R0m30 wrote:
And by the way: you still don't understand that the essence of THIS board is (or was) the sharing spirit of its community, not the fact that one can find porn here. So its silly to compare FO with "larger boards", if people like those boards better, they will go there. But the community which made this board great liked THIS board because it was unique. It had a heart.
With the hostile take-over from the cash-whores it looks like this uniqueness is gone now, and this is becoming a board like all the others, only smaller.
And that is how the new policy destroys "our" Forumophilia, and people are mad about it. And you don't understand shit about that.
Fortunately, "we", the core of the community, created our own "spare forum" where the true spirit of sharing is kept alive. This board is dying, its community isn't
Damn, Werfilonius, that's the most I ever heard you say! But, words of wisdom, indeed! This was once "our" forum. And it was once a great community. I've had the great pleasure getting to gknow people from all over the world - good people, like yourself, Werf. Man, what a trip it's been! For me, it was gnever about the pron...well, maybe, at first - people were posting Oliona stuff, and I had to join! I always came back here because people like you, RM, BfB, JB, Jappen, Mole, Sealion, P1, KHound, MARKino, Sir_D, Esty, Elmo, Mister Mandingo, Houdini, Cosmander, the lovely Dentellefem, The Bear, C_C, Neutral, Ref...and a bunch of others (that me buzzed brain can't remember at the moment) made it interesting. I remember when I first told an old girlfriend about this place, and she thought I was crazy, but I tried to explain that it was sooo much more than pron. You guys all opened me lil gnome eyes a bit more to the world. Seriously!
I still remember the first time I saw the "forum" link at the bottom of one of those gNancy from Teenfuns pic samples that were all over the gNet. I was like, "Holy scheidt, what's this?" I clicked it, and my world hasn't been the same since. Oliona! gNancy! Galitsin!! Free pron!!! Damn, do you remember when GS opened the Teenfuns site for a coupla days...?! I was a feverish lil gnome dl'ing slowly with my 56k connection. Do you remember the 1st big exodus from FP and all the boards that came after? But I always came back here because this place 'had a heart.' And it was a place where everyone could regroup, and touch base.
Gnowadays, there is very little, if any heart left. Many of the great posters left, an influx of point posters diluted the character of the forum, and too many rules started being implemented. When I lost all my posts the first time (some 30 gigs), I gnearly quit for good. But I had the 'bug' that we all get when we start posting and get some response to our work, and I started rebuilding, but then all these rules about pic hosters and stuff just killed it for me. Anyone who has seen my posts gknows that alot of work was put into them, and I don't have the time to redo them because some of the graphics are on gnow banned hosts. Gno slight to you, Svinto - rules are rules...but I do appreciate you being cool about it.
Even with all that being said, the real reason I lost interest in this place was I didn't really care for the posters anymore. Very little thanx or replies... People are rude! And I can't even explain how disappointed I get when I see people taking the time out to respond to a post, and then the guy doesn't even acknowledge the response? And many of these people are Americans, who, I assume, have a decent grasp on the English language... Bla bla blaaa! Just another whining old bastard I've become!
Ahhhhhhh, yup. Well, sorry `bout the Cup, Werfmonger - I don't think the team that made it all the way to the Cup, actually showed up for the match. Pity.
Hope to see you elsewhere, Werf the White, as you as fine a fellow as a human can be.
svinto wrote:sigmaproject wrote:
They were cast aside.........
Real people replaced by nameless robots
I am mainly sorry that I do not know which forum they have all gone too .
Well,
sigmaproject I would say that many of us who now are in a new forum, didn't only felt as being cast aside, we felt us rather as castaways...
Ohhhhh, the irony!!! Damn, Svinto, I gnearly died when I read sigmaproject's post, and then you killed me with your response! Classic!
Just like to also say thank you to (the real) GS, Svinto and all the ModSquad, past and present, for all their efforts in making this all possible.
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison
Sunrise doesn't last all morning,
a cloudburst doesn't last all day
Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning
But it's not always going to be this grey
All things must pass, all things must pass away
Sunset doesn't last all evening,
a mind can blow those clouds away
after all this my love is up and must be leaving
It has not always been this grey
All things must pass, all things must pass away
All things must pass none of life's strings can last
So I must be on my way and face another day
Now the darkness only stays at nighttime,
in the morning it will fade away
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time
It's not always going to be this grey
All things must pass, all things must pass away
All things must pass, all things must pass away