The Offical Welcome Back Thread

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:00 pm

Hi,

If Michael Jordan, Hulk Hogan, Kevin Nash, and Mario Lemieux can do it, so can I.

I'm officially unretired as of my 101st post.

Dogbreath: On my rank, call me an IBM DOS Veteran. I got your e-mail, thanks for understanding.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 5:55 pm

It's times like this when I yearn for a Machine gun...

Post by **wardrich** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:03 pm

welcome back!

Interon · Post by **Interon** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:21 pm

Thank you. At least, thanks to Dogbreath, I don't need to be a blasphemer to post in excess of 199 posts.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:47 pm

... that's nice. But this again is useless. Discuss the "God relations" in the religion topic. kthx.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 9:06 pm

Not meaning to undermine your judgement, but this *would* make a good excuse to avoid such convos in the future.

All: If you've either left the forum or have been away for a while and have come back, post it here rather than making extra posts.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:18 pm

Has anybody heard from Ally in the past Century?

Post by **wardrich** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:16 pm

unforetunalty... no

Nor have I heard from good ol' Jean. It'd be funny if they were reading this now...

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 1:40 am

May I ask why this thread is still sticky, or why it became sticky in the first place?

Joris · Post by **Joris** » Sat Feb 14, 2004 3:02 am

As Dogbreath said:

All: If you've either left the forum or have been away for a while and have come back, post it here rather than making extra posts.

I think I don't need to explain more

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 12:28 am

I would think that the mods should be wanting people to make more threads.

It's not like this place is exactly "Postwhore's Paradise". It's 10 times more dead than dead. With everyone trying to prevent excess threads, it's no suprise.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:17 pm

Hey, dont look at me. I constantly say this place is dying, but get told its not and should shut up.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 1:26 pm

Nobody's trying to prevent threads... though K0 may be a bit militistic about enforcing the rules. Go ahead and post whatever you want-but in all seriousness, how would 20 threads with one post about someone being back/leaving be better than 1 thread with 20 posts about people being back/leaving? We encourage posting about any subject whatsoever (so long as it doesn't degenerate into spam/flames*) but I don't see how that is related to a sticky for people coming back. It's much like the one for introduction or cool sites-it cuts down on the useless topics and allows users to focus on meaningful ones.

Obviously, unless we hold a gun to your head and duct tape you to the computer, there's no way to make you post. We make the rules and moderate the posts, but we still need users to make the forum active-we can't control that. And finally, as I've said before, there are absolutely no restrictions on making meaningful new threads, feel free to post whenever you want.

*I'm not quite sure what Kazer0 means by "God relations" or "keeping it in the religion topic" since this post isn't centered on religion and the topic mentioned was created to debate theology but to clarify it: you have freedom of religion here so there's no reason not to post regarding faith.

Thunderdog · Post by **Thunderdog** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:03 pm

I think he was just talking about why he left in the first place, which if you ask me, Was Complete, Unfiltered Bullshit.

Dopefish · Post by **Dopefish** » Sun Feb 22, 2004 10:37 pm

Indeed. He left and came back the same day and the thread became sticky.
I don't think cutting back on spamy threads by having this one designated for leaving/coming back will serve much purpose because, so far, nobody has seriously left/came back and made a thread about it.

The postwhoring/spam should be allowed until it becomes too much rather than trying to nip it in the bud. I would rather post in a spam-filled forum than a desolate forum.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 1:23 pm

*Sigh* Yeah, yeah, I do suppose you're right in that few people actually leave and return on the same day-some of this was intended in irony. Destickified.

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 3:39 pm

Andrew has just become undermined then remined again it seems.

Post by **Dogbreath** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 5:23 pm

Is remined a word?

Kazer0 · Post by **Kazer0** » Mon Feb 23, 2004 8:23 pm

Sure. It's an Andrew word. And the list grows.

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