"Advertising" on minecraftforums?

[schererererer]

The server list here appears to only list servers by the number of players online, no advertising fees as far as I can see, yet this is what the entry for c.nerd.nu looks like, and this is what the entry for P looks like. There is no s.nerd.nu listed. I'm not entirely sure what is meant by "doesn't respond to public queries" but assuming this can be rectified, why not "claim" the servers there, add a description, and open up a free avenue of advertising?

 

 

[totemo]

• Hostname p.nerd.nu
• Ping 9223372036854775807ms

 

As an Australian, that seems about right.

 

I'll see what I can find out about "doesn't respond to public queries".  The claim mechanism requires temporarily putting an ID number that they control in the MOTD message that appears when you bring up server list in your client.  That, we can easily do.

 

 

EDIT: Ok so apparently that protocol (gamespy4) is blocked by our current security setup.  That may change soonish.

Edited June 18, 2013 by jcll
Edited for security

[JohnAdams1735]

I went ahead and created an account with them that represents the servers as a collective, rather than just myself - so it's there if we need to/want to/can use it in the future.

 

I'll be sharing this with Admins so I'm not the only one holding the keys.

[Guest Former Staff]

I understand that we discussed paying for advertising during the meeting. However sources such as the minecraft.net website are part of an untapped free advertising that we can take advantage of. I'm looking to add a creative-specific advert on their forums when we next reset.

[schererererer]

Any update to this?

[schererererer]

Per totemo and jcll, we're waiting until we're fully moved over to the new box before implementing this, as there may be a better way to do it then. Once that is done, JohnAdams1735 will set up a shared admin account to keep the server profiles on minecraftforums up to date.

[Guest Former Staff]

While this is ongoing, would it be helpful for us to gather a few images from each of the servers including from events / chaos so that we have some visuals alongside the information?

[buzzinbee]

While this is ongoing, would it be helpful for us to gather a few images from each of the servers including from events / chaos so that we have some visuals alongside the information?

I don't see how that could cause any harm. We should make them look very nice using shaders mods and the such like.

[totemo]

All three servers are now enabled for GameSpy query on port 25566 (normal Minecraft port + 1).  They are associated with a shared Curse account set up by JohnAdams1735 for this purpose.  They temporarily have a sequence of digits in the MOTD (message of the day) which Curse requires for us to establish that we do indeed control the servers.  Once Curse is happy and updates its server listings, those digits will be removed.

 

This change will take effect on the next restart, in about 80 minutes.

 

Previous concerns about players using this service to stalk each other on survival have been superceded by the /list-all command, which allows them to do that anyway.

[totemo]

At this stage I have submitted a bug report to Curse because their server listing seems unable to update our entries, whereas other publicly available query tools are able to query our servers.

 

At the moment I have only configured event.nerd.nu for this until the Curse/minecraftforums respond to the bug request.

Bug report: http://support.curse.com/requests/2423

Server listing for event: http://servers.minecraftforum.net/servers/6725939

Query tool: http://dinnerbone.com/minecraft/tools/status/

Use port 25565 with the query tool.

[totemo]

• I've set up server listings at serverlistminecraft.com.  You can find our listing by searching for "Reddit" here: http://serverlistminecraft.com/searchquery.php
• The site supports a voting system called Votifier that allows votes for popular servers to be registered.  It's a Bukkit plugin that receives notifications from a voting site.  I've seen it used on other servers to bribe players into voting for the server on listings by giving them items in-game when they vote for the server on a listing site.
• The site is a bit amateurish IMO, in that it requires that you register a separate account for each server you run (I realised this after I had registered event).  The accounts are:
  • event.nerd.nu - RedditMC
  • c.nerd.nu - RedditMC_c
  • p.nerd.nu - RedditMC_p
  • s.nerd.nu - RedditMC_s
• Password is the same as what we are using for minecraftforum.net.  Contact me or a head admin if you wish to update the details.
• This site accepts a 468x60 pixel banner (per server).  Someone artistically inclined should make these, please.
• It also provides a way to include the banner image with server details included on web sites:

[totemo]

Finally, I'll leave it to a headadmin or someone else with more time to register the servers at http://minecraft-mp.com/

 

Somebody, probably not staff, has already registered c.nerd.nu with that site:

http://minecraft-mp.com/server-s10432

 

Please, someone take the necessary steps to reclaim C in that listing.  If there are technical steps that need to be taken, such as setting the MOTD as with the Curse minecraftforum.net listings, please inform me when you get to that stage.