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Title: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 11, 2014, 05:15:10 am
It's (almost) an emotional experience to go through my private messages and read my history/footprint on people. I'm curious to know if some of you guys out there are sharing this feeling from retracing some of the messages that people have directed solely toward you.

My very first PM is of an angry tone and sent by Izzabella, discussing a matter where I humiliated some of her guildmates from the Outlaws in public as a reaction to earlier behavior of theirs. Obviously, she didn't like me. Heck, I wouldn't have liked me. As I keep reading through my PMs and traveling further into the future, I see more PMs from her telling me that she "values my opinion" and was generally saying she missed me. This struck a chord in me: I built relations with people in this community that I had forgotten I'd even built, both good and bad, and many of those grew. I've been having horrible memory lapses lately, and these are really opening up huge chunks of time spent simply conversing with others who are no longer around, but that I wish I could talk to again, just because those relationships were there at one point.

Anyway, to make it a thread... am I the only one who can trace history in such a way? My PMs actually tell a story, and it's really fascinating to me.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: bilbous on September 11, 2014, 05:56:40 am
I never kept the ones I sent. may have wipe them once or twice.
The first one I have is titled funny and contains a dead youtube link that neko sent me in 2008.there were a few from TomT trying to recruit me, another dead link from neko. More concerning forum or bug reports. A few trying to recruit me for various role play events. I should probably check prolix as there was a period after my forum war with zanzibar that I changed nicks.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Prolix on September 11, 2014, 05:57:43 am
oh well I got nothing here.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 11, 2014, 06:20:39 am
oh well I got nothing here.

I have one from you about Donari and I driving off new players? I have no idea what the original context was, though. :P
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: bilbous on September 11, 2014, 06:41:47 am
I don't know I always hated the player market  as being excessively greedy. It might have been that, or something else completely forgotten.
But, you see how right I was? :P
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Volki on September 11, 2014, 07:53:15 am
My inbox is filled with deep, thought-provoking discussions. Here is a small piece, and the first message I received on this account.


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Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: tman on September 11, 2014, 08:07:47 am
All I have is a long winded debate with Illy over whether dog breeding counts as evolution or not.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: LigH on September 11, 2014, 08:45:08 am
My first few PMs: Jjairr asking urgently to meet Gag ... and changing her mind; zorbels and Lolitra about roleplaying; Nilrem Driehl with a bit depressed philosophy; Karyuu asking for a GM nomination (in 2006 already); Cherppow with art stuff; and Inca Sator about a pencil draft of a Rivnak (before implementation) I drew in the middle of the night. Looks pretty different today. But might still work as something else?
_

@ tman: IMHO yes, with extreme selection pressure (human choice).
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on September 11, 2014, 08:55:25 am

I delete PMs like they were diseased or something.
As for nostalgia, I do the same but with forum posts.


Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Volki on September 11, 2014, 10:42:55 am
All I have is a long winded debate with Illy over whether dog breeding counts as evolution or not.

omg I REMEMBER THIS  ;D

@Rigwyn, I'm the same. I go through my old account for laughs sometimes.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Aramara Meibi on September 11, 2014, 03:59:14 pm
it took me a long time before realizing my sent messages were not being saved. the first thing in my inbox was regarding a sermon ara once gave, followed by a discussion from tessra about some delicate OOC/IC misunderstanding situation that I can't clearly remember. most everything else seems positive and RP centered.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 11, 2014, 08:19:44 pm
I'm with you Suno. My first couple pages seems mostly to be a discussion with karyuu about making game models which did actually lead to some of them getting in game. Somewhere in here there's a discussion with Dajoji about dealing with a player in game that absolutely insisted on doing a rape RP with her own characters and another character and I *HAD* to respond to her to keep from make a larger scene in main.

There's PMs from a lot of players I miss seeing around but a few of which I sometimes see drift through here. Several PMs of arguments or colluding to RP. But funnily enough I think my best stuff for history and memories are probably in the logs I've lost. I spent more of the time chattering/complaining/goofing off with peoples in tells in game. Gosh I wish PS had a log repository so you could recover lost logs. My past computers have eaten a lot of good stuff. :(

All I have is a long winded debate with Illy over whether dog breeding counts as evolution or not.

Yeah, I still got issue with that but ah well.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on September 12, 2014, 02:14:30 am
All I have is a long winded debate with Illy over whether dog breeding counts as evolution or not.

Yeah, I still got issue with that but ah well.

Is this an evolution vs intelligent design thing?
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: lilura on September 12, 2014, 02:43:14 am
plz dont start that up again
i will cry
 :offtopic:  :oops:
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: tman on September 12, 2014, 02:44:36 am
It was about whether the changes made by breeders count as "evolution" because there's no "natural selection" occurring, I honestly don't remember the details because my inbox doesn't save sent mail.

Anyway we all got threatened by lilura that if we argued about it on a public forum we'd be banned, so we probably shouldn't get into it...  :-X
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on September 12, 2014, 02:49:06 am
It was about whether the changes made by breeders count as "evolution" because there's no "natural selection" occurring, I honestly don't remember the details because my inbox doesn't save sent mail.

