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Offline mjn.mixael

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well.. you pop in, having not posted for all of 2012, and ask why posts were down during 2012?

Perhaps you should tell us why people didn't post as much during 2012...
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I seem to remember Mobius having a much higher post rate than even I did. I only remained top poster cause I've been here much longer. Remember it's not just their posts we have to discount, it's also the replies. And there aren't many posters in the community quite as good at...ahem...provoking a discussion. ;)
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I seem to remember Mobius having a much higher post rate than even I did. I only remained top poster cause I've been here much longer. Remember it's not just their posts we have to discount, it's also the replies. And there aren't many posters in the community quite as good at...ahem...provoking a discussion. ;)

You've got me now though, eh, Karajorma?  ;)

I guess I'll just have to work harder to pick up the slack...  :D

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I guess I'll just have to work harder to pick up the slack...  :D

Maybe if you feel like getting monkeyed or something...

No seriously, if you want to emulate someone on these boards there are much better models, like Scotty or something. If you want to be integral to massive flamewars please use the exit.
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I didn't post at all in 2012, either.  I suppose that took another 187.758 posts off the total count... ;)
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I guess I'll just have to work harder to pick up the slack...  :D

Maybe if you feel like getting monkeyed or something...

No seriously, if you want to emulate someone on these boards there are much better models, like Scotty or something. If you want to be integral to massive flamewars please use the exit.

It is just a joke.

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I suspect the Whatever happens in your life thread (and the what are you reading, listening to, etc) are responsible for a lot of new threads not being posted in Gen Dis
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I didn't post at all in 2012, either.  I suppose that took another 187.758 posts off the total count... ;)
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I seem to remember Mobius having a much higher post rate than even I did. I only remained top poster cause I've been here much longer. Remember it's not just their posts we have to discount, it's also the replies. And there aren't many posters in the community quite as good at...ahem...provoking a discussion. ;)
iamzack was also a pretty big source of pretty lulzy threads as I recall.

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I seem to remember Mobius having a much higher post rate than even I did. I only remained top poster cause I've been here much longer. Remember it's not just their posts we have to discount, it's also the replies. And there aren't many posters in the community quite as good at...ahem...provoking a discussion. ;)
iamzack was also a pretty big source of pretty lulzy threads as I recall.

And then she got banned for necroing a ten-year old thread.
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I used to be very active in the old days...spent half the day on these forums. My post count skyrocketed and then....
Well, I'm not posting on Gen Discs anymore (which was a substantial portion), my campaign is on permanent hold (so I rarely visit FS modding forums)... And as of late I haven't been part of any HLP clan/server (for various reasons), which basicly means I drop by Gaming Discussion once or twice a day to see what's up and that's pretty much it.

I miss the old days. :blah:
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Not only do I agree with MJN, I also find it a little bit snarky to post a topic on "why dafuq is the forum's so gettin empty" while at the same time saying "waywaywya I ain't sayin da forum is dyin, don' go mad at me ok?" :wtf:

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Not only do I agree with MJN, I also find it a little bit snarky to post a topic on "why dafuq is the forum's so gettin empty" while at the same time saying "waywaywya I ain't sayin da forum is dyin, don' go mad at me ok?" :wtf:

Especially when the topic creator is one who wasn't around during the time he's complaining about...  :doubt:
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Well I think Mobius and Trashman between them (together with Snail) probably account for a fair percentage of that reduction. :p

I seem to remember Mobius having a much higher post rate than even I did. I only remained top poster cause I've been here much longer. Remember it's not just their posts we have to discount, it's also the replies. And there aren't many posters in the community quite as good at...ahem...provoking a discussion. ;)
iamzack was also a pretty big source of pretty lulzy threads as I recall.

And then she got banned for necroing a ten-year old thread.

Wait a minute, isn't that wrong to ban someone, I'm assuming permanently, for that?

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
So, what happened in 2012? Has HLP experienced any repeated blackouts which have reduced activity? [...] And yeah, before you ask, I noticed that many modders decided to stop working on their projects and reported it to the public. I don't see it as a bad sign, because IMHO there's really no difference between a dead mod supposedly being active and an actual dead and archived mod. It becomes a problem, however, when there are fewer and fewer new releases making up for it, but I hope this is not the case.

