10/21/06
Hi, everyone!

Luigi Novi here. I was logging into PM to correct a mispelling in a post, when I saw that Voyager and Movies were now in my Page Manager, so it looks like I'm the new moderator for both. (I had stated that I'd take Voyager if no one else wanted it, but was really enthusiastic for Movies when that one became available; I had no idea Phil would give me both, and no one contacted me.) Hopefully this won't be too much of a workload.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to improve these boards, do not hesitate to make them, or to offer constructive criticism.

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MODERATOR ANNOUNCEMENT: Because the season and episode boards are completely invisible in the Administration area, which cuts me off from them, I am going to move the content of all those boards by cutting and pasting all the individual original posts into super-large ones. This will rob them of their original text formatting, and may make it hard to read, but it's the only solution I can think of. I'm not sure how popular reading those past discussions is among the users here, but hopefully it won't prove to be too great a hardship. I apologize if it causes any inconvenience. I have so far moved all the posts from the first two seasons. In time I will gradually do so with the rest.

Luigi, just do a find and replace add \ b { to the word By (case senstive), and then change m: make into a m:}

To do what?

to bold the by this person and that person

to make it easier to read.

There aren' t any "\ b {"'s to replace. I cut and pasted from the user boards, not from the Administration area. Those boards weren't visible in the Admin area, remember? That was the problem. Had I cut and pasted from the Admin area, from which the tags would've been present, the formatting would've been retained on their own. Sorry.

no, replace the "By:" with "\b {By:}" and the same with the "m:" That way, it'll be an quick way to alter the from text and make it easier to read.

By: Chris Booton on Sunday, November 01, 1998 - 10:54 am:

Does Janeway raise the sheilds before the caretakers beam hits? I dont recll her ordering to raise sheilds, if she did not why not?

The original first oficer is seen running across the bridge just before the beam hits, why doesent he hold onto something?

Why cant the Kazon make water? Doesent making water simply involve burning hydrogen?


By: Omer on Sunday, November 01, 1998 - 2:18 pm:

Isn't this a cool episode? Lot's of good stuff. I saw it b4 I knew that voy was gonna get stuck in the Delta quadrant, and it was realy exiting!

I love how B'elanna calles Kim "Starfleet"

Nits? well... isn't it a BIT convinience that the people who hate Paris the most die?

other than that, great!


By: Anonymous on Sunday, November 01, 1998 - 9:24 pm:

Why didn't Captain Janeway just put a time bomb in the Caretaker's array? This way they could use the array to get home and the array will still be destroyed. But if they did this the story ends here, and we won't have a series. Guess the producers overlooked this one.


By: Nicholas Setzer on Monday, November 02, 1998 - 5:44 am:

I think that the producers made a grave mistake with this one; Captain Janeway had many options other than destroy the array before using it to get home (some include activate the wave thing that takes you home then just before it sweeps you away, fire the photon torpedos at the array, set the torpedos as mines, and many, many more).

I'd like to think that if Kirk was in the same postion he would have gotten the Enterprise home.


By: Omer on Monday, November 02, 1998 - 1:35 pm:

I think that if now, Voyager would have an episode when they are forced by something to the Alpha quadrant then, regardless what, it is gonna be destroyed but AFTER it sends them back to the Delta Quadrant!!!


By: Johnny Veitch on Saturday, November 21, 1998 - 7:42 am:

At the beginning of part two, when Voyager finds Neelix`s shuttle, there is a female ensign at the conn station. However, when Rollins is put in command near the end, the conn station is unmanned. What happened to the ensign?

no, replace the "By:" with "\b {By:" no, and the same with the "m:" That way, it'll be an quick way to alter the from text and make it easier to read.


sorry, that should have read
no, replace the "By" with "\b {By" and the same with the "m:" That way, it'll be an quick way to alter the from text and make it easier to read.

sorry to post yet again, what I meant by find and replace was that it would allow you to do it all at once, not for each individual post.

But, putting aside the added work all that would be, where does the Add a Message field have a "replace" function?

whereever you are getting the text of the old threads from Luigi. and its not that much added work. All you do is copy the thread into a txt file, do the find and replace (3 seconds), and and then copy paste the modified thread (being made bold), into Nitcentral like you have been doing.

Entire process takes no more than 10 seconds.

I'm copying them from the user boards, and pasting them into the Add a Message fields of the new boards. We're talking about approximately 25 episode boards per season, and in some episodes' cases, multiple boards, which means that in doing two seasons at a time, it's 50 boards or more, which, as it is, takes a few hours. It's tedious, painstaking work, and I'd rather not add more steps to the process. Sorry.

I don't think you realize how simplistic what I'm suggesting is, but whatever sinks your boat. (or internet connection. )

Personally, I think Luigi is doing a bang-up job to reopen the Voyager boards. It looks like hard work. Good work, Luigi!

PV: I don't think you realize how simplistic what I'm suggesting is, but whatever sinks your boat. (or internet connection.
Luigi Novi: Actually, "simplistic" is pretty much the right word, since that word refers to the treating of complex subjects as if they were much simpler than they really are, so yes, I freely acknowledge that what you suggest is simplistic!

I think you meant to say "simple", but how do you know how simple it is? Have you ever been a moderator? Have you ever seen what the Admin area of the site looks like? Me, I've been doing this for some time, and know what's invovled. How can you tell me that I'm the one who doesn't know how simple or difficult it is? I just described some of the detailed work that moving all that material requires, and you continue to insist that Oh, it only adds this many seconds to the task, totally missing the point that the task already takes too long. In fact, I just finished doing the Season 5 boards, and they took a total of about three hours and forty-five minutes to do, much longer than the previous boards, because many of the Season 5 eps had two or three boards, with each board so long that they required between from 2 - 5 cut-and-pasted posts to transfer all the info, as opposed to the Season 3 boards, which mostly required only one, as you can see by comparing them on the Last Day page. This also meant that I had to enable the Add a Message field on the Board 1 of these eps, and then disable it after pasting the material. Since the new site's setup is totally different from the previous one, all the different features of each board (Page Layout, Subtopics, Messages, Announcement, About Messages), jumping from one aspect or feature of a board to another means clicking onto a different screen. All of this adds a lot of time to the process.

This is the second time you've made a blase request that I totally change a large number of boards--the last time having been when you asked me to do something with every single one of the Movie boards, which consist of almost 1,200 boards! I mean, really, do you even read old posts that much? Can you really not muddle through as it is?

John A. Lang: Personally, I think Luigi is doing a bang-up job to reopen the Voyager boards. It looks like hard work. Good work, Luigi!
Luigi Novi: Thank you, John.

I wasn't meaning to offend luigi, and I certainly wasn't meaning for you to redo anything. At the time of my suggestion, you had only done two seasons, and I was thinking of the rest of Voyager, that you hadn't done so far. What I was suggesting was taking 10 seconds longer to what you were already doing. Yes, I know it would take a little longer when you add it all up. In any case, as I was saying, I made the suggestion when you only had done 2 boards wasn't intending for this to turn into some long debate or anything and only kept replying and such because I wasn't sure you were understanding what it was I was suggesting given your comment about not seeing a find and replace feature in the admin system.

My last comment was a small inside joke based on your internet experiences at home, that trying to open Voyager crashed your internet connection at home.

And no, I've never seen the layout of the moderator system of the new discus. But if you'd like to make me a moderator, you could show me.




Just kidding, I don't have the time to necessary for moderating any boards.

No sweat, dude.

I will say this though, clicking last day makes it look like Luigi is a Spam Bot!

I wonder how many posts nitcentral says he has anyway....

Whew. And that's that. All the episode boards are now transferred. That leaves just the Sink boards, but that should be an easy hurdle at this point, now that the worst is done. Enjoy, guys.

yeah!! no more Luigi Spam!

At least Luigi, you dont post on that screaming hurt -my eyes yellow!



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Okay, the Sink's done, and with that, all of the Voyager boards.

One question, though: Can anyone tell me the episode in which Seven told Neelix that the Borg encountered the Kazon but did not assimilate them because their inferiority would take away from the Borg's perfection? There's a board with the topic in the old server's sink, and I'd like to merge it with that episode's board.

Thanks.

Mortal Coil

Thanks, I found it.

I know, this strange man told me yesterday...

Luigi, you've done a great job organizing the boards. However, with such a massive undertaking, the occasional error will creep in: the "Extreme Risk" post summarizing the previous posts apparently also got posted to the "Drone, Part 2" board as well.

Thanks on both counts.

I've renamed the Sink. Hope everyone here like it.

That's a good choice. Better than calling it 'The Void'.

The Voyager brash reflections back at the original Nitcentral page is a broken link. Could someone in power here let The Chief know?

Why, is there something at the original site that's not here?


I'll email him via his private email.

For reference, however, Merat, in case you don't have his more public address, it's chief@nitcentral.com. Make sure you put FOR THE CHIEF in the subject line so he gives it the attention it deserves.

Merat!

If you could tell me exactly how you reached the link you are referring to I will look into it!

Phil Farrand

Not sure if this is what he's talking about but when you go to http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/continue/brashref.htm

& click on Star Trek: Voyager's Third and Fourth Seasons the /voyager/voyager.html doesn't work. Although you can get to the index by cutting the /voyager.html

Oops, sorry the link says htm, not html.

http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/voyager/voyager.htm

From Nitcentral.com goto "CONTINUING COMMUNICATIONS" then click on the link for "brash reflections on Star Trek:Voyager". It takes you to an error page. Its all the original reflections on the show. Thanks! :D

But Merat, didn't I post everything that was there here? Did I miss something?

The pages Merat is looking for predate Discus. Back then, Phil was putting his own thoughts, and replying to emailed nits and/or thoughts of others. The info there was never part of the boards.

Exactly, Dustin. Luigi, you did a great job reposting everything posted here, and I've had fun the last couple of weeks watching old Voyager episodes and reading the old nits and comments here. I've found myself starting to respond to them and then noticing they were written LAST CENTURY! These items simply predate them. KAM's posting is a great workaround, too.

Thanks. And if Phil can fix those links, I'll try link to them here.

Btw, it's been a while since I've seen a post by you, Merat. Good to speak to you again.

You too. Been busy busy busy with that "real life" thing that bothers us all so much. How have you been?

inblackestnight (from the Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy board): Sorry for letting you know here but there isn't a 'notes to the moderator' section.
Luigi Novi: Ah, but there is, night. Right here.

Thanks for the heads-up on the Alice board. I fixed it, and deleted the posts from you and !.

Sorry about that. I rarely go to this board, and when I do I just click on one of the links without scrolling down. Thanks again Luigi!

Any time, brother

!, thanks Luigi, beam me up, Scotty!

Just FYI Luigi, several eps in the sixth season could use a second board, as I requested on the Fury & Life-Line boards. I guess it isn't really a big deal, since it's the same amount of information, it's just easier on slow computers, like mine.

If those with slower computers find it harder, then it's a big deal to me. Your wish is my command.

The two eps you mentioned have been extended. Just name the other eps you feel need it.

Actually, there are several boards in the sixth season that could use an extention, mainly in the latter half of the season. Thanks, you da man!