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My ringtone is the vibration of my phone against a table or my leg. I've never turned the sound on for long enough to know what the default is.

Save Dirks the backend work. If a judge is going to take a thread, they're going to spend a few hours with it. 2 minutes to say, "I'm judging this, it's behind 3 other threads, two are kinda long."...

I actually advocated something similar when I was a judge. While an actual progress bar or any kind of technical work is an unnecessary expenditure of resources, some level of status isn't too much...

Sorry, forgot about that one. That's been, 15 years? Give or take?

I think I have more people who know me from my high school years online than in the real world at this point.

Apologies to...

Posting by request of Gnarl & Root:

(17:06:20) Tobias_Stalt: I like my beaches like I like my women.... and I'm not finishing that thought.
(17:06:44) Artifex_Felicis: covered in sand?...

Don't forget about your Bro Slowbro shirts.

All it takes is like 3 emails reminding me constantly about some event I don't care about and hey, you get some OOC posts from someone like 4 people...

I ran Althanas' predecessor forum (the IV others mentioned) as a snide and obnoxious teenager. I judged Althanas off and on through most of its history. I think these are my first posts in several...

I have to say I'm slightly surprised this place still exists.

Character: Visla Eraclaire/Arius Mephisto/Nijin Bosche

I've been married for 3 years now and have a wonderful 1 year old son. I'm...

The last would require a constitutional amendment. Minimum age is 35. U.S. Const. Art. II, Clause 5

Duffy, I know your style is and always will be theatrical, so some of my criticism may not be useful to you because I think in doing so you tend to write in a detached, unrelatable, over-thick way. ...

Finally got around to joining. Felt like I should have a thread to link before I bothered.

These are the threads that I am free-writing in (follow format for each thread);

When the river sings...

A pair of women in simple leather cloaks stood, pressed together uncomfortably among a mass of passengers, on the deck of a ferryboat bound for a port in Corone. Visla's side brushed against Aelva's...

Impressive and with genuine attention to detail.

Fears that a Peer Review System Won't Work
My simple response is try it and see. Allowing it and encouraging people to try it doesn't cause a breakdown of the existing system. Remember, all of...

How can it be the best when it has little or nothing to do. Unproven is what it is, untested. It's small and self-congratulatory. Anyone who's been around since the beginning can tell you that...

Rayse makes the real point that what you're saying isn't true, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and take the counterfactual position that all judges are doing a what you describe.

I...

Judging also sounds nice in theory, but we've seen it in practice. What qualifies anyone? Be honest, the qualifications to be a judge are basically a pulse and a willingness to put up with...

I think that the idea of a free writing area that has a "currency" of "notariety" or "reputation" or something would be meaningful. Just to throw out random numbers, completing a thread and having...

As I told Sei, most of Althanas' rules exist merely to justify themselves. The whole rules system is a house of cards and serves little purpose.

I think that bolder things are necessary than...

Don't worry, I'm this way without any encouragement. Have been for years.

And let's get real here for a moment, nothing, not ONE thing has EVER happened on Althanas because someone made a quiet,...

How would someone with (and I cannot make these quotation marks emphatic enough) "authority" like to address these comments with something other than childish petulence or attempts to get the thread...

Ineffective at 1) dealing with me posting just about anything 2) judging and 3) whatever other duties you have on the site at this point, since it's a barren wasteland.

I'm still here because I am...

That's a good summary of the reasons why you're completely ineffective. With "amusement" of course being confined to your own masturbatory amusement at your own lack of wit.

I get the impression that certain short-sighted people think that a "serious" roleplaying site with "serious" background is more appealing than one without structure. In fact, I think that is not...

The earlier administrations were more open minded. I think there are two reasons for that. 1) Early on there was less continuity and therefore less cruft for them to get all hung up on. 2) Early...