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| Topic Started: Nov 23 2009, 06:58 PM (261 Views) | |
| Nicolas King | Nov 23 2009, 06:58 PM Post #1 |
"Down with the bloody red queen!"
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The Weekly Update OOC Superlatives: Voting Voting has officially opened for the OOC Superlatives! Make sure your nominations carry through to award-winners and vote now! Details are included in this topic. OOC Superlatives: Userbar Competition Every person who wins an OOC Superlative wants to brag about it, obviously, and we'd like to help make that a lot easier. So MESSI is holding a Graphics Competition for an OOC Superlatives userbar. In every category, the base you create and the site votes on will be used to list the category and the winner, then it can be shoved in the winner's signature for everybody to see!  HNZ Site Staff: Official Blog After a series of events, Livvy and I decided to make a site blog. We all have individual ZetaBoards blogs, but there are certain drawbacks to them - so we felt a site blog, where all site staff can rant about HNZ, life, and everything in between (though we should all know by now that HNZ = life  ) would be a better alternative to things.  The blog has been created here and may be linked to in several areas of the board shortly. There are a few blog posts by myself and Livvy to start (we hope Linda and Abby will get on board as soon as they can). More information on the blog can be read here and we hope you enjoy!  Note About Creating HNZ-Based Sites This is an area I didn't think would be necessary to touch on, but over the past month it has become evident that it is in fact quite necessary to discuss this. HNZ is unique, and it's run as such. Everybody who contributes to this site has the rights to their work, but grants the admin/mods of HNZ certain rights to go with them. For instance, our theme was made by Athene Perthro, our default avatar/HNZ Crest by Kagyou Wu, our team icons by Lemina Troque and our custom emoticons by Tony Alraur. That's just the visible things. There have been so many intellectual contributions to the board it's impossible to list them all. As such, it seems kind of off-colour to start a website based on all these things, and even perhaps using some of them, without talking to site administrators and getting proper permission first. We do appreciate the dedication to this board, but things are likely better if they're run by site staff or those deemed appropriate by the site staff. Closing Holiday Forums! Students will have until tomorrow (anywhere from 4:00PM to 6:00PM EST) to finish up all roleplays in the Wizarding World forums. At that time, those forums will once again disappear. Make sure your characters say adieu to their loved ones and return safely to Hogwarts.  (Y8) Semester 2 Semester 2 of Year 8 started today - that means classes are opening again, and your student character(s) should be posting in lessons! That also means quite a few things are coming up including:
New Zealand's Ministry of Magic: Big Plans I'm shifting my own focus on HNZ, with the school section stable and growing, to the Ministry of Magic where time and time again we receive complaints of relative inactivity. My first step to soothing these worries? Hiring more Aurors. Death Eaters on HNZ have always been strong, but even they have had a lull in plots as of late, and much of this is likely due to the lack of an Auror presence on the site. As such, Aurors have their own usergroup, team icon, colour, and planning forum. Everything a group needs to prosper on HNZ. Now we just need to fill up the group! So make sure to have your character apply via this form.Once Aurors are all lined up I hope to have some larger plots going on where everybody can have a bit of excitement in their daily recommended dose of HNZ. Daily Prophet TheDaily Prophet, Issue 2 is out now in newsstands near you. Pick up your own copy today! Plot Highlights Once more, we encourage submissions to this section of the update. If you feel your plot is worth a read, or somebody else's is, just send Livvy (Cecily Zhefarovich) a link and a general synopsis. Now, your highlights for the past little bit:
(Thanks to Livvy for making this list )With that, the update is done. We have a lot more upcoming, and most of it was alluded to in this update. But just in case you only skimmed the update, or only like to read the ending bit, here are some things to look forward to:
Until next update, ~Nick (On behalf of the HNZ Site Staff) |
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| Vaughn Kristof | Nov 24 2009, 01:35 PM Post #2 |
Cousin of one, son of another.
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Un-finished sentence? Please explain this in more detail. I have no idea what you mean.  Blast. To make a new character or to not make a new character . . . But, boo on the deaths. 
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| Nicolas King | Nov 24 2009, 04:10 PM Post #3 |
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"Down with the bloody red queen!"
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Some members were using HNZ site content and ideas for other websites as well as using HNZ's name to draw in members from this board to join their new website about whatever, based off of HNZ. |
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| Sophora Knox | Nov 24 2009, 04:17 PM Post #4 |
Singer of Othila
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It all sounds so exciting. It's times like these I'm glad to be a member of HNZ.
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| Andromeda Fiorelli | Nov 24 2009, 07:35 PM Post #5 |
Werewolf In Love || Gryffindor Captain
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Nick nice work on the WU I appreciate the effort put in sans pinkness and all  ok so a tiny bit was used to highlight but not much phew  |
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| Nicolas King | Nov 29 2009, 11:12 PM Post #6 |
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"Down with the bloody red queen!"
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Archived This topic can no longer be considered 'news' but should rather be called 'olds'. It has thusly been archived. If you have any questions or concerns involving this [former] news, please contact an administrator and keep looking for newer 'news' in the News and Updates forum. Thank you, ~The HNZ Site Staff |
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