Post by Qwerty on Nov 16, 2010 5:10:50 GMT
As an ongoing project for quite awhile, I think this deserves its own thread.
DB-PAL stands for Dan-Ball: Project Affiliation Link. In the long run it is a plan for us to once again be the Official Dan-Ball Forums, and furthermore to be linked to from the Dan-Ball website at some point. It is the holy grail of connection with Dan-Ball.
We are currently in Phase 1. Phases 2 and onward we will worry about later. Phase 1 is a plan to gain contact with Dan-Ball, in this case, Ha55ii. We have a few possible ways to contact Ha55ii, with varying levels of success:
All of the previous can be accessed via Dan-Ball. Anyone else have ideas to proceed with DB-PAL? Personally, I feel we should strengthen our connection with Otascube until he knows about the forum and our desire to have official status. He can clearly communicate with Ha55ii directly in some form.
Remember, we are essentially the only link between Dan-Ball and their English-speaking fans.
Our current tact is to send an official letter and its proper translation to Otascube, and hope that he passes it on to Ha55ii. Here is the current letter, but it is still being revised:
DB-PAL stands for Dan-Ball: Project Affiliation Link. In the long run it is a plan for us to once again be the Official Dan-Ball Forums, and furthermore to be linked to from the Dan-Ball website at some point. It is the holy grail of connection with Dan-Ball.
We are currently in Phase 1. Phases 2 and onward we will worry about later. Phase 1 is a plan to gain contact with Dan-Ball, in this case, Ha55ii. We have a few possible ways to contact Ha55ii, with varying levels of success:
- Otascube's Twitter: Probably the most successful link. We have steady contact with Otascube via twitter, and interview him from time to time. He's been asked how to contact Ha55ii, and he directed us to Inquiry, seen below.
- Ha55ii's Blog: This is more one-way information from Ha55ii, but there may be an email or an alternate contact system here. Plus, he might read the comments there.
- Inquiry: Linked to at the bottom of Dan-Ball. This is how we are 'supposed' to contact Ha55ii, but he seldom checks it and pretty much never responds. It is, for practical applications, useless.
- Japanese Support Comment Board: The only place Ha55ii can really be seen communicating with his community. However, he has yet to respond directly to a post from a forum-goer, although some of the Japanese community have. Maybe we can have better luck with translators. Note that he has responded indirectly: He has deleted useless posts from our members, and when I posted regarding TheSeaweedDoctor's name theft he acted and deleted the offending posts. This may be due to the fact that, although this is our only true link directly to Ha55ii, it is still at tech support board and he will most likely ignore non-tech-support questions and comments.
All of the previous can be accessed via Dan-Ball. Anyone else have ideas to proceed with DB-PAL? Personally, I feel we should strengthen our connection with Otascube until he knows about the forum and our desire to have official status. He can clearly communicate with Ha55ii directly in some form.
Remember, we are essentially the only link between Dan-Ball and their English-speaking fans.
Our current tact is to send an official letter and its proper translation to Otascube, and hope that he passes it on to Ha55ii. Here is the current letter, but it is still being revised:
Salutation, purpose, brief history/explanation, persuasion, conclusion, valediction, "signature".
Konichiwa Ha55ii, Otascube, and Tylor
We are the unofficial Dan-Ball forums. We have translated this letter into Japanese by one of out Japanese-speaking... err... Japanese-typing members. We'll also include the english version of the letter too.
You may or may not know about us. We have existed since October of 2007, and we have been very active for the duration of that time, with few exceptions. We are located here:
danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?
We are one of the central homes of the English-speaking side of your community, currently led by some really good staff members. We have been attempting to contact you for quite awhile. As a result, we are very excited about contacting you. We would really like to hear from you and possibly ask you a view questions. Please reply at:
edbforum@gmail.com
We assure you that this email address is secure and we won't spam or distribute your email adress.
The whole forum community is really excited to hear from you and it would be really wonderful if we could ask you a couple questions.
Sincerely,
The unofficial English Dan-Ball Forums.
Konichiwa Ha55ii, Otascube, and Tylor
We are the unofficial Dan-Ball forums. We have translated this letter into Japanese by one of out Japanese-speaking... err... Japanese-typing members. We'll also include the english version of the letter too.
You may or may not know about us. We have existed since October of 2007, and we have been very active for the duration of that time, with few exceptions. We are located here:
danballforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?
We are one of the central homes of the English-speaking side of your community, currently led by some really good staff members. We have been attempting to contact you for quite awhile. As a result, we are very excited about contacting you. We would really like to hear from you and possibly ask you a view questions. Please reply at:
edbforum@gmail.com
We assure you that this email address is secure and we won't spam or distribute your email adress.
The whole forum community is really excited to hear from you and it would be really wonderful if we could ask you a couple questions.
Sincerely,
The unofficial English Dan-Ball Forums.