Title: Are we alone in the www?
Description: Come on
Airshadow - August 28, 2005 10:31 PM (GMT)
It must be exist other DB fans websites around...
Or are we really alone in internet?
Skylii - August 29, 2005 03:01 AM (GMT)
We are the most active Dragon Booster website there is out there. The rest are not so very active.
ShadowCat - August 29, 2005 04:00 AM (GMT)
Yeah, that's definitely the case.
Airshadow - August 29, 2005 04:04 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skylii @ Aug 28 2005, 09:01 PM) |
| We are the most active Dragon Booster website there is out there. The rest are not so very active. |
:( :unsure:
AHHHH :(
The Furox - August 29, 2005 04:54 AM (GMT)
I don't know of any other active fan forums myself. There was a forum on the old tvtome.com site that got a posting every now and then. That's where I ran into LightningFlash and some of the other people here for the first time. There's a forum on the new tv.com site, but nothing's happening there.
As far as fan web sites go, I think I've got the only one. At least, nothing else shows up in any of the search engines.
There are undoubtedly other DB fans out there, but they haven't found their way here yet. I'm trying to get links to my fan site established from other places like wikipedia and others. A lot of people come to my site via the Dragon Booster entry in wikipedia.
Things may pick when the second season begins. The last new episode that aired here was June 4th, so it's been all re-runs for quite a while now.
Airshadow - August 29, 2005 04:58 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (The Furox @ Aug 28 2005, 10:54 PM) |
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Search eninges is a mess, jost talk about TCG and the videogameno thing about other fans sites
I just find this thanks to Wikipedia
Airshadow - August 29, 2005 05:02 AM (GMT)
But I've seen pretty bunch fans fics about in fasnfics.net I guess that most of authore there should visit others fansites
LightningFlash - August 29, 2005 05:13 AM (GMT)
Most of those authors are members here. :)
The Furox - August 29, 2005 05:22 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Airshadow @ Aug 28 2005, 09:58 PM) |
Search eninges is a mess, jost talk about TCG and the videogameno thing about other fans sites
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Hopefully, that will change soon. Google finally crawled through my site last week. With luck, www.dragon-city.org should start showing up in the search results at some point. At least yahoo.com is listing my site now. I submitted to msn.com as well but they haven't crawled the site yet.
Airshadow - August 29, 2005 05:24 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (LightningFlash @ Aug 28 2005, 11:13 PM) |
| Most of those authors are members here. :) |
I guess that most players of TCG are here too
Airshadow - August 29, 2005 05:25 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (The Furox @ Aug 28 2005, 11:22 PM) |
Hopefully, that will change soon. Google finally crawled through my site last week. With luck, www.dragon-city.org should start showing up in the search results at some point. At least yahoo.com is listing my site now. I submitted to msn.com as well but they haven't crawled the site yet. |
how works the crawlers????
The Furox - August 29, 2005 07:37 AM (GMT)
Crawlers are programs the search engines use to read the contents of the web and index it for later searches. Basically, they come around and read the entire contents of a web site, pick out the keywords and then rank it according to their policies. Then it gets added to the database so it gets listed during appropriate searches. The major search engines identify themselves when they visit a site and it shows up in the log files on the web server. That's how I know they've visited the dragon-city.org site.
There's a decent
Wikipedia article on web crawlers here if you'd like to learn more.
Skylii - August 29, 2005 11:33 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (The Furox @ Aug 29 2005, 02:54 PM) |
There are undoubtedly other DB fans out there, but they haven't found their way here yet. I'm trying to get links to my fan site established from other places like wikipedia and others. A lot of people come to my site via the Dragon Booster entry in wikipedia. |
So were you the one who wrote the DB wikipedia entry, or did you just add Dragon-city.org on there?
