A: The simple answer is that Fazed is run by Adam Brown ("SpunOne"). Adam is currently the sole programmer, web developer and systems administrator responsible for all things technical on this site. He is also the president of The FAZED Network, LLC, and should be contacted directly regarding all technical and business matters. Adam is the original founding member of Fazed, and has been at the helm since the very beginning.
That's the easy part though. The hard work, which includes not only keeping the front page current, but also moderating and maintaining our massive forum, is done by a team of wonderful people. Administrators have the ability to post things on the front page, while moderators stick to keeping the comments and forum running smoothly. Here's a quick list of our current staff:
Administrators
- SpunOne
- Spanky
- Supernipchick
- zoomchick
- vonnieda
- banwa
- Jory
- ladyalthea
- Bubba
Moderators
- jpkeates
- rabbiwanna
Questions about this site which are not technical or business in nature may be directed to staff@fazed.org.
We will do our best to reply to you in a timely manner. However, whining will be ignored, and we'll likely mock you privately.- SpunOne
- Spanky
- Supernipchick
- zoomchick
- vonnieda
- banwa
- Jory
- ladyalthea
- Bubba
Moderators
- jpkeates
- rabbiwanna
Q: What CMS (content management system) do you use to run this site?
A: Rather than use an existing software package, we opted to write our own. While there are many capable solutions out there, we found that none of them offered the tight integration we were looking for. Also, software written to be flexible enough for use in many configurations is often slow due to code bloat, which is nearly inevitable when making a highly configurable package.
Q: What about your forum software?
A: The forum software (Slorum) is also custom, for the same reasons as mentioned above.
Q: Is your CMS open source?
A: While we're big fans of open source software, we've decided to keep our CMS closed, as it would be impossible for a non-programmer to make it work for them. There are many quality CMS packages available that are vastly more configurable than our's could ever be.
Q: What is "ninja" mode?
A: Since we really don't know much about fancy website design, Fazed has almost always looked more like a spreadsheet than anything else. Over the years, this has led to many of our members being able to safely browse the site (especially the forums) while appearing to be doing something more productive. To continue this trend, we've created ninja mode, which will attempt to make portions of the site look less conspicuous, as in days past.
A: Since we really don't know much about fancy website design, Fazed has almost always looked more like a spreadsheet than anything else. Over the years, this has led to many of our members being able to safely browse the site (especially the forums) while appearing to be doing something more productive. To continue this trend, we've created ninja mode, which will attempt to make portions of the site look less conspicuous, as in days past.
Q: What is a "slore?"
A: Presumably, it's a combination of a slut and a whore. Your mileage may vary. Try a condo.
Q: But why would you name parts of your site after something so dreadful?
A: Slores, despite their, *ahem*, flighty nature, are near and dear to our bitter hearts.
Q: How can I put something like your "sites we like" section on my page?
A: The effect you're seeing is achieved using a convergence of web technologies which is most commonly called "AJAX." Discussing how it works is beyond the scope of this FAQ, but you're welcome to use our javascript for your own needs if you're feeling brave, and want to figure this out on your own. We're anything but masters of javascript, so be gentle when you're looking at our code.
The data from the remote sites is gathered by parsing their RSS feeds using PHP's SimpleXML extension. Once the links are extracted out, they're written to a static text file (at 30 minute intervals) and retrieved by the AJAX handler when you click one of the links.
AJAX is used in a number of other places on this site where it makes sense, like the menus you see popup on some user profile links. The AJAX works in conjunction with a freely available javascript library called OverLib which does all the heavy lifting when it comes to DHTML popups.
Q: How can I make links in the forum and comments? What is BBCode?
A: BBCode is a language used by this and many other sites that allows you to place limited markup in comments and forum posts. Here's the syntax for the various BBCode options:
[b]bold[/b] = bold
[i]italics[/i] = italics
[s]strikethrough[/s] =
[pre]fixed width font[/pre] = fixed width font
[quote]this is a quote[/quote] = adds a quote box around the text you enter
[quote=name]this is a quote[/quote] = adds a quote box around the text you enter, quoting the name specified
[spoiler]this is a spoiler[/spoiler] = adds a spoiler box around the text you enter (content is hidden)
[spoiler=heading]this is a spoiler[/spoiler] = adds a spoiler box around the text you enter, along with your heading
[url]http://www.fazed.org[/url] = www.fazed.org
[url=http://www.fazed.org]Get FAZED[/url] = Get FAZED
[nsfw]http://www.fazed.org[/nsfw] = www.fazed.org (18+)
[nsfw=http://www.fazed.org]Get FAZED[/nsfw] = Get FAZED (18+)
[img]http://www.fazed.org/images/header.jpg[/img] = Links to an image
