Comments For The Apolyton 100: Ver 2

DarkCloud · August 8, 2001, 20:19

I submitted something for the Column to celebrate the IIIrd birthday of Apolyton and here is the comments for the completely revised Apolyton 100.

I hope that everyone is pleased with the new list.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:23

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97. Ramo
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Omar
Age Group: Middle Age
Nationality: Arabic
Lives: Texas? in the United States
Registered: 10-23-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: ?

Ramo was from Bangladesh. He's around 16 and is living in the US. His contribution is mainly to the Off Topic Forum.

"Middle Age"

Where did you get that from?

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:29

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96. chegitz guevara
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 30-40?
Nationality: ?
Lives: South America
Registered: 6-19-00
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: South American Communism

chegitz used to live in Chicago. He's an USian and brother of Theben. Recently he got a job as a web designer at Jacksonville so he moved down there. He is 33 or 34. His main contributions are to the OTF, not limited to South American Communism.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:31

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94. War4Ever
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: 10-17-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Civilization III ideas, "The List"

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I don't know much about War4Ever except that he has many quotes on "The List"

Has a former user name called EthnicCleanser.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:34

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89. Tolls
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: before 2-15-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: unknown

Description:
Unknown

IIRC Tolls has never used another handle. He's a Brit who came to 'Poly "to combat creationism." He lives in the UK and contributes to the OTF.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:38

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83. MasterBob the Elder
Former Usernames: (Master Angel Bob, Fallen Angel Lord)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: 8-12-99
Had/Has A Website: http://www.geocities.com/conquestbob/index.html (and) The CivWorld Forums
Contribution to Apolyton: Humor

Bob is an ethnic Chinese who is living in the US. He is around 16 IIRC. His other contribution to ACS is ancient Chinese history (mainly military history). It seems that he wants to become a writer.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:41

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76. Gary
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: Gary
Age Group: ?
Nationality: ?
Lives: ?
Registered: 4-29-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Unknown

Description:
Unknown.

Gary <em>is</em> a Brit. His main countribution is to the OTF. Gary is somewhat of a techie although I don't know what he actually does for a living. IIRC he's between 40 - 50.

Urban Ranger · August 8, 2001, 23:46

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62. Shadowstrike
Former Usernames: (none known)
Famous DL's?: (none known)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 15
Nationality: Canadian
Lives: Canada
Registered: 7-4-00
Had/Has A Website: http://www.crosswinds.net/~shadowstrike/civ/main.htm
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III ideas, Off-Topic

Shadowstrike has recently reopened Mao's old Coffeeshop in the OTF. He's an ethnic Chinese who lives in Ontario (somewhere around Toronto IIRC). He is a native speaker of Mandarin.

Urban Ranger · August 9, 2001, 00:06

52. Giant Squid also has a former user name along the lines of "Celestine the God" (spelling not sure.)

51. Starchild has a former handle "Transcendental Starchild."

50. St. Leo lives in Toronto.

42. Misotu appears to be a British woman who lives in the US.

33. Sir David was once given the special title "Apolyton Whiner."

31. MLeonard: <em>" He is an Off-Topic mod who does little moderatorship as Ming and Michael the Great close the threads before he has a chance to even investigate them."</em>

Actually that's not true.

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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: ?
Had/Has A Website: ?
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ III

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

Former Usernames: none [I used the same one on alpha.owo]
Age Group: 30 - 39
Registered: [You can't tell?

I don't know I am that good

]
Contribution to Apolyton: Civ 3, SMAC/X, Off-Topic debates

05. Alexander's Horse
Famous Titles: (Apolyton Troll, GigaTroll, MegaTroll, Apolytoner of the Season)

Nah. From Aolyton Troll straight to GigaTroll and onto Troll Machine.

loinburger · August 9, 2001, 10:29

Mine is accurate, except for the conspicuous lack of "sexiest man alive..."

Rasputin · August 9, 2001, 20:56

mines accurate but slightly oput of date I am no longer No. 100 should be No. 47 now.

TCO · August 9, 2001, 21:45

correction for #28. Please remove the cute comment about my post jump from 2000 to 4000. Just put that I am a heavy poster who has had some long voluntary bans from Apolyton.

phoenixcager · August 9, 2001, 22:17

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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
52. Giant Squid also has a former user name along the lines of "Celestine the God" (spelling not sure.)

Celestion

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05. Alexander's Horse
Famous Titles: (Apolyton Troll, GigaTroll, MegaTroll, Apolytoner of the Season)

Nah. From Aolyton Troll straight to GigaTroll and onto Troll Machine.

Strange, I seem to recall "megatroll" being there for a few days.

DarkCloud · August 10, 2001, 18:09

Thanks Urban Ranger.

I thought I caught that Chegitz comment... Seems I didn't

I'll update what I can when I can.

Dang. I thought I had finally fixed everything.

Starchild's name was - Transcendii Starchild

I just forgot to add it...

TCO · August 10, 2001, 18:21

He also went by "The Starchild". If DC were really OC, he would check the ages vs the age FAQ...

red_jon · August 10, 2001, 18:41

I'm VERY offended that I wasn't included! I'm one of the most active spammers... err... posters in the OT! You will pay DarkCloud!