Airshadow - August 30, 2005 12:40 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skylii @ Aug 29 2005, 05:33 PM) |
| QUOTE (The Furox @ Aug 29 2005, 02:54 PM) | There are undoubtedly other DB fans out there, but they haven't found their way here yet. I'm trying to get links to my fan site established from other places like wikipedia and others. A lot of people come to my site via the Dragon Booster entry in wikipedia. |
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If you're Ic an traslate it to spanish, but you shoukd wait after september 5 or so
The Furox - August 30, 2005 02:19 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skylii @ Aug 29 2005, 04:33 PM) |
| So were you the one who wrote the DB wikipedia entry, or did you just add Dragon-city.org on there? |
I just added my link to the bottom. I'm not sure who wrote the entry, but judging by the content, it appears to have been posted by someone associated with the show since it reads like a writer's bible. In particular, it's got bits of details that one wouldn't really get just by watching the show.
If we can trust the contents, it tells us which dragons are male and female: Wyldfyr and Decepshun are female and the rest are male.
Sarah Frost - August 30, 2005 04:20 AM (GMT)
I hope that wasn't written by one of the show's writers. (Then again, judging from the general quality of the show's writing...) The style's terrible and there are several grammatical errors; it looks like it was written by a seven-year-old.
Airshadow - August 30, 2005 04:33 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Aug 29 2005, 10:20 PM) |
| I hope that wasn't written by one of the show's writers. (Then again, judging from the general quality of the show's writing...) The style's terrible and there are several grammatical errors; it looks like it was written by a seven-year-old. |
I can't give opinion about grammar stily 'casue mine isn't presicely perfect
Sarah Frost - August 30, 2005 04:39 AM (GMT)
My Spanish grammar is horrible. :P But my English grammar isn't bad.
Airshadow - August 30, 2005 04:45 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Aug 29 2005, 10:39 PM) |
| My Spanish grammar is horrible. :P But my English grammar isn't bad. |
OOOOHHHH
Come on
I guess that your spanish grammar it's good, I even think that you could wrote a fics with minor grammar mistakes
Skylii - September 1, 2005 10:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Aug 30 2005, 02:20 PM) |
| I hope that wasn't written by one of the show's writers. (Then again, judging from the general quality of the show's writing...) The style's terrible and there are several grammatical errors; it looks like it was written by a seven-year-old. |
Gee, it's that bad? :unsure: Well, I didn't create the article either, but I did edit a few parts here and there. When I first saw the article thanks to Google, I found the article pretty easy to understand.
Sarah Frost - September 1, 2005 11:59 PM (GMT)
Oh, it's easy to understand. Like "See Spot Run" is easy to understand, minus the scintillating prose.
Airshadow - September 2, 2005 12:10 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Sep 1 2005, 05:59 PM) |
| Oh, it's easy to understand. Like "See Spot Run" is easy to understand, minus the scintillating prose. |
As I said
I can give opinion about the article
Daigerus - September 2, 2005 01:42 AM (GMT)
I'm just more concerned if Kitt Wann (or Wonn, I saw it on the credits) really had a middle name - Raada. :blink:
Also, which episode showed Cain having a deep fear of yellow-bellied newts? I don't recall hearing about that as well. :blink:
Airshadow - September 2, 2005 02:10 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Daigerus @ Sep 1 2005, 07:42 PM) |
I'm just more concerned if Kitt Wann (or Wonn, I saw it on the credits) really had a middle name - Raada. :blink:
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Yup As moodryd has a middle name (Drakkus)
Kairos~Lokorr - September 3, 2005 12:41 AM (GMT)
Sounds like it's got some interesting and useful tidbits (if your a author).
That a actually a good place to check if your writing DB?
(and personally I don't think it was one of the shows creators that wrote, but it wouldn't really surprise me...)
Airshadow - September 3, 2005 04:33 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Kairos~Lokorr @ Sep 2 2005, 06:41 PM) |
Sounds like it's got some interesting and useful tidbits (if your a author). That a actually a good place to check if your writing DB? (and personally I don't think it was one of the shows creators that wrote, but it wouldn't really surprise me...) |
tidbits?
in few words what that means?
The Furox - September 3, 2005 06:45 AM (GMT)
A tidbit is a tiny piece of food, but it can also refer to a small piece of information (as in the case above).
