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Originally Posted by pajamas  In theory dude I think it's a nice idea. But on the other hand it seems - dare I say it? - retroactive? is that the word? This is the technology we've got - it would be like playing chess by post, no?
I just think it would be difficult to convey the (fairly fundamental) forum vibe once you start bringing threads into it. A lot of them twist, turn and spiral out of control because of the role time and technology play in the process. In a way..."you had to be there.."
If you're talking about a record of rides and drinks, cool - but you miss the day-to-day bollocks everyone reads which makes them feel the sense of community we have.
Why not just have a "Best of London fgss" section?
not trying to be harsh or anything man, just not really seeing how it would work or why it would be necessary. |
all valid points, but as I was saying yesterday, not sure if I said it to you, but the forum's growing pretty fast, you just have to look back at some of the resurrected posts from march 2007, when its just six or seven posters pushing views back and forth to the amount of views/poster on any given subject now, to realise the speed of change.
I want the book to capture the forum as it is now, to take the best bits of it and put it in a form which any member of the forum who has a copy can look at, and with a little bit of nostalgia say I was there when...
the book isn't supposed to supplant the forum, its supposed to be the best bits of the forum given physical form, a place where we collate the threads, images, rides, that show the forum as it is/was, at this point in time.
There is no real need to do a book, apart from the fact that I think it'd be fun to do and to own, and I want to have some record of this forum, when I'm no longer actively using it, or if it doesn't exist anymore. And I think that even if people aren't aware of it now, that we'll want to have some record that we were here, we were part of this really vibrant, funny, twisted, scatalogical forum/community, before its just archived pages on a server somewhere, which will take you forever to find because you forgot what that thread with the funny aerospoke photos was called and you haven't logged on for the last couple of years, so your password is a mystery etc etc etc...