Is Apolyton Retaining New Members?

[Ben Kenobi]

Well, HongHu must be the N00b representive if I call her that.

After all, I believe I was the first to notice her for her posting frequency, due to the fact that I'm relatively new as well.

[Ben Kenobi]

So now someone with too much time on their hands set up "The Six Degrees of Arnelos".

Sounds like good material for a poll!

"Who is the Kevin Bacon of Apolyton?"

[DarkCloud]

Sounds like good material for a poll!

"Who is the Kevin Bacon of Apolyton?"

I think that just about anyone could qualify for 6 degrees, but with Mr Where Its At, it would apply for 3 degrees if not less

[Last Conformist]

With six degrees, I figure we'd net most of the online Civ community.

[:) Smiley]

Seeing how you're supposed to be able to net thw whole world in 6, of course.

Communities ought to be measured in degrees. I'd say Poly is a 2 degree community, linked through the OTF.

[DarkCloud]

Actually I'd say it's all linked through Ming.

For example:

DarkCloud-Ming-All the Forum
DarkCloud-MrWhereItsAt-All the Forum that doesn't know ming.

Pretty much the game would be moot unless we considered people who posted less than 30 times fair game

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Why would any newcomer feel intimidated about posting here? Or anywhere else, for that matter? I find that baffling.

[DarkCloud]

Well... it happens

If you think that a forum is filled with unhelpful jerks... just how long do you think you'd stick around?

[Last Conformist]

Laz would feel at home.

Well, about the first thing anyone told me in OTF was Che saying that he cut a piece of my flesh and barbequed it. Some people wouldn't perceive that as welcoming.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Well... it happens

If you think that a forum is filled with unhelpful jerks... just how long do you think you'd stick around?

Since August 2000 by the looks of it.

[Last Conformist]

What/who the heck is "the Gimp", btw?

[Ben Kenobi]

Yeah, I thought of Ming when I made that post.

Ming should be the Kevin Bacon of Apolyton.

[Paddy]

Animal House

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Yeah, I thought of Ming when I made that post.

Ming should be the Kevin Bacon of Apolyton.

never quite pictured Ming going "Footloose"

but then I can see him in Bacon's immortal role as "Chip Diller" in National Lampoon's 1978 "Animal House."

Do you remember Bacon's great line in "Animal House:"

Chip: Thank you, sir! Please, may I have another?

/me hands Ming a bottle of Jack Daniels

Go hard mate, in the spirit of John Belushi

oh yeah, and John did not need the glass

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
If you think that a forum is filled with unhelpful jerks... just how long do you think you'd stick around?

Until I get bored of toying with them. That could take years.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Originally posted by Last Conformist
What/who the heck is "the Gimp", btw?

Long-term readers are well aware of the fact that posts attached to this handle fall very sharply into one of two camps. These are-

1- Impassioned calls to reason and pragmatism with a solid core of humanist compassion.

2- Obscene, frothing rants with copious references to genitalia in impenetrable English slang.

I'm amazed nobody's worked it out yet.