I miss Adrian, Louis and Tribesman

[Sarmatian]

I've come to this point in my life and I simply can't move on.

I need surgically precise breakdowns of political situation in the world...

I need those witty comebacks...

And I need those smilies.


I could have lived with two out of three. Heck, maybe with one out of three. But none...

Org. just isn't the same anymore.

[Strike For The South]

I make this thread every two weeks

When the honor of a place ceases to be, the honorable men tend to leave

[Ja'chyra]

They'll be back, the .org is like chlamydia, once you have it then it never quite goes away.

[InsaneApache]

I told you I'd found Louis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ei...layer_embedded

[Vladimir]

I told you I'd found Louis.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0ei...layer_embedded

Is he the one that posted all those comments? WTH??? How did they get on that topic?

[edyzmedieval]

Actually, why aren't they here any longer? I know about Tribesy, but the other two?

[Fragony]

I don't miss Tribes as he was kinda mean, not a man of his word he never came for me , he still has his jaw, I would break his jaw no questions asked. AdrianII and Luigie are sorely missed though, especially AdrianII. Where is the Frenchie, Louis was epic

[Beskar]

Tribesman went into self-imposed exile due to a grudge with another member, and he doesn't want to post whilst they are still allowed to post.

Louis went into a self-imposed exile after Louis-gate.

[Ja'chyra]

Trust me, they still lurk, after all look at when me, Insane and Frag joined, my marriage didn't even last that long.

[Greyblades]

Louis-gate.

Oh I gotta hear this.

[Sarmatian]

Oh I gotta hear this.

I don't know the details, but I think it is connected to someone questioning his moderating.

Moderatorship simply isn't for everybody. Louis shone as a member, promoting him to a moderator limited his creativity and flair. Like Kirk, he was a far better captain than Admiral.

What do you guys say we make a coordinated search for them on the tubes?

[Vladimir]

I don't know the details, but I think it is connected to someone questioning his moderating.

Moderatorship simply isn't for everybody. Louis shone as a member, promoting him to a moderator limited his creativity and flair. Like Kirk, he was a far better captain than Admiral.

What do you guys say we make a coordinated search for them on the tubes?

Cyberstalking Frenchmen...Let's do it!!!

I only caught a whiff of the scandal. He must have taken it hard and/or was loosing interest. My quips aren't enough to keep someone like him interested. It's a loss.

[Sarmatian]

I believe it had something to do with this thread

I don't visit Watchtower like ever and if I did at the time, Beskar, Andres and ACIN would have had a riot on their hands. Scratch ACIN, he isn't important but I expected better from Beskar at least. You're a resident of the backroom, amigo, you should have known better.

Adrian just faded away, I guess he just lost interest. I don't know anything about why Tribesy left. Anybody got something on that?

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Some people see the org as a place where they hang out and chat with other people they like chatting with, and see the rules as being useful to the extent that they allow this to happen without much fuss. Other people imagine that the whole business of who broke a rule and whether there is fairness or bias etc is extremely important and worth pages and pages of internet drama, with accusations and demands for apology and orgies of hand-wringing. These people are usually not the most frequent posters in the backroom and so don't really care if people get fed up with silly drama and stop posting.

"Louis-gate" in a nutshell.

[Hamata]

Adrian is mostly active on total war center these days, dont know about the other two Adrian is also an admin there now

[Kralizec]

Louis was right. That is, it was about a rather obvious joke that some other people IMO overreacted about and insisted was offensive anyway. However like I told him I don't thinkt the whole "discussion" was worth all the drama and certainly not worth leaving.

Did Adrian really leave, actually? It's my impression that he has dissappeared and reappeared several times over the last few years.

I don't recall whatever incident caused Tribesman to leave, but Beskar's explanation sounds perfectly believable. I'd love to see him again at the .org because watching him in some discussions was amusing, but at the same time I realize that he was a rather stubborn guy, not always friendly or respectful, and I can see why not everyone would miss him.

[Lemur]

Did Adrian really leave, actually? It's my impression that he has dissappeared and reappeared several times over the last few years.

Yeah, that's accurate. Like the gentle stroking of a desert zephyr, he wafts into our lives when the moon shines bright, caressing our skin with his vaporous tendrils, then vanishing with the morning dew, much like an interrupted erotic dream.

