Bungie.net Community
This topic has moved here: Subject: Septagon: No longer a community forum?
  • Subject: Septagon: No longer a community forum?
Subject: Septagon: No longer a community forum?
  • gamertag: iam117
  • user homepage:

The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

I've just made that point to Recon. I think most people have the desire to be noticed.

Actually, I'll quote.

iam117: They [the members] want glory, power and to be NOTICED, be that spamming with "ZOMG BUNGIE R NOOBS" or posting stupid ideas, that's what they want.

Being noticed is nice, and having a nice atmosphere is one step closer to having a nice community.

  • 07.20.2006 9:29 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

I agree that there are very little ways to improve your standing when it comes to getting it to stop saying "member" under you name. But that isn't all this is about, look at impurity, he gave up being a mod, and now it just says member, but he is still respected as a person who contributed. I think the one thing that is wrong, is there are few obvious ways to help the community. I think members just need a lillte more helping along. I'm not suggesting everyone needs a Theme Master or Ninja title(that would take away from the coolness of it) but we do need new ways of being able to contribute to the community.

  • 07.20.2006 9:34 AM PDT
  • gamertag: iam117
  • user homepage:

The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

Posted by: Rainman89
I agree that there are very little ways to improve your standing when it comes to getting it to stop saying "member" under you name. But that isn't all this is about, look at impurity, he gave up being a mod, and now it just says member, but he is still respected as a person who contributed. I think the one thing that is wrong, is there are few obvious ways to help the community. I think members just need a lillte more helping along. I'm not suggesting everyone needs a Theme Master or Ninja title(that would take away from the coolness of it) but we do need new ways of being able to contribute to the community.

I raised that as well. I think someone's going to put a word in to KP and let's see what happens.

  • 07.20.2006 9:36 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Exactly, everyone saysthe septagon should be used to help the community, but no one says how.

Make a documentary?-It's being done
Post ideas?-They've been posted
help new members?Everyone already does that.

  • 07.20.2006 9:41 AM PDT

Go to your room!


...Well I'm glad that worked, because those would have been terrible last words.

Posted by: Rainman89
I agree that there are very little ways to improve your standing when it comes to getting it to stop saying "member" under you name. But that isn't all this is about, look at impurity, he gave up being a mod, and now it just says member, but he is still respected as a person who contributed. I think the one thing that is wrong, is there are few obvious ways to help the community. I think members just need a lillte more helping along. I'm not suggesting everyone needs a Theme Master or Ninja title(that would take away from the coolness of it) but we do need new ways of being able to contribute to the community.


I take your point mate, but look at it this way. if impurity had never been a mod, most likely he wouldn't have had the respect he has. I suspect (and I may have this wrong) he would have been dispatched for seven days, and would have been embittered by it (as I would have been).

I don't think something like a karma system works because it's automated, and it doesn't reward the community correctly. I would recommend simply...more moderators who encourage people with Halo and bungie related projects! For example...is there a Bungie chatroom? I ask this becaue I don't know, and I've been here for two years. What chance does a regular member have of finding that if it isn't publicised? If there isn't one, why not?

A bungie blog! Blogger offers very customisable and stable blogs. Why not recruit a few decent members to write and post to this?

I think it's the little things, to do with people, before layouts, and systems and avatars, that make a community work

  • 07.20.2006 9:48 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Please give me a name of a member of this site (past or present) who without a custom avatar or colored text made a difference for you and the community. Someone whose actions, or statements, or general personality impressed you and made you want to take part and be a member of the Bungie fan community.
focused7. This wasn't rhetorical, was it?

  • 07.20.2006 10:43 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Well I would say Just a Fan, but...

Sir_Brilliant helped start a whole Fanfic craze, and then started up the OFG.

Guardian Hunter began the largest group, and helped create a guide to Halo 2.

People like Blackjack, SgtSTFU, and Hobo GRunt help keep the flood sane.

And then there are countless people like Mabian, and JohnRap, GodsProphet, who, without doing some spectacular thing, still manage to make the forums better, simply because of their intelligence, kindness, and just the fact that they are there.

Now, As much as I would like to put my name there, in no way should I.

Sir Brilliant has a much more popular fanfiction, my created groups have no more than 30 mebers, and People in the forums just don't seem to know(I hope not from lack of activity).

  • 07.20.2006 10:48 AM PDT
  • gamertag: iam117
  • user homepage:

The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

Posted by: dmbfan09
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Please give me a name of a member of this site (past or present) who without a custom avatar or colored text made a difference for you and the community. Someone whose actions, or statements, or general personality impressed you and made you want to take part and be a member of the Bungie fan community.
focused7. This wasn't rhetorical, was it?

