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G&F's History
« Thread Started on Dec 19, 2007, 4:56am »

Gold & Fury's History
Gold and Fury had humble beginnings. It began as nothing more then one Role-play thread on the Playstation Underground (PSU). This thread, called Jak and Daxter Role-Playing Thread, began with a simple setting of the Jak 2 era, in which the original RPers created their characters and made the plot move and twist with every post. In the original thread there was no plot set up, the RPers just set the time frame and reacted to the actions of the other characters. This thread quickly became popular, adding 30+ pages of RP every day. However a short time after its creation the Moderators began to feel that the thread was getting out of control with spam and inappropriate comments. They attempted to limit the number of posts allowed for each RPer, so that no one would be willing to spend a post to spam. But this move turned out to be a very unpopular amongst the RPers, so they began looking and talking about creating their own site. Mean while the thread on the PSU creeped along at a very sluggish pace for a couple of days, mostly filled with flaming about how much the limit was not appreciated. Due to the flaming and spam, the Mods finally locked the RP thread with very little hope of another ever taking it's place. By the time the thread was locked two of the RPers, Pinkecofreak an Wire X, had agreed on a location and a name for the site. The site was named Gold and Fury after the corrupted forms of their characters, Syia and Raven; who became Fury Syia and Gold Raven when corrupted with eco. The new site, hosted by Eamped moved along rather slowly in it's first few months, the membership consisting almost entirely of the original group of RPers in the PSU thread. Having a very rocky start, with much trial and error G&F finally began to make some progress a few months after it's creation, but there remained some internal problems. These problems would give to some minor flares here and there, but nothing that wasn't controllable, however there came a time when built up aggression finally gave way. Starting with a simple comment or action one member decided to do some major flaming, this flaming received retaliation, which then brought more members into the flaming. This known as a flamewar, quickly got out of hand growing into an all out assault that nearly tore G&F apart. After several hours of flaming things began to finally calm down, giving the staff some time to try to fix the damage with the best badges they could manage to think of. These bandages, as all badges do, only solved the problem short term. A few weeks after the first flamewar broke out, another began. This new flamewar hit G&F even harder then the first, though the staff was more prepared for the second one, it still toke it's tole on the attendance of G&F. It amazes and baffles me to this day that no one on either side of the flamewar was banned or punished for their actions during that time, but I was not an Admin then so I did not have much say in the matter. After the second flamewar things finally settled back down, the problem members avoided each other in an attempt to avoid another conflict, until these members who were in the middle of it all left G&F for different reasons. Over the next couple months G.&F finally found it's rooting once again, the membership began to pick up, bringing in a hand full of newcomers. However despite G&F's progress we encountered a new problem, one that none of the staff or membership had expected. The problem came in the form of the host it's self. Eamped was having constant server problems, causing G&F to go down for hours at a time, even lasting a whole day a couple of times. This problem continued for quite some time, it sitting as a constant discussion amongst the staff as to what to do about the problem. As the problem worsened the staff finally decided to let the membership chose what action to take. Posting a poll asking if G&F should be moved of not the membership chose almost unanimously to move the site to a new host. So the staff got to work, quickly finding Proboards, we built our domain and worked on the site for a few weeks, making sure that everything was built and in order before unveiling the new location of G&F to the membership. Over a weekend, during one of the most active times of the week on G&F, the staff released the URL to the Proboards location, which quickly became the new home of G&F as the membership moved in with awe and wonder at the new domain. So here we stand. G&F on Proboards, a well rooted and well put together Jak & Daxter role-play and fan-fiction site.

Staff History

1. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | Wire X; Dark_Jak87 - Moderators
2. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | Wire X; Dark_Jak87; DVM-501 - Moderators

~ 1^st Flamewar begins

3. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | Wire X; Dark_Jak87; DVM-501 - Moderators

~ 2^nd Flamewar begins

~ G&F moves to Proboards

10. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | DVM-501 - Assistant Admin
11. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | DVM-501 - Assistant Admin | Deco - Temporary Moderator
12. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | DVM-501 - Assistant Admin
13. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | DVM-501 - Assistant Admin | twilightgearz - Moderator
14. Pinkecofreak - Administrator | DVM-501 - Assistant Admin

~ The day this history was last updated

One thread... On one board... From one Forum... Became a site.
Gold & Fury welcomes you to our domain and home.
May you have a pleasant and wonderful stay.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #1 on Dec 19, 2007, 10:53am »

Nice, this is ery good and descriptive, but i cant but help feel guilty that one of the "flamewars " started because I had a lot of trouble grammatically, but I still say that was me going brain dead from being outta school

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #2 on Dec 19, 2007, 2:28pm »

Thanks, I worked hard to describe the events that had significance to the way G&F is today. That's why I added the month of flamewars to it, those flamewars are a big part of the form and structure of G&F today. Those flamewars caused the staff to re-look at the way the site was run and held together, and forced the staff to rework that form and structure to prevent such things from happening again. It was a huge learning experience for everyone, especially the staff. That was also the beginnings of my position today. At the time of the flamewars I was Mod, but my actions during that time began the trust that I have worked for with Pink. That trust is what eventually lead Pink to make me an Admin later on. So, ya those events had a huge impact on G&F and the way it is today.

As for you being part of the cause... I wont deny that your spelling and grammar were horrible at the time, but you're not at fault for the start of the flamewar. The flaming that was made towards you for your grammar and spelling should not have happened at all. Those who did that should have asked you to fix it rather then attack you. So don't worry about it, as long as the grammar and spelling is fixed, then everything is fine. We don't expect perfection here, I suck at English, it's my worst class, so I'm not about to get on someone as long as I can read and understand what they are typing.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #3 on Dec 19, 2007, 5:38pm »

I think there should be a staff history in there.

Pink and Wire-Sole admins
Pink and Wire- Sole admins, with Darkjak_87 as moderator
Pink and Darkjak_87 as sole admins
Pink and Darkjak as head admins, DVM as mod
Pink & DJ as head admins, JakRox as temporary admin, DVM as mod (Flame war era)
Pink & DJ as head admins, JakRox and DVM as mods
Pink and DVM as head admins, JakRox and DJ as mods
Pink and DVM as head admins, DJ as mod
Pink and DVM as head admins.
Pink and DVM as head admins, deco as temporary mod
Pink and DVM as head admins with Twilightgearz as mod

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #4 on Dec 19, 2007, 6:40pm »

That staff history is incorrect.

Though I like the idea. I'll add a staff history to the fist post in a little bit.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #5 on Dec 19, 2007, 7:56pm »

There, I have a complete and accurate staff history up in the first post.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #6 on Dec 20, 2007, 4:37pm »

-shrug- I remember those flamewars.. ='< And i still feel bad about it..

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #7 on Dec 21, 2007, 12:00am »

Well that are in the past now. Forgive and forget, it was a learning experience for us all.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #8 on Dec 25, 2007, 5:53pm »

Excellent, I actually didn't know all this...great work, DVM. I also agree that these boards are fun...instead of the 8.5/10 I gave it at first (lay out, structure, purpose, etc.), it definitely earns a 9/10+...I could only do half as well with a site...excellent job admins and moderators, staff.

If only I had an extra thirty minutes for my online time limits...then I could come more often. Since, however, though, I'm in Winter Break, I have less priorities, so you might see me more often.

Anyhow, well-done history again, DVM.

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Re: G&F's History
« Reply #9 on Dec 25, 2007, 10:43pm »

Thanks WARSOUND. Nice to see you back on, I'm glad the break is giving you an opportunity to come back and check out the new layout. I hope you'll be able to do some RPing while you're off of school.

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