[Eire Charlotta]

We should start an old people guild

[Darlene Delk]

Moderators get/got titles. Archie used to be a moderator back in the day!

There is also at least one regular member who has a custom title... :whisper:

Meh, Hungry Donner's done more time, here.

You make it sound like a bad thing

Hehe, I remember BretonSpellSword. OOOHHH the controversial topics.

* insert a controversial subject here *

debate

[K J S]

Why hello there everybody! Congrats on the 10 years, Archie, you're an even older fossil than I am! ^_^

[Ludivine Poussineau]

Five years last Tuesday here. My brother was a member since the beginning, but he stopped using the Forums shortly after I signed up, so his account was pruned. Any one remember LORDex-bu, or LORD-ex-bu; I forgot how he had it. Grateful Dead avatar.

[Scott]

We should start an old people guild

We could leisurely sip the Sujamma spiked with the Geritol on a rooftop somewhere in Balmora, while reminiscing; to the sound of the Silt Stider gently wailing in the distance...at sunset.

Anybody see my teeth?.....can't find my glasses. :tongue:

[Eve Booker]

Feels like I've been here almost as long. I remember Archie as a moderator, and summer as a member, and when Attrebus still stalked CD once in a while. I remember back when the default color scheme was green, and we actually had choices of different colors to use too. I remember "Rate my Avatar" threads before they got banned, but I'm not old enough to remember before the Politics and Religion rules were added. At least I don't think so...

I've practically grown up on these forums.

Nice to see people like you come back once in a while though Archeopterix. I know lots of very active old members that seem to have disappeared and moved on with life. Who was that one helpful fellow, Anghardel? Or maybe it was someone else.

Ah well, here's to a decade of TESF. May they always pull you right back in just when you thought you were out. :foodndrink:
:P

[Tanya Parra]

I first started on this forum in 04. I forgot that username though so started a new one a few months after the merge. Took a break from the forums at the start of 05 basically and then didn't come back till I made this account, so I kind of been here for 7 years! Just active only 5 of those really.

[Ron]

Congrats Archeopterix! I remember seeing your name pop up when I first joined these forums, and although I've gone through extended periods here and there of being inactive, it's always been a great community to come back to. Good to hear some reminiscing of the early days and the different stages these forums have gone through.

[Averielle Garcia]

Mastercheif12345 :rofl: He was pretty entertaining. I remember BretonSpellSword not being a troll in the traditional sense, but masterful at getting off-topic and riling the entire forum against him.

i searched them in the members bar but nothing came up.

What did they do exactly?

[+++CAZZY]

i searched them in the members bar but nothing came up.

What did they do exactly?

They had lively discussion of sorts. Only if I can find the speculation thread he was in. Lets say they brought the conversation to the next level and their postings might be thought of as accidental trolling or I can't put words to it. Ah bretonspellsword.............

[!beef]

i searched them in the members bar but nothing came up.

What did they do exactly?

Masterchief12345, if I remember correctly, was basically a YouTube comment every post.

BretonSpellsword has a kind of Lawful Neutral roleplay where he unwaveringly chose "logical" things, and then by doing that formulated arguments about them, often times playing the devil's advocate.

If I remember correctly.

And I may be wrong.

[Kim Kay]

BretonSpellsword has a kind of Lawful Neutral roleplay where he unwaveringly chose "logical" things, and then by doing that formulated arguments about them, often times playing the devil's advocate.

I miss ol' Spock. He was a curious fellow.

[Melissa De Thomasis]

*sigh* I wish I could say I was on the forums back then, 10 years ago I was 4...

But I have an average of 1.5 posts per day and I feel like a recognized member, so that's good.

I want to know more about "Masterchief1234" what fate did he suffer?

[STEVI INQUE]

There is also at least one regular member who has a custom title... :whisper:

And you got that from me.... :shakehead:

[luke trodden]

And you got that from me.... :shakehead:

huh? :huh:

I'm talking about Music Man

[Ysabelle]

...................... and I feel like a recognized member, so that's good.

Who are you? :unsure:

I want to know more about "Masterchief1234" what fate did he suffer?

No, let's not go down the path of discussing members who are no longer here.

[Nicole Coucopoulos]

I'll do 5 at a time otherwise it's too overwhelming.

