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[Donut]

Originally posted by Diamond Q: Ah, The love in this place...

The return of the Q!!

[Reeka]

I remember posting on the old blue board. Maybe we should start a club for the "blue boarders."

[Asphyxiate]

Would it have a bard? Bart the Blue Boarder's Bard?

I can feel da love [img]smile.gif[/img] Reeka, umm "Blue Boarders" would be a pretty small subset of the users wouldn't it? Id hate to see things degenerate to "us" vs "them" that way I stayed here because there really wasn't any of the snobbishness that other boards seem to have [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Diamond Q]

Originally posted by Donut: quote: Originally posted by Diamond Q: Ah, The love in this place...

The return of the Q!![/QUOTE]Shh!

[Black Knight]

Originally posted by The.Relic: BS I know what you mean. Alot of us old Blue Boarders were members of both IW and BG Dungeon Tavern both. The Tavern was a great place, but the seeds of discord and controversy were just too prominent which ultimately led to their demise. IW in those days was a close knit group of people, we were more like a family of friends rather than the controversy and flaming that overcame the Tavern. I have seen too many boards go down the drain due to controversy and flaming, the lack of which makes IW so great and one of the many reasons why IW stands the test of time.

Well..I'm not saying we haven't had our ups and down....I took a couple of weeks away due to some unrest and posting wars with other boards...but I was more than happy to come back to the happy little on-line community that we call IW...

BK

[Black Knight]

Originally posted by Galadria: Azreal, your story is very close to mine. If only we could get the newbies in the BGII forum over here, I know that they would like it, at least some of them. For me, it was Cloudy's. I saw the name and thought that it sounded cool but was too shy even to lurk at first. Then I posted and Cloudy was nice to me, so I stayed. But, I am sure that if I had been ignored, I would never have come back.

I too am a BGII refuge - however, mine was back in the old days (gets on rocking chair and stuffs unlit pipe in mouth) when we didn't even HAVE a General Discussion board...and we liked it...not like you youngins with yer fancy cars and fancy clothes...where's my teeth....

I was looking at the walk throughs and help stuff and clicked on the wrong part and went to something called a f-o-r-u-m...there were a lot of helpful posts. Then I saw that someone was in a car accident and people knew something was wrong before she posted it... she had been gone for 2 or 3 days and someone started a thread about her, and then she posted on it telling what happened...then one of the others started a well wishing post for her. I signed up and wished her well...and a few thousand posts later...here I am still. It's more than a chat site, it's a community.

BK

[Talthyr Malkaviel]

Well, although my story took place 5 months later than BKs, it's similar.
I came seeking BG2 tips, and also to dispense some knowledge, and I somehow got sucked into to the thriving community that is Ironworks, and I have to say I'm damn well glad I did.
That is why I am so annyoed at how few people stay on to GD, and I've said so before.
Maybe when the new server's up, something like a sticky telling them all about GD, and showing them what they could be missing.