Re: Mega XP ???????????

in reply to Mega XP ?..?

Context for future readers: the text OP posts used to appear on The Monastery Gates. We have removed it just after this post.

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Re^2: Mega XP ? by shmem (Chancellor) on May 31, 2013 at 10:12 UTC
There should have been a poll about that...	[reply]
Re^2: Mega XP ??????????? by Arunbear (Prior) on May 31, 2013 at 12:54 UTC
Why was it removed?	[reply]
Re^3: Mega XP ??????????? by ambrus (Abbot) on May 31, 2013 at 13:43 UTC
I wrote a patch to remove it last december. My unwritten argument was that the monastery can be confusing enough to a newbie without unnecessary banners. There are no longer any new quests posted, and the poll ideas quest concerns only a few monks and they can find it from How do I create a Poll?, we should not advertise this quest with a banner on the front page. Corion has applied the patch when as a reaction to this thread I have pointed out that the banner can actually confuse monks.	[reply]
Re^4: Mega XP ?..? by Clovis_Sangrail (Beadle) on May 31, 2013 at 17:53 UTC
Gee, now I feel kinda guilty. Honest, I think it really was kind of confusing, or at least distracting. Context is a funny thing, and the 1st time I encountered your (former) banner mine included alot of poking/messing around with various Unauthorized/BlackHat editions of Windows XP. I'd just left a short-term contract with a firm that was running into problems because they refused to adopt Windows Vista. When I saw 'Mega XP' I thought to myself 'Wow! XP in Perl?' And my (unrealistic, I guess) hopes really were dashed.	[reply]
Re^5: Mega XP ?..? by ambrus (Abbot) on May 31, 2013 at 20:41 UTC
Re^6: Mega XP ?..? by Argel (Prior) on Jun 25, 2013 at 21:15 UTC
Re^4: Mega XP ??????????? by choroba (Cardinal) on May 31, 2013 at 13:46 UTC
What about the "Donations gladly accepted" banner? Is it still true? لսႽ† ᥲᥒ⚪⟊Ⴙᘓᖇ Ꮅᘓᖇ⎱ Ⴙᥲ𝇋ƙᘓᖇ	[reply]
Re^5: Mega XP ??????????? by ambrus (Abbot) on May 31, 2013 at 13:55 UTC
Re^2: Mega XP ??????????? by Anneq (Vicar) on May 31, 2013 at 10:57 UTC
Didn't there used to be front-paged nodes on that page? Anne	[reply]
Re^3: Mega XP ??????????? by marto (Cardinal) on May 31, 2013 at 11:01 UTC
That is the front page, hence why it's displaying nodes that get "Front-paged".	[reply]
Re^4: Mega XP ??????????? by Anneq (Vicar) on May 31, 2013 at 11:20 UTC
marto, I'm actually not seeing anything on the front page besides the title. Are there front paged nodes there at the moment? Do you know what would cause that? I don't see anything in my settings that would affect the front page. Anne	[reply]
Re^5: Mega XP ??????????? by marto (Cardinal) on May 31, 2013 at 11:29 UTC
Re^6: Mega XP ??????????? by Anneq (Vicar) on May 31, 2013 at 11:35 UTC
Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here
Re^2: Mega XP ??????????? by sundialsvc4 (Abbot) on Jun 02, 2013 at 17:19 UTC
Oh, foo! I liked it. “Bad” dog... no biscuit!” `;-)` Go put it back. There’s no law about having a quirky sense of humor ... especially in a monastery. `:-)`

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