I hope you are well, biters! If you have a moment to consider it, I'd like to gather feedback on the idea of creating forum ping groups for the bite requests!

I brought it up before, but it was not at a great time to discuss it (like during the middle of Survival, I think) but if you missed it, or need a reminder: we can set up a forum group for each zombie strain (for example: #virus-classic-biters or #bite_me_with_virus or something). I think this would have a lot of benefits and probably make the post-editing flurry much easier to manage for the wranglers.

Some considerations!

Thank you very much, comrades!

it might be a good idea but there are surely people who join forum groups and might not be there at the time of survival(or only partially) or simply forget that they are in a forum group and will get probably hundrets of pings and never find if they got pinged from another group they are in (for CWs, Friends,...) or users who stop playing and forget to leave the group

other thing is the tags can get pretty long like that (and i'm not sure if there is a character limit in tags) example -Revealing_Organic-Biters or

I think this would take a lot of work to set up properly, but would definitely make things more streamlined towards the end of the event.

As long as every group is tagged on the first post of the biting board, then people will be able to see and grab with relative ease. If someone's like, "give me everything BUT Boobitis", then they can ping whatever random group exists.

Just the actual building of said networks is going to take some time. And then you'll probably get a bunch of people who don't read the post and just randomly post "hey I need love bug" and it'll be up to anyone monitoring to ping

I'm not certain how administrating ping groups works, but could it possibly be divided, perhaps by year, so instead of all 41, each person would only be responsible for 4-8 pings?

This definitely sounds like it could really streamline things.

I don't mind being in charge for 41+ groups. I expect them to be low maintenance, so it's just a matter of making sure the information is there (which can just be a simple, fill in the blank thing). I'll just have to mute most of them.

Also, there is a character limit for the tags to use (hence we this is nvlb - I had a hard time coming up with names that could fit), so some creative names for the groups will be needed.

This also shouldn't b hard to run in conjunction with the list, for those who aren't interesting in the ping groups. I can add to the spoilers or in the name of spoilers.

[edit] I went ahead and made a test group - . I think that's the most characters that can go into the tag is ten (I tried virusclassic but I could only fit virusclass).

I like the idea as it would help with the amount of pings one can get per day.

As for the name, I would suggest using the name (or part of it) that is written in the skin section of the wardrobe, except for the new ones of course lol. and put in the ping group a description.

Ex.: and mention is it for Butterfly Bruise along with a plushie example.

The only problem I see would be for the new strands, however, those can be managed through the wranglers until they have set up proper names for them and then, a group can be added.

The pings you would get would look something like You have been mentioned on NVLB Biting Thead v.X by whiskeyyoodles for your group

I do like the idea of ping groups for strains. If everything worked perfectly, it would be so smooth and efficient. But given that the more complicated a system is, the less it'll be used as intended ... I can imagine biters not signing up to all the ping groups because it takes too long, or people who want to be bitten not pinging the right groups because they're unsure, etc.

Perhaps it's worth it thinking about having only one general ping, , to just call us to check and see which strain is called for? That would function much like being subscribed to the biting thread, but calling "victim present, not just chat".

: that would also be a good way to ping for "I don't care what I get"!

Wouldn't a nvlb already to the trick then?

true!

It would be nice to see if there are people outside of our group who would be interested in though. as a point about things getting complicated - Survival is already the most complicated event and we had to explain the same things over and over as it was.

I hope this will make asking for what you want as simple as possible. ...buuut it probably won't stop people being nervous about what we're about to do to their HA.

Been considering ping groups (WIP):

Please look them over and leave any feedback you think of - make sure to check your strains especially! I think I've spel't everything correctly and counted my digits properly but...

[edit]Edit 1: So uh, I think I might have pinged a couple of groups here by mistake? XD I wish it would tell me which ones are active and which aren't... Edit 2: Er... so apparently it also pings partial groups it finds in invalid ping tags, like #B for instance! >: Pretty sure I've broken all the ping tags fully now...?

maybe changeing hrtbrnbites to h-burnbites might be better NMW-biters maybe molewrath or molebite?

I am also leaning way against "NMW". I think I like

yea hburn-bites is better and i like molewrath as well

I'm not sure if we need ping groups for the vial strains. I think the only expensive vial is lotus at this point, so we could keep that one or just make a generic group?

And yeah, I did make #/virusbites for some testing purposes, so you got one group at least. x3

And we'll keep the directory since I'm not sure how fast this will catch on, but if we get all of these made before Survival, then I'll add them to the spoilers for each group or in the header, or something!

I had the nifty idea of drawing our forum group images for each of the ping groups (assuming we do it). I dunno if you want to join in on that?

yea i'd be down for that!