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    If we're going down the list then The Chef had a forum which lasted like two months.

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    And there was Fools Gold...no I don't think I ever posted there.
    You have 107 posts on Fool's Gold.

    I remember Chef's place. I think I was an admin there.
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    Fool's Gold - My own board. Frankly it's in a terrible state right now and I'm not really sure what to do to clean it up/revive it.
    Well for starters, ban Sylvie and Follicle and don't let them come back. It seems like you warn and warn and warn until it reaches critical mass and then you ban them and then like 4 months later they come slithering back, like clockwork. My guess as to your thought process is that "some posts are better than no posts," but in this case it really isn't true.

    At least when there were only like one or two posts a week I didn't have to wade through a stream of dadaist bulltrout to find them. Grow a pair and ban them for good.

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    I miss omgmygame a bit, that was fun.
    I go through phases of kind of wanting it to be around again. xD

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    omgmygame still exists, but the domain does not. You have to edit your hosts file in order to see it...
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    Too much effort for something I only have a passing fancy for. xD

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    Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
    omgmygame still exists, but the domain does not. You have to edit your hosts file in order to see it...
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    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by The Man
    Fool's Gold - My own board. Frankly it's in a terrible state right now and I'm not really sure what to do to clean it up/revive it.
    Well for starters, ban Sylvie and Follicle and don't let them come back. It seems like you warn and warn and warn until it reaches critical mass and then you ban them and then like 4 months later they come slithering back, like clockwork. My guess as to your thought process is that "some posts are better than no posts," but in this case it really isn't true.

    At least when there were only like one or two posts a week I didn't have to wade through a stream of dadaist bulltrout to find them. Grow a pair and ban them for good.
    It's not just that; it's also that usually when they come back after a long ban they're not as stupid as they were when they got banned. Sylvie actually was posting comprehensible posts for the first week or so that he was unbanned, for example. Unfortunately both of them quickly revert back to their old ways.

    I probably will give them a final warning and then just permaban them when they inevitably disregard it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Man View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by The Man
    Fool's Gold - My own board. Frankly it's in a terrible state right now and I'm not really sure what to do to clean it up/revive it.
    Well for starters, ban Sylvie and Follicle and don't let them come back. It seems like you warn and warn and warn until it reaches critical mass and then you ban them and then like 4 months later they come slithering back, like clockwork. My guess as to your thought process is that "some posts are better than no posts," but in this case it really isn't true.

    At least when there were only like one or two posts a week I didn't have to wade through a stream of dadaist bulltrout to find them. Grow a pair and ban them for good.
    It's not just that; it's also that usually when they come back after a long ban they're not as stupid as they were when they got banned. Sylvie actually was posting comprehensible posts for the first week or so that he was unbanned, for example. Unfortunately both of them quickly revert back to their old ways.

    I probably will give them a final warning and then just permaban them when they inevitably disregard it.
    On the subject, and I am not talking about those two users that were mentioned, but the reason why my IRL friends/family stopped posting, as well as a couple of other people is because the place eventually became the internet tough guy forum. Personally, it didn't bug me that much at time, and as you know I am all for horsing around and people ****ing with each other, but it came to the point where all you had to do is say "I went to the store today" and before you knew it someone was down your throat and went way past the point of just joking around.

    To be fair, one my friends was more hypersensitive and should have handled herself better, but I guess the main issue is that lines were very often crossed and the community became way too mean spirited. The whole LOL INTERNET HATE MACHINE thing can be funny, but if you constantly have someone on your ass, it gets old real quick.

    Sorry for kind of ranting there, (the) man. For the record I had tons of fun at your forum back then and I don't have any issue with you. If anything, I am glad you are around these parts again. I was just offering some insight on what I feel went wrong with the place. So....

    TL;DR: The more lax attitude of the forum was really fun at first, but members who got way too mean spirited over the silliest things basically made a lot of people stop posting.


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    Yeah, we were probably way too lax about trolling. These days people tend not to be such dicks for the most part; there's an unfortunate amount of troutposting though

    You should come back. The more people who aren't troutposters are posting there, the less percentage of the board will be made up of troutposting.
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    The above statements are why I don;t ever go back to FG. No fun being at a place where everyone treats you like a piece of trout. I get that enough here without the direct "you're stupid I hate you go away"

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    Quote Originally Posted by I Took the Red Pill View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by The Man
    Fool's Gold - My own board. Frankly it's in a terrible state right now and I'm not really sure what to do to clean it up/revive it.
    Well for starters, ban Sylvie and Follicle and don't let them come back. It seems like you warn and warn and warn until it reaches critical mass and then you ban them and then like 4 months later they come slithering back, like clockwork. My guess as to your thought process is that "some posts are better than no posts," but in this case it really isn't true.

    At least when there were only like one or two posts a week I didn't have to wade through a stream of dadaist bulltrout to find them. Grow a pair and ban them for good.
    They're both banned again, by the way. It probably will stick this time; I'm too fed up with Sylvie's inevitable temper tantrums when we enforce the rules.
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    Random Foolishness, bel; and Magical Fried Hamsters will always remain the best EoFF spin off boards.

    Also while this Fool's Gold (remember when I was an admin? that was the best) business is nice and all, we're not interested in bringing drama from other forums here folks. Just a precautionary heads up.

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    Fool's Gold is a place I went to 8 years ago as a lurker and I think I might have actually made an account so I can lurk more thoroughly. I remember going in to the picture thread and seeing a bunch of pictures of Slyvie and Dixie with really overblown photos that looked like they were circa 1994. It was strange.

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    I'm not going back to FG until I'm Pravda again.


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