Anonymous - It has been me who has been deleting your maps.
Let me say I was horrified to see the front page containing your mole maps. I was originally going to give them all bad tags only to discover on checking your "beautiful photo" mole maps actually already exists on more than one site and thought if I private them then it won't show up on hostingbuddy random selection - then on other hand if I did that you may upload them all again which I wanted to avoid.
Usually I'm encouraged to private not so good maps or bulk upload maps I felt it was appropriate to delete all the maps to send the message to you that it is not acceptable to bulk upload that many maps. Furthermore, mole maps are notoriously difficult to get tags other than unimaginative - if I find they are elsewhere on the web they get all bad tags because it doesn't deserve the time and effort compared to what other map makers do to not get many bad tags on their maps.
While you feel the admin's and moderator's here may be corrupted - that is very far from the truth. Take for example when I upload my own maps ( not mole maps but big rr's and tower's - proper maps - you should give it a try sometime) - I never ever review my own map because it's not acceptable or fair.
At the end of the day, it is about keeping things fair as possible for those who come on here (especially the front page) to see what maps there is and to engage in a constructive talk over wmdb.org
I don't if it's possible and only FFie can do it because they have the backend of wmdb.org - but you could ask them if you uploaded all your mole maps in private then if you ask nicely to see if they can put your maps but not on the front page and in separate area's so it reduces the assumptions of spam uploading.
Also let me just say that even if you went with Skum's site - there's no way in a million years that hostingbuddy will incorporate that site into the randomly selected map process and neither can be coding for that can be retrieved - I've tried few years ago and wasn't even allowed that.
Just make it as a lesson learned and move on from it.
Please write smaller texts. You don't have to summarise everything in one sentence, but if you need an essay, that means your head is a mess. I can summarize your first paragraph in 3 sentences easily, so it's not that hard.
First, deleting maps like that has a simple reason: to counter spamming. People who put effort into making a map should have the chance for his/her map to be actually seen. I don't think you made all those photos, so it's kind of a big statement to say you "made" them. You converted them, that's all.
Second, you assumed it was FFie without bothering to check. Sounds to me like you're being a douche to someone who put real effort into wmdb (and who's responsible for wmdb still being online). IF her personality was bad (and I can say it isn't, since I know her pretty well), this douchy behaviour towards her (by several people) throughout the years is the reason.
Third, speech banks can be uploaded here at tus-wa.com. http://wsbdb.org/ is still up, but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore. Information readily available if you had bothered to ask instead of throwing out your opinion.
btw, using a case, may i ask what happened with masty's comments? :^(
no way i can believe some1 of them was crazy that much to delete all 1337 comments click by click that nobody even noticed :/
i dunno about your maps, but i'll tell you a small secret, but nobody else should see it, because you'll get some small big problems if some1 else knows it.
Ffie doesn't give a shit to this site anymore, tho she's the only one responsible for it. She only appears to ban map makers / other active users who do not pay tribute to her for such glorious amazing and unique site (like me), and the only here UninstallMasterBot you are looking which is gratuitously removes everything, is located here: https://wmdb.org/docs/about (8th one from top).
GO to the NEW wmdb, there is no shit, no sneaky deletions/rules and other corrupted shits! (which, however, is not even released for current time)
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18th March 2014, 08:09
Anonymous
(*.torservers.net) wrote:
tl;dr: a butthurt autist confused as to why his flood of shitty mole maps are being deleted.
