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Warrior
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 01:18
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I have a new forum, it is Random stupidity I hope to get quite a lot of members. so please join... please. -------------------- NUKE NORTH KOERA (No offence to any Koreans) "Bouts of insanity stop us all going mad.":- Spike Milligan I mod supaniks ass at Random_stupidity NFC FOREVER!!! Posts: 81 | Registered: Wednesday, February 12 2003 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 01:28
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My joining - YAY I'm the first! - was partly due to your cool name, my lack of experience and inteeligence, and the prospect of mod-hood! So, any way, the board looks good! -------------------- Please visit Random Stupidity to see the amazing Spamness, or the wonderful-seven-posts-in-a-row-topic. And have fun! Bod rules!! Thus endeth this post. Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 02:13
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I joined, gotta love the blue background Posts: 82 | Registered: Tuesday, March 9 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 05:05
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Yep its a nice forum I'm #4 -------------------- "When one thinks to him or herself about who they really are, They usually come out of it empty handed for the question be -not who am i-, but -what have i acheived?-" Experimental forum Posts: 113 | Registered: Friday, February 27 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 06:26
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How does your board differ from all the thousands of other boards out there? Why should I even consider joining? What's special and unique with your board? -------------------- - The Great Mister kommari@gmail.com[/url] Posts: 972 | Registered: Tuesday, October 28 2003 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 09:25
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quote:What is this... the Spanish Inquisition?? -------------------- Spend your lazy, endless crazy days inside my head. Posts: 137 | Registered: Monday, June 24 2002 07:00 |
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Apprentice
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 09:29
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I am very stuped What's a forum??? -------------------- Always love Horses! Posts: 4 | Registered: Thursday, March 18 2004 08:00 |
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Warrior
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 09:30
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What your posting at this very moment also called a message board 0_o -------------------- "When one thinks to him or herself about who they really are, They usually come out of it empty handed for the question be -not who am i-, but -what have i acheived?-" Experimental forum Posts: 113 | Registered: Friday, February 27 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 09:39
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quote:Like your satisfaction mattered.. There are dozens of SW-flipoffs already, why should we join another one. -------------------- - The Great Mister kommari@gmail.com[/url] Posts: 972 | Registered: Tuesday, October 28 2003 08:00 |
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Agent
Member # 1104
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 11:53
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Start a list: Polaris Desperance Wiseman's Forums The Club of B00G3YM3N Chance ADoS Revolution Abyss Dark Fire ... -------------------- Chance Forums Posts: 1307 | Registered: Tuesday, May 7 2002 07:00 |
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Agent
Member # 1993
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 12:35
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quote:Let's stay here. Why should we split off from wunderful Spiderweb community? ((  (()) -------------------- ^ö^ Vegetarians are sexy. Solar power is the wave of the future. Posts: 1420 | Registered: Wednesday, October 2 2002 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, March 24 2004 22:14
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From times to times you just have to get away from this wunderful SW community. You'll figure it out soon enough. Posts: 756 | Registered: Monday, August 4 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, March 25 2004 14:01
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Satellite boards are a perennial favorite, but they're also perennial failures. Very few manage to last more than a month or two. ?Alorael, who has no intention of finding another place to waste his time. He does quite enough of that already, thank you very much. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, March 25 2004 15:27
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I joined, as finlay, but that'll probably be the last post I make. Remember that music topic that got to 1001 posts before Imban locked it? You have yourself there one of your very own now! -------------------- ~ørangutan Posts: 316 | Registered: Saturday, May 25 2002 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Thursday, March 25 2004 18:36
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quote:I once went to Desp. Then I realized that my very livelihood and conscience were at risk, and that half the power on the Spidweb boards was given to people closely associated with it, and I shyed away, clinging only to what was left of the BoE Monster Arena. While clinging, my soul traveled between the realms of online sanity, and I found myself returning again and again to Desp, like an addiction, till I finally stumbled on the Lyceum ("So that's where everybody went?"). I now find many answers to life's questions there, as well as the ethics, sanity, and livelihood that I almost lost at Desp. People there are thugs. Well, most of them. Alec's all cuddly. Like a teddy bear.  EDIT: Oh, and Desp isn't exactly a spinoff, I think it would still come into existance without Spidweb. EDITX2 (maybe I should put more thought into this):And if I really wanted people to join GALACTICA (hint hint) I would direct people to my homepage, which doesn't work right now, and nobody knows about because I'm too shy to advertise, because it doesn't have anything worth advertising, so it isn't really worth it. [ Thursday, March 25, 2004 18:39: Message edited by: Desert Plah ] -------------------- "Oh, North Wind, why frighten others? In Nature's family all are brothers. Puff and blow and wheeze and hiss; You can't frighten Shingebiss. Bring your frost and ice and snow; I'm still free to come and go. You can never frighten me, One who never fears is FREE!" -Shingebiss, the mighty duck Posts: 830 | Registered: Tuesday, August 20 2002 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Friday, March 26 2004 05:27
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Surely a forum will always be bad unless it has members, and how do you get members? Pull them out your backside????? So i think you people should be less negative. Also my forum isn't a spiderweb spin-off, its a general forum where you can get away from the restrictions of a specific board like this, i.e you can swear, talk about stupid stuff, insult people all you want, etc. Thats what i say and all i'm saying on the matter. (until i realise i've missed something and have to edit this.) -------------------- NUKE NORTH KOERA (No offence to any Koreans) "Bouts of insanity stop us all going mad.":- Spike Milligan I mod supaniks ass at Random_stupidity NFC FOREVER!!! Posts: 81 | Registered: Wednesday, February 12 2003 08:00 |
