I see loads of people going on about the great decline,going on about how quiet the forums are etc. But really look what happened and god help me for saying it.
People like Jefjef Megaswoman Bogangod Myself Owenshooter Johnny rocket Generalleegettinhead( not his game style though what finally lost it for him) Chariotoffire Josko Blitzaholic King herpes bm fruitcake bk barunt dancing mustard We all used to be forum posters where people would be pissed off with what was being said, would even foe for it or even post telling us to shut up. Most of the above lost posting rights and are proberly on final warnings so are more careful of our posts changing us into average joes. But this has had a knock on effect as people do not visit the forums to see what arguements we have started what crap we are saying etc, and joining in with what ever the chat was about.
I say wipe our records and give us freedom of speech, then hopefully the forums would jump start back into what they used to be.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 7:25 am
by owenshooter
eddie... to be honest, they forums are moderated much differently now and they are far more lenient... the demise of the global mod position seems to have had a huge effect on the way the forums are moderated and how infractions are dealt with... team members have next to zero power in terms of dealing with infractions within the forums... they pretty much report it up the chain until it gets lost in the clutter on someone's desk...
the forums aren't moderated in the same way they were a few years ago... they don't lock your thread, put you in Guest's and then leave you there until it is sorted out... they just lock a thread, give you a little note and the beat rolls on... i think if you reached out to these past members and told them to come back, they may... if i was able to get DaGip to come back, you certainly can get JefJef to come back...
the black jesus has spoken...-Jésus noir
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:23 am
by Shannon Apple
Some people leave for personal reasons that have nothing to do with the site. You have to respect that.
And owen, as far as locking posts and crap goes, we do have those powers. Those of us with the gold colour name can technically moderate a large portion of the site. Suggestions, Media and Discussions teams have been merged. However, until the rules are revamped/ made clear, I personally am not going to touch it with a ten foot barge poll unless I see something really terrible that needs to be locked like a noddy return. The forum is a total and utter crap hole. I do have specific duties however as a volunteer that have nothing to do with moderating forums, so I stick to that.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 9:35 am
by eddie2
Yep shannon i understand that. But some of the above players are still active.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 10:23 am
by IcePack
MegasWoman is still around, Josko too. Jefjef gone not due to punishments tho Several others same boat as jefjef I believe.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 11:40 am
by eddie2
Bogans about as well seen 1 or 2 posts from him. Am sure i seen jefjef on line about 6 weeks ago. But know you and megas will know what he is up 2. As for bogan i might go troll a couple of his posts for old times sake lol.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 12:44 pm
by Dukasaur
eddie2 wrote:Bogans about as well seen 1 or 2 posts from him. Am sure i seen jefjef on line about 6 weeks ago. But know you and megas will know what he is up 2. As for bogan i might go troll a couple of his posts for old times sake lol.
Bogan comes around from time to time, but he's not a daily visitor like he used to be...
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 1:00 pm
by IcePack
eddie2 wrote:Bogans about as well seen 1 or 2 posts from him. Am sure i seen jefjef on line about 6 weeks ago. But know you and megas will know what he is up 2. As for bogan i might go troll a couple of his posts for old times sake lol.
Yeah he came back briefly after a two year break, then left again. I'm sure he pokes his head in here from time to time.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 2:15 pm
by eddie2
IcePack wrote:
eddie2 wrote:Bogans about as well seen 1 or 2 posts from him. Am sure i seen jefjef on line about 6 weeks ago. But know you and megas will know what he is up 2. As for bogan i might go troll a couple of his posts for old times sake lol.
Yeah he came back briefly after a two year break, then left again. I'm sure he pokes his head in here from time to time.
I am guessing either he put a ring on megas finger, or they split up. Either way i bet she banned him from cc .. I miss our forum wars was fun and games. I hate the forums because there are no posts to sit back with your morning coffee and laugh at the responses.
Ps im sure jefjef had a thing for me and was that heartbroken i left the site he could not cope with me not being around, i think the same goes for bogan
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 4:45 pm
by owenshooter
eddie2 wrote:I hate the forums because there are no posts to sit back with your morning coffee and laugh at the responses.
