The Apolyton 100 - Page 4

Solver · August 3, 2001, 13:08

I will now want to do some massive spamming

, with on-topic posts. I want to get in the first hundred. Currently, I'm number 134. Damnit, never cared about postcount, now I'll have to be in top 100, to get described. I want to see what others know about me.

rah · August 3, 2001, 14:27

Seeing you in a lot of forums that you used to frequent infreguently, I would judge that you're doing well in that regard

At least I know who you are now.

RAH

Rasputin · August 3, 2001, 14:39

Quote:

Originally posted by rah
Seeing you in a lot of forums that you used to frequent infreguently, I would judge that you're doing well in that regard

At least I know who you are now.

RAH

Damn who do these young upstarts think they are, wherever do they get the ideas to post in multiple forums to get PC up.....

Sometihng needs to be done to control these young guns...

What next more AH clones all at deity !!!!!!

DarkCloud · August 5, 2001, 12:31

#1-25 Updated with Stefu's suggestions and MORE!

Extra description was written up on Stefu and Ecthelion and others

Shadowstrike · August 5, 2001, 16:19

Good Lord! Now I finally know what happened to all those hours I wasted on the Internet. (My post count at the Frontier has recently surpassed by Apolyton one). Maybe I should post here more.

Immortal Wombat · August 5, 2001, 16:36

What and where is the Frontier? Everyone disappears there, and never comes back to tell of their experiences

Bugs ****ing Bunny · August 5, 2001, 16:48

http://www.tb3.org.uk/cgi-bin/forums...assCookie=true

To be brutally honest you haven't missed much.

DarkCloud · August 5, 2001, 19:48

I have no idea how anyone at the frontier can get that high an amount of posts- it doesn't seem as if the OT is frequented much and in the story threads there doesn't seem to be a high level of #of posts... How do they get the high post counts there Shadowstrike?

-You should definately post here more

Especially because Civ III is coming!

Urban Ranger · August 5, 2001, 23:14

How come I am British?

Since Roland isn't here I blame phoenixcager for not correcting the mistake. I'm going to get under your skin now you silly S'porean

I am Canadian. Oh wait, I'm not

DarkCloud,

Please add me as somebody who's against those "ego stroking" threads.

phoenixcager · August 6, 2001, 04:23

Quote:

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
How come I am British?

Since Roland isn't here I blame phoenixcager for not correcting the mistake. I'm going to get under your skin now you silly S'porean

I am Canadian. Oh wait, I'm not

DarkCloud,

Please add me as somebody who's against those "ego stroking" threads.

I know which part of the world you live in, but not whether you're an expat.

And isn't 'British' a good guess for where you live?

Shadowstrike · August 6, 2001, 13:36

Look at the OT archives. Yes, theyare all from the past six months to a year. Plus, we play in a lot of story forums. DotW, AoI, BNG, and so forth. There was a time when I even modded two forums.... but that was when BNG II was still around.....

DarkCloud · August 6, 2001, 14:44

So... Urban Ranger are you British and living in Canada?
hmmm..

Urban Ranger · August 6, 2001, 23:15

Hm...

I'm not British and I'm not living in Canada. Most curious why people would think I'm a Brit. Do I look like one to you?

Oh wait, nevermind

Ethnicity: Chinese
Place of Origin: HKSAR

pc,

Yeah, right, expat. I wish I were getting paid that much. Blatant discrimination Unfair I say.

phoenixcager · August 7, 2001, 01:28

dp

phoenixcager · August 7, 2001, 01:28

I kind of guessed you were local, UR, just didn't want to say it without confirmation from you.

btw..DC, HKSAR=Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

DarkCloud · August 7, 2001, 16:47

Okay, large update on #26-50 (and yes I worked on your profile Chris

)

Not every 26-50 idea has been fixed but all of Stefu, Colon, and Jay Bee's ideas were added as well as additional comments.

Oh, heres 1-10; the files got too large:

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10. Urban Ranger
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Chinese
Lives: Hong Kong
Registered: 1999
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

Description:
Posts often in the Civ III and Off-Topic.

