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 Post subject: We are closing
PostPosted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:49 pm 
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Hello possums!

As time goes on, as nothing much happens and as most of us find it easier to do all this on Facebook nowadays, I have decided to close the site. Registration to the forums are disabled and pretty soon I think I will simply disable posting to the forums and just keep them open for reading reference.

It's been a good 10 years, and I've loved every second of them. See you elsewhere, all the time!

Cheers and love

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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I blame Eric

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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I'll see you in the whisps of vapor that we'll be in roughly 12 minutes...who's up for a drink?

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:23 am 
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Well, well, DAC... so the lid finally closes on the great golden mausoleum, right?

Well, I can only speak for myself - I surely have, as well as others, tried to offer a way out of this, but you refused for reasons I can perfectly understand yet and now the inevitable has happened all the same.

When I addressed you in early 2009 there was still a way you could have joined forces and prevented Colfer´s book, by saying no! We want to have a word in there, we don´t just take a writer, because he has tremendous reputation as a seller, we want to have a contest about that! We only accept a version which is worthy of becoming the sequel!

But you were not willing to let go, you were too busy opposing me and others and even after I have gone the longest way and apologised for my short-comings to an extent you rarely see anywhere else - it was too late. I was about to write a seventh volume (I think, I still will, sometime) and there were others, who would have kept the memory of Douglas alive by writing in his style, by using his figures and expanding and continuing his ideas and thoughts, but there was no interest whatsoever, in none of it, I for my part finally turned to other things and don´t think I will ever be able to put up that much enthusiasm ever again as I was ready to put up back then.

But it´s alright.
Surely this is just the way it is supposed to be, who knows.
This was a great forum and a great contribution and it sure will make a great archive in the future.

I am happy to have met all of you and I´m sure you have made your peace with me after all and with my version, I´m sure its time will still come, and I wish you all the best and I´d be happy if some of you joined me on Facebook! Yours, Jochen

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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i realize i´m in no position to bitch about this, but it makes me saaaaad! especially because i have all sorts of reservations vis à vis facebook and i´m not sure if even this will make me get an account.
*bursts into tears*

dueky, i guess your mind´s made up and it´s always been a motto of mine "go as long as they´ll still miss you". so instead of bitching, i´ll just say thank you for this place. it´s been the first place to show me the good sides of the internet and i´ve met some fab people here.
oh well. onwards and upwards!


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:18 pm 
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Then Nell, just use a non-traceable e-mail to register, don't record any personal info, but please, just join in!! We won't tell anyone you're there, I promise!

You've missed so much in the past year!

Big meetups, the Party, the Tour...I can't believe you missed the Live Tour!!

You would have loved it!


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:20 pm 
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It sucks, but it is our own dang fault, I guess. Nell, there are plenty of us on Facebook, which I guess is part of the problem, and, if you change your mind, we will be right there. Unless Google+ suddenly takes off, which I think is rather unlikely.

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:35 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Tue Aug 14, 2012 6:42 pm 
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Poooo......
I try to stay away from Facebooking, yet I do on rare occasions. Now I'll be forced to if I want to keep chatting with you all. Not that I have much time to chat these days anyway. I'm sad panda.


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:13 am 
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Mike wrote:
I'll see you in the whisps of vapor that we'll be in roughly 12 minutes...who's up for a drink?

I'll be too busy evaporating myself but what the hell.

stejacorca wrote:
I'll have a stiff one.


Wa hey!

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:14 am 
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Nellodee wrote:
i realize i´m in no position to bitch about this, but it makes me saaaaad! especially because i have all sorts of reservations vis à vis facebook and i´m not sure if even this will make me get an account.
*bursts into tears*

Hmmmph! You don't really like us, do you? :neutral:

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:07 am 
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:( I'll miss the old DAC. I know we still have facebook, but it's not the same... especially without Nellodee!


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:44 pm 
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It's a shame. Facebook killed us and it doesn't have the vibe the good ol' DAC used to have. I'm to blame as much as anyone else, sorry about that. We're still together as a group after all these years which is great but we've lost the intimacy we once had and enjoyed so much. Ho hum, move on, nothing to see here.

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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True. Never seen any frog-gigging on facebook either...sigh.


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:12 pm 
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Poop :(

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 5:16 pm 
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Why is it frog gigger anyway? Should it not say "monkey gigger"?
What´s a gigger anyway, dumb German wonders...

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 8:24 pm 
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I was afraid this was going to happen. I was going to try and post on the forum at least once a day, but life kept getting in the way. This makes me the saddest.


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 10:33 pm 
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Jochen Lembke wrote:
Why is it frog gigger anyway? Should it not say "monkey gigger"?
What´s a gigger anyway, dumb German wonders...

Lost in the distant recesses of my memory mate. Maybe Moongodess, the forum historian supreme can remind us?
Shit, I'm missing the DAC already...

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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I told you this would all end in tears! :'(

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:51 am 
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Marvin * sigh... * wrote:
I told you this would all end in tears! :'(
Haha, that´s a good one!
Well, living we fret, dying we live.