It seems like every game splits the fanbases like this.I have been on here for what, 7 years now? Only been Moderating for the last 5 or so. I have seen some changes on the boards. Most of them good, some of them understandable, some not so good. I do miss some of the old posters, but I embrace the new ones. I do miss discussing Politics, but I don't miss the hurt feelings when I pointed out how wrong somone was. OK, kidding on the last. I remember when there was only one game on here to talk about, Morrowind, and the older games were given a small section for folks to play in. Now we have all these other games and I am sure more are coming. I like that Bethesda is branching out, I just hope they don't grow too big or get to big for their business. I look forward to the next 10 years, and maybe even be still moderating at that time. For sure I will still be posting.

Hi CCNA! :hug:

And the fanbase seems to do a 6 month cycle, where people come for a bit and move on, some people like the mods get a Mod Chip installed so they can't escape. :unsure:

Wow I didn't realize how much tension their was on the site back in the old days and this site actually had Trolls I can't believe that. I guess today it's very friendly compared to the older days. Congrats on the 10 year milestone.

Yeah what had to be done had to be done. They trolling was very bad, porm being posted (which is why you can't imbed images) and just any and all types of people just trying to be a nuscience. Worse are the people who jump on the bandwagon and try and get in on the trolling, I've never understood that.

That was a nice read. I enjoyed hearing about some of the forums history. This was the first forum I decided to join, and I have joined a few since then, but none of them have as good of a community as this one.I have been hearing quite a lot about m0use.net recently.What was the internet like back then?

Thanks.
I think the biggest difference with the internet was the amount of loopholes rolls had to be able to slip thorough and harass people by and there would be nothing you could do about it.

Some of it was really horrible, people being vindictive against us personally when we were just trying to keep the peace and make sure people adhere to the ruled the Admins set out. It was never personal. The part I hated the most was when someone I thought was my friend would do it, they thought that favoritism f some sort would protect them from a warning, and we couldn't justly do that. I specifically remember one guy that was really sweet and shy turning into some kind of an ego monster when his mod got popular and him stating in the forums that "he has me wrapped around his little finger". How insulting! He got into a huge fury when he realizes he wasn't being cut special slack.

Another kind of troublemaker was someone that would set the blame to the wrong person, there was on notable person (no I won't provide names) that blamed me for banning him because I didn't use invisible mode, but it was an admin who banned him. He cross posted on a lot of fansites about how he was banned unfairly with no warning (neither was true) and that I should be fired because of this. He got a large following despite his story having more holes than swiss cheese, and there was even an internet petition to have me fired ad moderator! If it wasn't so pervasively stressful it would have been hilarious. I thought people would have more sense and see the parts in his threads where he said he was trying to push Bethesda as far as he could go without being banned but people see only what they want to see, I guess. Like I said if it wasn't so pathetic, it would have been funny.

when i saw your name and picture in the picture thread, i thought it was some sort of inside joke.I had no idea you were an actual user.

I'm not I'm an Archiebot. Beep beep beep!

You guys should release a list of the worst trolls in the past decade...we could dress it all up like those RDR bounty posters. That was a good read, thanks archie.

That would ironically be violating their confidentiality, which is why bans and warnings aren't discussed in the forums.

Ok next group of comments....

[Chantel Hopkin]

Hey Archie, :hugs:The place has gone through massive changes since I've been here for sure. Some good changes, some bad changes but way more people. I remember when I first came it was easy to know everyone hanging out here. Now it's difficult to know everyone in just one section.And Archie, you have always been the life of the party. :wub:

Thanks Summer! I Wub you too!

Hi Archie !!!!!! :wub: That was a good read archie , i been here for 6 - 7 years now and the changes have been good if you ask me , all to keep the forum with a nice respectful community

Paddy! I miss you! Who you no come round the chat mo more. 8(

A lot of my favorite smilies have been culled.

So, in your experience, Archie, what was the best way of keeping people in line without really having to do stuff like locking threads or passing out warnings?

Well really talking to people and finding out where the misunderstanding lies, although there were a lot of people that just had an inflated sense of entitlement or that these dorms should be more like . Sometimes though you would just get the feeling that you were wasting your time and that the people really didn't care, they were just more interested in doing whatever they wanted.

10 years...Meh, Hungry Donner's done more time, here.

Yeah I'm definitely not the oldest, I'm only #401, I wonder if they recalibrated the numbers again by joindate where I would sit. I started at 3000-something.

There's also lots of people older than me who didn't post for a while and their accounts got culled due to lack of use and they rejoined, or people that just wanted a new name so changed it, like Attrebus.

