User talk:BoxDroppingManApe

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Thanks for making this wiki!
I plan to do a ton more on here, shit is fun. Can't thank you enough for going in and editing the formatting of the episode I was working on yesterday, it looks at least 1000% better. The editor changed to source-only halfway through, making it much harder to edit. And as a web designer the formatting was KILLING ME SLOWLY AAHHHH D:

Guess I should watch one of those "how do i wikia" videos after all.

Princesstelephone (talk) 04:54, December 3, 2015 (UTC)princesstelephone

No problem!
I should be thanking you, the amount of work you put into that article was incredible. Yeah, it's a bit of a fun hobby, and I keep getting surprised by how much old html and CSS is coming back to me as I work on it. There seems to be plenty of nuance to wiki-text, though the editors are slowly driving me mad.

Thanks again for your work on the Taco Nexus and on all the unintelligibles. I hope to see more from you in the future! :)

Edit: Oh, and feel free to make any design suggestions that you have about the overall format and presentation of the wiki. I'm not 100% happy with it, so I imagine there's room for improvement somewhere.

--BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 06:53, December 3, 2015 (UTC)

Spotlight Request
Hello. My Brother, My Brother, and Me Wiki looks good and just needs a little bit of work on its main page, to add some links to the important content (eg. episodes, topics, etc), if possible with images, in order to be eligible for a spotlight. Let me know on my wall when you've had a chance to add those! -- Wendy (talk ) 04:28, January 28, 2016 (UTC)

A request for further communication
Hey man! I know I'm quite new to the wiki, but I've been trying to prove my commitment over the past few days through substantial edits. I'd like to be up front with you here. The current state of the wiki is, for the most part, great. However, at the same time, it's lacking. The work that's been done by so many people over the years shines bright, but currently I don't see those people here anymore. I'd like to do something about that, if it's not too presumptuous of me, and the way I'd like to start is by getting in touch with you over Discord. I apologize for wanting to move the discussion off of the wiki, but this type of message board communication is simply too slow to be as productive as I'd like to be. Just reply to this message when you see it and tell me if you'd be willing to talk over Discord, and we'll figure out the rest from there. Thanks in advance for humoring me! DoomZero (talk) 18:54, August 23, 2017 (UTC)

Hey. Thank you for the work you have done so far, and I'm interested in hearing any ideas or suggestions that you have. I definitely hear you about it being lacking - I'm proud of my work in standardizing the whole thing and catching up the episode outlines, but actually adding content is a weakness of mine, and keeping dedicated editors around has been a long-standing struggle of mine. I'm willing to hear you out on any given discord. I'm still a part of the discord that User:NamiRocket was promoting a while back, I think, but anything else is fine. I'm online and able to chat less frequently than is ideal, but I can give it a go. BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 23:49, August 23, 2017 (UTC)

Great! I think the discord server that I ended up on is a different one, so I'll give you the invite link just to be safe: https://discord.gg/g2hkyRb When you get there, ping me if I don't notice you join. DoomZero (talk) 01:06, August 24, 2017 (UTC)

Podpedia
I run a podcast wiki network called Podpedia. I am currently looking for more wikis to join my network, and I was wondering if you would be interested in creating a wiki for the My Brother, My Brother, and Me podcast on Podpedia. I can help you set up your wiki and answer any questions you may have. If you are interested in creating a wiki on Podpedia, let me know here or on Podpedia at podpedia.org. CoolieCoolster (talk) 19:58, May 2, 2018 (UTC)

I find the idea of having a single website hosting a bunch of podcast wikis to be pretty appealing. I don't have enough time to devote to this wiki right here, let alone another one, but if you want to port episode articles over, you have my blessing. BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 22:36, May 3, 2018 (UTC)

Caretaking That Ladder
Hey! I've recently taken to caretaking That Ladder, if it hasn't been updated by the time I get around to it anyway.

Because I'm neurotic and into numbers I'll check myself by making sure the end of year totals add up to the ladder total. I noticed Rachel Rosing's end of year totals only added up to 71 though she's credited with 73 so I went back through the episodes to count (See: neurotic). Not only did I not find a year where she her count was two too low (by my count the 2017, 2016, and 2014 totals are all correct), I counted 28 in 2015 rather than 33. Which would mean she should be at 66 total, not 73. I have not double checked this yet, but this would be a rather substantial change (I've personally always liked the symmetry of Zoe and Rachel being tied for 2nd) so I wanted to run it by someone. Is it possible the total could be off this much? I figured you would know, or have thoughts.

