Enlighten me please - Asylum and OOTFollow

Kao just about covered it, but the week or two of DDOS didn't help, either.

Nuh uh! Sabo is a *** hag's ***.

Also, Nixnot is like that guy on Little Britain. You can't convince him he's no longer the only gay in town. And that's the other thing about the OOT vs. the Asylum. I think we [oot] all have ADD.

Edited, Jan 10th 2009 3:15pm by Annabella

Well, besides the fact that I'm on the ***** spectrum like Pensive and Mindel is a lesbian, you also have Quadkit and that other guy. Also, Kavekk.

Edited, Jan 10th 2009 3:29pm by Annabella

All liars.

I'm the best all around token gay. The straights gay, the stealth ***, the kind of ***** that good wholesome cornfed godfearing christian bible thumping midwest milktoast families can look at and say "That there is the kind of gay I can get behind. You betcha."

Haha, inurendo.

The trouble is that with more than one gay, well, we don't really have a "token." And what about jackjeckl?

Oh yeah and Dyadem. He's much more proficient at being gay than you.

Edited, Jan 10th 2009 6:37pm by Annabella

I vote we merge =4 with the FFXI and Tech Support Forums

So fUck off back there.

This is a fun thread, I like it.

But makes me look back into my posting history and hate myself. Although, I was only like, 13 when I started posting.

Thats part of the key issue. Many of us started posting here back in college or around that time, and without new content, people get bored with forums. You've got your post creaters, and your post repliers. Back in the day I used to be a fairly prolific post creator, but now that I've got the maroon name, I get self consious that I am hijacking the forum if I make too many new threads. It's one of the paridoxical points of forum nature. The faster the main page moves, the more people come back to read it and post, thus causing the page to move even more rapidly. At some point there is a gestalt point where the forum starts becoming self sustaining again. And it seems to be different for each forum we have. Asylum would ideally have 20 regulars and 60 lurkers at any given time, more during peak periods, to get things really moving. For OOT on the other hand, they have those numbers, but they tend to be more prolific posting anyways, so it takes more of them to add enough content to their threads to where it doesn't just look like 3 or 4 people replying to eachother all day. On the other hand, some of the FFXI server forums get by with about 8 regulars, and have a huge following.

If we ever did merge the OOT and Asylum, it would be under the same posting rules of engagement that Asylum currently operates at, lax Swear filter enforcement, etc. But that still leaves the issue of newbies getting blasted out of existance when they venture into the OOT type space.

To get around that, One thing I have considered would be a "newbie zone" forum. People could post in there under the following conditions: Either having a post count lower than 100-200 posts, or having a post count of higher than 6,000 posts. No Karma system whatsoever except the Admin tools. The goal being to give new posters an area to play and interact without being blasted out of existance, but at the same time give them exposeure to the board regulars. The 6,000 post restriction is about the level at which I would consider people on average of having been here long enough to know better than to destroy the newbies when admins are watching. I don't know how it would all work, especially no karma system to drop threads down when admins aren't available.

fuck off, Clapton

Oh noes! I am being berated by an hairdressing incubator

Did I mention I'm having wine right now? It's sooooo good....

Look. I'm licking the glass. Can't miss a drop!