Harlequina wrote:

I have used the function at Guthwulf's to delete topics that met with no resopnse, or which I otherwise considered to be without value immediately I had posted them (and before any response had been made to them). I did this on the basis that the space being occupied by them (?) could be used to store more productive/valuable topics.

*nod*

Fair enough.  I used my Mantis powers to delete my old Beach Houses so they didn't just collect dust...

Well, it all got fried anyway...
;)

We need bulletin board software that makes it look like I know what I'm talking about when I post stuff.

That shouldn't be hard, should it?

Tad wrote:

We need bulletin board software that makes it look like I know what I'm talking about when I post stuff.

That shouldn't be hard, should it?

So like a message board that comes with the paper clip MS office assistant or something? :p What you could do is just post in otherland slang, then half the people wouldn't understand you clearly and think because of that you must be ultimately wise (works for over wordy philosophers).

I was thinking we could just randomly annotate all of Tad's posts with cf.'s and ibid.'s and so forth.  We can also throw in the occasional: "I'd like to thank [random board member] for helping refine my thinking on this topic through many informative conversations.  Any remaining confusions are, regrettably, my own."

Just think how knowledgable Tad would sound.  I, for one, would be driven mad; I read every footnote.  But that's just a cost of doing business, I suppose.

I vote for randomly generated post count numbers.

:)

LOL. wolfshade, that was classic!

Wow, stuff really went broken, didn't it? Okay, the board exists again, that's good enough for me. Will be posting again here from now on. :)

the board colours should remain as they are.

but that could be difficult with a new provider maybe...

let´s  try to keep it smarchlike at least, so no khaki/turquoise script on red/green blinking background, at least...

Rimmers wrote:

let´s  try to keep it smarchlike at least, so no khaki/turquoise script on red/green blinking background, at least...

why not?  We could totally do, like, disco fridays or something...

Seriously though, the color scheme works.  It's part of the addiction somehow.

agreed. no avatars, no animated images... and smarchers addicted to beige and orange things because of the boards...

also the basic reply options at the reply screen and the plain overal design ARE smarch. form and content merge into this genuine smarch feeling that is beyond any rational description. but who needs that? we know of our weirdness, and we know who we are!

well, we are the boards and the boards are us...somehow.

smarch culture!

Oh, yes, keep the color scheme. And no smileys! Nononono! What would I do without my texty-smiley-thingies?!


I'd be lost, that's what. Shattered. Utterly destroyed; lost beyond all recovery. Despondent; despairing; anguished and agonized.

Ohdeargod I really did turn into a thesaurus!
~flees, screaming~