Forums gone?

Harry Seldon · September 24, 2003, 14:53

I've noticed that some of the forums appear to be missing, like Dinosaurs in Other Games and maybe another top level forum from Other Games (Original Civ?). Is this by design? A cleanup on the server?

Zopperoni · September 24, 2003, 15:00

The Dinosaur forum is extinct.

Good thing too, since I won't accidentally select it anymore when scrolling up to Other Games.

Nikolai · September 24, 2003, 15:12

It is? What about the posts within? Are they gone too?

Zopperoni · September 24, 2003, 15:17

All the old posts are archived here now.

Gramphos · September 24, 2003, 15:25

Dino and Civilization: The Boardgame has been closed.

Dino simply because it was a dead game, and the Boardgame forum has been combined into the classic games as it didn't have mush of activity.

I think it more is a cleanup of the moderator rounds than a servercleanup... but I leave for Ming and rah to comment on that

DrSpike · September 24, 2003, 16:46

Someone would spam the Dinosaurs forum and then months later someone would notice and the spammer would get a slap. It served no other function; good riddance.

Ming · September 24, 2003, 17:01

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
Dino and Civilization: The Boardgame has been closed.

Dino simply because it was a dead game, and the Boardgame forum has been combined into the classic games as it didn't have mush of activity.

I think it more is a cleanup of the moderator rounds than a servercleanup... but I leave for Ming and rah to comment on that

It was neither a clean up of the moderator rounds or a server clean up. The reasons Gramphos gave are totally correct. It was just time to do it, and the Owners decided it was the right thing to do. The Owners restructure the forums whenever they see a need for it, and have the time to do it.

Heresson · September 24, 2003, 17:01

I think it's part of the tradition of this forum fading away.
I'll go somewhere and cry.

Ming · September 24, 2003, 17:05

I think it's more a tradition of the one game not being released, and another games audience in total decline...

No reason to cry

Gangerolf · September 24, 2003, 17:41

I find it interesting that you write Owners with a capital O. I'm sure that pleases Them.

mrmitchell · September 24, 2003, 17:57

A moment of silence for Dinosaurs

*sniff*

vovan · September 24, 2003, 17:59

Quote:

Originally posted by Gangerolf
I find it interesting that you write Owners with a capital O. I'm sure that pleases Them.

[]\\\'|\|3|2Z

Hehe, sorry, couldn't resist, please don't beat me.

Also, I think it was the right thing to remove the dinosaurs. I remember having a hard time once or twice resisting posting in that forum just becase...

Asmodean · September 24, 2003, 18:02

Well I have been posting on-topic in the Dino forum recently. Just trying to keep the spirit alive

Dino: You will be sorely missed.

Allthough I can certainly see the irony in having a forum for a dead game about an extinct group of animals

Asmodean

H Tower · September 24, 2003, 18:20

We shalt miss thee Dinosaurs.

Kuciwalker · September 24, 2003, 18:39

I never even knew the Dino forum existed

Ming · September 24, 2003, 19:20

Quote:

Originally posted by skywalker
I never even knew the Dino forum existed

Only the hard core spammers knew it existed

Skanky Burns · September 24, 2003, 19:43

Damn, another source of +1's destroyed. *sniff*

Ben Kenobi · September 24, 2003, 20:23

/me has a sudden urge to visit the 'Museum' with the extinct Dinosaur posts.

Quote:

I think I've got it!!

Here's the intro!!

*Fade in*

What If

*Fade out*

*Fade in*

An Asteroid

*Fade out*

*Fade in*

Never came

*Fade out slowly*

*Fade in fast*
*Scary music*

And Dinosaurs survived

*Loud bang sound*
*Fade out*

That's actually a pretty good idea.

Tuberski · September 24, 2003, 21:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming

Only the hard core spammers knew it existed

I knew it existed..........oh, wait..........

ACK!

PLATO · September 24, 2003, 22:11

I had seen that forum listed in some other threads and ent to check it out...It needed to go. A general waste of resources.

mrmitchell · September 24, 2003, 22:51

How much database space and bandwidth does a dead forum take up, anyways?

It couldn't've been a lot of space--it was, after all, dead

Oerdin · September 24, 2003, 23:04

I suspect they just got tired of going in there and cleaning out the spam.

PLATO · September 25, 2003, 00:03

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
How much database space and bandwidth does a dead forum take up, anyways?

It couldn't've been a lot of space--it was, after all, dead

Whatever resources that there was, they were wasted. That was the deadest forum I have ever seen. I think that Oerdin has it right. What's the point of having a dead forum about a dead game anyway?

H Tower · September 25, 2003, 00:16

apperently little to none. Which is why the owners removed the dead forum about the dead game.

mrmitchell · September 25, 2003, 00:18

We were the last site on the Internet to have Dinos coverage weren't we?

*sniff*

Frozzy · September 25, 2003, 00:50

Why isn't the BNT forum closed if you're clamping down on dead fora?

Gramphos · September 25, 2003, 00:52

Probably because Apolyton has BNT games running.

DanQ · September 25, 2003, 01:03

Quote:

Originally posted by mrmitchell
We were the last site on the Internet to have Dinos coverage weren't we?

*sniff*

For the record, Apolyton's "Dinosaurs" section is still online and archived at the address it has always been located at. The address is:

http://apolyton.net/dino

-------------
Dan; Apolyton CS

DanQ · September 25, 2003, 01:04

Quote:

Originally posted by Gramphos
Probably because Apolyton has BNT games running.

Correct.

------------
Dan; Apolyton CS

alva · September 25, 2003, 04:38

Off-topic:

Am I the only one who sees Htower's location field completely scr*wed up??