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PREPARING FOR THE TRANSITION: PURGE AND MERGE

  
  

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Tom Coates
13:16 / 08.02.02
OK. The transition to the new site is literally days away - we should be over to it by the end of the next week, with any luck. And then of course, the bitching can begin!

BUT before we move over, we've got some work that needs to be done here first....

1) THE MERGING

Do you have alternative fiction suits that you'd like to merge together? Perhaps your last suit died and you'd like to reassociate all your previous posts with your current identity?

If your old suit died, then tell us its name and we'll try and merge it with your current suit (if we're sure it's you).

If you want to merge two working suits together, then let us know by posting "I WOULD LIKE TO MERGE THIS SUIT WITH ....." in this thread, once from EACH SUIT (so that we know you own them both).

2) The Purging of the suits.

Do you have any old suits lying around that you're a bit ashamed of? Old fashioned crap, perhaps?

Then post "BURN THIS SUIT" in this thread and we will do so. REMEMBER WE WON'T BURN IT UNLESS YOU POST "BURN THIS SUIT" WHILE USING THE SUIT YOU WANT BURNT - how else are we going to know it's definitely you!?


3) If possible, could you start sorting out your private messages - and make sure that you're not going to miss them if they get lost in transit over to the new board?

That's all for the moment...
 
 
Naked Flame
14:43 / 08.02.02
Can you merge this suit with the defunct NakedFlame suit? the nakedflame suit died on me, but I'm gonna carry on using the Flame On name.
 
 
Tom Coates
16:11 / 08.02.02
Sorry - I can only merge suits that have both existed since the last board collapse. Find me a thread with your old suit on it, and I'll prepare them for the merging...
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
16:55 / 08.02.02
I would like for this suit to be merged with the old Flux suit, which had the log in name Ronald Thomas Clontle, and was member #132.

Also: will our screen name be fixed once you switch over? If so, please let us know at least a day in advance, as if I have to just have one name that won't change, I'll just go with simply Flux, but until then, I'd still like to switch the name up on a whim.

[ 08-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = That Dastardly Dilettante ]
 
 
Captain Zoom
17:28 / 08.02.02
Sorry if this has already been covered somewhere else, but is there a link to the Delphi barbelith anywhere?

Not that I'm here anymore. Crap.

zoom. (pathetic)
 
 
Spatula Clarke
18:26 / 08.02.02
Pocket Barbelith
 
 
Naked Flame
19:56 / 08.02.02
ah well, I think all the nakedflame posts are lost. Not to worry. thanks anyway.
 
 
Ganesh
00:18 / 09.02.02
Tom, can't recall which of my old suits are from this incarnation and which are from the last one. In any case, if they're still around, all of the following can be burned:

fatbeard

cabinet maker

Ho Garden (actually no, scrub that one; someone else has started a Ho Garden 2)

Jamie Oliver

Sean Connery

Erinye

Cacoethes

Ganesha

The One

The Jerry Springer Audience

Cain

Gimp of the Perverse

That's all I can immediately think of...
 
 
Mazarine
00:46 / 09.02.02
Those were all you? Jesus I'm oblivious... I just want to be me, Tom, little old me. But I don't think I have any other suits to burn.
 
 
Ganesh
00:51 / 09.02.02
What can I say? It was a phase I was going through...
 
 
Lionheart
05:04 / 09.02.02
Please fuse all of my official fictionsuits together. As you probably know by now...

I am Grant Morrison.

  
 
Tom Coates
05:04 / 09.02.02
Sorry Ganesh - for a variety of reasons I can't delete them if you do it like that. You have to log-in as the suit concerned and tell me to delete you - otherwise I don't know it's you.

More to the point I have to know suit number not name in order to be able to delete it... (which I can get easily if you post in that suit, but not easily otherwise)
 
 
Ganesh
05:04 / 09.02.02
Ohhh. Can't remember the passwords for half of those; it was a while ago now. Sorry.
 
 
Rialto
05:04 / 09.02.02
Please merge with me Flyboy, who was my much less interesting secret identity all along.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
05:04 / 09.02.02
In turn, please merge me with Time Please, who I have been responsible for in all his incarnations.
 
 
Ganesh
05:04 / 09.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Ganesh v4.2:
Ohhh. Can't remember the passwords for half of those; it was a while ago now. Sorry.

Tried logging in with the few I do remember and got 'no-one of that name registered here' - so either my suit closet vanished with the last incarnation or when 'Ganesh' corrupted. So don't worry about 'em.
 
