Nothingland down for maintenance!!

[Michael Morris]

Heh heh heh...

Oh well, their board, their business.

 

[Algolei]

Do you post teh poetry on ENWorld or...? Or. Or something, I dunno what. (Star Trek's on! can't finish complete sen...!)

Beat that Andorian, Spock, he's a spy!!

 

[Michael Morris]

No, I've actually never posted poetry on ENWorld. Indeed here lately I've been so busy with coding I haven't had time to turn around. Oh well, I enjoy it.

EDIT: Correction I have, but much more rarely than on NTL. The last time was the eulogy I wrote for Ryan ("Angelsboi")

 

[reapersaurus]

As a point of order, WHY are Nothingland threads still kosher over here, if they have gone to an exclusive membership?

I'd always thought that NL was tolerated on EN World because it was an outlet for EN Worlders who wanted a more raw experience?
Now that they have to go perform like a circus monkey & entertain TPTB to gain access (if they're "lucky"), why is that board given favored treatment here still?

BTW: NL is as always free to grouse over simple questions /facts/ opinions like these on _their_ board, but it would be more effective and courageous to post replies _here_.

As SN says himself,

Here we are again, back with the power of Mjolnir and more venom than a pit of vipers. Before you mongoloids out there start asking stupid questions about Nothingland, let's get one thing nice and sparkling clear:

We reserve the right to ban anybody at any time, for any reason.

That means if you lack a sense of humor or are too f---ing sensitive for this board, don't register an account. Margo Schreck and I are doing this for ourselves and only ourselves. If a few screwheads out there like this place, that's fine. If even more people hate it, that's fine too. We don't care. We're having a good time doing what we enjoy.

This is not Nutkinland. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. So keep your snotty, opinionated crap out of our inboxes. We don't want to hear it. None of you have any idea what you are talking about. You know s--- about s---. Period.

Don't get us wrong, you are entitled to your opinions, but you are not entitled to tell them to us. We don't f-ing care. Go cry to somebody who does care. Then kill yourself.

That doesn't exactly sound like the kind of place that should be supported by ENWorld, but that's just my opinion.
Which is apparently not allowed.
Even though NL is continually critical of ENWorld, and is known for their thick-skinned, raw style, it's not OK to have an opinion of NL that is not favorable and tolerant of their exclusivity. Odd.

 

[Piratecat]

Didn't get let in, huh?

To be serious, Nothingland hasn't been the "adult side" of EN World for quite some time. We share a moderate amount of members, but they're steering their own course to the type of board that Ratatosk personally wants. I say more power to them, and I have no doubt that they'll attract the kind of members who fit in best there.

As a result, we haven't used Nothingland / Nutkinland as our exclusive outage information source for at least six months. If this site goes down, we post details on rpg.net, Monte's forums, Nothingland, the Rat Bastard Boards, and Randomling's House.

I still like it fine, and I'm not sure I understand the bitterness. This thread is in Off Topic - as it should be - and I see nothing wrong with it at all. We have the same sorts of threads periodically when other message boards go down. Whatever your personal opinion may be, a thread like this is "kosher" because there's no reason for it to be moderated; it's friendly and occasionally funny. If any rules were broken in a thread like this, such as personal insults, we'd respond appropriately.

It's also worth noting that we don't tolerate inter-board wars or vendettas. Ratatosk and I are fully in agreement on this, and I have no interest in letting EN World be used as a launching point for nastiness against Nothingland. . . and vice versa.

 

[BOZ]

As a point of order, WHY are Nothingland threads still kosher over here, if they have gone to an exclusive membership?

hmm... only a matter of time before things get interesting in this thread, now...

 

[Michael Morris]

If they get interesting then I assure you P-kitty knows where the banhammer is.

 

[reapersaurus]

To be serious, Nothingland hasn't been the "adult side" of EN World for quite some time. We share a moderate amount of members, but they're steering their own course to the type of board that Ratatosk personally wants. I say more power to them,

Thanks for the rationale response, Pcat. I hadn't noticed announcements about other boards - I easily could have missed them.

I'm glad to hear that it sounds like ENWorld has distanced themselves from NL.
I agree in 'more power to them', as long as the nastiness is kept over there.
The 2 boards are way too different in approach and philosophy now to tolerate a board of exclusivity.

 

[BOZ]

If they get interesting then I assure you P-kitty knows where the banhammer is.

or, it could be the opposite of interesting?

 

[Michael Morris]

Hee hee, it is dying, but it's also the weekend.