Whoop whoop, looking forward to it :D

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Looks great Voleron! Can't wait to read some of the submissions.

Can't wait to read your #WritingContest entry :p

Looks great Voleron! Can't wait to read some of the submissions.

Stonewall Gaming Network is excited to announce another Character #WritingContest, running now, through December 5th, 2016, and we're extra excited to be giving away some unique and amazing prizes for the participants and the winner of this event!  

This contest is open to all members of the Stonewall community, regardless of which game you play!  We know that your in-game characters are a unique representation of part of your personality that you may not normally have the opportunity to share.  That's why we've decided to offer you this opportunity to share the story of any one of your characters in any game that you may play, whether it be Star Trek Online, Guild Wars 2, SWTOR, or another game entirely!  Share your creativity with us!  We're excited to read all about your character's latest or most epic adventure!  Share your creativity with us here, in this thread, for your chance to win prizes!




To participate in Stonewall's character writing contest, you must post your entry here, in this thread, before 11:59 PM Pacific time, on December 4th, 2016.  Your posted entry must comply with these additional six rules to be eligible:

1.  Your story must relate to one of your in-game character's most epic missions or adventures
2.  Your story must be written in English (so the judges can understand it)
3.  Your story must be your own original work (plagiarism will result in disqualification)
4.  Your story must include the game/world that your character exists in, their name and race or species
5.  Don't make your story novel length; we need to be able to read it in a single sitting!
6.  The content of your biography must not be edited after the submission deadline

Only one entry per community member, please.  While we encourage you to include graphics to supplement your character's adventure story, only the written narrative portion of your entry will be judged.




The winning contest entry be recognized on our Facebook and Twitter social media feeds.  The winner will also be entitled to choose from one of three different prize packages that we've assembled.  Each pack is geared toward one of the three main games played in the Stonewall Gaming Network, namely: a Star Trek Online prize pack, a Guild Wars 2 prize pack or a Star Wars: The Old Republic prize pack.  We also have participation prizes for all those who enter!  The winner will be able to choose one of the three following prize packs:

Star Trek Online Themed Prize Pack:

1.  6 Stonewall Credits
2.  A super-rare holographic TOS bridge crew set

*Stonewall credits can be saved and/or redeemed for in-game merchandise through the Stonewall Credits Store.

Guild Wars 2 Themed Prize Pack:

1.  A Heart of Thorns expansion unlock code
2.  A hand-crafted set of exotic armor, weapons and jewels for a level 80 toon (donated by @whiteonmyoji)

Star Wars Themed Prize Pack:

1.  2,400 Cartel Coins!

Good luck to all participants!  We can't wait to read your character's adventures!

This month's Mindtools topic for a successful life is:  Constructive Controversy

"Improving Solutions by Arguing For and Against Your Options.

In general, we like to consult others when there's a problem to solve or a decision to make. We do this because we know that, as individuals, we have limited perspectives; and what may at first appear to be the best solution from one vantage point may no longer seem so after we've seen a fuller picture." -Mindtools

What is Constructive Controversy?
This problem-solving approach was introduced by David Johnson and Roger Johnson in 1979. It has been researched and validated, and it's recognized as a leading model for developing robust and creative solutions to problems. The technique draws on five key assumptions:

1. We adopt an initial perspective towards a problem based on our personal experiences and perceptions.

2. The process of persuading others to agree with us strengthens our belief that we are right.

3. When confronted with competing viewpoints, we begin to doubt our rationale.

4. This doubt causes us to seek more information and build a better perspective, because we want to be confident with our choice.

5. This search for a fuller perspective leads to better overall decision making.

Click on the link below to see the chart related to this subject:
https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_71.htm

If you want to discuss what you have seen, let me know, send me a message :)

ZANDER HAWK
Admiral and Chief of Membership Management

STONEWALL GAMING NETWORK
STONEWALL FLEET
Department of Membership Management

Email:  zander.hawk@outlook.com
Kik:  Zander.Hawk
Website:  http://www.stonewallgaming.net/people/Zander_Hawk

I use Firefox, and I don't see the font change unless I actually view the code. Since I have FF locked the hell down with regard to tracking, scripting and ads so I opened a couple of those links in Chrome to see it in a less restricted browser, and instead of displaying in a Helvetica/sans font, they appear in Times NR. Dafuq???

These all seem to be posts from either before the forum engine change or very soon after...could it be an artifact of the DB export, maybe, when the original forum posts were migrated to the new platform? I think an indication might be if there are any of those font tags in more recent posts. If not, I'd suspect it was something in the migration process.

Otherwise, I got nothing.

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Nope, not copying from the editor, just copying from the already posted post itself and pasted that in the editor.

Okay, that's odd. What browser do you use?

Google Chrome.

I have a preset text on Evernote.  If I am not at home, I use the Evernote app on my phone, there's an option to remove formatting which I have done consistently in the past because it is actually easier for me to copy from Evernote and paste into the website's editor.

If I am at home, I open my Evernote program, copy my preset welcome text and paste it into the editor.  That's about all I do, I hope this helps!

:)

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If I caught my earlier posts correctly (remember when you said you'd migrated to google?) 

Guess who the largest known user of Lato fonts are? That's right, boys and girls...

It would seem that Google has a bit of hidden code somewhere that creates a "failsafe" font code in cases where browsers are not capable of rendering the chosen font and then it drops back through the list of fonts in the failsafe until one is rendered properly. 