 
Tom Coates
10:14 / 09.02.02
Flyboy if you want to be merged, you have to say it from BOTH SUITS so I know that it's you. UNless the suit is dead, of course.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
10:37 / 09.02.02
Foxxy Feminist Fury and Cherry Bomb must become one.
 
 
Cherry Bomb
10:39 / 09.02.02
Oh, scratch that, 'cuz I just tried to log into Foxxy and it looks like ze's all ready dead.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
11:00 / 09.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
Flyboy if you want to be merged, you have to say it from BOTH SUITS so I know that it's you. UNless the suit is dead, of course.

But... I have done! See above - 'Assimilation Time Please' and 'Time Please' are one and the same, and ze is requesting to be merged with me...
 
 
Tom Coates
11:20 / 09.02.02
Oh I see.
 
 
Polly Trotsky
02:03 / 11.02.02
I know the second YNH was #525, and the first was like #32,33, or 37... Both are dead, burned in the hellfires of censorship and moderation... or something. I'll take all those unregistered posts back under my wing, if possible. 3 suits, all me, all [Your Same Name Here]
 
 
Bastard
02:47 / 11.02.02
I was underloved by my creator, who refuse to remerge with me.

But then I was just his evil side, that he usually refuses to acknowledge or accept, leaking out in a very public way.

I hate you all.

BURN ME!!!!
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
07:02 / 11.02.02
Well, there's the original MC suit- I guess it should be merged with my current one.
 
 
lymond6
08:53 / 11.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Tom Coates:
OK. The transition to the new site is literally days away - we should be over to it by the end of the next week, with any luck. And then of course, the bitching can begin!

Not sure this belongs here, but in for a pence, in for a pound. I've two questions re the new transition. First, Tom, I got an email today saying post in the next 24 hours or be culled. I'm all for culling, I've been in a transition meself and had less time than previously, so I appreciate the heads up to maintain my presence here. But...isn't 24 hours a bit short, not everyone logs on every day. I'd have thought the weekend notice would be a bit more easy to users. Not bitchin', really, I love this place and how you handle it, just a friendly suggestion for the future. Secondly, I'm finding the search engine for topics keeps giving me errors and won't work, and i desparately love search engines to work. Is there a fix in store for the post-transition? Thanks for your time and consideration, this is a superlative place.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
08:53 / 11.02.02
Quick query: suits that've already snuffed it won't be able to be merged, will they? I mean, my first Rothkoid suit stays dead, and I have to remain the second coming, yes?
 
 
Sax
08:53 / 11.02.02
I have another suit with the log -in name Sax, Tom, but I can't remember the pass-word. Or whether it died or I just don't use it. If you can find it, you can kill it (this suit has a different log-in name) or merge it with this one.
 
 
Tom Coates
10:26 / 11.02.02
We will be able to merge suits that failed with suits that still work. If you give us the names for each...
 
 
casino soul
10:40 / 11.02.02
Please take this offering, Mr Coates.

I sacrifice myself so that others may live.
 
 
Ierne
11:12 / 11.02.02
In turn, please merge me with Time Please, who I have been responsible for in all his incarnations. – Flyboy

I love Time Please!

(sorry, just had to enthuse. carry on...)
 
 
A
11:25 / 11.02.02
i wouldn't mind this suit being merged with my old suit, which i believe was also called count adam (it may have had "the diabolical" tacked on to the start), and mysteriously just up and died one day.
that would bump up my number of posts and make me feel much more important.
 
 
The Return Of Rothkoid
13:20 / 11.02.02
In which case: merge Rothkoid with The Return Of Rothkoid. Both called the latter, though. My first suit was number 97, I believe.
 
 
Cookie H. Monster
13:37 / 11.02.02
Um, this post is to certify that i'm not an alternate fictionsuit waiting to be purged, i'm just a lurker who might decide i have something useful to say here, one of these days. Stranger things have happened.

That is all.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
13:48 / 11.02.02
I've got a question about the new board's functionality. At work, where I do most of my posting from, I use an old, old version of Netscape (version 4.0 for Windows NT) and as the board is right now, I often have problems with certain forums freezing up on me and crashing my browser every so often. Is the new board gonna work for me? It is impossible for me to update this godawful software as don't have admin privileges on this machine and the firewall prevents downloads of updates.
 
 
deja_vroom
14:00 / 11.02.02
I didn`t get any "post/reply in 24 hours" message in my e-mail. what`s going on?
 
  

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