Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Here is a quiz for the boards, about the boards. You can answer the questions on your own if you like, or you can work together and just contribute answers that aren't in the thread yet. How many answers are out there? SPIDERWEB QUIZ 1. How many members can you name that were mods, were demodded, and later became mods again? 2. How many accounts can you name that had administrator status at some point in time? 3. How many fictionalized deities and/or religions can you name that were publicly taken up by board personalities at some point? 4. What about "artificial" languages developed on or alongside the forums? 5. How many canonical fluffy turtles, or other fluffy animals, can you name? 6. How many longstanding RPs can you name? 7. What about AIMHack campaigns? 8. Within the Spiderweb boards, how many specific forums can you name that can no longer be reached by natural means? (Note: forums that have been merged or split into other forums, e.g. Exile 2 into The Exile Trilogy, do not count.) 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? 10. How many Marathon-inspired custom titles (current or former, but I they're mostly gone now) can you name? 11. What about Lewis Carroll-inspired titles? 12. How many acronyms can you list that are, or were, regularly used on the boards? Acronyms that are everywhere (lol) don't count, but message board-specific acronyms that are used frequently here do. EDIT: Okay, I'm modifying the acronyms question to specify "acronyms used as generic phrases" which should exclude most proper nouns. Listing every member, RP, game, etc that can be referred to with an acronym was not supposed to be the point. 13. How many works of literature can you name that were posted — or that somebody attempted to post — in their entirity? 14. How many members can you name who spoke in the third person in every post, for some period of time? 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 3. There was the Richard White cult and Thralni's cow religion(I want to name his chicken fortune teller too, but I'm not sure if that counts). 4. Does the one Sherbiebaby and I were making up count? 11. "Off with their heads!" 9. Shadowvale, CalRef, I'm blanking on the infamous one. I think it started with a P. 13. I know there was a Marx, but I can't remember if it was the Manifesto or Das Kapital. 14. Dikiyoba. 15. Synergy. EDIT: Clearly I'm awful at remembering multiple examples. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Alec once departed dramatically, and returned in under a minute. Arguably that doesn't count because it was on purpose from the beginning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES 1. How many members can you name that were mods, were demodded, and later became mods again? does resignation count as demodding Quote: 2. How many accounts can you name that had administrator status at some point in time? spidweb, krizsan, drakefyre, the great potato, stareye, zeviz. i think that's all of them? was schro an admin at one point? Quote: 4. What about "artificial" languages developed on or alongside the forums? there was that one Vahnatai language thing that Akhronath did and Drakey picked up on. Kelandon worked on some Slith language stuff too. also i think Thralni did a Nephil language thing? Quote: 7. What about AIMHack campaigns? this one is sort of easy to cheat on since there's a list on Eph's website Quote: 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? Desp, Polaris, CRF, TCoA, that one BoA thing that Overwhelming did and everyone yelled at him for... Quote: 12. How many acronyms can you list that are, or were, regularly used on the boards? Acronyms that are everywhere (lol) don't count, but message board-specific acronyms that are used frequently here do. we really should start using the now-internet-standard FTFY instead of FYT. the latter is potentially confusing in bad ways. Quote: 13. How many works of literature can you name that were posted — or that somebody attempted to post — in their entirity? the Aeneid, the Treaty of Westphalia, the Prose Edda (this one was me), the Communist Manifesto, and uh i'm sure there were others Quote: 14. How many members can you name who spoke in the third person in every post, for some period of time? * Alorael (does this one count?) * Dikiyoba * Nalyd * Maimonides referred to Maimonides in the third person when Maimonides referred to Maimonides at all, but often Maimonides did not Quote: 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? * me * Alec * Djur * me * Alec * me * Djur * me * me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 1. How many members can you name that were mods, were demodded, and later became mods again? I can only think of Lilith and me. 2. How many accounts can you name that had administrator status at some point in time? Spidweb, Mariann's account that is never used, *i, Drakefyre, and Zeviz very briefly. Was Schrodinger actually an admin at one point too? 3. How many fictionalized deities and/or religions can you name that were publicly taken up by board personalities at some point? Thralni's chicken god, the Cult of the Nine-Headed Cow, Richard White, me briefly, and there are probably more but I'm blanking. 