Board Crashing
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:09 pm
In an effort to help improve inter-board relationships, and as a show of support for some of our T(A)U members that have discussion boards of their own, we will begin a series of board-crashing parties (this is sounding pretty original, right? 
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Starting in August, in cooperation with Worm (Worm's Sci Fi Haven), Freakzilla (Jacurutu) and myself, we will be participating in weekend crashing of each other’s boards. By “crashing”, I don’t mean in a trouble making way. It works like this:
On the weekend a board is to be crashed, all members are encouraged to log on the designated site and post there as you would at your own “home” board, but on topics more closely related to the host board’s theme. I'm sure most of you are familiar with Jacurutu and Worm's.
FAQ’s
Q - Why?
A - Why not? With the Internet being heavy in all kinds discussion boards, it’s hard to get enough people interested in becoming members, let alone trying to keep a discussion forum active enough and keep it interesting enough so people will come back. The board-crashing parties will help all the boards involved to get an influx of new people and increased activity. Plus it will initiate people to the idea that it can be fun posting somewhere other than their Home board.
Q - But isn’t that helping the competition?
A - I don’t believe we are in competition with Worm's or Jacurutu. The theme for Jacurutu fundamentally associated with Frank Herbert’s Dune universe, while Haven and T(A)U encompasses all Science Fiction topics. I look at it more as friends helping each other.
Q - What’s in it for me?
A - Glad you asked that. The board owners of all three sites have agreed to make a bit of a contest out of the board-crashing parties. A participating member could win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. A member that really applied his or her self, could possibly end up winning a total of $30 for participating and winning in a category for all three board-crashing parties. (See below for more info)
Q - Can Mandy be one of the prizes?
A - No Orald, I can’t offer up Mandy for your twisted pleasures.
Q - How’d you know it was me?
A - Lucky guess.
Q – How long will each party last?
A – Each site will be crashed for one weekend in August. This includes Friday starting 12am host board time, Saturday and Sunday until 12am host board time. (72 hours)
Here are the dates for the crash parties:
1st WE: Haven and T(A)U members crash Jacurutu -- Aug. 8,9,10 ( http://www.jacurutu.com/ )
2nd WE: Jacurutu and T(A)U members crash Haven -- Aug. 15,16,17 ( http://www.wormsscifi.com/haven/ )
3rd WE: Haven and Jacurutu members crash T(A)U -- Aug. 22,23,24 ( http://bb.solahpmo.com/index.php )
Rules:
1- Participating board-crashers and members will follow the host’s established board rules in place for each site.
2- Treat each board and its members with respect. (I know I didn’t need to say that)
3- Have fun, make great posts, and post a lot.
Contest:
Each board owner will be putting up two $10 gift certificates to Amazon.com as prizes. This is the agreed upon prize amount, tho each board owner is free to add to the prize total or number of prizes as the wish. Each board owner will be allowed to make up their own contest rules as they see fit. So check each board for their contest rules.
Here’s how you can win:
1- One member* of the host board who makes the most posts during the board-crashing timeframe, will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com
2- One newly joined member** of the host board who makes the most posts during the board-crashing timeframe, will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com
* This will be a person that was already a member of the host board before 7/18/08
** This will be a new member that joined the host board after 12am on the Friday after the start of the host’s board crash party.
Contest Rules:
1- Posts will only become eligible for counting as part of the contest total beginning on Friday at midnight, and ending Sunday at midnight, host board time during the board-crash party dates designated for that board.
2- Host board staff members are not eligible to win prizes, but are eligible to participate for prizes at the other two boards during the board-crashing parties, unless the host board has separate rules pertaining to such participation by other board staff members.
3- Contest Rules established at any host board will supercede and take precedence over any contest rules that have been written at any other board.
4- Gift certificates will be sent via email. A valid email address must be supplied for winners to receive their awards.
5- The awarding of the Robots CD will be done by mail service. A valid mailing address must be given to the Haven board owner for the winner to receive his or her prize.
6- Posts made in Haven’s game threads (Stellar Games Promenade) will only count as one-half a regular post. All other post not in the game threads, count as one regular post.
7- New Topics started will count as one regular post if 3 replies, or less have been added to the topic. New Topics that have 4 or more replies will count as two regular posts.
8- The decision of the host board staff in the awarding of prizes will be final.
FINAL NOTE
This site is ordinarily reserved as an OH retreat. I have not changed my mind on that, even though the original purpose was to have a place away from DN, where the fucking insanity would stop. Now that most (or possibly all) of us are going out in blazes of glory from DN there does not seem to be much reason to keep this place locked down the way I usually do, aside from keeping the odd the preek out. Nevertheless, for the week preceding the T(A)U crash, I will set the board to accept anyone who signs on, and flush the few turds that are likely to float to the top as they sign up. Afterwards, we will go back to super-max lockdown.
