Re: *attention*
Originally posted by BadabingI´ve seen the error of my ways.....surrender
[b]There is a very good chance the Comic Book Versus Forum will be getting closed. It seems there are posters who consider themselves above the rules and immune from any discipline from mods. Well, that's been proved false. . [/B]
Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
damn. what about just deactivating the report function for good?
or a feature that automaticly edits insults in post.
or make me mod and ill take care off all of this?
The first would allow all kinds of idiocy and chaos...we'd turn into 4chan. The code would be impossible to write for the second one, it wouldn't deal with all the other problems we deal with that don't involve insults, and would also inhibit free speech. The third isn't worth commenting on.
Originally posted by Doctor-Alvis
I remember bein' all like "Oh well."
Indeed. The real joke was that all the "thank goodness" sentiments from the mods weren't actually sarcastic, even though we were in on the joke.
Here's a gem that never actually saw the light of day. I scrapped in because it would've been too much work. I'd like to think Bada got some ideas from it though, since he was the prime mover behind the actual prank we pulled.
Originally posted by Digi
First off, this needs to be kept a secret from the general KMC public or the affect will be lost. Not good friends, not other sites....[b]just Mods.Anyway:
In roughly 10 months, DC Comics is publishing what promises to be one of the largest company crossovers in comic history. They're calling it "Final Crisis". The death of universes, irreversible change, yadda yadda yadda...
And to coincide with the release, I want to do something of our own. A "Crisis", if you will. Now...
- Don't worry. I'm not planning anything too outlandish. A bunch of thread closings (which I'll re-open after it's all over) some threats of merging all the comic forums together and closing the vs. forum, general chaos and rumors, etc.
- I don't have all the details worked out...just general ideas.
- The reason I'm making this is because I want to assure everyone that this is in the interest of fun and won't do anything harmful (except flood my and a few others' PM boxes). Also, because I'll need help to convince everyone of the "crisis". Think of it as an elaborate April Fool's joke, which will hopefully dupe a good deal of the comic forums.
- I'll make sure there's unrest and rumors well before it happens so that it doesn't seem out of the blue. For example: They already know that vs. forums aren't held in the highest esteem...how much more would it take to convince them that we decided that the "vs. experiment" was more problem than it's worth, and that we've decided to close the forum entirely? We're a movie site after all. That's where I'll need outside help...they won't believe just me. I'll help plan things as they go along...no one will be doing terribly much unless they want to. But to be convincing, there will have to be dummy-announcements in other forums and various other things that I can't all do alone if I want it to be convincing.
- If this gets vetoed by anyone, nothing will happen. I've just been thinking about this for a while though, and figured it might be fun. I figure I'll need at least a few months to lay the foundation for all of it, so it was best to start thinking early.
...the central idea behind DC's original "Crisis on Infinite Earths" was merging the multiverse (multiple universes) into 1 universe. We'd mirror that, after a fashion, but wouldn't actually follow through.
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So. Thoughts?
...I'm half-embarassed to put this idea out there, but I honestly think I can pull it off convincingly and amusingly. [/B]
Originally posted by DigiJust out of curiosity why would mods do these things if it makes people mad and possibly runs them from the site?
Here's a gem that never actually saw the light of day. I scrapped in because it would've been too much work. I'd like to think Bada got some ideas from it though, since he was the prime mover behind the actual prank we pulled.
The plan that almost was. This was the details from the above idea:
Originally posted by Digi
There's just...a lot to coordinate, and a lot of damage control to avoid (or to shunt to me and a few others).Nutshell version, just for thought:
Basically I'd take a really hard line in my forums and start closing things (I kinda legitimately want to get rid of the team threads anyway...they're mostly spam), have some respected but non-comic member start some anti-vs. forum stuff in the OTF (maybe an impromptu petition), and random grumblings from various mods about changes to the vs. forums, followed in a few weeks by tentative proclamations that the "vs. experiment" was becoming too much trouble for its own good and mass closings would occur.
Nothing less than a coordinated announcement from either Raz or multiple globals would actually get the forum to take the possibility seriously that all vs. forums will be shut down. That's when I'd find some way to shunt the PM flood to me, by attempting to act like I'll present the case to the mods without spamming everyone else's PM box (which I'd say would only lead to problems).
Meanwhile, pr and some other mod (originally WD in my plan, but it could change) start a covert "resistance" on another board, due to "inconsistencies" with the stories being presented by everyone, and let on that maybe Digi isn't being as honest with everyone as he lets on. They pretend to be the peoples' advocates for a time, and basically gather ideas (which will never be used, btw). I grow increasingly despotic, and eventually get confronted...at which point I let on that I was behind the closing idea. This will be close to the end of the whole thing, because there's no clean way to filter PMs to any one person after that, unless I let on that {insert person} has been against me more than anyone.
Toward the very end (last day or two), one or both of the "peoples' advocates" of the secret resistance let on that they've been in cahoots with Digi the entire time (we'll spare pr if he needs to be the good guy 😛 ) and want the forums closed. Nothing can stop it from happening.
Final announcements, mass upset-ness for about a day. Then nothing.
About a day's break in between, then the "gotcha" announcement.
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That's the short version. Other than myself, pr, and one other mod, there's not much anyone else would have to do other than general confirmation from other mods if they're asked about it, and like I said I'll shunt the PMs to me as much as possible. Nothing major would occur for at least 4-5 weeks, which leaves only another 4 or so weeks where there would be any visible unrest.