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:29 pm 
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This makes me sad, but the last couple of years things have been very quiet here. All things must pass. Facebook is not the same, but there is a hint if the old DAC there. Maybe it's just that some of us are there. I would urge those of you who are wary of Facebook to concoct a comfortable Facebook identity and join us over there (DQ has one). Sign yourself up for one of the free email services and use it just for FB (such spamming!).

Meeting the DAC enriched my life in ways I cannot put into words. You all are really special.

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:46 pm 
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vagabond wrote:
I would urge those of you who are wary of Facebook to concoct a comfortable Facebook identity and join us over there (DQ has one). Sign yourself up for one of the free email services and use it just for FB (such spamming!).


There aren't any real people there anyway.


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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:21 pm 
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actually, along with privacy concerns my main problem with facebook is the same as with computer games: i fear it may be addictive. i have a super-low addiction threshold and i´m extremely bad at quitting, so i fear once i get sucked into de facebook... i´ll go all the way, and i have no time as it is.
still, if i did it for one reason, it would be you guys/the DAC. this here is really a special place and i need to get back in touch with it. bad times not over for me yet, but what the hell, life goes on, might as well have fun.
oh, and we finally found our house!
:happy:

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:40 pm 
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Good news on the house, Nell. Piccie?

And FB isn't addictive at all. Honest.

Shame the linking seems to be down...

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:59 pm 
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Actually, Nell, you have control on who you let in as friends, so you could just self-restrict yourself to DAC only.

And do we have a date for the day the union boys are shutting us down? I wanna know how much time I have to steal stuff and punch holes in the walls.


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:49 pm 
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Tony wrote:
Shame the linking seems to be down...

Linking isn't actually down, your post had BBCode disabled.
Good thing you've got a powerful bitch around to fix things like that for you!

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 Post subject: Re: We are closing
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Scratch wrote:
Maybe Moongodess, the forum historian supreme can remind us?

Sorry, those brain cells seem to be missing.
All I can come up with is that it may have had something to do with your rigging skills ...

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Wow, it seems like the end of a very good era. My time here since 2004 (my golly, it's been 8 years?!) has been the best and I'm extremely lucky to find y'all in this mess of the Internet. Yeah Facebook is not the same but at least we haven't all disintegrated into the ether and we keep communication through the Social Network.


Goddamit now I'm sad and I actually have tears forming in my eyes.

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This is such a shame.

Is there any way of saving the forum for personal viewing? There's a whole chunk of my life on here. The meetups, my road trip and even all the crazy cascade post.
I'd hate to lose it forever


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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2012 10:53 pm 
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Gusty wrote:
Is there any way of saving the forum for personal viewing? There's a whole chunk of my life on here. The meetups, my road trip and even all the crazy cascade post.
I'd hate to lose it forever

The first post says it will be kept as readable.

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Any chance this is a clever ruse? We are more active now than we've been in awhile.

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[quote="Mike"]Any chance this is a clever ruse? We [i]are[/i] more active now than we've been in awhile.[/quote]

I don't know what our sex lives have to do with this.


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Mike wrote:
Any chance this is a clever ruse? We are more active now than we've been in awhile.


I don't know what our sex lives have to do with this.


It has Everything to do with this! It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man problem all over again - if we get this forum laid, we don't have a problem!

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[quote="Mike"][quote="AlohaJoe"][quote="Mike"]Any chance this is a clever ruse? We [i]are[/i] more active now than we've been in awhile.[/quote]

I don't know what our sex lives have to do with this.[/quote]

It has [i][b]Everything[/b][/i] to do with this! It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man problem all over again - if we get this forum laid, we don't have a problem![/quote]

Well, I've been coming here more frequently...

Also, I can't get the formatting stuff to work.


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:37 pm 
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Is someone willing to take it over from Jenz? I do not have the time or knowledge....


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I'd be happy to. Got my own little bit of server space away from work that hosts a few bits and pieces on there, including a couple of hash sites and a photo database but it's Jenz to decide.

Agree with Gusty is there are things on here that really need preserving, I'm thinking especially of the "celeb" chats we managed to have with

And it's because of this forum I came up with my moniker. You guys have got a hell of a lot to answer for... :-)

(and that's reminded me of a line from ages ago, "would you trust anything a goat wearing a straw hat" says?)


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Is someone willing to take it over from Jenz? I do not have the time or knowledge....


That would be nice, though it doesn't really fix the problem: That we hardly ever use it anymore. It is a ghosttown, and I am not sure getting a new mayor will help, especially not if we don't make an effort to repopulate the place.

I think the site being down for what I remember as extended periods of time, no fault of Jenz or anyone on here, really hit us hard. We got out of the habit and never really got back into it.

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I'm trying to get back in the swing of things, but unfortunately I'm out of practice!

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The DAC forum is in my "Everyday" bookmarks file, so i look in almost every day, still. But I will admit that as things slowed down I didn't post anything. But I am here everyday.


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I am here everyday, too. I just don't know what to post because there's not much to reply to. I update my "Look What I Did" thread regularly, though.


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