I don't think it is as I can easily think of another.

  • 07.20.2006 10:48 AM PDT
  • gamertag: iam117
  • user homepage:

The Frontline - A group dedicated to help improve the forums as a whole.

Banshee Barron has always impressed me, and so he's my choice.

:\

  • 07.20.2006 10:52 AM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Posted by: dmbfan09
Posted by: Recon Number 54
Please give me a name of a member of this site (past or present) who without a custom avatar or colored text made a difference for you and the community. Someone whose actions, or statements, or general personality impressed you and made you want to take part and be a member of the Bungie fan community.
focused7. This wasn't rhetorical, was it?


I don't know if it was dmbfan...but I can certainly see where Recon is coming from with this pose.

When I first joined, I had no idea as to how deep this community was. If you take any other forum community, they are guaranteed not to be like this one as in to how this community, The 7th Column, delves into not just the game or the company (Bungie) but the individual personalities and realities of the people who are here.

I learned that this community isn't just a place for discussion, but a place for brethern to come and enjoy stories, help their fellow man, and enrich their own reality.

I would def. have to say that TGP was a cool member. I didn't know him much before he became a Moderator, but he always had good intentions and helped wherever. And I alway find that it was some of his personality that inspired me to do the same. Help the community wherever, whenever, and have fun.

Also God's Prophet and the other members that Hung out in the 7th Column Council Sticky thread were some of my heroe's and major influence too. And of course Recon...because he is wise. And Shishka, because he will slap you otherwise.

Of course I can't forget my friends that I play online with from the Flood...

Like:

JAVA24: Always the one to come out with a funny comment
Delta Archer: Is wisdom speaks rivers of knowledge
Hobo GRunt: Just because he is poor
gruntfarmer: He is like Java

And many others...these are the people that I started to grow with because I saw that they were socially acceptable and that they were funny. So I eventually became one of them I guess...it is not my right to judge myself like that.

There are many good members out there...all of which have touched my life through one portal or another.

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 10:54 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Posted by: Rainman89
Exactly, everyone saysthe septagon should be used to help the community, but no one says how.

Make a documentary?-It's being done
Post ideas?-They've been posted
help new members?Everyone already does that.

Personally, I think you'd be already helping by just not breaking the rules and being friendly. It's not like people have to do something. Just because someone made a fancy hoolahoop for us to play with, doesn't change the fact that he might be a total ass.
One of the problems with the Column (should one ask me), is the lack of things to do.

  • 07.20.2006 10:57 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Posted by: Zee JollyRoger
And Shishka, because he will slap you otherwise.


This is what makes the 7th column great. Everyone who reads this will know what that means, and might even laugh. People here form friendships that are as good as if the other member lived next door to them. NO other forum has near this much togetherness. I have never seen another place where so many people are just known around the forums, most are just random members posting random comments. Here, people know each other.

  • 07.20.2006 10:58 AM PDT

"I pledge to punch all switches, to never shoot where I could use grenades, to admit the existence of no level except Total Carnage, to never use caps lock as my "run" key, and to never, ever, leave a single BoB alive."

2B || !2B - Why don't you look Inside the Machine?

Posted by: Rainman89
Posted by: Zee JollyRoger
And Shishka, because he will slap you otherwise.


This is what makes the 7th column great. Everyone who reads this will know what that means, and might even laugh. People here form friendships that are as good as if the other member lived next door to them. NO other forum has near this much togetherness. I have never seen another place where so many people are just known around the forums, most are just random members posting random comments. Here, people know each other.


Agreed...read my long post above this though...

I feel like I honestly know these people heart to heart as if they were my room-mates or neighboors...Yet they live 1500 miles away.

There is a certain familiar feeling when you talk to these people and "hang" with them...I guess because most of us, or some of us come here to escape reality. And of course, some of us actually get help and help others with the problems that they face in reality. Some of us share secrets and really are caring, best friends to the end people. That is what sets this community apart.

I remember when Texas Ben was involved in a car crash...I have never seen so much concern or worry about one memeber. If one member, like him can touch so many peoples lives, then that has to say something.


Edit:

Also, I would have to agree with John...nate is just one of those guys that is always right there for encouragement. In fact he has helped me with groups, and even influenced others about me. Not to brag, but I am in a group...well I was invited by Skillet98. Nate gave good testimony, without my knowledge, about how I am a good member and about how I can be trusted. Because of that I am an Admin. in that group.

Because of this, I have met many newer members and respected members of the community. It is really great to have such a fanbase that is as caring and deep as this one.

