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Post by Joan Omnipresent on Jul 20, 2005 9:51:14 GMT -5
Hmmm...you're rawther defensive...! Are you getting jealous? Oh, well...*sigh* I shall karma thee again, O Fearless Leader!
snrk.
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Post by Cy Otauna on Jul 20, 2005 9:54:14 GMT -5
Ooh...karma in exchange for praise. Heh, Tiana, now I too know the challenge of mastering a board. Congrats to you on all your online time when you felt obliged to 'watch over the peeps' down at ME:I, and for your discupline in keeping track of so many people. WOOOT!
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Post by Mekka on Jul 20, 2005 13:28:19 GMT -5
TIANA RAWKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *hugs Tiana*
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Post by Forca the returning on Jul 21, 2005 15:45:13 GMT -5
I would just like to thank my dear former Master for several things:
1) Giving me somewhere to go online...
2) Gently critiqueing my work so I can do better
3) "Tossing me out of the nest", by which I mean knighting me even when I didn't think I was ready...
4) Once again, making me an admin, even though I didn't think I could do the job...
5) Being my friend, even when I can get complanitory about my lack of other friends...
And to Jandalf:
1) Consenting to be my RP mom, not to mention my GrandMaster!
2) Not killing me when I turned her husband into a giant cat... *ducks*
3) Being patient with Shade... What? She does need patience, believe me!
Also to Celebrian:
1) Starting ME:I!
2) Throwing me a party when I turned in my fanfic for the contest on time
Much thanks also to the other Gmods and mods on this site! Delta five, over and out...
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Post by Ali Blue on Jul 22, 2005 16:31:13 GMT -5
Tiana puts up with us! *hugs Tiana*
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Jul 23, 2005 19:23:39 GMT -5
Jealous?
Well... maybe just a little. *sheepish grin* I have a very easily wounded ego. I know, I know...
*eyes Forca* Well, really. I couldn't just NOT be your friend. That's rather OOC for me, you know...
*hugs back everyone who hugged me* Heh.
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Post by Mekka on Jul 25, 2005 19:17:09 GMT -5
*sings* CAAAAN YOU FEEEEEEL THE LOOOOOOVVVVEEEE TONIIIIIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT!!!!!!!!!!! WE REEEEEEAALLLY LOOOOVVVEEE ADDDMMMIIIINNNNSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Ali Blue on Jul 26, 2005 17:59:08 GMT -5
*blinks* I'm sure the admins'll.... appreciate that, Mekka...
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Post by MFB - That One Guy on Jul 26, 2005 21:46:22 GMT -5
*sings* CAAAAN YOU FEEEEEEL THE LOOOOOOVVVVEEEE TONIIIIIIIIIGGGHHHTTTT!!!!!!!!!!! WE REEEEEEAALLLY LOOOOVVVEEE ADDDMMMIIIINNNNSSSS!!!!!!!!!!! ...this thread is a tad disturbing. Heh. But I've been wanting to say for awhile that I really admire your Admining skills, Tiana. I've always thought this place ran rather smoothly in comparison to say, the ESPS, which is, according to my sister, "Famous for its fights." I've never seen a major outbreak here, and I've always attributed it to the excellent way you and your fellow admins/mods handle it. You guys do an awesome job.
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Post by Ali Blue on Jul 26, 2005 22:42:34 GMT -5
aye, and you have kept it alive... I have trouble keeping my sites running. it's not that they're not smooth, they're just dead. lol.
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Jul 26, 2005 22:43:35 GMT -5
Heh heh... no major fights... no blood, you mean. As this is virtual...
*cough*
No. You win, Tiana. This site is awesome. For as large as it's become, I'm honestly surprised how smoothly it runs. I've been involved with a lot of message boards, and this one has lived longer than any of them. Sometimes I worry that it might go extinct, like the Citadel *sniff*, but it's always come back. 'Tis amazing. Keep up the good work!!
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Post by Cy Otauna on Aug 1, 2005 19:43:50 GMT -5
Hey, we're working on the fight thing! I think it's because there's people, and the one there are aren't so much...in awe of the admins.
