Frequently Asked Questions

  1. What kind of stories can I submit?
    We only accept stories that are related to Magic The Gathering by Wizards of the Coast. Submitted stories must be open to anyone to read without a subscription. The stories must be in English, but you're welcome to contact us if you would like us to create a similar site for another language. If you feel the community would benefit from a non-mtg related story, you can post it as well.
  2. This site is free?! How do you make money?
    This site is all about the community, and we believe the community is fostered through open communication which would be hindered by a "premium" service. Therefore, we intend to draw revenues to operate the site through advertising. We promise that all advertising will be as unintrusive as possible, and we will never allow malware or annoying ads on our site.
  3. Why do the story links take us to a detail page instead of directly to the story?
    This is so you can view comments and engage in conversation concerning the story. We are working on a feature to show who summoned and dismissed the story, and the ability to add friends these people as friends, so viewing the detail page will be essential to grow the social networking aspect of the site.
  4. What is the difference between OpenID or Signed up user?
    OpenID eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites. We support OpenID login, which means if you have an account in Yahoo, AOL, Wordpress, Blogger, myOpenID etc you can login without registering in DotNetShoutout. If you do not have any OpenID account, you can get one free from here. There is no difference between OpenID and signed up users, we treat both the same. However, some of the OpenID providers do not provide email address of user, which is required to get the complete benefits of DotNetShoutout (e.g. comment notification via mail).
  5. What is summon?
    Summon refers to the old MTG terminology of Summon Creature. It shows how the MTG Battlefield community likes the story and clicked over the Shout it link to show their acceptance.
  6. What is user score? How does it calculate?
    User score indicates the contribution of an user in MTGBattlefield. Most of the activity of an user in MTGBattlefield has associated score:
    Activity Score
    Registration/OpenID 05.00
    Story submitted 10.00
    Story is featured 05.00
    Story clicked* 00.01
    Latest story promoted* 03.00
    Featured story promoted* 02.00
    Mark story as spam* 05.00
    Comment submitted* 01.00
    Comment marked as offended by moderator -1.00
    Story incorrectly marked as spam -1.00
    Spam story submitted -50.0
    Spam comment submitted -20.0
    *Story that is not older than 10 days.
    (The above scores might change in future without prior notification)
    If user score falls down in minus figure, the account will be automatically disabled.
  7. What is TopMovers & TopLeaders?
    TopMovers are the users who earned the highest score in last 24 hours and TopLeaders are all time highest score earners.
  8. How does stories get featured? Why is my story never get featured?
    Stories are featured based upon votes aka summons, comments, freshness, views, user score (who voted it), source of story etc. The more the story has these values the more chance it has to be featured. Once the stories are featured the top ten stories are listed in the front page The story publishing process runs 4/5 times in a day depending upon the upcoming story queue.
  9. I am a blogger, how can I put the Summon counter in my blog's post?
    You can use the following code in your blog. 
    <div class="summon">
    <a rev="vote-for" href="http://mtgbattlefield.com/Submit?url=YOUR_POST_ABSOLUTE_URL">
        <img alt="Summon" src="http://mtgbattlefield.com/image.axd?url=YOUR_POST_ABSOLUTE_URL" style="border:0px"/>
    </a>
<div>
  10. What are the technologies behind MTGBattlefield?
    MTGBattlefield runs on KiGG which is developed with Microsoft supported technologies:
    • ASP.NET MVC
    • LinqToSQL
    • MS Enterprise Library Unity, Caching, Logging application block
    • jQuery and jQuery UI
    Other Open Source/Commercial products: External Services:
  11. Okay, I think this is a cool site, how can I help?
    Become an active member, tell your friends to join us, just spread the word. If you have any business proposal (e.g. showing Ads in this site), we look forward to hear from you.