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Those are probably the most coherent posts I ever made on that board.

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The quotes in the Nonsense Shrine are my most coherent Game Pond posts.

I honestly can't remember anything about the Paradise Resort now. If I looked it up on archive.org, maybe it would start coming back to me, but right now I'm drawing a blank trying to remember one single topic there.

I actually just remembered what killed the Paradise Resort. Going through old topics at the Game Pond and I came across one that reminded me of it. I didn't even remember that they pulled this sh1t at the Game Pond, too, but apparently they did.

When I had all the images for the PR hosted on a go.com account (Kiera's or FO's or did I have my own? I can't remember), there were a couple of times when go went down and all the images were broken. This prompted a number of users there (I won't name names, although I don't think any of them come around anymore) to start bitching at me constantly to switch the images to Geocities. I'm not talking just a friendly suggestion. I'm talking posts in all caps, multiple times, multiple topics, and on a daily basis. All the while calling me things like "idiot" and "fool" and "stupid" and I took it all lightly because we were stupid teenage boys who tend to insult each other like that without it meaning anything, but read on, I'll come back to this in a moment.

Someone pointed out that Geocities was making announcements in their TOS against remote loading and that they were planning to do what Angelfire did. This didn't stop them from contuining with the posting of "SWITCH TO GEOCITIES, FOOLS!" in every topic and the harassment towards the person who pointed that out was especially aggressive, even though she was only pointing out a fact (they actually made signatures to mock one of her Ezboard names). I had never seen this type of mentality from the people on my forums before, and quite frankly, I found it distburing, but I still bit my tongue. They were my friends, after all.

Then, not even a few weeks later, Geocities DID do exactly what Angelfire did and blocked remote loading, causing all of their images to go down. I made a post saying something like, "LOL! I told you guys so!" This prompted the first of several 50 post+ threads of "Let's bash James because he's an a$$hole" topics at the PR. They acted like I was so horrible because I made a joke at their expense, which wasn't even much of an insult, DESPITE the fact that they were insulting people left and right before that. But anytime anyone tried to point this out, they'd just completely ignore it and beat around the bush. I remember the asbolute stupidest reply I got was something like, "I've never played Pokemon! ^_~", as if that was some shocking revelation that would make me gasp in horror and hate their guts, when I really didn't give a crap because even *I* hadn't played Pokemon in several years, hardly talked about it anymore, and was even trying to shift the focus of the board away from it since the fad was dying. And it's not like I'd care if someone never played it and some of my friends even hated the whole game and fad, and I didn't care. To paraphrase Nucleo McRaven, anyone who would think that about me doesn't know me and there's no hope they ever will.

It's EXACTLY what Junus was talking about in a topic somewhere on this board that I can't find right now, but he said something like suppose ErniePants shows up and says, "Junus, you suck!", and then no one says anything about it, but the minute Junus replies with "Go to hell, Junus!", he immediately gets a ton of people on his back for "picking on ErniePants".

I'd be lying if I didn't say the flaming didn't bother me a little because it just didn't seem like the usual "friendly fire" that we did in our nonsense and debate postings, but I still would've just forgiven and forgotten about it. The fact that they wouldn't afford me the same kind of behavior, even though mine was nowhere near as bad or aggressive, and that they continued to act that way for several weeks after the fact made me realize that I just didn't want to run that place anymore, and it wasn't necessary since the people that actually agreed with me I could already talk to at other boards like this one and FO's. And all this was going on when I was having some really, REALLY terrible things going on in my personal life (some of which I stupidly brought to the forums and shouldn't have), but I doubt that coming to my board after several days of being away from the internet to find people still going on about this crap helped matters any. I remember the very post that was the last straw was one that said something like, "In the end, it doesn't matter who is right or wrong because James advertised this board and if he didn't want us here, he should never have advertised it."

#1. I never said I didn't want anyone there. I only wanted them to act like the friends I once knew and not Geocities salesmen paid to pressure people into using the service.

#2. When I advertised the PR, Ezboards in general were not full of people who acted like that. They were generally full of friendly people who enjoyed having fun and talking to people with common interests and just getting drunk on the whole ezboard community experience. If Ezboard had been full of people who acted like that, trust me, I wouldn't have advertised it, and probably never would have even made it.

#3. My mind interprets a statement like that as, "We're acting like jackasses, and we KNOW we're acting like jackasses, but we just don't want you to SAY we're acting like jackasses, because we can act that way and you can't."

I kinda, sorta wished I had deleted all those posts and made the board public again at some point so that archive.org could've gotten the rest of the place copied. The incident made me hate the board so much that I wished I'd never created it. But just like with the Game Pond, there were good times before then.

I wouldn't hold anything against any of them if they happened to show up again now (though it's been so many years, I'd be REAL surprised if they did), but that's just what ended it and that's the way it was.

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I only vaguely remember all that now, but I had completely forgotten that what started the incident was a fight over Geocities vs. Go.

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Yes, it's really amazing how something so simple and stupid like that can end a community. I've seen it happen before. Console wars. Presidential elections. I've heard some Firefox vs. IE arguments can be pretty bad. Ironically, Go is gone and Geocities lifted the remote loading ban, so MAYBE if we had switched there wouldn't be so many broken images on the old boards now. But that's still no excuse for it.

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Seriously?? On the forum or in email?

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Pretty sure it was on the forums. I could be wrong, though.

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Uh, well, horrible confession time - I used to make a post there every few months to purge guard and I got sick of seeing those topics and deleted them myself. Sorry. =(

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Ha ha! That's okay! Like I said, I would have done it myself if I had been able to bring myself to look at the board in the 4 or 5 years it laid dormant.