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Frankon
Profile Joined May 2010
3054 Posts
October 18 2011 08:34 GMT
#1
Right after SC2 hit the stores TL site have started to have problems with one of their primary goals - namely ...
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Due to the non-spoiler agreement (or rule) the news about tournaments are always late and when they come they are lacking the energy -the longer it takes for the article to appear the less of that "energy" is present. Since appealing to get rid of non-spoiler policy would have no effect lets get around that policy....

So my suggestion for RiCH. Time to add some functionality to forum - the spoilers articles.
Technically it should be rather easy. There are only few items needed to be added to the database:
* isspoiler - basic 0 or 1 (to make backward compatibility it should be set to 0 for all old articles.
* sp_title - thats easy. Title to be displayed if spoilers are active.
* sp_image - mostly for news. To display a standard BW, SC2, GOM, NASL, MLG, IEM image selected from drop down menu
* sp_lifttime - not sure if its needed or not. It depends whats better for the server perfomance. To calculate the time on each page view or reading it from dbase. Standard 24h from post creation.

So lets get to the Add Article page:
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With spoiler image and topic shown after checking the spoiler box.

Of course there should be also added to the user panel a option if the users wants to
be see spoiled topics or not.

So now how would it work (few cases)
1) user isn't logged
showing standard spoiled topics.
When user is browsing the forum. The page would check if the topic is marked as spoiler and check sp_liftime if:
a) lift_time is still valid it would display spoiler topic and when clicking on the link the user would get a pop up window that he is going to enter a non-spoiled article.
b)if the time in invalid it would just display unspoiled article

2) user is logged:
it checks if user have enabled or disabled the spoiler topics.
If enabled look at points 1a and 1b
if disabled just show him the normal topic - without spoilers

Implementation of this idea should be rather easy for RiCH.

What other users of TL think about this idea?


xBillehx
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States1289 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-18 09:38:29
October 18 2011 09:34 GMT
#2
All of this is under the assumption that TL delays articles because of a spoiler policy, which I'll add many staff have said isn't the case, so why exactly does anyone need to go through all this work if it's not going to make articles appear any faster?

Edit: I have no objection to any sort of toggle for something like this, but I just wonder what the point is if it's not going to change anything.
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Frankon
Profile Joined May 2010
3054 Posts
October 18 2011 09:46 GMT
#3
On October 18 2011 18:34 xBillehx wrote:
All of this is under the assumption that TL delays articles because of a spoiler policy, which I'll add many staff have said isn't the case, so why exactly does anyone need to go through all this work if it's not going to make articles appear any faster?

Edit: I have no objection to any sort of toggle for something like this, but I just wonder what the point is if it's not going to change anything.

Cause they should post a simple article with a result and a winner interview and add at the end In few days we will get you a full statistics, more players coments and so on...

Its about basic NEWS information about results...

In depth article would come in later as usuall (like 1-2 weeks later )


zatic
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
Zurich15366 Posts
October 18 2011 10:15 GMT
#4
On October 18 2011 18:34 xBillehx wrote:
All of this is under the assumption that TL delays articles because of a spoiler policy, which I'll add many staff have said isn't the case, so why exactly does anyone need to go through all this work if it's not going to make articles appear any faster?

Edit: I have no objection to any sort of toggle for something like this, but I just wonder what the point is if it's not going to change anything.

This is pretty much it.

TL's articles are posted a few days after events because they take time to write. You'll see TL has a very different style of front page articles and aims for longer and in depth recap pieces than instant news.

Bottom line there has never been the case that an article was completely done and not posted because it would spoil results. So while the suggestions isn't bad at all it wouldn't change anything to the front page.
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Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19230 Posts
October 18 2011 12:04 GMT
#5
If you want immediate results you can always look at Liquipedia: either the R&S page or the tournament page.
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