Until I put together some invitation tools for people, this is where you guys whould post users you want invited to the forums.

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andydougan
boorite
kramer_vs_kramer
squidrabies
not_Scyess
Geniu$
skagg
crabby
TheElPaso

for starters.

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How will invitees become inductees? One invitation? voting by members? A designated amount of support?

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TheWilliamsDefence
ChoadWarrior

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"In a thousand years there will be no men and women just wankers and that's fine by me."

Ok, users (in no particular order) who I would like to see invited...

andydougan
Big Evil Dan
evil_d
Kajun Firefly
Vex_Blackheart
kaufman
Scyess
choadwarrior
simon_on_fire
Ewwwww
KungChiFu
Choobychooby
Jes_Lawson

There will be donors on here but I don't know *exactly* who is and who isn't so even though I know Kajun and chicka are donors, you could have knocked me sideways to tell me boorite's not. So here's the list in full to make sure:

andydougan
ArtemisStrong
attitudechicka
Bargaintuan
boorite
bunnerabb
Chi_The_Cynic
Choobychooby
israphael
itsclark
Kajun Firefly
kramer_vs_kramer
kaufman
mmyers
PhreakyChinchilla
TheGovernor
umfumdisi
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jes_lawson

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Hell, if Kajun's gonna invite Geniu$,

Safety_Donkey
CrunchyCheese
choadwarrior

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

Max Payne
Alias
Phreaky Chinchila (sp?)
boinky33
punkrockskaboy

I like 'em.

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No-one has mentioned Devin, and I think if we're going to let in people like Ewwwww and Punkyrockassboy (by donor default) then he should at least get a shout.

Ewwwww and (for the lack of a better example) boinky33 have good comics but both let themselves down in their behaviour, Ewwwww more so, but we can put that down to the fact he hasn't been beaten and moulded into a respectable regular, but really, who here can even be bothered anymore? boinky more than proved himself in the RMDC forum recently, but still, this reshuffle is about preserving the community and not having a million endless pages of garbage, I really don't see what listing the names of EVERYONE here is going to do to change, let alone IMPROVE the forums in any way shape or form.

Once again, I find myself being the one who says what everyone else is probably thinking and I'll happily take the 5 page FGH thread about me if it means this place'll improve a couple of percent.

I just care that damn much.

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Agree mostly.

no one would read the three pages I could type on social ettiquette and the Internet.

So "Agree mostly" is good enough a response.

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Please replace the handset, and try again.

I concur with each of the foregoing invitees.

And thanks to everyone who mentioned me--I've only been a fellow donor for three days, so it's nice to know I would have also been invited.

I've been a donor for a while, but thanks for the vote, Chi. :)

Maybe we should take a minute to list some of the people who this new restriction was intended to keep out.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

That's a good question.

What about users who've never posted to the forums and haven't made a comic in months? I've always hoped agnt_M would start posting. Will there be some mechanism for newbies to apply for membership? Or will they just post in the Hi forum and PM-flood members with requests for support?

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

Nobody loves me.

Oh wait, I'm a donor.

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

I don't recall who on this list has and hasn't been invited, so... hell with it.

Adlopa : adamrockthemic : apejuice : Billigger : Braze : Broly : Chaly : Chi_The_Cynic : choadwarrior : c0rporeal : Cowboy_Dave : cracka : Creeper : cruiserchris : DangerCat : deucepm : Dr. Light : drave : drflow : Emperor Anarchy : Eradream : factorial : FetalMind : Finley : gaxicus : gin : Grapes : Hangdog : Hughes. : Jabizo : james : JihadFad : jmtapp : JoeTheGuy : koszka : LockeDown : Lordfly : Lunch Cat : misterq : MisterQueue : NekoNiku : paravex : pendy : Phanatic : Poopachuse : pyster : Rabid Potato : rfmodulator : rickward : Scott Miles : scytheethics : Shadman : Ska-boom : SonicDeath10 : sour29 : smilekt14 : snafui : squidrabies : TEDA : The squirrel : TheWilliamsDefence : timxcampbell : Toastertron : Uncle Aussie : vertie : voidweller : VorTeX : gilpinsberg : not_Scyess : ShadowH : thoroughly

(Yes, copy 'n' pasted from my favorites.)

I would also like to uninvite punkrockskaboy, if there is a mechanism for doing that.

And a question... can only donors invite, or can non-donating invitees also invite?

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"Old" is the old new.

punkboy is a donor, I think.

Most of the gratuitously disruptive people have donated, so I don't see this making a discernible difference as far as cutting down on crap posts goes. Also, I'm not sure what's supposed to be wrong with boinky33's "behaviour". The recent stupid FGH threads have mostly been initiated by donors.

Thanks for the love, by the way, Kajun, Chi and jes.

That's a good question.

What about users who've never posted to the forums and haven't made a comic in months? I've always hoped agnt_M would start posting. Will there be some mechanism for newbies to apply for membership? Or will they just post in the Hi forum and PM-flood members with requests for support?

The way I'm currently thinking about doing the invite thing (and about 80% done) is making a private invitation script and giving it out to various reasonably trusted users.

You spot somebody on the site that you think should have forum access, you load this page, enter the name in, it grants them access and private messages them telling them they've been given access to the forums and that they're invited to participate.

The people with that power can deal with it however they want. If they want to try taking votes, that's cool. As long as everyone knows that access to the forums can and will be revoked if people are disruptive.

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I just used him as an example, really good comics, but he will post to EVERY SINGLE thread, in EVERY forum, EVER! Not really an issue, I have no problems with boinky at all really.

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Dad was flammable

Donating just helps users get in the door, it doesn't keep them here. We'll see if this improves things at all and then go from there.

At the very worst, I'll just turn it all off and things can go back to the way they were.

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That's a good point.

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The way I'm currently thinking about doing the invite thing (and about 80% done) is making a private invitation script and giving it out to various reasonably trusted users.

You spot somebody on the site that you think should have forum access, you load this page, enter the name in, it grants them access and private messages them telling them they've been given access to the forums and that they're invited to participate.

The people with that power can deal with it however they want. If they want to try taking votes, that's cool. As long as everyone knows that access to the forums can and will be revoked if people are disruptive.

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This is beginning to feel like "The house is burning down, who are we going to save?" I think we've got everyone...wait, has anyone seen JrynmnNate? Oh no, he was still in the house! Nooooo!

I think this will be fine once all the dust settles. And thanks for including me jes, I'd save you from the fire too, along with my records.

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I alphabetized my list and it was a lot of work.

andydougan
Bazilla
boinky33
Choobychooby
crabby
Ewwwww
joshw
knkx
TheElPaso
ObiJo
and GravyBoat2003 so he can win the mystery cup

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On behalf of irc mysterious users:

Is there a way just to invite the current mystery cup users at least just to the CC forums, at least for the duration of the contest?

BobbyExtreme
Cancer_Spy
cappy_coke
el_hijo_del_iris
FourKneeKate
GravyBoat2003
HDB
MotherGoose
Mr_Doom
ReplacerEraser
y
youdontknowme

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I forgot MaxPayne.

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