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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 13:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Could we send an amnesty email? |
I'm really beginning to notice the massive drop in Beexers. I'm not quite sure what it was that caused them to all go away but couldn't we send out an email to all forum users asking them to come back? We did something similar on a forum I used to visit years ago after there was a massive bust up and a surprising number of posters returned. |
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| Author: | Satsuma [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 13:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Jesus Christ, aren't I enough?! |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 13:54 ] |
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Hell no - We might get that Myoptika chap back. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 14:08 ] |
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Saturnalian wrote: Jesus Christ, aren't I enough?! Too much. Sometimes... hard to... breathe. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 14:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Saturnalian wrote: Jesus Christ, aren't I enough?! No. We need you and MaliA. |
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| Author: | MaliA [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 14:33 ] |
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Curiosity wrote: Saturnalian wrote: Jesus Christ, aren't I enough?! No. We need you and MaliA. Shortly before discovering time travel was possible, MaliA died in the Robot Uprising of 2236. He was acting as a double agent and instructing insurgent androids the Craster Method. After several failed assaults, the rebellious AI had it worked out and had him executed for teaching his pupils to lie on grenades. His last words were "This is a better prize than any from the cottage quiz". His memory is tolerated by his wife, and consciousness encoded on to a cd for revival at time when technology is correct again. |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Mon Nov 16, 2015 14:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Clearly a lie, as last quiz gave away a copy of SINGHAM! |
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| Author: | Sir Taxalot [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:27 ] |
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I'd rather send an email out telling them to carry on Getting To Fucking Fuck |
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| Author: | BikNorton [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:32 ] |
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Nice. |
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| Author: | Warhead [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:14 ] |
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Couldn't we just target those who are jolly good eggs? |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Isn't it just more of the fact people drift away and either get busy or just lose interest in things? My experience of small forums is that they only have a finite amount of time before they fizzle out, it's happened a few times before. |
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Like this thread. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
We could offer an incentive like "Get the first 6 months for £6 instead of £12"... That kind of thing. |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
The weird thing for me is, despite hardly anyone posting, some thread views really skyrocket at times (I mean by a thousand or more in just a few hours). So either we have plenty of lurkers, or it's those spidery-Google-whatsits. So maybe we just need to get said lurkers to post, we'll either be inundated by new blood or spambots. 
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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
TheVision wrote: We could offer an incentive like "Get the first 6 months for £6 instead of £12"... That kind of thing. "... Subscribe for 12 months and get the bestselling Cooking with Crisps and Sweets (Vol 1) FREE!!!" |
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| Author: | Cras [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 14:47 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Future Warrior wrote: Isn't it just more of the fact people drift away and either get busy or just lose interest in things? My experience of small forums is that they only have a finite amount of time before they fizzle out, it's happened a few times before. I don't think it's that so much as it's that such things as internet forums are transient in people's lives. People's lives move on, their interests, likes, free times etc change. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
I think those two things are very similar. In some ways I think this forum has survived better than many others because it is so flexible to what people want to talk about, and very tolerant of all but the most extreme cases of trolling. People move on, find new friends, forge new interests in every day life, and I don't think this is much different. I think if I were to write to all of my old school friends asking would they please be my friends again and could we hang out and chat all the time they might think I was a bit odd and desperate. I think an 'amnesty email' says pretty much the same thing. People have left for a whole myriad of reasons, whether they've got bored, had a falling out, lost their Xbox, didn't like a poster, got married, had kids, a more demanding job... Sending a begging letter asking them to come back feels a bit creepy. I think if I had the same from a site I decided to leave for whatever reasons I had at the time I'd view it the same way. |
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
That said, a few people left because they thought x was treated badly by y. If y is now no longer posting, then lEtting x know that couldn't hurt. Not sure how many PeDdle that apples to though |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Cras wrote: Future Warrior wrote: Isn't it just more of the fact people drift away and either get busy or just lose interest in things? My experience of small forums is that they only have a finite amount of time before they fizzle out, it's happened a few times before. I don't think it's that so much as it's that such things as internet forums are transient in people's lives. People's lives move on, their interests, likes, free times etc change. Err. That's sort of the same thing mate. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Mimi wrote: I think if I had the same from a site I decided to leave for whatever reasons I had at the time I'd view it the same way. What's that going to look like from the site's point of view, though - that you'd never visit it even less? |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
People would not visit militantly, rather than passively. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:55 ] |
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Bobbyaro wrote: That said, a few people left because they thought x was treated badly by y. If y is now no longer posting, then lEtting x know that couldn't hurt. Not sure how many PeDdle that apples to though Go home Bobby, you're drunk |
