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6/12/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Something in the ether?
Is it just me, or have there been an unusual number of incidents where someone flamed out and needed a bucket of water dumped on him by a moderator lately?…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

6/8/2002 Nathan: Are We Going Anywhere?
Here are some recent thoughts on the spate of island of misfits threads. My question: Are we going anywhere? In other words, is our process here on the Forge leading…
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Participants: Nathan, Ace, J B Bell, Gordon C. Landis, Ron Edwards, Bankuei, Blake Hutchins, greyorm, Fabrice G., Valamir, xiombarg, Paul Czege, Matt.

6/6/2002 Paul Czege: what makes me saturated?
Hey, On the island of misfit games thread, as a way of voting in favor of Clinton's game(s)-of-the-month idea, Laurel wrote: ...would probably help diminish the "spread too…
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Participants: Paul Czege, jburneko, joshua neff, Blake Hutchins, Gordon C. Landis, Ace, Zak Arntson, Eric J., Ron Edwards, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen.

6/4/2002 Paul Czege: the island of misfit games
I need a conversation about this... I don't think anyone will deny that The Forge is a steambath of design effort, a hothouse of creativity. But I can't help but…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, C. Edwards, Tim C Koppang, Seth L. Blumberg, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, xiombarg, Valamir, Bailey, RobMuadib, Gordon C. Landis, joshua neff, Nathan, Laurel, greyorm.

6/3/2002 Ron Edwards: locking things
Hi there, Over in the RPG Theory forum, Eric (Pyron) asked a good question: "... Ron, why bother moving everything from the first tread to a new one, if you…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, xiombarg, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/29/2002 Paganini: Splits?
Just for my own peace of mind, could someone explain what's going on over in the GNS forum? I have become greatly confused. :) The moderators seem to be wielding…
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Participants: Paganini, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik.

5/24/2002 Ron Edwards: Forge discussion links archive idea
Hello, I know that thread title sounds like glossolalia. It refers to the suggestion made many times, here most recently, that we have some page at the Forge where someone…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/23/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: State of the curmudgeon
Just this morning, I heard about some thread on RPG.net about the Forge. (It's actually about GNS.) I went and read it, and have some thoughts I'd like to share:…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, A.Neill, Joe Murphy (Broin), Valamir, Ron Edwards, Gordon C. Landis, Bankuei, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Sidhain, Seth L. Blumberg, Eric.Brennan, greyorm, Jared A. Sorensen, Walt Freitag, Paganini, Balbinus.

5/23/2002 Joe Murphy (Broin): Etiquette for Newbies?
The 'charter' of Forge etiquette at the top of this forum is excellent. Is there any way to ensure that newly registered people see this? I don't remember how my…
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Participants: Joe Murphy (Broin), Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

5/23/2002 Valamir: Possible bug
Ran into a problem when trying to follow the Sorcerer Forum link from the Sorcerer web page. First, the Sorcerer Forum link goes to the Forge Forums directory, not to…
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Participants: Valamir, Clay, Ron Edwards.

5/20/2002 Jake Norwood: The size of the Forge
It seems to me that the Forge has grown a lot in the last month, going from 460-ish to now about 510. Has the Forge always been pretty small and…
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Participants: Jake Norwood, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir.

5/14/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: "Printable Version": minor gripe
The "printable version" feature is great, especially when I need to print out a bunch of threads so I can catch up after a long absence (just got back from…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/12/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Any problems since the move?
Well, obviously, we've now moved. If anyone has any questions, or comments, or notices any problems, please let me know. Thanks!
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Matt, Mike Holmes, Jake Norwood, Zak Arntson, xiombarg, Blake Hutchins.

5/10/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Performance problems
I just wanted to apologize for all the performance problems we've had lately. I have no idea what's causing them, but they should be gone after I change hosts this…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Gordon C. Landis, quozl.

5/7/2002 Jack Spencer Jr: We need a glossary
We need a glossary for all of the various slang terms that seem to crop up in discussion to help the uninitiated. Not necessarily the articles, but a glossary presented…
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Participants: Jack Spencer Jr, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2002 Paganini: Forge Online Gaming Groups
I was going to make a poll for this, but I guess Clinton has disabled them. Clinton: If you haven't, and if you get time (yeah right) drop me a…
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Participants: Paganini, Russell Hoyle, unodiablo, Wolfen, Nick Pagnucco, Mike Holmes, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/29/2002 Fabrice G.: Broken link in the Articles section (?)
Hi Clinton, the link to your article: "Publishing Your Web-Based Indie Game for Under $100 " seems to be broken (404 error). Fabrice.
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Participants: Fabrice G., Wolfen.

4/28/2002 Wolfen: Question about site lag
I had, for pretty much the entirety of the 27th, a problem accessing the Forge website. From early morning (after gaming but before bed) on until late night, I kept…
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Participants: Wolfen, Walt Freitag, Russell Hoyle, Clinton R. Nixon.

4/25/2002 JasonSch: GTS Discussion: Retailer Forum
Ron: At the trade show, we talked about a great many things... and one of them was the initiation of a retailer forum here at the Forge where the subject…
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Participants: JasonSch, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

4/19/2002 Ron Edwards: rad shirt!
Hey, I ordered my own Forge T-shirt and it arrived yesterday. That's a nice damn shirt! It fits well, it's nice comfy material, it's a good color (got the grey…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Matt Gwinn, J B Bell, Jason L Blair, Valamir, joshua neff, xiombarg, Paul Czege.

