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Kamaria
Too much time on my hands
Joined: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:11 pm Posts: 1027 Location: New Jersey
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
What's with e-feds these days? The one I've been going to for the past year is dying too.
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Freya
World Champ
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:49 pm Posts: 940 Location: Soham
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
They're going the same way as decent tv; no one wants to make something decent and long lasting. It's all about the immediate hit, the status update, the latest thing. No one has an attention span. There's no benefits to being creative.
And, I dunno, is wrestling not as popular?
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Lance Evans
In the Spotlight
Joined: Sun Jan 12, 2003 1:44 pm Posts: 190 Location: Boston, MA
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
In my experience, the fact that 411Fed/ECF/TCW lasted so long is amazing. When I started up feds would last like three months.
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Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:40 pm |
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
We rock(ed).
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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Kamaria
Too much time on my hands
Joined: Sun Jun 03, 2007 5:11 pm Posts: 1027 Location: New Jersey
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Now EPW is dead. WTF!
Well, it's more on hiatus than anything, but that was caused by a sudden drop in creative availability.
But yes, it doesn't help that wrestling isn't 'cool' anymore.
I'm wondering if there's any way we can revive this place, even if we have to piggyback off another site again...
_________________ -Updated on July 19th, 2009! -Updated on July 29th, 2008http://forums.thesmartmarks.com -My favorite smart wrestling site. CM Punk: Your WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION!
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm Posts: 6242
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
I'll write if you write...
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Hmm...
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
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-BoBtheNakedMule-
Prophet of Mulism
Joined: Tue Mar 12, 2002 12:00 am Posts: 1393 Location: Indiana
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
It's a number of things I think...
Wrestling isn't popular anymore, I don't bother with it. It's like they've run out of original ideas and if they aren't pumping out something good, people won't watch so you don't have an internet audience out there to drive fed growth.
Message boards like this are pretty much played out as a way to interact.
I hate to sound old but successive generations just don't write as much and don't learn how to write in a way.
Evans is right, most online clubs, groups ect. don't last as long as ECF/TCW did our growth and survival was predicated on having a few hardcore, long term good people and a constant flood of new blood in to keep the momentum. Once wrestling faded and the internet evolved this medium struggles.
I've not given it a lot of thought but a FB page, maybe private, should be used at this point. I'm not big about FB but I'm sure fedding could be transplanted there and be successful. A webpage can still exist for biographies and other needed information but a message board just doesn't draw people now.
_________________ When you give honest advice, have one foot out the door. - Arnold H. Glasow
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
You're 100% right about all of that.
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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Dick Flehr
Under Carder
Joined: Sat Jan 28, 2006 5:55 pm Posts: 75
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Wow. I was reminiscing about how I used to feud on here, so I googled my ID and it brought this website up. I haven't visited this board in ages. Brought back memories of creativity, of fun, etc. I haven't been a big net user in the past few years. Don't get me wrong, I watch netflix and look up online news stories, but I haven't been "into" it for awhile. It really is sad to see that the e-fed is dead. Also found out a while back that 411 shut down their forums and locked any/all access to their forums. For all I know they purged the whole damn thing. Has message boarding gone extinct? I dunno but it certainly isn't booming for wrestling. All people care about as far as interactive web media is facebook it seems like. Either way, I just thought I'd say hi. ![deep dickin' :bone:](./images/smilies/bone.gif)
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm Posts: 6242
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Yeah, 411 went kaput a couple of years ago now. It was "undergoing maintenance" for a few weeks, and then the forums just got switched off. End of story.
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
We're at least still popular enough for some jag to scan for some vulnerability on our web host and screw things up so that I had to update the forum software and reinstall the styles, which is why things look a little different. And of course updating was not anything close to a smooth process. If anything is broken, let me know: lance at lancecore dot com
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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Tue May 01, 2012 7:39 pm |
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Freya
World Champ
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:49 pm Posts: 940 Location: Soham
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Ergh, either the reply button doesn't show on my phone, or I've forgotten how to post. I don't think anyone is interested about making anything permenant, why put energy into anything when you can be entertained on demand by a hamster playing piano on YouTube? Thommy and I were talking last night, and if Twitter had been more mainstream maybe we could have used that to announce shows and stuff. my brother recently found us because Thommy put a link up and seems to be enjoying reading posts.
_________________ - Updated 25th July
R.I.P Wild Pegasus and Black Tiger II
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." DOUGLAS ADAMS (1952-2001)
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm Posts: 6242
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Hey, Lance, if you're around, can you do some admin shit and let Magnus back onto the forum? He's been locked out and he can't register a new account because they all require approval. Oh, and answer my Facebook friend request, asshole! ![cussing :cuss:](./images/smilies/cuss.gif) EDIT: Fixed it myself! Story of my fucking life...
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- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
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Dante LIVES!
in a cardboard box
Joined: Fri Jan 03, 2003 9:14 pm Posts: 2008 Location: Sweden
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Yes, Thommy Brilliance is the story of your life! (No sarcasm at all, I'm that thankful to be able to post here again)
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm Posts: 6242
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Haha - some other Lance Boer has a request from me then! I was pretty sure it was you though...
_________________ - lots and lots of short fiction, written by me, regularly updated.
- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
I have some shit on Kindle too: ,
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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Thommy H
Linda McMahon
Joined: Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:01 pm Posts: 6242
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Yep, that's who I sent the request to! BE MY FRIEND, FUCKFACE.
_________________ - lots and lots of short fiction, written by me, regularly updated.
- it's a space opera novel I wrote.
I have some shit on Kindle too: ,
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Thu May 17, 2012 6:18 pm |
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LC
Can thou not hearest? Let me turneth it up!
Joined: Mon Sep 29, 2003 3:37 am Posts: 12760 Location: Canadalina
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![Post Post](./styles/acidtechred/imageset/icon_topic_latest.gif) Re: So...is that really it for this place?
Try again! It's not there!
_________________ May the angels weep piss for your heathen souls.
I have no money, I am a failure, my leaders have led me to ruin, and I welcome the absolving embrace of death.
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