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Rolo

yeah that shit got played up

Kochikens

Smart Hero wrote:

NPH would be an awesome uncle

god i know right???

could you imagine him singing you a bedtime story

Anjin-San

Kochikens wrote:

Anjin-San wrote:

it should be legal to kill anyone who participated in the making of the smurfs movie

I have friends who worked on that movie!

and Neil patrick harris!!!

case in point

Abracadaniel

yes

yes I could

Ledneh

Rank's next act as Overlord should be to follow through on his threat and merge every thread in SE++ into one ultrathread

Junpei

Hunter wrote:

Junpei wrote:

Gumpy wrote:

How does one forum uprise

Do people just post burning flags in random topics

It's a general strike and nobody posts until our demands are met.

I'm seriously waiting for the day when Tube bans the entire forum just for shits and giggles.

The best thing about this is that it would never be expected, one day it'll just be "Welp, no more posting for us" and that'll be that.

Elwood

a forum uprising is when everyone says "no, fuck YOU mods!!!!!!" at the same time

Elwood

RS and TTB started basically because of minor uprising-ish activities

Sweeney Tom

Oh my God.

I just came back from seeing "Cowboys and Aliens", and read all the threads that JetFalcon guy posted in the span of like, an hour.

Holy shit.

alt post: Dammit, I always miss the good stuff.

Belruel

Elwood wrote:

a forum uprising is when everyone says "no, fuck YOU mods!!!!!!" at the same time

and then what happens? Our forum is an oligarchy, and no one is ever really pissed off enough en masse to be any kind of threat to the board's activity.

And even if it was, penny arcade loses money with the forums.

Rolo

Ledneh wrote:

Rank's next act as Overlord should be to follow through on his threat and merge every thread in SE++ into one ultrathread

thread merging has gotten people de-modded before

although they were joke mods

Butters

Macro9 wrote:

I thought Duck was only accused of taking bribes not that he actually did?

At least that's how I remember him telling the story when we were playing with our CoXs.

I think he did ban the guy he was being bribed to ban anyway just for shits though. Something like that.

Baidol

Rolo wrote:

Ledneh wrote:

Rank's next act as Overlord should be to follow through on his threat and merge every thread in SE++ into one ultrathread

thread merging has gotten people de-modded before

although they were joke mods

That was a good day.

Rolo

Belruel wrote:

Elwood wrote:

a forum uprising is when everyone says "no, fuck YOU mods!!!!!!" at the same time

and then what happens? Our forum is an oligarchy, and no one is ever really pissed off enough en masse to be any kind of threat to the board's activity.

And even if it was, penny arcade loses money with the forums.

they start a splinter forum that is inevitably forgotten

Butters

Belruel wrote:

penny arcade loses money with the forums.

The forum is an investment. It doesn't make money on its own but they generate a lot of buzz and sales by having an active forum community.

Tox

I think a forum uprising assumes a few things, though. Chiefly:

1) That the admin/mod team care what the forumers want

2) That the people running the site care a lot about the forum's existence

3) That the mods/admins feel compelled to keep the forum from being crappy.

I....don't see it working here. I mean, having just invested in Vanilla and new servers, I guess they'd want some form of return on their investment, but the mods/admins have their own, private board, so they could easily ban everybody and just go there to hang out.

Also, this place isn't really that shitty, or that bad. I mean, the worst it's been in years was the server problems, and that's about as good a reason for an uprising as you're going to get, and everybody was pretty much like, "Oh, cool. Okay. This sucks, but we know something's coming."

I just don't see an uprising...working...here. At worst it'd get trolled, and at best we'd be rid of a few people that we probably don't need around here anyway.

Bogey

Man, it's been too long since we've had a decent splinter-forum break-off.

Junpei

Burning bridges eh?

Henroid

Hunter wrote:

Junpei wrote:

Gumpy wrote:

How does one forum uprise

Do people just post burning flags in random topics

It's a general strike and nobody posts until our demands are met.

