Small updates, today is my “Day Off” The INCIT test now works in IE7 and no longer prompts you to download a file. Velveteen and FAIL won our most recent contest to come up with a new persona for “The Other Other Hole.” They both got an exclusive E-Peen(tm) for it too: The Artist. For those who are asking: A gallery of recent INCIT winners is coming very soon, it’s already in the works and all winning posters have been recorded. ...

Forumwarz has been reviewed on the Onion’s A.V. Club! It will also be featured in the print version of the paper: At first glance, ForumWarz is just a fantastically offensive satire of the Internet. The interface fits right inside your browser to give you a new browser, crammed with dummied-up Google apps, message boards filled with gibbering morons, and fly-by parodies of technorati like BoingBoing’s Cory Doctorow or supergamer Fatal1ty. It’s an elaborate piss-take on the Web. But ForumWarz’s real accomplishment is in threading an actual story through all the fetishes and so-three-minutes-ago memes. ...

More INCIT Stuff There’s now a leaderboard for INCIT Winners, updated daily. The length of the submission round is now proportional to how many submissions there are.

INCIT Updates and Fixes The final results are now displayed much faster The submission count is now listed on screen instead of in the chat box. Submissions are now listed in a random order The random theme in INCIT is now more random. There was a bug that was biasing it towards the “Emo Kid” theme. Removed ugly box on top of the INCIT winners page You can no longer submit weird characters if you prefixed them with valid ones. ...

Introducing INCIT Tonight the big news is we’ve launched a test version of our new mini-game called INCIT. The idea behind the game is pretty simple: you compete with others to create motivational posters in a given theme. Rounds currently last 10 minutes, broken up into Submitting, Voting and Results. In the submitting stage you are given a theme, for example “as an Emo Kid” and a photograph that our mods and admins have painstakingly imported from Flickr. It is then up to you to come up with a creative title and sub-title for the image. ...

Note: The article is about the code behind Forumwarz for those who are interested in such things. If people like it I might write more like it! Flooding is what happens when a user submits data repeatedly to your server. A good example would be a user who repeatedly posts comments on your message board. Sometimes it’s done innocently: a user hits the submit button 5 times impatiently during a bit of server lag, only to find their post went through 5 times. ...

New Stuff The Flamebate Leaderboard has been changed. It is now based on unique users who reply to your threads, not total posts. Additionally, it is now restricted to public forums, so Klan stuff isn’t counted. The Popularity Leaderboard has also been changed. It is now based on friend requests made of you. Also, I removed all pending friend requests if you had over 100 outstanding. Can we stop spamming every character who plays the game with friend requests please? Thanks! ...

New Stuff The wiki search has been improved. It will now search the full text of all articles for your term instead of looking for articles by title. New ForumBuild – How Stuff Breaks HowStuffBreaks explains to you how to break thousands of items. Learn how to break car engines, computers, monitors, TVs, legs, arms, necks, and even hearts with our comprehensive How-To Guides. Our new build is MemeBusters ...

New Stuff You can transfer Brownie Points to other players. It costs a flat fee of 1 brownie point to transfer any amount to a single player. New grouping code for teams in Forumwarz Domination. Before it wasn’t taking your medal count into effect seriously. Also, now it uses a more random pattern to assign users to groups instead of round-robin. Finally, medal winners should never be knocked into non-medal groups. ...

Sorry this announcement is a couple of days late, but we’ve launched our latest forum build, Wiccapedia. The free occult encyclopaedia. Research the latest rituals! Check the news on the health of everyone and their dog! Replace the High Priestess’s picture with Darth Vader! If you want to read innacurate information about Wicca, this is the site for you. Our next build will be HowStuffBreaks.