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This Side Towards Enemy
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written Friday, March 26 2004 08:26
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Just to clarify, when you say it's supposed to be a 'general board' you mean you decided you needed a message board to gratify your ego and couldn't think of anything even approaching a valid reason for it to exist? Any spin-off forum which only exists because people are too bigoted or uninformed to use an Instant Messenger program doesn't have a chance of lasting more than a few months. -------------------- "I particularly like the part where he claims not to know what self-aggrandisement means, then demands more wing-wongs up his virgin ass" Posts: 961 | Registered: Thursday, June 12 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 26 2004 08:38
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I feel quite comfortable with the level of swearing at these boards, and if I didn't, I would be perfectly willing to release my desire for bad language in the privacy of my room. I will certainly never go to a board whose sole purpose is to be able to swear, and unless my notion of humanity in general is a peg too high, I think few will. Yes, a forum is bad if it has no members. But it does not follow that it is not if it has. I am also of the opinion that there are quite enough boards around founded by ambitious Spiderweb members. Satellite boards have come into fashion temporarily, but it'll pass. -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, March 26 2004 11:24
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quote:It seems that you are unaware that the skin used for this board is the default skin for all Invision Boards. -------------------- Stughalf "The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."- Theodore Roosevelt, 1903. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Friday, March 26 2004 11:30
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in all honesty, nobody joins crappy free forums, especially invisionfree. they last for a week and die. it sounds like a good idea at first, then in practice you realize that it takes a heck of a lot more than that to start a community. -------------------- Song of the Pack -- An Online Multiplayer Wolf RPG!~ Posts: 223 | Registered: Friday, October 26 2001 07:00 |
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Babelicious
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written Friday, March 26 2004 11:51
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Basically, such a forum can only succeed if it provides a substantial contrast to existing facilities. For example, Spiderweb has relatively strict rules, a plethora of moderators, and active moderation of said rules. Desperance has no explicit rules, and a handful of administrators who are trusted to act on their judgement. Polaris has whatever the hell they have. In addition, use of free systems doesn't doom a community; see the Arena (pre-Desp) and the Lyceum (pre-payment). But such a community needs to have an explicit purpose, and the ability for anybody to make a forum with absolutely no cost really decreases the signal-to-noise ratio. I.E., for every Lyceum, there's a hundred 'Lord NUTZ FUN FORUM!!!!"s. Basically, I think the market for 'general' supplementary boards has pretty much been claimed by Desp, Polaris, and Wise (although I have no idea what state Wise is in right now). The longevity of any other such forums is probably very low. How about somebody do us all a favor and make a forum for idiotic RPs? -------------------- Beatoff Valley: A story told out of order. Posts: 999 | Registered: Friday, June 27 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 26 2004 13:19
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That would be like building a cage and putting a sign up saying "anyone who thinks they are an idiot please voluntarily enter this cage so that humanity might be protected from you." Who'd enter? In the end, a board will form where a community is, not vice versa. A community forms where there is a sufficiently large group (>30 people, >20 of them active, is my guess) comes together with a common interest and sufficiently differentiated views to spark discussion. A satellite board can only form if there is a subtopic sufficiently large to not fit in detail on the 'parent' board, and there is a selection of individuals in the parent board, large enough to make up a new community (see above), but small enough to not make up a significant part of the parent board population. To quote Alo, the Polaris board was a "historical inevitability", and I think that holds true for any board that grows old. A board which is founded by Chance (oh, the irony !) cannot be successful in the long run.-------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 26 2004 13:50
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I never said Polaris was a historical inevitability (I hope!). It was just the result of specific circumstances. It really isn't anything close to how it started now, though. It's been through more incarnations than you can shake a stick at. Incidentally, Polaris spent a long time with only about five members. You can keep going on that little, although more people are more fun. ?Alorael, who thinks that's a decent way to make a forum. If a community forms, make boards. Then the people will stick around for at least a little while even after the real 'point' to congregating has vanished. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Friday, March 26 2004 14:22
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Okay, so maybe I took your post the wrong way. It did contain 'historical inevitability' and 'Polaris' in two consecutive sentences. I might have used the term without bothering to quote, but it would have been stupid to steal your words, or I might have quoted them anonymously, but didn't know if you'd mind. A board is like a 'crystallizing' of the community. It helps to make it permanent, but the community is needed before. To follow up on the 'crystal' analogy: Aicheal-Bok, in A2, says that crystal souls are not crystals shaped first, and then infused with the spirits, but crystals created "from nothingness" around the spirits of the Vahnatai. Maybe it's much the same with forums?  -------------------- Visit The Santharian Dream and its RP board. Or the Encyclopaedia Ermariana! Got a brain? Go to Polaris! "It is as if everyone had lost their sense To a conspiracy for downfall and desperance And a wisp it is they have chosen as their beacon." Reinhard Mey (freely translated). Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Friday, March 26 2004 16:20
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quote:That wouldn't have made much sense, would it. You said that the popping up of forums is a historical inevitability of the internet. So a roleplaying forum - as Polaris is now - would sooner or later have come about anyway. [ Friday, March 26, 2004 16:28: Message edited by: ef ] -------------------- Polaris Posts: 1828 | Registered: Saturday, January 11 2003 08:00 |
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