Member News
Announced on figure.fm the other day so this is pretty much a copy/paste job.
At first I thought it would be odd to have non figure posts on figure.fm but after thinking about it again, it makes complete sense.
Most figures originate from anime, games or illustrations from Japan so I think it really does make sense to also post anime, games, cosplay, 2D girls and Japan related posts there.
Also, figures are a major part of otaku-ism so otaku posts should feel comfy there too.
Another example - Kotaku is all about games but they often cover Japan topics too.
Feel free to continue Daily Dolphin, Maid Monday, Idol Eyes, Orangutan Oppai and any other series that you started on DC.
These non-figure posts will still show up on the top page of DC so you should expect the same amount of views as before. I will also continue to hijack stuff from you that I would like to share but unlike last time, you get to keep it in your pool.
The post count code is nearly ready so you will be able to see how many times your posts have been viewed too.
Also, DC and Figure.FM accounts will be merged in the future. And your previous member posts will be restored soon.
Also, if you created an account on DC over 2 months ago, then you should be able to login to figure.fm with the same user/pass.
Please make sure that you post your non-figure stuff in the Non Figure (Other) category tree. If your non-figure post goes in the figure tree then it will be eaten and your uploading privileges will be spanked with a wet dog.
Bad quality pics get unapproved and removed from the top page You will still be able to view it yourself though. Folks who sign up for the first time wont find their posts on the top page until their account is approved which is usually done in a few hours.
A few rules which I should write up properly sometime are as follows. Feel free to add some and I will write everything up in a spanking shiny "Posting Rules" post.
- Folks with the post-one-photo-see-rest-at-my-blog get to play with themselves only.
- Folks who post a few pics with a "you may want to/if you are interested then see more at mai burogu" are welcome.
- Folks who leave links to their burogu and don't really participate in the community by commenting are not really welcome.
- The is_ecchi tag will be back soon but I guess 2D oppai is OK for now. 3D oppai is a nono.
- No gen*talia.
- No China-bashing or bashing of any other race or culture for that matter.
- No racism, sexism or anything else that makes fun of any person and the way they are or the hobbies they have. While posts like these generally generate more page views, life is too short to go around being horrible to others.
This includes calling people gay.
Also, words like pen*s should be replaced by "dolphin" and "brea*sts" should be replaced by "eyes" or "oppai."
These are indeed natural words and most of us either have one or the other (or both) but through my SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work previously at Amazon, I have learn't that frequent usage of these keywords is bad for our page rank.
If you have many of these words appearing on your site through either your own posts or perhaps from an RSS feed of another site that you are displaying, you may want to consider replacing these keywords, removing the RSS feed in question or using regular expressions to censor some of the words.
Most of us who blog like to have folks read the stuff that we blab about and having a low page rank means that search engines will index our site less frequently or penalize our rankings - meaning less incremental (new) visitors will be able to discover our site.
If you are linking to an external site who has these keywords frequently appearing, then your page rank will be penalized.
For example, do a search for pen*s or even "adult" in Google. In theory, you should see a *ton* of pr0n sites but you don't - guess why.
The Google page rank for dannychoo.com dropped from 6 to 4 after having multiple member news and puchi blurbs linking to sites with highly racy content so unfortunately I had to but a block on outgoing links to these sites. My page rank has now recovered to 5 and hopefully should be 6 soon.
Members who continue to attempt to link to these sites will have their account sprinkled with hot radish and eaten on a slice of French toast.
Update - Fakku is fine because Jacob and I have been implementing some stuff together which does not affect my page rank. Links to Fakku are welcome.
If you are interested in reading about life in Japan, seeing photos taken daily around Tokyo, like Japanese subculture (anime, manga, figures, Dollfies) then you may want to start delving into the Japan or Figure categories for a start or have a gander at all photo articles.
If you don't have much time now, maybe subscribe to the RSS Feed, Twitter Feed or join the other readers in the FaceBook Page.
Alternatively, you may want to read more about the site.
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http://thisblogissuxor.blogspot.com
Awesome Danny thanks :]
???Confused???
Fair enough...here's hoping that the ranking goes back up quicker...
