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Wed 10/07/02 at 00:11
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Posts: 787
...all this was just fields. Then someone had a dream. To create the gretest forums ever known to man. I remember when it was small boys on the forum, lap-tops for goal-posts. Marvellous. Isn't it? and when the then WWF forum was actually hidden away in the games discussions where newbies couldn't come in and say for the 3 millionth time this week 'wrestling is gay...oiled men groping esach other...etc..'. I remember when Mystique never had anything intelligent to say and a young man called Cong made a hideous number of irrelevant posts but was still annonymous to everyone outside of the WWE forum. I remember when shaneo managed to set a world record for the number of different names he had removed from this place. I DON'T however remember what the point of this post was exactly...but then some thing will never change...
Thu 11/07/02 at 22:05
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Posts: 15,681
I remember when there were seperate forums for every game, and Fogmaster started the first topic in the "Pokémon Yellow" forum, in which I posted the first reply.

The general look of the board was cheap and un-ordered, but it developed into what it is today...
Thu 11/07/02 at 21:05
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"sdomehtongng"
Posts: 23,695
I remember when this forum was clogged with spam.

Guess I don't have a long memory.

;-)
Wed 10/07/02 at 23:01
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Posts: 9,848
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Well, YH, I remember when...
>
> *There were no staff

Before my time. By the time I'd gotten here, [email protected] would pop up here and there for the odd comment. Often to tell people off for chatting! Not so "Snuggly" back then! ;-D

> *No tags, coloured names or membership gradings

Yeah. Newbies were recognised by their writing skills.
Someone who'd just turned up on the site could easily pass for a regular... especially when they accidently pick the same name as an existing one... :-D

> *GAD was picked at 6pm each day for that day

I had to do all my blatant GAD attempts at school so I'd have a chance of being picked! :-)

> *There was no spam

LONG before my time then...
I you sure that's not mis-memorised?

Infact, it was worse back then because there was no Chat room for people to spam so it was all done in the single FoG forum.
Good topics would disappear daily...


Long time ago.
I think that things have changed for the better in most cases.
And all the disadvantages (like spam) are natural side effects to this forum becoming so popular.

Atleast we jave a chat forum to dump it all in nowdays.
Wed 10/07/02 at 22:06
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"---SOULJACKER---"
Posts: 5,448
KR wrote:
> saying that, what happens if you wrote a review at 8pm? would that go
> onto the next days GAD?

Well, we were so worried that our topics wouldn't get in for the GAD prize (after all, there are lots of students here who only go online after 6pm) that we pleaded with the staff to laten the chosing of the prize. Instead they did what you said I think...
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:47
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Posts: 23,218
saying that, what happens if you wrote a review at 8pm? would that go onto the next days GAD?
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:43
Regular
"---SOULJACKER---"
Posts: 5,448
Well, YH, I remember when...

*There were no staff
*No tags, coloured names or membership gradings
*GAD was picked at 6pm each day for that day
*There was no spam

:P

Sonic
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:43
Regular
Posts: 23,218
Well... I remember when you were a regular ;)

BEt you forgot you used to be one of us :p
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:41
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Posts: 14,117
KR wrote:
> the sport and life only separated last month...


It was about 3 months ago, and a lot of people weren't here then. So ner.

:-D
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:37
Regular
Posts: 23,218
the sport and life only separated last month...

so ner :p
Wed 10/07/02 at 21:26
Regular
Posts: 14,117
I remember when there was no ranking system. No different coloured names, no top posters list. No FoG chat. When we had FAD and GAD each day. When the Life and Sport forums were all one. When the longest thread in Prime was the main chatting place.

So there, ner.

:-D

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