It's a free world out in cyberland. Some people abuse it. I've been a loyal member here since 2008, I was at the top of the charts for a long time (160,000 + points) king of the heap... back when there was the rating system. We all had a great time here for a couple years. In the final stages of 2010, trolls and assholes entered, things became political and opinionated, lots of anger got into the picture, and Geeks became a battle ground of ideals. It was no longer a fun/geeky place to hang.

I created a weekly discussion called "lunatics" in 2009, which was comprised of people having fun and blowing off steam, we had a good core crowd. Lunatic Geeks. It was a hit, with hundreds of posts in a single weekend, once we cleared over 1000 posts in 2 days. I ran that discussion many weekends, even Chris Pirillo himself had promoted it in his online videos at that time.

The world needs more fun stuff to release tension and discord, so eventually thru a series of events I created my own Ning site called Lunatics, which was/is a very successful spin-off of the Lunatic Geeks discussion back then. Not only fun, but geeky as well. I'm by no means any competition for this site, but an avenue of other outlets for people who want something different and laughable.

If anyone here would like to join us for a fun light hearted time, its: http://lunaticks.ning.com/ It's not for everyone by any means, only a select few will really enjoy it and build on it.

No reason we cant all share the wealth of people out there who are looking for something different on the internet.

Chris, thank you for the opportunity to be a part of a greater cause/picture out there. Each of us adds something to the internet in some way. Some people are dynamic in their niche. Chris is dynamic in Geekyness, I'm dynamic in fun avenues and creativity of another dimension.

The internet is a big place, each person will gravitate towards what fits them best, regardless of restrictions and policys. I have many fond memories of this place, it was a great era. However things change, things evolve and move on. Peoples interests change every day, nothing permanent out here.

If interested in something different, please apply at my site: http://lunaticks.ning.com

Use 'Geeks' as a reference.

Kat my friend, if you are still an admin here, thank you for your friendship and support in the past.

Also one last thing, one of my very best friends who I met here back in 2009, Dana Flow , died of cancer in November of 2011 at age of only 33. That was severe blow, but an example of how close many of us had become via Geeks.

Take care all!

Dan

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Comment by Gibson on July 29, 2012 at 6:47pm: Interesting.

I would return as nothing more an Idler.

Forums bore me. i have no reason to piss me off with my over bored talktiive nature anymore anyways. But hey! Soon i will return to world of warcraft for a few months o a new EXPANSSION YAY!

Comment by DTM on July 12, 2012 at 7:26pm: @ Gib. I finally tracked that "who's online" app down to a third party provider associated with Ning in 2008. They are currently out of business. I wanted that app for my site in the worst way, I did a lot of hunting. It's just not to be had anymore. : (

Whoever actually created this site back then, (2007 I think) had incorporated it at the opening time. The later Admins and even Chris himself did not know what that app was.

However, there are some small apps that will show how many are online, but not who.

I had to learn a lot about Ning when I got my own site, still learning.

Comment by Gibson on July 12, 2012 at 3:31pm: i think the biggest loss in user activity on the forums here was a removal of one of the Key features Ning provided, or i guess was Ning-Only provided. Not that people wern't voluntering to create a replacement feature though. It was the Who's online dock. I don't have any ss, been so long. lol.

But It's also more ad intensive and stuff, almost as if it's more of a geared towards making Money and making others money then it is a community anymore sadly. I Still havn't abandoned it, It's a site i click onto for 5 minutes every day to see if anything interesting arrived and then i'm gone lol.

And to talk to an old fart *Cough* friend...

oh scuse me, Summer cold's they are the worst.

Comment by DTM on July 11, 2012 at 11:58pm: Thank you Kevin. I'm glad to see things have changed in a positive manner. Also thank you for your prompt reply. This shows me attentiveness by the admins, something that was lost in the past.

Dan

Comment by Kevin on July 11, 2012 at 11:42pm: Recently, we have changed the approval process on users and require an admin to check whether a user is approved or rejected. An admin like me usually check and reject trolls and spammers and in the recent months, the spam and trolls have gone down. Although we are in the mist of changing possibly, we plan to keep operating till any more official words from Chris. Right now, most of the community changed from using ning services to lockergnome.net because the site was what people wanted, asking questions and getting answers.

Also, we only suspend trolls and spammers on the site.

I hope you had a great time here and plan to continue over one of our more popular site.

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