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Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: evilknight on February 03, 2005, 04:21:50 AM
There are a fairly decent amount of people here who have been here from the beginning, on the old boards.
of course, ss, but he's the site owner, he doesnt count. there's also myself, filran, firefairy i believe, auron(rug), matt, mole, ripper, and so on and so forth.
anyways, remember when this place was fun to post in? back when you could post about anything, and talk about anything, and never have to worry, so long as the posts connected in some way?
i think the things which have really driven people away is that people liked getting credit for all of their posts, no matter how spammy (to a degree here, work with me people) they are.

i know that i personally felt like some people were stepping on my toes when ss flat out banned spam throughout the forums and made his little spam temple.

anyways, i was going to make this nice case and have all this sensical logic behind it, but im tired, and i want a sandwhich.

anyways, what im saying here is: the forums are obviously dying here. why not go back to how things used to be?
as the saying goes: let the kids play ball

who cares if a few things go ultra-spammy, as long as we all have fun here?
isnt that what brought us all here in the first place? kings of chaos was fun. and we came here, to play and have fun and chill.
it just feels a little like theirs that nagging parent over my shoulder here, because we always have to check ourselves to make sure things arent too bad.

i admit, there's such a thing as bad spam (dark spam) but come on, why not just let us all have fun again, and take care of those isolated cases?

some feedback from all of you would be great.

~Evilknight


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 03, 2005, 04:25:34 AM
Look, its an entirely random Filran post in a post about spam!




Now, mind you. I don't come here much though. I can't find much to talk about now. I'm too nervous I'll end up dragging the subject away from the subject matter, since that is a special ability of mine. Its like going, okay, I can't play because I'll play a different game then everyone else and I'll get in trouble.

Plus I like shiny numbers. Shiny shiny numbers.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 03, 2005, 04:45:20 AM
Heh, two people that we don't see anymore suddenly show up.  *waves*  :D

Is the problem that spam is banned (and that rule really isn't enforced now) or people just seem to be dropping off the face of the earth?  :miffed:  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 03, 2005, 04:46:28 AM
Well, I'm paranoid to post because the rule is still there. Its LEERING. LEERING AT ME I SAY.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 03, 2005, 04:49:06 AM
hehehe... and the last post on the penance oakish thing was LAST March.  LOL  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: underruler on February 03, 2005, 06:06:38 AM
Should we say happy birthday to it?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Perdition on February 03, 2005, 06:20:12 AM
Yeah, i remember when it was fun *eyes gloss over*  I don't think I remember how to spam :(


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: underruler on February 03, 2005, 06:21:12 AM
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Yeah, i remember when it was fun *eyes gloss over*  I don't think I remember how to spam :(
Yea... me too.  Thanks Dad.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 03, 2005, 07:27:16 PM
Oh, I remember still. Its a knowledge trapped within my fingertips.


Plus, I practice by spamming LJs with things about being educated by the pancakes, screaming cantalopes, or just singing songs. Or spamming with pictures from movies. ;)  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: SS on February 03, 2005, 07:53:37 PM
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when you could post about anything, and talk about anything, and never have to worry, so long as the posts connected in some way?
But it's still like that!
So long as there is a connection with the thread (and it's not just a "LOL" or "I agree") then it's not spam.
Unless the thread topic is "name a fruit", in which case the thread should be in the Temple.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 03, 2005, 08:04:20 PM
But I like 'Name a Fruit.'


