Mission Statement

[ascetic1]

I, for one, do not see the legal system as a steady upholder of impeccable morals.

But that's just my opinion.

yeah this is very true.....

haha i am new here, (yes i love stating that fact ) but i havent seen any stupidity in the SHORT time i have been here, but reading through the forums here as opposed to other ones on PBN (not disrespecting, just comparing) the ones here are alot more intelligent...plus i have gotten many a GOOD reply to what i have posted, not getitng flamed as they say for being a noob! i am coming to love this community because of the friendliness i have seen so far, on the other hand PBN is just, in my opinion, a bunch of repetitivness...in regards to intelligent and well thought out topics/threads..this would be under that catagory wouldnt it? lol... ok well keep up the work guys/mods here, cuz i dont see a problem with it! but some things that could be changed are the Gun vs. Gun threads, and Color Choices and stuff...that should be personal choice... the only reason i might be caught asking about Gun vs. Gun or barrels/upgrades is because i have not a clue to what kind of products are out there,good enough to buy, and are at a good price as well.... its not becuase i have been playing paintball for 4 years and need some input for a new toy im a buying, which i have seen people do..

- also with grammar, if it is understandable, then who cares...there are no grammar police on the interent, but on the other hand it is degrading our writing skills and abilities with "lol, hahah, btw, etc.." ill give you that

[Target Practice]

The reason I mentioned anything in the first place was because the Thorums were cited as a "family" sort of forum.

No one ever said that the Thorums were a "family" sort of forum. I said that we are a "family". Big difference there.

[Automaggot68]

No one ever said that the Thorums were a "family" sort of forum. I said that we are a "family". Big difference there.

QFT.
I'm not even part of that family and I see it.
When I attacked one member, the rest of them showed up, and showed me what was what.
Was TP said is True, The Forum isn' the family, The members are.

[teufelhunden]

Am I invited to the picnic, TP?

[Target Practice]

Am I invited to the picnic, TP?

Haha...


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Dude, you ARE the picnic.

[Automaggot68]

Haha...


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Dude, you ARE the picnic.

What about me damnit?
i bring t3h jello!

[SCpoloRicker]

QFT.
I'm not even part of that family and I see it.
When I attacked one member, the rest of them showed up, and showed me what was what.
Was TP said is True, The Forum isn' the family, The members are.

AO is a family as well. Not quite in the literal sense, but that's the point.

[Automaggot68]

AO is a family as well. Not quite in the literal sense, but that's the point.

JELLO, DAMNIT.

[teufelhunden]

Haha...


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Dude, you ARE the picnic.

I'm not quite sure if that's a or a


so all those.

[gc82000]

Haha...


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Dude, you ARE the picnic.

Wasn't that said in a "Silence of the lambs" movie.


If that was directed towards me. I would be in hiding. :spit_take

[tyrion2323]

No one ever said that the Thorums were a "family" sort of forum. I said that we are a "family". Big difference there.

That's what I meant, though I should have worded it differently.

In the end, none of this matters anyways.

[Target Practice]

In the end, none of this matters anyways.

You know, with all the crap that has gone down in the past couple of months, I've broken off some relationships, and made new ones. Like it or not, this affects some of us in real life.

[SCpoloRicker]

You know, with all the crap that has gone down in the past couple of months, I've broken off some relationships, and made new ones. Like it or not, this affects some of us in real life.

Blergh... I'll bring beer.

[Slimm Jimm]

as all of us know, nothing good ever lasts, so when AO dies, where will we go? are there other forums willing to attack spin physics and better efficiency from a mag?

[MajorDamage]

Hmmm... I've been on AO for so damn long and I have seen the transformation that it has gone through.

Here's a quick overview of big moments in my AO history... the order isn't perfect

The beginning: I lurk AO for a month learning about the technical and performance aspects of mags.
The first step: I join AO. My first post was in the classifieds trying to buy Miscue's hypermag. In the first week I hit 500 posts. I am labeled a postwhore.
Intelliframe: The intelliframe box contest begins, people go crazy over it.
Superbolt: More crazy stuff with AGD products. The whole issue of the bolt sleeves breaking becomes big and someone gets hit with a sleeve. The whole superbolt project is scrapped for LX.
X-mag previews released: People go crazy yet again. The first xmag presented is the viagra blue xmag. It is soon followed by the SFL emag. People praise AGD and cry out the future of AGD is bright.
Dream mag contest started: People submit various designs as part of a publicity contest for AO
The internet party era: The WLIPP, thermonuclear thread, and other such parties are concieved. Tom uses them as a tool to boost AGD's and AO's publicity. It starts the influx of all the PBN-esque kiddies. The influx is because of Tom's promise of suprise prizes during the parties and he had random giveways around these event times. He also had his special attic deals that would never be posted anywhere else.
2000: MajorDamage and I both hit 2000 posts within my first 6 months on AO. We both get temp banned our post counts reset.
Clean up: I clean up my act a little.
Technical Roundtable: Idealistic forum where elite members of AO discuss technological aspects and theory surrounding paintball.
Shartley: The shartley acronym issue arises somewhere along the line. BlackCell causes conflict and I jump onto their side. Shartley gets Heather "grip gurl" to suspend her operation temporarily vis shifty methods. Shartley issues eventually resolves though there is still conflict around him due to his sharp, longwinded posts trying to upstage nearly everyone.
New postwhore age: all the new postwhore kiddies jump onto AO. The quality of AO falls further. There is now more clutter than ever.
Dealers: The dealers forum is started.
LPB: yeah... you know

That was a quick overview that isn't very complete. Ever since Tom tried his publicity stunts AO has started going down the crapper. The only reason AO was so great back in the day was because of the lower member count and closer community. The only solution I see the problem is to educate the member base easier. I see so many successful large forums that don't have the PBN problem. They usually aren't JUST a forum though... they're also article laden websites.

I feel that AO is in need of an expansion. I don't mean a server upgrade (though that may be useful). I mean that AO should transform into a website like www.overclockers.com or www.hardocp.com or www.boogiezone.com. If you check out those websites, they have regularly updated features and the home page actually means something. On AO, there is essentially no use for the homepage anymore. All it has is links to the forum and chat. There's no updates, no recent articles, no events. I think that AO ought to get regular articles pretaining to automags or to paintball in general. This will answer a lot of questions before people even consider joining the forums. Once that base of knowlege is established, the general user base of AO will have a higher level of understanding, thus less questions and explaination needed.

we need an AO 2.0

LOL I forgot about our temp counter resets! LOL we were so pissed our little badges of honor for having nothing better to do than to post on EVERY THREAD! That was awesome. I just did a search under my name to see if anyone still mentioned me lol, seems you remember me FooTemps! I LOVEYOU! Oh and for old times sake...

ENDO!