Hi I'm New/Old. Got some questions

[DanTheDamnManDan]

Hey everyone. I used to post on the old Oddworld forums waaaaaaay back. Like years ago. I was one of the first members of the original Oddworld Forums. My name then was glukkon_daniel. Does anyone remember me?

Is Sydney still around? And what about Abe Babe?

[Rex Tirano]

Sydney left ages ago. A huge forum war. I can't be bothered to give you the full details. But basically Treacherous Alcar, and his mighty band of merry men usurped Syd. [Love ya' Petey!]

Abe Babe never comes here any more even though she is an admin.

I remember you... Vaguely. Welcome back!

Kizzes!

- Rexy

[Edit: Wrong forum. This should be in 'Welcomes and Birfdaes'. Not to worry...]

[T-nex]

i dun remember you since i wasn't around when you were... But welcome back i guess. I hope you like ze new members, cos most of the cool old ones left

[DanTheDamnManDan]

Oh well I just wanted to see if anyone here remembered me. And what happened with these "Forum wars?" I thought Sydney was cool.

[Rex Tirano]

I did! I full idolized him [being about 11 at the time]. He [should I say she now?] was an amazing person. [But then again, through the eyes of a child, he was also lovely to me.]

I dunno... I think Abe-Babe and Pilot [who was turned into an Admin, as he was Abe-Babe's bf] disagreed with Syd's dictatoral role and usurped his throne. But you're better asking one of the older members, as I can't really remember.

- Rexy

[T-nex]

Wait... Is Sydney a she or a he??

[Rex Tirano]

I seem to remember Syd having a sex-change. But Syd was a great person and that doesn't change the person he [she?] is.

*Defender of loved-ones*

- Rexy

[DanTheDamnManDan]

Yeah I was really young too. Good times.

Well, if anyone here was around then, please tell me what happened. I would love to hear it.

[Oddish]

Welcome back to the forums, Damthe damn... man... dam...man.. you couldn't make it anymore clearer

[DanTheDamnManDan]

Woah! Sydney got a sex change? THAT is something I didn't know.

[used:)]

Sex cahnages creep me out.

Anyway welcome back, I am glad one ariginal poster is back.

[SeaRex]

I remember you.

Long story short, Syd banned two of our old members, Disgruntled Intern and Melvin, because (at least this was my understanding) they used a slur offensive to australians and/or made fun of Syd directly in a chat room. Either Syd was actually in the chat without their knowledge, or someone told Syd what happened. Well, most people thought this was a pretty shitty thing to do (the banning), as it had nothing to do with the forums directly, so in the end Syd lifted the ban and apologized. DI also apologized, so everything was pretty cool.

Unfortunately, there was a big to-do about it. In the end, Sydney ended up leaving OWF and starting a new forum for all of the other people that left because of the ensuing drama. Even though some members still posted on both forums (myself included), most of the best members on OWF left for TGA, Sydney's new forum. That pretty much marked a steady decline of user participation for OWF... it's been slowly declining ever since.

It happened a long time ago, and my memory sucks, but that's the general idea of what exactly happened.

[AquaticAmbi]

Wow, you are an old member! What made you want to return after so long?

Anyways, welcome back!

[metroixer]

Welcome back and all that jazz! Hmm....I think I remember seeing some of your posts in old topics. I"m new by the way. Er.....At least I only joined like 5 months ago.

[Melvin:squeeking paramite]

I remember you as well. I was only about eight years old or something, though.

Long story short, Syd banned two of our old members, Disgruntled Intern and Melvin

Morgan was banned, not me. I've never been banned, which is questionable.

[Cullen Heath]

HEY!
im a new member but Im glad to see you rejoined.
Welcome back!

[SeaRex]

Morgan was banned, not me. I've never been banned, which is questionable.

Meh. Close enough.

[DanTheDamnManDan]

Hey everyone, thanks for the welcome backs. So is that new forum, the TWA, still up? Probably not...

[SeaRex]

TGA (The Glass Asylum) has been dead for a long, long time.

[Cullen Heath]

So back then Sydney and Abe babe owned thr forums right?
Who owns them now since Sydney is gone and Ive only seen abebabe post once?

[SeaRex]

So back then Sydney and Abe babe owned thr forums right?

Pretty much. I think Pilot had a share in the preverbal stock as well, but I really can't remember.

Who owns them now since Sydney is gone and Ive only seen abebabe post once?

AbeBabe still "owns" the forum.

I don't know... Petey, you help pay for this place?

[Lovo328]

What brought me to this forum was when I did a yahoo search of Abe's Exoddus music and found a thread from '01 with Abe Babe talking to some others about Oddworld music. I know she said she'd LOVE to have the songs. You think now that they're up, she'll be enticed to come back?

[Dino]

I've looked up Sydney and in all honesty I'd say you should be glad that he/she/it doesn't post here anymore judging by the majority of his/her/it's last posts, which are mainy random, unprovoked bitchings, and not exactly the sort of productive, interesting contributions you would hope to see from a forum founder.

[Venks]

I'm new to these forums but am a long time fan of anything Oddworld.
Hope to become friends with everybody else in these forums.

[Alcar]

I pay for the server. However Abe Babe owns the vBulletin software (our license anyway).

Alcar...

[Dino]

I pay for the server. However Abe Babe owns the vBulletin software (our license anyway).

Alcar...

You should pull the plug on it and spend your pocketmoney on something more useful! [/mother]

[Alcar]

Indeed. It costs a small fortune to run the site when you take into account all of lifes other costs.

Alcar...