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Subject: Septagon: No longer a community forum?

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There are so many people that make this community great. I could make a list here, and perhaps i will do at a later date, but the list is long and i'm sure i will miss people off.

What we must remember is that everyone who can contribute to the community in a positive way, be it simply posting a good post or running a fantastic chapter/group etc, deserves to be a "winner".

We mustn't either forget the moderators who are part of this community too. Luckily i knew many before they ate that path and even as members they were helpful, positive and friendly. Obviously this has not changed really and they now continue to make this a better place by new ways.

In my opinion, anyone who can make a chapter or group the community can enjoy deserves to be mentioned aswell and anyone who can contribute something to the 7th Column.

I would finally like everyone, who has posted here with a sensible post, to know that i feel you deserve to be a "winner" in my opinion. To give positive and or negative feedback shows that you care about this community and i hope it stays that way.

[Edited on 7/21/2006]

  • 07.21.2006 6:00 AM PDT
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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!

ANd Ihope many more come to improve the community, too.

  • 07.21.2006 6:06 AM PDT
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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!

thanks a lot, you just shattered the illusion of modship.

  • 07.21.2006 6:51 AM PDT
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Only the paranoid will survive!

Posted by: Johnrap
Why does this thread keep coming back to mods? I thought mods were basically human beings that happened to have three extra buttons on their display. And by the way, those three buttons mean absolutely nothing.

I've had my own internet gaming forum for about the last 7 months. It's starting to get active, maybe 150-200 posts per day. And I have the mod toolbar. Guess, what? I've never used it! I mod my forum the same way I moderate the tone on Bungie.net, with my posts.

Maybe it's a New York thing. Or maybe a Republican living in New York thing. Basically, I don't think that any powers over someone else are meaningful. Because if someone doesn't decide internally to join you then you've accomplished nothing. If anything what you've accomplished is altering your perception of reality, which will then soon bite you in the arse.

* You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.


I'm not sure what that had to do with the Septagon not being a community forum. I imagine I just missed it. But I totally agree with you on pretty much the whole thing.

  • 07.21.2006 7:13 AM PDT
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Good -blam!- post!

  • 07.21.2006 8:00 AM PDT
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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!

impurity, your here to have fun. I remeber when you were a mod, you were the fun one. You are the guy who doesn't care that posting a link to chacharon is off topic, you do it anyway, and we all laugh because of it. THere are plenty of users who have calm dispositions, or intelligence, or knowledge of Bungie, but you are one of the few who can actually have fun, make people laugh, and annoy very few people in the process. We need more people like you, just as much as we need more Recons and GodsProphets.

  • 07.21.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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I'm not going to name a single person.
Most of the people I would like to mention, have already been mentioned. And the others I would simply forget. I know we want to give some attention to the great guys and gals out there, but I think that they all know that I appreciate them.
It is this small group of people that keep me coming back to B.net, because thanks to them, the original spirit that got me to this website in the first place, keeps going strong.

Perhaps that has been the problem with us; too busy looking at the negativity, rather then looking at the good things that still remain.

  • 07.21.2006 9:07 AM PDT
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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!

That, and the good things that are now coming. We need to encourage and congratulate new members who are showing a positive influence on the site.

  • 07.21.2006 9:11 AM PDT
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I'm going to agree with impy and say that Blackeye is a great member for Bungie.net. Its really hard to find anyone who will stand by what they believe in anymore. All I see is people changing (or trying to change) just so they can look good to a select few people. Plus, I also laugh so hard when everyone gets irritated at his questions in #moap.

- Excaliber: He originally made up the idea for a seventh column Halo 2 tournament and the Bungie Art Contest. I thought it was great what he was trying to do for the community because it was helping people come together and just have fun.

- Senor Leche: Even when my group, Seventh Column Contests, was generally dead and I was busy with other things, he was still there answering questions for people and contributing to discussion. That really goes to anyone who has continued to discuss contests in there.

- ODST1125: Though he hasn’t been here much lately, he really was helping in trying to make Seventh Column Contests great and I thank him for helping out when I wasn’t there.

- impy: He's just generally a fun guy to be around. I loved his little movies and the fact that he recorded my being blown up in a banshee with needlers.... you know how many messages I got saying "You suck!"? Ok, only a few, but I still got a good laugh out of that.

- Psyched: Though he is cynical... I've never seen someone write so much on just a few chapters. I thought it was a great way to show people some new groups that were up and coming. He was also one of the reasons I tried my hand a theme making, I thought what they had done was cool and I wanted to see how well I could do it.

- Gods Prophet: Again, he always seems calm and cool when it comes to anything. I just think he's a cool guy to be around.

Ok, so I'm running out of things to say about other people besides "I just think they're cool to be around". There are a lot more members I could list for that, but I have something else stuck on my mind at the moment and need to get it out of there.

  • 07.21.2006 9:25 AM PDT

Strange evolution how people have come to believe
That we are it's greatest achievement
We're barely, we're just a collection of cells
Overrating themselves

I've been thinking about this topic for awhile, and I think I've come up with (hopefully) a few reasons things are the way they are.

Society had changed. The community, as its remembered, was made up of people who grew up in an entirely different decade than the majority of people who come here now. People who never knew the Cold War or have any idea what Oregon Trail is. Most of the older people here who remember these things look outside at the world and think to themselves wtf, for lack of a better term. I won't try to delve into every societal woe that exists, but suffice it to say that the world has changed in way where todays youth, as a whole, have lost alot of the social skills that we were brought up with. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but I find that these examples are few and far between.I think this lends itself to the forums at bungie.net becomming 'less social' than they once were.

Another reason would be Bungie's success. Bungie was big prior to Halo, but Halo made it one the premiere studios. This attracts more people, and as the number of people increase, so does the number of 'community deficient' people. The people who don't care about the Bungie community, history, whatever, they just want Bungie to bring back the H1 pistol.

I may hold a grim view of humanity in general, but I don't think I'm alone when I say that the concept of "We" is on the verge of extinction. It has become a society of me, myself and I.

The way I see it is this. We, being the older member of the community and Bungie.net, can either throw our hands in the air a say screw it, or we can do the best job we know how of passing on what we know, to those who don't. I prefer the latter, but to each his own.

  • 07.21.2006 1:34 PM PDT

Posted by: Johnrap
OK, I"ll give one name: sentenashi. I don't know. The kid just cracks me up.

Sorry, one more name: natedogr. I have never seen natedogr have a bad post. I've probably read 1,000 of his posts. And there is not a single bad one.

* Two heads are better than one.


I <3 you all, Peace for you all. \/

  • 07.22.2006 1:43 AM PDT
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13/02/2005 (I've been on since then.)
Group RPG's!

DO NOT DO IT! DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT DOING IT! DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT NOT DOING IT!

I'm trying to help with the commuity, but yet it will always fail or just bairly work.

  • 07.22.2006 2:02 AM PDT
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I'm trying to help with the commuity, but yet it will always fail or just bairly work.


I have noticed your efforts. Thank you for helping the community.

  • 07.22.2006 6:25 AM PDT
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Posted by: dmbfan09
I wondered about that thread myself; but since the moderator that moved it didn't post (we don't always have to post when we move things, as you well know) I don't have a clue who did it and can't ask him why it was moved. The problem is, I am not one to step on other people's shoes and reverse a decision they have made for one reason or another, since we are a team. My own morals will not allow me to move that back until I get consent from another moderator...

*PMs Recon*


Good idea, if anyone can dish out justice, its Recon.

  • 07.23.2006 6:30 PM PDT