[Peasant Phill]

Like the gentle stroking of a desert zephyr, [AdrianII] wafts into our lives when the moon shines bright, caressing our skin with his vaporous tendrils, then vanishing with the morning dew, much like an interrupted erotic dream.

Here's sig-worthy material if there ever was such a thing.

[Gregoshi]

Yeah, that's accurate. Like the gentle stroking of a desert zephyr, he wafts into our lives when the moon shines bright, caressing our skin with his vaporous tendrils, then vanishing with the morning dew, much like an interrupted erotic dream.

Is it me or is it getting hot in here...

[a completely inoffensive name]

I overreacted in Louis-gate. I still find the way Louis said the f-word (the homosexual slur, not the main f-word) distasteful, but I shouldn't have gotten angry over it.

In my defense, I was dealing with real homophobes where I was living at the time and I was getting fed up with that word and the bigotry (the day Louis-gate happened I literally just had a conversation with someone complaining about how all these "f****** keep coming onto me, I want nothing to do with their disgusting lifestyle"). If Louis came back I would apologize to him for being an over-zealous ass.

[PanzerJaeger]

In my opinion, it was absolutely shameful for that troll to drag Louis into his watchtower thread, a thread which had absolutely nothing to do with him. It was also creepy the way he had saved things mods had posted from months (years) back to use against them, as if he had been meticulously organizing his case against an internet gaming forum for some time. It was equally shameful that people bought into the manufactured drama.

In any event, Louis is apparently gone for good. Is Drunk Clown still around, or did he do his damage and move on?

[Greyblades]

Drunk clown? I think there's a piece of this story I have yet to be told.

[a completely inoffensive name]

Drunk clown? I think there's a piece of this story I have yet to be told.

I will describe Drunk Clown to you in an nutshell.

So picture me, who has a history of complaints with how moderators do their job sometimes (I am more mellow about such stuff recently).

Drunk Clown is who I would call a "try-hard" version of me and would copy pasta entire threads, save the text and bring it up months later to make a point against the moderators and would not relent.

[tibilicus]

A lot of the old face have moved on. Very few of the people I knew when I joined are still active posters. I wouldn't even describe myself as particularly active these days.Such is the way of things.

[Gregoshi]

A lot of the old face have moved on. Very few of the people I knew when I joined are still active posters.

Same here but add about five years. I will say this though: each "generation" of patrons has brought its own flavour to the Org.

[Visor]

In my opinion, it was absolutely shameful for that troll to drag Louis into his watchtower thread, a thread which had absolutely nothing to do with him. It was also creepy the way he had saved things mods had posted from months (years) back to use against them, as if he had been meticulously organizing his case against an internet gaming forum for some time. It was equally shameful that people bought into the manufactured drama.

In any event, Louis is apparently gone for good. Is Drunk Clown still around, or did he do his damage and move on?

In regards to what he had done to the mods, I have had that happen to me and a few others before. It's not really pleasant.

I've been lurking here for years, probably back in 2006 was my first visit. I think I made an account here once before, but I can't remember it. Anyway, people come and go in forums. They're here for a year and gone the next and don't come back. Or some just slowly fade away.

[Fragony]

Tribes departure is all on me, what started as as a (imho) joke turned out foul. AdrianII still hangs around in the pub 'van Zanten' 200 meters from maison Frag but I have absolutely no idea who he is and I like that. No idea what happened to Luigi, I want him back

[The Stranger]

They'll be back, the .org is like chlamydia, once you have it then it never quite goes away.

thats not true.. is it? I thought that was herpes :P

*damn.. i got the wrong one -_-*

[Strike For The South]

Louis was crucified. Judas took his 30 peices of silver for the deed, his end will be the same

[Lemur]

Hmmm. It's not quite as simple as that, Strike. Louis had several opportunities to defuse the situation, and he didn't take them. It was a classic "this could have been sorted out with an apology and a laugh" kinda escalating, cascading event. Actually, thinking about it, Louisgate kinda resembled a classic tragicomedy in that way, lots of people making marginal calls that add up to a big, painful dénouement.