14. How many members can you name who spoke in the third person in every post, for some period of time? Alorael, Nalyd, and a bunch of relatively unknown members who used the gimmick briefly. It seems like there is someone else, but Dikiyoba cannot remember. Maybe it'll come to Dikiyoba when Dikiyoba returns to answer some more questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 12. how can anyone not mention GIFTS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Not including what other people have already posted... Quote: 3. How many fictionalized deities and/or religions can you name that were publicly taken up by board personalities at some point? There was a "TM == Cthulhu" thing for a bit, does that count? Quote: 6. How many longstanding RPs can you name? Every one I participated in can be found here, not all are SpidWeb based. When I joined there was some Vahnatai thing going on, don't remember the title. Before my time was Balthazar the Mad. Quote: 8. Within the Spiderweb boards, how many specific forums can you name that can no longer be reached by natural means? (Note: forums that have been merged or split into other forums, e.g. Exile 2 into The Exile Trilogy, do not count.) The Richard White forum. Misc was before my time. Quote: 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? Only one I can remember that hasn't been mentioned is RIFQ. Oh, does the Blades Forge and the old Encyclopedia discussion forums count? Quote: 10. How many Marathon-inspired custom titles (current or former, but I they're mostly gone now) can you name? 11. What about Lewis Carroll-inspired titles? Holy crap, there's no way we're going to remember them all. However, I remember an old topic listing a tonne of them... Quote: 12. How many acronyms can you list that are, or were, regularly used on the boards? Acronyms that are everywhere (lol) don't count, but message board-specific acronyms that are used frequently here do. I agree that FYT should be deprecated; I usually write it out. There's all the game abbreviations, SW for Spiderweb, JV for Jeff Vogel. Don't know if TBoEaPaSPiTBoAPWaELaNOA counts as 'regularly used'. Quote: 13. How many works of literature can you name that were posted — or that somebody attempted to post — in their entirity? I once posted the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, but I edited it out within a minute. Quote: 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? Did Thralni ever come back? He and Shaun Wuan made departure posts, back when everyone was doing it. TM, for a loose definition of 'departure topic'. Alorael made a fake one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Skomer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 13. I'm sure the Kama Sutra was up there at some point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Concerning satellite boards Originally Posted By: lillith Desp, Polaris, CRF, TCoA, that one BoA thing that Overwhelming did and everyone yelled at him for... Overwheming's board wasn't what got him yelled at; it was just supposed to be a board to help people run scenario beta-tests that never saw much use. The fight was about his mirroring Kelandon's scenarios without Kelandon's permission. Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Did Thralni ever come back? While Thralni made a brief reappearance at Shadowvale (as I imagine you remember), I don't think that he came back to the boards here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Originally Posted By: Niemand Overwheming's board wasn't what got him yelled at; it was just supposed to be a board to help people run scenario beta-tests that never saw much use. The fight was about his mirroring Kelandon's scenarios without Kelandon's permission. My recollection of events was that that was a symptom of a larger problem: that he wanted his site and forums to be the single go-to place for all BoA discussion, whether we liked it or not, and he didn't take it well when we pointed out he was being kind of a jerk about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES 2. How many accounts can you name that had administrator status at some point in time? Schrodinger was an admin and now is listed as local mod. Quote: 5. How many canonical fluffy turtles, or other fluffy animals, can you name? Inspector Peanut and Inspector Walnut Quote: 8. Within the Spiderweb boards, how many specific forums can you name that can no longer be reached by natural means? (Note: forums that have been