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Contents 1 Anonymous editing 2 New-user creation 3 Videlectrix stubs 4 Slow=Update? 5 Too Long 6 Purge the WHAT? 7 Paul Slocum Picture

Anonymous editing

Hey, everyone. We're finally back with this edit by Tom. Also congratulations to 64.12.116.195 who made the first annonymous edit. — Lapper (talk) 05:03, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Wait, it's over? o_o I blinked and I missed it. --DorianGray

...is Totally awesome! Um one thing: the user login/account creation page only has the following fields available for new users: retype password and the image code. There is no field for putting in one's email addy, what happened to that? Also, the text below still mentions the email addy option (in case you were planning on eliminating that feature for future funny users. (I had to alliterate. I love lengthy alliteration. --Stux 06:33, 29 December 2005 (UTC)))

We still plan to reenable that. The code isn't ready for it yet, but it is ready for anonymous editing and new-user creation, so we went ahead and implemented what we have so far. — It's dot com 06:41, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Fanstuff's still locked up tight, though? --DorianGray

No, Fanstuff is back open. — It's dot com 06:45, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Then shouldn't you take down, or at least alter, the MediaWiki Site Notice at the top... You took it off here... --DorianGray

Do a hard refresh and see if that fixes it. — It's dot com 06:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

It still won't come off the main page, although it is off all the others. (However, it's not like I visit the Fanstuff frequently... Maybe once every 6 weeks, unless something major goes on. Don't even have an account.) --DorianGray

Makes sense... sweet! Good to have this running! Thanks! --Stux 06:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

SWEET LADY FREEDOM, LET'S MAKE OUT!!!! Well I'm glad the wiki's finally getting back to it's old self. Patrolling edits, battling trolls, greeting new users, I missed all of that... ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:54, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I think the above user is the best ever. 142.179.33.98 06:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

There have been a few trolls... Check the history of my user page for one of 'em. --DorianGray

Well thanks annony, that means alot to me. ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 06:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

No problem. I also think Dot Com should get you a danish. 142.179.33.98 06:57, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

o_O ... By the way, TBird anonny, notice the capitalization of the short form of my name: it's Dot com 07:00, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Heh heh, my bad I mean... annony's bad. ;) ⇔Thunderbird⇔ 07:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Hey! Neat! (but still, this makes us more suseptible to troll attacks.)-- Benol, aka Coach B 12:38, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I say: Bring it on! ):D — Elcool ^(talk)_(contribs) 13:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

THis is great. Anonnys can finally be back. To bad it will take a while to get the word out. And about the trolls, I don't mind. I am itching for a troll to fight! ! Rogue Leader / (my talk) 14:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and now wer have a super cool word-in-a-picture security device. That's just what we need. — Lapper (talk) 16:11, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Yay! We had our first troll (to my knowledge). http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php?title=Special:Recentchanges&limit=500&hideliu=1.

New-user creation

There's a glitch in the Captcha system that is not letting anonymous users create accounts. We are aware of the problem and are working to correct it. — It's dot com 19:59, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Update: I think I fixed it. — It's dot com 09:46, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Looks like it's fixed. I've been waiting for new user registration to come back so I could finally create an account here. Long Time Wiki Reader, First Time Wiki Poster. Or somesuch. Forgive me if I'm not very good at this. I've never actually used a Wiki... (Well, I've used a simplistic one elsewhere, but... I dunno if the interface is the same). I don't even know how to properly give a "signature" or whatever. Ah well. I'll learn. =P -YK 23:49, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Oo! An L.T.W.R., F.T.W.P.! Seriously, the learning's half the fun. I'm going to head over to your talk page to explain the question about signatures. —AbdiViklas 23:13, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Videlectrix stubs

As many know, most of the Videlectrix games are currently not available for play. However, we have articles on their respective subjects, only with the most minimal of information. Then each article has been tagged as a {{stub}}. After sitting in Category:Stubs for a considerable amount of time, it has become clear that there may never be any more information available on the subjects. Even if there will be, there isn't right now. I nominate that the stub tags from each of the articles be removed for the reason that they are complete at the moment. The following is a short conversation on the subject:

• <Lapper> BazookaJoe`, what do you think?
• <Lapper> We say the Videlectrix articles are uncompletable.
• <Lapper> There's no info left to add.
• <Lapper> But they stay in the stub category like they should be completed
• <Elcool> some stubs that should be destubbed:
• <Elcool> Cheat Commandos Playsets
• <BazookaJoe`> I think they became stub articles on the pretext that there might someday be more info on them
• <Elcool> Atari Strong Bad
• <BazookaJoe`> but, yeah. if there's nothing else to add, it shouldn't be a stub
• <Lapper> BazookaJoe`: Yet, there isn't right now, so why leave them as stubs?
• <BazookaJoe`> i don't see a reason

I've decided to be bold and remove the stub tags. If anyone objects, they should do so. — Lapper (talk) 19:19, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Additionally, there are quite a few other stubs that are technically complete, some of which have been de-tagged by E. L. Cool — Lapper (talk) 19:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree, if there's no more information to put on the article then they don't need to be stubs. It's been discussed before, I just don't remember where (but it had to do with small articles too, and wikipedia not being paper). --Stux 15:15, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree as well; everything should be relative, and like you said, they ARE complete. -24.15.49.150 15:28, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Slow=Update?

Is anybody else having H*R.com come up really slow? It's kinda on and off. Sometimes it's fine, and others it's not. Could this be 'cause of the long wanted update? Or is it just me? -AtionSong 22:11, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

It doesn't come up at all for me. It's definitely not just you. I think you're on to something, AtionSong. --DorianGray

It is all at normal speed for me. They might be updating, I hope they are updating, but don't get your hopes up. Rogue Leader / (my talk) 22:15, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

It was really slow before and their was no update. Maybe it's different now...or not.-- Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 23:09, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

Boy. I wish I had job where I could skip out without telling anybody for a month.

Mabye they gave up. Mabye they are tired of Homestar. Mabye they threw a WILD New Years Eve Party. But I just want Homestar back!-- Benol, aka Coach B 15:56, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Run "Matt Chapman Atlanta GA" or "Melissa Palmer Atlanta GA" through Google. Their phone numbers are prominently displayed, feel free to call them and ask where the update is. XD

Yeah, that'd be great.

ME: Hello? Is this Matt Chapman?

MATT: Yes. Who is this?

ME: Oh, you don't know me. I'm a fan and I found out your phone number through an online search. So, I was wondering why there hasn't been a...

{click}

ME: Hello? {pause} Hello?

Yeah, that's work out great. -AtionSong 17:17, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

You really called him?-- Benol, aka Coach B 17:19, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

No. I should probably indent it so people know it goes with my other comment. I'm saying that it's unlikely that Matt or Missy would talk to a fan that just found their number. Also "XD", I think that that's a pretty big invasion on their privacy and it is very rude. -AtionSong 17:25, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

They weren't saying XD is their name, XD is a smiley, that looks like a laughing guy-- Benol, aka Coach B 17:26, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

and Matt's # is (XXX) XXX-XXXX, and Missy's is (XXX) XXX-XXXX.-- Benol, aka Coach B 17:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm sorry but even if the numbers are available through google I think we should still respect their privacy and not post people's phone numbers in this wiki. --Stux 17:44, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Here's a thought- what if the update is the final Stinkoman 20X6 level, but it was so massivce they had to take it down, or there was a problem or something. -AtionSong 20:07, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

It seems pretty unlikely that a SM 20X6 level would make the entire site unaccesable. --VolatileChemical 20:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I couldn't get to it yesterday, but it's fine today. Maybe they took it down so no one could find a loophole to get to Level 10 before it's released (how about "Not the 100th Email!!!"). ♥ _tee^eff_oh! 20:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

It could be like insanely huge, like in 3-D or something. I dunno. It's just that it's been 3 months without an update, so maybe they were saving the last level for an important occasion. -AtionSong 20:34, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

You guys are kidding yourselves. "TBC have gone 24 days without an update. They don't have anything predicably planned, and they haven't released anything even close to being a message as to what's holding them up. They must be planning something ultra-huge that's gonna be so cool with Stinkoman and Trogdor and Fqhgwgahds! It's gonna be the kwelist thing EVAH!" The way I see it, nothing huge is coming at all. It's just something that no one's willing to talk about, or have any medium of saying. Something personal that's holding them up. They have nothing big planned, they'd tell someone then. This, my strange little internet friends, is something hidden, something secret, something that could see the end of Homestar Runner as we know it. --VolatileChemical 23:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

We all know that. The same thing is running through everyone's head, we just don't want to admit it. We could be getting our hopes up, yes, but do we really want to talk about the end of Homestar Runner? No. We're just not ready to face the concept yet. As a garage band once sang, "Homestar Runner, I don't know what I'd do without you". --Kiwi 24:45, 1 January 2006

Let's just stop speculating and see what happens. TBC deserve a break just like the rest of us, for whatever reasons they may have. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 01:54, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I don't know about you, but my boss lets me take month-long breaks all the time. These guys are JUST like me.