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

CapTVK · August 11, 2001, 18:22

Strangely enough one of our greatest Civ2 scenario designers: Captain Nemo is missing. I can't believe you missed out on the designer of Red Front perhaps the best WW2 Civ2 scenario ever.

Another few names that should be included are Cavebear and John Barbarossa.
Cavebear has taken it upon him to organize the official Civ2MP competitions in the MP forum with patience and trust. He should be included.
John Barbarossa is a legend , his diplomatic tracts are well known by the veterans (Ming, Rah, MWHC, Myself...) on the MP forum and he's famous for starting the first true diplogame. He's gone but not forgotten. Hopefully he'll return with Civ3!

P.S
Check my Diplogame FAQ thread in the Civ2MP forum for details. It's old but I'm planning to update it soon. (finally!)

DarkCloud · August 11, 2001, 19:35

CapTVK... I would add those people, but this is a listing of the 100 posters with the most posts, not the posters who have contribuited the most to Apolyton... I could do a list like that, but I leave a list like that to someone like yourself or Stefu or Colon.

Another note:

The ENTIRE LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED 2.5 IS HERE!

The new listing has the recent statistics for who is #1-100 and I put some notes on who has changed places and cursory notes on # of posts.

I have updated most everyone but specificially:

02. Mao
05. Alexander's Horse
07. Narck
11. Lancer
17. Ecthelion
36. derek
96. chegitz guevara
97. Ramo

all of Urban Ranger's Corrections.

Ted Striker · August 12, 2001, 13:16

Here's an update:

36. derek
Former Usernames: (D2K, ProvostD, Derek)
Famous DL's: none
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 26
Nationality: American
Lives: Los Angeles
Registered: July 1998
Had/Has A Website: no
Contribution to Apolyton: Wrote "They Were Legends," a column recognizing the top 10 posters in Off Topic, to commemorate Apolyton's birthday, in July 1999 and July 2000.

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Derek was the first to give money for Karen (of Karen Mills fame), and did so without being asked.

He left Apolyton for a time after Michael the Great became Off-Topic moderator.

Derek is a total badass.

hahahaha the last line is obviously a joke.

Or is it?

TCO · August 12, 2001, 13:23

No too late for another top 10...

Jay Bee · August 12, 2001, 13:28

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Originally posted by DarkCloud

The ENTIRE LIST HAS BEEN UPDATED 2.5 IS HERE!

Where?

DarkCloud · August 12, 2001, 14:02

MarkG- Thank you for posting the article, two comments about it however, #1 could you please put a link to the Apolyton/Community section after the article.

and #2 Please spell my name correctly

Okay, thank you derek.

Jay Bee, "The Apolyton 100 ver 2." has been updated to 2.5

GP- ???? Top ten?

TCO · August 12, 2001, 14:08

For Derek...not you...ya fake calamari.

Ecthy · August 12, 2001, 14:10

someone should punish GP for his continued spamming.

red_jon · August 12, 2001, 15:34

If posts were counted in the OT I would probably be a Deity by now

Hueij · August 12, 2001, 15:39

Dunno if this is the right place, but here we go:

72. Hueij
Former Usernames: Huey
DL's: Dale Arden (used twice, once when Flash Gordon changed his handle and once to ask Ming to delete it

)
Real Name: ?
Age Group: 46
Nationality: Dutch
Lives: Arnhem, The netherlands
Registered: 5-12-99
Had/Has A Website: No
Contribution to Apolyton: Started posting in Civ2 strategy and Civ2 help but moved to OT and occasionally Apolyton. Biggest contribution: asked Markos if he needed help with HTML and stuff and is still waiting for an answer...

Helped Narck with formatting his age-faq.

Jay Bee · August 12, 2001, 16:44

DC, err... what I meant was: where is v.2.5?

DarkCloud · August 12, 2001, 17:40

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Originally posted by GP
For Derek...not you...ya fake calamari.

I feel duty bound to post this:

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Giant Squids ????

One of the most dramatic sightings involving the Kraken occurred on 30 November 1861, whent he French gunboat Alecton pursed a huge specimen.
The crew harpooned the creature 120 nautical miles from Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, but it was so large that they could not haul it aboard.
The creature was measured to be about 7 metres long.
Another sighting occurred on 30 November 1896.
The remains of a huge sea creature were washed ashore on a beach near St Augustine, Florida, USA.
When Addison Verrill, professor of biology at Yale University, initially studied the case, he identified a stupendous octopus with a tentacle span of up to 60 metres.
However, the span of the largest officially recognised species of the world reaches only 7 metres or not.
His claim was treated with much skepticism that he had a change of mind later and identified it as those of a sperm whale.
When the samples of tissue from the body, stored at the Smithsonian Institution, were analysed in 1957 by two American biochemists, it was found that it could had been an octopus after all.
Even evidence of Science are "concealed" at times.

DarkCloud · August 12, 2001, 17:58

Okay Hueij, I'll note that and fix it soon.

Ted Striker · August 13, 2001, 13:03

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Originally posted by GP
For Derek...not you...ya fake calamari.

I've only been lurking for about a month now so I'm not as familiar with everybody.

Although I do know some people from the latter half of 2000.

GP,

If you got the time, PM with a list of 10 people you think I should include.