Posted by orwell at h525405f49311.ne.client2.attbi.com on June 29, 2002 at 16:19:28:
In Reply to: In scanning this board,I have a message for Smalls posted by Darth Dobbin on June 29, 2002 at 09:28:35:
The present state of the board is due to the closing of the OWB. It's gone, the people came here to converse. They come here to converse as if this is a chat room. Obviously, since this is not a chat room, we now have a clusterfuck of nothing.
Which is why I'm glad about the anp board -- it brings to mind the VA board of old.
: We laughed at you. We mocked you.
: We derided your fanatical obsession with being "on topic," and likened you unto a power-mad Bobby Brady, drunk with the authority that the Hall Monitor's badge gives.
: And we were wrong, and you were right. Prophetic, even. The stream of non-consciousness that hangs underneath this post bears silent witness to your eerie foresight. This **is** what happens when people stop being on-topic-nazis.
: But for one, brief, shining moment, it was Camelot. Except, with more dick jokes.
: I'll still always come back 'round here, since this place holds a very special spot in my all-too-geeky fanboy heart, but jumped up Jesus on a Segway, have the visigoths sacked Rome, or what?