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Topic: THE PLAN
Covert Agent
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Hi. Originally I'd sent this through email to everybody, but not everybody is getting it, emails are bouncing from old accounts (update your profile on the website for God's sake!). So here it is.

THE PLAN

The issue: The GameSpy Forums suck. Suck a lot. And if anybody is going to stick around much longer, it is going to need to be changed. Some people claim that we're looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses, but there really was a Golden Age at GSF and it ended a while ago. That time can come again. It’s just going to take a little effort.

The /gamespy forums have been neglected and are becoming cesspools of spam and bad stuff. Too much Shaboing and spammers and shit. They're turning into your average game forums where people just come and post for a day and then leave, or hang around and become the dark and soggy underworld that bubbles to the surface to spam, flame, and sink back down into the murky depths.

The first point: [GSF] is definitely becoming elite, no question. That's because we don't get very many new people. The obvious solution is that we need to recruit more from /gamespy. The problem here is that almost everyone at /gamespy is now stupid, annoying, and just not who we want in the clan.

Now you ask, but is [GSF] relevant? Does it matter anymore? I say no – but that isn’t irrevocable. [GSF] has never had strict guidelines for what it must be like, and so it has changed quite a bit, and a lot for the worst. It used to mean something – now it doesn’t.

The solution: We need to make the GameSpy Forums funny, interesting, and open to new people who are cool, funny, and stuff. This solution has two major parts to it.

The first part is that we need to get everybody on /gsf, in [GSF], and in #gsf posting on /gamespy. Right now a lot of people don't post on /gamespy because the forums suck. Some have left the forums. But if we get everyone to go make great topics, participate in threads, all at once, we can spark a revolution.

The next part is this: you go to your friends who don't post on GSF and you get them to come to GSF. This part is less important because probably most people's gaming friends are on GSF already, but the forum isn’t just about gaming. The object of this is to swell the forum ranks of great posters. This means, of course, that you shouldn’t invite your friends who are idiots. Hopefully you don’t have many of those, but if you do – don’t bring them along.

This is not some kind of forum invasion. It’s simply reclamation of what was once “ours” – or rather, what was once a great forum that belonged to everybody good and holy. If we can accomplish all of this – bring great discussion back to the forums, bolster the forum ranks with cool people – then [GSF], too, can find a purpose again. With new members to pull it up out of stagnancy, perhaps even regular gaming together can come back. And there are plenty of great online games coming up, too. I’d like to bring back the old [GSF] Tribes 2 spirit!

Finally, there’s one idea I want to get some feedback on before I consider inserting it into the plan. The forums have been somewhat consolidated now. The question: should we go to other forums and invite their members to GSF? I’m not very familiar with the other forums, but maybe some of you are. Would it be worth trying?

Now what I’m asking of you is to get back to me on this. I think the plan should be tried. If it isn’t, things stay the same and people slowly leave. If it is – it might not work, but that’s not reason not to try. I want to give it a shot, but obviously I can’t do it without everybody’s participation. If I hear from most of you, I’ll plan out when we can implement the plan.

<strike>Why am I doing this through email?</strike> To keep from the aforementioned soggy underworld of naysayers and idiots. When the time comes, they will know, and tremble, for their time will be up. Amen and stuff.

 

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Amen, Amen I say to you, you are a god amongst forumites.

 

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Here here, I am all for it I used to love posting back before the onslaught of horrid forumers.

[GSF] is back with pride! Lately we have been having A LOT of gaming going on partially due to a thread I made (not to take too much credit here: http://www.forumplanet.com/gamespy/topic.asp?fid=1422&tid=1172663 ) Me and JohnDoe, Leo, Zaffod, Quiz, Pyro have been gaming it up, I also got some othere people from the /gamespy forums on my ICQ list from that thread. Surxa and I played a few rounds of ET and me and B_ond played ET quite a few times. Things are indeed looking up.

 


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I still love posting, and while I am trying to raise the level of clever insanity on the /gamespy forums it is hard to be an Army of One. No matter what the US Army says, they LIE.

