Mafiascum Quicktopic Archival / Indexing Project
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borkjerfkin He/HimXenophileHe/Him
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- Joined: April 3, 2012
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- Location: Madison, WI
Mafiascum Quicktopic Archival / Indexing Project
Hello!
Discussion in the Quicktopic Shutting Down thread has led to a community driven effort to archive the vast majority of QTs used in MS games over the years, and as a result, we now have a searchable visualization of the data from those topics, sourced from combing public MS posts and other opt-in contributions from individual users.
Shoutout to Cabd, who primarily engineered and supported this effort, but a huge thanks goes out to everyone who contributed ideas / testing / feedback to the process as well.
Please watch this space for instructions on how to access the archive.beefycheese-
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Cabd QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
- Joined: February 3, 2013
And that's my cue!
This project contains a preserved copy of every post in any Quick Topic that was in a public-facing area of the site. Feel free to bookmark this URL. As content is updated or tags are added, the underlying link remains the same.
If you have feedback about any of the content tagging, or have additional quick topics that you feel should be preserved, please reach out here or via the MafiaScum discord server, tagging me appropriately. If you have a batch of Quicktopics not present in this data set, please submit them to me as a .csv file, one url per line, as quickly as possible; as the site's shutdown is imminent.
Many thanks to my beta testers and fellow scummers that worked to help preserve and tag this content.
Quicktopic Preservation Link: https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoi ... IsImMiOjN9ShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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Cabd QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
- Joined: February 3, 2013
Changelog:
Version 1.0 - 11/29/2021
-General Public Release
-Added Year Slicer to Content Search
-Added additional context to landing page
Version 1.1 - 12/1/2021
-Added an additional search page to help with finding QTs with irregular names
Version 1.2 - 12/8/2021
-Added additional QTs to the database provided by N, as well as some of my own that didn't make it in
-Added a function to auto-remove duplicate lines in case a player submits a QT already presentLast edited by Cabd on Wed Dec 08, 2021 3:24 pm, edited 2 times in total.ShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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zoraster He/HimDisorganized CrimeHe/Him
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- Posts: 21680
- Joined: June 10, 2008
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- Location: Belmont, CA
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Ythan SheWelcome to the HaystackShe
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Posts: 15149
- Joined: August 11, 2009
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Kilgamayan Goon
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the worst Snuggly Duckling
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This is so cool. Thank you.-
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RH9 he/himMafia Scumhe/him
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- Posts: 2907
- Joined: November 15, 2019
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- Location: Epping, New South Wales, Australia
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Ythan SheWelcome to the HaystackShe
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- Posts: 15149
- Joined: August 11, 2009
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SirCakez he/himIs A Liehe/him
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- Posts: 27869
- Joined: June 18, 2015
- Pronoun: he/him
amazing work! this is so importantBrian Skies - "I just wanna say Cakez is an evil mod and this is an evil setup."
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Kilgamayan Goon
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- Posts: 386
- Joined: September 22, 2010
- Location: Location, Location
This is because of how the filter works. It searches for the text string "lame", and if it finds that text string in a post, that post gets flagged as potentially ableist, regardless of what the surrounding characters are. Posts with "flame" in them, for example, would also get flagged for the same reason.
There are likely a decent number of false positives overall - one of the text strings covered by Drugs and Alcohol is "high" - but false positives are preferable to letting negatives slip through. This is also one of the reasons why the qualifier "Potentially" is at the top of the list of trigger categories.-
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Cabd QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
- Joined: February 3, 2013
I could have it search for a whitespace character at the start as in instead of "lame" I could search " lame " but it still will have some false positivesShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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Ythan SheWelcome to the HaystackShe
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Posts: 15149
- Joined: August 11, 2009
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Cabd QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
- Joined: February 3, 2013
It's over 300,000 records, dude.