By the way,
www.m-w.com is a useful place to look up things like this.
Skylii - September 3, 2005 04:16 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Daigerus @ Sep 2 2005, 11:42 AM) |
I'm just more concerned if Kitt Wann (or Wonn, I saw it on the credits) really had a middle name - Raada. :blink:
Also, which episode showed Cain having a deep fear of yellow-bellied newts? I don't recall hearing about that as well. :blink: |
Specifically the shadows of the cute little things, but hey, who knows? Cain seems to have phobias of many things.
| QUOTE |
| Oh, it's easy to understand. Like "See Spot Run" is easy to understand, minus the scintillating prose. |
...yeah...
Daigerus - September 3, 2005 09:14 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skylii @ Sep 4 2005, 02:16 AM) |
Specifically the shadows of the cute little things, but hey, who knows? Cain seems to have phobias of many things.
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True, he was freaked out by the "teleporting Dragon Booster" and his "detachable hands" in "Three Times A Hero". "Shadows of the cute little things" doesn't seem to help me much, though. ^^; Only time I've seen newts was in the second episode and Cain didn't make a reaction to them. :huh:
Sarah Frost - September 3, 2005 09:14 PM (GMT)
"He becomes a Dragon Booster, a hero to protect the world from impending war, and to unite humans and dragons for all time." Misplaced comma. Should be: "a Dragon Booster, a hero to protect the world from impending war and unite humans and dragons for all time."
"the Black and Gold dragon of Legend." Watch caps. This is something that happens a lot in the article--evidently the writer couldn't figure out which Words of mysterious Connotations would Look Best capitalised.
Smilies are great to use on messageboards or in conversations. They do NOT make something purporting to be an encyclopedia look any more professional. :angry:
"The Dragon Booster is really Mid-City..." Oh, so Mid-City's an adjective now? "School on Saturdays is SO Mid-City!" Well, seeing as some idiots use 'gay' as a perjorative adjective, I don't see that 'Mid-City' is so bad a term...
"Artha Penn, a tough street racer with a "big, fat head" type attitude." This sentence was written by an eight-year-old, right?
"Artha is also a pretty nice guy" Yeah, RIGHT, and here we have another instance of writing that falls far short of encyclopedia-formality.
"He is rumored to have a BIG crush on the street racer Kitt Wann." Again--writer's eight years old, aren't they?
"16 year old Kitt Raada Wann is a racer gal through and through". Oh, a 'racer gal'. Cute. Really.
"Parmon is often the first to point out dangers using his technology array." I want a technology array too.
"The hotheaded 16 year old son of the infamous Word Paynn, CEO of Paynn Incorparated, which is the lead producer of Racing Gear in Dragon City." INCORPORATED, and don't try to stuff too many subjects into one sentence.
"He has a dragon called Abandonn which is a very powerful Black Draconium class dragon." WHO. WHO is. Unless dragons aren't sentients, of course.
"Rumor has it that [Connor Penn] was the original Dragon Booster". Um, if he's forty-seven...then HOW? Time travel?
"Blue draconium class dragon" Aren't the classes more like Psi Class, Magma Class, etcetera?
"Moordryd Paynn's right hand man, along with his dragon, Coershun, who is also a Black draconium class dragon. " Soooo, Moordryd has two right-hand men, one of whom is a dragon?
"He is 17 years old so he is sort of smarter and can be rather loyal (if he used his brains right)." Thought loyalty and using one's brains were entirely unrelated issues, and in some cases in negative proportion to each other?
"At first, Spratt was kinda jealous of Lance..." Kinda? KINDA? *breaks something* Slang's all fine and dandy, but NOT in any piece of writing meant to approach formal work.
"Spratt is an okay kid and seems to intentionally and unintentionally be good at, well, breaking things." *sigh* Writer's still in primary school, right? Right? Or lower high school?
"He along with his dragon Hyve are pack leaders with the other crew members and they specialize in pack hunting skills and when this mighty crew works together as one, then you better watch out." Has someone misplaced their full stops? Here are a few ...... .
