Homepage determines decks based on an algorithm I don't plan to make fully public. Good, fresh content gets noticed though by the site =)
Also, I encourage you to post deck guides in the relevant class forum and start an actual discussion around it. Its another great way to get some eyes on it!
To the Dr. Boom thing. Pocket Galaxy definitely need an adjustment too but screw everything about Dr. Boom. Legitimately makes me want to not play the game.
Honestly, Sherman, you're a unique case for us. You've made a career in the Hearthstone community out of trolling everyone. Because of this, it is hard to do anything about it because I'm certainly not going to ban dozens of people that actually behave.
People get tired of the nonsense, including us, and it's not something we want to promote here.
I feel personally attacked friend, considering you downvoted all of my decks. Even accused me before of falsely advertising my decks, when I didn't list any winrates or even say the deck was powerful.
You know what other type of people were annoying on Hearthpwn? Hypocrites.
I didn't downvote your stuff
Why would you lie?
I'm looking at a terminal output right now with all your voting data. You've downvoted 14 things on the site, 9 being decks Colin wrote guides on.
That is shit we don't want to continue here and you bet is going to be actively policed. Vote harassment is beyond stupid and is the real plague of community sites.
And just so we're clear, you're not the only one who has done this. I've removed close to 600 negative votes over the past couple of days with one of the biggest offenders hitting 142 decks.
I'm not lying. I did not have a personal vendetta against anyone and I did not personally downvote anything. Why would I lie? Good question. Because I wouldn't. I think it's your job to figure it out on your end.
So hold on a second. Are you telling me the database was lying? I better put a bug report in so I can check that out /s
I hate calling people out on it but if you're going to make public statements that are factually incorrect, I don't really have a choice. Don't do it again and we're cool.
I feel personally attacked friend, considering you downvoted all of my decks. Even accused me before of falsely advertising my decks, when I didn't list any winrates or even say the deck was powerful.
You know what other type of people were annoying on Hearthpwn? Hypocrites.
I didn't downvote your stuff
Why would you lie?
I'm looking at a terminal output right now with all your voting data. You've downvoted 14 things on the site, 9 being decks Colin wrote guides on.
That is shit we don't want to continue here and you bet is going to be actively policed. Vote harassment is beyond stupid and is the real plague of community sites.
And just so we're clear, you're not the only one who has done this. I've removed close to 600 negative votes over the past couple of days with one of the biggest offenders hitting 142 decks.
This site asks users to pay money or donate or whatever. In exchange, it should try to to eliminate the type of unreliable claims its deck sharers put in their posts. This isn't Hearthpwn. Make it not Hearthpwn. Make it worthy of donations by assuring the end user a certain level of credibility.
Here's the deal.
We're a community deck sharing website at the core. If you don't like that, I encourage you to use a site like HSReplay that uses pooled stats or to check out news articles that come out from us which highlight decks that are either fun or have proven records. You aren't the person the deck database is for and won't be unless we're able to collect enough of our own statistically significant data to have sortable winrates.
I don't want to enforce any sort of rules yet on what people can and cannot share at this time. People should be intelligent enough to figure out that decks can't actually have a 100% winrate, just like they should also know that a "Legend" deck doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day since you can't actually drop out of Legend. Plus, getting super strict about stuff just makes us the bad guy. I'd rather have a bunch of chill people on the site than elitist pricks - the entire Hearthstone game is fueled on a casual audience =).
Also, we're already not HearthPwn.
We're not a sinking ship;
We're not run by people that ignore ad problems (no ads atm btw);
We're not run by tyrannical morons who will do anything to push ads ads ads;
We have one of the strongest staff teams that I'm crazy proud to be a part of (competency is amazing);
We actually have plans in place to build tools the community has desired for a long time.
We've got the support of the community because people actually know who we are.
Sure, we may lack a few features people would like, but those only take some time to build and yet we're on a path they are without a doubt jealous of.
Also, yeah, people should consider a monthly contribution on Patreon. Every dollar helps pay the server bills without resorting to ads and we're constantly making the site a better place to hang out on.
Everything that happens in China is separate from the west, being run by a contracted provider. I doubt Blizzard has any oversight in what they are doing with the game, considering everything different about Hearthstone over there for the past few years has not shown up here.
I'm pretty sure we're about to hit year 4 of Hearthstone in China having replays as a first-party feature.
I did some more digging and you're right. I'm glad this was pointed out so we didn't report on it again as this isn't the first time I have. Thank you!
