Hivemind

[A2Z]

So sorta like Nutkinland except less eliteist?

Don't go on Nutkinland much do you?

Elitist? Hardly. I've been posting there for quite a while now and found the community to be open and receptive to different viewpoints and opinions. If you spend too much time in the Angry Chair though you will get slapped (and called Sally).

That's right. We only drive off people who insist on acting like asses.

And if we're so eliteist then why do I have a link in my sig inviting anyone to come to NL?

Edit: Please don't try to fool the profanity filter. --Dinkeldog

 

[Sixchan]

And the knives of the Nutkinlanders all come out.

I spend most of my time online at Nutkinland, now. I've gotten no more than my fair share of biting remarks, and haven't even had an Angry Chair thread named after me yet.

Strange, considering I've only been there about a month, and how "elitist" NKL supposedly is.

NKL has been open and welcoming to me. But maybe that's because I'm elite, huh?

 

[Ashtal]

They let me in. Means they can't possibly be elitist.

 

[Jeph]

Horatio wrote up the History of the Hivemind once. It had something to do with piratecat's brain, three posters, a baby, and Drowdude.

I think.

 

[Knight Otu]

The name is Horacio!

Crothian basically created the Hivemind, by asking how long a thread could be allowed to grow. And that thread grew...

Shortly afterwards, the Meta forum was overgrown with silly threads, and the Piratecat rule was invoked (three threads, no more, no less) and the name Hivemind was forged as a tribute to the theory that only three (or four or five) real posters exist. We fought against the Pantheon and lost, and finally, we were tossed into the bright light that is the General Discussion Forum, were we were reduced to one thread at a time.

(As for Nutkinland, it is not elitist, but it is not the place I want to hang out at. Take a look at it though, it's bad rep is mostly undeserved.)

 

[Ancalagon]

The hivemind is also something a bit more than a "thread". It is a sub-comunity of EN wolrd.

There are a lot of paralels between it and Nutkinland. Nutkinland grew out of ENworld and is mow something different. The Hivemind is on its way to doing the same (they too have a furry criter as a leader! ).

Seeing how this is the second time this has happened, it seems like this is a natural process... as EN world grows, the sense of comunity diminishes, and smaller groups naturaly form. Nutkinland has been growing, and I wonder if it too will start budding one day

Ancalagon

 

[Darkness]

The Hivemind is simple a thread that people post to in more of a way that they post to a chat. It was started one year ago quite by accident when a few of us started posting to a thread in meta during Gen Con. The boards were very slow then because most of the people seemed to be at the convention. The HM threads are usually silly, but they can be anything.

*nods* And it's a good way to keep in touch with each other even though we live in very different time zones.

Crothian basically created the Hivemind, by asking how long a thread could be allowed to grow. And that thread grew...

Piratecat created the Hivemind by tricking Crothian into starting that thread; get it right, willya?
Anyway, that thread grew and grew and grew... Which was mostly due to Crothian, me and drowdude posting to it 24/7. drowdude didn't stay around but others soon took his place. (First among them Horacio, who had participated for the last third or so of the original thread.) And so, it began...

 

[Knight Otu]

Piratecat created the Hivemind by tricking Crothian into starting that thread; get it right, willya?

Whoopsie... I'll remember that from now on...

 

[Crothian]

PC is diabolical!!

 

[Randolpho]

They let me in. Means they can't possibly be elitist.

*AND* they let you run the place for a while, too! What does *that* say about Nutkinland?