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I'm really interested in like, "Board Theory" these days
KharBevNor:
Man stop derailing this thread guys, it's supposed to be interesting.
Johnny C:
i don't think the dumbrella influence is all that played-up or that a lot of us take our cues from it. i honestly just think it's the size of the community and, as tommy said, the extra-forum communication. i call dudes over on SA by their first name all the time. it's just how it goes.
Patrick:
I KNEW that had to be the same Johnny C. Your internet identity and mine have converged more than once, old man, I know your secrets.
Professor Snuggles:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 03 Jan 2011, 09:47 ---i don't think the dumbrella influence is all that played-up or that a lot of us take our cues from it. i honestly just think it's the size of the community and, as tommy said, the extra-forum communication. i call dudes over on SA by their first name all the time. it's just how it goes.
--- End quote ---
I don't think the Dumbrella thing is like, the dominant influence today, but in the origin days I think it had a lot of sway that still has a sort of subtle influence in terms of helping start the in jokes that we carry over today. Obviously the communities are very different in almost every way today, especially since Dumbrella doesn't exist anymore.
Professor Snuggles:
Obviously the biggest influence on the board and the way it works today is the meebo/gabbly/irc thing. I had actually completely forgotten that there WAS an IRC channel back in the day, and how completely pronounced the divide between the IRC crew and the Gabbly crew was. I mean I haven't been into Meebo in a really long time, I don't think I even know the link for it anymore.
I definitely think the chat aspect prevents people from making the threads they'd be making about all the bullshit they're talking about in there, which I guess probably has a big effect on the fact that we have megathreads all over the place and no real quick flash-in-the-pan threads aside from the ones I make that are mostly bullshit. Like this thread could have happened in a chat program, probably, it just didn't.
Johnny it blows my mind sometimes that you post on SA. Sam I'll try to get your hpn account approved I kinda spaced on that. Khar I am sorry you do not like the thread.
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