Editor
http://cavalock.blogspot.com/
very interesting revamp u are doing to your sites. so i guess the main/original dannychoo site will now be more biz-focussed? more serious biz stuff for client$? becos it looks like there is no reason for us to post on that site? we just post straight on figure.fm, rite?
looking forward to the changes. <^;^>
No more NEET, enineering student now...g
http://saiseki.blogsome.com/
Ah, nice to see the new rules ^^ Lol Orangutan Oppai XD
Thank you very much for bringing back the old dc.com, now waiting for the old posts to be restored ^^
still trying to figure it out...
http://pipopaz.wordpress.com/
I was actually scared at the name Orangutan Oppai >~<
Student
http://miri.textcube.com/
Welcome back, Members News! I missed Chibi Miku on DC.
Otaku Graphic Designer
http://neoprolacus.spaces.live.com
Fair enough...
But I'm curious of the cart and order option in Your Menu... ^_^
Time Traveller/High School Student
http://thetsundere.wordpress.com
Ahh... fantastic! ^^ I missed the old non-figure related posts.
http://otakuposts.blogspot.com/
"spanked with a wet dog" I rofl'd.
Also you forgot to mention about posts that advertise their blog blatantly. Like "Just made a new blog" some random picture and please visit my blog. Saw such posts in old member news.
You also forgot - No wide open pics of 2D or 3D girls.
studying comp studies, dreamer but not really diligent ('~`)
http://bruneian-otaku.blogspot.com
Thank you Danny and by the way I can't change my avatar on figure.fm
Ninja / Engineer / Sensei / 魔法少女 (What!?! I can't be, I'm a guy...)
Yay. Old features will be coming back. I was sad for a bit Danny when they disappeared. I kept coming back with some hope, but started losing more hope over time. Danny is great because he pays attention to his readers/fans.
student
http://www.gunpla-inochi.com
Sounds Good! This is nice so you don't have to upload different things in two different places..or check two different places for different news. All in one is always nice ^^.
Dirty Gentleman
http://cantstanzya.wordpress.com/
Hmm... I'll have to watch my vocabulary. LOL
Pseudo-Graphic Designer, 触手 wrangler, H-Man
http://lightningsabre.blogspot.com/
Oopsie... Gonna stop linking those bad sites then ^^;
Hmm good idea with the page ranking. How would one see this ranking? I may clean up my posts on my blog as well.
Multimedia Technology Student
http://thehappyninjadrawn.wordpress.com
Yea I'm also interested in seeing my page ranking ^^. I'm looking forward to Members News again =D.
Saber's Knight of One
http://www.ultima-i.com
If you download the Google Toolbar, it allows you to view the pagerank of sites if you allow it to transmit limited viewing data back to Google.
You can also check www.websitegrader.com. It will give you your pagerank along with a few other stats.
Otaku, US Army, Student (Political Science)
http://figure.tsuki-board.net/profile/Syaoran
Good rules there Danny. I was planning on changing the weekly h-doujin name to Weekly Dolphin Health Reading (or WDHR for short).^^;
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
I think the Weekly Doujin naming is fine and am fine with that series you post.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Just updated the post:-
Tech Support Officer - Network Security Engineer
http://burugureibi.blogspot.com/
sweet - answered 4 of my questions thar
Online Shop
http://wildarms.egloos.com
Ah, I was waiting for non-figure news posting to come back and I shall rejoice! Always working hard, thanks Danny!
Student
Great news, thanks Danny!
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
Signed & returned the Member News Regulation.
Looking very forward to the return of Member News/ Stuff & the new post count feature.
@Danny: How soon will we be expecting the new implementation of "Comment-Replied Notification"? ^_^
Mad scientist
Yeah the "Comment-Replied Notification" would be really nice. Right now it's more or less pointless to ask questions in something which is a week old (or older) because people will not read it. If people get notified that somebody took an interest in what they wrote then good posts will not die that fast.
It would also be nice to get notified about any new comments in any of your posts since they are sort of replies to what you wrote.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Is high on priority list. No ETA though.
Mad scientist
It's ok not to have an ETA. I believe it was Intel who first stated an ETA as "when it's ready". It has since been used quite a lot regarding features in open source projects and I think it's fitting here too. I'm just happy to get confirmed that it is on the list at all ^^
Dance Trooper: DCX-001 O.D.E. (Order of the Dancing Empire)
http://dannychoo.com.my
Hooray!
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
That would make my life incredibly easier. ^^; So far I've just been backtracking by clicking through my comments and checking all of them.
still trying to figure it out...
http://pipopaz.wordpress.com/
I agree with tymmur, just being in the list is good enough. Thanks Danny ^^
Honestly, if it's too NSF* for everyone else to see, just don't upload/post it. Use some common sense. Stuff like "hey check out my livejournal" only makes me want to avoid clicking on them more.
Engineer-wannabe
http://sora-k.deviantart.com/
great! imho,member news make this site more intersting :)
Otaku Programmer
http://oufukunaga.wordpress.com
>>Folks with the post-one-photo-see-rest-at-my-blog get to play with themselves only.
Now I feel guilty -__-. But can we really post multi pic in old DC's Member News?
>>No gen*talia.
No worries Danny. Your words "eyes" and "dolphin" are already carved in my mind, I even used it on real life unconciously ^^;
Me : "Whoa, the girl has nice eyes"
Friend : "Huh? How'd you know? She's wearing sunglasses"
Mad scientist
Somebody should make a dictionary with all the words that are in use here and make a jpg of them. That way no search engine will detect them and we can still look up every word. A word is useless unless you understand it when you read it. Sure eyes and dolphins are known to quite a lot of people, but then comes words like pupils, oysters and so on. How many words do we even have? I'm not sure if I know all of them because some of them are used rarely, presumably because other people are unfamiliar with all of them as well.
Otaku Programmer
http://oufukunaga.wordpress.com
Nice idea. "pupils" got me confused sometime ^^
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
I thought that was one of the more natural ones. I mean, if brea*sts are eyes... ^^;
@tymmur: I always figured it was just those few that were DC-exclusive. For everything else there's UrbanDictionary .com xP
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
Danny, how about long and thoughtful posts that are picture-free, like, say, my <a href=http://geekorner.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/ebay-addiction-long/>eBay Addiction</a> post?
I tend to be wordy, rather than art-usey, heh.
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
http://geekorner.wordpress.com/2009/08/30/ebay-addiction-long/
Correct link.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
In this case maybe just a logo of ebay ? ^^;
All items in Mirai Gaia should have a visual.
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
Ok, cool.
But in such a case, one photo would be alright? After all, it's a 'paper' of sorts, 1k words, not an anime/figure review :)
フリー漫画家
http://mangayomo.com/tofu/
ふむふむｗ
Mad scientist
This is great news. However I do wonder about one thing. What if I want to post something to keep it on DC? Will non-figure stuff be moved to DC.com once it's ready?
I kind of liked the idea of keeping one list for figures and one list for everything else.
IT Manager
http://thumbnail-of-life.blogspot.com/
I wonder how many people trying to search for the "real" dolphin and eyes but ends up in DC. xD
Mad scientist
I don't think it's an issue with eyes. After all it's a quite common term to write about. Dolphins on the other hand... I don't think that many places online write a whole lot about dolphins. I still recall when I saw a documentary on TV about dolphins and how a female researcher talked about devoting her life to compare dolphins (colour, size and so on) in order to understand them better. It was meant to be serious but I couldn't help considering it funny. The documentary itself were actually interesting. There is more to dolphins (the animal) than people normally think. I also once saw a documentary about dolphins (the human version). That was actually quite funny too because they joked about it while being serious at the same time :D
初音ミク命
Thanks for all the hard work on updating the site, Danny. ^^
Out of curiosity though, are we still able to imbed NND videos into our posts like we did before? I only saw a Youtube button at the top of the page and wasn't sure.
Evil Fanfic Writer
http://acesan.wordpress.com/
Hmmm ... why not make a script that automatically converts the naughty words to DC versions when we try to post them? ^_^
Mad scientist
Either that or reject the post with a message like "Banned word in use. Check reference card for what to use instead" and then a link to the image I mentioned earlier. This way people are forced to read the list and realise what the posts mean ^^
Video Reviewer of Anime Figures, Mecha and Merch (youtube.com/user/Actar576295)
http://actar.wordpress.com
So pretty much the only reason to stick around DC is for Danny's posts, which are really great. Figure.Fm is now officially the old DC. (^.^;)
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
...
Experiment volunteer for social dysfunctionality
http://coffeebugg.blogspot.com/
Ah.. posting rules. :P something Comrade Tenrou had highlighted previously. same old, same old.. with a few minor updates I see.
By the way, is it OK to mirror our posts here and on our blog and vice versa?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Sure thing.
Nendo Exhibitionist
http://www.kodomut.com
I always try to omit the pictures I use for my blog post and type different captions (though they are less detailed) for figure.fm posts so I don't end up totally mirroring the posts ^^
Experiment volunteer for social dysfunctionality
http://coffeebugg.blogspot.com/
What I had in mind actually :P
Mechanical Engineering student
http://sabekujikaneda.multiply.com/
O_o I didn't know words could affect a website that much! The Internet is a very complex world.
We should make a DC dictionary or something similar so that new members would know the words that are banned in the website.
http://moemoekyun.wordpress.com
can't wait ^_^
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
Feature Request: RTF editor, so if we have long posts with links (and pictures), we could simply do copy-paste?
I have some posts with about 50 pictures per post, and getting them here manually would make me, well, scream with rage and despair :D
Mad scientist
I don't see the benefit from using RTF, but maybe I will if I look into the options.
I would however like a post preview to make it possible for me to test layout and links before making it public and correct tyops in links before people start posting comments about flawed links.
Saving drafts (read: non public posts) would be nice too. In fact drafts and preview could be combined by just making the post unavailable to everybody except the owner. Once it's done the owner can make it public and the posting time will then be when it's public, not when it was first made/previewed ^^
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
I agree, I wanted to suggest this before as well and forgot.
I often find myself changing a post, and the picture lay-out after seeing how it looks. Which is problematic here, as people see my work-in-progress.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
I never found the preview necessary with old Member Stuff uploader, since it was just one picture, but I would agree on wanting a preview now. Wouldn't be high of a priority want list though.
Mad scientist
I needed preview with the old system. I have made mistakes which preview could have avoided being published (like using && instead of %% in a link). Also it would be nice to see the layout. You might notice that big chunks of text makes the whole thing less readable or something.
Student
http://foxkey.blog126.fc2.com/
Sanks for the heads up Danny on what's been changing recently.
I await to read a new "Posting Rules" article. Although i'm assuming most of them will be standard good internet writing protocols, which i'm all for. With a few perks such as mentioning "dolphin", "oppai" and "eyes".
I'm sure with all these new post moderation functions, DC will be filled with lots of quality posts.
Stay classy Danny Choo community and keep it clean.
University of Toronto, Otaku Student
Hooray! Looking forward to it! Once I get a camera I'll be posting asap! ^__^
Student
Ooh, member posts are back.
Also didn't know that those *words* actually affected a pages ranking.
filmaker
http://www.freebinta.com
is "heavy docking action" ok? havnt done a H.D.A. post for a while though
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Most certainly.
Student
I join Figure.fm at August 16th, but why I still not a approved member?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Bad quality photos?
Student
Maybe.
Student
now i try upload a non figure post, let's see how.
University Student
http://shikinami.wordpress.com/
Me is very happy with Member News return. Thanks Danny. Now I guess I might be able to come back more times [that is, if college allows me to lol]
hmmm 4 x Dollfie Maid Costumes = 122960 JPY hmmm..
struggling undergraduate student
http://playevolution.wordpress.com/
By the way, how do I change my occupation now? I can't find a way to do it from the Edit Profile screen. I must have missed out on something.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
^^; Nope, you haven't missed anything...unless I have as well. The accounts we have on Mirai Gaia (both DC and Figure.fm, now) have no way of changing occupation at the moment. Or even location, for that matter. I assume it's on the to-do list (along with gender, which was suggested awhile back) but not high-priority.
Developer/Student
http://threedeecomplex.wordpress.com/
Haha, I guess there are those situations where you would want to change your gender.
Student / Free Thinker / Otaku
http://www.google.com/profiles/SeanSigloch
Makes complete sense. =] Thanks for simplifying things Danny.
university film student | ecchikid | the Archivist
http://www.vimeo.com/longhim
Yay! I've been ommenting about wanting a Posting Rules page every so often for awhile now. If that's what did it, thanks for listening...and if you already had it in mind, even better because it means you had things well covered already. ^^
As for page rank: it kind of sucks how it dropped two levels at once and is taking so long to get back up again, but I suppose that's just how it works. Always much easier to lose reputation than to gain it. >< It'll get there eventually though!
http://quentinlau.blogspot.com
It looks like that I may be out of the game as I don't think I can keep up with the vast information from this community; things are often getting busier and busier for me unfortunately and I have to prioritise.
China-bashing is kinda hurting on me as Hong Kong is often dragged into that, and I know that Hong Kong is a place that's rather overlooked compared to other places such as Singapore due to slight language and culture preference, so I hope there will be improvements within the community.
