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Please, if you are not staff, don't answer questions in this thread, even if you think you know the answer.

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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19028 Posts
December 13 2012 02:36 GMT
#5221
On December 13 2012 09:23 TheEmulator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 09:17 Firebolt145 wrote:
Eh, is there any relevance of the colour of the name? So I notice you (Emulator) have a standard normal name, but Tofu for example is bold and blue. Any difference?

Most TL staff are like me. Just a normal coloured name+icon. Blue names are given to TL staff who have contributed a lot over a good period of time, and they can also choose to modify their icons to whatever they choose. After being blue for a while you might eventually become Red, which is senior and moderation staff. Also, there are administrators such as hot_bid,riptide,etc, that have the TLnet symbol, and a dark blue background.

edit: whoa, 4 people beat me to it while writing my post. lol

Not quite. Blue and Red are weird. For instance, semioldguy is blue. Except he's red. Plenty of Reds skipped Blue (salle, for example). Red used to be Moderator (and admin, and maybe coder too), back before banlings existed. After banlings Red became also section head or some other special role (disciple does the store). But it's still also Moderator. Some blues are also mods I think. Also some blues aren't blue, for instance Emlary is purple. But not all purples are blue (travis bribed Nazgul).

Basically, Red and Blue are different levels of staff but nobody knows exactly how they are related.
Liquipediaasante sana squash banana
JingleHell
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States11308 Posts
December 13 2012 02:47 GMT
#5222
On December 13 2012 11:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 09:23 TheEmulator wrote:
On December 13 2012 09:17 Firebolt145 wrote:
Eh, is there any relevance of the colour of the name? So I notice you (Emulator) have a standard normal name, but Tofu for example is bold and blue. Any difference?

Most TL staff are like me. Just a normal coloured name+icon. Blue names are given to TL staff who have contributed a lot over a good period of time, and they can also choose to modify their icons to whatever they choose. After being blue for a while you might eventually become Red, which is senior and moderation staff. Also, there are administrators such as hot_bid,riptide,etc, that have the TLnet symbol, and a dark blue background.

edit: whoa, 4 people beat me to it while writing my post. lol

Not quite. Blue and Red are weird. For instance, semioldguy is blue. Except he's red. Plenty of Reds skipped Blue (salle, for example). Red used to be Moderator (and admin, and maybe coder too), back before banlings existed. After banlings Red became also section head or some other special role (disciple does the store). But it's still also Moderator. Some blues are also mods I think. Also some blues aren't blue, for instance Emlary is purple. But not all purples are blue (travis bribed Nazgul).

Basically, Red and Blue are different levels of staff but nobody knows exactly how they are related.


So it's like user Icons for staff? Do you get monkeys if you ask how it actually works?
TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28085 Posts
December 13 2012 02:49 GMT
#5223
On December 13 2012 11:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 09:23 TheEmulator wrote:
On December 13 2012 09:17 Firebolt145 wrote:
Eh, is there any relevance of the colour of the name? So I notice you (Emulator) have a standard normal name, but Tofu for example is bold and blue. Any difference?

Most TL staff are like me. Just a normal coloured name+icon. Blue names are given to TL staff who have contributed a lot over a good period of time, and they can also choose to modify their icons to whatever they choose. After being blue for a while you might eventually become Red, which is senior and moderation staff. Also, there are administrators such as hot_bid,riptide,etc, that have the TLnet symbol, and a dark blue background.

edit: whoa, 4 people beat me to it while writing my post. lol

Not quite. Blue and Red are weird. For instance, semioldguy is blue. Except he's red. Plenty of Reds skipped Blue (salle, for example). Red used to be Moderator (and admin, and maybe coder too), back before banlings existed. After banlings Red became also section head or some other special role (disciple does the store). But it's still also Moderator. Some blues are also mods I think. Also some blues aren't blue, for instance Emlary is purple. But not all purples are blue (travis bribed Nazgul).