Okay, this is the kind of comment that really cheeses me off. TBC do this site mainly for their own amusement and to please their fans. Aside from selling products in their store, they don't charge you to use the site - it's free for everyone to enjoy. Therefore, they are not obligated to update the site on any schedule but their own. If they choose to take a month's vacation and not tell anyone, that's perfectly within their right - it's their site, and regardless of how you and I feel about it, they can do whatever they want with it. —  KieferSkunk (talk) — 03:22, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Feels good to be out again {pant pant} .The thing that so weird is that if they knew that they were going to be gone for 4 weeks, they would have made a cartoon, and just had their dad or somebody put it up. This leads me to believe one of three things:

a) There was some unexpected reason that they're not updating the site, which is probably personal, and we should respect their privacy and stop harrassing them.

b) There isn't going to be a holiday update this year, so we should stop waiting for it and relax.

c) There is some huge update they are trying to put up, and we just need to wait for it.

Any way, I think we should just stop contemplating and rehashing the same ideas over and over again and just accept what is and wait for the next update to the site. -AtionSong 02:44, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

If there is one. --VolChem 03:49, 2006

Too Long

Homestar's description on the main page is a bit too long, I think. It makes the main page... unnaturally tall. - Joshua 03:08, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Yeah i kinda see what you mean. Personally, all I can really say is... Oh well. The intro was nevertheless a good read and Homestar's a tall guy anyway :). --Stux 04:26, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

A tall guy? Strong Bad's shown to be about four feet tall in SBIIJC, and his and Homestar's heights are just about the same in PP. So...three feet? Not very tall. --VolatileChemical 06:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

He's tall in comparison to most of the characters. --DorianGray

Also, Homestar and Strong Bad stand right next to each other in The System is Down and Homestar is way taller. -24.15.49.150

But that's not the point. Homestar is the main character on the site, and so there's a lot about him. -24.15.49.150

Purge the WHAT?

Okay, this may sound stupid, but what does that blue thing at the top of this page that says "Purge the Cache" actually do? I clicked on it a couple of times, but nothing happened. Can someone please tell me? — Has Matt? (talk) 15:31, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

The cache is a stored version of the page that is created so the Main Page does not need to regenerate itself from code every time a user requests it. The problem is sometimes the cache is out of date with changes to the page, especially when underlying templates are changed (try changing your sig template sometime, it takes a few minutes for the changes to appear everywhere on the wiki). Purge the cache removes the cached version of the page and regenerates the page from code. At least, this is what I assume it is for ;) Homestar Coder 15:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Okay, thanks for telling me! — Has Matt? (talk) 15:42, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Paul Slocum Picture

Taken from Talk:Paul Slocum

I found a couple of pictures of Paul and would like some help. If possible, could one of the sysops email the site owner.
Here are the Images:

• [1]
• [2]
• [3]
• [4]
• [5]
• [6]

Or it you like you could email Paul himself about this picture, but it's not very good.
-- Bkmlb(talk to me·stuff I did) 20:16, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Whoa! Is [mailto] spambot-proof? If not (and I'd suspect not, since it's the @ symbol they're looking for), then unless Paul used it unprotected first, let's not do so. That's the number one easiest way to sign on for a dumptruckload of spam. I was about to convert the @ and dot to unicode, which is a pretty effective prevention in html, but it seems to not work with wikicode. —AbdiViklas 19:50, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Ha! After some research, turns out Hexadecimal works! If this revision doesn't work for anybody, or if it's actually unnecessary, please pipe up. (If it works and is necessary—i.e. wiki pages can be read by spambots—can we consider making this a standard?) —AbdiViklas 20:11, 2 January 2006 (UTC)