Hey guys!

I want to take some time to show you guys how to properly format your updates today. I'll be doing this in the week or two leading up to a draft just so we can get our rookies updating properly and instill good habits in them for their entire careers, as well as to make it easier for them to update so they are less frustrated with one of the harder aspects of the site when you're just starting out. This will also be useful to post in this public forum to better educate some of our older players who, frankly, suck a whole lot of ass at formatting their updates.

Why this is important:

This is important to our site for a number of reasons. Since our job as the Updaters is prone to human error, a simple and easy to read and understand update helps us prevent needless mistakes.
It's also important for new members of the site to get their legs under them as easily as possible. I don't know what materials are available to them these days, but I remember when I started out these materials were scattered and difficult to understand, so I aim to make something the Mentors, or GMs, or even my team of Updaters can point to to show them how to do this the right way as defined by your Head Updater with the bloated ego.
Again, this is also important for our older players that have terrible updates. Tons of needless information that bog down their posts, confuse updaters, add nothing to the update. It's a real problem and we as a site should push to be doing this properly. Not to mention, it's so much easier to do it this way.

So without further ado, here is a video for you to watch. I hope you guys like Pixies, and be sure to make fun of me in the comments:



Now to drive the point home, if you even want to spend the 15 minutes listening to me talk, you can watch this video of what the updating process is like and why it's important to properly format your updates. NOW, I have to say before you watch it, I updated @Mike Izzy in this video. I want it to be known that I respect the hell out of Izzy, but his updates are some of the worst I've seen, and the surprise twist at the end is no surprise to me. I do say some blunt things in this video, but I by no means dislike Izzy in any capacity. He's a great dude and a cornerstone of the site:



And for a Template: