The serious thread

You haven't been paying attention at all over the last 8 months, have you?

I suggest you start by reading the charter. There are some big words in there, so you might want to get an adult to help.

If you post in this thread once more in the next month, and your post isn't serious and actually planned out in advance, you're gone forever, is that clear?

DamoElDiablo wrote: »

Sarky why is it that you never hang out in the Facial hair & Hats forum?
Methinks that many people could benefit from your beard grooming/styling advice.

In truth, I don't know why I've been neglecting that forum. I've had a lot of stuff happening in Real Life over the last while, I suppose it's easy to lose sight of one's priorities.

I'll try to post there more often.

fluffyorganic1 wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055953913

Just wondered if I can post another line if someone else has posted since my previous post or is it just one line per poster for the entire story

Thanks

Fluffy:)

sNarah pretty much has the right of it. This is The Cuckoo's Nest. The only rules that should be heeded are those of the moderators (all collated nicely in the big old friendly charter near the top of the forum, and even they can sometimes be ignored, especially if it's REALLY FUNNY), and anyone telling you otherwise is severely misguided as to the nature of this place. You post whatever you like wherever you like. Mess up the count with pictures of pecan pie, then delete them later to throw everyone off.GEt yourself a girlfriend and brag about it in the Singles Only thread. Post pictures of Gary Busey everywhere. Whatever. TCN is not like other fora here, a fact far too many people seem to forget.

This is also what I assumed.

Perhaps, as I said, in time. When I can be sure my orifice will be treated with the reverence and respect it deserves.

Brief history:

This thread is where DeVore announced the creation of TCN and the Thunderdome.

Both fora started out with very high signal:noise ratios. Here is an example of the better kind of early Thunderdome thread, where flame wars from another forum were moved there to be continued, often with the main culprits completely unaware that their precious thread had moved or that the Thunderdome was where flaming was mandatory. Note the change in forum tone in the last 10 pages or so, when some idiot dragged the thread up after 3-4 years, and you'll see why I no longer bother with the place. Here is an example of a TCN thread. It was always a very strange and chaotic place. There was never such a thing as a typical TCN thread.

Both fora underwent changes a few years down the line. For whatever reason (I stopped paying attention to Thunderdome when the sodomy insults became the norm), the Thunderdome ended up having moderators and a charter, and became a simple insult forum. TCN ended up with pretty much no moderator and a bunch of users who thought they could ignore the charter and do as they pleased. That's about the time the reputation of TCN went downhill from one of the most interesting places on the site to the Forum For Special Snowflakes. That finally ended with the appointment of myself and Tar to help out SMAK, who just isn't around very much at all these days.

Part of the reason for the slide was because amp stopped caring and left. Now, amp was just about as oldskool as they come. He knew internets. He knew funny. He certainly knew silly. He wasn't the first moderator of TCN, but he was the longest-standing, and his unique brand of insanity and ruthless iron-fisted tyranny allowed the place to thrive. TCN was very popular during his reign and several spinoff fora arose from it, some of which are still going strong.

Some say he went mad. Others that he saw the massive influx of new users over the previous years, and was sickened by their stupidity and lack of creativity. To this day, the true reasons for amp leaving are likely known only to amp and a few of his trusted admin friends who aren't going to talk about it.

Regardless of what caused it, this thread is his final public comminication with the people of Boards.ie. He spammed it over several fora, as well as moving a vast amount of TCN threads to other categories, seemingly at random. After that, he just disappeared. The only people rejoicing were muppets.

Alas, amp really has disappeared. If he wanted to come back, he would be here, and things would be very interesting indeed. He did a lot of good for this website. He was never cowed by whiny bleating people with inflated senses of entitlement, and he never compromised his own values. Boards.ie would be a far better place with more users like him. Maybe someday he'll come back, but until then he'll stick to his guns and follow his own path.

Somewhat. I wasn't really there at the time because, well, I thought all the newbies were ruining the place, so I guess it didn't affect me much. Thus I'm probably biased but I still see more of the crazy/good as oppoed to the crazy/bad.

Frankly, I'm surprised I didn't do something similar myself at the time. I think it's a shame both that amp left, and that he left in the way he did.

Most of them are probably moderators now.