Anyway we all got threatened by lilura that if we argued about it on a public forum we'd be banned, so we probably shouldn't get into it...  :-X

LOL

Good times :)
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Aramara Meibi on September 12, 2014, 02:58:58 am
lilura!

err...  :love:
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: tman on September 12, 2014, 03:30:31 am
Damn it guys, I have a paper I have to write by tomorrow and I've just wasted the last hour reading our old debates about metaphysical gods, determinism, our very limited understanding of quantum mechanics...
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on September 12, 2014, 03:47:23 am

Oh gee.. and I was just about to start a new thread on the morality, potential benefits and hazards of eugenics... >.>

Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Aramara Meibi on September 12, 2014, 05:11:32 am
you mean alien abducted commienazi MKUltra supersoldiers?
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 12, 2014, 06:49:10 am
Quote from: Rigwyn
Is this an evolution vs intelligent design thing?
plz dont start that up again
i will cry
 :offtopic:  :oops:
Send PMs then Lilu doesn't have to relive that. :whistling:



Oh gee.. and I was just about to start a new thread on the morality, potential benefits and hazards of eugenics... >.>

This means that if Lilu wants peace she actually just has to stop Rigwyn from making controversial threads since he's generally the cause of the threads that turn into long debates that may or may not result in Mod action.  ;D

Damn it guys, I have a paper I have to write by tomorrow and I've just wasted the last hour reading our old debates about metaphysical gods, determinism, our very limited understanding of quantum mechanics...

Never read long threads on this forum if you need to do something. ;) You will invariable lose time... unless it's the birthday thread. You can probably read that one without losing the whole day.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: LigH on September 12, 2014, 08:12:19 am
Back to topic:

Does anyone still have stored PMs before 2006? If not ... was there a forum software change?
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on September 12, 2014, 11:30:46 am
This means that if Lilu wants peace she actually just has to stop Rigwyn from making controversial threads since he's generally the cause of the threads that turn into long debates that may or may not result in Mod action.  ;D

Awe come on, they're fun and they make you think... unlike some of the brainless topics I've seen here.

you mean alien abducted commienazi MKUltra supersoldiers?

Nah, I was actually thinking something more along the lines of whether or not eugenics could and should be utilized and what the moral/ethical implications might be. 

Oh screw it.. I'll make the thread, but I don't think it will gather much steam...

Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: bilbous on September 12, 2014, 03:06:30 pm
Ya, there was originally a different forum software, I believe, just like there was originally a different bug tracker. The domain also changed.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 14, 2014, 02:07:02 am
Back to topic:

Does anyone still have stored PMs before 2006? If not ... was there a forum software change?

Come to think of it, I don't. Yeah, I remember when they migrated the forums over here (hence many old posts having /s through random areas of punctuation). That must've wiped out a good chunk of stuff. Never really thought of that; maybe I wasn't doing spring cleaning.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: CadRipper on September 14, 2014, 12:08:15 pm
Ah, dangerous thing to dwell on the past. Probably even more dangerous catching oneself doing it then trying to analyze it, I'll take a rain check on this one ;)

Back to topic:

Does anyone still have stored PMs before 2006? If not ... was there a forum software change?

I don't either... they did change the forums around then (http://www.hydlaaplaza.com/smf/index.php?topic=23181.0) because the previous host shamelessly abandoned us, and I believe the PM's were wiped out - as were the in-game PS characters now and then *shudders*. You can also see that if you look at people's post history, the old ones are a bit funny, they contain  escaped character and for my part I can't seem able to see the thread they were posted in. But at least they were imported, it would have been sad to lose this part of, erm, brilliant history.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 14, 2014, 12:21:42 pm
I thought I remembered seeing a forum thread about that. :D I came after the switch over but still soon enough to have seen that thread for one reason or another.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: CadRipper on September 14, 2014, 01:03:13 pm
Probably by honing those forum search skills that are so vital to survive here ;)

Lucky you, you didn't have to go through the traumatizing experience of waking up to a deserted forum website :D Others were not so lucky, we certainly lost a whole flock of fans that day! To think they probably went over to Planescape YouShallNotUtterThatNameHere game or another forsaken place...
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 14, 2014, 01:15:25 pm
Perhaps so perhaps so...  ;D

Wasn't the old forum a different color scheme as well? Something with blue, I think, I read. Ah, but there is the real forum gold though, the actual threads. Maybe someone will making a thread about remember your old forums posts. XD Most of mine are there and mostly harmless. Shame though, some were deleted. :whistling: :innocent:

I do wish though that in my earlier days of RPing I had posted more to the forums about it as now most of my good logs are lost to the sands of time.  :'(
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: CadRipper on September 14, 2014, 01:46:51 pm
Shht, don't give bad ideas to innocent people - and I'm not even talking about the others.  :-X

