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Brendano Harns

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I always feel like I come late to a discussion. However, this time, I am going to use the recent incident as a reason to bring up an idea that I have been thinking about for a while.

 

I think it is time to end this thread.

 

Now read on before you yell, "Blasphemy!" because contrary to what you may believe, I am not proposing the end of the ALD.

 

I can see why some of us may be reluctant to end this thread of 126 pages. There are a lot of memories in this thread. However, the same reason we cherish this thread so much is the same reason it must come to an end. So many memories, but many of them hateful. This thread has become clogged with spam as we argue over our daily lives. Take our last dispute for example. Why we ever had two members arguing about whose life is worse is beyond me, even worse that it lasted two pages and managed to involve five members.

 

Why can these utterly rediculous spam and flamming fests happen so frequently? I believe part of the answer lies in our lack of a purpose. This club lacks a clear reason to exist.

 

So here is what I propose:

 

Our first step will be to shift all of our focus onto discussing what the purpose of the ALD is. Why does the club exist? Why do we come together as a group? Our purpose needs to be simple and clear cut. Ideally our purpose will be part of the majority of topics in the thread.

 

Once we decide our purpose, we must decided on rules. What is an acceptable discussion? What is not? I don't mind if we decided that including our daily lives is ok, but it needs to be clear that there are limits. No my life sucks more than yours. This is to make sure that there are no disputes between members about what is allowed and what isn't. Included in this part should be a discussion about what the process is for admitting new members. We should establish some sort of criteria that qualifies an applicant for members ship, as well as discuss what direction we want our club to take in terms of size.

 

And finally, it will be time to lock this thread in favor of a new one. The purpose and rules need to be in writing in the first post. The reason to start over is simple. This thread has lived a long life. It has more pages than almost any other club on the site. If we are going to start over, than a new thread will be the best way to go. No evaluating past arguements, no bad blood between us, a new thread will be a way to forget all of our past wrongs.

 

This is my idea. If you read through it, I thank you. I would appreciate your thoughts on it.

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Idk what to think, I mean terminating this club for a new and improved one? Would it even be possible, wouldn't the same antics go on even with new "rules", I don't know, this is such an unexpected question......... Well this is something our leader will have to decide, cause I'm still in awe...

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I support, we really are a mess. But we would need to leave directions behind just in case. Let's discuss everything here and then move to the new organized location of our club.

 

-There are lots of unactive members. Although they are still members. What would happen if one day they decide to come back after a long time and find that this is locked? I propose for this a link to the new thread before locking this (That is, concidering your suggestion is accepted).

-We have to discuss this:

1)as you said, the criteria for "how can a member be accepted?"

2)what is concidered spam and what not. Let's try to always stay on topic although I would agree that regular conversations should be allowed like in this thread, but following the rule of always having a reasonable ration of the comment on topic.

3)I think we need to work in the first post a lot.

 

For the first post, it would need to be organized better than what it is now, we should put the rules, the joining conditions (although we still have to keep the number of members controled, not that there are that many applying anyways :lol: ), we need to organize better the member list. And if there should be links to their sets of interest like it is now, it wouldn't be a bad idea to actually update the first post once in a while.

 

As for the purpose of the club, well, its supposed to just be a place for art-making members gather and talk about ......ummm... yeah..^-^"

I'm not sure how much more specific can that get xD

 

anyways, I won't write every single thing that needs to be done, just did some suggestions...

 

maybe we could put more than 1 set of interest for each member, and have each member in the list, a spoiler with the links they choose to show.

 

**coughcoughmaybeweshouldcross-outthemembersthathavenevercommentedinhereandneverwillcoughcough**

andifsomeofthosemembersdoshowuponedaywecouldjustre-addthem.

**coughcoughthatcontributestothefeelingthatsomemembershaveabouthavingtoomanypeople,whenwereallyaren'tasmanyasitseemscoughcough**

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im sry, but im against the idea...

i love the freedom of this thread (even though it can get a little out of hand sometimes)

every other thread on this site has rules. do this and dont do that.

its nice to come onto this thread and say whatever's on ur mind.

if we make a new thread, there is going to be rules about what we can post and what is "spam"...

also, we have 126 pages.......126!

i wanna see how far this can go lol.

it seems a waste, and i personally like all the good and bads of a club on one thread.

its like the ALD's bible.....lol

besides, even if we do start a new thread, doesnt mean the people will change with it, there is always the same attitude, the same dislike, and the same contradictions of this thread, that will not change.

instead of crinkling up this piece of paper and throwing it in the waste basket, lets flip to the back of the page and write some more, maybe erase a little, and clean up.

use the same motives as a "new thread", just apply them to this one.

theres no reason to create a whole new thread...

just change the first post if u hav to...change the title if u want, but dont start over....

