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; The great religion flamewars. : This being roughly equivilant to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves in terms of its long term effects on Tangency's character. (David Johansen) | ; The great religion flamewars. : This being roughly equivilant to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves in terms of its long term effects on Tangency's character. (David Johansen) | ||
; The Mod Wars and attendant exodus I - III. : In which various popular posters and moderators went head to head over the policies by which Tangency is ruled. The mod wars are often cited as beginning with the banning of a popular poster, but I believe that the war was generally on for a few weeks before the banning. The instigation of the first draft of the rules comes in around this time. Many posters flee to needcofee, monkeyambrosia, and other sites. | ; The Mod Wars and attendant exodus I - III. : In which various popular posters and moderators went head to head over the policies by which Tangency is ruled. The mod wars are often cited as beginning with the banning of a popular poster, but I believe that the war was generally on for a few weeks before the banning. The instigation of the first draft of the rules comes in around this time. Many posters flee to needcofee, monkeyambrosia, and other sites. | ||
| − | ; The banning of the Bistromath. : This guy had the highest post count of all time for a long while but he eventually was banned for unpardonable sins. His banning was unusual in that it didn't instigate a modwar. (David Johansen) | + | ; The banning of the Bistromath. : This guy had the highest post count of all time for a long while but he eventually was banned for unpardonable sins. His banning was unusual in that it didn't instigate a modwar. (David Johansen) Initial departure 14.2.2004 Return and permanant banning 5.5.2004 (un)reason |
| − | ; The GMS bannings : also fall into the modwars period. (David Johansen) | + | ; The GMS bannings : also fall into the modwars period. (David Johansen) Date occured: 4.16.2004 (un)reason |
| − | ; The separation of Other Media and Other Games Open. : In my opinion while this helps to prevent the blatantly hostile environment from overflowing into more peaceful threads, it also guts Tangeny leaving little more than goofiness and flamewars. I was in favour of it but wouldn't be if asked again. (David Johansen) | + | ; The separation of Other Media and Other Games Open. : In my opinion while this helps to prevent the blatantly hostile environment from overflowing into more peaceful threads, it also guts Tangeny leaving little more than goofiness and flamewars. I was in favour of it but wouldn't be if asked again. (David Johansen) Date occurred: 4.14.2004 (un)reason |
; Judas' Revelation : the revelation that the poster Judas is really an other-worldly horror in a cup. (David Johansen) | ; Judas' Revelation : the revelation that the poster Judas is really an other-worldly horror in a cup. (David Johansen) | ||
; SteveD's American Journey : (David Johansen) | ; SteveD's American Journey : (David Johansen) | ||
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==Undated Memes== | ==Undated Memes== | ||
Revision as of 08:59, 17 August 2005
This is intended as a reference for interested posters, and those new to RPGNet, and Tangency in specific. Each item will be in chronological order, with the title, date and description of the event. Contributor in parentheses.
January 2001
- Tangency Opens
- the creation of the new forum for the discussion of things not game related (NoCarrier)
August 2005
- Creation of the Tangency Timeline
- This wiki page came into existance.
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- The great Open crash
- brought about the exodus to Tangency and led to the growing sense of community that still makes Tangency really unique. (David Johansen)
- The new software.
- In which the old threaded, fast loading, and stable software was replaced with the current slow loading, unstable software. (David Johansen)
- The Gay greeks thread and following coming out of various posters.
- Tangency's gay dawn. Before this gender issues were generally unexplored. (David Johansen)
- The great religion flamewars.
- This being roughly equivilant to the Last Alliance of Men and Elves in terms of its long term effects on Tangency's character. (David Johansen)
- The Mod Wars and attendant exodus I - III.
- In which various popular posters and moderators went head to head over the policies by which Tangency is ruled. The mod wars are often cited as beginning with the banning of a popular poster, but I believe that the war was generally on for a few weeks before the banning. The instigation of the first draft of the rules comes in around this time. Many posters flee to needcofee, monkeyambrosia, and other sites.
- The banning of the Bistromath.
- This guy had the highest post count of all time for a long while but he eventually was banned for unpardonable sins. His banning was unusual in that it didn't instigate a modwar. (David Johansen) Initial departure 14.2.2004 Return and permanant banning 5.5.2004 (un)reason
- The GMS bannings
- also fall into the modwars period. (David Johansen) Date occured: 4.16.2004 (un)reason
- The separation of Other Media and Other Games Open.
- In my opinion while this helps to prevent the blatantly hostile environment from overflowing into more peaceful threads, it also guts Tangeny leaving little more than goofiness and flamewars. I was in favour of it but wouldn't be if asked again. (David Johansen) Date occurred: 4.14.2004 (un)reason
- Judas' Revelation
- the revelation that the poster Judas is really an other-worldly horror in a cup. (David Johansen)
- SteveD's American Journey
- (David Johansen)
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- Cast Tangency
- threads in which posters are given certain roles. Cast Tangency as Fruit is one such example. Seems to have gone by the wayside for now. (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
- Creation of Tangency Cliff's Notes
- Hawt Chick Threads (David Johansen)
- Holy Bear's Tangency Turf
- a nifty comic by Holy Bear. Since gone away. Now days, the meme is to ask Holy Bear when he's bringing it back. (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
- Keetooms and Pie
- The good stuff in life. (David Johansen)
- Porn Monday
- Monday is the day of the week for discussing all things porn. Came about as a wish to reduce the proliferation of such talk on other days, I believe. (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
- The Screefice Invasion
- The screefice are aliens wanting to eat your eyes and kidneys. Mango tea keeps them away. (David Johansen for suggestion, Lazarus for description)
- Tangency Clique
- This term was probably invented during the arguments for an Other Media forum. It was coined to describe the high profile and high post count forum users who seem to exclusively post to Tangency Open or post in other sections of the forums with extreme infrequency. These posters allegedly drive the topics of discourse in Tangency Open. Further allegations state the Tangency Clique dogpiles and incessantly flames all those with any views that are outside of theirs, or threadcrap those who they desire to silence. This creates arbitrary divide between the Tangency Open community and some of the other posters to the site who do not feel like part of that community.
- The regulars of Tangency Open deny the existence of this clique. It's existence is open to debate.
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- Bonesaw.
- (Gavin Lucan)
