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02-10-2010, 10:36 AM | #1 |
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Hey GM / MN - Ben or one of the other earliest members would be able to tell you most accurately... but I know that way, way back, Entmoot was on something called EZ Board. And I understand they had a crash from back then and lost a lot of stuff. Maybe they were able to recover threads but not members or posts(??). I know that some of them (The Hobbit, for instance) have commented about how their posts from those days don't show up on their post counts, which is partly why the admins set very high artificial post counts some while back.
I'll see if anyone drops in who can tell us more. That's interesting to hear though. And yes - I even see a lot of ancient posts by users just called 'guest' - which implies that you could post without registering back then, which you can no longer do here. So clearly there were some changes.
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02-11-2010, 02:52 AM | #2 |
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Thanks- noticed that there was a definite split on the thread, with posters before 2004 having non-linking usernames. Too bad- I'd totally forgotten I was here that far back- I'd like to see what i thought back then!
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02-11-2010, 07:10 AM | #3 | |
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In any case, Graymouser, some of your old posts are still here, but you can't search them on your account name because the account is not here. I've found one of your first posts by searching for MikeN in the text in the hope someone had replied to you and used your name. I'm guessing you never made the move from the old board (EZboard, I think it was) to here. Some of the others did, and judging from the discussion in the very first thread, their information (join date and post count for instance) were afterwards adapted to reflect those they had on the previous board. I've checked out a few of the earliest accounts and it seems to bear out. Eruve, for example, a member that posted around the same time as you under MikeN, has over 300 posts according his/her profile, but only 3 turn up in a search, all dating from 2001. But according to the profile the joining date is earlier, and there are several posts under Eruve's name from an older date but that are not tied to an account. So while the actual first posts on Entmoot date from (august, I think) 2001, I presume all the earlier posts were copied, but without the accounts belonging to them. Which, I think, is why you won't find the MikeN account.
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02-12-2010, 06:27 AM | #4 |
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Thanks for your trouble, Earniel. I think that I didn't transfer but rejoined later under my current name.
Still, nice to see my first post again!
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02-21-2010, 02:16 AM | #5 | |
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We actually didn't allow guest posts on the ezboard either. The posters were all registered users of ezboard at the time, but show up now as "guest" because they are not linked back to vBulletin user accounts, even when the user did re-register under the same name.
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03-05-2010, 12:24 AM | #6 |
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Ah yes.. the days of EZcrash. I came by here and Barrow Downs on there in August 2000 as I wandered the www for Tolkien sites and information on those darn movies.
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