Again, guys, where's the pessimism you're talking about?

Especially when the topic creator is one who wasn't around during the time he's complaining about...  :doubt:

I think the fact that I haven't been around last year (which is only partially correct: I haven't posted at all, but I visited HLP many times during 2012) perfectly explains why this thread exists. I ask questions about things which I don't know and have my own answers about things I know.

Had not been for this thread, I would have never known about this:


The way the Wing Commander Saga board just fizzled out quickly after the release really surprises me.

They had their own offsite forum they wanted everyone to use instead, which seems kind of dodgy to me.

I'm pretty sure they meant that the people already on HLP weren't the only people they wanted to play their game. can't say I blame them, it was every bit as true for Diaspora.

And this:

Does the broken installer correlate with the decrease in interest with HLP?

Installer (what you mean) != Launcher

Personally, I am pretty sure that we've lost a few people because our install procedures aren't as straightforward as they could be.

Answers to my question that not only justify the existence of this thread but also arise a couple of legitimate questions.

Wait a minute, isn't that wrong to ban someone, I'm assuming permanently, for that?

She did many other things, too.
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Maybe I should have a look. She didn't last very long, 82 posts.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74569.msg1473973#msg1473973

It looks like she won't be missed.

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Wait a minute, isn't that wrong to ban someone, I'm assuming permanently, for that?

Unless someone is doing something pretty stupid (like, say, post links to warez or similarly questionable stuff, or being a spambot), we will never ban at the first offence. There will always be an escalating series of warnings first.

Maybe I should have a look. She didn't last very long, 82 posts.

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=74569.msg1473973#msg1473973

It looks like she won't be missed.

....aaaand now you get a warning for thread derailment, Lorric. Because this topic is not about iaz.
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
Seriously?  Dilmah G and Apollo both posted about iamzack in this thread before Lorric did.

EDIT: And while I'm at it, I think y'all are being a little too harsh on Mobius.  He did include a disclaimer in his first post, and he made it clear that he's asking for information, not complaining.  (Judging by the knee-jerk responses in this thread, I'd say "Is the community dying?" is the new "When is FS3 coming out?")
« Last Edit: March 18, 2013, 12:13:47 pm by Goober5000 »

 

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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
(Judging by the knee-jerk responses in this thread, I'd say "Is the community dying?" is the new "When is FS3 coming out?")
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Re: What happened to HLP (and the FreeSpace community in general) in 2012?
I'll own up to my part, I've been here longer than Lorric (I think?) and I should've known better than to drag her up again.

Anyway! Back on topic!

I didn't have the same reading of Mobius' OP as it appears other people have had. As far as my interpretation goes, it looked just like a 'guys, dis ain't gonn' be a y is hlp dyin oh no thread, but what happened in my absence and why are page views down?' post. Which I think is perfectly reasonable. It got explained pretty well on the first page too.

I actually am surprised that this was a comparatively quiet year, given, as BW pointed out earlier, we had the release of Diaspora and WCS. I was about to post about how I'd agree with people who say there's just not that much to discuss about the FS retail campaigns, and then I looked back through Gen FS. It's a shame we don't have people posting their theories on the Shivans anymore or the tactical discussions of old, or the general 'guys this is my favourite mission' threads. :( I can see how BP has become the platform for the execution of most of those discussions, though, and that's good. But I have to say that I miss them. I've been out of the loop regarding recent happenings in the FS world, and while part of me wants to talk of incentivising the replay of the FS campaigns to stimulate discussion on them, the other half of me sees how counterproductive that would be to allowing attention to be paid to our mod gems and asks myself the general question of 'how much good would that really be?' to which the answer I produce is 'not a whole lot, really'.

And that internal discussion really motivated me to play some FS, and then I remembered that I couldn't because it would take a grossly disproportionate amount of time, now that my desktop is nearing 7 years of age and runs Freespace as well as Michael Moore running a marathon.

/nostalgia

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« Last Edit: March 18, 2013, 12:44:07 pm by Dilmah G »