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Offline Carl

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
I'm so glad this site exists. The VBB has gotten 5x worse in the last month, and I don't see an end to this trend coming any time soon. I remember way back in the days of yore (a year and a half ago) when everyone was nice, there was almost no flaming, and the admins patrolled the board with the mighty Hammer of VBB Justice. there was a new page every day, and all the topics were decent and Freespace related.
 But now the Admins are gone, the Newbies and flamers have taken over, and the board has descended into chaos. There are only a few topics that actually have to do with Freespace, and posting has dropped to one third the amount it used to be. Anyone can do anything and get away with it. All of the old fanboys have gone. If only Daveb would return and smite the trouble makers with his hammer, the forum would be filled with laughter and glee once more! But alas, the V-gods have abandoned us  
"Gunnery control, fry that ****er!" - nuclear1

 

Offline Fineus

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
True enough, it's a shame but... well at least we have here  

 

Offline Setekh

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
I just checked the VBB - it's terrible.  

Not that I'd miss this opportunity to say that HLP still rocks.  
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Offline Top Gun

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
The collective IQ in that Monkey pit is that of the stupidest member divided by the total number of registered members. Personally I think most of the Monkeys that appear to populate that place nowerdays are too young to understand and/or care about what their pointless posts are doing.
Thank the Monkey for HLP

 

Offline Dr.Zer0

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
How come things always change like that were its all fine and perefct with harldy anything making you mad and nothing anoying, but when you leave for a little or let something go for a second it all turns to chaos  

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
actually, the RFPCVBB is still relativly sane, with only the occasional tit shouting 'PS2 RO><0Rs yu0r PC'...

the less said about the RFPS2VBB, the Summoner boards & the FS2 boards the better  

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Offline Wildfire

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
The VBB is dead.  Sad but true.

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Offline Top Gun

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
 
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Originally posted by Wildfire:
The VBB is dead.  Sad but true.

Correction, rolling around on the floor dying in an immense amount of pain but not yet dead.

 

Offline Slasher

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
The history of the VBB goes something like this.  It’s a beloved hometown that you’ve lived in since you were born.  Then, one day, a giant, evil megacorp run by a bunch of Morons who literally think they know more than you (but never aptly demonstrate this    ) comes into this town and basically takes it over, destroying the old way of life, the culture, the very community
that held it together.  To add insult to injury, the new owners of this desecrated town make sure to rub these facts in the faces of the original residents everyday.  They then proceed to mock just about everything and everyone that remains, peeing on old customs and flaming down each other.

Kinda like what happened in Afghanistan.  The moment the admins pulled out, everybody sorta just turned on everybody.  A savage, wild pack of scavangers picking at the emaciated body of the VBB.  

Still, as everyone said, HLP remains a haven for those who want justice in FreeSpace discussions and don't want to worry about flame wars and that kind of nonsense.  Unlike on the VBB, we can take comfort in a sense of security here.

 

Offline Thorn

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
I haven't been to the VBB since...
Well, a long time...
I'm actually afraid to look, because I'll probably start crying...

 

Offline Top Gun

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
The events at the VBB in the past two years are explained by the below link. http://www.winternet.com/~mikelr/flame67.html

 
Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
Yay for the HLP!

Thank god somebody at the VBB refered me to this site, I was about to abandon my project altogether until I got here.
I told you that It would be done by November, well, mostly anyway...

I'm working on something new... shhhhh, it's a seceret.

 

Offline Vertigo1

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
Thats why I don't visit the VBB near as much as I used to.    I miss the days when Volition would interact with ppl.  Now you're lucky if you get a reply from them.

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Offline Carl

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
 
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Originally posted by Slasher:
Unlike on the VBB, we can take comfort in a sense of security here.

 
"Gunnery control, fry that ****er!" - nuclear1

 

Offline Jabu

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
It isn't quite that bad. Unless it's managed to disintegrate totally during the weekend...

 

Offline Unknown Target

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
Your right, it really has gone bad, and I should know, I just came over here and registered.

 

Offline Stryke 9

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
Without the VBB, where would we people with nothing to say and a lot of time to say it go?

But seriously. The VBB is better than could be expected from an unmoderated forum (this I can say from experience, as a member of several other aging game forums who have been more or less abandoned), and worse than could be expected from humans (as opposed to, say, howler monkeys , who are apparently the dominant form of life in many parts of the internet. Look at it this way: the VBB catches all the jerks, and when (if?) they grow up, they move on to the HLP. Sorta a rite of passage. It still serves a function in the community, albeit a limited and unenviable one, so be glad you've grtaduated, and never look back.

[This message has been edited by Stryke 9 (edited 10-22-2001).]

 

Offline Carl

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
it's like the VBB is Earth, and HLP is Heaven
(and Warpstorm is Hell)
"Gunnery control, fry that ****er!" - nuclear1

 

Offline Fineus

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Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
Does that make me God?

 
Has anyone been to the VBB lately?
No, that makes Setekh God

that would make you an angel or something...


   j/k Thunder    

[This message has been edited by Mystical (edited 10-22-2001).]