13-07-2003 03:16									#1
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The 24th of this month, if I'm not mistaken, would mark the end of the first year of the Apolyton PTW Team Democracy Game.
Makes you think, doesn't it?

	13-07-2003 03:25									#2
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It's an experience, not a destination...

	13-07-2003 03:38									#3
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quote: Originally posted by notyoueither It's an experience, not a destination...

IIRC, the game started Dec. 1, 2002. Do you mean the start of discussions about it, perhaps?

	13-07-2003 04:08									#4
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Okay, I was definitely wrong (looking at the topped rules thread and the dates of the posts).
Now this is interesting... I remember pressing 'join' for the GS civgroup and being accepted in a little over two days, just a few hours before the game got started. In the GS civgroup page it says that I have joined in the 22nd of July, 2002. Were there even civgroups back then?

	13-07-2003 04:27									#5
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Okay, something is definitely wrong in here. My join date (as shown in the Gathering Storm civgroup page) is earlier than NYE's, and he's the founder of the team.
Can anybody else access the GS team roster and verify this?

Sorry for having jumped this up and claiming that it'll be a year in a few days, I just didn't expect this phenomenal bug...

	13-07-2003 04:41									#6
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This forum was created by MarkG on October 31, 2002, so it will be a year in about 3 months or less since the initial talk about this idea likely predated this forum's creation.

Hard to believe though that the game is over 7 months old already. I was flipping through the earliest threads in the forum and is amusing and nostalgic to see them again all these months later - amazing to see how organized and structured we are compared to back then (but then being part of the "builder team" I like seeing structure and organization )

Sure glad we didn't go with only 4 teams though, wonder how many of them would have been left now...

	13-07-2003 04:51									#7
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I can't view the GS authorisation list to verify if this is an error or not. Of course, it is correct that the game itself began on December 1st last year and the forum had been around for about a month before that.

FYI: the member list for Cake or Death is displaying the correct join date.

	13-07-2003 05:01									#8
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Shiber - what have you been putting in your dog food?

	13-07-2003 05:12									#9
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quote: Originally posted by Beta Shiber - what have you been putting in your dog food?

Hate to say it to my fellow Voxian but....monkeys!

	13-07-2003 05:28									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Rhothaerill Hate to say it to my fellow Voxian but....monkeys!

GOD DAMMIT RHOTHAERILL!!
I was gonna say 'Monkey brains.' but you stole my joke! DAMN YOU! DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!

	13-07-2003 05:42									#11
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When did all the new smilies show up?

Yeah, we've been at this for a while now... Kon shot me a PM asking about what I used to call "the Egyptian Mess" in the Strat forum... that was maybe Feb 2002?

Oh... I figure Shiber must have eaten some weird GoW food... dragon, maybe?

	13-07-2003 06:55									#12
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quote: Originally posted by Shiber GOD DAMMIT RHOTHAERILL!! I was gonna say 'Monkey brains.' but you stole my joke! DAMN YOU! DIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!

Sorry Shiber. Couldn't resist that one.

	13-07-2003 14:44									#13
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Theseus: they're not new 'Poly smilies, they're smilies from Master Zen's forums.

Okay, here's the solution to the problem: the team roster pages display the date that the user has joined Apolyton (registered his account), not the date of his joining the civgroup. I didn't check at first because I didn't expect this... it's the friggin team roster, damnit, if there's a "Join Date" column it should be the date of joining the team, no?
Anyway, here's another interesting bit: Alexman and Ixnay, and probably others, have the join date of 1.1.1970 (the first date in Unix-clone systems' calendars; AFAIK the time and date are stored as the number of seconds elapsed from that date). Ixnay is staff (stories mod IIRC), so this could be a perk reserved for staff members, but I had no idea that Alexman is/was staff.

	13-07-2003 15:18									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Shiber Anyway, here's another interesting bit: Alexman and Ixnay, and probably others, have the join date of 1.1.1970 (the first date in Unix-clone systems' calendars; AFAIK the time and date are stored as the number of seconds elapsed from that date). Ixnay is staff (stories mod IIRC), so this could be a perk reserved for staff members, but I had no idea that Alexman is/was staff.

A lot of people have a join date of 1/1/1970: they're people who registered on Apolyton in the first 2 or 3 months is was up (sometime in 1998 I think).
Something happened (a change to the forum software perhaps?) to reset all their join dates to 1970. It's not a staff thing.

	13-07-2003 16:09									#15
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Oh, cool. That's good to know, thanks.

	13-07-2003 21:09									#16
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And the forum clock is still 6 minutes off! This is an outrage! :doitnow:

j/k

Yeah, the forums were changed from ubb to vb. (Interestingly enough in America it's Dec 69 instead of Jan 70, because of time zones.)

	13-07-2003 21:38									#17
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quote: Originally posted by mrmitchell Yeah, the forums were changed from ubb to vb. (Interestingly enough in America it's Dec 69 instead of Jan 70, because of time zones.)

Are you kidding? We haven't had that kind of spirit here since... 1969.

	14-07-2003 00:53									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Shiber Are you kidding? We haven't had that kind of spirit here since... 1969.

Shiber - beautiful!

	14-07-2003 01:02									#19
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Beta, are those voices still calling from far away?

	14-07-2003 01:21									#20
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Yeah, they wake him up in the middle of the night...

	14-07-2003 02:21									#21
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Yes, but its a lovely place...

	14-07-2003 02:27									#22
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Such a lovely face?!?!

	14-07-2003 03:11									#23
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Welcome to the Hotel NorthEstonia...

	14-07-2003 06:56									#24
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hi ,

WoW

a full year , ..... sjee , its like time flies , .....

well lets hope there shall be many more years to come

have a nice day

	14-07-2003 07:49									#25
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sigh...

	14-07-2003 15:49									#26
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He never reads... I don't know whether to laugh or to cry!

	14-07-2003 19:04									#27
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Well he can check in any time he likes

	15-07-2003 03:47									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Darekill Well he can check in any time he likes

Oh - this was good. Very good. One of the best double entendres in awhile! Thank you, Darekill.

	15-07-2003 05:54									#30
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Nicely done.

have a nice day , ..... any time of year , ..... you can find it here , .....