Basically, Red and Blue are different levels of staff but nobody knows exactly how they are related.

haha, yeah

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Praetorial
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States4241 Posts
December 13 2012 03:07 GMT
#5224
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?
FOR GREAT JUSTICE! Bans for the ban gods!
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19028 Posts
December 13 2012 03:35 GMT
#5225
On December 13 2012 12:07 Praetorial wrote:
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?

I went to a quaker high school. We had no GPAs.
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TheEmulator
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
28085 Posts
December 13 2012 03:43 GMT
#5226
On December 13 2012 12:07 Praetorial wrote:
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?

No GPA in Canada unfortunately, or at least in Saskatchewan.
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HawaiianPig
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
Canada5155 Posts
December 13 2012 03:57 GMT
#5227
On December 13 2012 11:36 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 09:23 TheEmulator wrote:
On December 13 2012 09:17 Firebolt145 wrote:
Eh, is there any relevance of the colour of the name? So I notice you (Emulator) have a standard normal name, but Tofu for example is bold and blue. Any difference?

Most TL staff are like me. Just a normal coloured name+icon. Blue names are given to TL staff who have contributed a lot over a good period of time, and they can also choose to modify their icons to whatever they choose. After being blue for a while you might eventually become Red, which is senior and moderation staff. Also, there are administrators such as hot_bid,riptide,etc, that have the TLnet symbol, and a dark blue background.

edit: whoa, 4 people beat me to it while writing my post. lol

Not quite. Blue and Red are weird. For instance, semioldguy is blue. Except he's red. Plenty of Reds skipped Blue (salle, for example). Red used to be Moderator (and admin, and maybe coder too), back before banlings existed. After banlings Red became also section head or some other special role (disciple does the store). But it's still also Moderator. Some blues are also mods I think. Also some blues aren't blue, for instance Emlary is purple. But not all purples are blue (travis bribed Nazgul).

Basically, Red and Blue are different levels of staff but nobody knows exactly how they are related.


Yeah pretty much. Maybe I can clear up how they're related. TL;DR at the bottom.

The "Red" level of staff used to refer to forum moderators (as well as what are now "Admins" and, yeah, probably coders).

As TL grew with the release of SC2, moderators took on various non-moderator roles. Different departments sprouted up, like writers, graphics, translators etc. One of these was "Banlings" which was made to help Reds with moderation. Over time the Banlings took on the majority of moderator functions.

Red staff now rarely moderate, instead they're involved in more directional roles, such as being the head of a department.

Thus, currently Red is now sort of a council of department heads + any existing Red staff from before this custom.

Blue remains, as you know, recognition for staff contribution. In the past Blue could be seen as sort of a stepping stone to Red. This is intuitive; the more a staff member contributes, the more involved they become on TL, the more suitable they are to manage aspects of TL as Red.

These days, however, because TL is so large and has so many departments, coupled with the fact that Blue is rarely given out anymore, someone can "skip" Blue.

In salle's case, the previous department head was stepping down, and salle was selected to take over. Thus he went from plain name to Red. Had the previous department head not stepped down, salle would have probably been Blued at some point.

I on the other hand took the other route. I joined staff as graphics and was given a paintbrush. Later I was made Blue for my work on TL news. Shortly after, I was made head of the graphics department and, thus, Red. Prior to me, disciple was the head of graphics. Had I not been made Blue, I would have probably "skipped" it when I took on my role. In fact, the length of time I spent as Blue was about a month or two.

To sum up, as of today:

Blue = Recognition for staff contribution
Red = Department head + veteran moderators
Admin = People who run TL generally

Neither Red nor Blue is a requisite for the other, they just describe different things.

If you're looking for a hierarchy, it's Admins > everyone else.

(Also, the exceptions are explainable: Semioldguy is Red but people associate him so much with a blue name that he left it blue. Purple doesn't mean anything really. Emlary is Blue, but as a girl her name was made pink/purple. Travis is travis)
AdministratorNot actually Hawaiian.
Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
December 13 2012 04:11 GMT
#5228
On December 13 2012 12:07 Praetorial wrote:
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?

we didn't have weights, but my unweighted was 3.32 i think?
ModeratorFlash Sea Action Snow Midas | TheStC Ret Tyler MC | RIP 우정호
shz
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Germany2687 Posts
December 13 2012 04:35 GMT
#5229
On December 13 2012 12:07 Praetorial wrote:
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?


