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The Helper

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Added the Xenforo section WIP

XenForo

Added the

WC3 Hosted Mappers

The Usual Suspects - Battle.net Open Tech Support Guild

Site Power Up - The very first forums and everything lost

VBulletin

Potential Section Stubs

Also fixups, cleanup and other general enhancements as always :)
 

Daskunk

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Heh.. I was a TheHelper.net poster before I became an MVP.

If you want I can contribute to this somehow, I've only been an MVP for a few years though.
 

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Heh.. I was a TheHelper.net poster before I became an MVP.

If you want I can contribute to this somehow, I've only been an MVP for a few years though.

Info on the current MVP program, and how you became a MVP. Also, about how you found TH.net and maybe some of that story too. It might not be interesting to you but it is interesting to us :)
 

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I stubbed out the main Tom Mai link on the Story since his stuff is in the stories section. I am going to do my own thing on Tom since I think I know him pretty well posting news together for a number of years now :)
 

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Added FireCat and Siretu as a Potential Section Stubs with a high probability of being done soon.
 

Daskunk

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Oh yeah. I showed the MVP-specific part of this to a recently added MVP, Leviathan. He thought it was interesting to read the history of the MVP program even though he never had anything to do with Thehelper.net.

Anyway I will write up something for this eventually. I will have to check in with the guys at Blizzard to see how many details I'm allowed to spill about the inner-workings of the MVP program currently. :p
 

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They have a bunch of information about it public I have been doing some research. I will be adding Moar to that section later.
 

tom_mai78101

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Let's see if we can invite a few more MVPs and try to finish the research up with even more details, hopefully we get Blizzard's attention and actually get one of the employees to reply here.
 

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Let's see if we can invite a few more MVPs and try to finish the research up with even more details, hopefully we get Blizzard's attention and actually get one of the employees to reply here.

I highly doubt that Tom Mai. We have not had a Blizzard forum lurker in a long time. Last one was our StarEdit mod back on the SitePowerUp forums before we got Vbulletin.
 

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Since Daskunk said that he's going to check up with Blizzard, he might share this site with them. Who knows? There's a chance!
 

The Helper

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kc just now came back as Prometheus - lets see if he does anything :)
 

Sixen

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This is still on my to do list, I shall be returning! Busy with life recently, ;(.
 
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  • tom_mai78101 tom_mai78101:
    Starting this upcoming Thursday, I will be in Japan for 10 days.
  • tom_mai78101 tom_mai78101:
    Thursday - Friday will be my Japan arrival flight. 9 days later, on a Sunday, will be my return departure flight.
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    Hope you have safe travels my friend!
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  • vypur85 vypur85:
    Wow spring time in Japan is awesome. Enjoy!
  • The Helper The Helper:
    Hopefully it will be more pleasure than work
  • vypur85 vypur85:
    Recently tried out ChatGPT about WE triggering. Wow it's capable of giving a somewhat legitimate response.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    I am sure it has read all the info on the forums here
  • The Helper The Helper:
    i think triggering is just scripting and chatgpt is real good at code
  • vypur85 vypur85:
    Yeah I suppose so. It's interesting how it can explain in so much detail.
  • vypur85 vypur85:
    But yet it won't work.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    it does a bad ass job doing excel vba code it has leveled me up at my job when I deal with excel that is for sure
  • vypur85 vypur85:
    Nice! I love Excel coding as well. Has always been using Google to help me. Maybe I'll use ChatGPT next time when I need it.
  • The Helper The Helper:
    yeah whatever it puts out even if it is not perfect I can fix it and the latest version of chatgpt can create websites from pictures it will not be long until it can do that with almost all the tools
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    These new Chat AI programs are going to change everything everyone better Buckle the Fuck Up!
  • The Helper The Helper:
    oh and Happy Tuesday Evening! :)
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  • jonas jonas:
    Im worried they'll change things for worse
  • jonas jonas:
    A lot more low quality content, a lot more half-baked stuff.
  • jonas jonas:
    If you're good enough to spot the mistakes of the answers you don't need it in the first place. If you aren't good enough, you're gonna rely on some half-correct stuff
  • The Helper The Helper:
    the earlier AI is and has been used extensively for publishing news and other content for a while now
  • jonas jonas:
    I used to be active on quora, it's now flooded with extremely similar, superficial answers that often miss the point of the question
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    hi
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    Hello, gathering all my old accounts… :)
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  • The Helper The Helper:
    by all means gather it all up!

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