Btw Danny may I ask whether the old RSS feed award involving Google adsense system is still there as I know the RSS I've been using is not working anymore.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Can you give me the old RSS feed address?
http://quentinlau.blogspot.com
Sure thing. It's:
http://www.dannychoo.com/rssrewards/eng/?DCTag=quentinlau
still trying to figure it out...
http://pipopaz.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the hard work Danny, glad to know that the members news are back. Still, wondering about the classified section, is it coming back?
Danny i still can't log in to my first account. is there a way to report the error.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
If you can comment then you are logged in.
This is a temp account. When i try to log into my first real one it would take me to another page that not DC related. It started a week or so ago and ever since then i could not log in. Should i pos up what i get when ever i try to log in?
Student
http://lordofgundams.blogspot.com/
Awesome job Danny! It makes to easier for me to use Figure.fm when the username and pass are the same on both sites.
Otaku ^^
Sometimes too orb-scene phrases are too much and can really hurt a website. A well manage website will make it a fun place to surf and enjoy... =)
d@@b
Draftsman Graduated, Environment & Interior Design Student
http://www.flickr.com/photos/manuelriosg/
Excelent rules... very good!!
Student, Uncle & hopfully a good husband..
Hurray...hopefully the post recover quickly...so more things to read around here...
Freelance Digital Production Artist
http://www.flickr.com/photos/victor_lee/sets/
Cool… will be posting again soon-ish.
Chinese/Viet restaurant waiter, no post secondary
I did a recent bad quality loot post. (like yesterday) I understand that it won't show up. If I upload again in the future with high-res pictures, will the post show up? Or am I blocked from that one post?
And, if I change the blocked low quality pictures to high quality in my original post, will it upload on the front page?
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
High quality (without the spam) will show up on top page.
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
What's the definition of "Low quality"?
Injured
Sounds good! Been far to busy here to keep up with much lately and I am moving soon. Finding the stories to read here is still a happy highlight of a day. Yah, on the posting of topics, its pretty much common since to keep things clean and thats a good choice of word vocabulary replacements. I am glad you explained it so it makes since to me now why it was done for the stat. reading pages records.
Nice job ! i hope i can get my articles back. I sometimes look back at my old articles to see how good or bad my writing is, to help me improve on things when i write new game articles. Will you be restoring the ones that were "stolen" too ? XD.
Full-time geek/Part-time student/Part-time musician
http://randomgeekness.livejournal.com/
AWESOME!!
College Freshmen
Now I see why the front pages in Google searches aren't always NSFW. Thinking about it rationally, even seemingly innocent things like rope should get a lot of hits from NSFW sites.
Student, part-time worker
I tried to log in to Figure.fm with this name, but it didn't work. :(
Student, part-time worker
omg...lol. Of course after I say something it suddenly works. Neverrrrrmind. ><;
Star Gazer
http://vixums.wordpress.com/
I think the rules are fair. I had no idea about the page ranking though, pretty clever to replace the offensive words with others... I never read anything about having to do it before, but I did notice that those specific words replaced others, I just thought it was cute XD
Graphic Arts Student
It's nice to have the members news back.
And here I thought that the old members news stuff was permanently eaten, but if it is going to be restored then it will be cool to have all that stuff back.
Young Grasshopper
http://miragestrike.blogspot.com
Glad to see member news back up. Now to go buy some flashcards!
College Student
http://www.projectsaber.com
Oh interesting, now I might write some posts in the future. The rules make sense, didn't know about the page rank regulations.
Graphic Designer
Hmm, interesting updates to the site. Glad you explained everything here!
Alchemist in training
This is why I love DC.com , Its just Trool-free and Theres No people shouting "F**k" "P**is" "S**t" or anything else .
Its just a great Big Community where we could all talk about anime , figures and the such . Wish All The Sites are like this especially Youtube >.<
Student
Why i still cant be approved at figure.fm? I've done 3 posts, over 50 comments, is it that i gonna take 30 days rule ? I use a new acc at figure.fm.
Student
and the old email, old name but a new sign up. PLS make me approve.
Student
now try to upload another, hope i can pass.
Student
http://geekorner.wordpress.com
Suggestion:
Move "Nyan Nyan" and "Product Release" from under non-figure posts to under figure posts, and give non-figure posts some more space, for some more posts.
Screenwriter Wannabe
i should prolly sign up for this figure.fm everyone's talking about..
hey, when are we getting the classifieds back? they don't exist anymore.. kinda liked seeing what people were selling and meetups and stuffs..
Fledgling repowriter
http://sn.im/sdr002
OK - Thank you. I'll go look at Figure.fm. 3=)#