Cheers,

Adrian

Ahcowles (talk) 22:45, June 14, 2018 (UTC)

Great Job
Yikes! I'm shocked to hear that. I wouldn't have been surprised if I was off by 2, but 7 seems oddly large. I just went through twitter and didn't seen any corrections from Rachel that would account for that. I'm actually heading out the door to go to a live show now, some thoughts as to what could possibly account for that: did you check the footnotes, where I might have put a post-episode claim of credit, and did you check the maxfundrive episodes? Thanks for the work you're doing. --BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 23:01, June 14, 2018 (UTC)

I went through the special episodes and found 4. I'm going to go back through everything again today because I have some time and check footnotes. Will report back with updates, haha.

Ahcowles (talk) 13:48, June 15, 2018 (UTC)

Found 2 more at Episode 261: Island Boy Begins in the footnotes --BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 15:56, June 18, 2018 (UTC)

Oh wow I just went through everything today but I missed that. Well with those two tacked on, along with the 4 in the special episodes I found, all the yearly totals check out. So by that metric the total should be 71 instead of 73.

Should it be changed to that do you think?

Also separate issue but do you think Caleb/Kayla Blair should be counted for 2? They had the one final yahoo that got redacted. I only listed one but I felt weird about it.

Ahcowles (talk) 01:00, June 21, 2018 (UTC)

Ah okay, yeah it should be 71 then.

Not sure which episode you're talking about, but yeah I always try to give credit to everyone who sent it in, if the brothers mention it. --BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 17:13, June 21, 2018 (UTC)

Suggested changes to Template:PodcastInfobox
Can you read over my suggested changes to this template? It felt like the sort of change that I should submit for review first.

Stuffinmud (talk) 20:47, January 20, 2020 (UTC)

Sounds good to me
You have my blessing. I hope it works. --BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 00:36, January 21, 2020 (UTC)

Keysmaash
I hear what you're saying, and I'll follow your lead. My thinking was that the edits to Travis/Vore on Feb 14-15 were not obviously vandalism, because they could be quotes/references that I just don't remember, but I can't really give them any benefit of the doubt for the edit to Travis on Feb 19, and their edits on other wikis don't exactly inspire confidence (they were blocked on the Diablo wiki). Like you said though, most of it is pretty benign, and I was probably being too aggressive. - Stuffinmud (talk) 20:06, February 21, 2020 (UTC)

I'd suggest that you ban this IP: Special:Contributions/72.130.237.43

Stuffinmud (talk) 20:40, August 28, 2020 (UTC)

Good catch, thanks.

--BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 19:12, August 29, 2020 (UTC)

Community-to-do-list
One thing you might do with the community-to-do-list is just link these categories/pages: - Stuffinmud (talk) 05:21, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
 * Category:Article stubs
 * Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Underconstruction
 * Category:Unintelligible
 * Special:ShortPages
 * Special:LonelyPages

Good Idea
Thanks. --BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 22:27, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Tangent about multiple podcasts
[Continued from Talk:Episodes ]

But that question about commentary tracks kind of tangentially touches on something I've been wondering about for a while now. At one point I had ambitions for this wiki to focus on more than just the MBMBaM podcast, and serve as a wiki on the rest of the brothers podcasts and other works. Judging by your own todo list, I can see that's something that possibly interests you too. There were a few things that dissuaded me from doing that, in no particular order:
 * The episode list. If this wiki was tracking the episodes for multiple podcasts, would the episodes all end up on the same page? Would they all be subpages? It's kind of a trivial question in retrospect, but the episode page is one of the highest trafficked and most edited pages on the wiki. I've been hesitant to move things off of it for that reason.
 * User:Theshehulkproject kicked ass on the adventure zone wiki. She really fixed that thing up, and now the damn thing is usually more active than this wiki (and I mean that with only respect and the slightest bit of professional jealousy). But with another active wiki for another McElroy podcast, it felt weirder trying to make this wiki into some sort of McElroy family hub that would have to exclude The Adventure Zone from its articles.
 * The amount of effort required at the time to keep up with MBMBaM's own episode outlines, along with an ambition to do full transcripts, made me question whether it would even be viable to keep up with multiple podcasts. Now that Max Fun is making official transcripts, it's become a bit more reasonable.
 * The question of how to best layout the information of a different podcast. The current episode template is the result of a bunch of iterations from before I even started. I don't have a solid idea of what outlines for other McElroy podcasts would look like, and you can see that with how I kind of struggled to outline max fun donor episodes.
 * Theming. Right now the wiki is themed around MBMBaM's old galaxy podcast thumbnail (something I've been considering changing, but that's a tangent of a tangent). In my mind, ideally a resource for the other podcasts would have its own theming, and I'm not sure what that would look like.

libsyn/simplecast
I don't think I've used simplecast links for anything before they switched off of libsyn last year. If I did, it was unintentional. I do prefer the shorter libsyn URLs.


 * Ah okay, I didn't realize that they straight up don't update it anymore. -- BoxDroppingManApe (talk) 18:54, 21 January 2021 (UTC)