 

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I'll admit it, I've been slacking off when in comes to GSF (four months worth of non-postage). Well, I guess it's time to break out the flame-retardant suit and hit the boards.

One more thought: while I can't speak for other clan-members, I certainly don't feel elite or elitist, as many have accused this clan of being.

 

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I still post on the old forums some, but mostly I just don't care anymore. Not many of my old friends are there anymore, and most of the time I only post in the Gaming Discussions forum, where you don't really have to know anyone. There was a time when The Lobby was the place to be, and Gaming Discussions was place with all the bad grammar, annoying spam, and all the other things that are wrong with The Lobby now.

The bottom line is that I don't care about the people on those forums to help them with a problem that they're too ignorant to know they have. I've made occasional uncharacteristic efforts to point out some problems with the forums, this last time at the specific request of someone, and it never gets anyone anywhere. They're happy with their wallow, and to my mind, they're welcome to it.

 

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I think this is brilliant, and will be doing my part. (Though I'm not a part of [GSF], I've been a part of the forums for a long time, blah blah, I still care enough about it, etc. etc.)

It's about time somebody put this into words and put those words into a post and put that post onto the broad reaches of...THE INTERNET.

 

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While Bal's post mirrors my initial reactions, I'm willing to give it a shot. I was in a nostalgic mood yesterday, and went back to my old avatar and nick, so this is pretty much just living that same spirit on a grander scale.

As for the getting my friends here, forget it. None of them are that into games, and the few who are mostly like to set up a small LAN on the weekend or something, at our homes and stuff. They're all fairly sick of the internet, and are pretty much directly responsible for my prolonged "breaks" from here and GSF.

Plus you'd all scare 'em away with your gay jokes.

But, yes. I'll give it a shot. From this moment on, consider me "back", both here and there.

<red>[EDIT]</red> Well that's gay! I wanted to make my title "[P]aradox sent me" or something, and I don't have enough fucking posts.

<purple>* Cereal Samurai cries</purple>

 


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Same thoughts I had weeks ago, but I lacked the initiative to put such a bold plan into action. Happy to serve commandant, and my first topic there in many moons has been created.

 

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Gentleman,
Good form, bravo, good form. Your efforts to allievate the fight against mediocracy please my phsyche. Consider me, if you will, an ally.
-Lord BBH the First

 

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Yes, I see how this can work. Personally I think we need more GSF (note, not [GSF], but GSF) matches too. I've been playing with some of you already and it r0x0r3d. I think playing games together can really up the community feeling.

fridaynight games night anyone?

I would also like to link to tihs here topic.

 

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I've been meaning to do some posting in /gamespy, but it is too filled with stupid topics, so I think your plan is perfect. I'm in.

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I'm into some friday night matches, I just got cable recently (a month or two), and I havn't really gotten a chance to test it out yet. Plus, gaming with you guys (even on my dial-up) always kicked ass (GunBound, iSketch)

 

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I've been playing CS with Codename, yay. Now that my ping is around 200 it's almost playable =P

Anyway, I think it's a great idea, [P] but just telling people to buck up won't work. The spirit of the old [GSF] was typified by the kind of cult thread that had everybody posting on it - get that back and you're 90% there already. Just a thought.

 

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I'll help out by continuing to make monthly threads.

That's a start, right?

 

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Contributing with an art thread grin

Making people actually post good stuff in it happy

 

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<orange>In Reply To #1
I'll just put here what I replied by email.

Swell plan. Going to /gamespy sounds like a good idea to me. If we do that massively, without all the crap, we could actually 'make a change' so to speak. Hell, I don't spend much time on the forums at all these days, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Maybe part of the plan OR a result of the plan could/will be that gsf.parena.net won't be just a site hosted and maintained by me, but that actually stuff will happen over there to unites [GSF] members. 'Coz that's missing as well: a feel of unitedness... unitism... erm... well, you know.</orange>

 

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