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On September 29 2011 22:42 Munk-E wrote:I recently made this to explain how to use TL to my friends. And here I thought it was so good  + Show Spoiler +
This is great! I might put it in and credit you. My only fear is that if something changes, it would either make the image inaccurate or no longer representative (that's why I tried to make everything general or not so reliant on pictures).
This would mean changing it to reflect TL.
edit: The image is also large. I tried to make the guide with small enough pictures so it doesn't require more clicking or to get out of the topic to see the image
I might also replace some of the boxes, some of the things you wrote I feel don't really give an open-mind: "As a rule of thumb; everyone without a blue border has no idea what they're talking about". I realize it's a slight exaggeration/joke, but some may interpret it that way and it also leads to the idea that if you don't have a blue border, you don't have anything worthwhile to contribute. The blue highlight is meant to solely highlight promising advice, not single them as solely the ones who know what their talking about [hence why the suggestion that there should be a "jump to blue-highlighted poster" is always shut down].
You have to be a non-highlighted blue poster in the strat section before you can have the blue in you :B
Anyways, I'll have to gander at the picture more! It's great!
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SoCal8910 Posts
wow you certainly put some time into this. im closing in on one year as a member (over a year as a lurker) and there were still some little things i didnt know about.
i'll also be showing this to a friend who is a newcomer to the starcraft universe and TL. thanks! ^^
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Holy shit... this is so much... if i had this it would have saved a year of confusion while lurking
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Torte, a true contributor! Well done!
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Canada13389 Posts
Holy moly torte :O This is madness and you still have so much space reserved. I can now show my gf why i spend so much time on these forums and she might better understand that its a damn complicated and huge community.
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Dude your thread is awesome, but I need to know how you can have that much free time, please share your secret T_T
edit : oh wait what, so many reserved posts left !
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I stop following the live threads for a few months and next thing I know Torte has reached 12k posts... Nice guide though. I propose a change to the new user registration page:
![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/ru6kO.jpg)
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You should what?
No very nice screenshot, I'd support that or something like it (TLBot should send a PM to new users pointing to multiple threads that are basically required reading if you're used to the rest of the gaming internet)
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I just had a brief moment of reflection. A close friend of mine just made his first million a few days ago and I was like "meh, whatever". Then I see that Torte has been posting ~10 times for each of my posts on TL and I feel like I've been wasting my life.
On September 30 2011 04:12 Probe1 wrote:
You should what?
Fun fact: I clicked the refresh button at least a hundred times hoping to get a funny captcha, then got bored and made the screenshot without realising it is actually a good one ^^
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Give this man a round of applause. Great guide!
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Wow very nice! Thanks for putting all this together Torte. Wish I had found this when I first joined lol. But some of it is still pretty useful and all of it is informative. Just wondering, how long did it take you to do this?
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On September 30 2011 05:57 UnknownReclaimer wrote:
Wow very nice! Thanks for putting all this together Torte. Wish I had found this when I first joined lol. But some of it is still pretty useful and all of it is informative. Just wondering, how long did it take you to do this?
The original draft on page 2, post #1 indicates I started it in early May.
When I had to redo the entire thing, that was back in August and again in end of August.
So I've written it three times. It was a lot smaller back in May and the original draft is actually the second revision and then Plexa & JWD gave me good direction and organization ideas which had me rewrite it a third time with further elaboration.
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Love the "Eat Tortellini", made me have a good laugh after all that serious stuff! nice work btw. Definitely gonna bookmark this thread.
edit: Hey, does that mean im considered a veteran poster? :D
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Incredible post. So much detail and relevant information. I especially liked how you made articles for all of the more modern tl projects as well as reserving the first page for space to add more later. I am in awe of your dedication. Thank you for this.
Side note i think you might have just invented "too long; didn't scroll" ^^
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Australia8532 Posts
Amazing to see the final product! It has come a long way from what you showed me previously! Congrats torte - it looks like a lot of time and effort has paid off; to be honest people just quite simply don't have an excuse now lol
I hope this becomes visible because at the end of the day it usually takes a ban to figure out what you've done wrong (except for obvious idiotic posts) - so the more open this is to new members, the better.
Oh and thanks for the mention  i feel e-famous :O
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WOW! !!
That's what I call a post man, what an awesome job!
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Absolutely Insanely high level post. This should be stickied, spotlighted, promoted, and probably even made a splash screen for new accounts.
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Honestly dude, the biggest question I have for you is how do you find 30 things to post about everyday?
But this is more of a compendium than a post :D
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this is amazing!
i know it's asking for a lot, and i don't know if there is a previous thread on it but i would love to see all of the custom icons of TL and why the user chose them
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On September 30 2011 10:39 moltenlead wrote:
Honestly dude, the biggest question I have for you is how do you find 30 things to post about everyday?
But this is more of a compendium than a post :D
Holding conversations is an easy way to post 30 times.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/1rpnY.jpg)
