The Rumor Buster

Rumorbuster 2.0 Anniversary Contest Details

Ok ladies and gents, as promised, here’s the lowdown on the Rumorbuster 2.0 Anniversary Contest:

You guys have been enjoying our wiki for months and months, and as you know, it gets better every single day. From our exclusive pictures to comprehensive checklists, and ever innovative ideas… it just keeps improving.

But we need your help to keep improving. We need fresh ideas, fresh perspectives and fresh faces. And to encourage you guys, we’re going to offer prizes for the three highest 30-day contribution scores. For those that don’t know, the Wiki assigns a contribution score to every signed in user that makes a contribution and the three individuals that have the highest 30-day contribution scores, as of noon on October 31, will get prizes:

- $50 for the highest score

- $35 for the next highest

- $15 for the third highest

You’ll get an e-mail congratulating you and asking how you want your prize. You can choose between an Amazon gift card (awesome for getting cheap books!), Toys R Us gift card (awesome for toys!), or straight up Paypal (awesome for eBay, or stores like SciFi Genre.) And we reserve the right to add some sweeteners to those prizes if there’s enough interest.

It’s tough coming up with something that Super Hero Squad, Combat Heroes, Robot Heroes, Infinite Heroes, and Marvel Universe fans will all want equally… and it’s something we can all use! For obvious reasons, myself and the other Rumorbuster staff are ineligible. We’ll still work on the wiki, like always, but we don’t get to win prizes. It’s ok, we enjoy it anyway!

If you don’t know where to start, here’s a brief guide:

- First be sure to log in using your message board name and password. If you don’t have a message board ID, then you have to go and register. It’s quick and painless, and most importantly, logging in makes sure your edits get counted properly!

- Next, find something you want to edit. There are literally an infinite number of things you can do. If you want to edit a pre-existing page, at the top of each page there’s a tab that says “edit”. Clicking on that opens the entire page for editing. Most pages have subsections too, a horizontal line with the word [edit] in blue text above it. Clicking on that opens that particular section for editing. If you’re logged in, the edit page should like a word processor document. You can type anywhere in the document. If you break something, don’t worry, it’ll get fixed! We’ve even created a sandbox page to experiment with and explain what some of the buttons are and do.

- If you’re having trouble finding stuff you want to edit, here’s a few suggestions:

On the Super Hero Squad figure pages, we haven’t added articulation or costume notes to the various profiles. If you run across a figure on your shelf, or have some information about it, feel free to add it!

For Infinite Heroes, we have yet to add the cardback stats! We’ve scanned them into the gallery but we haven’t added them to the wiki. That’s an easy way to help out!

And of course, if you’ve ever read a comic book, watched a movie or played a video game, you can help give that character a biography! Some characters have more developed biographies than others, but they can all use work!

If you’re really adventurous, you can help create a page! Here’s a list of the most wanted wiki pages If you click on the link, you’ll be taken to a blank page where you get first crack!

So there you go… make some wiki contributions, win stuff! And if you have any questions, you can either send a private message to myself or one of the other staff on the message board, or you can send me an email at clevernamehereshs@yahoo.com.

450 Posts, Endless Future

Or something cheesy like that. We were going to keep working on our latest project in secret for a few more weeks, possibly holding off until our first anniversary but that’s just too far away. Instead, we’re premiering it here in honor of our 450th post. Without further ado, we present The Rumorbuster Wiki, an interactive database that allows for a more collaborative experience than single-user checklists, and yes, that’s one reason we’ve been slow in updating the previous checklists. While it’s still under construction, feel free to poke around and see what’s there. Editing a page is easy, just click the edit tab and type like you’re in a word processor, and for users of the message board, you don’t need to sign up twice: your board log-in also works on the wiki. And as always, that’s just one of the many projects we always have juggling here. To paraphrase Nash (from Robinson’s Starman) “wait and see what we become”.

Edit: Since the Super Hero Squad and Infinite Heroes have had the most work done so far, here’s some quick links to help you to the best points of interest:

The Super Hero Squad checklist and figure profiles
Super Hero Squad, broken down by characters
The Infinite Heroes checklist (notice how much better this looks than the previous IH checklist?)
Infinite Heroes, by character