RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Fortress of Awesome Chat legitimizing the rkmbs, aka introducing MightyGeek.com

published! came out (more beavis) nicely!

one thing i'll also work on in the next few weeks is some sorta publishing "bible". just a general outline of how to maximize all the articles. very basic stuff, like adding tags, uploading images with meta information, etc. all stuff that's great for google-searches, to ensure your posts get you lots of attention.

every author will also have their own author page, which will collect every post made by that user, which you can fill with bio stuff if you want (especially great for those who want to have writer or web nerd or whatever on their resume). here's yours: http://www.mightygeek.com/author/thedoctor/

Do images need any sort of attribution? On other sites they make us provide the sources, and even then we can only take images from certain websites (which is a pain in the ass).

For the DC thing I'm just gonna steal the images from the solicitations and host them in your site, is that okay?

as far as i'm concerned, its fine. when it becomes a problem, that means we're gathering enough attention for others to notice, so it will be a good problem to have.

if it's an obvious copyright, and you want to give credit, add the credit to the "caption" field. (part of what i was mentioning above; the META code for images has an ALT, a TITLE, a CAPTION, and DESCRIPTION)

the only "requirement" i'd have is keeping image width to 600pixels wide. doesn't matter how tall. they can be smaller than 600 pixels wide, but never larger (and, honestly, things just look purdier when they're all uniform at 600 - but ill leave that up to you). If an image needs to be larger (like a giant desktop wallpaper or something) then you can upload it and link to it, just not embed it - cuz then it gets all funky on screen.

one of the great parts about wordpress is that you dont' really have to know anything about photoediting - the uploading tools walk you through the whole process. you can resize everything on screen without opening another program

I want this.

bible wanter!

"Victim Of The Modern Era" toy reviews.

Coming fucking soon.

Of course, Jaburg steals my fucking idea. Fucking Burg!


hahahhaha....
Will we be able to obtain musical icon speaker thingies as a reward at this new place?

and now, so will i.



you could always create a "why burg's reviews are wrong" recurring article



the internet still mourns the loss of sound thingies

What sort of content do you want, Goblet?

anything is "news." the same type of stuffs you post (or would have) here, except it'll look official and professional and respected because it's on a "real" site. i think this rkmbs forum, and this collection of posters, pretty much represents the best in all things "geek." that's why i think this'll be a fun lil project for all of us, with a nice side selection of (potential) benefits.

posts can be reviews, opinions, previews, thoughts, hopes, top 10 lists, etc. they can be as brief or as long as you want them to be, as often or as irregular as you want them to be, etc. if the premise continues that authors contribute when and how they want, rather than forcing stories like a "job", then i think that reflects the best content.

so, you can build up this massive 600 page diatribe on why post crisis DCU is more engrossing than the star wars trilogies. or, quickly embed the latest trailer to the upcoming avengers film as soon as it becomes available, with a one-liner zing as a commentary. i imagine a good chunk of the content will be stuff you found on other sites, ripped and paraphrase to become originals on mightygeek.com. ...in other words, the same theft of every site and news outlet.

i hope to have everything (backend / design wise) set up within august, but everyone is free to register and start contributing now -- all content will just be moved and enhanced with the launch, so nothing will be "wasted" (unless you want it to be).

you have my axe!

you can also have Pro's bow. It's not like he's any good at it, anyway.

Dammit! Stop giving away my weapons, SoM!

together, they shall form axebowflex 2000!

so, uh... yeah. start posting. or start getting ideas for posting. i'll fix up the purdies in the meantime.

ill also whip up a more detailed "geek bible" with some guidelines and explanations (helpful stuff, not fuck-you stuff) on how to work it. just ways to better maximize the content, so's you pull the largest / best audience towards your articles and make the largest impact. such as with axebowflex.

I've given up on the one word review thing. It was a stupid idea. I still wanna do something with the DC reboot though.

Maybe we could do a collective piece on how we would have rebooted each title?

Sounds like a cool plan. One person takes a title and/or character and creates a new direction. I'd be down for something like that.

while it's true that there are no "there are no stupid ideas," stupid could actually work. "caption this" type posts still remain as one of the most engaging and popular bits o'content. if a one-word-review theme is in your heart, feel free to let the following decide if they like it or not. there's no "quality filter" (especially seeing as how quality is subjective, pariah, you stupid piece of stupid shit)




i definitely think opinionated-type shit like this is where sites do best. i'd love to revive the whole "character 2.0" thing, too. detail why "my" character is better than the official version.

hell, lady shazam would be welcome to contribute, if it didn't give too much away of her new master plan

I went ahead and started a thread in the comic forum to play around with the idea: http://www.rkmbs.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1154005

Ok. I figure I'm helping you get rich from the old-fashioned advertising online business model, so you can can buy me lunch if you make any money out of it.

I just tried to sign up as William Corto. But I was told the user name is gone.

Was there something I missed in your tl;dr explanation?

I'll be writing a futurist column.... I'll start a thread to flesh out the idea in Deep Thoughts.

Ah, got it. It didn't like a hotmail account.

Thanks a lot Aussie! You come back and BAM! board crash...

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It's been two days, and where does he go the moment the board re-opens?

working on a couple of ideas.

i needed to be sure they survived!

on a related note, this crash and the new site are ... well, related. more details, cometh!

thedoctor is an asshole.

This is new how?

I'm not a shut in.

HA! Did Bobo actually post that? Never thought it'd get that far.

It never posted but its in the system. I can only see the title.

Then you have no idea how much of an asshole I've been.

I think I got the general idea of it all.

Just deleted it. You don't have to worry about crying yourself to sleep tonight.













At least not about that.

I've been laughing about that since the board shut down! I wasn't sure anyone else had seen that!

"Oregon shut-in kills self after demise of RKMBs.com"

I would have missed it if you didn't link it to me.

I wasn't sure you had seen it...