Teach Plato Aployton History

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by Ming
It was NOT any kind of official title... just a BS little and very short lived thread poll that wasn't worth the time wasted on it.

It can't be taken away only because it was NEVER given in the first place. He's just full of himself.

Real titles have been given out, and he's never had one, and never will have one

Thanks, Ming. I was wondering what he could have done to motivate a mod to give him a special title but not ban him.

[flash9286]

It was NOT any kind of official title... just a BS little and very short lived thread poll that wasn't worth the time wasted on it.

It can't be taken away only because it was NEVER given in the first place. He's just full of himself.

Real titles have been given out, and he's never had one, and never will have one

I never said it was an official tilte., and you gave it to me since you changed the poll .

[Ming]

Official titles are one thing... his claim of a title is just a dream in his own little mind. Very few people have been given special titles, and he isn't one of them

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Are you getting all this, PLATO1003? This is how Apolyton History is made!

[Solver]

Yeah, a good node Ghengis.

At a time about two years ago, Yin26 got the special title of "President of OACTPC" or something along the lines, which stoof for President of Official Apolyton Civ Three Pessimist Club - Yin did, at the time before Civ 3 was released, make quite some sceptical notes .

[PLATO]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Are you getting all this, PLATO1003? This is how Apolyton History is made!

[GePap]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Now do the history of the OTF!

And the Garden of Poly grew on the great server field and it was good, but a new and strange shoot appeared, and it flowered into a melodious blossom, and all the beings of the field were drawn to it..and they smelled the flower, and a great insanity took hold..for instead of saying prayers to Great Meier and his work, and the work of other Angels from the realms of Microprose and Fixaris, they spoke in tounges and chanted nonsense. But this was not the work of the fallen Angel Reynolds, nay, it was the work of greater evil, so the Peasant Mark came and took his mighty staff and with it drove out the greater postcount from the chatter.. But that was not enough for the chatter continued, so three lowly beings were annointed by the Peasant Mark and the Peasant Dan, and they were given Rods of Banning, to keep the melodious flower in check, and allow some sanity to return to the great field.

Ahem.

[Nubclear]

..And then the server crashed.

The end.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by flash9286
I can tell you that I am the only one to be given the title Poly biggest Jackass, and nobody can take that away form me.

Who are you?

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb

Was this a thread poll or was it bestowed on you instead of the traditional ranking?

This was a poll which has since become the most spurious poll in recent Apolyton history. What happened is, he started a poll asking who was Apolyton's biggest jackarse. The real winner was DinoDoc, followed by Kassiopeia in second. There were 25 voters before the poll was Mingified, and all votes were changed to flash9286.

[Ben Kenobi]

You'd think Flash would have a different candidate for the title after having his thread thoroughly trashed.
Instead he considers it an honour?

[DrSpike]

So he couldn't even win a jackass competition?

[Hydey]

what a loser

[Mercator]

I don't think anyone has answered your Civilization Decency Act question yet...

I don't know all the details, but then I don't think it ever was very exciting in the first place.

Back in 1998, the reigning Civilization2 site wasn't Apolyton, but rather "Addicted to Civilization" (now long gone). Since there were quite a lot of civ2 fan pages back then, they got the idea of, well, a "decency act". with the hope all fan sites would serve decent content, and properly credit authors of downloads etc.

Go back in history to Addicted to Civilization through the Wayback Machine.
You'll see what the site looked like in late 1998 and early 1999, and you can also see the original CDA (September 1998) and its signing members.

The CDA was a moderate success, but with the demise of Addicted, the CDA also went down.

In September 1999, SidGames (gone as well) and Apolyton revived the CDA.

Unfortunately, they never really brought any attention to it, and it kind of remained within the Civ2 community. Because of that, only me and one other site re-signed the newborn CDA.

This week Dan finally got rid of it. It was a great idea, but never really took off.

I don't think I've actually answered the question yet. I don't think anything "happened" really. But there were a lot of civ2 fan sites back then (and probably the idea that this would only increase), so it was an idea to make sure it all stayed decent.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I'm sorry but with all the comments about flash's "title" I was reminded of that guy from the movie, Happy Gilmore.