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Princess
14:31 / 12.04.07
I always thought that was where the armoury was.
 
 
Quantum
14:49 / 12.04.07
SHHHH!
 
 
grant
18:51 / 12.04.07
DO NOT ASK OF SUCH THINGS!!!!
 
 
Olulabelle
09:54 / 13.04.07
Seriously, where actually is forum number three, amoury jokes aside? Or is it that there really truly is an amoury and I am just not cool enough to know?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:46 / 13.04.07
I think it used to be the 9/11 forum, didn't it?
 
 
This Sunday
10:56 / 13.04.07
There was a '9/11' forum?

Y'know, I've been watching this board since, well, right before it stopped being 'Nexus' and I never missed any forum.

I do remember that armory joke showing up before, though.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:59 / 13.04.07
The 9/11 forum was a temporary forum introduced shortly after, well, 9/11, for discussion of same. It was real and I didn't dream it.
 
 
This Sunday
11:17 / 13.04.07
Not doubting the existence, much. I would've probably ignored it, when it was around, and so, apparently did.

What was it before then? Or was there a number-shifting I'm not thinking of, shortly before then?

If it was the '9/11' forum since the beginning, that's a little bit creepy.

Also, just wondering, does anyone know how people are chosen to not be allowed to register to the board? Other than it being a spam or marketing thing? Just curious.
 
 
grant
13:05 / 13.04.07
There was a 9/11 forum briefly, but before that there was also a separate "Help" forum, where you didn't have to be a member to post. Quite often the problems people needed help with had nothing to do with the board. And quite often, it became totally impossible to tell who was asking what and who was answering (names kept changing).

For some reason, I thought Help was #13, but it may have been #3.
 
 
This Sunday
05:24 / 14.04.07
There was, to memory, a Help Forum. I'd forgotten about that.
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
09:50 / 14.04.07
Was the 9/11 forum still around when the current iteration of Barbelith was immanentized? Time flies oddly here in the soft places, I find it difficult to keep things in mind beyond 'today, yesterday, some time back'. I'm fairly sure the help forum that you didn't need to log in for didn't survive past the days Barbelith was made of string and off-the-shelf forum software, similarly the Supercontext.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:05 / 14.04.07
9/11 and Help were red-and-grey-Lith. They didn't make it to yellow-and-grey.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:23 / 14.04.07
The Help forum that grant's talking about didn't even make it to red & grey, as far as I remember - Flowers is right on that one. It was on the really basic UBB Barbelith, the one immediately following the death of the Nexus that looked like every other UBB site at the time, and Help was a forum that you could sign into as a guest poster, rather than a member. It ended up changing from 'Help' to 'Jack Fear Explains Everything' (or similar) and others on a monthly basis before red & grey came in and guest posting was removed.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
10:39 / 14.04.07
Nah, it was there when I joined, which was red-and-grey.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
11:15 / 14.04.07
Hang on, red and grey was UBB... I remember because it still had the suit-asplode glitch that created so much paranoia...
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
11:27 / 14.04.07
Yeah, I think you joined around the same time as me, didn't you? Red and grey, UBB, I seem to remember.

I joined just before 9/11, and the 9/11 forum lasted for a couple of months after.
 
 
Haloquin
13:02 / 14.04.07
Elijah wrote this; I am annoyed that moderators don't have the ability to put someone in timeout. A generic PHPBB board has that, and it flags the post with "USER WAS SUSPENDED UNTIL XXXX FOR THIS POST"

And I'm wondering why moderators don't have this ability and if its possible for them to aquire it?

The only two reasons I can think of that you wouldn't have it is
a) technically not possible on this board
b) in case the mods go all ego-splodey and took advantage... which I somehow can't see happening.
or, I guess b.1)because Barbelithers (as a whole?) would prefer to spnd 5 pages in policy dealing with someone in public than just force them into taking a timeout.

If theres a better place for this question, sorry, I couldn't see one.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:17 / 14.04.07
Basically: Barbelith runs on unique homegrown software which for various reasons too painful to relate is currently as good as it's ever going to get. X-ref the various discussions we've had on the topic over the years, most recently kicking off again round about here. Tom asplains the current state of play here.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:18 / 14.04.07
PS: )because Barbelithers (as a whole?) would prefer to spnd 5 pages in policy dealing with someone in public than just force them into taking a timeout.

Ahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. Hah.
 
 
Haloquin
17:25 / 15.04.07
Thanks Mordant.... and to be clear; my comment was bemused, not bitchy!
 
 
*
20:59 / 16.04.07
I join you in feeling bemused. And sometimes, in my case, bitchy.
 
 
Lugue
23:58 / 31.05.07
Not exactly a new member, and maybe not that basic a question, but what's up with the Webzine? Meaning, why was it discontinued (or was it not supposed to be a continuous effort?)? And what exactly is its history?
 
 
Our Lady Has Left the Building
08:46 / 01.06.07
The webzine didn't last long and soon transformed into a kind of group blog thing. There were around a half dozen Barbeloids that Tom set up with their own blogs and the idea was that they would feed into this one blog, but people had lives to lead and so it didn't last long. The google description for Barbelith is more based on an intention rather than something that actually lasted that long.
 
 
Jack Fear
13:46 / 01.06.07
Not quote. The webzine and the group blog co-existed, but were never integrated in any meaningful way. Which was a pity. I thought the setup had great potential, repositioning the community as a sort of media node organized around a stream of new content and conversation surrounding it, with the zine as the front page, the blogs as as sort of opinion columns, and the board as the place for the conversation to continue.

Seriously, I think it was the lack of proper and consistent cross-linking that doomed the project, as much as anything else.
 
 
Lugue
20:54 / 04.06.07
And so, it's dead entirely? Or does it cross people's minds now that there's occasional talk of renewal of well, the community?

Also: QueerGranny? What happened to?
 
 
grant
16:46 / 05.06.07
Queer Granny was Persephone's baby. She's not really around here any more.
 
 
Lugue
08:43 / 06.06.07
Oh, okay. I remember Kegboy comics and Fool designs, hence the assumption.

I'll take the silence as a "yes, the zine is buried deep".

And thank you!
 
 
Happy Dave Has Left
15:40 / 13.06.07
How does one see your own profile (i.e. topics posted, number of posts etc?). I always go to my admin screen, or a sign-in screen if logged out.
 
 
grant
15:58 / 13.06.07
How does one see your own profile (i.e. topics posted, number of posts etc?).

I think the only way to do that is to log out.

You can see the topic/post numbers by clicking on the "#n members" link on the top of the main page, then looking for your username.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
16:26 / 13.06.07
If I log out and try to look at my own profile, it asks me if I want to log back in. Curses!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
16:30 / 13.06.07
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grant
17:34 / 13.06.07
Well, if THAT'S how you're going to be...

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grant
17:35 / 13.06.07
All of a sudden, I had an image of us all standing backstage, wearing elaborate feathered masks and facial prosthetics, asking each other to help adjust our makeup.
 
 
Blake Head
17:39 / 13.06.07
I don't think you need to log out. Didn't this come up before? Click on your username from any post or thread, when it asks you to update your info, click "update" and it brings you to a screen showing no. of posts/threads and so on.
 
 
Blake Head
17:40 / 13.06.07
Though wearing elaborate feathered masks sounds more fun.
 
  

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