WWTBAM Bored

earendel wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:It is ironic that I planned on posting this Monday morning, as given the Bored's 48 hour absence, it will now take on a bit of a new meaning......

Anyway, this is the third annual Bored Roll Call, blatantly ripped off from a similar thread in the GC 2 years ago. The point is simple.... whether you post all the time, hardly ever, or somewhere in between, please feel free to add a post to this thread whether it be to just say hello, give holiday wishes, say something special, or nothing really at all. And especially if you haven't made a post in a while, we'd love to see a post from you in this thread to know you're still alive....

I was going to make my post a tribute to just how great a year this has been for the Bored.... well, despite the recent outage. We seem to have settled in quite well over here at our new home, and we have managed to pick up probably our largest batch of new posters since the final year of the old ABC Bored in 2001. After several straight years in the TUB when it seemed Ace's Prophesy was coming closer and closer to becoming reality, I think this year has done a lot towards preserving the long-term health of our little Bored community.....

With no active games at the moment, I will keep this thread stickied until after New Year's....

lb13

"Ace's Prophesy (sic)"??

I'm here.

littlebeast13 wrote:Removed from the Roll Call thread....

earendel wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:It is ironic that I planned on posting this Monday morning, as given the Bored's 48 hour absence, it will now take on a bit of a new meaning......

Anyway, this is the third annual Bored Roll Call, blatantly ripped off from a similar thread in the GC 2 years ago. The point is simple.... whether you post all the time, hardly ever, or somewhere in between, please feel free to add a post to this thread whether it be to just say hello, give holiday wishes, say something special, or nothing really at all. And especially if you haven't made a post in a while, we'd love to see a post from you in this thread to know you're still alive....

I was going to make my post a tribute to just how great a year this has been for the Bored.... well, despite the recent outage. We seem to have settled in quite well over here at our new home, and we have managed to pick up probably our largest batch of new posters since the final year of the old ABC Bored in 2001. After several straight years in the TUB when it seemed Ace's Prophesy was coming closer and closer to becoming reality, I think this year has done a lot towards preserving the long-term health of our little Bored community.....

With no active games at the moment, I will keep this thread stickied until after New Year's....

lb13

"Ace's Prophesy (sic)"??

I'm here.

In one of Ace's many reflective posts he made way back in the old days (Maybe around the time of the Morlock invasion), he made mention that over the course of time, the community here would gradually drift off, move on, and leave the Bored a desolate wasteland. Eyegor brings up Ace's Prophesy from time to time (That's where I got the reference from), and I think that during the last half of the TUB era, we were well on our way to fulfilling that prophesy....

I will be the first to say I was wrong in wanting to cling to the "old Bored" for as long as it was physically possible. We should have set up our own place a long time ago....

And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time. With Go Mail long gone, and the Yahoo playgrounds we had passe, we are not nearly as well connected with each other outside of the confines of this Bored as we used to be. I'm sure there were a number of people on here who had no idea what was going on the last few days, and had no way of finding out that there was just a temporary problem with the Bored's server....

lb13

earendel wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:Removed from the Roll Call thread....

earendel wrote: "Ace's Prophesy (sic)"??

I'm here.

In one of Ace's many reflective posts he made way back in the old days (Maybe around the time of the Morlock invasion), he made mention that over the course of time, the community here would gradually drift off, move on, and leave the Bored a desolate wasteland. Eyegor brings up Ace's Prophesy from time to time (That's where I got the reference from), and I think that during the last half of the TUB era, we were well on our way to fulfilling that prophesy....

I will be the first to say I was wrong in wanting to cling to the "old Bored" for as long as it was physically possible. We should have set up our own place a long time ago....

And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time. With Go Mail long gone, and the Yahoo playgrounds we had passe, we are not nearly as well connected with each other outside of the confines of this Bored as we used to be. I'm sure there were a number of people on here who had no idea what was going on the last few days, and had no way of finding out that there was just a temporary problem with the Bored's server....

lb13

Facebook as a means of communication, perhaps? I know Dave was posting updates there (or at least I read that he was doing so). I don't know how many of us have Facebook pages, though.

littlebeast13 wrote:And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time. With Go Mail long gone, and the Yahoo playgrounds we had passe, we are not nearly as well connected with each other outside of the confines of this Bored as we used to be. I'm sure there were a number of people on here who had no idea what was going on the last few days, and had no way of finding out that there was just a temporary problem with the Bored's server....

tubadave wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time. With Go Mail long gone, and the Yahoo playgrounds we had passe, we are not nearly as well connected with each other outside of the confines of this Bored as we used to be. I'm sure there were a number of people on here who had no idea what was going on the last few days, and had no way of finding out that there was just a temporary problem with the Bored's server....

I had some thoughts about this during those two days, when I realized how many people there are from the Bored who aren't in the GC or any of the other Yahoo groups, or who I couldn't communicate with via Facebook, or by email, etc. I'm pondering some ways to combat that problem now. It would be helpful if everyone would make sure that their primary posting account on here is registered with a working email address that you check at least occasionally. I know some have chosen not to do that, but if there were to be another major outage (or something worse that keeps the Bored offline for a more extended period of time) then it would make it easier if I could pull a master list of email addresses from my database backups and let everyone know directly what's going on.

littlebeast13 wrote: And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time. With Go Mail long gone, and the Yahoo playgrounds we had passe, we are not nearly as well connected with each other outside of the confines of this Bored as we used to be. I'm sure there were a number of people on here who had no idea what was going on the last few days, and had no way of finding out that there was just a temporary problem with the Bored's server....

lb13

tubadave wrote: I had some thoughts about this during those two days, when I realized how many people there are from the Bored who aren't in the GC or any of the other Yahoo groups, or who I couldn't communicate with via Facebook, or by email, etc. I'm pondering some ways to combat that problem now. It would be helpful if everyone would make sure that their primary posting account on here is registered with a working email address that you check at least occasionally. I know some have chosen not to do that, but if there were to be another major outage (or something worse that keeps the Bored offline for a more extended period of time) then it would make it easier if I could pull a master list of email addresses from my database backups and let everyone know directly what's going on.

Thousandaire wrote:Which leads me to ask... who hosts this bored, and why?

mntetn wrote:There are 10 kinds of people on this Bored ...

Spoiler

those who drift away after they go on the show and those who stay

mntetn wrote:There are 10 kinds of people on this Bored ...

Spoiler

those who drift away after they go on the show and those who stay

MarleysGh0st wrote:

mntetn wrote:There are 10 kinds of people on this Bored ...

Spoiler

those who drift away after they go on the show and those who stay

Spoiler

Then there are 100* kinds of people on this Bored, counting those who don't get on the show and either drift away or stay.

*This is a follow-up joke for those fluent in binary, of course!

And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time

tlynn78 wrote:

And we also need to implement a better disaster plan in case something even worse happens the next time

Let's just meet at my house, okay?
Christie has to bring the refreshments.

t.