[X-Post] Closure of the CWCki Forum's Private Discussion Board

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Null said:
Marvin runs sonichu.com, which is our main source of new users. Cogsdev, however, wants to shut it down. With our focus becoming less about Chris every month, it's simply a good idea both business wise and health-wise for us to latch on to a new identity. This will totally be a community decision and the process of adopting a new identity will take place over weeks, but nothing is in the works yet.
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As it is an inevitability I'd like to make a suggestion. Keep the Chris boards when you eventually do choose to migrate. Since I do predict people will still come to the forums mostly just to talk about Chris.
 
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Surtur said:
We could just call it The Kiwi Farm.
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Alex Krycek said:
In full agreement that it be referred to as the Kiwi Farm. It goes without saying that I hope we get more Tyce activity as well.
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This will be our mascot
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I said this in response to Jace's hiatus:
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This can mean only one thing:

Chris or Goldie are about to do something ridiculously stupid. It's how the cycle of lolcows go. When one wanes, another one does something really fucking lulzy to keep us entertained.
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Little did I know it was going to be these here forums imploding.
 
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I don't know how others feel, but I never liked when the community here were being fed disinformation about some ongoing troll activity.

I think everyone should understand that certain things need to be kept secret, possibly indefinitely.

However, there should be "honour among thieves"; respect the community enough to tell them there's nothing to be said, rather than mislead them.

Also, for what it's worth, this action on the private board is some excellent leadership from Null.
 
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Whatever the decision is, I'll support it. I don't go on these forums for Chris that much anymore, albeit the piercing was interesting. I didn't really care about the trolling, unless it was unintentional, like Liquid Chris and Asperchu.

I mean, he's best when he's doing things on his own, but now he's so strung out basically everything's a threat.

I mainly go on these forums now because I love you guys so much! Also because there's so many other er.. eccentric denizens of the internet, that I love talking about with you guys. And I was happy to find other people who like Velvet Goldmine, and hated Cally from Battlestar Galactica.

I've been around for a while, since the falling of the offshore wiki (late 2010), and I love this community so much!

Null, I'm behind you 100 %. What you did was extremely brave.
 
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There doesn't need to be any trolling of Chris coming from this forum. In fact, I would prefer it that way (and always have). But it should still remain the place to talk about Chris' zany antics that are public news, and previous ones documented on the CWCki.

The deletion of this private subforum, which 99% of us have never even been on, shouldn't cause an earthquake for the rest of the forum.
 
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Well, pretty sure everyone saw this coming, Null seemed very tired about the topic during the last months, but I really thought that he would close the discussion board too, I'm surprised.

PS: IIRC, nobody spot chris and followed him to the rental house. Chris posted a picture with the exif intact, and his iphone has the geolocation activated. The coordinates pointed exactly to the rental house (10 meters radio). So anybody could go there and spot the chandlers' cars. But I don't know if you knew the address before this.
 
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Wait, so the emails from the high school gal pals were fake? Jesus Christ, what was the point? The reunion was obviously never going to happen, why make Chris even more miserable?

Also, I gotta say, finding out some retarded guy I vaguely knew years ago at school still thought we were friends? Kind of creepy. Finding out a bunch of strangers online pretended to be me just to fuck with said guy? Much fucking creepier. Good job guys, you've out-sperged Chris.
 
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Null said:
Basically, we have to.

Marvin runs sonichu.com, which is our main source of new users. Cogsdev, however, wants to shut it down. With our focus becoming less about Chris every month, it's simply a good idea both business wise and health-wise for us to latch on to a new identity. This will totally be a community decision and the process of adopting a new identity will take place over weeks, but nothing is in the works yet.
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Aw, it's a shame to know that the gal-pals weren't real. Although I think a lot of us suspected Katherine wasn't a real person. As horrible as I'm going to sound saying this... It's hard to imagine a woman that would look at Chris now and go ":heart-full:".

I understand the need to ease back from Chris. The last vids have just been sad, he's changed s much. That being said... Chris has inspired stuff. For example, the Sonichu forum. There's people that are creating really cool stuff there (@Trickie 's "Rosechu's Story" and @_blank_ 's "The Real Sonichu" come to mind). I hope that area doesn't get taken down.

Also, I dunno if erasing Chris' presence completely from the forums is a good idea(guess we'll need new smileys :tomgirl:). Like other-lolcows, Chris will always be of interest to people. When he does something out of the ordinary, people will want to discuss it. I can understand not wanting to mess with him anymore (this is why we're supposed to have the no trolling rule), and how having a board that documents his life encourages people to mess with him. But, like GK, Jess, Pixy and the others, he's become part of the internet's lolcow-collective.

I'm trying to think of ways to move away from Chris without being "NO CHRIS discussion allowed!". A Chris sub-forum like the ones we have for Jace and Golden Knight could work. Instead of being themed around Chris, he would just be "another lolcow". Although I don't see the benefit in what would probably be mix of the Discussion and Sonichu forums compared to what we have now.

It's definitely something that will require some thought in how best to handle it.
 
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Null said:
Basically, we have to.

Marvin runs sonichu.com, which is our main source of new users. Cogsdev, however, wants to shut it down. With our focus becoming less about Chris every month, it's simply a good idea both business wise and health-wise for us to latch on to a new identity. This will totally be a community decision and the process of adopting a new identity will take place over weeks, but nothing is in the works yet.
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Goodbye, Chris emoticons. I'll miss you most of all (:_(
 
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Wait, so the emails from the high school gal pals were fake? Jesus Christ, what was the point? The reunion was obviously never going to happen, why make Chris even more miserable?

Also, I gotta say, finding out some retarded guy I vaguely knew years ago at school still thought we were friends? Kind of creepy. Finding out a bunch of strangers online pretended to be me just to fuck with said guy? Much fucking creepier. Good job guys, you've out-sperged Chris.
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I'm curious who was doing this. Not their dox, but their forum identities.
 
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