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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 7, 2009 19:35:45 GMT
I propose that plans to combat the drastically falling rates of posting be posted in this thread. That is if anyone cares enough to actually post in this thread
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Post by Tom on Apr 7, 2009 20:09:26 GMT
Well I've no idea what we can do. I got Conall to sign up, but I doubt he's coming back. I think a lot of people we know just aren't suited or used to the whole forum life-style (because posting on a forum does have to be a routine type thing if you're to get the most out of it).
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Post by Rob on Apr 8, 2009 11:17:38 GMT
Bump!
I haven't been posting recently because I've been so busy with elections, but you guys are definitely right. We need to get up off our arses and post! Or just...stay sitting down and continue posting.
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 8, 2009 20:54:15 GMT
I've been studying like a good girl.
Hmm. How about sending out notifications? Is that too corny?
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Post by Aonghus on Apr 8, 2009 21:25:47 GMT
Can we do that?
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 8, 2009 22:12:20 GMT
I don't know. Probably not. I was thinking e-mails.
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Post by Tom on Apr 8, 2009 23:20:03 GMT
Well Facebook-style e-mails would be handy, but I would've thought that we'd already have them if we could have them. I dunno. Rob? You're the admin. What's the story?
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Post by maxwell on Apr 9, 2009 21:01:28 GMT
I was out having a social life. Luckily, I have since discarded it.
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 9, 2009 21:13:22 GMT
I was out having a social life. Luckily, I have since discarded it. Good job, that's the spirit!
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Post by donal on Apr 9, 2009 23:35:17 GMT
Maybe if the moderators would stop deleting entire threads.......... the situation would turn round. Incidentally there should be a thread where we just stick it to the moderators. You approve, Rob? Diarmuid? Tom?
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 10, 2009 7:54:12 GMT
Well to be fair I think the only thread which was deleted in its entirety was the Family Guy one, and I think Rob pretty much got the message that people didn't really appreciate his opinions on that one.
As for a thread where we (you) stick it to the moderators, I thought the karma system was sticking it to me and Rob fairly well as it was. If you feel like starting the thread I won't object, although I may start a thread sticking it to the members and there's no way that's gonna end nicely.
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Post by Tom on Apr 10, 2009 16:10:40 GMT
I've only ever deleted already-locked threads or ones that I've started and have since gone dormant, so don't start getting crotchety with me, Dónal.
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Post by donal on Apr 10, 2009 17:51:15 GMT
How about's you just leave them there without deleting. I was looking for the Billy Mays thread earlier on an couldn't find it. That what that was about. And now Diarmuid is telling me that Rob's deleting stuff too.
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Post by Rob on Apr 12, 2009 18:47:38 GMT
I will admit that yesterday, I very foolishly activated a 'delete posts older than 30 days' thing and I think that may have deleted some classic stuff that I didn't want it to. I'll be careful not to do that, again.
You have my permission (and you didn't really need it anyway) to make an anti-moderator thread where you can wreak all the havoc you want and call us all names.
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 12, 2009 21:26:30 GMT
Although if that does happen I'm gonna start an anti-user thread, and post all sorts of hurtful things that'll allow me to once again compete with Rob on the karma front.
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Post by Tom on Apr 14, 2009 0:11:27 GMT
Oh no. Whatever shall we do (in either case)?
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Post by Rob on Apr 14, 2009 10:18:50 GMT
This thread is silly. This message board still gets plenty of use. It's just not as mind-bogglingly active as it was when I started it.
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 14, 2009 10:25:53 GMT
And denial is a river in Egypt.
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Post by Rob on Apr 14, 2009 11:29:41 GMT
^^
Originality of the Day.
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 14, 2009 13:56:23 GMT
Actually it seems to have picked up again since I posted this. And to be fair, it also always got plenty of use, Rob's right (but only this once...)
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 14, 2009 17:33:03 GMT
Well we'll just see what happens when vampirefreaks is working properly. (That's a loss of three rather active members!)
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Post by Tom on Apr 14, 2009 19:23:53 GMT
Pah! I'll still be here to carry the weight of the entire forum on my shoulders! I don't need any of you, ye hear! I've got over 500 posts! I'm so 1337, it hurts!
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 14, 2009 20:21:53 GMT
Oh yeah, I meant to say in this other thread: There's no such thing as noobs where 534 is one of the highest post counts.
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Post by Diarmuid on Apr 14, 2009 20:30:50 GMT
Since when is there a minimum top post count for someone else to be considered a noob? The thing you have to remember is that this started out as a virtual form of whoever's front room we happened to be in. So Tom has thousands of real-life posts as well as his 500 virtual posts. Hence him calling noobs noobs.
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 14, 2009 21:20:00 GMT
But he wasn't calling anyone noobs! And I'm just pointing out that there isn't really much of a post-gap between noobs and non-noobs when the highest post count is 534.
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Post by Tom on Apr 17, 2009 4:18:35 GMT
I propose the following joke as a means for combating the slump in posts/users:
On a group of beautiful deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following people are stranded:
- two Italian men and one Italian woman - two French men and one French woman - two German men and one German woman - two Greek men and one Greek woman - two English men and one English woman - two Bulgarian men and one Bulgarian woman - two Japanese men and one Japanese woman - two Chinese men and one Chinese woman - two American men and one American woman - two Irish men and one Irish woman
One month later on these absolutely stunning deserted islands in the middle of nowhere, the following things have occurred: *One Italian man killed the other Italian man for the Italian woman. *The two French men and the French woman are living happily together in a menage-a-trois. *The two German men have a strict weekly schedule of alternating visits with the German woman. *The two Greek men are sleeping with each other and the Greek woman is cleaning and cooking for them. *The two English men are waiting for someone to introduce them to the English woman. *The two Bulgarian men took one long look at the endless ocean and another long look at the Bulgarian woman and started swimming. *The two Japanese men have faxed Tokyo and are awaiting instructions.
*The two Chinese men have set up a pharmacy/liquor/ convenience store/restaurant/laundry, and have gotten the woman pregnant in order to supply employees for their store. *The two American men are contemplating the virtues of suicide, because the American woman keeps on complaining about her body, the true nature of feminism, how she can do everything they can do, the necessity of fulfillment, the equal division of household chores, how sand and palm trees make her look fat, how her last boyfriend respected her opinion and treated her nicer than they do, all the sales she's missing, how her relationship with her mother is improving, and how at least the taxes are low and it isn't raining. The American woman, meanwhile, watches the men fart and scratch.
*The two Irish men divided the island into North and South and set up a distillery. They do not remember if sex is in the picture because it gets sort of foggy after the first few liters of coconut whiskey. But they're satisfied, because at least the English aren't having any fun.
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Post by Aonghus on Apr 17, 2009 9:51:11 GMT
*clapclap* I applaud you Tom. The Greek and Japanese one in particular made me chuckle.
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Post by Rob on Apr 17, 2009 11:04:41 GMT
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Post by Tom on Apr 17, 2009 13:08:41 GMT
That guy is SO getting laid tonight.
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Post by Kweeva Velva on Apr 17, 2009 13:15:16 GMT
Ugh. That reminds me of someone. -_-
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