You're right, there were in blue tones, more appropriate IMHO. Let's have a quick look at those fond memories with ze ultimate weapon - the WayBack Machine!! So evil, so evil... the main boards (http://web.archive.org/web/20040419010501/http://www.planeshift3d.com/wbboard/main.php), and the main site (http://web.archive.org/web/20040612083840/http://www.planeshift.it/main_01.html) (it might take a while to show up from the depths of the past, so be patient young padawan). It's even possible to get back to the very early sites, Kada's tavern, and yet older forums (for ex. by following the "older news"), with this scarry and devious weapon, but yeah, let's leave the past where it belongs :)
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 15, 2014, 02:17:01 am
Did you have to go back to the MB forum, Cad? I wanted to see the one right after that. :P
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: bilbous on September 15, 2014, 05:36:41 am
The smf standard skin is silver an blue, I think. This brown was done by one of the mods I think, possibly karyuu
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: CadRipper on September 15, 2014, 08:11:06 pm
Did you have to go back to the MB forum, Cad? I wanted to see the one right after that. :P

I wanted everyone who didn't see them to realize what they missed :p
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Eonwind on September 16, 2014, 12:09:17 pm
Damn it guys, I have a paper I have to write by tomorrow and I've just wasted the last hour reading our old debates about metaphysical gods, determinism, our very limited understanding of quantum mechanics...

 ;D I remember this one
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Moogie on September 18, 2014, 06:56:21 am
There's been too many forum hosts and whatnot for any of my oldest to survive, but the earliest I still have dates back to 2006, about 3 years into my time here. It was from a user named Venae Rell, asking something about the Enkidukai language. I apparently responded with some useful lore information, but the sent message wasn't preserved.

Then a few days later, a message from ThomPhoenix thanking me for joining some contest? xP Who knows, it's all lost to the mists of time.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 18, 2014, 07:07:35 am
Speaking of the mists of time. I wonder how many former players will now appear that Moggie has posted? :D

However, I know that I wish that I had had a better habit of saving my responses as sometimes I have no idea what I said and the post sent in response has no clues whatsoever.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Moogie on September 18, 2014, 07:10:27 am
I usually just forget, when the forum doesn't automatically tick the option "save a copy of this to your Sent Box". I end up sending the mail and not having a copy saved. :(

Also, yeah... incoming oldbie wave! I seem to have that effect around here! Hehe

I'm thinking of hopping ingame and checking out the new stuff. I haven't played since the very first combat was added. It looks... intimidating...
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on September 18, 2014, 08:03:25 am
There's a lot of new things now so it's not just combat. Not as many skills are waiting to be implemented SoonTM. Mind you that might mean there will be a wave of oldbies in game too. Which is a good thing. ;)
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: CadRipper on September 18, 2014, 08:50:43 am
Mogura Moogie!  \\o//

Good to see you around :) I'm tempted to swap skin with an enki too. Curious to see all the new features that were added, erm, "soon" ;)
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: LigH on September 18, 2014, 09:17:52 am
 :o Moogie! Lurking oldbie! :flowers:

Venae is still present in LinkedIn for me.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Suno_Regin on September 18, 2014, 04:46:01 pm
I should change the thread name to Lurkers Anonymous
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Elvicat on October 01, 2014, 12:25:26 pm
Yes you should, lurk lurk :devil:  ;D
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on October 01, 2014, 08:35:18 pm
Elvi! o/
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Rigwyn on October 02, 2014, 12:36:48 am
Elvi, how are you!
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Elvicat on October 08, 2014, 12:31:00 pm
Don't you guys see that i'm lurking?  :o

Hehe i'm... ok as kan be  :P
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on October 08, 2014, 08:30:09 pm
Hehe i'm... ok as kan be  :P

Good to hear. How's that Minecraft project going? Got any other videos? :D
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Elvicat on October 09, 2014, 11:33:07 am
I finnished that long ago so no more ps builds, as for videos, just type in pselvi on youtube and you'll find me.
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Illysia on October 09, 2014, 10:04:06 pm
Sorry to take over your thread Suno, but *squee* The steampunk train station. I love it. :D
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Drey on December 09, 2014, 05:03:34 pm
Yeah, 2006 for SMF forum PMs.

Pre 2006 I'm quite sure it was mostly complaints about Moogie's moderation.

(Also, 2nd thread necro'd. Go me \o/)
Title: Re: Forum Private Messages: Your History
Post by: Pyros_Wildfire on March 01, 2015, 04:24:33 am
All my PM's on my Odessa Wildfire forum account (long deactivated) prior 2nd January, 2007 were lost due to a shameful rage quit for reasons best left consigned to the void.
Although, I seem to recall one PM from... (quickly looks up name having forgotten  :-[ ) Rilar regarding an event that was to take place with Embers Wildfire and goons attacking Hydlaa.  That was some time around late November 2006.

My only PM on this account was a response from Zorbels 03 April, 2012 to a query regarding lost logs of our short but intense RP's.