Is it fractionMan's fault?
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quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
fogbat
The Talibum
Are you making me a big man, yet?
I've got all the assorted body parts sewn together into one complete body, but I'm still in search of a living brain to put inside it. Will keep you updated.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
where is that from? lol at JB
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wobbly
the wiki link bottom of the last page
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Also these gems:
Lol. You have to admire Mr Bishop's ability for farcical self-promotion I suppose.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
You must be doing something really wrong if cultural theorists think you're full of shit.
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wobbly
The websites were very niche, and I acknowledge that subject matter is a crucial piece in the jigsaw of the successful running of an online community, as I said at the ITA'09 conference. The Llantrisant Online website had over 200 members by the time it closed in 2003, after neither the Llantrisant Town Trust or I could any longer afford the high bandwidth costs. They still owe me money. The Trust actually described it as a 'mammoth' of a site because of its immense functionality, but one which they did not have the time to nurture.
editor
hiraethified
You're bullshitting.
Those boards had only three contributors and there was barely any content on the site, so there is no way on earth that such a pitifully small offering would attract "high bandwidth costs" - unless you really fucked up the design, of course.
Oh, and what you said at the ITA'09 conference - whatever that is - is completely irrelevant to the disastrous flop that was your failed forums.
fractionMan
Custom Title
lol @ the fact you presented on increasing the membership of online communities.
It's a subject you're quite obviously clueless about
It's a subject you're quite obviously clueless about
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
lol @ the fact you presented on increasing the membership of online communities.
It's a subject you're quite obviously clueless about
as I said before JB is a comic genius, up there with monkhouse I reckon
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hiraethified
His site hit the giddy heights of three members (including himself) and then went straight to zero, with his other site failing to even get indexed by Google.lol @ the fact you presented on increasing the membership of online communities.
It's a subject you're quite obviously clueless about
He surely must be a Chartered IT Professional in Failology.
The chatroom was more popular, as were the e-postcards with artwork supplied by local artists - both bandwith intensive. A novelty of the site, and why many of the 200 people signed up was finding out their family coat of arms provided by a historian and whether they were related to any Freemen of Llantrisant, which was based on a huge database. A lot of work went in to putting this data online, but the Trust weren't willing to keep it up-to-date and I didn't have the time either.
The site had all that was needed to be a successful niche site, but did not have the financial and human resources to manage it.
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hiraethified
You're bullshitting again.
Seeing as your discussion boards only attracted six threads in two years: a 'welcome' one by you, another one by you asking if the 'pound was causing job losses' (replies = 0) and then four others all complaining that no one else was using it, your bandwidth costs would have been negligible.
But let's get some figures: how many e-postcards do you claim that you were sending out every day and how many people were in your chatroom per hour on average throughout the day?
Two hundred people may or may not have signed up to the site, but it's clear that once they saw how shite it was, they never bothered contributing. Why can't you be honest about the reason why the site failed?
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Perhaps he has learned one of the essential truths of the internet, that making a complete twat of oneself will result in far more attention than any number of e-postcards or socio-techno-info-blah-newmedia developments?
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Honestly, is he still fucking here? He's some sort of 90s throwback.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
This is becoming more and more like kicking a shamelessly self-promoting, terminally un-self-aware puppy, with political ambitions, to death.
I mean, still entertaining, obviously.
But it makes me cringe
He's so entirely unequippped to deal with criticism.
true, still attracting 200 people to a discussion board, is rubbish though, isn't it. even if it does have fancy post cards - which I note, WE HAVE NOT BEEN GIVEN HERE!
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wobbly
This is becoming more and more like kicking a shamelessly self-promoting, terminally un-self-aware puppy, with political ambitions, to death.
I mean, still entertaining, obviously.
But it makes me cringe
He's so entirely unequippped to deal with criticism.
he is also entirely unequipped to explain his views in any meaningful way.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
This is becoming more and more like kicking a shamelessly self-promoting, terminally un-self-aware puppy, with political ambitions, to death.
I mean, still entertaining, obviously.
But it makes me cringe
He's so entirely unequippped to deal with criticism.
I agree.
All those lols are a bit sullied now.
It was the same with Peter Dow.
I want TobyJug back.
Lets see how well I do this time, what do you think of my ethos?:
http://www.llantrisant.info/index.php/llantrisant-community/ethos
It's based on a principle I call, 'The Figallo effect', which is where sysop prerogative has been mainly delegated the site's users who use their real identities. It contrasts with the 'Jimbo effect', where everyone is anonymous and sysop prerogative is wielded by an inconsistent and uneven-handed set of administrators.
quimcunx
imprimeo, lamino, distribuo
Who will moderate the removal of comments?
You're all howwible! I've removed your comments. So there!
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