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« on: July 31, 2013, 03:14:36 pm »

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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2013, 03:31:52 pm »

The spam bots honestly aren't that bad, I've seen three a week at the very most.

Also, I don't know about you but I think we have plenty of people here. You probably see most of the same people since you probably hang around a few boards more than the rest.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2013, 03:36:29 pm »

The bots aren't posting illegal stuff, though. Just a truckload of kitchen sales.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2013, 05:35:18 pm »

On one hand, DF feels a bit underrated.
On the other hand, Bay12 feels like a good, big, happy family. If a bit of an insane one.

We're fine, but I expect an influx of new players when DF2013 finally surfaces.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2013, 07:22:27 pm »

Hmm... These are both very good points. I suppose you are right, although I still feel the community is quite small for a game this good.

Other sites discuss Dwarf Fortress quite often, so it's not like you'd be strapped for discussion. The communities are a lot more sizable than you'd expect, though the quality of the threads is highly subjective. /vg/ and /tg/ have pretty good Dwarf Fortress threads. /tg/'s are better, but pretty infrequent. They're too busy with their dragon dild- uh, edition wars.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2013, 07:33:46 pm »

So there's a larger DF community than I think, but it is sepparated across forums?

I know three people who play but don't use forums and two who play but only lurk.
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« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2013, 07:50:34 pm »

So there's a larger DF community than I think, but it is sepparated across forums?

I know three people who play but don't use forums and two who play but only lurk.

Makes sense. However, I also wanted to say that this is one of the few places in the internet without trolls.

oh there are trolls.

you just don't know when they'll strike.

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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2013, 08:13:37 pm »

the forum is smf. spam is to be expexted
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2013, 08:38:41 pm »

Makes sense. However, I also wanted to say that this is one of the few places in the internet without trolls.
Not really. It just means no one's ever noticed. Bring out the witch-hunting pitchforks. Plus we do occasionally get attention-seekers and shock spammers.

The Internet.
Once a place of knowledge and trust, of giving and peace.
The internet, a place of hate and porn, individuality and amorality. Now a place of advertising and misinformation, #YOLO and surveillance.

Now it is corrupted by trolls, spam, spam-bots, flame-wars, and more.
Since the dawn of time. The only difference now? The internet corp. giants seek to plaster full names on every bit of information, every bit of information about those names forever known. Coming last summer: Your life story, brought to the internet by the internet.

Above this cliff, there is a bloody mess of corpses, magma, dementia and experiments. This is Bay12. This is the sanctuary.
The Cliff keeps out the flame-wars, the trolls, the bored children, the ragers. It holds black hats away, in fear of It.
How would you even know? Flame wars, derails, trolls, bored children, black hats and screamers - are sometimes indistinguishable from the fanatic enthusiasm of this community! One only has to bring up katanas, core beliefs or politics to invite universal shitstorm.

Seriously, katanas suck.

Also, the community seems to be slowly fading.
It's been growing. Average amount of registrations a day: 45.11

We need to find a way to attract people without calling trolls in.
Not really. It's quite niche in its own right and the only active attempt to attract people from forumites here I remember resulted hilariously in an influx of shock spammers. As others have said, the people who are interested in it will find it from the various youtube videos, tvtropes, news articles, blogs, articles from websites with larger traffic like cracked or lebbit, traditional/general game boards, subforums and stories, all spread about passively.
It's a sanctuary because of the high number of people who maintain civil composure in the face of wicked temptation. That and the fascist rule of benevolent and great Toady One the Great. As long as the number of people joining isn't so great as to displace the well mannered group, even the newcomers will settle into the relaxed atmosphere of this place and all will be maintained.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2013, 08:51:13 pm »

Seriously, katanas suck.

Katanas are folded over a gorillion times, etc.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2013, 08:56:38 pm »

Katanas are indeed quite shit. Claymores are better.

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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2013, 09:01:03 pm »

I'm partial to spears.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2013, 09:04:15 pm »

Dual-wielded cleavers.would be cooler. Or an axe paired up with a club/shillelagh.

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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2013, 09:13:18 pm »

Yeah, the other choices are fine, but you don't have to worry about touching someone's innards if you stab them with a spear. Also, they look damn good in formation. Sure, they're a little unwieldy up close, but what does that matter when you stop their fun before it even begins? Weapon of the year, all years.
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Re: Bay12, One of the few remaining sanctuaries of the Internet.
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2013, 09:17:49 pm »

It's about to get Landsknecht up in this thread.
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