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Subject: Chapter Envy (I tip my proverbial hat to Mr. Smiley)
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I was browsing the septagon this evening when I first came across the Chapter Problems post. Naturaly, like a good Chapter Founder I checked it out to see if it had been answered which it had and quite well might I add. While I was reading the answer by Halo53 and when it got close to the bottom I saw that he "pluged" someone else's chapter. I decided to investigate and upon doing so I was struck with chapter envy over a chapter called Mr.Smiley's Xbox Lounge. First of all the member count was over 300! and it was not only that but the chapter was actualy active. There was plenty of good news to go around and also promises of news that could be found nowhere else. Now to step back a bit I like every other chapter founder out there started off with some sugar coted picture of what my chapter would be like. I thought that members would swarm to my site because I was going to work my butt off to make it the best I possibly could make it. I was going to have a new poll every day, I was going to have news that no one else had, and my databases were going to be "Bungie Renouned" (that's right I verbed bungie someone had to). But instead I ended up with a daily trivia question, what I consider medicore databases, 22 members about 5 of which are active, and as for my news thats right I basically regurgitate HBO everyday. So for those of you out there who are just starting off with new chapters or even if your a so called "seasoned veteran" you should check out Mr. Smiley's chapter and if nothing else use it as a tool to inject new life into your chapters. Oh yeah almost forgot, if you care to join my chapter feel free to do so.

[Edited on 5/19/2004 1:01:35 AM]

  • 05.19.2004 12:58 AM PDT
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To top everything else off I just joined and he accepted me and sent me a message of welcome. That is to be expected of any chapter founder except for the fact that it is currently 3 AM my time and god only knows what time it is where he is.

  • 05.19.2004 1:05 AM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

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To top everything else off I just joined and he accepted me and sent me a message of welcome. That is to be expected of any chapter founder except for the fact that it is currently 3 AM my time and god only knows what time it is where he is.


I am quite sure he works a night shift, so that may be why he was up then :P

But I did mean everything I said. It is great. It wasn't ...techinically... an advertisement because its not my chapter. I have to say MSXL is the greatest chapter period! (Hey Reginko... I won't point out the irony in saying period and using a ! Wait...) All of those 300+ members and he got rid of all the No Passports. I want to be like mr smiley when I grow up :P And I want to be a pimp. So maybe I could be like mr smiley, but pimped out!! :P Who am i kidding, he IS a pimp.


And yes I have a problem with keeping my tongue in my mouth :P

  • 05.19.2004 2:12 PM PDT
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and -blam!-;P ahh, the -blam!- days...which was like 2 months ago.

  • 05.19.2004 3:31 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

It is good to see you have joined my chapter as well. MSXL is really one of the greatest chapters around and is very exclusive! While you're their, and I hope these are, check out the rant section. Live killa wrote an excellent piece about founding chapters which really stured up the 7th Column.

MSXL prides itself on being the most active, most exclusive (maybe be sides HBO Junkies) and by far, the most friendly! Though the forums are hard to get lost in, so don't fall behind! Oh'well, good to hear more praise for MSXL, I think it will live on for many "little" smiley generations....

  • 05.19.2004 3:41 PM PDT
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i think msxl will live on for many years...

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Yea because even if mr smiley for some reason ends up leaving the 7th Column(some type of apocolypse would probably have to happen), all his members and staff members would surely keep it one of the most active chapters on the column.

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i agree but when a foudner leaves it does become boring. even the most loyal members lose interest.

  • 05.19.2004 4:51 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

Not true, when I leave my chapter for a few days it gets more active! It's crazy, then again, everyone at my chapter is, right eek? *psycho smile*

  • 05.19.2004 5:41 PM PDT

bah

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Not true, when I leave my chapter for a few days it gets more active! It's crazy, then again, everyone at my chapter is, right eek? *psycho smile*
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  • 05.19.2004 8:51 PM PDT
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I wish my chapter got more active by antiactivity on my part!!

  • 05.21.2004 3:32 PM PDT
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It's hard. I look at the Awesome chapters in the database at CP and MSXL will be active no matter what. Most. Dedicated. Members. Ever! Spartans of Halo is moderatly active without the founder and Sniper Gods isn't very active at all without me. I hope soon that I will gain some loyal members too. Well more. There are a few loyal ones. I don't know how Mr S does it!

  • 05.21.2004 3:48 PM PDT
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Yo Halo53, I'm real happy for you and I'ma let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the best bungie.net profiles of all time. OF ALL TIME!

Along the lines of what BMC said, he is right. My chapter, ¡Halo¡ has been around for a year and a half. I have put alot of tims, blood, sweat into the chapter. Hell with all the typing and clicking I have done it'll be the reason I'll have arthuritis before I can legally drink :P But my members are not active. We had 116 members in 24 days of existence. We had up to 320 ish members before I deleted all of the no passport members. After I deleted them we went down to 108. Thats over 200 nopassports. And we have gained members and lost members since the deletion, which was probably about 3 or so months ago, and we are up to 109. I have contributed I would say 80% of all activity. Its not that I am not active, its the members. I have a couple staff members who will post things once in a while. I have 12 votes in my current poll which has been up for atleast a month now. We have had XBL events, I made fan fiction, whatever. Our members only content is nothing near MSXl which doesn't attract new active members but I do all that I can. If we dont get better after the H2 release, I may disband. May. Its annoying to post all this info/make these database/polls/forum topics that only 10 or 11 others will see. You need active members to be a really good chapter. I go away for a week and the only new activity is normally poll votes. Thats it. Ah well. My point is BMC is right.

  • 05.21.2004 7:04 PM PDT
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Yea Mr smiley hit the lotto when it comes to loyal members, because hes got a good 5 or 6 staff memebrs constantly active, and a good 20 everyday active members.

  • 05.22.2004 4:13 AM PDT

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Well,my chapter has been up for 3 days.It's got 10 members,but only 3 have done anything(including me)I don't get how he does it.so many members.so much activity.It's amazing how he does it.

[Edited on 5/22/2004 5:03:57 AM]

  • 05.22.2004 5:02 AM PDT
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in 3 days i dont suspect you'll ever know:P he got the good members when halo came out, and they're still here. i joined it a long time ago when it had like 40 members, and it wasnt too exciting so i left. i joined a while later and now its a big hit. it just shows how a chapter needs its members to be great. mine sucks...always will. im not creative enough to get good crap like mr s. ah well, such is life.

  • 05.22.2004 6:15 PM PDT

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[color=yellow]You enjoy chaos, I can tell[/color]


[color=yellow]Chaos is relative.[/color]

  • 05.22.2004 7:02 PM PDT

yoo•zel- ('yoo-zhul): slang: vb.

Officium quod Fidelitas.

Hm... I have no idea what's going on....

  • 05.22.2004 8:11 PM PDT