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The contest is now closed! On a side note, I’d like to talk about punctuations today:

I’m aware of the greatness of punctuations and their use…
For the Archives, however, it’s important that the users follow a set of simple rules in order to interact. Let’s say you’re writing a story (A) and want to link to another story (B) you wrote some time ago. If you named your first story “B” and create a link to it by making a bracketed link in the Archives to [[B]], then that link will take you directly there. If you named your story “B.” however, the link [[B]] will not work. For a bracketed link to work, it must be 100% the same name.

For that reason we ask all our users to always make their titles without punctuations. That way you can link to items on the AA without wondering if the author named it with a punctuation or not.

And a side note: I believe most titles come without punctuations, no? Books are called “The Fellowship of the Ring” and “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, not “The Fellowship of the Ring.”, right?

- Alabast

I hope to hold a small experimental AA event for the Horde this weekend.
It’ll be on Saturday or Sunday. (And not interfere with other events of course.) It’ll be a new type of event that features both IC and OOC questions about both the use of the AA as well as the content there.

But I’d need teams to participate.
In theory I only need two teams to show up. Each team needs 3 people as a minimum, 10 people as a max. Team members don’t have to come from the same guild or even be in one. So if there’s two brave teams out there who’d like to test their skills on this, on Saturday 17:00 servertime: Let me know here and I’ll start putting it together.

The prize will be fame and glory.

Here’s the Wow Thread:

http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2601292940#1

Today you can use the comment feel and we’ll try to get back to you ASAP.
This applies especially to the Epic Story Contest Questions.

Yes, we still have an issue with the server going down around midnight. Our friend Nostron took his time to make his own interpretation of this nightly event. I thought it was pretty spot on, haha.

Thanks to Nostron for making the awesome comic. See the original here.

Allright! Let me try this blog thing! I posted a thread on the forums today, but thought it’s equally important to put it up here.

We get a lot of these messages these days, so here’s some clarification:

When you register a name it usually goes through (even if you get a 500 error or similar). To see if it was registered, just do a Search and see if the name is there. If it is and the profile is empty, it means that your name is no awaiting activation. This usually happens within 48 hours or less. Wait and look in your spamfolder for the email with your password.

If you get a “That name is already taken” message, do the same; Do a search. Was the name registered within a few minutes ago? That means you are registered. Wait for the password. Check your spamfolder.

If you get a “That name is already taken” taken message, you do a search and: “OMG! Someone has already taken your name and the profile is full of stuff!”, do not despair. This either means that A) Someone used to have the same name but have now changed it to something else, B) Someone has a variation of your name (Say your name is Míchaels, but the profile for Michaels is already there), C) Someone is using the wrong name on the AA (Eg: Someone is named Jeffrey Michaels in character, but since Jeffrey was taken by another character, they registered as Michaels, and thus took your rightful spot), or D)Someone is trolling you with a fake profile.

D almost never occurs. C, B and A does. All the time. Don’t despair. Send us an email and describe what’s going on and supply us with your characters full name (“Míchaels McAwesome” for example). Please include links to the profiles you describe! This speed things up! We will create a profile for you somehow.

Please remember that the AA system only understands one version of each name. That’s why Míchaels cannot exist simultaneously as Michaels. So if you’re creating a new character; consider not using special characters. You’ll save us and yourself lots of trouble!

Alabast
Certified Muffin Expert