SiP...

What happened over at the other Forum...it done got broken... [img]graemlins/cry.gif[/img]

Auurgh! Having withdrawal pains. Jax, Stasia, Gem....I'm hoping OUR board returns...I just got a couple of new RL friends interested in it, and now this happens...ah, me...Keeping my fingers crossed...

I find this all a bit disorienting.

Extended period of time? How long's an extended period of time? *panic attack*

ps--Hee, y'all have funky new avatars!

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ October 22, 2005 02:28 AM: Message edited by: raine77 ]</font>

LOL! I wondered why the sudden influx of vaguely familiar sounding names. It'll be cool we could use a bit of livening up lately we're all a bit busy or just too lazy lately.

Welcome to the refugees. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

(Hey, it's not much, but it's got to beat living in a football stadium for a month, right?)

Yes, thanks for letting us crash. We'll try to clean up after our selves and not leave a mess.

Absolutely, if I did not say before, thanks for taking us in. We'll be nice.

We'll have to reopen and dust off the WonderTwin Lair for y'all. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Whatever you new peeps do , don't go under Eris's futon....we may never see you again.

I hope so. Jeeze.

I'm missing it.

Hi All STP people who were orignal. Thanks for talking us in1

[img]smile.gif[/img] Hi all STP people. Thanks for letting us crash on your couch while we renovate!

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So, this is going to be our new home [img]smile.gif[/img]
Hi to you all

Home is where the heart is. (((hugs)))

Intriguing! Curious as a cat Stasia wants to peak! :-D

Welcome all.
I hope you will stick around after your home is repaired.

Welcome SiP fans! :)

Is Maida still running the other forum? Maybe their server went down or something.

I don't believe they do that for us any more. It's become a philanthropic venture now [img]graemlins/rainbow.gif[/img]

Welcome everyone! ALthough if I'd known we were having visitors I'd have cleaned up a bit.

Except under the futon. I tried to sweep under there with a broom once: I can't get it back now.

I like these folks...but,not as verbose as us...we'll need to get short and to the point...(as if!)

yes we're wordy sometimes (glances in stasia's direction) but we're wonderful! [img]wink.gif[/img]

Me Wordy. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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I like these folks...but,not as verbose as us...we'll need to get short and to the point...(as if!)

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<font size="2" face="Comic sans ms, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bring it, dude!
Let the chatter go full force...The days when this Forum had enough responses that you'd have to look through all of page two and some of three to get to them all is a long time in returning...

I dare you all!

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Heh, I like em so far. [img]wink.gif[/img]

YAY! We're liked! I like being liked!

This place is really cool. Can someone give me the history of it's founding in a nutshell?

ROTFL!! yeah time for a "like you " party!!!!! (we have a party for any and just about everything.) as for a history, um Jax? he's the one who has been here the longest I think.

Yes he has. Rich and crazy a were here before me too, but I remember the infamous "splitting of the board".

The original SiP board had lots of non-SiP discussions going on all the time. What can you expect when a new story only comes out every other month? There's some controversy surrounding the decision to have a separate board for non-SiP discussions. Some of our discussions were graphic, and the subject matter may not have been PG-13. Terry could've been afraid we might scare off some new readers at the time, or he just wanted a board that was strictly about his story.

I found a q/d thread on an old floppy disk the other day. God, we were so young!

Yes, that's basically the story. People were coming here because they were fans of the comic, but talking about the new issue and the last issue and what may or may not happen in future issues and "what-ifs" eventually will wear out, and so it did here. Then we started talking about everything else, ranging from pissing in the shower and tampons to heated debates of current events.

And I guess we did get a little graphic and "out there" because next thing we know, we're being told that Terry wants the SIP board to be SIP. So the board split in two: one for SIP and one for everything else, and I think there were some hard feelings about it for some people.

Then, I think, the SIP-only board decided to move out altogether and relocate (which might be where y'all come into the picture) and the everything else board stayed here, gave birth to some offshoots, and that's where you find yourselves now.

(Someone with a better memory than mine can go into more detail regarding the split if my account is off.)

The infamous "tampon thread" is exactly what I had in mind when I mentioned controversy. It started with a discussion about one of the scenes in his book. That's why I think it was kind of hypocritical to disassociate what people were talking about on the message board from his "SiP-only" discussion board.

I guess I'd be one of the people that had hard feelings about it, except they weren't that hard. Is there such thing as semi-hard feelings?

Heh...flaccid feelings?

Regarding the tampon scene: specifically, discussion was had about whether the tampon in specified scene was used or not, what brand it might've been, whether it was Katchoo's, etc. So maybe Terry did have a right to be somewhat upset about the discussion (if in fact he was), but what can you expect from comic book fans? They/we will go over each panel with a fine-toothed comb and talk about the findings.

So, can we start a tampon thread here? LOL I won't have much to contribute, I am subject to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome) which means using the little buggers is not in my best interest health wise.

I can talk alot about pads though! LOL at myself.

(someone reign me in before I offend someone!)

That's not likely to happen (reining you in, that is). [img]smile.gif[/img]

So when did the sip only forum get split into two again? Cause now there are two sections to it, General Discussions, which is where everyone hangs out, and Terry Moore's Works, which sees a flurry of posts around the new issue coming out, then settles for a few weeks. Was that when it moved from Terry's site to being a fan run board?

I believe they also got fed up with Hostboard at one point. Hostboard went through a complete overhaul afterwards where we lost our archives. I didn't even realize Terry's site had undergone any changes until people started showing up here. I rarely visit the official message board.

You can talk about tampons or pads here without offending anyone. Jaxom and eris moderate this forum and aren't here very often, so...

Wings or no? I've never used either because I don't have a vagina, but I've always liked the idea of wings on a pad. Like they'll fly away after you're done using them. :D

This board was created when Terry's forum was here on hostboard. Since there is only one level to the boards here on hostboard, discussion topics were intermingling with book topics and it was getting unweildy in addition to tampons etc. So STP was born.

Awhile back, hostboard was having many outages while they moved to a new server, things were flaky for about a month. Fearing people would see the forum in the comic and get a broken url, Maida, the moderator for Terry's board moved the board to I believe her server, but could be wrong about that.

Awhile back, Maida could no longer host the forum, so a poster voluntered to take it on and that is the forum you are now on.

This board tends to become a refuge when various incarnations of the SIP board go down.

Nice to meet ya'll, hope you hang around some. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Raine---Although some folks here do keep up with the SIP board, some of us don't, so if your SIP board has gone into a split, a lot of us aren't aware of it (but probably not surprised by the news). And I'd think it's fair to say that it's not a knock against Terry or SIP in general, but it's more a case of real life happening to us and SIP just got pushed to the back burner. Or thrown on the fire, 'cause I think there's at least a couple people who didn't like the way the story was going (or other reasons) and stopped reading it altogether. As for me, I started going back to school about the time Cherry Hammer came on the scene and learning to deal with schoolwork, along with having 4 kids, kinda took up my comic book time, so I really have no idea what's going on in comicland right now. I'm sure I'll play catch-up later on, but comics and SIP just aren't on my list right now.

crazy, ever since Maida moved the forum off Hostboard, the comics forum and chat forum have been on the same board. That board was split into two or three sections to keep the conversations separate. I think that is what raine is talking about. The Post Hostboard people have comic/chat in the same place, but here it had to be separated.

That is indeed what I meant. Anyway, it doesn't really matter, I was just curious.

I like it here. [img]smile.gif[/img] (Though I'm not overly eager to discuss tampons!)