The 'oldies' of TrekBBS reunite...

[Cali]

I've been here since July 1st 2002, but this thread makes me feel like a newbie.

 

[Puritan]

If you view your profile, the URL says you're 65. I assume that's how profiles work on here. AntonyF is 1, AutoAdmin is 2, TrekToday is 3, Christian is 4, and so forth.

It says I'm 1695.

Cool. But that must be on this new board only, they probably didn't port over all of the inactive accounts from the old board to the new one when they made the switch. Still, going from 6XX to 6X makes me an order of magnitude cooler... right?

Cool, I'm down from 207 to 24! (I guess this means that we have about a nine-out-of-ten attrition rate from the old days...)

 

[Holdfast]

I didn't realise that. I'm down to 35 from something 350-ish. That IS a pretty high attrition rate, you're right.

 

[Aragorn]

^ 35 puts you in a unique situation. You're not allowed to attend any TrekBBS state of the union addresses. In case a of a terrorist attack that kills 1-34, you will ascend to the top.

 

[CaptainWacky]

REMEMBER BIG MATTY?!

EDIT: Okay, I only made this post so I could quickly check my profile and see my member number...down to 108! Not bad at all and a good Lost reference. I'm sure I must have been over a 1000 when I first joined.

 

[Broccoli]

I joined in May 2001, right around "Endgame", although I had been lurking for a few months previously. I posted quite a bit that summer, but when I started college, I rarely posted (usually just when someone said something really stupid that needed to be called out on). I started up again my senior year during Ent's final season and have continued since.

 

[Guartho]

I'm 2279.

According to Memory Alpha, these Trek events took place in 2279...
Mark Jameson is born. (TNG: "Too Short a Season")
The border treaty between the Paqu and the Navot on Bajor is signed. (DS9: "The Storyteller")

 

[Rob Hal]

All I'll say is that T'Bonz's rule has really quieted this place down. Board politics used to be be a twenty-four seven roller-coaster. From the trolls to the constant warning/ban policy changes...This place probably had more attempted coups than anywhere else on the net..

That was my goal. To make this a fun place for people (including me!) to post again.

It took help from the mods and help from you guys, but it works.

The TrekBBS used to be a very different place. It was a community that lay in the shadows of the online world, cloaked by the darkness of the evils that lurked in its pages. These were not forums for the weak or for the faint of heart. This was the underbelly of Star Trek online fandom phenomenon; the TrekBBS was home to the online underworld, the seediest and the most unsavory characters imaginable. We moderators acted as the front line between the tenuous and unstable peace that ordinary members posted in and the total chaos that threatened to engulf this place at any moment of any day. The posters who took up the call of the moderator back then were brave men and women, dedicated to fighting evil at whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice. We knew the risks that we took everytime we typed in that URL. We knew that everyday when we logged on to patrol the forums, we might very well be logging on for the last time. Around every corner, in every thread, our undoing could be lying in wait... whether it be from crazed extremists of the science-fiction fandom or radical fundamentalist trolls... terrorists of the modern online community... they watched and they waited for the opportune time to strike... and they did... and there were fatalities. I've seen plenty of good people go down against the evil that plagued us. Friends that did not survive the wars that we fought here. Still, they did not fall in vain. We held strong. And here we are today...

*wipes tear from eye*

I hope that's what they're teaching you in History of the TrekBBS 101 nowadays... Never forget!

 

[Messianni]

All I'll say is that T'Bonz's rule has really quieted this place down. Board politics used to be be a twenty-four seven roller-coaster. From the trolls to the constant warning/ban policy changes...This place probably had more attempted coups than anywhere else on the net..

That was my goal. To make this a fun place for people (including me!) to post again.

It took help from the mods and help from you guys, but it works.