)Starting in August, in cooperation with Worm (Worm's Sci Fi Haven), Freakzilla (Jacurutu) and myself, we will be participating in weekend crashing of each other’s boards. By “crashing”, I don’t mean in a trouble making way. It works like this:
On the weekend a board is to be crashed, all members are encouraged to log on the designated site and post there as you would at your own “home” board, but on topics more closely related to the host board’s theme. I'm sure most of you are familiar with Jacurutu and Worm's.
FAQ’s
Q - Why?
A - Why not? With the Internet being heavy in all kinds discussion boards, it’s hard to get enough people interested in becoming members, let alone trying to keep a discussion forum active enough and keep it interesting enough so people will come back. The board-crashing parties will help all the boards involved to get an influx of new people and increased activity. Plus it will initiate people to the idea that it can be fun posting somewhere other than their Home board.
Q - But isn’t that helping the competition?
A - I don’t believe we are in competition with Worm's or Jacurutu. The theme for Jacurutu fundamentally associated with Frank Herbert’s Dune universe, while Haven and T(A)U encompasses all Science Fiction topics. I look at it more as friends helping each other.
Q - What’s in it for me?
A - Glad you asked that. The board owners of all three sites have agreed to make a bit of a contest out of the board-crashing parties. A participating member could win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. A member that really applied his or her self, could possibly end up winning a total of $30 for participating and winning in a category for all three board-crashing parties. (See below for more info)
Q - Can Mandy be one of the prizes?
A - No Orald, I can’t offer up Mandy for your twisted pleasures.
Q - How’d you know it was me?
A - Lucky guess.
Q – How long will each party last?
A – Each site will be crashed for one weekend in August. This includes Friday starting 12am host board time, Saturday and Sunday until 12am host board time. (72 hours)
Here are the dates for the crash parties:
1st WE: Haven and T(A)U members crash Jacurutu -- Aug. 8,9,10 ( http://www.jacurutu.com/ )
2nd WE: Jacurutu and T(A)U members crash Haven -- Aug. 15,16,17 ( http://www.wormsscifi.com/haven/ )
3rd WE: Haven and Jacurutu members crash T(A)U -- Aug. 22,23,24 ( http://bb.solahpmo.com/index.php )
Rules:
1- Participating board-crashers and members will follow the host’s established board rules in place for each site.
2- Treat each board and its members with respect. (I know I didn’t need to say that)
3- Have fun, make great posts, and post a lot.
Contest:
Each board owner will be putting up two $10 gift certificates to Amazon.com as prizes. This is the agreed upon prize amount, tho each board owner is free to add to the prize total or number of prizes as the wish. Each board owner will be allowed to make up their own contest rules as they see fit. So check each board for their contest rules.
Here’s how you can win:
1- One member* of the host board who makes the most posts during the board-crashing timeframe, will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com
2- One newly joined member** of the host board who makes the most posts during the board-crashing timeframe, will win a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com
* This will be a person that was already a member of the host board before 7/18/08
** This will be a new member that joined the host board after 12am on the Friday after the start of the host’s board crash party.
Contest Rules:
1- Posts will only become eligible for counting as part of the contest total beginning on Friday at midnight, and ending Sunday at midnight, host board time during the board-crash party dates designated for that board.
2- Host board staff members are not eligible to win prizes, but are eligible to participate for prizes at the other two boards during the board-crashing parties, unless the host board has separate rules pertaining to such participation by other board staff members.
3- Contest Rules established at any host board will supercede and take precedence over any contest rules that have been written at any other board.
4- Gift certificates will be sent via email. A valid email address must be supplied for winners to receive their awards.
5- The awarding of the Robots CD will be done by mail service. A valid mailing address must be given to the Haven board owner for the winner to receive his or her prize.
6- Posts made in Haven’s game threads (Stellar Games Promenade) will only count as one-half a regular post. All other post not in the game threads, count as one regular post.
7- New Topics started will count as one regular post if 3 replies, or less have been added to the topic. New Topics that have 4 or more replies will count as two regular posts.
8- The decision of the host board staff in the awarding of prizes will be final.
FINAL NOTE
This site is ordinarily reserved as an OH retreat. I have not changed my mind on that, even though the original purpose was to have a place away from DN, where the fucking insanity would stop. Now that most (or possibly all) of us are going out in blazes of glory from DN there does not seem to be much reason to keep this place locked down the way I usually do, aside from keeping the odd the preek out. Nevertheless, for the week preceding the T(A)U crash, I will set the board to accept anyone who signs on, and flush the few turds that are likely to float to the top as they sign up. Afterwards, we will go back to super-max lockdown.
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My mistake. 