merged or split into other forums, e.g. Exile 2 into The Exile Trilogy, do not count.) Has Sub Terra been forgotten already? I guess Richard White altered too many implants because they went together. Quote: 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? Tyranicus's Nethergate/Shadowvale Forum where we went to discuss why this board wasn't coming back on schedule when it switched to UBBThreads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 For those who explore teh interwebz more than I do...is the sense of history and community found on these forums common, or unusual? I find it fascinating how to observe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Quote: 5. How many canonical fluffy turtles, or other fluffy animals, can you name? Didn't someone have an actual stuffed turtle and post pics of it on the boards at one time? Quote: 7. What about AIMHack campaigns? Labyrinth, Selos, Bloodmarsh, Brigand, Dustbowl, Theressa, CoH, One Eph did at his summer camp, Rummors, Two one shot campaigns (one by Nioca in place of Brigand, another by Diki), IiC, Party of Three, One that is secret from the masses, EoD. I know that I am missing a few that have been run privately also. Quote: 8. Within the Spiderweb boards, how many specific forums can you name that can no longer be reached by natural means? (Note: forums that have been merged or split into other forums, e.g. Exile 2 into The Exile Trilogy, do not count.) There was a brief time that the secret forum was available for everyone to see. Quote: 14. How many members can you name who spoke in the third person in every post, for some period of time? Rowen did this for a few months back in 2oo4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 17, 2011 Author Share Posted June 17, 2011 The exact way it is expressed here is somewhat idiosyncratic, reflecting the idiosyncracies of people here. And certainly this sense of a persistent world isn't everywhere. But I don't think it's incredibly uncommon, either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 There's a similar sense of community on usenet, at least on some groups. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Arch-Mage Solberg Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? I had one about 2 years back. Obviously, that was a bust! Post #556 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 10. How many Marathon-inspired custom titles (current or former, but they're mostly gone now) can you name? From memory: Nuke and Pave: Zeviz For Carnage, Apply Within: Sarachim Lack of Vision: Zorro Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!: Sir David By Committee: Drew After looking at this list: Curiouser and Curiouser: Synergy Electric Sheep One: Student of Trinity E equals MC WHAT!!: Ash Lael Possible titles: This Side Toward Enemy Post Naval Trauma Bob's Big Date: one of Alec's accounts? Clarification needed: Arctic Wolf had the title "One [something] slimy things". Is the missing section just "thousand", or are were there two numbers there? Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Someone definitely had "This Side Toward Enemy" and "Bob's Big Date", but I don't remember who. Khoth had "Post Naval Trauma". Did Saunders have a Marathon custom title? EDIT: So, Slarty, are you crowdsourcing your history now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Nope -- most of this stuff is already *in* the history. I was just inspired to pointless contemplation by a recent event related to one of the questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 11. What about Lewis Carroll-inspired titles? This one is harder. Either there weren't as many, or most of them were gone by the time I arrived. Off with Their Heads: Kelandon Painting the Roses Red: Arancaytar (He had another Lewis Carroll-inspired title either before or after this title too, but I can't remember what it was.) Raven vs. Writing Desk: Slartucker Dikiyoba hopes the History of the Boards is finally released soon, because it's fast becoming ancient history in its own right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 It's true. At this point, I can't even remember if I started working on it in 2007 or 2008. Hopefully I'll get it done this summer. I think I last updated it in 2009 so I have two years of stuff to go through, first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Okay, here's a repost of the questions plus all the answers people have contributed so far. I'm pretty sure there are still more answers to (almost) all of the questions, so keep at it! 1. How many members can you name that were mods, were demodded, and later became mods again? Thurilith Dikiyoba 2. How many accounts can you name that had administrator status at some point in time? Spidweb Krizsan Drakefyre The Great Potato Stareye Zeviz Schrodinger 3. How many fictionalized deities and/or religions can you name that were publicly taken up by board personalities at some point? Richard White Church of the Nine-Headed Cave Cow Chicken Gods Dikiyoba Cthulhu 4. What about "artificial" languages developed on or alongside the forums? Nicothodes' and Sherbiebaby's language Novah Classical Slith Nephilian 5. How many canonical fluffy turtles, or other fluffy animals, can you name? Inspector Peanut Inspector Walnut 6. How many longstanding RPs can you name? Balthazar the Mad World of Avernum Reloaded The Mountain of Shadows Legends of Divinity Down to Earth 7. What about AIMHack campaigns? Labyrinth Selos Blood Marsh Brigandin Dust Bowl Theressa CoH Rumors IiC Party of Three End of Days 8. Within the Spiderweb boards, how many specific forums can you name that can no longer be reached by natural means? (Note: forums that have been merged or split into other forums, e.g. Exile 2 into The Exile Trilogy, do not count.) Richard White Games Misc. SubTerra 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? Shadow Vale Calamity Refuge Desperance Polaris The Club of All Overwhelming's BoA Forums RIFQ Blades Forge Encyclopedia Ermariana discussion forums (technically) 10. How many Marathon-inspired custom titles (current or former, but I they're mostly gone now) can you name? Nuke and Pave (Zeviz) For Carnage, Apply Within (Sarachim) Lack of Vision (Zorro) Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! (Sir David) By Committee (Drew) Curiouser and Curiouser (Synergy) Electric Sheep One (SoT) E equals MC WHAT!! (Ash Lael) This Side Toward Enemy Post Naval Trauma (Khoth) Bob's Big Date (Alec) 11. What about Lewis Carroll-inspired titles? Off With Their Heads (Kelandon) Curiouser and Curiouser (Synergy) Painting the Roses Red (Aran) Raven v. Writing Desk (Slarty) 12. How many acronyms can you list that are, or were, regularly used on the boards? Acronyms that are everywhere (lol) don't count, but message board-specific acronyms that are used frequently here do. FYT GIFTS SW JV 13. How many works of literature can you name that were posted — or that somebody attempted to post — in their entirity? The Communist Manifesto Das Kapital? The Aeneid The Treaty of Westphalia The Prose Edda Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (technically) The Kama Sutra 14. How many members can you name who spoke in the third person in every post, for some period of time? Dikiyoba Alorael Nalyd "Maimonides" Rowen 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? Synergy Alec (technically) Thurilith Djur TM (technically) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 12. Re: Acronyms Do abbreviations for SW games count (all the X's and A's and G's or GF's and N:R's, etc)? I doubt such things are used elsewhere, at least with the meanings they carry here. I know I've even seen the subtle distinction between E2, X2, and A2 made at some point, but I don't recall what it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotghroth Rhapsody Soul of Wit Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 For acronyms, the (obvious) names of the games are missing. E3! - - - FYT? For your thoughts? Fine young thing? Yeah, I would lose that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Fixed your typo. To be used sarcastically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 E = Exile A = Avernum X = Exile/Avernum This distinction arose, I believe, in dealing with BoE, BoA, and BoX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph 12. Re: Acronyms Do abbreviations for SW games count (all the X's and A's and G's or GF's and N:R's, etc)? I doubt such things are used elsewhere, at least with the meanings they carry here. I know I've even seen the subtle distinction between E2, X2, and A2 made at some point, but I don't recall what it is. For the record, E2 refers to Exile 2, A2 to Avernum 2, and X2 to either one. The X means you can put in whichever letter, because it is irrelevant which game you're speaking of directly. It's about canon, more than anything. I believe, while developing acronyms for the games isn't really noteworthy, the 'X' acronym is a relevant innovation of the Spiderweb community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk nikki. Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Originally Posted By: Treasured Gold To be used sarcastically. Not always. Didn't Aran have something like "I'm late!"? I'm sure it was something to do with the white rabbit, and that's all I'm coming up with right now. Edit: Wait! Wait! It was "A very important date", wasn't it? I was right about the rabbit, at least. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Maybe we could use FTFY for making genuine corrections and FYT for sarcastic corrections. Also, for confusing the newbies even more than we do now. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dintiradan Someone definitely had "This Side Toward Enemy" this one was BtI Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 12. Re: Acronyms Can't forget TM for Terror's Martyr no matter how hard I try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Hark! I bring data about titles from days past: The following lists are from some very old collections of member data I collected shortly after joining. Listed are all recorded titles (I make no guarantee that each collection was complete at its time), and for each title which applied at the time to less than ten accounts the displayed names and number of the accounts are listed, otherwise the number of accounts is given. Septamber 29, 2005: Click to reveal.. Look! I'm Banned! : Vince(1318) Banned, yet again : Ultima(539) sudo reban/stanrar -y : Stanrar(308) For Carnage, Apply Within : Scorched Earth Sarachim(95) Veteran* : Mysterious Man(5) Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! : Lady Davida(919) Babelicious : Old-School Djur(39), O Nascimento Conduz A Morte(3092), Djur Revolutions(3149) La Canaliste : saunders(5563) Master Jeweller : Radiant(409) Member Number: : Seletine(54), La Renaissance(165), Byte?(335), go baby go(2286) Village Idiot : lewi(4219) Erudite* : xxo(3042) Banning Leaves no Marks : Lance The Ultimate Wizard Warrior(1321) I am the banned mod : Edward Johnathan Jackson Lemur(11) Bob's Big Date : George A. Custer & The SE Party(3151) Mongolian Barbeque : Icshi(1528) Journeyman <189 accounts> A Very Important Date : Arancaytar. You Owe it to the Door.(2984) Do the banned dance! : London123(1328) Cartographer : -silver-(995), Ulrika Jounintytar(1851), Rache(2264) SCORPIUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!! : Vladimir Scorpius(314) Post Navel Trauma : Khoth(67) Dance the Banned Dance : Crap Blood Swirl(3052) Guru : Morgan(22), The Almighty Doer of Stuff(73), X(496), Omlette(517), You should vote Wise Man(1046), Mystery Man(2350) Loyal Underling : the Great Potato(13) FAQSELF : Schrodinger(3) Triad Mage : Krizsan(2), Drakefyre(7) Rebanned, courtesy of Drakefyre : Shotts999(1492) Shake Before Using : Imban(75) White Rabbit : Manhood Typing Kelandon(4045) sudo: reban/stanrarbannedx1 -y : StanrarBannedX1(1459) I SI BANNED : Shotts1200 II(1053), Britain is da bomb(1168) Senile Reptile : Sir Motrax of Exile(547) One Thousand Slimy Things : Arctic dreams of...(66) Nuke and Pave : Zeviz(24) Apprentice <5454 accounts> Adept <72 accounts> Erudite <43 accounts> Canned <12 accounts> This Side Towards Enemy : Rantallion(147), Unpleasantness for its Own Sake(3098) Veteran <18 accounts> Spammer : exile2fan12345(1511) Banned : A1-tank-kills-you(1409) ...b10010b... : Thuryl(869) BoE Posse : Silent Motion(15), Alcritas(51), Drizzt(84), The Creator(112), Drizzt(2475), Ash Lael(5491) Citizen of Exile <161 accounts> The Establishment : *i(6) BANNED <36 accounts> Board Administrator : Spidweb(1) March 31, 2006: Click to reveal.. Look! I'm Banned! : Vince(1318) Banned, yet again : Ultima(539) sudo reban/stanrar -y : Stanrar(308) For Carnage, Apply Within : Spartacus was Nathan Ashby(95) Veteran* : Mysterious Man(5) Electric Sheep One : Student of Trinity(3431) Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! : Sir David(919) Babelicious : Andrea(39), O Nascimento Conduz A Morte(3092), Djur Revolutions(3149) La Canaliste : saunders(5563) By Committee : Drew(4233) Master Jeweller : Radiant(409) Member Number: : Seletine(54), La Renaissance(165), Dame Annals(261), So priketh hem nature(335), go baby go(2286) Village Idiot : lewi(4219) Erudite* : xxo(3042) Man of the People : The holy blisful martir for to seke(2984) Banning Leaves no Marks : Lance The Ultimate Wizard Warrior(1321) I am the banned mod : Edward Johnathan Jackson Lemur(11) Bob's Big Date : Custer(3151), The Worst Man Ever(6388) Mongolian Barbeque : Icshi(1528) His Mighty Tentacle : Delicious Vlish(627) Journeyman <205 accounts> Trademark : Rubicante(4), Old Man Reggae(6397) Lack of Vision : Zorro(2717) Do the banned dance! : London123(1328) Cartographer : -silver-(995), Unaccomplished Lip Balm(1851), Rache(2264) SCORPIUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!! : Vladimir Scorpius(314) Post Navel Trauma : Khoth(67) ? Man, ? Amazing : Jumpin' Salmon(5755) Off With Their Heads : Kelandon(4045) Dance the Banned Dance : Crap Blood Swirl(3052) Skip to My Lou : Archmage Alex(40) Guru : Morgan(22), The Almighty Do-er of Stuff(73), X(496), Omlette(517), Wise Man(1046), Mystery Man(2350), the benalizer(4614), Spring(5450) Loyal Underling : the Great Potato(13) FAQSELF : Schrodinger(3) Triad Mage : Krizsan(2), Drakefyre(7) LIAR : fyorna(6181) Rebanned, courtesy of Drakefyre : Shotts999(1492) Shake Before Using : Imban(75) Too Sexy for my Title : Dominican Desire(5654) sudo: reban/stanrarbannedx1 -y : StanrarBannedX1(1459) I SI BANNED : Shotts1200 II(1053), Britain is da bomb(1168) Senile Reptile : Sir Motrax of Exile(547) One Thousand Slimy Things : Arctic dreams of...