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6/27/2002 Matt Gwinn: Last post viewed
Clinton, There is currently an option to go directly to the most recent post of a thread. Is there any way to set it up so it will take you…
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Participants: Matt Gwinn, Clinton R. Nixon, Seth L. Blumberg, Paganini, Gordon C. Landis.

6/28/2002 Valamir: Cannot post?
I received an unusual message today: "You can not post so soon after your last post. Please try again shortly..." Never seen that before, and it was a good 5…
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Christopher Kubasik, Paul Czege, Paganini.

6/30/2002 hive: homage blog to the prez
I just wanted to post a 'thank you' to clinton for being gracious enough to be running things behind the curtain. I think we all know how difficult it can…
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Participants: hive, Gordon C. Landis, Jesse Paulsen.

7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: The Forge Archive
In the threads on the archive, Ron and Clinton made it pretty clear they didn't have time to do the project themselves. So here is the plan, 1. I'll manually…
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Participants: Ring Kichard.

7/14/2002 Ring Kichard: Forge Archive Discussion
My Forge Archive Plan is available. If you have any questions, comments, criticisms, or concerns about the plan in general, this would be the place to talk about them.…
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Participants: Ring Kichard, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: This morning's slowness
I'm not sure what's up this morning, but the database is running very slow. I'm talking with customer service as I type this, so we should be back to normal…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

7/15/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: Inactive Forums
As you can well see, I've created a new forum category (Inactive Forums) and placed two forums there. - Wicked Press has been moved there due to John Wick, the…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, greyorm, Blake Hutchins, James, Matt Snyder, xiombarg, contracycle.

7/18/2002 Zak Arntson: Order of Independent Game Forums
I don't know how important this is, but it's a feature request: Ordering the Independent Game Forums by activity. It's a judgement call on what "activity" means, but I'd love…
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Participants: Zak Arntson, Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes.

7/19/2002 Jared A. Sorensen: Player/contributor locator
I think I've asked for a Player Locator function before. But check this out: It would be very cool if there were fields in user profiles that gave info. as…
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Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, Paul Czege, Matt, Clinton R. Nixon, Jürgen Mayer.

7/19/2002 James: Other idea for a "finder"
[quote="unodiablo"]Like the title says, I'm looking for 2 or 3 people to game with weekly, or every-other-week.[/quote] I live nowhere near Madison (unfortunately), but I'm glad to see the posting,…
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Participants: James, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Valamir, xiombarg, Matt Gwinn.

7/24/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: The Riddle of Steel review up
The Riddle of Steel review is up in the reviews section.
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jake Norwood.

7/25/2002 xiombarg: John Wick Dead at 33
We might want to open the Wicked Press forum for a bit to post an announcement related to this: http://www.rpgnews.rpghost.com/article.php?sid=1613
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Participants: xiombarg, Jason L Blair, Gordon C. Landis, Ben Morgan, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/26/2002 Seth L. Blumberg: Google indexing the Forums?
Check out what I found while ego-surfing. Can we get a /robots.txt that excludes search engines from the Forums, please? I don't necessarily want a prospective employer to be looking…
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Participants: Seth L. Blumberg, Clinton R. Nixon, Zak Arntson, Matt Snyder, Le Joueur, Victor Gijsbers, Paul Czege.

7/29/2002 Paul Czege: strangeness
Hey Clinton, I just posted to the "You May Be at a Disadvantage, But It's Gonna Cost You!" thread in Indie Game Design. It gave me a cryptic error that…
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Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

7/29/2002 Fabrice G.: Problem accessing the forum
Hi, When trying to reach directly the forum index page from my favorite (?) I end up with a pretty: General Error Could not obtain user/online information Powered by phpBB…
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Participants: Fabrice G., Clinton R. Nixon, Victor Gijsbers.

7/30/2002 Valamir: Underworld
What Happened? I show Underworld as going inactive, yet there've been plenty of recent discussions there, and I had been eagerly following along the development of the new version... ???
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Participants: Valamir, Clinton R. Nixon, Paul Czege, Jürgen Mayer, Ron Edwards.

7/31/2002 Clinton R. Nixon: In-Fo-Mation
Two pieces of information for the forum: 1) I will be gone from tomorrow (Aug. 1) to the next Tuesday (Aug. 6). Ron is da man during that time. If…
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Participants: Clinton R. Nixon.

8/6/2002 Ron Edwards: Into the Milwaukee hinterlands
Hi everyone, I'm leavin' for GenCon today, so everyone please play nice and keep an eye on the courtesy-levels, discourse-quality, etc, while I'm gone. I'll try to check in once…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen, Clinton R. Nixon.

8/12/2002 Ron Edwards: New days upon us
Hi everybody, This is the first of my many post-GenCon posts. I doubt I'll be able to get even the first wave of them on-line by the end of the…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Matt Snyder, Nathan, pigames, Mytholder, Demonspahn, Balbinus, Paul Czege, Christopher Kubasik, damion.

8/13/2002 Ron Edwards: The bad incident at GenCon
Hello everybody, I had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Dee at GenCon. This is the guy who published Villains & Vigilantes at 17, and went on to many other games.…
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Participants: Ron Edwards, Mike Holmes, Matt Snyder, joshua neff, Paul Czege, Jake Norwood, Gordon C. Landis, hardcoremoose, Jürgen Mayer, Marco, Doc Midnight, S.Lonergan, Jack Spencer Jr.

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