 

 

EDIT: 127 pages now ;)

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I have verying ideas about this.

 

First of all, you can't erase the parts of the past that you don't like, simply for the reason of moving forward. It is those very things that we learn from. If we lock this thread, we are taking away the ALD's past; something that isn't worth a brighter future coming at a more rapid pace. First, we must try to clean up here, before we can abandon our home. This...this is our home. Think about it in that perspective, and the fact that we have lived here for quite some time.

 

I know it would be hard to leave, which is why we are staying. We'd lose to much through transition. I'm going to have to say no for now. I've gradually been picking up all of the pieces and putting them back together myself.

 

If need be, we will leave, but for now, we stay.

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Fuzzie ripped off a Serpenic pokemon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL FUZZ! YOU'RE DEAD!!! [/sarcasm]

But srsly' date=' he is like a Venonat <.>

 

Also, people, check my "Xing's Machines" thread in RC.

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I just wanted to know how Fuzzie would look if it where more... ehm, fuzzy. And this is what resulted.

BTW, I'm checking your thread right now Zing.

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yay good memories. I'm in my third semester of college already xD

I miss high school, I was a top student not an average one like now in college(at least in my last 2 years of high school lol)

 

even though I miss high school, I kinda would never go back xD I think I had it easier in high school and also enjoyed it mroe than the college but I just aren't tempted to turn back. I Can't explain why ^-^"

 

[spoiler=EDIT: unimportant stuff that happened today but feel free to see if you have too much time/care about it]

Today I was helping my dad and my brother with a little project in the outside of the house and I had a little accident ^-^"

I stepped in a very rusty nail >.> it even made a hole in my shoe...

there is this dangerous thing called tetanus that makes your bones start rotting from the inside and puts stuff in your blood, my dad is worried because he once met a guy with a similar case to mine and he almost died by the end of the day.. I've never really seen anyone with that illness so, I can't really be sure. I've been fine all day long but the injection I needed, they didn't have it anywhere in the city (except for one place but they said that they only injected people for that monday - friday >.<" ), so I can't predict anything.

I'm saying this because, probably nothing will happen to me, and my dad tends to be a little too pesimistic, but just in case.

If something really does happen to me, you'll all know why I don't comment (If I'm fine then I'll keep visiting as always xD )

just like my profile says:

If I don't log in for 3+ weeks and no1 knows why, I'm probably dead by then. Just so you know. I've been playing this game for almost 8 years and I still like it, there is no way I'll stop coming here and stop having interest in it out of the blue.

Under circumstances where I would have to undefinetely/permanently leave, I would tell that in here, but things can always happen and even though I don't think this is something that life threatening, I just prepare myself with all this just in case something ever happens and no1 ever hears about me again.

(I mean, I don't think a nail is gonna kill me <_<, I'm saying this for future references in case something more serious happens..... well, if I don't even comment here that means that a nail DID kill me xD LOL _)

^-^"

 

 

 

my parents used to own 2 Arcades, not really fancy arcades, just some video games and selling some junk food and soda.

For people here in the ALD that knows spanish I think the best words: Maquinitas, video juegos y miscelanea, or w/e name you know them for. That bussiness we don't have it anymore and all the videogames are in the yard and in another room of the house. some of they still work but most of them are in bad shape, so my dad, my brother and I are destroying the ones that can't be fixed and fixing the ones that can be (yes I actually know how buttons, credits and stuff work and get fixed as well as how to enter the internal program of the game to change anything, even secret codes for some characters in some games lol)

That's a little project we've been doing for almost a month now (we can only do it 1 day a week because of school, work and house chores).

All this is relatively relevant to a little piece of what its in the spoiler^ but don't have to read the spoiler for this. ;)

there isn't just old video games there, also lots of junk and rotting wood and dust. (my house is pretty nice, its just the videogames xD )

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