Faces of Apolyton: Primary Polling

[Eyes_Of_Night]

I say this, lets get a nice big flame topic going. No talking about interviews and other stuff. Those who think this is bull**** and don't really care about getting an interview be on my team. We'll put the computer geeks with AH as their leader on the other team. Solver will have to be his own team since nobody wants him.

[TCO]

Originally posted by Colon
Actually, I can think of only one major OT'er that has never been active in the On-Topic forums, namely Iain Lindley (aka *End Is Forever*) who arrived here via Stewart Spink.

He's the most famous. I remember when he first came on and they were arguing about what girl Stew liked.

Some others:

Newsmax crew:
Bartender4U
Lincoln

"Charlies Angels":
Tiamat
BW
FA
Devilmunchie

[Alexander's Horse]

Not much civ representation

This faces series should be re-named "Solver interviews his friends."

Real civ hasn't even been covered and its all from within the CTP/SMAC ghettoes.

[MarkG]

Re: Not much civ representation

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
Real civ hasn't even been covered and its all from within the CTP/SMAC ghettoes.

i'm sure you are willing to wait a little more and judge the effort after more than 2 "issues", right???

[TCO]

Mark. Civ2 is the primary game interest on this site. It should have been the subject of the first interview. Or the OT...

[Alexander's Horse]

Ya GP is right

Civ is THE game. Solver just interviews his friends. Civ should have been first.

Also, it might help if the person running these interviews had more than a tenuous grasp of English.

[MarkG]

perhaps from now on, when we are about to post something on apolyton, we should call the comittee of the representatives of apolyton and have a vote on it....

[MarkG]

and yes, our choices were terrible. who cares if velocyrix wrote the should-be-official strategy guide for smac? horsie would be much better...

[Alexander's Horse]

Not a bad idea

Originally posted by MarkG
perhaps from now on, when we are about to post something on apolyton, we should call the comittee of the representatives of apolyton and have a vote on it....

Maybe Darkcloud should do a poll about it.

I have no beef with Velochrome being interviewed but CIV should have come first.

[tniem]

The way I see it, this FoA section is a great way for us all to see people and personalities that we would not have ordinarily have seen. Therefor wasn't it great to have for the first two issue, two people that contributed a great deal to ACS but at the same time did it with two games that do not get that much attention?

I never had heard of them. Much the same way, most people would not have heard of Korn or Yin if they don't post in Civ III. Keep the variety so that we can see all members of this forum.


And in my opinion the only reason this thread is so long with so much flaming is that a mod said something he should never have said in the publc, I WILL NEVER INTERVIEW... Why would you tell everyone that? Simply say I am taking in all suggestions and then never interview him if you have a problem. Then on top of that two mods fought it out on the board. In my opinion, just plain lunacy.

Now there are two possible moves:
a) interview AH, which would go against what you said will never be done and look like a push over
b) don't interview AH and look like a whinning childish mod that is still upset at getting called a name and has no open mindedness to him.

Either way, it doesn't look good. In the future Sover, post things like that in the Staff Room. We want to see you guys fight, but when you do it does not reflect that well on you and your positions.

[Alexander's Horse]

*Clap, clap, clap, clap*

[MarkG]

it's so damn easy to sound right when you're talking last, isnt it?


c) say that if we ever decide to do a FoA on horsie, it wont be done by Solver. everyone happy....

[Solver]

