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I dunno, I haven't heard from Rachel since she left. I don't think I knew about Extremist's car crash, either (or if I did it'd long slipped my memory). Hopefully nothing terrible happened with either of them after leaving. Nothing like being mentally in your twenties and physically...not. Wouldn't being vampirerized just freeze you as you are now?

Mods are volunteers. Also I was a mod in those days, so...

I'd actually forgotten about the moderators quitting. I think that it must have been after that that the moderator teams started talking about full forum moderation rather than each moderator having their own area so that there were more hands to help if something like that happened again. I remember disagreeing with Rachel about that approach*, but in the end she was right and I was wrong. *In my defense, I'd only become a moderator to sticky some threads in the BIS PST forums and answer questions, so my approach to moderation was to read every post made in my forums and I couldn't get my mindset to change gears from that at the time.

Its not really a good story. More of an "internet being the internet" story. The die hard Fallout fans didn't like the announcement of Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel, and flooded the forum with real people and alts complaining about the game. As is typical of many forums, volunteer mods couldn't ban users, only one of the admins could, who were Interplay employees. My memory is the announcement was made on a Friday. So as these new posters/sock puppets began hitting the forums Friday evening (and Saturday and Sunday) there was no one around to ban the users, so all the mods could do is try to remove offending posts. And there were loads of forum rule breaking content (text posts, links, images, etc.) sent in protest of the game announcement and its trailer. However, there was no one around to ban the users who were continually posting abusively and worse we didn't have anyone who could do anything about the users who decided to make their avatars into disturbing anti-Fallout images (like the guy whose avatar was F:BoS producer Chuck Cuevas' head disappearing into Goatse (if you don't know, do not look up) man's anus. So it was just a weekend doing nothing but removing 100s of posts. I'm not sure there is anything you can do at this point but bear with it! Congratulations, though, and hope maybe it gets better for you as you head into the second half!

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Ugh. I just remembered what it was like to be a moderator on the Interplay forums when Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel (the console game) was announced. That was a rough weekend.

There's a few other oldies around (albeit I think there are some posters who predate the BIS forum ). Some don't post but still PM. Sargy hasn't been around since his last post in this thread AFAIK.

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Well, maybe it'll happen in Season 2 (which Neil Gaiman is working on, derived from ideas he and Pratchett had discussed once upon a time).

I get what you're saying; that said in the old days we pruned out the 'me toos' since they were considered spam, so they wouldn't necessarily keep a thread on top. That said, having likes bump a topic might be interesting (provided someone can't keep unliking/liking the thread to keep bumping it).

Sadly, Poncey is long gone...then again I'm not sure the center field magnolia tree would have went over well with modern viewers.

I've always seen likes on a message board as a way to cut out the "me too" posts.

Everybody's a critic.

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...or know how to get things printed at Kinkos*... HEEEEYYYYY-OOOO! I'll be here all week, be sure to tip your waitstaff. *yes, its FedEx Office now, but that looked weird in the sentence.

Yeah, not 100% sure, its been a long time since I tried to fake translate things into Japanese and I used an English-Japanese dictionary then...!