"Her dragon Phorrj is a Magma-class dragon with a HOT attitude." All caps? Oooh, that must mean REALLY REALLY hot.
"Phistus is very strong and tough, though he is actually a pretty good person." 'Strong and tough' does not at all negate 'good person', by implication or otherwise.
"The Keepers crew makes interesting things, such as powerful Deflection gear and Stewardd even improved the Dragon Booster's blocking staff." Missed comma after "gear".
"Vociferous loves to fool around by making people do embarrassing things and have his fun with his manipulation and deception, but he does have his pathetic points." So, making people do embarrassing things doesn't count as pathetic? Good to know.
"To ride Beau you must show great talent, good skills, nice manners, moral fiber, bravery and courage." Let us now consider Artha. Talent? Nah. We know Kitt's better, certainly the Crew-leaders would also be, and obviously also the Elite Class riders. Skills? Again, lots better. Nice manners? Don't make me laugh. Cocky brat. Moral fiber? "Hmm. I have absolute power. So, do I use this to make myself look cool, seriously focus on my goal, or take over the world?" Bravery and courage? It's easy to be brave if you've got the Dragon of Legend on your side.
"Wyldfyr is built for speed with a streamlined body and a loyal temper." What does a loyal temper do? Only become inflamed at EVUL people?
"Cyrano is a Bull class dragon that is kind of dumb but can be smart." 'Kind of dumb but can be smart'. Like the writer, only minus the last four words and the preceding qualification.
"Cyrano has 4 BIG hoof-like feet that are cloven like a cow. " BIG, eh? Really really big? And since when are cows cloven?
"This dragon is a BAAD critter." Oooh, she's bad enough for ALL CAPS and misspelling. Gosh, that must be terrible.
"She is a Black Draconium class dragon and is paired with Moordryd Paynn-leader of the Dragon Eye Crew along with Cain and Coershun." So, Moordryd is the leader of Cain and Coershun as well as the Dragon Eyes?
"Fracshun is a blue-draconium class dragon and is very cute and his skills are teamwork and pure good loyalty to his rider." When one gives a long list of qualities--X is fast, skilled, intelligent, and proud--there is only one 'and' needed, at the end of the list. Also, what about "corrupt evil loyalty"? And what's the difference between "good" loyalty and just "loyalty", whom one is loyal to? And isn't the POINT about loyalty that it's a 'pure' devotion to one person or thing?
"He often speaks his words through Reepyr." So when doesn't he speak words through Reepyr? When he speaks words through another human's voice box?
"Though his words are mostly cruel, they are actually words of true wisdom." Cruelty is wisdom. Really. Actually, considering Beau's casual bullying style, they have a point here.
"He is known to be a blur when faced on the track and he is a blue-draconium class dragon." If he's a blur when he's faced on the track, doesn't that imply an imminent collision?
"Can only be called by the Horn of Libris which is really a trophy given out during the Horn of Libris Race which goes up a huge pyramid with doors that only open if you mag-jump and hit the targets to go higher and get to the mouth of the dragon where the horn is located." What was the subject of this sentence again?
"Only energy-draining tentacle-like things snap out at any unfortunate passerby." So, only energy-draining tentacle-like things snap out? Nothing else? Good to know.
*sigh*
Airshadow - September 3, 2005 11:12 PM (GMT)
Ouich
I hope that my grammar style is more understable
Sarah Frost - September 3, 2005 11:23 PM (GMT)
Yours is better than this, Airshadow. :D
Airshadow - September 3, 2005 11:35 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Sep 3 2005, 05:23 PM) |
| Yours is better than this, Airshadow. :D |
Thanks
Skylii - September 4, 2005 11:28 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Sarah Frost @ Sep 4 2005, 07:14 AM) |
| *sigh* |
Gee, care to
edit it? <_<
Sarah Frost - September 4, 2005 11:41 PM (GMT)
The person who did it seems to have had inside information about the show. I don't think it's my responsibility to jump in and pick up after them, especially since I'm not overwhelmingly knowledgeable about even the episodes that have aired down here.