There's hobbyist work, and then there's spending an entire 40 hour workweek on shit most people are gonna look at once or twice as a novelty then forget about.ShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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Ythan SheWelcome to the HaystackShe
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Welcome to the Haystack
- Posts: 15149
- Joined: August 11, 2009
- Pronoun: She
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GeorgeBailey He/HimGeorgeBaileyHe/Him
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- Posts: 3431
- Joined: September 23, 2019
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SirCakez he/himIs A Liehe/him
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- Is A Lie
- Posts: 27869
- Joined: June 18, 2015
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I used to use quicktopics all the time on my original forum mafia site (which doesn't even run forum mafia anymore ;_;)
what a throwbackBrian Skies - "I just wanna say Cakez is an evil mod and this is an evil setup."
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Kilgamayan Goon
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- Posts: 386
- Joined: September 22, 2010
- Location: Location, Location
Same! I have lots of Mafia QTs from 2009 to 2013, then one in 2015, then a couple in 2020. I'll be sad to see it go.In post 16, SirCakez wrote:I used to use quicktopics all the time on my original forum mafia site (which doesn't even run forum mafia anymore ;_;)
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xofelf they/them(also ze/zem or xe/xem)Miss Mashthey/them(also ze/zem or xe/xem)
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- Posts: 1766
- Joined: May 6, 2008
- Pronoun: they/them(also ze/zem or xe/xem)
- Location: Herkimer, New York
They were really helpful back when we didn't have PTs at all.Xalxe: this is xofelf sometimes we call each other names and other times we share emotions
MattyP: Ur an enigma tho when it comes to circadian rhythm and the traditions we hold dear when it comes to the sun and the moon
Get to reknow a xofelf here
Discord is faster than PMs or sitechat: xofelf#1697-
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fferyllt Titan of Trajectory
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- Joined: December 28, 2012
- Location: Left Coast
From the change log:
We tried some test cases today that would mimic how people reading old games might want to access the related QuickTopics.
In general, what we find in game threads are just QuickTopic URLS. Whatever title the Mods gave their QuickTopics usually weren't written out in the game thread. The QuickTopic title in the archive may or may not contain part of the game title itself. And players may not have used their mafiascum user names in the QuickTopic. So thePage 2scroll list of QuickTopic titles or thePage 3user name search may or may not help you find the QuickTopics that belong to the specific games you're researching.
Cabd created a fourth page for the app to make it easier to find QuickTopics with the minimal information you might have from a specific game. The page has four new search boxes that can help you find the QuickTopic in the haystack: URL search, Topic Name search, User Name Search, and Post Text search. You can use all, some, or one of these search boxes to find QuickTopic titles that might be what you are looking for.
You can usePage 4to narrow down the Quicktopic name(s) you're looking for, and then usePage 2to scroll through the alphabetical list of topic titles and click the relevant titles to filter down to just the posts that go with the QuickTopic(s) you want to read.-
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skitter30 she/herLast Laughshe/her
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Wow this is amazing! Thank you for archiving this!ShowHiatus once more.
'skitter is fucking terrifying' ~ town-bork about scum-me
'Skitter [was] terrifying to play against ngl' ~ scum-bork about town-me
'Going into lylo against scum!skit unprepared is like having someone force feed you dull razor blades. It's painful, and once it starts, you're pretty much dead' ~ NMSA
'Skitter you're a spirit animal's spirit animal' ~ slaxx-
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N Jack of All Trades
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Cabd QT Sniper
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- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
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Unfortunately not. You can check the list of QTs we already have though and rule sending those out using the searching tools on pages three and four.In post 21, N wrote:is there a quick way to grab all the topics I have links to? I logged into qt and was going to right-click/copy-link but there's way more than I expectedShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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N Jack of All Trades
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I found an extension that seems to do the job, if anyone else is interested
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... dg/related-
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Cabd QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- QT Sniper
- Posts: 15501
- Joined: February 3, 2013
Just as a general FYI tomorrow is the last day to get quick topic links to me cuz the site is shutting down on the 11th first thing and I'm probably going to be out and away from the desk most of the 10th.ShowHave retired for good; Life is too busy to have time or energy for mafia. It was fun~
And then, a Miracle, a Dance Game and a flight of fancy struck, one more game into the abyss
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