The all new: Ask a moderator about the forum & rules

[.kju [PvPscene]]

@ LoneStar

I think 'Entire Posts' as default is a lot more meaningful - why have something to return less hits?

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Can you please fix the BIKI feed finally. It is broken for two+ weeks now:
http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?t...anges&feed=rss

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: http://community.bistudio.com/wiki?title=Special:Recentchanges&feed=rss
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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It seems the width settings were broken too: Bis wiki pages toooooo...oooo wide

[Lonestar]

@ LoneStar

I think 'Entire Posts' as default is a lot more meaningful - why have something to return less hits?

Why? Isn't it obvious? There are less results but they are more relevant.
What is the point of getting 500 results if half is useless?

[.kju [PvPscene]]

A header is not always more relevant - in fact it solely depends on the search topic.

[Lonestar]

Ok, we're getting somewhere.

Let's take another example:

Keyword: performance problem (rather common request)

• Default search (Entire Posts): 4 relevant hits on first page (500 results)
• Advanced Search (with Search Titles Only): 9 relevant hits (9 results)

With the first option, getting specific relevant answers is a game of chance among 500 results. Anyway who would search through 20 pages of results?

[Placebo]

I know how to perform a search properly, thank you.

It was you in a general sense, not you specifically.

[RKDmitriyev]

May I start a thread in OFFTOPIC about hypothetical nuclear war scenarios? I searched and didn't find any recent threads. I wanted to kick off discussion by talking about this.

[W0lle]

I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. There's more spam in there than that.

[Abs]

Hello,

This is a question about the rules, as inspired by the thread where some guy asks someone to email him some addons.

I know that you are not supposed to sell addons, and I get that. I would hate having to buy, for example, a single airplane or a bicycle, or whatever.

Would it be okay to sell a mod on DVD and ship it to people? The cost would in theory only be for shipping and handling, plus any packaging expenses. In addition to that, in order not to violate any license agreements, the mod would still be available for free for download. This is more for those who like to have boxes for their stuff.

So...thoughts?

Abs

[Darkhorse 1-6]

The idea would be for somebody to set up a paypal account so people could send him however much $ is needed to pay for the price of 1 CD/DVD + envelope (normally free) + stamps.

This person would load the CD full of addons and send it to the person, who would most likely be in a situation where they don't have a fast internet connection, or any internet connection (Like me. ) (This could also apply to people who are deployed and have arma on a laptop/whatever.)

[Abs]

I get that idea, and my question while inspired from it is not asking about it specifically.

I'm talking if mod teams (ie: FDF, IceBreakr's islands and units, even PRACS, etc) could sell their own packaging to their own mods, and ship it to people, while still having it available online. So I would send FDF $10 (or whatever) for shipping and handling, plus costs, and in return I would get a DVD case, with printed DVD, of their mod.

I realize this wasn't clear in my original post. Let me know if I'm still not communicating my idea clearly.

Abs