The TrekBBS used to be a very different place. It was a community that lay in the shadows of the online world, cloaked by the darkness of the evils that lurked in its pages. These were not forums for the weak or for the faint of heart. This was the underbelly of Star Trek online fandom phenomenon; the TrekBBS was home to the online underworld, the seediest and the most unsavory characters imaginable. We moderators acted as the front line between the tenuous and unstable peace that ordinary members posted in and the total chaos that threatened to engulf this place at any moment of any day. The posters who took up the call of the moderator back then were brave men and women, dedicated to fighting evil at whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice. We knew the risks that we took everytime we typed in that URL. We knew that everyday when we logged on to patrol the forums, we might very well be logging on for the last time. Around every corner, in every thread, our undoing could be lying in wait... whether it be from crazed extremists of the science-fiction fandom or radical fundamentalist trolls... terrorists of the modern online community... they watched and they waited for the opportune time to strike... and they did... and there were fatalities. I've seen plenty of good people go down against the evil that plagued us. Friends that did not survive the wars that we fought here. Still, they did not fall in vain. We held strong. And here we are today...

*wipes tear from eye*

I hope that's what they're teaching you in History of the TrekBBS 101 nowadays... Never forget!

I still have the scars.

 

[Mallory]

I was a rookie mod back in 2003 Rob, but I got to see your iron fist in action in the TNG forum.

 

[Data Holmes]

Well, the new board says I'm number 388. I've no clue what I was near back on the old board.

All I'll say is that T'Bonz's rule has really quieted this place down. Board politics used to be be a twenty-four seven roller-coaster. From the trolls to the constant warning/ban policy changes...This place probably had more attempted coups than anywhere else on the net..

That was my goal. To make this a fun place for people (including me!) to post again.

It took help from the mods and help from you guys, but it works.

The TrekBBS used to be a very different place. It was a community that lay in the shadows of the online world, cloaked by the darkness of the evils that lurked in its pages. These were not forums for the weak or for the faint of heart. This was the underbelly of Star Trek online fandom phenomenon; the TrekBBS was home to the online underworld, the seediest and the most unsavory characters imaginable. We moderators acted as the front line between the tenuous and unstable peace that ordinary members posted in and the total chaos that threatened to engulf this place at any moment of any day. The posters who took up the call of the moderator back then were brave men and women, dedicated to fighting evil at whatever the cost, whatever the sacrifice. We knew the risks that we took everytime we typed in that URL. We knew that everyday when we logged on to patrol the forums, we might very well be logging on for the last time. Around every corner, in every thread, our undoing could be lying in wait... whether it be from crazed extremists of the science-fiction fandom or radical fundamentalist trolls... terrorists of the modern online community... they watched and they waited for the opportune time to strike... and they did... and there were fatalities. I've seen plenty of good people go down against the evil that plagued us. Friends that did not survive the wars that we fought here. Still, they did not fall in vain. We held strong. And here we are today...

*wipes tear from eye*

I hope that's what they're teaching you in History of the TrekBBS 101 nowadays... Never forget!

That's a pretty cool write up there Rob.

 

[Phoenicianknight]

Hey, what's that smell......?

 

[ancientone51]

RobHal well said.

As to my "number" I've looked at my profile and can't find it. Too early in the morning, but i have to get exams ready for the Seniors so I must go in early and run them off.

 

[Timofnine]

Heeeey Aussie, good to have you around

 

[An Officer]

I can't seem to find my member number either... where in my profile precisely should I be looking?

I think I used to be able to see it on the old board and my number was somewhere in the 3000 range.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I can't seem to find my member number either... where in my profile precisely should I be looking?

I think I used to be able to see it on the old board and my number was somewhere in the 3000 range.

The last number on the URL when you're profile page is up.

 

[An Officer]

^ Great. Thanks! 1327 now. Whoa, I've risen fast.

 

[Mr Light]

We knew the risks that we took everytime we typed in that URL.

You mean you never bookmarked it?

 

[SPOCKED]

I can't seem to find my member number either... where in my profile precisely should I be looking?

I think I used to be able to see it on the old board and my number was somewhere in the 3000 range.

The last number on the URL when you're profile page is up.

So, I'm member #1569? I was somewhere in the 16,000's on the old board. Sweet promotion

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I can't seem to find my member number either... where in my profile precisely should I be looking?

I think I used to be able to see it on the old board and my number was somewhere in the 3000 range.

The last number on the URL when you're profile page is up.

So, I'm member #1569? I was somewhere in the 16,000's on the old board. Sweet promotion

Guess over the years accounts have been pruned, then when we moved to the new board all those missing accounts meant we all got shuffled up... I'm member 717.