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09. *End Is Forever*
Former Usernames: (Iain Lindley)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Iain Lindley
Age Group: 17-22
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Off-Topic

Description:
Referred to Apolyton by Stewart Spink, Iain has mostly posted in the Off-Topic and rarely in the On.
After visiting Apolyton he began to play Civ III more often, but never was a major Ontopic poster.

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08. Michael the Great
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Michael
Age Group: 30-46
Nationality: American
Lives: Tijuana, Mexico
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: OT Moderator, Debates

Description:
For a long time MtG was a poster at Apolyton in the OT, then in December 2000 his wife had a baby and he took some time off from Apolyton.
In June 2001 he became Off-Topic Moderator when Ming 'semi-retired' and has moderated the forum since.
He is an avid poster and used to be one of Apolyton's great debaters.
He came to Apolyton from the old .owo Alpha Centauri forums and ACOL, where most posters now flame him since he became an Apolyton Moderator

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07. Narck
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: Houston, Texas
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton Birthday List

Description:
He is best known for his creation of the Apolyton Birthday list which listed all previous username logins and ICQ's and Apolytoners birthdays and ages.
He has not posted much since November 2000.

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06. Provost Harrison
Former Usernames: (AI)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Richard Harrison
Age Group: 18-24
Nationality: British
Lives: Great Britain
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Off Topic, Debates

Description:
Major contribuitor to Apolyton, Apolyton's newest Deity, Provost Harrison has posted heavily in the Civ III and other sections of the site during his career.
He is a student Scientist in Britain and has met a number of British Apolytoners, Iain Lindley, Stewart Spink, etc.
He used to be a major debator in all types of threads, but has since abandoned Religious threads and has tired of debating the same old threads year after year.
He is a PhD Biochemist
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05. Alexander's Horse
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous Titles: (Apolyton Troll, GigaTroll, MegaTroll, Apolytoner of the Season)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-40
Nationality: Austrailian
Lives: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: PROT (A Delphi-Based Forum)
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Off-Topic, Spam, Trolling

Description:
A notoriously spammy Deity, Alexander's Horse has started numerous "Troll" topics in various forums, saying things just to get a response.
He spammed his way to deity, posting one word posts for nearly 2000 posts, but the majority of his 10000 posts were useful Civ III questions and Off-Topic debate subjects.
He was banned once for insulting Lancer and caused the entire population of Area 25 to be banned when he reported their rules violations.
He was once the Apolytoner of the Season winner.

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04. MarkG
Former Usernames: (MarkG)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Markos Giannopoulis
Age Group: 18-25
Nationality: Greek
Lives: Greece
Registered: 1st to register
Had/Has A Website: APOLYTON CIVIZATION SITE; (before that: The First Greek Civilization Site)
Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton, Civ III

Description:
One of the creators of Apolyton, MarkG is now a deity. He has created numerous Civ III threads and maintains the site and forums.
He has done much work to benefit the Civ III community and deserves much thanks.
Thank you MarkG!

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03. Imran Siddiqui
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Imran Siddiqui?
Age Group: 16-18
Nationality: Pakistani
Lives: New York, America
Registered: (before) 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

Description:
ACS News Editor as of June 2001, he and Snapcase now control all news on Apolyton.
Before that time Imran debated and argued with Red Trotskyte and more recently, anyone who opposes George Bush Jr.
He is a diehard Republican and is one of Apolyton's more colorful members.
He also argues a lot with n.c. a Democratic American poster who hates George Bush Jr.

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02. Mao
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: American
Lives: America
Registered: ?
Had/Has A Website: May 1999
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III, Spam

Description:
Most people hardly ever see a post by Mao. He is the master of spammy posts, posts with little content and that just seem to fade into the background.
Mao is a poster of few words.
I first heard of Mao when he reached Deity level (the first time) and was disgusted, I posted on all on-topic forums except for the CTP ones and I had never seen a post by him at all. Then I discovered the Off-Topic.
He lost his Deity status first when a PCR of 1000 posts hit him (or 10%) then he regained it and a forum bug reset his #of posts to 0. Mark fixed that and returned to him 10100 posts and he was a deity once again.
He posted for a while, then disappeared to "The Frontier" an online story forum with "Chairman Milo" and "Shadowstrike" as well as other Apolytoners.
His username was chosen because Mao was an ally to him in a Civ II game.