i would literally make my coffee and then sit at the table with my laptop and browse the forums for about an hour just cracking the F up... oh, they were so damn good...-Jn
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:18 am
by iAmCaffeine
Roughly half your list are no longer here via their own accord. Personally I'm one warning away from a permanent forum ban so I'm trying to be a top, upstanding member of the community that shits rainbows everywhere I go.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:30 am
by eddie2
Lol caffine thats what i mean. People like you, even though we piss people off we made the forums what they were. We made it that people wanted to read the threads ,even if just to report us. I see bogangod in the forum now. Lets see if the fat mermaid makes a post lol.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:33 am
by khazalid
o, woe and lamentation, that the wit that is eddie2 cannot shine among us. misery of nations. give him his free speech now and the fora will be as if terraformed anew. there will be dancing in gd; brotherhood aboundeth in c&a. act, i say, act. it is not too late to save the world. lol.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:36 am
by eddie2
Lol kaz. I see your spelling gone downhill, mine has improved. How things change.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:41 am
by BoganGod
Eddie, I opened a business 15 months ago. So have premium but keeping my game count down. Am in 9active at present with about 3 pending. Mainly on here to visit with old friends in game chat. The forums are pretty boring at present. A lot of single issue tub thumpers with the collective IQ of wilted watercress. As far as I'm aware I don't have any forum sanctions or warnings against me. If the policy boffins that are <coughs> running this place don't want me posting, wouldn't be much angst or rancor on my part. I'm with a crew of about 8 or 9 that if the others weren't playing we wouldn't play. Pretty much only on site for each other. I'll also be getting married later this year, early next year. So am assuming my new boss might have ideas about my spare time. If it came down to a choice between my D&D games with friends in RL and CC, I don't know which would win. Even three years ago would have been CC for sure. 6 years ago, I wouldn't have gone near D&D, too consumed by CC.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:47 am
by eddie2
Good to hear from you bogan. Congrates on the engagement,
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 7:29 am
by iAmCaffeine
eddie2 wrote:Lol kaz. I see your spelling gone downhill, mine has improved. How things change.
He didn't make any spelling mistakes y'know? Khaz is one of my favs.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 8:03 am
by notyou2
BoganGod wrote:Eddie, I opened a business 15 months ago. So have premium but keeping my game count down. Am in 9active at present with about 3 pending. Mainly on here to visit with old friends in game chat. The forums are pretty boring at present. A lot of single issue tub thumpers with the collective IQ of wilted watercress. As far as I'm aware I don't have any forum sanctions or warnings against me. If the policy boffins that are <coughs> running this place don't want me posting, wouldn't be much angst or rancor on my part. I'm with a crew of about 8 or 9 that if the others weren't playing we wouldn't play. Pretty much only on site for each other. I'll also be getting married later this year, early next year. So am assuming my new boss might have ideas about my spare time. If it came down to a choice between my D&D games with friends in RL and CC, I don't know which would win. Even three years ago would have been CC for sure. 6 years ago, I wouldn't have gone near D&D, too consumed by CC.
Congratz on the engagement and business.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:43 am
by BoganGod
Thank you for the congratulations folks. Though I fear both things could equally be good, or a sign of waning mental prowess. Only time will tell.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 9:59 am
by khazalid
one foot in the grave now champ.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:08 am
by Ltrain
Re: pathetic
Postby eddie2 on Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:00 am Rofl enjoy your vacation ltrain.
Just wondering what you meant by that eddie. If you were paying attention I asked for my topic to be locked
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:22 am
by iAmCaffeine
Ltrain wrote:Re: pathetic
Postby eddie2 on Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:00 am Rofl enjoy your vacation ltrain.
Just wondering what you meant by that eddie. If you were paying attention I asked for my topic to be locked
Requesting a lock doesn't (or at least shouldn't) excuse the abundance of flames you threw around, for which we're all expecting you to receive a warning/temporary forum ban.
Commenting from a neutral position here, don't wish my death upon me.
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 10:26 am
by owenshooter
Ltrain wrote:Re: pathetic
Postby eddie2 on Mon Aug 24, 2015 5:00 am Rofl enjoy your vacation ltrain.
Just wondering what you meant by that eddie. If you were paying attention I asked for my topic to be locked
please stop trolling, Ltrain. this is yet another forum violation by you.
and to stay on topic. there was an effort made by CC to bring back prominent posters from the forum past (good and bad)... they contacted people, asked the old forum peeps that were still around to invite people back. they literally had a kind of "reach out" program... i think it would be great if they did it again, just to remind people that we are all still here and really trying to make this the kind of place it was before andy and the CC kristall nachters tore it apart (yes, andy... yes, i know.. it is facebooks fault... facebook destroyed the forums by banning everyone in sight that was even remotely subversive or non-complimentary to the site)... so, if you have a way to contact them, do it... i brought back a handful of people with emails/messages, etc... you can do the same...
Re: Bring them back lol
Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2015 11:00 am
by eddie2
Rofl ltrain can i make a suggestion to you.
This thread is about bringing back the great all time forum posters who are not around anymore. You i am afraid to say will never be that. So last 3 days what have you done.
1) opened a flame troll thread ( which was locked fast by mods) 2) carried it on opening another thread also slagging off the mod who locked the first thread. 3) came to this thread trying to make it off topic and nothing to do with what we were talking about.
No 3 is a classic because you have just done what you were complaining about (albeit in the wrong way.) then you have the cheek to say we are like high school kids. Next time you go to the bathroom lean over the toilet and talk to it. Because that is where all the shit coming out of your mouth belongs.
Now back on subject. Can anybody think of anyone else we would like to see back in the forums.