Wow. I feel like a toddler.So, what were these guild things like? What did each of them do? Any chance something like those might come back? They seem like an interesting idea.

The guilds were just like little clubs. Like the art guild had a thread where people would share fan art, the writers guild would share fan fics, etc. Some had their own fan forum. The ones that were intended as to be hopeful input on the game content would vote for what they wanted and hope the devs were reading and making their ideas included. I remember the rangers guild wanted footsteps you could track and to be able to climb trees to snipe in Morrowind, as we know those didn't make it in.

[michael danso]

Hi Stormy and Raithen and Antiman and Rohugh! :wub:

You used to have Gstaff's position, or did I misread? Also, what health problems?

Spoiler

Sorry if these aren't very forum related.

No, there was no community manager prior to Gstaff. Todd did mention to me about the position in 2002 when I visited there, but I really wanted to be an artist and I dond't know if an official community manager would be something I'm cut out for. I did try to do the best job that I could, and I did a LOT of volunteer hours per week, but Gstaff is Admin and I was moderator. There's a big difference.

The health problems were some complications from injuries I had and the doctor I was seeing at the time wasn't a good pain specialist and had me on meds I was allergic to, so I was having some strange side effects. Between school and moderating I was working myself to the bone and soon after I stopped moderating due to stress I had a bad seizure. Now I have a proper pain specialist that I go to every week and am doing best I can managing the pain and so on. bliviongate:

Heya Archie, she who prevented me from being banned and subjected herself to countless hours fixing my hijacked avatar only because she's a sweetheart! Hayt probably regretted that on more than one occasion (and you as well I suppose). Almost 9 years ago and it feels like yesterday...sheesh.

Yeah I don't think I'll ever forget that haha. At the time the avatars were associated with posts not accounts and someone changed Antiman's avatar to something rather nasty. They were going to just ban him but I felt it wasn't his fault and spent 3 whole days going through his threads and deleting the avatar. Hayt is a sweetie though I don't think he meant anything against you personally.

We should start an old people guild

Good idea! What's the cut off range? Do we get senior citizens' discounts? Forget the flamey House cane, I want my Skyrim cane.....

[P PoLlo]

Good read.

When I first came upon this site I was amazed at the level of respect between the members. Being 32 years old I hesitated to join, thinking I might be to old for this. I also wondered if my english was good enough.

Well as you can see, I'm here and I don't regret it.

Nobody has flamed me, no matter how bad I write. You have manage to make this site into something enjoyable and even though I get tired of childish comments sometimes, I try to remember I was young (relativly speaking) once too.

Anyways, thanks for letting this "old" gamer have a place to share his thoughts.

[Jennifer May]

It seems like I've been on here forever but I still feel like a rookie to these forums. There were just so many older members on here when I first got on.
I also remember the forums being dominated by older members lile Rosenphilia godot, Bo Rai Chu, and Stormrider. Although I think stormy is the only one that's stil active, but I could be wrong where I'm not on here as much as I used to be.

[Beat freak]

I hope to be here for at least another 5 years too!

[lydia nekongo]

Congrats Archie. Been a long time.

Archie is the one and only moderator I butted heads with. :toughninja: Then I apologized for being an ass, because I was being one, and we kissed and made up.

Here's hoping we can reminisce again in another 10 years from now. :foodndrink:

:wub:

[Peter P Canning]

It seems like I've been on here forever but I still feel like a rookie to these forums. There were just so many older members on here when I first got on.
I also remember the forums being dominated by older members lile Rosenphilia godot, Bo Rai Chu, and Stormrider. Although I think stormy is the only one that's stil active, but I could be wrong where I'm not on here as much as I used to be.

At 52, I hope I qualify also. I've enjoyed the thread, Archie. Some good times around 2005-2006 when Loranna's RP was at first the only RP on the forums (then joined by other RPs), and Archie was friendly and helpful during the chatroom with which we coordinated the RP. A lot of interesting people have moved on, like Solin; Loranna; Allerleirauh, and her husband Rhedd. Best wishes to Archie.

[Casey]

Do you know what the beet thing about this thread is?

A bunch of old-timers I haven't seen in ages have popped in to say hi to Archie.

Seeing you guys again has made me all warm and fuzzy inside. Although when you inevitably leave again I shall turn the lights off, put on some Morrissey, crack open a bottle of scotch and cry.