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01. Ming 
Former Usernames: (none)
Famous DL's: (none known)
Real Name: Bill
Age Group: 47 in October (10-??-1954)
Nationality: American---> german/italian/irish
Lives: Chicago, Illinois, America
Registered: Registered originally at the Original Greek Site... and just continued at Apolyton when the merger occured.
Had/Has A Website: NO
Contribution to Apolyton: The List, OT and Civ Forums Moderator,

Description
The original deity and advertising executive of Apolyton. Also the first Off-Topic moderator, (before MLeonard begged to be an assistant moderator for the off-topic)
He Put together the list of Cheats for the Official Civ III List
He got extra help with Off-Topic moderation in March, 2001, when Michael the Great joined him as moderator for that forum.
A sometimes serious poster, sometimes funny, his catch phrase for a closed thread is "CASE CLOSED".
His other trademark is a

at the end of each post.

Alexander's Horse · August 7, 2001, 16:57

Darkcloud, where did you get the info that I had made 2000 one word posts or was that a joke?

Ari Rahikkala · August 7, 2001, 17:08

My information, corrected version:

92. LightEning
Former Usernames: (Rural Ranger [a spoof of Urban Ranger].)
Famous DL's?: (none at all)
Real Name: Ari Rahikkala
Age Group: 14-18
Nationality: Finnish
Lives: Finland
Registered: 10-30-99
Had/Has A Website: Had, yes
Contribution to Apolyton: Alpha Centauri section (sporadifically, and only for scaring off the newbies). Off-topic (one of the most active people in the coffee shop).

BTW, I would really like to know who wrote my description. I can't even remember the last time when I exchanged ideas with anyone at the Civ3 section... Ah well, time to do a search.

Chris 62 · August 7, 2001, 17:50

The info on MichealtheGreat is inaccurate.

He bacame a mod in april, part of the "Ming is quitting" gag.

He also is a SMAC guy.

Narck · August 7, 2001, 21:20

07. Narck
Former Usernames: (none known) none
Famous DL's: (none known) Britney Spears, Off Topic Moderator (created sometime in 1999, when in a rebellious mood)
Real Name: Philip Casteren van Cattenburch
Age Group: born in 1975, currently 26 years old
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Houston, Texas
Registered: (before) 2-15-99 actually, it was on April 15, 1999
Had/Has A Website: Had. Well, I suppose it's still there, but I haven't checked in ages. Was about the Apolytoners' House. 
Contribution to Apolyton: Apolyton Birthday List Apolyton Age & ICQ FAQ, & Apolyton Birthday Calendar

Description:
He is best known for his creation and upkeep of the Apolyton Birthday List which listed all current and previous username logins and ICQ's and Apolytoners birthdays and ages. Apolyton Age & ICQ FAQ & Apolyton Birthday Calendar, to be exact. Now Retired from that position. Previously Apolyton Forum Helper. Also helped out with polls in the Apolyton forum in 1999 and early 2000, and with setting up a website for the Apolytoners' House, which was a noble effort (I think) of Apolytoners to donate money to give a poor girl from the Filippines a home of her own. The house was eventually built, fully funded by Apolytoners' donations.
He has not posted much since November 2000. It's been that long, hmm? I intend to post more, but somehow am just not finding the time

Paul Hanson · August 8, 2001, 03:16

I resent the suggestion that I overused the Spam forum at the Mod Asylum.

*Checks Mod Asylum*

Oh wait, maybe I did.

Provost Harrison · August 8, 2001, 04:51

The Birthday list is dead baby, dead. It is all automated.

A computer can do your job now

DarkCloud · August 8, 2001, 16:19

Quote:

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Darkcloud, where did you get the info that I had made 2000 one word posts or was that a joke?

What?
Oh, that was a typo
... I meant that you made a large amount of short posts and I mistyped that.

I could leave it in... But, I suppose I have to fix it if I want this to be a news item for Version 2.

In time for Friday