We don't have GPA in Germany. I had a 1.9 Abitur, thats ~3.65 GPA (according to the Internet). Not that it is actually comparable.

No idea what weighted means though :D
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Aerisky
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
United States12129 Posts
December 13 2012 04:38 GMT
#5230
Whoa, thanks HPig :O

I asked about it before but someone just told me that I was overthinking it and that it didn't matter, I think
Jim while Johnny had had had had had had had; had had had had the better effect on the teacher.
bkrow
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia8532 Posts
December 13 2012 04:44 GMT
#5231
When I graduated in Australia we had a UAI. This then changed to an ATAR. So I have NO idea how to get that into a GPA haha

We have GPAs at university now though, never understood the benefits of a GPA system over a WAM (weighted average %)
In The Rear With The Gear .. *giggle* /////////// cobra-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!!!!
GHOSTCLAW
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States17042 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-13 07:52:41
December 13 2012 07:51 GMT
#5232
On December 13 2012 13:35 shz wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 12:07 Praetorial wrote:
What was your weighted GPA when you graduated from high school?


We don't have GPA in Germany. I had a 1.9 Abitur, thats ~3.65 GPA (according to the Internet). Not that it is actually comparable.

No idea what weighted means though :D


+ Show Spoiler +

I don't realllllyyyyy want to derail the thread too much, but technically it says that you're better than the curve, aka you're better than the median student. There could (and are) entire discussions centered around what on earth gpa and education and learning actually means but...


I had like a 3.4, graduated out of the bottom half of my high school. had like a 2.6 in undergraduate Electrical engineering as well. Ended up doing okay for myself now though, currently in graduate school at UCLA for mechanical engineering.

Life lesson. Don't worry too much about your gpa, just try hard and do great things, and the admissions process will sometimes recognize it

what i worked on in undergrad (thought that classes were pretty whatever): http://www.teamliquid.net/staff/GHOSTCLAW/DSC_7428.jpg
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flamewheel
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
FREEAGLELAND26781 Posts
December 13 2012 10:13 GMT
#5233
On December 13 2012 07:21 TheEmulator wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 07:17 tofucake wrote:
flamewheel

lol, why didn't I think of that. And we work on the same team.

oh come the fuck on
Writerdamn, i was two days from retirement
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-13 15:26:54
December 13 2012 15:25 GMT
#5234
On December 13 2012 19:13 flamewheel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 13 2012 07:21 TheEmulator wrote:
On December 13 2012 07:17 tofucake wrote:
flamewheel

lol, why didn't I think of that. And we work on the same team.

oh come the fuck on

hah

also lol gpa

so many b prus

I have no clue what it ended up being after senior spring, but our school was on a 6.0 weighted scale lol
Writer
Slardar
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada7593 Posts
December 13 2012 19:45 GMT
#5235
Who is the dancing queen on the staff?
kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
December 13 2012 19:48 GMT
#5236
Video proof please.
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19028 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-13 19:51:23
December 13 2012 19:50 GMT
#5237
On December 14 2012 04:45 Slardar wrote:
Who is the dancing queen on the staff?

caucasianasian, obviously

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Slardar
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada7593 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-13 19:58:48
December 13 2012 19:58 GMT
#5238
On December 14 2012 04:50 tofucake wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 14 2012 04:45 Slardar wrote:
Who is the dancing queen on the staff?

caucasianasian, obviously
+ Show Spoiler +

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YAoMRHPsJg


LOL....I was only asking because the song was on Naniwa's stream. Got a gem of a response...staff and this thread never fails! Best part is when he turns around to grind Machine, and his response is akin to "wait what....no fuck that!"

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kollin
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom8380 Posts
December 13 2012 20:06 GMT
#5239
That was...beautiful.
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10053 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-13 20:09:04
December 13 2012 20:08 GMT
#5240
where do you guys live? a picture of your neighborhood / city taken by yourself would be nice xD
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
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