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In the wake of our archived posts returning, I thought we should seriously consider writing a forum history incase something similar in nature happens in the future. Most of my records are pretty boring, basically forum changes and new staff. I'd like to spice it up a bit with the input of other members.
I know this is a spammy thread, but I wanted to see if anyone else was interested before I move it to the Spam forum for it to be shelled. :p
If enough people are interested, then we can start talking about how to best accomplish this. I don't want any false starts only to have the entire thing fall apart.
Anyway, here's a short list of some of the more important events the last few years. Hopefully I'll be home this weekend so I can fill in more information regarding changes in the senior staff...
Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to help, maybe including a brief history for each forum might spice things up, not sure if I'm the right person to write something like this though.
I retired on 12/02/2007 and got a name change shortly after.
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This is really a great idea, I am coming on the forum after 4 weeks and its nice to be here.:smokin:
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MrFancypants;4037164Sounds like a good idea. I'd like to help, maybe including a brief history for each forum might spice things up, not sure if I'm the right person to write something like this though.
Any type of history would be welcome. A history for each individual forum would certainly be an interesting twist, I just wouldn't know how to undertake something like that. That's why I'm hoping others want to help. :p
I'm not expecting high quality any time soon, just get some rough drafts done. From there things can be fleshed out.
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Since if you go back far enough the history of 'this' forum splits into two seperate ones, we should probably get a few people that remember the filefreak days. I'll do my best to fill in for the ioerror side.
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just a FYI the archive links at the bottom of the forum gives blank pages. you'll still need to go off filefront.com to actually see archived gamingforums/filefrontforums: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://gamingforums.com
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because the main domain for these forums is now forums.filefront.com not gamingforums.com. :)
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gizmo seems to have retired twice in a row without coming back in between, by the way.
Other than that, great list. I'm sure we can add in moderator promotions eventually, but the list would be humungous. Come on Riles, I know you've got a list somewhere... ;)
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Yeah, gizmo got stuck in a time rift or something there. Still trying to find out what happened. Not sure if it wasn't so much a retirement as it was being placed in the Forum Advisor group...
And for the staff, I have promotion dates for all the staff dating back to April of 2005 (Excluding most moderator retirements, those are a pain to figure out considering the number of them done privately). Before that, there are a lot of missing dates. Staff names are going to need a overhaul as well. There have been so many name changes I'll bet there are at least a 150 staff members that will need to be tracked down.
I won't have access, sadly, to that list until at least next Wednesday.