I'm trying to get 26 perty photo maps added as Mole (mole shoppa) maps to wmdb.org, but my ultimate intention is to have them available as random maps selectable by Hosting Buddy using the !wmdb command or perhaps a new command that isn't dependent on wmdb to add a slew of perty maps to mole lovers like myself. Someone, FFie I'm guessing, unfortunately, keeps deleting them, though I hope that isn't the case since the little I remember of FFie suggested that she/he has something of a poisonous personality, which would be very wrong for a great game like Worms to allow just one person, especially someone like that, to be in total charge of wmdb, for as long as wmdb is the only resource for using random maps in-game with Hosting Buddy. I've uploaded maps successfully to wmdb before, and I can assure you that this beautiful collection of photo maps I spent an hour making and testing today will/would be very popular, as I even hosted a mole game now, and someone asked me right away what the number of the map is on wmdb, which I gave him, but, as I told him, it may be deleted soon because the person/people who have control over deletions may be bad. Let me know if there's any misunderstanding, such as that you simply have to log in to upload maps, (but the Register page says you don't have to, and trying to register doesn't result in a verification e-mail being sent, demonstrating another broken aspect of the site) or something is wrong with the files (I tested them though) or that I should submit one per day, just let me know and I'll put reminders into my schedule, or do whatever needs to be done to upload the maps for the good of the mole fans. If FFie or anyone else is bad, and has complete control over wmdb, but lacks the personality or healthy state of mind for the task, I hope someone else can decide to keep these mole maps on wmdb since mole is truly a great scheme and !wmdb is the only command, that I know of, to select maps using the popular Hosting Buddy. If there's any way around dealing with any bad admin(s) on this site, such as another site or database or function to allow people to discover my maps when hosting mole with Hosting Buddy, please let me know. I'll try to get the word out as much as I can, but as you know T17 doesn't have public forums anymore. I attached the maps in a zip file to this e-mail, tested and ready to be uploaded (things like title and description don't matter to me, you can say they were made by normal-game-guy if you like, people know me from years of gaming and hosting) and they can also be found in my Dropbox here:
I've worked for a computer game company before, where I and the other artists only had the job of making the assets, and uploading them so everyone else knows what was already worked on. Likewise, I'm only the artist end of things when it comes to something modest but still worthy like adding a set of beautiful mole maps to a great game. We never have to deal with bad supervisors (well, sometimes! haha) who don't want the assets, simply because they're in a bad mood, or wanna say haha I don't like you, or are rotten with any kind of authority, they're bad people, it's no skin off their back, and no one else has to know. I only make the assets and offer them to an appreciative community. I don't have time to get into an online war with a corrupt admin in which the other side has all the power and authority. I make pretty maps, I share pretty maps, I play pretty maps. Very simple. It's hard to come by e-mail addresses of anyone who has anything at all to do with wmdb--even CyberShadow's profile on there says to consult FFie, which of course is a great help--despite how great and popular Worms is and Hosting Buddy is. It's not like I can e-mail Team17 support and say, 'Hey! This third-party person sucks!' (FFie or whoever deletes maps, not CyberShadow of course, he's always been not only super-helpful but indispensable on both the technical and support sides of things, he practically is Worms Armageddon as we know it) Let me know if there's anything I can do to help get my maps out there, more so for their beauty than the time I spent on them (I think I spent more time typing this long@$$ e-mail), because so far my best idea is to use a macro software I use for hosting to get the word out in-game with a direct link to the above zip file. Not a bad way to go especially as I get used to it, but I wish Hosting Buddy's map-selecting feature could receive the love and attention it deserves by not being subject to the twisted whim of any one individual. I'm a good person, I have a good heart, but I know very well that doesn't mean everyone else shares the same sentiments. That's why there's a heaven and a hell. We make our choices, and we're judged at the end.
P.S. I also remember e-mailing probably FFie but may have been others as well, a long time ago, about possibly involving a Speech bank area on wmdb for the uploading and downloading of Speech banks. I created several sometimes almost professional-quality Speech banks I use myself, scripted and recorded just for the game, some voice-acted by myself, some by amateur (but great) voice-actresses I found online in the past, but have never had a great way of sharing the Speech banks. WMDB doesn't seem very well-kept, such as also including a home page that hasn't been updated since 2012. W:A is an amazing game worthy of its popularity and even then is severely underrated, but it doesn't know freedom.