Why did you leave VBF?

[InvisibleDuncan]

Bonk, that's the scariest thing I've seen in a long while.

[mendhak]

Now, what's the point in making a geeky 'chips' joke if no one's gonna get it?

Try an advanced geek joke, like

"Because there's too much oxygen in it!"

(SiO₂)

Si = Silicon
O = Oxygen.

These are chemical elements. You find them on big charts in chemistry laboratories.

[Bonker Gudd]

Kim looks so happy next to Ben

[NoteMe]

If that is what she looks like when she is happy, then I don't want to see her when she looks angry..


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[manavo11]

I'm hungry.

[thegreatone]

Worst Thread Ever.

[manavo11]

Worst Thread Ever.

No, and I'm still hungry.

[CornedBee]

Hey, I'm hungry too!

And tired. I think I'll go to bed.

[thegreatone]

No, and I'm still hungry.

Get some food then silly.

Also, why does the "Quick reply" button clear this text area
Its rather silly.

[plenderj]

Hello peeps... many blasts from the past

[MrPolite]

ah the unbanned!
that filburtish guy left never to come back... he was scared w00t

[NoteMe]

Let him be scared...I like scaring people with my two egged head. Only use I can find for it...


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[Datacide]

I left because everyone kept stealing my avatar

[Phreak]

Put ©copyright on ur avatar ....

[DragonFly]

Hello peeps... many blasts from the past

Hey sweetcakes :snog: how you bin?

[Phill64]

I left because... oh wait.. i'm new, i never left at all! nevermind then.

[MrPolite]

same here
time to leave

[Pc_Madness]

ROFL! GW is looking good there.

[crptcblade]

I wish I could understand Australio

[BodwadUK]

Wow its like and OAP home in here

[vbcode1980]

OAP?

[BodwadUK]

OLD AGED PENTIONER

[Wally Pipp]

Over Acting Petitioner

[beachbum]

[CyberSurfer]

Wow, few faces I haven't seen for a few years in this thread!!

[crptcblade]

Where have you been hiding? I've had to manage these dunderpates all by my lonesome.

[zuperman]

when i arrived here (back to 2000) this was a wonderful place...no .net stuff...all vb6...a cool site...without ads...with people like Megatron, Hack, a kid named Mathew Gates i supose, crptcblade, karl ... and a much more... it was a good community... it was special...

i think i have a mirror of that old site somewhere ...

now...is just another commercial site... too many ads... too many moderation... its ok to learn...only...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Oh I dunno. Things have changed, people have come, people have gone, people have died, but there's still life here. Still interesting characters saying interesting things. Might be less free-wheeling, but there are still some pretty free-wheelin folks around here.

[NoteMe]

[QUOTE=Shaggy Hiker]Oh I dunno. Things have changed, people have come, people have gone, people have died..../QUOTE]


And people have changed. Some unexistent or fun people have in the long run turned into monsters from an other world. (I am not pointing at someone special...well I do really)....

[Shaggy Hiker]

[QUOTE=NoteMe]

Oh I dunno. Things have changed, people have come, people have gone, people have died..../QUOTE]


And people have changed. Some unexistent or fun people have in the long run turned into monsters from an other world. (I am not pointing at someone special...well I do really)....

As god is my witness, I haven't a clue what that post means, refers to, or otherwise is about

[honeybee]

when i arrived here (back to 2000) this was a wonderful place...no .net stuff...all vb6...a cool site...without ads...with people like Megatron, Hack, a kid named Mathew Gates i supose, crptcblade, karl ... and a much more... it was a good community... it was special...

i think i have a mirror of that old site somewhere ...

now...is just another commercial site... too many ads... too many moderation... its ok to learn...only...

There was John Percival, Parksie, Dennis Wrenn, kovan and a lot of them others.

The most shocking news for me after I returned to the forums after a gap of a couple of years was Parksie's death.


Funny, back when I had first joined, there had been debates on whether to have a separate Chit Chat forum because people had started posting chit chat stuff in either the General VB or in Forum Feedback. And after it had been created, whether its posts should count towards the total post count. Guess some things never change

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[honeybee]

And regarding the ads, I guess when the ownership of the forums transferred from Karl Moore to the JupiterWorld (?) people (read: Brad Jones and co), many members left in protest of the deal, and also in protest of the moderation and advertisements. However it was soon back to business for the other members, ads or no ads.

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[si_the_geek]

I never really understood why people had a problem with JM, or the (relatively small & easy to scroll past) ad's. Without them the site would have collapsed due to the "weight" of users. Things have still been a bit stretched at times ('server busy' type errors), even with the extra budget they bring.

As to the moderation, I don't see why that's such a biggie - we're very relaxed compared to most large tech forums.

[honeybee]

I never really understood why people had a problem with JM, or the (relatively small & easy to scroll past) ad's. Without them the site would have collapsed due to the "weight" of users. Things have still been a bit stretched at times ('server busy' type errors), even with the extra budget they bring.

As to the moderation, I don't see why that's such a biggie - we're very relaxed compared to most large tech forums.

Some people can't accept the changes, some people can shrug them off...

Financial constraints and the threat of shutting down VBF was what forced a takeover, which in my frank opinion, some of the members could not digest. As a result there were many offshoots of VBF, started by or promoted by ex-VBF members.

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[MasterBlaster]

or fun people have in the long run turned into monsters from an other world. (I am not pointing at someone special...well I do really)....

GWRARRRRRRGRABBLEGWARRRRR


That was monster for whatcu talkin bout Willis

[Gaffer]

I left because the Golden Chair became a blueprint for my life.

[Gaffer]

I tell you how old some of the contributors to this thread are. Honeybee still has this link on his sig: Get more power for your floppy disks.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This thread has been hangin' around so long that it predates me.

[wossname]

This thread ate my lobsters.