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Arcade Friend/Platform Database?

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:05 am

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I'm thinking about creating a database (probably just a Google doc) for people's information across various gaming platforms (League, Battle.NET, Sony, Xbox, Nintendo ID, etc., etc.). There have been some threads (Steam ID thread for example) for specific platforms across the years, but some of them have faded into the abyss of the forums, some aren't kept current, and it can be a pain to try to track down information on an individual basis. I want to do it right so I'm soliciting feedback first.

1) Assuming you plan on participating, would you rather have such a resource listed here in the Arcade (a public forum), or in GTKAS (protected from viewing from bots/non-registered people)?
2) What information would you like to share? Platform IDs only? Games? Day/Time availability? Something else?
3) Should I allow for public editing? (Note: I would probably only even *consider* this if the database/link were kept hidden in GTKAS)
4) How would you like it hosted or presented?
5) Any other thoughts, or comments?


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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Tue Nov 22, 2016 4:36 am

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Probably just username/handles
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Wed Nov 23, 2016 9:13 am

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In post 1, xRECKONERx wrote:Probably just username/handles
This.

Having it be behind the GTKAS wall would be better, probably.
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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Wed Nov 23, 2016 4:53 pm

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In post 0, Glork wrote:1) Assuming you plan on participating, would you rather have such a resource listed here in the Arcade (a public forum), or in GTKAS (protected from viewing from bots/non-registered people)?
2) What information would you like to share? Platform IDs only? Games? Day/Time availability? Something else?
3) Should I allow for public editing? (Note: I would probably only even *consider* this if the database/link were kept hidden in GTKAS)
Put it here in the arcade.

Platform ids. I'm p sure that on both X-Box and steam you can see what games they have so we don't really need that.

I trust everyone to be mature and not edit in bullshit data to troll/be a dick but without public editing the mods/you would have to update as things go along which I'm sure you guys are plenty capable of so either or for me.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sat Nov 26, 2016 5:04 am

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Eh, Scum of the Earth (scummers location thread) got trolled eventually so I am cautioned against the possibility of letting anyone edit at will. I don't have any problem updating the document regularly so at this point I'm somewhat inclined to keep it read-only.

Alternatively, I could make it public for like a month (or X amount of time) and then close it down so that only I can update it over the long term.


I was thinking just MS username and columns for various platform handles would be sufficient, but I just threw out the idea of other things in case it held anyone's interest.
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Mon Nov 28, 2016 5:20 am

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Make a Google Form feed into an Excel Spreadsheet. Make the spreadsheet view-only. Then you can just delete any troll submissions?
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Tue Nov 29, 2016 9:44 am

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ur smart
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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sat Apr 22, 2017 8:02 am

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*bump

Did this ever happen, because I was literally about to make this a thread and then went "wait, that's too smart, someone else must have already done this."
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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:12 pm

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It every really got off the ground, due to a general lack of interest/response.
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Apr 23, 2017 7:01 pm

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UhhhhHHHHHhhh do it anyway

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