What to do with the Deagle Nation Subforum

[Sammy]

Well, now that we've all been let off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride, we have to have this discussion.
Everyone's still a little shocked, so lets keep it simple for now, lets list options:

Spoiler: Old Options

1) The obvious one. Burn it all down. Delete everything, don't look back.

2) Keep the records. Maybe just keep everything on lockdown, but leave everything as is if for no other reason than as a shining example of how to Andy Kaufman the internet right. If we don't want to keep it on our server's dime, at least offer records and copies to those involved.

3) Option 2, throw it in an archive, but rebrand the subforum as some kind of MDE subforum. I have a feeling we're going to want to talk about this for a while.

4) Reclassify the Deagle Nation forums under "entertainment" in the non-cow portion of the forums.

5) Others with good ideas help me out here.

NEW OPTIONS BASED ON FEEDBACK SO FAR:

1) Deagle Nation is dead. Nothing is deleted, but with Deagle Nation ending, so should discussion about it on any large scale. It is archived.

2) Deagle Nation is dead. Long live Deagle Nation! The discussion continues, although appropriate changes or reclassifications are put in place.


I'll add other people's ideas to the first post as the discussion goes.

 

[Cute Anime Girl]

I'd say option 2, but this isn't over just yet. There are still a ton of things unaccounted for.

 

[exball]

Archive it and spergatory it with Golden Knight and Moleman. Maybe make an MDE general in lolcow.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

I'm with Option 2, with a possibility of option 3. I would allow discussion to peter out on existing topics, but discourage or ban opening new threads. The logic being, this forum exists to document people who are unintentionally funny. Jace might be hilarious, but since it's all a ruse he's no longer a true lolcow. Still, We shouldn't be bad sports and ditch everything because we were taken in.

This is all academic for me. After Operation Tupacalypse, I had a hard time following Jace. I'm not saying I saw this coming, but something about it all just seemed to perfect.

 

[Null]

Deagle Nation will join Side Ops as read-only subchildren of a new board for discussing the implications of the ruse and if it actually is. This will sit on the index page until it loses steam.

 

[CatParty]

what if jace/jan embraces the character and does more videos purely for entertainment. i mean we all can agree we were entertained. what if moving the forum in some capacity to multimedia or even just making a sub section of the farms for nonlolcow entertainers?

 

[Null]

what if jace/jan embraces the character and does more videos purely for entertainment. i mean we all can agree we were entertained. what if moving the forum in some capacity to multimedia or even just making a sub section of the farms for nonlolcow entertainers?

Dunno, I'll have to brainstorm. I want to continue strengthening the non-lolcow parts of the boards.

 

[Red_Rager]

what if jace/jan embraces the character and does more videos purely for entertainment. i mean we all can agree we were entertained. what if moving the forum in some capacity to multimedia or even just making a sub section of the farms for nonlolcow entertainers?

I agree with @CatParty, I mean this was like an arg. While the show itself is not real, but what matters is if you are having fun with it. This is assuming Jan wants to continue with it even though his cover was blown. Either way I think the subforum should be treated as something special.

 

[exball]

I agree with @CatParty, I mean this was like an arg. While the show itself is not real, but what matters is if you are having fun with it. This is assuming Jan wants to continue with it even though his cover was blown. Either way I think the subforum should be treated as something special.

Continue? What would be the point of that? It was a fun ride while it lasted but it loses a lot of the magic if you know he's an actor.

 

[CWCissey]

Keep it around as a testament to the greatest ruse since the Trojan horse.

 

[ChurchOfGodBear]

I agree with @CatParty, I mean this was like an arg. While the show itself is not real, but what matters is if you are having fun with it. This is assuming Jan wants to continue with it even though his cover was blown. Either way I think the subforum should be treated as something special.

Yeah, I don't have a problem discussing Jace, I just don't think he should be filed in with the legit lolcows. If he's essentially a TV show, let's treat him as such.

 

[Ahffline]

Yeah, I don't have a problem discussing Jace, I just don't think he should be filed in with the legit lolcows. If he's essentially a TV show, let's treat him as such.

Agreed. The Jace character was a hilarious parody of lolcows, and there were some really great discussions had about the antics of the Deagle Nation characters. Why not just file them under 'Entertainment' or something like that?

 

[HoloSkull]

Next thing I'm gonna hear is duck dynasty isn't scripted.
The fact of the matter is we don't know Sacha Baron Cohen from Borat.
Apart from Chris-chan who are the real lolcows?
Are Tumblretes nothing more than someone spastically smashing at a keyboard?
Optimistic, but still, the only people negatively effected by ruses are those willing to pozload my negholep (trolls, serious business people).
This is people watching for me - a person of interest is a person of interest.
Lolcow denotes that one can "milk" (manipulate) somebody else for the lolz.
This is a niche interest at best. Very few people irl are going to be willing to discuss much of this nonsense.
This platform allows an approachable avenue for the discussion of persons of interest, nothing more.
By person of interest I mean the curious entities found online.
Whether that makes them real or fabrication doesn't matter.

 

[Dr. Meme]

keep it
just because its fake doesn't mean hes just gonna stop. Wu still belives he's real, so lets wait till the end up whatever Jan wants to do with him.

 

[CWCissey]

DON’T TOUCH THAT DIAL – WE’RE NOT DONE YET
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
AND IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE
-J.C.

 

[Pikonic]

Wait till Wednesday, we might have a better idea of what to do after the stream.

 

[Datiko]

Lock it down as a sub-forum for an archive. Option 2 or 3 works.

 

[Alex Krycek]

Option 4 is my favorite suggestion.

 

[LordCustos3]

I think option 1 is cowardly and un'murikan.
He successfully pulled off a ruse cruise on us for almost a year. It would be our way of giving that brave soldier the respectful golf clap he deserved.
"Well played, young man. Well played."
Shows we have class.
Deleting just makes us all look like we are thin-skinned, easily butthurt dorks who can't admit a mistake. "Deleting Fucking Everything" is what a Lolcow does.

Besides, the Jace shit is still funny.
I say we keep it.

 

[Hmmpf!]

DeagleNation is dead.

Change it to TJChurch and Holden!