I know this doesn't answer your question, but you can always contact Google's support team to find out if this is intentional on their end or not and if there's a way to cut it.

Based on my understanding: it would appear that google is using the entire lato-font family as a default group.

That's not Google's doing. That's how the font-family declaration in CSS works. Fonts are listed in order of priority and the first one available is the one displayed. This particular font stack is the one that our website uses. Lato and Helvetica Neue are both pretty popular fonts.

Only our domains (eg stonewallgaming.net) are hosted with Google. Not the hosting of the actual website. That's hosted on another service, OpenShift.

If I caught my earlier posts correctly (remember when you said you'd migrated to google?) 

Guess who the largest known user of Lato fonts are? That's right, boys and girls...

It would seem that Google has a bit of hidden code somewhere that creates a "failsafe" font code in cases where browsers are not capable of rendering the chosen font and then it drops back through the list of fonts in the failsafe until one is rendered properly. 

I know this doesn't answer your question, but you can always contact Google's support team to find out if this is intentional on their end or not and if there's a way to cut it.

Based on my understanding: it would appear that google is using the entire lato-font family as a default group.

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Nope, not copying from the editor, just copying from the already posted post itself and pasted that in the editor.

Okay, that's odd. What browser do you use?

Nope, not copying from the editor, just copying from the already posted post itself and pasted that in the editor.

Im sorry but I have no clue.. I wrote it all out as you see it, didnt change any fonts or sizes.
The only thing i can think of is I put it all as "Center aligned".. but it didnt turn out that way.
Im cluelesss im sorry

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My first though was that I typed that story out in notepad before copy-pasting it to the forums. However, I first posted that story in the biography competition thread earlier this year and as far as I can see, the font tag isn't shown there.
Could the font tag come from copy-pasting the story from one part of the forum to another part of the forum?

The following line is copy-pasted from another story that doesn't have that font tag.

And now I see the difference too. The view source thingy shows the font tag, whereas the original post (the story above the post you linked to) doesn't have it.
It seems that copy pasting the line adds the font tag somehow?

Edit: Well, this is weird. I can see the difference in font when writing and editing this post, but not once it is posted.

That's interesting. So you're copying from the editor and pasting into the editor? I guess that's how it's being copied, but where did it originate?

It's not displaying in the post because the value isn't valid and the parser is currently filtering most of it out. What's left isn't valid and the browser is ignoring cause it's not correct either.

As an Idea: Go to Survey Monkey and log in to my account, create a test survey then click the Collect Responses tab, then click the Web Link box, copy the new link and paste and boom I bet it will be there.

The link I copy-pasted is wrapped in the code. So must have come from Survey Monkey or the copy paste effort. In my case I didn't use the linking tool in tool bar of the post I merely copied it from the link Survey Monkey created for me when I clicked their button for sharing the survey.

The following is the source code as you have found: (I removed several brackets to be able to show the code here)
url=https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBP25YG]color=#1abc9c]size=2]font=Lato, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBP25YG/font]/size]/color][/url

When really all I copied and pasted was https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TBP25YG  (this link was typed out and not copy/pasted and therefore no new source code)

My first though was that I typed that story out in notepad before copy-pasting it to the forums. However, I first posted that story in the biography competition thread earlier this year and as far as I can see, the font tag isn't shown there.
Could the font tag come from copy-pasting the story from one part of the forum to another part of the forum?

The following line is copy-pasted from another story that doesn't have that font tag.

All equipped with Antiproton weapons, this elite team of soldiers was raining absolute devastation on the Tholians.

And now I see the difference too. The view source thingy shows the font tag, whereas the original post (the story above the post you linked to) doesn't have it.
It seems that copy pasting the line adds the font tag somehow?

Edit: Well, this is weird. I can see the difference in font when writing and editing this post, but not once it is posted.

Hey @GXV3, @Lars1091, @Zander_Hawk, @Duriansol, @robin, @Parker,

I've been working on an update to the forums to fix some lingering issues and I've encountered an edge case that I can't quite figure out. Some how you guys have managed to get a very unusual font tag into some of your posts and I can't figure out where it came from.

See these posts for examples:

GXV3 - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/45118-event-reflection-day-2#scroll=89600
Lars - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/45096-zandorian-allied-command-personnel-dossiers-mission-reports#scroll=90381
Zander_Hawk - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/91884-processed-introduction-new-recruit#scroll=91902
Duriansol - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/90788-for-the-admiralty-impossible-scavenger-hunt?start=20#scroll=92142
Robin - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/93337-how-to-get-into-the-fleet#scroll=93686
Parker - http://www.stonewallgaming.net/forums/threads/94734-swtor-seeking-members#scroll=94735

If you edit your post and then click on the last button on the toolbar (the View Source button), you'll see there's a font tag in there with a long list of font names starting with Lato and including "Helvetica Neue". That format isn't supported by the new parser so I need to prevent it from being entered.

For the life of me, I can't figure out where this tag is coming from. There's no Lato option in the font selector and I doubt you guys are typing all that in. All my attempts to reproduce it have failed and any input you guys provide would be appreciated.

Any ideas, guys? Thanks!!

lol, she even mods the game. Not a lot as far as I can see, but does have SkyUI installed (which, to be fair, is an absolute must have on pc).