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Post by Trinity on Aug 1, 2005 19:50:18 GMT -5
Admins are awesome... *sniffs* I remember when it was the beginning and there were, like, 25 of us and we were all so insane... Wait, we still are. But anyway, yeah, you guys rock!!!!
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Post by Violet Jade Skywalker on Aug 1, 2005 22:36:55 GMT -5
I absolutely love this site and it's mods. I come here pretty much every day. Thanks so much for starting this Tiana! (At least....I think you did)
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Post by Tiana, eh? on Aug 1, 2005 22:54:54 GMT -5
Ooohhh... Trinity has 1,111 posts and 11 karma... (dreadfully amused)
Snrk.
Hmmm... you know, when I first got into foruming, it was through Barrow-downs. I clicked the link in someone's signature to go to Imladris... I was soooo bored back then. All I did online was read BD's main site stuff and do fanfiction (which I found through link surfing on BD, interestingly). Then I decided to join their fanfiction forum, and then a bit later their forum... then I ran into proboards. I joined probably about five... all the original proboards I joined are in the affi's list... and then decided I wanted to make my own. I made MEI. (crings to think of the original board) Do you know how much I envied Imladris and the Citadel back then?! I stared at the Citadel and its 100 members and thought, "Whoa. I wish I could get my site that good!"
Er... needless to say... (glances at 208 members with a sheepish grin) All those sites all died out in time, methinks. Or stayed at their adverage of 80 members. (I remember freaking out when you joined, Duncariel... I was sooo happy! I envied you a lot, to be honest... I mean, you were a RESPECTED member on sites!!)
Well. I'll get to a relative point. I have you guys to thank as much as myself. If you hadn't all put up with the insanity and invited your friends and advertized and junk... MEI wouldn't be the same.
(remembers the beginning with a grin)
Yeah, Warious and I were the first two members, I think. And we made aliases and were babbling back and forth with these aliases in the beginning. And then Trinity ended up joining a bit after Jandalf (who I made join through I'm) and Warious I think thought she was my alias...
Wow, that was a long time ago. And there were about 15 or so of us... there was Eowyn (me), Celebrian, Warious, Jandalf, Trinity, Duncariel, Cy, Adrienne... and I think that was the real beginning members who formed this site. How it got so many more, I have NO idea... I remember mom saying, "Yeah, well, we don't want a site like Barrow-downs, T*******. How about we set a limit of 20 members?"
Me: "Er..." (thinks) Will we even get that many? "How about 30. Just in case. You know, so I can make aliases like on fanfiction.net."
Mom: "Oh, fine. 30's the limit though."
...And then... er... *big grin* We took off, somehow. SOMEHOW. I have NO idea how! But, oh, the PAIN of those old threads... if anyone gets bored, I dare you to go and read the archived Hello act 1 thread, and the Welcome to Middle-earth thread, and possibly the Star Wars spoof RPG thread... oh, the PAIN. Jandalf and I had just gotten into the Master/Padawan thing, and we were making ample use of it... which only succeeded in sealing that in stone... heh.
Warious and Jandalf were like, THE members of that time. *slightly odd expression* Warious was my first Gmod besides myself. I didn't trust Jandalf as much as Warious... mom and I both liked my now-dubbed sister, and I was very loath to let Jandalf be a moderator at first. But then I sort of got to like her and Trinity... and they became gmods too... because somehow things were expanding and my head was going spinny...
Elentari the Second was my first mod. *remembers* She was also the second member, besides me, I think.
*grins* I feel appreciated. *karmas Mekka*
Generally it's because we have a Watch system of sorts, though no one realizes it... even the people involved. Basically if something happens, or looks like it might, Trinity, Duncariel, Warious, or Joan will PM me. (grins) Or I'll notice it and step in fast. We had a couple outbreaks... but.... they were ended very fast. It's not that we're GOOD admins, it's that we don't want to have to test our skill to the limits!! But thank you...