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Saladin on February 03, 2005, 09:16:13 PM
Would "Cheese" fall under the same category?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: mole on February 03, 2005, 10:31:46 PM
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dark spam

some of the stuff in the temples far beyond that, the rediculas stuff should be left in there, the humourous tangental subject? :thumbs-up: always good for me


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: evilknight on February 04, 2005, 12:33:07 AM
in relation to ss's post.

i dont mean that the starting topic needs to be completely orderly and all that, im saying that we should allow conversations to move to other topics, just because that's the natural order of most conversations and discussions


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 04, 2005, 05:04:54 AM
But all of our topics end up discussing "cheese" after a few days.  LOL  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 04, 2005, 07:37:38 AM
Thats because no one can resist my overall aura of cool ability.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: SS on February 04, 2005, 02:31:25 PM
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i dont mean that the starting topic needs to be completely orderly and all that, im saying that we should allow conversations to move to other topics, just because that's the natural order of most conversations and discussions
Sure, there's nothing wrong with a conversation flowing.
And if there's the original conversation and and offshoot it just gets split away.
So where's the problem?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: mole on February 04, 2005, 06:40:47 PM
what happens to the post counts to stuff split away?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: SS on February 04, 2005, 07:41:08 PM
Nothing, I think. The same posts are still there, just in two seperate threads.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Rug on February 04, 2005, 07:47:45 PM
With IPB postcount only ever goes up, unless edited at Admin-level. It merely adds one to a counter when you post, rather than adding up every post you have in existence when you post, which some other boards do. In the latter example, deleting a post removes it from the postcount, unless it's done via mass prune.

See? An tangent!


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: mole on February 05, 2005, 01:27:47 PM
A tangent matt A, An only works if the first letter of the next word is a vowel


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Filran on February 05, 2005, 04:40:43 PM
Haha! Rug made a typo! :P


I'm too tired to be up this early.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: matt_the_shark on February 05, 2005, 06:29:01 PM
Let the Spam be free! :D

just had to add my bit into the discussion :)


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: FragMaster1972 on February 05, 2005, 09:50:22 PM
FREE SPAMMY!!!!!!

 :D  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Rug on February 05, 2005, 11:04:57 PM
Yay for drug powered posting?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: FragMaster1972 on February 06, 2005, 12:07:38 AM
sad thing is you nailed it. vicodin and prescription ibuprofen. broke my arm and had surgery on it last night. coulda been worse though, you shoulda seen me right after i got out of the or. keep in mind i hadnt eaten in 20 1/2 hours, nothing to drink (even water) in 12 1/2 hours. I was on morphine, benadryl, some other morphine-like drug cause i had a reaction to the morphine, vicodin, and 600mg ibuprofen (put in perspective, otc ibu is 150-200 mg usually.) yeah, I wasn't feeling much of anything.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: underruler on February 06, 2005, 01:26:33 AM
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yeah, I wasn't feeling much of anything.
Did you try masturbating?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 06, 2005, 02:54:24 AM
The perfect time to go get some painful medical tests done!  LOL


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: mole on February 06, 2005, 02:18:08 PM
frag how did you do it?


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: FragMaster1972 on February 06, 2005, 05:36:04 PM
snowboarding. i turned too fast, and kept turning till my back was pointing straight downhill. the board decided that was a good time for its back edge to dig in and I promptly flipped backwards....very, very, hard. I couldn't even reach up and get my board off, I had to wait for my friend to make his way down the hill and unclip me.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Perdition on February 06, 2005, 06:45:38 PM
Just like a turtle.   Poor fragster.  *hands fraggy a cookie*


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: mole on February 06, 2005, 10:35:15 PM
now ive got this mental image of a cartoon you with your head in the snow and this board waving around


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: underruler on February 07, 2005, 12:28:09 AM
KInd of reminds me of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Rug on February 07, 2005, 01:30:41 AM
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sad thing is you nailed it.

I'm just that good.


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: Lord Lanair on February 07, 2005, 05:02:16 AM
Wow... that's a really funny image, fraggy.  Um... it must have been fun for your friends!  LOL  


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: FragMaster1972 on February 07, 2005, 06:25:54 AM
he thought I was lying there just staring up at the sky in a good way, like when you fall lightly and are like "wheeee!!"

but really I was staring up at the sky for lack of ability to do much else. :(

*munches cookie*


Title: A Final Discussion Topic
Post by: underruler on February 09, 2005, 03:41:23 AM
For some reason that sounds fun.