WAIT.....This is allowed now? Like, actually allowed, and you won't be banished from the kingdom? I hadn't the nerve to try, thought I'd surely die.

*Gawking bystander waiting for events to unfold*

Well, nothing has happened to me yet, so I guess...

P.S. Love how all the old emoticons are still here. I spent extra minutes before replying just admiring all the old BIONICLE-themed emoticons available.

Man, I remember you from the old comedies guide that used to be pinned in that forum. You were probably long since gone by the time I became active. Hope you're doing well and enjoy looking around here, but you've come after many people have left and the last few remnants are starting to.

Yeah, premier perks were turned on for the last anniversary and have just been kinda left on since. Anything from the pre-2011 forums no longer counts for your posts, but everything since then does, including posts in every forum, status updates, and blog entries/comments.

Just now, Valendale said:

 

Yeah, premier perks were turned on for the last anniversary and have just been kinda left on since. Anything from the pre-2011 forums no longer counts for your posts, but everything since then does, including posts in every forum, status updates, and blog entries/comments.

ALL MY DREAMS JUST CAME TRUE

TIME TO OVERUSE THESE MAGICAL POWERS

Wow, I was wondering why my post count was increasing. I was scared I'd been hacked and kept checking my posts. *facepalm*

38 minutes ago, Valendale said:

Man, I remember you from the old comedies guide that used to be pinned in that forum. You were probably long since gone by the time I became active. Hope you're doing well and enjoy looking around here, but you've come after many people have left and the last few remnants are starting to.

Wow, people actually noticed that thing! I only remembered that pinned post today going through my saved PM folder, where I messaged the Forum Moderator (who was Hahli_Husky back then) about my idea for a round-table topic on what makes a Comedy a "comedy". Back then, that subforum was notorious as a dumping ground of sorts for only the most juvenile and incoherent writing. I did not see it that way, and wanted to help elevate my fellow comedy writers to a better standard. Hahli Husky approved, and with a gaggle of other members, I took turns describing some basic do's and don'ts of writing, using jokes, timing, and structure. Most of my fellow contributors fell by the wayside, but it had grown substantial enough to just leave it as is, as a pinned topic. Plus, it gave my comedy, BORNICLE, a bit more traffic!

Says you joined in October 2008, and yes, that was indeed the start of "hiatus" from BZPower. I still checked it regularly, but my participation in the life of the forum dropped off. I was a sophomore in college back then. Thanks for the good summary on the changes. Time was, even after 2011 (at least until 2015, I think, maybe longer), even though your old, pre-2011 posts were gone, your total post count was still preserved. I know I had over 1300 forum posts! But it looks like these are new boards, and they scrubbed that. I also remember your member number used to be under your avatar along with the proto bar (when did that disappear???) and rank. I still remember being BZPower Member #12599. Part of the first 15000 BZPower members! Eventually, the site grew to have more than 30,000 members (and even more!), so I felt like part of the "old guard" in spite of not having been an official member since the Kanohi-Power or BZCommunity days. Ahhh, a legendary time. *sips*. 2003 was a good year. Yeaap.

Yep, I got into BZP mostly by reading the comedies forum, so I definitely remember the state of things back then. In fact I'm pretty sure my first ever post was an awful attempt at a comedy that surely disregarded any of your advice.

There was another major forum update last year similar to the one in 2011. Thankfully everything was brought over in terms of actual content this time, but that was where we got those changes like the updates to counting posts and the loss of the proto bar.