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Communication
Details of the various methods of communication for league members.
Administrative Help
If you have any questions regarding the league, its members, or the league portions of this website, please email us at help@gridmotorsports.com. That email alias is monitored by all of the admins, and replies are generally swift. Emailing that address is also the preferred method if you need to broach a topic with just the admins, be it a concern over something or someone in the league, or just anything that you feel is a sensitive subject and not necessarily appropriate for one of the member-wide channels.
Forums
We have an official forum! If you've registered a login for the website, you're able to participate in the forum. It is our desire that the forum host the majority of league (and mod) related communication traffic.
Google Group
We also have a dedicated google group, which we treat like a typical moderated mailing list. It serves as a broadcast mechanism for league activities. The forum automatically broadcasts initial thread posts to the google group list. This gives our members instant exposure to new topics, without having to babysit the forum. Anyone who wants to contribute to or monitor the associated thread discussion can opt into it by visiting the forum and posting a reply. By doing so, they become part of the dynamic subscription list for that particular thread, and all subsequent posts to it generate a notification that is sent directly to each of the thread's authors.
Chat
We're mostly old fogeys, and thus aren't down with the texting and what not. However, many of us have gtalk handles. 10-4, good buddy. We may also eventually have our own dedicated chat server, but there hasn't been sufficient demand for it yet.
Voice
We run a dedicated Mumble (murmur) server for league purposes. It's mostly for race day, but there's no reason you can't hang out on there if you're just turning laps on the practice server, or even if you're just feeling lonely. We're here for you. The URL for the server is:
- mumble.gridmotorsports.com
PLEASE NOTE: It's very important that everyone participating in a league event be connected into the mumble server, even if they might be experiencing sound quality issues with the voice chat (either sending or receiving). The reason is that the voice chat functions as an emergency communication channel for everyone should we experience technical difficulties with the rFactor server. If everyone involved is logged into Mumble, then emergency text messages can be sent out to ensure that everyone knows what's happening during event interruption. Also, the marshal communication occurs via voice, and it is critical that each driver be able to both hear marshal instructions as well as be able to make incident review requests to the marshal.