Registered: May 2001
Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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I've just been reading through the best-of archive there. There's some funny as hell content. Is there any particular reason why it went stagnent and/or closed?

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Registered: Jul 2000
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It takes work and time...

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Registered: Aug 2000
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That and lack of audience participation, so to speak. I mean, sure, people contributed, but there was a certain critical mass to hit that it just didn't have at the end.

But the "it takes time" part is probably the biggest, considering, um, yeah.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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It was mostly killed by the lack of quality visitor participation. The few people that actually submitted questions were normally just lame ones like *shivan beam weapon powers up!!!!!1!!*.

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or "all you-<censored by VW>"

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Naw we can tell the truth, it's because [sarcasm]We were threatened with lawsuits by a member of the FS community![/sarcasm]

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TE LEETEST CODAR EVER!

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err... ahahahaha

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Registered: May 2001
Location: Bedfordshire, UK
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Ahh so that's what pissed him off, I've been wondering what prompted that for a while. It must have been this thread: http://www.volitionwatch.com/oracle/listdetails.php?TopicID=692 (feel free to remove if there's actually a danger of any lawsuit taking place).

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