Longest GB/SYM Members

frogus · Post by **frogus** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 4:24 am

I like AR. I think he is funny. @Rob-hin, I don't think slagging off banned members is a great idea. It is a sensitive area, and will not provoke massive admiration, as the banned member of course cannot post back. I am sure that if you get banned, you will not want to be lurking on the board and see people saying 'Ah well, Robhin didn't have any friends anyway...'. Especially if it is not true...Anyway, I don't want to make a big argument about it

Anyway...where's Beldin? I seem to remember he came to SYM the same week as me...although his post count has risen rather more dramatically than mine since then

...I didn't see him on the list...

Rob-hin · Post by **Rob-hin** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 6:33 am

Point taken.
I didn't mean anything with it.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 8:46 am

Originally posted by frogus
I like AR. I think he is funny.

*ahem* Shouldn't that be in past tense

- or do you know something I don't

Frogus, if anyone is banned what are they still doing lurking around the Gamebanshee forums? Once banned there is no reprieve and then posting as an alias only makes it worse.

I agree to some degree one shouldn't post about banned members, for I think it gains nothing, if anything people remember Banned Baasie more than they remember some of the other more important members, Baasie has become a mythical figure, which is just wrong, he did nothing worthy of a status apart from posting crap and getting banned.

Why a member is banned should be made an issue, but only near the time, peoples memories of what occured is sketchy at best and half of the recollections in this thread were wrong, so after a time it gains nothing to drag these things up from the past.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 9:20 am

Originally posted by Mr Sleep

Why a member is banned should be made an issue, but only near the time, peoples memories of what occured is sketchy at best and half of the recollections in this thread were wrong, so after a time it gains nothing to drag these things up from the past.

I like history and learning of those past. Thats about it. I also like looking at contraversial issues as long as I aint the one whos defending himself.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 12:37 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
Why a member is banned should be made an issue, but only near the time, peoples memories of what occured is sketchy at best and half of the recollections in this thread were wrong, so after a time it gains nothing to drag these things up from the past.

I agree completely with this. Also, it serves nothing more than to dredge up unpleasantness that most of us would rather forget. The circumstances of somebody getting banned are never positive, so why dwell on them?

To illustrate.... In the field of History there is a limit as to how recently one is allowed to study a certain subject. While this varies from department to department, the bare minimum is usually about twenty years. There are several reasons for this. One fairly obvious one is that a certain distance from an event is required in order to allow for greater objectivity, and also to allow for the full effects of the invariable repercussions to have taken place.
However, there is another reason, one based more on ethical considerations...... namely digging deeply into an area can have certain implications for those that were involved.....

KidD01 · Post by **KidD01** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:20 pm

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
<SNIP>people remember Banned Baasie more than they remember some of the other more important members, Baasie has become a mythical figure, which is just wrong, he did nothing worthy of a status apart from posting crap and getting banned.<SNIP>

He's a myth allright; a forbidden myth.

Anyway let's move on from those banned members thingy topics aye ?

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 1:22 pm

I don't understand the order of the list - is it in order of appearance in SYM?

it isn't in order of registration....

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 3:16 pm

Originally posted by Yshania
I don't understand the order of the list - is it in order of appearance in SYM? it isn't in order of registration....

I believe it is the order of registration. I didnt appear at SYM directly after Dottie. I made my first appearence in SYM somewhere in the first week of July I beleive.

VoodooDali · Post by **VoodooDali** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 6:38 pm

In order of registration...I didn't discover SYM till like 6 months after I registered, so it is deceiving, but there is no way to figure it out that way unless I were to go back and read all the SYM archives, which would certainly drive me completely insane.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:49 pm

Cool, then I would be no 3 on that list - after Kid# and Sleepy

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 10:58 pm

Bah - lousy internet - double post.

ruined letters · Post by **ruined letters** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:02 pm

So what do I have to do to get on this list? (do I want to be on this list??)

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:22 pm

You know you want to be on the list...

Originally posted by ruined letters
So what do I have to do to get on this list? (do I want to be on this list??)

...welcome ruined, btw, to SYM.

If people really want to know the answer to the query, check up at least the top 20 oldest SYMians (in terms of registration, not age) and look for their first post at SYM.

I'm too lazy to do such archaelogical findings.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:29 pm

Re: You know you want to be on the list...

Originally posted by Maharlika
<snip>
If people really want to know the answer to the query, check up at least the top 20 oldest SYMians (in terms of registration, not age) and look for their first post at SYM.

I'm too lazy to do such archaelogical findings.

Our posts of this nature was lost in the Great Purge, fabled amongst the younger SYMians.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:36 pm

Okay, then...

Originally posted by Xandax
Our posts of this nature was lost in the Great Purge, fabled amongst the younger SYMians.

...is this your first post, Xan?

Xan's first SYM post.

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:45 pm

Look what I have came up with...

...do you want to know.. ...Weasel's first SYMian post?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:51 pm

These are probably...

the trio's first posts too...

Astafas', T'lainya's and Minerva's first SYMian posts.

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Sun Sep 22, 2002 11:58 pm

Re: Look what I have came up with...

Originally posted by Maharlika
...do you want to know.. ...Weasel's first SYMian post?

Only the COMM Gods know....and they are not talking.

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 12:01 am

LOL good stuff Mah!

Any chance of finding the legendary first post of fable?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Mon Sep 23, 2002 1:07 am

As you requested...

Originally posted by Mr Flibble
LOL good stuff Mah!

Any chance of finding the legendary first post of fable?

...this is probably even fable's most endearing thread...

...presenting fable's first SYMian post.