMT 10
now I feel bad
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Post by Dolores Umbridge on May 16, 2022 22:56:49 GMT 10
You should. Because you're going to be punished!
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Post by Minerva McGonagall on May 16, 2022 22:57:20 GMT 10
Get her Diggle!
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Post by Dolores Umbridge on May 16, 2022 23:05:15 GMT 10
Get back to the hosting chambers, Minerva. A lowly teacher like yourself must NOT bother the contestants, and I will have order.
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Post by Dedalus Diggle on May 16, 2022 23:07:14 GMT 10
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 16, 2022 23:30:56 GMT 10
Have a biscuit, Minerva.
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Post by Corban Yaxley on May 16, 2022 23:56:16 GMT 10
Wait, there are biscuits? How come I never got a biscuit, Pete?
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Post by Regulus Black on May 20, 2022 13:11:05 GMT 10
Just a quick question about next week's events. I was wanting to see if we could maybe have either a short week next week, ending after Wednesday night- or if we could potentially move Thursday's round back to Friday?
I figure that most of us are Survivor fans and will be hoping to tune in for next week's extended finale, so wanted to see if this was a possibility? If it's not, that's completely understandable as far as sticking to the schedule, but if there's support for it, a modified schedule would be great
Just wanted to throw it out there anyway
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 20, 2022 19:35:25 GMT 10
Just a quick question about next week's events. I was wanting to see if we could maybe have either a short week next week, ending after Wednesday night- or if we could potentially move Thursday's round back to Friday? I figure that most of us are Survivor fans and will be hoping to tune in for next week's extended finale, so wanted to see if this was a possibility? If it's not, that's completely understandable as far as sticking to the schedule, but if there's support for it, a modified schedule would be great Just wanted to throw it out there anyway Currently the only thing scheduled for Thursday is for one player to cast one vote. That's been locked in ever since the S42 Finale date was speculated about, and was a factor in deciding to give you the night off on Tuesday. Once we get closer to having our Final Three we can discuss potential timing shifts around the show, but I'm confident we'll still be able to find fifteen minutes at some point that evening for the penultimate Magical Council.
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Post by Peter Pettigrew on May 23, 2022 8:00:40 GMT 10
Alastor 'Mad-Eye' Moody Corban Yaxley Barty Crouch Jr Dedalus Diggle Lily Potter Oliver Wood Regulus BlackReporting a Rules breach by myself today, unfortunately. I was the only Minister online during Magical Council last night and in the heat of the moment accidentally misread one of the voting lists, counting it as a vote for Diggle when it should have been a vote for Crouch. I was only made aware of the error hours later when the player who cast this vote posted about it, and even then it was a while before I saw that post and then could come online to address the situation. This means that the correct vote tally ought to have been 3 votes for Wood, which did not count due to the Hidden Immunity Item played, then 2 votes for Moody, 1 vote for Diggle and 1 vote Crouch. Moody would then have joined the Wizengamot immediately without need for a revote. Thankfully my error did not end up sending the wrong player out of the Game, but I'm obviously aware that it very well could have and I take this extremely seriously. At the least, the unnecessary revote caused you all extra tension and extended the time some of you stayed online. I am extremely sorry for this and any other potential impacts of my mistake. I'll of course be doing everything possible to ensure nothing like this happens again, triple-checking all the votes and other official results from now on and attempting to actually sleep for real today as well. I know it's just a Game but all of us here have put in an unreasonable amount of time and effort into preserving its integrity and making it a positive experience which runs smoothly for you players; my error obviously undermines all that. I can only apologise, take every step possible to guarantee that nothing like it will happen again, and redouble my commitment to keeping everything fair and above board moving forward. I'm being completely honest about what happened in the hope that I can regain your trust and that we may all enjoy a final week marred by none of this. But in the event that you do uncover more evidence that I am not infallible, please be as annoying as possible about it so that any potential errors can be noted and corrected immediately.
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