What to do with the Deagle Nation Subforum

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It sounds like so far Option 1 is off the table from people's reactions. Most seem to think some form of options 2 and 3 or option 4 is the way to go. Of course, there's still time to discuss this (I don't think anything concrete will happen AT LEAST until after tonight's final stream, and the discussion afterwards), but it seems like there's two general ways to deal with it moving forward (specifics can be determined later):

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.

Details at this stage aren't really that important, and I think ultimately will be at the discretion of the administration here (probably with some input from Jan and any other members behind the Deagle Nation ruse.) The forums could become an MDE (with all the jace stuff being tossed into a subforum), or all the Deagle Nation stuff gets reclassified into "entertainment" since its technically not about a genuine cow. If archived, it probably would go into spergatory, although the community might want to do something special for this. I'm sure management here on the farms will figure out whats best, once we decide which direction to move in.
 
It depends on our relationship with Jace and how much content there is. DeagleDad was an administrator because he genuinely liked the website and was invested in its well being on a fundamental level. If the #PRANKS are indeed going to keep flowing and he wants to use this website as a way to disseminate goings-ons and talk to people personally. it would be in our best interests to allow that in some capacity.

I mean either way we're not going full scorched earth here. Nothing gets deleted.
 
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My only suggestion is if it's possible to convert the archived fora to static content it might reduce server load. I'm not sure how resource intensive it actually is, though, and the volume will probably go way down soon anyway.
 
I have a lot of trouble committing to just one option, but I think that option 4 would sound kind of okay, in that I think Deagle Nation could be put into Multimedia/entertainment as a place to discuss the old videos/story arcs and as the command center for DN fan culture(if people want to keep the spirit alive,do fan art or organize like fan events or whatever) and if Jace wants to continue his affiliation with the site for his new stuffs and Null's cool with it, the MDE could similarly have like a place here to talk about that, whether it warrants just a thread or like a mini-subforum.
 
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My only suggestion is if it's possible to convert the archived fora to static content it might reduce server load. I'm not sure how resource intensive it actually is, though, and the volume will probably go way down soon anyway.
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There is absolutely no reason to do this. Our server is well below capacity at all times.
 
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Since Jace is an act, Deagle Nation could be the testbed for Entertainment/Media subforums about particular media franchises. We could start subforums for large popular fandoms perhaps like Game of Thrones or some shit like that, media franchises that would span multiple threads.
 
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I say we wait until after the stream to figure out what to do - if Jan plans to do anything else with Jace and Deagle Nation we could keep it as a subforum in Multimedia. If not, it'd be a good idea to archive it.

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Since Jace is an act, Deagle Nation could be the testbed for Entertainment/Media subforums about particular media franchises. We could start subforums for large popular fandoms perhaps like Game of Thrones or some shit like that, media franchises that would span multiple threads.
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katsu's buttslave said:
Since Jace is an act, Deagle Nation could be the testbed for Entertainment/Media subforums about particular media franchises. We could start subforums for large popular fandoms perhaps like Game of Thrones or some shit like that, media franchises that would span multiple threads.
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our off-topic boards receive far less traffic as it is.

imo deagle nation is not a media. if it begins to troll the media it's still sphered in the lolcow world.
 
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If not, it'd be a good idea to archive it.
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Even if Jan wouldn't do more DN content, I think that there's still room to discuss the tangential oddities that want a piece of their pie regarding Jace(for example the Wucapolypse or Al-Gamerfood still obsessing over him) as well as talk about DN as an entertainment (but separate the "analysis"-threads because Jace is a character) or room for enterprising Chroniclers to organize the DN sagas into a more easily digestable form.
 
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Definitely wait until after the stream, but I have a feeling that so much Brianna Wu and dipshit "gonzo journalist" content is in the pipe that you'll want the subforum open for a while to keep it all contained and make keeping track of it a bit easier.

The Wu-pocalypse will rage on for a while and it would be better to have separate threads for updates than picking through her lolcow thread.
 
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I had a thought about what to do with Deagle Nation, but I don't know if its one to follow up on (still, that's why we're here, to discuss ideas, even weird ones.)

Deagle Nation isn't quite straight entertainment, nor is it genuinely about following a Cow. Its kind of its own thing. I wonder if it requires its own space then. The forums started about good ol' Chris until interests broadened, and with it the forums rebranded, with Chris's throne being moved from its own pasture field into the same barn with the other cows. What if Deagle Nation, being difficult to define under one topic, was given its own space sort of how Chris had his own? It would operate very much the same way, with "Deagle Nation" just being its own topic down below cow and general and such, but for different reasons than why Chris was separate from the others.

I see a lot of problems with this idea though, it puts a lot of emphasis on Deagle Nation (a lot of emphasis we had on Chris and decided was unnecessary, so why would we put it on something else?) It also raises the question of, "If we're going to separate it from everything else why not have a separate forums on the same server space dedicated to Deagle Nation? Oh, wait.... yeah."

So I dunno. I don't think its the way to go, but maybe someone out there could make this idea into something good.
 
Suggestion for @Null

-Reopen Deagle Nation and have it as it's own subforum, in it's original place, just like it was before - with no direct (overt) mention of it being a ruse. The DN subforum will continue to function as it used to, people will be "in on it" now but otherwise it'll be basically the same. Proof of concept that this can work: the Dank Swordz 2 thread.
-Take the existing Wiz Dum Gun board and make it a child board of Deagle Nation. The Wiz Dum Gun subforum will continue to serve as a place for discussion of "man behind the curtain" matters as well as side projects like FeminACEthiest, polls for fans, and any other random shit me and Robert decide to pursue.

Reasons why:
-Deagle Nation is going to continue in a similar fasion, maybe a little different, but overall it seems odd to have it all in the Wiz Dum Gun subforum.
-This will help keep Wiz Dum Gun's narrative "universe" neat and distinct as well as not immediately "spoiling the ending" for anyone who stumbles across the kiwi farms looking for the Deagle Nation board. Obviously it'll still be easy to find, but it won't be right on the main page forum list.
 
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THE WRITER said:
-Take the existing Wiz Dum Gun board and make it a child board of Deagle Nation. The Wiz Dum Gun subforum will continue to serve as a place for discussion of "man behind the curtain" matters as well as side projects like FeminACEthiest, polls for fans, and any other random shit me and Robert decide to pursue.
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If I may add to the suggestions
--Apply the same viewing restrictions that are currently applied to the Off-Topic boards to the Wiz Dum Gun board.
 
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