I'll start with the not knowing me issue. I'm one of the, I suspect, not so much ACS members, who has played each and every Civ game there has been. I played Civ for DOS, then for Windows, Civ II, SMAC, and both CtP's. Next, of all you, I could name guys whom I have never or close to never seen before I dealt with the interviews - DarkCloud, GP, Father Beast, Bugs, Immortal Wombat. Apolyton is too large for everybody to know everyobdy.
I guess I have to surrender. I already have prepared questions for #4, and almost for #5, so they will be what I initially thought. However, if somebody (and I think Bugs here, specifically), makes an Interview with A Horse, this will be published as number 6. So, what you need is to make questions, send them to him, cc to me, and forward the answers to me, then I'll edit it as needed, and post as #6. Volunteers needed then.
Markos, thanks for defending my point.
Immortal Wombat, I'm one of PBEM admins, too .
I have never changed name, for I have used Solver even before Apolyton exists at all, and I see no reason to change.
GP, I am also one of big on-topicers. For example, the PBEm ratings systems are purely my invention . (Stefu, where's that tie-adjusting smilie)?
Also, you know guys, you have seen nothing! You've only seen 2 interviews, while I have seen five.
True, first three are CtP and SMAC. But, 4 is Yin, with his Civ 3, and 5 is Civ 2. 6 will be Horsie, is somedoby makes him.
I haven't quite interviewed my friends. I never spoke to Vel and WesW before I made the interviews, even though I did speak to Tau Ceti! IO haven't spoked to Yin26, either. If I interviewed persons I talk to really much and that re my best forum friends, these would be most boring interviews.
The c choice said by Markos is exactly what will take place. If somebody wants him, lift your butt over the PC, and make that damned interview. You here are just a bunch of people with one intention to offend me, as this really now is a purely flaming thread. Markos looks to be a supporter for me, huh. So, I'll keep my promise, by not doing the interview with AH, and at the same time, keep you happy by having that interview posted under FoA.
People posting in this thread are basically the same guys. Before I at all started work on FoA, I did some polls on ICQ, and found that the SMAC community would like to interview Vel, and they enjoyed the interview. Markos, tell them that this is a civ site .
I see that you most have no wish to learn about more people. You're stuck at a number of forums, and only want to read interviews with people of that forums. Vel will sell his guide, this will be the official SMAC guide, while you'll never know about him.
And AH, you're one of the rare OTF posters I know, but I only know you as a spammer, haven't heard anything good about you before this thread.

[TCO]

Originally posted by MarkG
perhaps from now on, when we are about to post something on apolyton, we should call the comittee of the representatives of apolyton and have a vote on it....

That's OK, Markos. We trust you. Feel free to post what you want on the site.

BUT....it might be a good idea if you had an advisory body. At one point in time, we had votes for senators going around. This is when I hacked in 40 votes for Ming! Now maybe we should go back to such an idea. It could be like the English Pairliament. Starting out as an advisory body and gradually evolving so that you and Dan become figure heads. Dan already being a little further along the process!

So whatya think? It's been a while since we had tha hustle and bustle of an election. Things were even tame during the moderator April Fool's joke. We need something to get the animals riled up a little. Trust me, I know how to acheive this. (First we start with some requirements that only 1970ers are allowed. That will PO the PH's in the crowd. Then we introduce a little cronyism into the process. Believe me, we can get this place humming!)

[TCO]

Originally posted by tniem
The way I see it, this FoA section is a great way for us all to see people and personalities that we would not have ordinarily have seen. Therefor wasn't it great to have for the first two issue, two people that contributed a great deal to ACS but at the same time did it with two games that do not get that much attention?

I never had heard of them. Much the same way, most people would not have heard of Korn or Yin if they don't post in Civ III. Keep the variety so that we can see all members of this forum.

Well, with that kind of thinking sportspages would put tiddleywinks and curling on the front of the sportspage.

Originally posted by tniem
And in my opinion the only reason this thread is so long with so much flaming is that a mod said something he should never have said in the publc, I WILL NEVER INTERVIEW... Why would you tell everyone that? Simply say I am taking in all suggestions and then never interview him if you have a problem. Then on top of that two mods fought it out on the board. In my opinion, just plain lunacy.

Now there are two possible moves:
a) interview AH, which would go against what you said will never be done and look like a push over
b) don't interview AH and look like a whinning childish mod that is still upset at getting called a name and has no open mindedness to him.

Either way, it doesn't look good. In the future Sover, post things like that in the Staff Room. We want to see you guys fight, but when you do it does not reflect that well on you and your positions.

Very good analysis. Solver needs to be a little more dispassionate if he's going to accupy positions of authority.