(66) Nuke and Pave : Zeviz(24) Apprentice <6287 accounts> Adept <87 accounts> Erudite <44 accounts> Canned <10 accounts> This Side Towards Enemy : Rantallion(147), Unpleasantness for its Own Sake(3098) Veteran <23 accounts> E Equals MC What!!!! : Ash Lael(5491) Spammer : exile2fan12345(1511) Banned : A1-tank-kills-you(1409) ...b10010b... : Thuryl(869) BANNED <58 accounts> BoE Posse : Silent Motion(15), Alcritas(51), Drizzt(84), The Creator(112), Drizzt(2475) Citizen of Exile <171 accounts> The Establishment : *i(6) Board Administrator : Spidweb(1) October 5, 2007 Click to reveal.. Champion : Zapp Brannigan(2080), demonslay3r(2238), Zephyr Tempest(2339), ef(2476), Stugri-La(3521) Look! I'm Banned! : Vince(1318) Banned, yet again : Ultima(539) sudo reban/stanrar -y : Stanrar(308) For Carnage, Apply Within : Sarachim(95) Veteran* : Mysterious Man(5) Electric Sheep One : Student of Trinity(3431) Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! : Sir David(919) Babelicious : Andrea(39), O Nascimento Conduz A Morte(3092), Djur Revolutions(3149) La Canaliste : saunders(5563) By Committee : Drew(4233) Master Jeweller : Radiant(409) Member Number: : La Renaissance(165), Yama Toman?(261), Acrobatic Cormorants(335), go baby go(2286), Ephesos(4153), Synergy(6292) Mercenary <354 accounts> Village Idiot : lewi(4219) Erudite* : xxo(3042) Man of the People : root(2984) Banning Leaves no Marks : Lance The Ultimate Wizard Warrior(1321) Sage : Wise Man(1046), Sturg(4614) I am the banned mod : Edward Johnathan Jackson Lemur(11) Swashbuckler <38 accounts> Bob's Big Date : Custer(3151) Mongolian Barbeque : Icshi(1528) His Mighty Tentacle : Delicious Vlish(627) Lack of Vision : Zorro(2717) Do the banned dance! : London123(1328) Cartographer : -silver-(995), Reluctant Big Sister(1851), Rache(2264) SCORPIUS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!!! : Vladimir Scorpius(314) Post Navel Trauma : Khoth(67) New Arrival <5672 accounts> ? Man, ? Amazing : Jumpin' Salmon(5755) Off With Their Heads : Kelandon(4045) Dance the Banned Dance : Crap Blood Swirl(3052) Dollop of Whipped Cream : Tyranicus.(391) Skip to My Lou : Archmage Alex(40) Guild Master <11 accounts> Adventurer <37 accounts> Loyal Underling : the Great Potato(13) FAQSELF : Schrodinger(3) Triad Mage : Krizsan(2), Drakefyre(7) LIAR : fyorna(6181) Rebanned, courtesy of Drakefyre : Shotts999(1492) Shake Before Using : Imban(75) Too Sexy for my Title : M.(5654) Apprentice : Elhioc(1496) sudo: reban/stanrarbannedx1 -y : StanrarBannedX1(1459) I SI BANNED : Shotts1200 II(1053), Britain is da bomb(1168) Senile Reptile : Sir Motrax of Exile(547) One Thousand Slimy Things : Arctic dreams of...(66) Nuke and Pave : Zeviz(24) Canned : Tails(1248), F-5(3020), The flying axe(4042), genoforge(5435), taker_guardian(5490) This Side Towards Enemy : Rantallion(147), Talent in a Previous Life(3098) Explorer <89 accounts> E Equals MC What!!!! : Ash Lael(5491) Spammer : exile2fan12345(1511) Banned : A1-tank-kills-you(1409) ...b10010b... : Thuryl(869) BoE Posse : Silent Motion(15), Alcritas(51), Drizzt(84), The Creator(112), Drizzt(2475) The Establishment : *i(6) BANNED <49 accounts> Board Administrator : Spidweb(1) There are a lot of redundant data there, sorry, but I'm a bit too worn out at the moment to finish sifting through it for the interesting stuff. EDIT: I have other datasets, ~10 in total, but the above three cover about the beginning, middle, and end of my records. EDIT2: I just noticed that there is some minor corruption of the data, namely accounts with no recorded title, which appear above with the incorrect title 'Member Number:'. I'm too lazy to restructure my script to skip these, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Oh, oh! SoT is an acronym. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 Niemand, I bet your corruption comes from HTML tags in the titles, or maybe just unwanted characters like < and >. Seletine and Alorael had italics from the generic Blademaster mod title, I had italics in my title, and La Renaissance had strikethrough. Not sure about Ephesos, Synergy, and "go baby go." EDIT: Okay, I'm modifying the acronyms question to specify "acronyms used as generic phrases" which should exclude most proper nouns. Listing every member, RP, game, etc that can be referred to with an acronym was not supposed to be the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Woo, Niemand! Useful stuff. 5. Lamppost the goldfish, right? 6. Wasn't there a really old and really huge RP with Silvar Inn in the title? 8. The Geneforge and Geneforge 2 were hidden but still reachable (and posted in) at one point. 14. Artemis did so (or close enough, anyway) for a few weeks. 15. Commander Eddie, of course. Dikiyoba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall A less presumptuous name. Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES EDIT: Okay, I'm modifying the acronyms question to specify "acronyms used as generic phrases" which should exclude most proper nouns. Listing every member, RP, game, etc that can be referred to with an acronym was not supposed to be the point. Drat, I guess I can't use this thread as an excuse to ask if anyone has seen DV since, what was it, G5? Oh wait, did I just use this thread anyway? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 12. GIFTC or Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Cockroaches.(in E3 and A3) which always disturbed me on a level that talking spiders dont Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 12. How many acronyms can you list that are, or were, regularly used on the boards? Acronyms that are everywhere (lol) don't count, but message board-specific acronyms that are used frequently here do. JV DV TM GIFTS E1, E2, E3, BoE X1, X2, X3, BoX A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, BoA G1, G2, G3, G4, G5 SDF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Oh, oh! SoT is an acronym. Aw, man. What gave me away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Originally Posted By: Triumph Oh, oh! SoT is an acronym. I forgot about that one. And here's another acronym we haven't mentioned yet: ADoS EDIT: Yet another acronym: PDN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 PDN dosen't count, it stands for Publicly Displayed Name. I'd image that that acronym would be shared by any other forums that would use UBB. As previously stated, acronyms used elsewhere don't count. I don't think anyone has said ET or TM yet. Do abbreviations that aren't acronyms, like Alo or Aran or Slarty count? Because there are like a bajillion of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Triumph Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Originally Posted By: CRISIS on INFINITE SLARTIES EDIT: Okay, I'm modifying the acronyms question to specify "acronyms used as generic phrases" which should exclude most proper nouns. Listing every member, RP, game, etc that can be referred to with an acronym was not supposed to be the point. Thus Spake Slartathustra Edit: also, I googled PDN and didn't see anywhere that used those letters to mean "Publicly Displayed Name." Now, five seconds (approximately) on Google perusing the top results is hardly a meaningful form of research, but it suggests to me that it might not be so ubiquitous as you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 PDN counts. I put in a specific inclusion for message board speak that is message board specific. FYT would go in this category too. Not SW specific, but not widespread across the intertubes either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Matanbuchus Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Quote: 9. How many current or former "satelite boards" can you name (boards created by Spiderweb members and adavertised to some portion of the membership here as another place to gather)? The Lyceum (doh) Phoenix Quote: 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? SMoE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Quote: 15. And finally, how many members can you name who created a topic to announce their permanent departure from the forums, only to return years, months, or days later? Salmon did this, didn't he? I'm not sure if he created a topic, but he certainly left in a huff over the ban on animated avatars, and I'm sure he's shown up at least once since then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Wait, none of the rest of us remembered the Lyceum? Wow. We're horrible people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall In Half Now Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dikiyoba 6. Wasn't there a really old and really huge RP with Silvar Inn in the title? Yes, must've been around 2003 I think. It was the first one I took part in. Don't know if it was the first time a 'silvar inn' RP thread got made, but that one got corrupted at some point and started a second time. Don't remember much about the actual adventuring people did in it, only that we were supposed to be skribbane smugglers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Matanbuchus Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 ...that long ago? Damn, I remember that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Originally Posted By: Dantius I don't think anyone has said ET or TM yet. Yeah, I totally forgot about ET. And actually, I mentioned TM above, in my first post in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Slawbug Posted June 23, 2011 Author Share Posted June 23, 2011 Just to reiterate, acronyms for users, games, and the like are _not_ what the question is asking for. See various posts above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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