The Automated Review Request System.
Writing Your Posts
When writing your IC posts, we have a system which allows you to fill in the review request as you go.
It means that you can identify the following things in a post:
- What skills you are using, and what your existing level in them is
- What knowledge you would like to claim
- Any injuries you sustain during the thread
- Any loot gained during the thread
- Any loss of loot / items during the thread.
Uses / Advantages
- In a collaborative thread, people can identify skills used and knowledge requested as they go and the review then takes care of itself (more or less).
- In a modded thread, players can identify up to X knowledges per post, which the mod can then look at and award if appropriate.
- This will negate the need to ask people to co-ordinate information when putting together a review - it's all there ready to go as soon as the thread is done.
- Where you identify that you are using a skill, the skill name and level will appear in a pop up over it in the post. This will help our mods and peer reviewers.
- Since you will identify the skill and level at the time of writing the post, it negates the issue with people changing skill level as a thread progresses.
- It clarifies where people are claiming numbered knowledge, meaning that Peer Reviewers will have less queries and it's much clearer for them.
- If you claim more knowledge than you are entitled for - you can just add a note at the bottom saying "I'd like to claim knowledge 1 -6, 8 & 10" - that way, if there is an issue with any knowledges, the Peer Reviewer can pick one of the alternatives.
- If you take time to finish a thread, you don't need to go back and remind yourself when preparing the review - because it's done for you.
- It's viewable by all
- Skill Used
- The text where you are identifying a skill you are using needs to be wrapped in the "[skill" bb code (remember, you'll need to close out the "]" for it to work!).
- There is a button for that on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that it will give you this
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[skill][/skill]
- so either highlight the existing text, or type it in as you go.
- That code identifies that you have used a skill. You need to simply tell it what skill and what level you are. An example would look like this, where I have identified THIS TEXT as being Writing (Novice) . I did that by putting in:
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[skill=Writing (Novice)]THIS TEXT[/skill]
- You will note that, if you type in "[skill=" then a drop down menu appears at the bottom of your screen, giving you auto-suggestions of the code. This is a convenience, should you wish to use it.
- Knowledges Claimed
- The text which relates to where you are claiming a knowledge needs to be wrapped in the "[knowledge" bb code (remember, you'll need to close out the "]" for it to work!).
- There is a button for that on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that it will give you this
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[knowledge][/knowledge]
- Either highlight the existing text, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works here also)
- That code identifies that you are claiming a knowledge for this part of the post. You need to do 2 things.
- Tell it what skill you are claiming the knowledge for. An example would look like this, where I have identified THIS TEXT as claiming a Knowledge about Writing. I haven't put the skill level in (I don't need to for knowledge) and nothing appears in the post. (see "The Claims Summary" below, though)
- THEN you need to tell it what your knowledge is named. Here - you have three options.
- Name the knowledge exactly what is written in the text. For that, you don't need to do anything. Just keep it as
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[knowledge skill=Writing]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
- Name the knowledge something else. For that, you need to put "name=What you name your knowledge" so, for example THIS TEXT is
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[knowledge skill=Writing name=Writing Guides Requires Specific Examples]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
- Name your knowledge a number. For numbered knowledge, just put in the number as the name. So, for example THIS TEXT is
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[knowledge skill=Writing name=1]THIS TEXT[/knowledge]
- Name the knowledge exactly what is written in the text. For that, you don't need to do anything. Just keep it as
- Injuries
- The text which relates to an injury being gained needs to be wrapped in "[injury" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
- There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this
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[injury][/injury]
- Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
- The code identified that you are claiming an injury for that part of the post. You have two options here:
- Simply wrap the text in the injury code. This is not helpful if you put I hurtied myself!
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[injury]I hurtied myself! [/injury]
- To better define the injury, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "ow, I said" text.
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[injury=cuts and bruises]ow, I said[/injury]
- Simply wrap the text in the injury code. This is not helpful if you put I hurtied myself!
- Loot
- The text which relates to loot being gained needs to be wrapped in "[loot" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
- There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this
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[loot][/loot]
- Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
- The code identifies that you are claiming loot for that part of the post. You have two options here:
- Simply wrap the text in the loot code. This is not helpful if you put Tim grabbed it!
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[loot] Tim grabbed it! [/loot]
- To better define the loot, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "Tim lunged and picked it up! " text.
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[loot=1 golden goblet]Tim lunged and picked it up! [/loot]
- Simply wrap the text in the loot code. This is not helpful if you put Tim grabbed it!
- Losses
- The text which relates to loss of an item / wealth needs to be wrapped in "[loss" bbcode. Again, you need to close out the "]" for it to work.
- There is a button on the menu directly above the posting / writing area. If you press that, it will give you this
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[loss][/loss]
- Either highlight the text you've written, or type it in as you go (the auto-suggestion for the code works) .
- The code identifies that you are losing items / wealth that part of the post. You have two options here:
- Simply wrap the text in the loss code. This is not helpful if you put Wendy dropped it!
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[loss]Wendy dropped it! [/loss]
- To better define the loss, put it inside the code, and still wrap it around your "Wendy ran after them, but they were gone... " text.
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"[loss=2 sheep and a truckle of cheese]Wendy ran after them, but they were gone... [/loss] " [/list] [/style]
- Simply wrap the text in the loss code. This is not helpful if you put Wendy dropped it!