I'm seriously waiting for the day when Tube bans the entire forum just for shits and giggles.

He practically already did once, years ago. He decided to ban an entire subnet.

Rolo

Bogey wrote:

Man, it's been too long since we've had a decent splinter-forum break-off.

BOGEY FORUMS MAN DO IT

Poorochondriac

The phrase "forum uprising" is so dorky I blacked out

Edcrab

Elwood wrote:

RS and TTB started basically because of minor uprising-ish activities

I find this stuff interesting because it was way before my time

You guys are like forum archeologists!

Aneurhythmia

Butters wrote:

Belruel wrote:

penny arcade loses money with the forums.

The forum is an investment. It doesn't make money on its own but they generate a lot of buzz and sales by having an active forum community.

It's true, though I wonder if switching out the banner at the top of pages for merch with some of their front page sponsors wouldn't help offset direct costs. No ridiculous Flash googobs popping up with every page load, but a static image or something.

Rolo

I thought RS was made because of forum downtime?

Ledneh

Rolo wrote:

Ledneh wrote:

Rank's next act as Overlord should be to follow through on his threat and merge every thread in SE++ into one ultrathread

thread merging has gotten people de-modded before

although they were joke mods

It would be worth it to see the database backend choke and die horribly

so pissed off at databases right nowhughglfhgkhfgzxcvgh

Anjin-San

bless the 'site

Elwood

Belruel wrote:

Elwood wrote:

a forum uprising is when everyone says "no, fuck YOU mods!!!!!!" at the same time

and then what happens? Our forum is an oligarchy, and no one is ever really pissed off enough en masse to be any kind of threat to the board's activity.

And even if it was, penny arcade loses money with the forums.

Nothing happens! Ever! That's the best part! People get all bent out of shape about ADMIN ABOOSE and throw tantrums about their RIGHTS as POSTERS and it all dies down pretty quick

most often you see it in the summer when the college kids are home and bored and over winter breaks for the same reasons

Elwood

"I took intro to politics last semester and this is clear fascism!!!!!"

Butters

Aneurhythmia wrote:

Butters wrote:

Belruel wrote:

penny arcade loses money with the forums.

The forum is an investment. It doesn't make money on its own but they generate a lot of buzz and sales by having an active forum community.

It's true, though I wonder if switching out the banner at the top of pages for merch with some of their front page sponsors wouldn't help offset direct costs. No ridiculous Flash googobs popping up with every page load, but a static image or something.

Pop-up 30 second ads for papa johns every time you visit a new thread.

slow

Anjin-San wrote:

bless the 'site

smash the site

burn all jeems

Elwood

Rolo wrote:

I thought RS was made because of forum downtime?

That might have been part of it too

then there was the ill-fated rans/boddah webcomic

Belruel

Sounds futile to me.

Gonna go draw a wang or something now.

Macro9

Is the Citadel of Truth still around?

Anjin-San

bu

slow wrote:

Anjin-San wrote:

bless the 'site

smash the site

burn all jeems

unity in burg destruction

Anjin-San

authoritarian burg state

slow

the flag of one-eyed jeem

flying over a plundered spanish burg galleon

Anjin-San

the true fear of orwell

Larlar

Everyone who thinks a splinter forum is a terrible idea should create their own forum.

Melding

Maybe i will Larlar, what then?

Forar

Baidol wrote:

Rolo wrote:

Ledneh wrote:

Rank's next act as Overlord should be to follow through on his threat and merge every thread in SE++ into one ultrathread

thread merging has gotten people de-modded before

although they were joke mods

That was a good day.

Was that a whining forum appearance or one of the holiday forums? Either way, those pages followed by Tube's reaction may have been the funniest thing I've ever seen on the forums.

Macro9 wrote:

Is the Citadel of Truth still around?

According to some quick googling, nope, assuming this is the URL, which is apparently for sale.

http://www.citadeloftruth.com/