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Over my dead body

that thing was nothing but trouble from the day daniel insisted on starting it to the day we shut it down. The new site like this one will be a writers site...if anyone wants to debate politics go to a politics forum

 

Detail like that is going to have to be worked out, but by and large the spirit of the rules won't be much different because it will still be the same team running things... its hard for me to imagine why we'd have a rule about mythological relationships, except in so far as the 'no bestiality however its dressed up, no necrophilia, no rape etc... bearing in mind that some mythological characters do all three

 

Love it. Let's do it.

It's a clean slate. We have no way of knowing anyway. Like Moose said, actions will be actions and dingdongs will be banned. I guess if Pinky McFiddle shows up and announces who he is we might reconsider, but as far as I'm concerned, clean slates all around.

Not there yet.

You're so Canadian, Louanne. But I still love you.

Not sure what free speech has to do with mythology. Again, not there yet.

Not a chance. And no politics or religion whatsoever. No agendas. No social experiments. This is the one space on the Internet forbidden to devolve into that crap.

Exactly. However these are broad based questions that need some addressing, even if the details haven't been realized.

 

I missed the quote somewhere upthread, but I think @Gravy mentioned something about the updating the Fanfiction forum, to which, I would say there is no fan fiction forum to update. To be clear, we are not going to recreate .org in its entirety. There will be the broad based sections, like the Workshop, Progress Journals, Contests, writing discussion, etc. But we will not be rebuilding the node structure verbatim. The tangled web of forums and categories was largely created to accomodate nearly 20 years of data. We're not going to have that problem with a virgin field of snow.

And folks, please take the role playing stuff over to discussion thread. This one is getting clogged and our Pacific friends should be waking up and logging in soon.

 

Within reason, there are a few people who were so destructive they won't be welcome (assuming of course they identify themselves). If someone like Joe Sixpak shows up i'm shooting on sight

 

Haha. I forgot about him. "Turn on text to speech and it will sound like we're having a conversation." He's probably evolved with help of AI since then.

 

Stuff like that evolves as forums grow, when you start fresh you don't need many subfora...a few years down the road if we had a big influx of fan fiction threads it might be something we'd look at. XF is very modular and easy to add to (when its working properly rather than not supported since 2016).

 

With plenty of time to spare before May 29th. Can't tell you how long. We're working remotely across continents with full time jobs, but it will get done.

 

Iain and Rath are right on time. I figured there'd be a window after the UK went sleep and the Pacific woke up so I stepped away for awhile. I calculate Pacific time by adding two hours and flipping the sun. It might only be one hour. So it's almost the same time here as it is there but the sun is upside down. And it's tomorrow for them. I love that about this place. A bunch of dingdongs all over the world who probably just as nuts as me.

We've kicked the idea of starting a new forum around for awhile. Not because we wanted to, but it because we knew we were in trouble and it was one of three options. Option #2 was acquiring the forum from Daniel. Option #3 was do nothing. With two and three out, new forum was the only thing left. I would have thought it unlikely six months ago, but it doesn't appear to be too crazy. I mean, it's complicated but it's not hard, if that makes sense.

It's gotten me fired up. It sucks to lose the database and the SEO, but if you think about it, all of that has just gotten us to where we are today. We've never even tried to market the forum or reach new writers through social media. We've never had mailing lists. We haven't been able to use even the preschool level of forum functionality due to absent ownership. None of those things are rocket science. Not even steam engine.

 

I'm not going to stop you. I'd prefer the place not be trashed, but you got to do what you got to do.