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| Author: | Curiosity [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 15:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Bobbyaro wrote: That said, a few people left because they thought x was treated badly by y. If y is now no longer posting, then lEtting x know that couldn't hurt. Not sure how many PeDdle that apples to though A cogent argument. How many PeDdle does that apples to? |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 16:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Thanks for lEtting us know, Bobs. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 16:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Bobbyaro wrote: That said, a few people left because they thought x was treated badly by y. If y is now no longer posting, then lEtting x know that couldn't hurt. Not sure how many PeDdle that apples to though But you'd be telling both peddle (peddle X and peddle y) to come back if you sent an amnesty email. It'd be chaos. |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 16:49 ] |
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Grim... wrote: Mimi wrote: I think if I had the same from a site I decided to leave for whatever reasons I had at the time I'd view it the same way. What's that going to look like from the site's point of view, though - that you'd never visit it even less? I think it might depend on the person's character. Think of some (only some) of the people that have come back to various forums after a call to action by poo stirrers and thread vulchers: the revel the opportunity to come back to forums and be shits. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 17:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
What's happened to Trooper? I know he said he had some stuff to deal with off-forum, but he's been gone an awfully long time. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 18:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
I've got him as a Facebook friend and nothing has changed on his timeline since April 
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 18:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
GazChap wrote: What's happened to Trooper? I know he said he had some stuff to deal with off-forum, but he's been gone an awfully long time. I hope he won't mind me speaking on his behalf, I had a brief (digital) chat with him last week. He's getting there, but still having a bit of a shit time - it's not my place to say why, though. He's changed jobs and is moving house which keeps him pretty busy right now. I'm hoping to catch up with him in the not-too-distant future. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 18:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Grim... wrote: GazChap wrote: What's happened to Trooper? I know he said he had some stuff to deal with off-forum, but he's been gone an awfully long time. I hope he won't mind me speaking on his behalf, I had a brief (digital) chat with him last week. He's getting there, but still having a bit of a shit time - it's not my place to say why, though. He's changed jobs and is moving house which keeps him pretty busy right now. I'm hoping to catch up with him in the not-too-distant future. Please pass on my regards the next time you speak to him. |
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| Author: | Cavey [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 19:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Sorry to hear that, Trooper's a nice chap and a gent.
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| Author: | Mimi [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 19:32 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Please pass on our regards to him also. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 19:50 ] |
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Future Warrior wrote: Please pass on my regards the next time you speak to him. 
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 19:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
GazChap wrote: Future Warrior wrote: Please pass on my regards the next time you speak to him. Really this. Tell him we miss him. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 20:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Come back Troops! |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 20:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
What everyone else said. Hope he's ok and comes back soon. |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Tue Nov 17, 2015 23:54 ] |
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+1 for wishing trooper all the best. |
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| Author: | MrChris [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 0:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
And me also. Hope he's OK |
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| Author: | JohnCoffey [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 0:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Yeah add me to that list also  BTW RE : the email. Couldn't we just send one out saying "Hey you've not visited for a while" or something like that? I can think of several people I would like to see again. |
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| Author: | krazywookie [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 0:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
JohnCoffey wrote: Yeah add me to that list also BTW RE : the email. Couldn't we just send one out saying "Hey you've not visited for a while" or something like that? I can think of several people I would like to see again. But I fear change and I like these people, nobody else. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 1:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Next time I talk to Trooper I'm going to tell him that you all called him a cunt. |
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:23 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
I am still here, just had a lot of crap to deal with... |
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| Author: | Mimi [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 10:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Grim... wrote: Next time I talk to Trooper I'm going to tell him that you all called him a cunt. Your paraphrasing skills are awesome. Concise and to the point. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Tell everyone that I love them. Unless they're a cunt. |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:10 ] |
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JohnCoffey wrote: Yeah add me to that list also BTW RE : the email. Couldn't we just send one out saying "Hey you've not visited for a while" or something like that? I can think of several people I would like to see again. That email would also go out to people we've "asked to leave" or who have left of their own volition and made this place better. It's a double-edged sword. 
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
We should send an email and let people know we've got a calendar. Watch them come flooding back. |
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| Author: | Zardoz [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Is it all the mods nude but with gaming paraphernalia covering their tits? |
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| Author: | myp [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:38 ] |
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Zardoz wrote: Is it all the mods nude but with gaming paraphernalia covering their tits? March is Craster with only a GBA micro covering his erect penis. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Could we send an amnesty email? |
Send the Kov-pants pic. That'll get em flooding back 
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| Author: | KovacsC [ Wed Nov 18, 2015 12:54 ] |
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DavPaz wrote: Send the Kov-pants pic. That'll get em flooding back why Thank you
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