18-11-2002 20:42									#1
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The faces of Apolyton feature?

It seems like all the interview things have disapeared of late, and the selection of upcoming intervees was quite poor.

How about bringing it back, and talking to the people that apoyton really WANT to hear from, like a REAL AH interview, oldtimers like Laz and Supersneak, and many of the veteran posters like MTG and RAH.

In fact, how about YOU Mark, I'd be willing to do that one, unless you fear a fair interview!

Well, how about it?

	18-11-2002 20:53									#2
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	18-11-2002 20:54									#3
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See the thread by Laz on this one, again, the damn buggers got me to do another one... this one will take a while, though, for I'm doing it live, much like you & Ming.

	18-11-2002 20:59									#4
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quote: Originally posted by Chris 62 How about bringing it back, and talking to the people that apoyton really WANT to hear from, like a REAL AH interview, oldtimers like Laz and Supersneak, and many of the veteran posters like MTG and RAH.

Or maybe a civver!

(Civ2 MP's been done )

	18-11-2002 21:02									#5
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What about a "The Faceless people of Apolyton" feature? Then you could try to find that guy who registered in March 2000 but only posted once. It would be interesting to know what he has to say.

Hm. Probably not.

	18-11-2002 21:07									#6
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Ah, about the oldtimes. Chris, when you say people that Apolyton wants to hear from, whom do you see as Apolyton? The off-topic division, right? All due respect, but people such as Laz and even Rah are hardly known in many on-topic places. I can go to my beloved CtP section and ask people if they know of Laz, AH, you - probably not.

I can see why this interview, with Locutus, won't be likely be much interest to you, but he helps a lot with the site, is an awesome modmaker and an interesting person... thus far, I've entirely enjoyed my conversations with him... and no, FoA isn't all about the people I know. I admit that guys such as Xin Yu and Lancer weren't under my attention.

AH interview... the answer remains no. Unless I receive a direct order from Markos or Dan.

	18-11-2002 21:35									#7
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Not trying to offend, but your last posted list was a joke, either cover the real Apolytoneers, or don't bother.

Start with Mark.

	18-11-2002 21:47									#8
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Ignore the last list, or anything. Markos gave me a specific list of people to work with last weekend.

An interview with Markos would be most painful I guess .

Again let me repeat, everyone's views on "real Apolytoners" differ slightly... to me, Locutus is one.

	18-11-2002 22:07									#9
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Solver,

what about Blake? Guaranteed answers with a nice delay; ~1 month.

	18-11-2002 22:14									#10
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Another name that I recall hearing someday somewhere, but have no clue to .

	18-11-2002 22:30									#11
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Good golly! Now Solver doesn't recall a colleague moderator. Maybe we'll exclude the "Solver Hall" Easter egg in StP now.

	18-11-2002 23:33									#12
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Nooooo don't!

	18-11-2002 23:53									#13
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Hey, it wouldn't be an Easter egg if you know about the egg, so I abstain from telling if there's going to be a "Solver Hall" Easter egg. But I'm sure the game won't be egg free.

Anyway, that's more like off-topic chatter by me.

	19-11-2002 02:37									#14
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Actually, it's spam garbage.

You guys don't take your staff postions very seriously, do you?

This is some nice example of how to behave on a website.

	19-11-2002 03:19									#15
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And he should know.

	19-11-2002 06:40									#16
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quote: real Apolytoners

Who? The OT crowd?

	19-11-2002 10:12									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Taz And he should know.

And you should know too what spam is.

	19-11-2002 10:36									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Mr. President Who? The OT crowd?

Nahhh... the old timers who have been here and used to post on topic until the games they came here for got old. Many of them may post more in the OTF now, but they were On Topic posters to begin with

	19-11-2002 10:40									#19
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i can't believe bods posted on topic before

	19-11-2002 10:53									#20
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quote: Originally posted by H Tower i can't believe bods posted on topic before

He used to be a big Civ II poster. I met him at the old Addicted to Civ Site.

Bods also ran his OWN CIV SITE

	19-11-2002 10:55									#21
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quote: Originally posted by Ming Bods also ran his OWN CIV SITE

now i know your lying

	19-11-2002 11:06									#22
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quote: Originally posted by Ming Bods also ran his OWN CIV SITE

Don't try to pull our legs. If Bods had/has a Civ site, it would be listed on DMOZ or I would have seen it.

	19-11-2002 11:08									#23
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quote: Originally posted by Rasbelin Don't try to pull our legs. If Bods had/has a Civ site, it would be listed on DMOZ or I would have seen it.

It was "WAY" before you time Ras...
If I remember correctly, the Original Greek Site kept it's top ten Civ Scores on a site maintained by Bods...

There were hundreds of old Civ Sites that aren't listed on DMOZ...

	19-11-2002 11:21									#24
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Ming,

the reason why they're not listed is that they're 1. completely dead 2. partially dead with no content that warrants to be listed. I would say that the Zadanian League and HiC have the best lists for dead sites. However I don't immidiately recall a site with top ten scores, but I'll have to check that.

Hundreds? Well, I could do a calculation about that, based on the very complete lists on Zadanian League, HiC and DMOZ, so yes, I have seen most of the sites mentioned somewhere, but there's tens or maybe even over 100 dead sites that can't be reached anymore.

	19-11-2002 11:24									#25
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Hmmm... looks like I don't have it in my bookmarks of dead sites. Well, it means I have to mine then.

	19-11-2002 17:05									#26
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Ming is absolutely correct, Bod's ran a Civ2 site, and a damn good one, btw. He also took care of the Apolyton Hall of Fame for a time (not the Greek site ). He and I had fruitful discussions on civ scores at the Addicted forum...

	19-11-2002 20:06									#27
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In other words, you bums should listen to your elders.

Seriously, more care should be taken with this whole process, and it should be approached as you would any regular feature, with professionalism.

I showed you how Solver, make it happen.

	19-11-2002 20:36									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Jay Bee He also took care of the Apolyton Hall of Fame for a time (not the Greek site ).

I stand corrected...

Ahhhh, the ole Addicted Site... those were the days

	19-11-2002 20:47									#29
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I actually recently saw Ming's submission to a HoF for Civ II on Deity level. The submission was from 1998.

There's indeed sites left from 1996 and 1997 (= no updates since that), but only a few of them are "working" in the sense of DMOZ's principles for sites that warrant to be listed. The oldest ones have pages missing and file downloads are also removed. The largest problem is that ~30 Civ sites have been wiped out because of GeoCities's new policy for neighbourhood addresses and the fact that several sites were lost when Crosswinds had a power cut (or was it a fire, anyway). Not to mention that Xoom is out of business, because NBCi bought them.

	19-11-2002 21:04									#30
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Interesting stuff you tell... sure, the oldtimers want to hear from the oldtimers, but another thing I fear is that for most others the interview would be zero interest.

Actually, here's the problem, any interview I can make (with the exceptions of Dan, Markos and Ming) will be of no interest to quite some part of the site.