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yes.

  • 06.19.2007 2:50 PM PDT
Subject: Make a forum dedicated to the ARG
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Poll: Should they make a new forum?  [closed]
Yes:  55%
(16 Votes)
No:  45%
(13 Votes)
Total Votes: 29

Should they make a forum dedicated t the ARg intead of sharing the foroum with the halo 3 discussion peeps?It would be the perfect time since are AI friend has been hacked into.

[Edited on 06.19.2007 2:55 PM PDT]

  • 06.19.2007 2:49 PM PDT
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No. If you wish to discuss the ARG make or join one of the numerous ARG fan based groups.

  • 06.19.2007 2:57 PM PDT

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No. If you wish to discuss the ARG make or join one of the numerous ARG fan based groups.

The what? I didn't know about any of those. Certainly not any of them with over 1700 members..

  • 06.19.2007 3:28 PM PDT
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No. If you wish to discuss the ARG make or join one of the numerous ARG fan based groups.

The what? I didn't know about any of those. Certainly not any of them with over 1700 members..

Wow. I never thought I would get to say this but; advertising much?

  • 06.19.2007 3:40 PM PDT

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  • 06.19.2007 4:38 PM PDT

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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Wow. I never thought I would get to say this but; advertising much?


I did no such thing. I just copy and pasted a link accidentally. >_>

  • 06.19.2007 5:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: M3 Roki7
Wow. I never thought I would get to say this but; advertising much?


I did no such thing. I just copy and pasted a link accidentally. >_>


Accidents happen <_<

  • 06.19.2007 5:36 PM PDT
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They shouldn't, it sort of takes away from the situation created by the ARG.

  • 06.19.2007 5:56 PM PDT
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A new forum, yes, but not for the filth that you call an ARG.
Halo General Forum FTW!

  • 06.19.2007 6:31 PM PDT

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AdjutantReflex sure sparked a great deal of interest among the community, wow.

I haven't seen a group grow this fast and big since Ske7ch's 7th Column group back in 2004.

  • 06.19.2007 7:20 PM PDT

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Wow. I never thought I would get to say this but; advertising much?


I did no such thing. I just copy and pasted a link accidentally. >_>

There seems to have been quite a bit of accidental advertising going on from that group in the halo 3 forum over the past week.

Though, it has done it great job of organizing all of the information and coming to conclusions. The place is almost like another public forum by itself. If there ever is a forum dedicated to AdjutantReflex, it might not be a bad idea to just take Compound Intelligence and make that the forum. The Septagon was made a forum in a similar way.

  • 06.19.2007 7:26 PM PDT


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I think they shouldn't.

  • 06.19.2007 8:28 PM PDT
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Yes.

Sure, I can join one.

But you can't talk Halo 3 on the Halo 3 forums. You can only talk ARG. Which I'm not interested in. So there are no Halo 3 forums on Bungie anymore :(

And, then they can keep all of the AR posts stickied (which they can't do in the Halo 3 forum). So that would be a good idea.

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  • 06.19.2007 9:24 PM PDT
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No, the real reason i say no is because i want to be able to read about the ARG when it is gone. Otherwise the forum will meet an end like the beta forum where all discussed is lost.

  • 06.20.2007 5:00 AM PDT
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No, the real reason i say no is because i want to be able to read about the ARG when it is gone. Otherwise the forum will meet an end like the beta forum where all discussed is lost.
Oh I wouldn't worry about that. There are at least 6 groups or sites that I can name off the top of my head compiling every scrid of detail as it happens.

The reason WhiteRaven119 and I started the big ARG group was to draw some of the constant posting away from the Halo 3 forum. The instant AR's first post went up, I think that most of us who visit b.net on a regular basis foresaw the overload of activity in the Halo 3 forum to some extent -- though perhaps not completely, in all of its sheer awe-inspiring overwhelmingness.

In some ways, I think that the groups and other sites created for this ARG have helped the overactivity in the Halo 3 forum, and in other ways, I think that they have made it worse. I'm sure you can figure it out but I'll quickly explain -- after constantly reading the Halo 3 forum and many other sites for almost a week and a half now, I have begun to recognize and remember some user names. I can say without a doubt that some users have been content to post only in the CI group, args.bungie.org, or unfiction. In that way, these various sites and groups have helped to keep the overactivity in the Halo 3 forum down to a not-so-dull roar, as posters who would normally post in the Halo 3 forum have somewhere else to vet their theories and thoughts.

Unfortunately, I have seen that many Halo 3 forumgoers have become obsessed with posting every theory that they see on another site -- almost as if they want credit for it. I think that CrazyBoy3's discovery of halo3.com/comic/ was great, but that IGN's printing of his name in an article about it was devastatingly effective in making other people want the same recognition. Now, I can guarantee that every thought, whim, theory, or discovery posted in any group or site devoted to this ARG will be posted on the Halo 3 forum within minutes -- sometimes within seconds (often without any credit to the original post and instead a claim that they found it on their own - but that's beside the point). Conversely, every theory posted on the Halo 3 forum that is not pure spam and has some merit finds its way into other groups and sites within minutes. While the spreading of information in an ARG is most certainly a good thing, in this way, the idea that drove the founding of my group and some other sites devoted to the ARG has backfired.

I guess that all of this goes to my final point, which is that although I can see the arguments in favor of having a separate forum devoted to the ARG, I am unsure as to whether it would be a gain overall in the end. Yes, it could be woven into the storyline with relative ease. I am, however, unsure of the technical effort that would be required, which, with Halo 3 fast approaching, would make it certainly understandable and perhaps even wise for Achronos not to create a new forum.

Another potential reason not to create a new forum exists, though. We should be clear that a new forum would serve only one purpose -- to make it easier to discuss Halo 3 in the Halo 3 forum. A new forum would most likely cause an increase in spam and other bad posts -- or at least no decrease -- in that new devoted forum. This would make the forum ninjas' job harder by adding another forum to patrol and creating the necessity to lock or move posts made in the Halo 3 forum about the ARG. We all know what a ridiculous mess the new forum would be -- take the H3 Beta forum's spam problems and double them, and you'll have a good estimate. This is not to mention the flaming (just try posting an ARG discovery that's more than a half-hour old in the H3 forum now), plaigiarism, Rick Rolling, repeat posting, bumping, double/triple/quadruple posting, and general mayhem that occurs in so many ARG threads.

The only question, of course, is whether people are willing to take these potential detriments along with the potential benefit of finally having the Halo 3 forum dedicated to Halo 3 once again.

  • 06.20.2007 7:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: M3 Roki7
No. If you wish to discuss the ARG make or join one of the numerous ARG fan based groups.

  • 06.20.2007 11:02 AM PDT