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Subject: Please consider adding the old forum titles to their new name

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Thank you Recon, as always you have the most thought out replys. I should have put in my post that all forums should have their old names in the title so I didn't make it look like I was just wailing about the MAW. All the forums should have their old names.

Over the last two years I have tried to build the MAW into a community. Organizing regular Gatherings, getting members to respect each other and act mature and trying to instill a sence of identity. I just don't want to see part of that identity, the very banner we march under cast aside and left to be forgotten in the sands of time.

Please just consider it for all the forums. Yes it just a name. But so was "The Alamo"....and the "Maine"... and "Omaha Beach.

  • 03.20.2007 11:01 PM PDT
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Long live The MAW!
Long live The Septagon!

  • 03.21.2007 2:29 AM PDT

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I agree the old forum names gave them personality, these new ones are cold and uninviting.

  • 03.21.2007 3:05 AM PDT
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It is just so impersonal the way it is now, imagine a conversation between gamers:

Gamer 1 - "So what forums do you hang around in?"
Gamer 2 - "Well, I like to hang around the Halo 1 and 2 PC Forum"
Gamer 1 - "...you’re a loser."

As apposed to

Gamer 1 - "yadayada"
Gamer 2 - "I like to hang around The MAW"
Gamer 1 - "Cool, what game is that for? Sounds badass."
Gamer 2 - "Halo PC, have you played Custom Edition?"
Gamer 1 - "No, what's that? I got tired of Halo PC multiplayer."
Gamer 2 - "Let me tell you..."

Please, think of our DIGNITY!


QFT

It's so dumb to just say "I hang around the Halo 1 & 2 PC Forum." There must be hundreds of forums with names like that. "The Maw" give it a kind of personality.

  • 03.21.2007 2:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Iggwilv
Please just consider it for all the forums. Yes it just a name. But so was "The Alamo"....and the "Maine"... and "Omaha Beach.
Don't forget Pearl Harbor.

  • 03.22.2007 1:39 PM PDT
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I don't feel like making a long post right now, but Frankie is the person we should be asking. He's the one that takes care of that stuff. I'm sure he'll stop ignoring us after 90th PM.

  • 03.22.2007 2:43 PM PDT
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Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.

Posted by: Recon Number 54
* Bungie General (The Underground)
* Bungie.Net Community (The Septagon)
* Halo 3 Forum (The Ark) or (Valhalla)
* Halo 2 Forum (New Mombasa)
* Playlist Forum (Optimatch)
* Halo 1&2 for PC (The Maw)
* Halo 1 for Xbox (The Library)
* The Gallery Forum
* The News Forum
* The Voting Booth Forum
* The Classifieds Forum
* Off-Topic (The Flood)

As you can see, the gallery, voting booth, news and classifieds are so specific in their use/description, they need nothing more.


I think this is a great idea. It lets people keep their forum identity while making it very easy for forum newcomers to know where they should post things.

  • 03.22.2007 3:22 PM PDT

I am a Floodian

Yeah I would like to have the old names back. Whether bungie wants it that way each forum has become a community, and to many that name represents them.

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I'd love to see our beloved original titles back (The Maw, The Septagon), as the second option Recon posted.

Not only does it add an individual character to each forum, it creates an easily recognizable rallying point (so to speak) that fans have an easier time identifying with (The Maw, for instance), rather than the cold, impersonal names, like 'Halo 1 and 2 for PC.'

  • 03.22.2007 7:44 PM PDT
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I personally understand the reason for changing the names to make it easier for newcomers to easily find their way around the site.

Understandable and actually I like that we don't have anymore...OMFG WERE 1S T3H BR AT N LOK0UT!??...or...HOW DO I DO SUP3RJMP ON T3H 1 MAP?!

Yeah that gets annoying.

I must say thought that when I first came to the Maw I immediatly connected myself with that name. When I talked to othes about this site I refferenced the maw MANY times. The Maw has become my Halo home, so much so that iggwilv named an Unoffiicial Clan after it.

Think about, you guys helped bring together a group of people that made a clan, We are the ONLY forum where everyone who is a regular, regulary TALK to each other. We are always hanging out on xfire. You guys created a communtiy where the people hang out and get to know each other, and regulary enjoy halo together.

Isn't that what your goal was Bungie? Isn't that the purpose of a Halo COMMUNITY, people who know each other and have developed a friendship with each other. Isn't that what you wanted. Now you want to make the very flag that we wave a hankerchief? You want to turn our war banner into a washcloth?

Please give us back the Maw. Give everyone who connected to a forum a way to remember the banner the fly under. The greatest of your fans are asking you guys, give us back our Banners of War!

LONG LIVE THE SEPTAGON!

LONG LIVE THE NEW MOMBASA!

LONG LIVE THE MAW!!!

  • 03.23.2007 12:48 AM PDT
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Think about, you guys helped bring together a group of people that made a clan, We are the ONLY forum where everyone who is a regular, regulary TALK to each other. We are always hanging out on xfire. You guys created a communtiy where the people hang out and get to know each other, and regulary enjoy halo together.

Please give us back the Maw. Give everyone who connected to a forum a way to remember the banner the fly under. The greatest of your fans are asking you guys, give us back our Banners of War!
LONG LIVE THE SEPTAGON!
LONG LIVE THE MAW!!!


Now you want to make the very flag that we wave a hankerchief?
It's worse than a hankercheif.

I must say thought that when I first came to the Maw I immediatly connected myself with that name. When I talked to othes about this site I refferenced the maw MANY times. The Maw has become my Halo home.
I also connected with it and the maw is the best fourm out of the community (Even if we are the smallest)

Also halo 1 and pc fourm?! That sounds kind of dumb.


LONG LIVE THE MAW!!!



[Edited on 03.23.2007 8:50 PM PDT]

  • 03.23.2007 8:49 PM PDT

It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial. And it is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves the flag, whose coffin is draped in the flag that allows the protester to burn the flag.Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

I just miss the Septagon, only because in over 2 years i still never figured out how to draw on.

  • 03.24.2007 12:18 PM PDT

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