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TheShadowKnows

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the site was compromised awhile back and over a years worth of work, tracking, research and posts were lost.

 

not like it was booming anyway, but it never recovered.

 

 

:(

 

Hands down, my favorite message board of all time.

Really?Or are you just messing with me

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RockMyAmadeus

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the site was compromised awhile back and over a years worth of work, tracking, research and posts were lost.

 

not like it was booming anyway, but it never recovered.

 

 

:(

 

Hands down, my favorite message board of all time.

Really?Or are you just messing with me

 

Not at all.

 

It was composed of about...mmm...10-15 guys who posted regularly, knew what the hell they were talking about, and welcomed me without reservation.

 

Plus, they were all intensely focused on things I liked the most, too.

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the site was compromised awhile back and over a years worth of work, tracking, research and posts were lost.

 

not like it was booming anyway, but it never recovered.

 

 

:(

 

Hands down, my favorite message board of all time.

Really?Or are you just messing with me

 

Not at all.

 

It was composed of about...mmm...10-15 guys who posted regularly, knew what the hell they were talking about, and welcomed me without reservation.

 

Plus, they were all intensely focused on things I liked the most, too.

 

In the entire time I was there, I never, ever saw a fight, or grenades lobbed at people, or snide comments, or backbiting...none of it. If there was disagreement, people went away, did some research, and came back and presented what they had.

 

No cliques. No PM circlejerks. No bitter partisanship.

 

It was the most gentlemanly board I have ever been on.

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I am not sure I can adequately explain it as I am not tech savvy.

 

If I remember the events correctly, the board started getting bombarded with porno spam, and a bunch of other nasty things. Over the course of a very short time the board went down, and everything was lost. James (stlcomics) was able to restore the boards from a backup that was made before the software upgrade a year or so earlier.

 

Besides the lost data, the boards being down a long time, then numerous other technical difficulties, most people just moved on.

 

 

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I am not sure I can adequately explain it as I am not tech savvy.

 

If I remember the events correctly, the board started getting bombarded with porno spam, and a bunch of other nasty things. Over the course of a very short time the board went down, and everything was lost. James (stlcomics) was able to restore the boards from a backup that was made before the software upgrade a year or so earlier.

 

Besides the lost data, the boards being down a long time, then numerous other technical difficulties, most people just moved on.

 

That really sucks.

I know it had to be a ton of work for their staff with little or no return.

Some people should just be shot. :(

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hugely bad.led by Iron Maniac and Oxbladder.

 

Sorry to hear that. :(

 

People, in general, suck. Even people who are trying to be good suck on occasion. But there are a lot of people who suck just on general principle.

 

Sorry to hear that was your experience with them.

 

Oh well. At least you have me n' Toasty.

 

:cloud9:

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hugely bad.led by Iron Maniac and Oxbladder.

 

Sorry to hear that. :(

 

People, in general, suck. Even people who are trying to be good suck on occasion. But there are a lot of people who suck just on general principle.

 

Sorry to hear that was your experience with them.

 

Oh well. At least you have me n' Toasty.

 

:cloud9:

Indeed.Some of my best friends are off these boards.Toast,Senormac,Dunefan,Cyclegirl,Dwip99 and a few others.I am a very lucky man.

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For the longest time, I would track variant prices by hand. I used to use hand written sheets and excel spreadsheets. As I tried to track more and more data, I guess I got lazy, and instead of writing it down, or saving it on something computerized, I was content to just post it online over there with the intent to go back and be able to mine whatever information I would need.

 

For a long time while the board was down, I continued to track prices. When I was informed that a ton of data and posts, research and discussion was lost, I quit. I think I took the loss of that data personal. It was alot of time, but I had enjoyed it, and thought that whatever I was tracking could be used, by someone.

 

I still do not think I am over it.

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Someday, I'll have to get up there and we can have lunch and talk about dogs.

 

:cloud9:

 

Speaking of...this afternoon, I was taking a nap, and I dreamed about the dogs. We were going for a walk, and it lasted a while. Couple things happened in it, nothing major, just dream stuff.

 

Then I woke up, and in a split second, looked at Casper and though "wait..who's that?"

 

Because I'd been dreaming about Puccini....

 

It's nice to know that he still lives in my dreams.

 

Been almost two years, and I still think about him all the time.

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