Alistar, if I knew how I managed to keep MEI from dying, I'd share!
...you're in awe of me?! (faints) But... but... I'm just as... er, relatively speaking, as normal as you. I'm going to voice this opinion... I think that's why ESPS gets into breakouts. Most of you know each other RL, thus you know each other's... like... human. Adrienne listens to me, but she can see the real me into my posts too... so can Jandalf now. But to most of you... you have no idea who or what I'm like in reality. So you can see me (and Celebrian and Jandalf and Forca) as respectable peoples. But as you all know each other, it's harder to take each other seriously through text.
Just my opinion there.
We're just not so random, that's what you mean to say, eh? *grins sheepishly* I remember when our co-authors appeared in every post, it seemed. We were... random... then. Now we're just insane. We're... EPIC! HAH!
Anyway. I'm done ranting...
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Post by Mekka on Aug 3, 2005 14:43:06 GMT -5
*continues reminisce* I managed to follow Tiana here from the Barrow Downs. Well, actually I discovered The Citadel and Lothlorien respectively through links in Meela's signature. And at Lothlorien I met Lady Vader. A little while after that, MEI was created... that was back in my pre-DSL days, so it took me a little while to notice that everybody had once again migrated to a new proboards site. We were quite nomaidic, back then. So I poked around a little and found my way to MEI... about two months after everyone else. ((Sigh. WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME???)) So it was too late for me to be technically qualified as an "oldie", even though my one year anniversary passed nearly a month and a half ago. But I was instantly in love with Middle Earth: Insanity!!! Like I said, my internet connection was to slow and terrible for me to post all that often... but I had SO much fun anyway. I would find a page, then disconnect (to avoid expiring Juno's 10 hour per month free access limit) and read all the crazy stuff everyone else had written. Yes, those PAINFUL THREADS! Sigh... the good old days... About November was when MEI really started to take off, like my post count (I GOT DSL!!! W00t!!). January brought the advent of such members as Joan and CR, and the site settled down to pretty much the way you see it now. Pretty much. It was smaller. All you newer peeps have really done the most excellent job of making this site bigger, when you stay. And just think... someday YOU'LL be the oldies... *end reminisce*
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Post by BEHIND YOU!!! on Aug 4, 2005 17:46:56 GMT -5
Lady Vader. (laughs) Now there's a new one. We're glad you're here, Mekka. [mindtricks everyone]
Hey, I'm an admin! You all want to karma me! I'm Jandalf. Really!
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Post by Mekka on Aug 4, 2005 19:34:04 GMT -5
No, you're just phsycho... And I KNOW you're glad to have me, I didn't mean to whine... LOL
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Post by Dûncariel is Dead. on Aug 4, 2005 23:20:31 GMT -5
*cracks up* And now it's dead. Even though we all tried to revive it... it just.... fizzled out. There were only about six of us that ever posted on that site... Finduilas, Arafangwen, Le'lorinel (I'm still mad at him, if he ever sees this. TRAITOR!!!), Stybba, Glofin, and a couple other people who I don't remember... mostly BD people. Ehh... we were sad, compared to ME:I. *stares* Heh... that's funny.... To tell you the truth, during that time I was mortally afraid of most people on forums... that weren't the Barrow-Downs. For some reason, though it was so big, that place never scared me. Maybe I was just new and dillusional. Little forums are scary, because people tend to notice you more. It took me so long to actually start posting on this forum... It's funny that you envied me... 'cause I was mortally afraid of you for a while... Envy doesn't even cut it. Wow... that's how I started. Only, I think I was the third member on The Citadel, and third or fourth on Lothlorien. Those were my first mod positions. Heh.. memories... and interesting ones, at that. I used to belong to AnUnexpectedSite, as well, mostly in RPs, and Imladris, I think. And another one, of which I remember the color scheme and nothing else. It was vile green... *shudders* And Taureva Fimtasare, for as long as it lasted. That was Ara and Lel's site. It died after about three months. Which is why this site is so amazing. It's lasted for a long time, which is good, 'cause I like it here...
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