Was that the one about the Sheogorath fella who we all thought was a Beth employee announcing TESV? He was quite amusing.

I thought the Epic Thread was the official name of the thread that had over 500 posts? :unsure:

http://bgsfthreads3.webs.com/Stupid%20Things%20You%20Used%20To%20Believe.htm?

Link courtesy of LEGOGOD.

Oh, my mistake. That mad god stirred up lots of chaos; very entertaining indeed.

Oddly enough, that just made me want to reinstall Morrowind. :laugh:

We aren't supposed to talk about hatshoe....

Definitely when we all switched our avatars to Rohugh's bear avatar.. that was hilarious.

I didn't become a mod until August of that year.

Must take you back though. Way back in 2002... I was ten years old.

I remember this one guy came in claiming that he started a new fad in Gears of War by saying he was Gears of Hungry or something like that, and wanted to know what we all thought. That thread got deleted for all the spam, but it was a lot of fun. Gears of Call of Awesome!

Attrebus always has great posts, probably because he is man candy.

I just spent the better part of the last half hour reformatting this 'cause the new forum layout completely destroyed my notepad. I may need to double or even triple post. Enjoy!

Wait, I'll just take a screenshot of the preview. Nevermind, I can't post the whole thing. This isn't even 1/4 of it. I used to be able to post this.

"Go in front of her and start screaming and jumping like a blithering idiot. Works all the time."

Oh yeah. Although it's the stuff from 2001 which really makes me nostalgic, that was a fun period on the forum

2001: A Forum Odyssey

What was so epic?

What was it like back then anyways?

I can't imagine life pre-morrowind.

Da PokEmAnz thread! <3

It was all Daggerfall back then baby!

I can't imagine.

did it be a different super forums back then...where the 200 posts meant something and it was green.....whatever happened to the greeness

Nice. I thought it was hilarious how everyone was writing descriptions of him running out of his house in heavy bee-keeping gear with a can of bugspray in each hand. :rofl:

There weren't that many people, and the developers posted way more. It was pretty fun, and there wasn't a need for moderators. There also wasn't a Community Discussion forum, so most of the off topic stuff went in the Morrowind forum.

The forums were really small back then. The forum had something like 3000 registered users at the beginning of 2001, 30,000 by the end of 2001, and over 300,000 by the time Morrowind was released. So it was a really close knit-group in 2001.

2001 also stands out as nice because 2002 was so crappy. While the lead up to Morrowind's release was exciting the forums grew too quickly and basically fell apart. There were no mods until the summer of 2002 (a few months after Morrowind's release) and only one valiant admin trying to keep things contained. By August things were so bad they added five mods at once, and even then we closed the General Discussion forum shortly thereafter.

Heh, for a good portion of the time before Morrowind's release the Morrowind General forum was basically unusable. With no mods there was no one locking/merging redundant threads and it wasn't uncommon for the first twenty threads to be repeating the same three or four questions (all of which were answered in the pinned FAQ).

So given that 2002 fell apart and that 2003 didn't have any OT chat it's not surprising that the positive things about 2001 particularly stand out for me

One more question: Why were you made a mod?

I'd ask more questions, but the thread train seems to be derailing... so no more off-topic-ness for me. B)

does anyone know

where Fonger

has been?

i miss his dry

double spaced

to the point

posts

General awesomeness :hehe:

I had been a very active and very helpful member. Funny thing, I almost completely avoided the forums for the past three months or so, but then that was as much because it was summer vacation than forum problems. The two mods that preceded our group helped choose the five new mods and both of them (kathode and dalinn) knew me pretty well. In fact that's a good segway back on topic:

During the summer of 2001 one of Bethesda's interns, Mr. X, was a forum regular. However we didn't realize that Mr. X was in fact kathode, who continued using his normal account for normal forum chat. At the end of his summer internship Mr. X and kathode got in to an arguement and half way through he switched who was saying what - and then ended with a big reveal.

Needless to say it was pretty funny to see, as well as mind blowing that we'd been chatting so much with Mr. X and never realized who it actually was.

I would have been banned if it was Rohugh... Not even banned I would have been erased from existance


Did I miss it?


Also any post between me and fishy talking about my awesome Lucarioness 'cuz fishy is awesome!

Worth it's file size in virtual gold :lmao:

that said I'm waay too dim to remember what anyone said over the last year, but I've ruptured my spleen laughing at what everone posts