A Noticeable Trend...

ConfuzorConfuzor Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2412Awaiting Authorization
<div class="IPBDescription">Which I believe should be reprimanded...</div> Exhibit A; <a href='http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame92.html' target='_blank'>Flame Warrior #92</a>:

<img src='http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/assets/Necromancer.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

<!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Necormancer has a supernatural ability to bring long-dead forum discussion threads back to life. After having been flogged to death the thread may have been deceased for many years, and bringing it back may have scant relevance to the current topic, yet Necromancer will unexpectedly exhume the thread’s rotting corpse, strike horror as its grotesque form lurches into the forum discussion. The monster, instantly recognized by all who knew it in life, seems at first to breathe and have a pulse, but, alas, it is beyond Necromancer’s skill to fully restore the thread’s original vitality. The hideous apparition may frighten away some of the weaker Warriors or Warriors badly wounded in former battles, but the thread is only a shadow of its former self and very quickly expires. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->

The sight that I see is not unlike that of a hooligan who defecates his hideous graffiti on long honoured graves. Must you ungrateful wretches consistently desecrate the memory of threads that should have otherwise silently slid into peace? Instead, you disrespectfully exhume the shells of these once vibrant topics and set forth your childish boasts of "Gentlemen! I call upon you to look upon my findings! Such an amusing post it once stood... Now, let us ravage it's memory with post counts until our guardians are forced to euthanize its formerly glorious existence." If you must satisfy your 'threadophilia' fetishes, please direct it towards topics designed for the indignity of such abuses, rather than defiling what should stand as memorable history.

Should the powers of postcount tally be vested in me, I would have long rearranged the numbers of such 'necromancers' to a degree far beyond the rearrangement of Michael Jackson's current disfigured visage...

Comments

  • DarkATiDarkATi Revelation 22:17 Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17532Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    Wait several months for someone to ressurect this very topic...

    Anyway, this forum discards topics older than a certain date so really some of these people are saving humorous topics from slipping silently into the abyss of nothingness. Or, sometimes a forum searcher simply finds an old topic that is new to him and posts in it... anyway, it's 3 in the morning and this is spam, lmao. Good game.

    ~ DarkATi
  • MulletMullet Join Date: 2003-04-28 Member: 15910Members, Constellation
    edited July 2004
    n/m <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    laff

    Sometimes threadomancy is necessary, like in the I&S forum....

    Okay, bad example.
  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    edited July 2004
    <!--QuoteBegin-RaVe+Jul 15 2004, 01:15 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (RaVe @ Jul 15 2004, 01:15 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> laff

    Sometimes threadomancy is necessary, like in the I&S forum....

    Okay, bad example. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <span style='color:white'>Be nice.</span>

    I think the worst threadomancy occured in General Discussion today. On the front page I saw a thread in there called "new forums" and was like "WTH". So I go in, and some evil dark necromacer had resurrected a two year old thread with the word "yay".

    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8&view=findpost&p=1147638' target='_blank'>The corpse of the thread</a>
  • raz0rraz0r Join Date: 2003-07-24 Member: 18395Members
    Necromancers should be shot
  • Dorian_GrayDorian_Gray Join Date: 2004-02-15 Member: 26581Members, Constellation
    Or at least confined to I&S, where they can't do any damage.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Hell, a single member taking an archelogical romp through our boards is a 'noticeable trend'? You're damn sensitive, you know that? <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TresthTresth Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5602Members, Constellation
    Well.. that could be a <b>HUGE</b> dose of refined lag? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    I&S thread suggesting that Oni can eat marines.

    Last post 2003 some time

    Necromancer: Woah, that would be cool!
  • dr_ddr_d Join Date: 2003-03-28 Member: 14979Members
    edited July 2004
    Don't hurt me Nem, lol.


    <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=73930&st=30&' target='_blank'>http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/in...ic=73930&st=30&</a>

    <span style='color:white'>Next time, I won't only delete the post... <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--></span>


    Bah he undid my handy work. Foiled again, by meddling kids.
  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    <!--QuoteBegin-DarkATi+Jul 15 2004, 03:47 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkATi @ Jul 15 2004, 03:47 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Anyway, this forum discards topics older than a certain date so really some of these people are saving humorous topics from slipping silently into the abyss of nothingness. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Not true. NS Forums have not lost a thread created since we switch to Ikonboard from UltimateBoard way back when. Click the "Show threads from" drop down at the bottom of the index of a forum and select "The Beginning" to see them all.
  • WirheWirhe Join Date: 2003-06-22 Member: 17610Members
    Mistakes happen, links can lead to older topics, and people can forget to check the dates -and usually do. Lock + suggestion to create a new topic = problem solved.
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    I was thinking of reviving the first topic, but then I thought it might not be such a good idea...
  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    That's actually exactly what Speed-racer did. The topic he resurrected in General was the 8th topic created on the boards and the oldest one that can still be located (presumably the first 7 were test topics before the board went live).
  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    haha i was curious about that one.
  • RaVeRaVe Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17538Members
    Hehe....looks like I'm building up an unliked reputation...oh well, can't be helped, that's just being me.

    I barely threadomance a thread though. Honestly because of the few forums I've been to have a strict 'No threadomancy' policy.

    At least I'm thankful this place allows threadomancy with actual meaning, and not unnecessary threadomancy messages like 'omg thats cool'

    Which can oddly be found at the Modelling forums from time to time.
  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    I tend to be a little more sympathetic towards such resurrections in Customization as it's, after all, positive feedback for a creative person, something I know from personal experience one can never get too much of <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • douchebagatrondouchebagatron Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    edited July 2004
    indeed. i wouldnt mind if someone went back to one of my release threads and said it was awesome. in fact it would bring joy to my day. hint hint.
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