Dude, where's my board?

[The Man in Blak 0]

So, yeah. I get to work early, click on my little bookmark tab marked "SNKT" and the page doesn't come up. I say "hey, the board's probably down", go grab some coffee, and click it again...and I get one of those "generic search" pages that domain naming services put up whenever you try to access a domain that doesn't exist. I check it at lunch and get the same thing. Looks like someone forgot to mail in the check for the electric bill.

 

Two years ago, I probably would have been so infuriated that I would have wrote a huge, embarrassing rant with zen quotes that would have taken you either thirty minutes to read or thirty seconds to ignore. I was pretty good at those. Nowadays, thankfully, I just smirk and laugh about it. I guess that's what happens when you grow up.

 

So, instead of reading through a melodramatic rant, I hope the following words will suffice: It's over, as far as I'm concerned. It's been over for a month and, when I aired out my concerns - the concerns that most uppity board owners have when things are going downhill - two months ago, I got a collective shrug from the rest of the admin crew. So, if you want to re-open the board, knock yourselves out. I'm not paying for or admin-ing (is that even a word?) a board just for the sake of nostalgia - it's boring.

 

I'd like to give an appropriate "thanks" to the people who've came by and made SNKT an interesting place...but, to do so, I need a domain name and a web service. So, in lieu of said appropriate sendoff, just play some Warren Zevon or something. I promise that, by the end of the song, you'll be over it.

[Dr. Tom 0]

Huh. I was wondering what had happened, since I got that same search page.

 

Out of curiosity, does this mean the board and all its posts are gone?

[The Man in Blak 0]

I'd imagine that the board and the posts still exist on the web space - there's just no domain to point to them. I don't remember the IP of the server.

[Sass 0]

Are you going to change your sig?

 

For about a year, SNKT was one of the best boards I had the pleasure of posting at. The good times were good. The post/thread eater glitch was bothersome. The lack of posting was something that no one could change without there being a collective effort from a majority of the board members to start posting more. Consider this board a notch under your belt MiB. It had a solid poster community.

 

Happy trails SNKT.

[godthedog 0]

well shit. that was anticlimactic.

[The Man in Blak 0]

You're telling me.

[Slayer 0]

I remember posting there earlier this year... for around two weeks ...

 

That's about it

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Sucks, but, in spite of some really cool people, I never felt like posting there. Back when I did go to that board, I got the impression a lot of other people felt the same way.

[IllustriousOne 0]

Mm. Oh well.

[IllustriousOne 0]

I guess I can elaborate some.

 

I can put the board back up, but it's not really something that's high on my "list" at this point. I was, obviously, fairly indifferent to the board itself.

[Nighthawk 0]

Oh my God, no!

[The Man in Blak 0]

Oh my God, no!

Yes, it's true. All true.

[Guest HungryJack]

Bye, I guess.

[Red Hot Thumbtack In The Eye 0]

Pretty obvious that this was coming for a while.

 

Unban Crucifixio Jones.

[Sass 0]

CJ probably won't come back. He's not banned though but I doubt he'll come back here. He's got his own stuff goin on.

[Nighthawk 0]

We don't approve of his kind around here anyway.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I'm pretty sure CJ was banned for that bit of cosmetic advice he gave stardust back in the day.

[Guest HungryJack]

Which was completely solid advice. I might even go so far as to say he could have been far harsher, and it would have been justified.

 

Let's ask Max what he thinks.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

Well, it appears SNKT is back in action.

[Guest HungryJack]

at where???

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

The usual spot. www.shootproject.net/snkt. Ill couldn't access it, but Bruiser and I could see it.

[BX 0]

So I guess me and Witty won't be exchanging gifts this year.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

And now its back to the generic search page. Weird.

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

Don't tease me so!

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

Look, as I told The Man in Blak on AIM earlier, if SNKT had started an "Inc is Dead" thread like those nerds at WDI did a few months back, I pobably would've started posting at your board again, therefore extending its shelf life a few more months.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I'm pretty sure CJ was banned for that bit of cosmetic advice he gave stardust back in the day.

Not sure if this was the thread that did him in, but it didn't do him any favors...

[Golgo 13 0]

That was the beginning of the end. Here's where the ban was actually handed down.

[MARTYEWR 0]

I tried http://www.shootproject.net/snkt this morning. Got the same page MiB got. I'd like to know how Al and Bruiser got the page last night.

[EVIL~! alkeiper 0]

I tried http://www.shootproject.net/snkt this morning. Got the same page MiB got. I'd like to know how Al and Bruiser got the page last night.

So would I, to be honest.

[Black Lushus 0]

I try to stay out of the mess, but it seems to me Stardust was just as bad as far as whining goes as CJ was with cutting people down, at least what i can tell from those two links...sorry for being out of the loop but is that chick even still around?