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 11:02 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

Currently it is summer, and most of my friends from school have moved or are out of town, or I am on vacation. However, All I need to have a good quality social interaction, I just log onto Bungie.net. There are tons of people here who Ihave met and befriended, and others where I had one-thread-stand sort of friendships. It's a great way for me to interact with people who bring more to the table than the average highschooler.

  • 07.20.2006 11:08 AM PDT
  • gamertag:
  • user homepage:
  • last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: l iam117 l
Bans hee Barron has always impressed me, and so he's my choice.

:\

It's not a contest. Everyone listed is a winner if you ask me.

Not just names please. What is it about that member that impresses or impressed you? What did they do that makes them memorable to you? You see, I know the names, but they impressed YOU. What did they do that made such an impression?

Because if we can identify that, maybe not bottle it, but encourage it, or highlight it, recognize it, or put in in the ground, fertilize it, water it and watch it grow... we should!


Sweet I'm a winner! Better quit while I'm ahead. As for members Johnrap and all of the other GiA admin for a nice tourney, m00zer campycow for popular fusion a nice place to discuss Halo 3 ideas, and everyone else who activily posts.

Edit: No offense John but the post to the home page are getting sort of annoying

[Edited on 7/20/2006]

  • 07.20.2006 11:15 AM PDT

Go to your room!


...Well I'm glad that worked, because those would have been terrible last words.

Posted by: Recon Number 54
Then please allow me to pose a question. I can understand that because of the separation between moderators and members, that some no longer see us as members of the community. I understand it, I don't necessarily agree with it, but I can see how someone could come to that conclusion.

Here's the question.

Please give me a name of a member of this site (past or present) who without a custom avatar or colored text made a difference for you and the community. Someone whose actions, or statements, or general personality impressed you and made you want to take part and be a member of the Bungie fan community.

I'm not asking this as a challenge. I anticipate that there are plenty of such members. I come across positive, helpful and friendly people on these forums every day. Each of them make me enjoy being a part of this community. But, it's been mentioned, that they might be acting that way because of my "hat". I'd like to think that isn't the case, but I could be mistaken.

So, it's a easy question. Someone you respect from this community, from this site. Their name and what they did to make you proud or glad to be a fellow member.

I am curious, and interested in the responses.


A few people have really, really impressed whilst I've been on.

Wardieboy, the aul man of UK gaming was a top chap when I first started talking to him. CuriousTurtle likewise. A1BASE consistently impresses me, and I'm very proud to count Vinnie and omega LOKI as two friends of mine. Frostbitaren, Kemaleon and Faking Bull, from my WallWalking days always strived to make the Halo games better.

There are a great deal of people, and without meaning to sound like I'm blowing our own trumpet, I think Halo2 UK and it's community is the reason why I keep coming back, because I want other people to experience the same fun and pointless amusements that I do, and hopefully find a few cool people to chat to.

I think there's an example of what I'm saying somewhere on this page. TGP locked a thread and commented back. In the past, in groups I've been in, I've done that too, and it is funny. However, I don't think that that guy will ever properly participate in bungie.net as he might have done if someone had merely steered him in a different direction. Oh, I must be getting soft in my old age...

  • 07.20.2006 11:18 AM PDT
  • gamertag: [none]
  • user homepage:

Read about the Forgotten Spartan I Program
Butane: To protect the world from devastation!
sir_brilliant: To unite all people within our nation!
Rainman89: To denounce the evils of truth and love!
sir_brilliant: To extend out reach to the stars above!
SpaceGhostFlyer: Jessie!
Butane: James!
sir_brilliant: Team Rocket blasting off at the speed of light
Butane: Surrender now or prepare to fight
sir_brilliant: Meowth, that's right!

another person I forgot was kd5shw, who created a group database.

ANd I have finnally found something I did that could be considered helpful-
After Recon set up the fanfiction index, I posted links to everyone's story on the first post, so no one who came late would feel left out.

  • 07.20.2006 11:21 AM PDT

Go to your room!


...Well I'm glad that worked, because those would have been terrible last words.

Posted by: Rainman89
another person I forgot was kd5shw, who created a group database.

ANd I have finnally found something I did that could be considered helpful-
After Recon set up the fanfiction index, I posted links to everyone's story on the first post, so no one who came late would feel left out.


You see, I think that's a really good thing to be doing. I would suggest taking something like this further. Why not ask KPaul to help with a fanfic contest? 500 words, all entries PM'd in, and they all get posted in...here, lets say. A few bungie guys have a read, and pick a winner. A front page news story, a free beanie for the winner, and you've instantly created a stronger bond with the community. it hardly costs you anything to do, but as a company, I don't think bungie should dismiss it.

PS - my shift key is on teh blink. I apologise for patchy capitals

  • 07.20.2006 11:27 AM PDT