We still haven't seen special brawls, and Blizzard even stated we were going to have some special Uldum brawls. That's what those quests are for, not some random duplicate brawl that we've seen for a couple of weeks.
Blizzard doesn't just add random quests to the game.
Edit: I should add nowhere did I say it was a launch day thing or even launch week. I'm smart enough to not do that with datamined information.
Yeah, I would not expect anything from a separate client over here. It would have to be baked into the game, available on all platforms, and require resources to actually implement it. RIP
Homepage determines decks based on an algorithm I don't plan to make fully public. Good, fresh content gets noticed though by the site =)
Also, I encourage you to post deck guides in the relevant class forum and start an actual discussion around it. Its another great way to get some eyes on it!
This isn't even the right forum for it.
Got Colossus of the Moon. RIP
Really hoping we'll get a round of buffs sometime too, hopefully focused on a cool event.
Oh my god please yes.
To the Dr. Boom thing. Pocket Galaxy definitely need an adjustment too but screw everything about Dr. Boom. Legitimately makes me want to not play the game.
Rastakhan's Rumble announced and released changes 3 weeks after the expansion dropped.
We're entering the third week of Saviors of Uldum, so unless they release the changes this week as well, it won't beat that!
A page for each board detailing interactions is definitely something we'll get working on soon.
What would make us the only site you want to visit?
Cheese wanting fan creations stuff, no surprises :P
Don't worry, it is coming!
Should be whatever the current set rotation is for Arena, unless a blog post that comes out says otherwise.
Honestly, Sherman, you're a unique case for us. You've made a career in the Hearthstone community out of trolling everyone. Because of this, it is hard to do anything about it because I'm certainly not going to ban dozens of people that actually behave.
People get tired of the nonsense, including us, and it's not something we want to promote here.
I'm going to lock the thread now since tony has started deleting his posts.
Let this be a lesson, don't lie about facts.
So hold on a second. Are you telling me the database was lying? I better put a bug report in so I can check that out /s
I hate calling people out on it but if you're going to make public statements that are factually incorrect, I don't really have a choice. Don't do it again and we're cool.
Why would you lie?
I'm looking at a terminal output right now with all your voting data. You've downvoted 14 things on the site, 9 being decks Colin wrote guides on.
That is shit we don't want to continue here and you bet is going to be actively policed. Vote harassment is beyond stupid and is the real plague of community sites.
And just so we're clear, you're not the only one who has done this. I've removed close to 600 negative votes over the past couple of days with one of the biggest offenders hitting 142 decks.
Here's the deal.
We're a community deck sharing website at the core. If you don't like that, I encourage you to use a site like HSReplay that uses pooled stats or to check out news articles that come out from us which highlight decks that are either fun or have proven records. You aren't the person the deck database is for and won't be unless we're able to collect enough of our own statistically significant data to have sortable winrates.
I don't want to enforce any sort of rules yet on what people can and cannot share at this time. People should be intelligent enough to figure out that decks can't actually have a 100% winrate, just like they should also know that a "Legend" deck doesn't actually mean anything at the end of the day since you can't actually drop out of Legend. Plus, getting super strict about stuff just makes us the bad guy. I'd rather have a bunch of chill people on the site than elitist pricks - the entire Hearthstone game is fueled on a casual audience =).
Also, we're already not HearthPwn.
Sure, we may lack a few features people would like, but those only take some time to build and yet we're on a path they are without a doubt jealous of.
Also, yeah, people should consider a monthly contribution on Patreon. Every dollar helps pay the server bills without resorting to ads and we're constantly making the site a better place to hang out on.
Everything that happens in China is separate from the west, being run by a contracted provider. I doubt Blizzard has any oversight in what they are doing with the game, considering everything different about Hearthstone over there for the past few years has not shown up here.
I'm pretty sure we're about to hit year 4 of Hearthstone in China having replays as a first-party feature.
I did some more digging and you're right. I'm glad this was pointed out so we didn't report on it again as this isn't the first time I have. Thank you!
Uhh, how were we wrong?
We still haven't seen special brawls, and Blizzard even stated we were going to have some special Uldum brawls. That's what those quests are for, not some random duplicate brawl that we've seen for a couple of weeks.
Blizzard doesn't just add random quests to the game.
Edit: I should add nowhere did I say it was a launch day thing or even launch week. I'm smart enough to not do that with datamined information.
Yeah, I would not expect anything from a separate client over here. It would have to be baked into the game, available on all platforms, and require resources to actually implement it. RIP
You should check out the deck guides for decks you are interested in. All the decks should have ways you can improve it to make them more powerful =)