strike wolf wrote:There was a time many weeks ago when this thread ruled gloriously above all others. Times were good and the people of the thread were happy. But then a second thread arrived and after only a few weeks it was clear that this new thread was a threat to the old one and while both sides had equal rights to use the forum it became clear that it would be hard for either to co-exist. As the second thread grew closer in length, the Longest threaders grew more worrisome and people began to shoot insults at the others for no good reasons, and the battle began. It started with the epic deletion of the second thread the mods Iceman and wicked believing that it would quiet both sides, however with the deletion it only caused the 2nd threaders to rebel and start spamming every thread to get theirs back. So with so many people up in arms, the turtled one threw up his voice and told them that they shall have their thread back under certain conditions.
With renewed threat to their beloved thread, the longest threaders began to make more and more comments about how we had to post more to keep ahead of the 2nd thread. But after a while it became clear to the Longest threaders that for every time they said the name of the other thread that thread grew 2 pages in length! So they made a vow not to speak of that thread in here no more. And thus the taboo of the name began.
great help the taboo did. What you guys reached in a year We reached in a few months.
The taboo achieved nothing.
Actually, it had an effect. By constantly stating that we needed to stay ahead of your thread some of those who posted in both took it as a negative thing and decided that they would just post in there to help it move faster. Most of those people are gone now and no one from that thread or the Longest Thread really liked them that much to begin with but it did help.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
I finally had to quit posting yesterday because it was taking so long to load.
I know what you mean. It was taking me well over 5 minutes earlier today just to log into a thread and then when I tried to post, it kicked me out. Thankfully, it's stopped doing that.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.
strike wolf wrote:There was a time many weeks ago when this thread ruled gloriously above all others. Times were good and the people of the thread were happy. But then a second thread arrived and after only a few weeks it was clear that this new thread was a threat to the old one and while both sides had equal rights to use the forum it became clear that it would be hard for either to co-exist. As the second thread grew closer in length, the Longest threaders grew more worrisome and people began to shoot insults at the others for no good reasons, and the battle began. It started with the epic deletion of the second thread the mods Iceman and wicked believing that it would quiet both sides, however with the deletion it only caused the 2nd threaders to rebel and start spamming every thread to get theirs back. So with so many people up in arms, the turtled one threw up his voice and told them that they shall have their thread back under certain conditions.
With renewed threat to their beloved thread, the longest threaders began to make more and more comments about how we had to post more to keep ahead of the 2nd thread. But after a while it became clear to the Longest threaders that for every time they said the name of the other thread that thread grew 2 pages in length! So they made a vow not to speak of that thread in here no more. And thus the taboo of the name began.
great help the taboo did. What you guys reached in a year We reached in a few months.
The taboo achieved nothing.
Yes, that is true but that's why your S word, and most of us are not.
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Right, well, I guess we just have to wait for them. We could try to find Grim and say we're trying to bring the original longest thread crew back and eventually I guess we're going to have to talk to Wicked and Ak.
Maxleod wrote:Not strike, he's the only one with a functioning brain.