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I wouldn't be too sure about that! If s/he's been following this thread, s/he's probably pretty confused about his/her identity as the clues seem to be pretty contradictory.

Wait one! Does that mean that it's not Bob, the Jagex Cat? Dang. I had my money on him as the editor all along :cry:

And if not part of the staff, at least a contributor to the forums for a good while before being considered for the job. After all, despite the anoniniminiminity, this is a fairly high-profile job. Even "the blokes at Jagex towers" read the Times -- so it's not the sort of job you're going to give to a complete n00b. :mrgreen:

Not funny at all -- you were basically threatening to stalk someone. That is never funny. It is also a felony. You're lucky you didn't get banned for that. If I was a mod, instead of a mere crewbie, I'd have at the very least suspended you for that if not outright banned you. So now, EVERYBODY, play nice on this thread please!

I use MS Excel or Open Office Calc. Both of them have standard deviation as a built-in function.

And words with 5 syllables! :lol:

Jock -- I'm confused. On the one hand you're telling me that "the Editor is in fact a male", on the other hand you're saying it's Ard -- because she's a mom. #-o Does not compute! It's already been established, very early on, that there is only one Editor at a time. Kiara said that, and I don't think she'd lie about it. In fact, I don't think any of the Mods/Crew/Staff who've posted on this thread have lied. At least none of them have said anything which I know not to be true (but I'm fairly low on the pecking order round here). It has also been established that the current editor is not the only person who has had the job. So while there have been other editors, there's only one of them at a time. It's a tough job writing a regular weekly column -- I've done it professionally, with an industry newsletter -- I'd be surprised if there weren't at least 3, possibly 4 or even 5 editors over the 18 months the Times has been running. It's a job that leads to burnout somewhere between 6 months and a year on average, unless you're a professional journalist -- but then you get paid to do it.

You are soooo correct. I like to sit back and watch all the "Mysterious Editor" replies pop up too though. I'm with you on this one Ard! It's the most fun thread in the forums. As for the editor being a mom, unorclan, I don't know how things work in your family, but in mine, and most of my friends' families, it's the mom who runs the kitchen and who assigns chores like dishes, so while the editor could be the mom, s/he could also be one of the kids, or even the dad! The only clue in that is the US spelling of "mom" instead of the UK "mum".

I ignored the post where you said: because I'd said nothing about the founders of Tip.It. Also Kiara_Kat answered you by saying where you could find out who the founders were. As for your latest theory -- I just wondered whether it was going to be worth looking up the high scores for all the people who've been suggested as being the editor. Assuming you've got their RS names to begin with... Seems like an awful lot of work for possibly not much result.

How does that help? Are you going to look up all the suspects on the high scores list and calculate the standard deviation of their skill levels? That would take more time than this is worth!

Maybe that's just what she wants you to believe. What? How come I missed that? Source pl0x!

So, I guess I'm out of the running then.... :lol:

You forgot something very important: The Mysterious Editor is *very* good at keeping secrets. Come to that, so are his/her friends -- or else he/she hasn't told them! :lol: I'd hazard a guess he or she is not one of the younger players around... something about the Wall St. Journal and the economy stuff would suggest it's not a teen -- unless it's the nerdiest teen on the planet!

Sheeesh! Do you guys ever listen to Kiara? She's said over and over again, that she's not the editor. Her job is to post the piece to the website and start the thread. She also deals with the guest editorials (which is how I know all this -- from my guest piece a while back).

Go back and look at the very first post. HYT doesn't meet half those clues.

22 pages and it doesn't look like any progress has been made on this quest. No new names have come up for a while. Most of the old names seem unlikely at this point. Can't say I've got anything useful to add, but even so, I'm surprised that this is the best the great minds of Tip.It can come up with.

Only in America. Tip.It, like Runescape, spells English words as the English do.

There certainly is a huge imbalance between F2P and P2P bank space. P2P have 384 spaces, F2P about 60 I think. When I gave up membership on one of my characters, it took me almost an hour to clear out "members objects" that I knew I could replace, or didn't care about so he could have enough bank space for a change of clothes.

Don't forget Sir Tiffy Cashin (Certification)

I did it one weekend on my old char (lvl 112) cos I was bored. Walked from Lumby to the cow field, picking up GP left on the ground as I went along. Killed a load of cows, with my bare hands 8-) took the meat and leather. Cooked the meat. Tanned the leather -- paid for tanning with the GP I'd picked up. Bought a needle and thread: leather armor. Walked to the Dwarf mine, killed a few NPCs on the way to get a bit more gold. Bought a steel pick. Mined iron and coal. Smelted steel. Bought a hammer. Made steel armor and sword. Mined, smithed, and sold steel for a while. I can't remember how much cash I had at the end of the weekend, but it was somewhere between 20 and 50K. Then I got seriously nutso and started a whole new character from scratch -- that was about 3 months ago.

It's easy enough if you start with decent levels. It's harder if you start a n00b character, so you have no skilz, no money and only your knowledge of the game to draw on.

I've been told, but not done it myself, that if you're logged in continuously on one server for 6 hours you get logged off.

Lol! I couldn't agree more. Yet at the same time you have to deal with undocumented features that "break" the game. Disclaimer: This my personal opinion, and not the official Tip.It position I realise that Tip.It and the Times often come across critical of Jagex and Runescape. Sometimes it must seem, from your perspective, that we do nothing but complain! I'm sure that the editor is, like all the admins, crew and mods here at Tip.It, a huge fan of Runescape. We put in hours of our own time researching things in game, keeping the forums going, testing out our guides, etc. because of our enthusiasm for Runescape. It's certainly not for the pay! :roll: Unfortunately it's hard for the editor not to be critical -- if editorial pieces are nothing but praise and compliments to Jagex, then the editor comes under fire for "sucking up to Jagex". So the editor's treading a fine line in order to present overall a balanced view of the game. Too much praise (s)he gets it in the neck from the Tip.It members. Too much criticism and (s)he gets Jagex grumbling... It's no surprise that (s)he keeps his/her identity a secret! Certainly some of the articles could use more research. Here I suspect that the editor is balancing the needs of his/her own life (school/career, family, etc) with the time needed to research and write an article every week. A few years ago I was the editor of a weekly high-tech subscription newsletter. Between research, writing, typesetting we spent between 30 and 60 hours a week on something that our clients read over coffee one morning. Don't come down too hard on people who love your game!

There was the glitch where in the Tears of Guthix quest, you could get the light creatures to follow you around beyond the part of the quest where you needed them. They made great pets and didn't hurt anyone.

I believe it's a quotation. [bleep]ens I think. I want to say Oliver Twist, but I can't find it on line. I know I've heard it several times before, so I guess that's why the editor chose to use that phrasing. Interestingly enough, a Google search for "rules is rules" (in quotation marks so it finds the phrase) brings up the Times article as #6! :mrgreen: