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Happy Birthday Nocturnal Forum...

  • 10-06-2009 11:06am
    #1
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    1 today.


    Thought you'd like to know.

    Some fun facts:

    1) The Lair is the biggest thread in the history of Boards.

    2) For several months last year, the Nocturnal forum was one of the top 3 busiest forums on boards. (No idea this year)

    3) The Lair on it's own represents over 1% of Boards.

    4) The Nocturnal forum is now second only to AH in the rec drop down in terms of size, with 172,000+ posts (we're not going to be worrying them any time soon with their 1,200,000 posts ).

    5) For those who weren't there at the start, the original mods were myself, Nerin and Kharn.

    6) The forum request thread was over 1,000 posts long (THATS how you push for a forum)!

    So anyway yay 1 year, it went so fast. Thanks to all the posters who make the forum what it is and especially thanks to Nerin, Kharn, Orestes, Watna, Randy and Dragan. No thanks however to Almighty Cushion who snuck in and stole the 100,000 post in the Lair.

    Git! :D

    *Puts up bat decorations in the Lair and black and silver streamers everywhere, tries to put a bow on Lysander but thinks better of it*

    In honor, Star Pants should have to cook us all crumpets, I shall have to show people how to put titles in their sigs, Nerin should furiously maintain the biki and we should ALL get in before Randy. :)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    star-pants wrote: »
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    Crumpets? :D


    DoomDoomDoomDoomDoom, Doom!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    Wow!

    Happy Birthday Noc Forum!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    hold yer horses... give a gal a second :P

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    and as it's special and GIR like :D
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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,905 ✭✭✭✭Handsome Bob


    A year old........you know I never really settled into Boards until I found this place. Never before have I come across such a welcoming amount of people, and once more never have I come across a nicer group of people. Cheers to the Noc Forum.:)


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    shellyboo wrote: »
    Wow!

    Happy Birthday Noc Forum!

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    Ribbony- hair girl!


    (Oh, am I on a nostalgia trip now. :) )


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    SDooM wrote: »
    Ribbony- hair girl!


    (Oh, am I on a nostalgia trip now. :) )


    Aww, yeah!! That was my first ever beers and who did I land myself with? You guys :)

    I love you all, *sob*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    I loves ye all too!!
    *hugs*
    ah the first noc beers was lifechanging!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    star-pants wrote: »
    I loves ye all too!!
    *hugs*
    ah the first noc beers was lifechanging!

    It's bizarre but... it actually was.

    I have a whole new set of friends because of the forum and it's wild abandon for meet ups.

    I've attended gigs, many stand ups, films, beers, made podcasts, and done things for charity through my association with the Noc and boards in general. I'd consider several nocs genuine good friends.

    I think it's fair to say the rash of beers over the last 6 months (which has made it damn hard for me to find a date to really go for a big beers, btw) has something to do with this little corner of the neterweb. I mean, I think I could attend a boards beers nearly weekly now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,869 ✭✭✭Futurecrook


    Yay! Happy birthday beloved noc forum. \o/

    By far my favourite place to be on boards. Oh, and we have the best beers! :P :D

    *breaks out the rum, the vodka, the beer, the JD, the skittles and the mint*

    *looks around for trowelled*

    *commences boogeying*


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    *breaks out the rum, the vodka, the beer, the JD, the skittles and the mint*

    *looks around for trowelled*

    *commences boogeying*


    *goes to fetch trowelled*

    *does the inevitable*




    DANCE! YAY!


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Ah, the wimminz have commenced the ancient rite of the dance.



    *Checks for Monkeyfudge*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭flying _squirl


    What the? It's only a year old?!
    HAPPY BDAY NOCTURNAL FORUM!
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    I think its time for another Gir dance
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,883 ✭✭✭shellyboo


    SDooM wrote: »

    *Checks for Monkeyfudge*


    I've got Toto queued up already...


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    What the? It's only a year old?!
    HAPPY BDAY NOCTURNAL FORUM!
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    I think its time for another Gir dance
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    YAY friendship cube! Yup, only 1 year. Which means tomorrow I am a mod 1 year, too. :)
    shellyboo wrote: »
    I've got Toto queued up already...

    Can't be long then...


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭trowelled


    shellyboo wrote: »
    *goes to fetch trowelled*

    *does the inevitable*




    DANCE! YAY!

    Wahoo, 1 year old. Happy birthday.

    One has to do the safety dance


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,561 ✭✭✭Rhyme


    shellyboo wrote: »
    I've got Toto queued up already...

    Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,422 ✭✭✭Tirabaralla


    I salute this birthday.
    I received my Noc title in January but still I am quite a noob around here.
    This said the Cork forum and the Nocturnal are the ones I take most part in.
    And I was so glad to come to the beers for the first time this last friday.
    I was very nervous also.
    For a serie of coincidences (and willings) these first Noc beers...changed my life, u can believe it or not.
    I just can say THANK YOU all.

    My cake for ye is a Reese's one ^_^

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,429 ✭✭✭✭star-pants


    nyom that looks yummy!!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,817 ✭✭✭✭Dord


    Excellent!! :)

    Thanks very much everyone (especially the mods) for making this place what it is and most importantly making it work! IMO, the best part of the forum is the social aspect and for me that's been great (for the most part).

    Here's to another year!

    So, to celebrate here's a very cool version of Africa. :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,878 ✭✭✭Rozabeez


    *Wipes a tear away*

    Our little forum is all grown up!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    haooy birthday noc!

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    this is easily the most welcoming, laid back, fun forum on boards. and like doom i do think i have met some genuine friends thanks to the noc forum and noc beers! :D i think its time for the obligitory:

    *power fist*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭spoonbadger


    This place was one of the reasons i stayed sane last summer!!. I remember finding it when it was only a week or two old. 1 year later, still here :pac:.

    *thank you hugs* for mods, posters and providers of confectionary :D.


  • Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 28,633 Mod ✭✭✭✭Shiminay


    That portal cake looks awesome!

    Hard to believe it's only been a year, they grow up so fast these days...

    So the Noc forum hasn't quite turned out to be what we were expecting, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. However, I'm very proud to mod this place. I definitely believe it helped me get this job too since I'm at the fore-front of dealing with this latest generation of boardsies :)

    Here's to another year of lulz!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,523 ✭✭✭✭Nerin


    *smiles happily in the corner*

    Now this,this is pretty much the vision i had a year ago.

    *raises jd to the nocs*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    Nerin wrote: »
    *smiles happily in the corner*

    Now this,this is pretty much the vision i had a year ago.

    *raises jd to the nocs*

    *joins nerin the the salute*

    i think its time for the good stuff ner:

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 47,826 Mod ✭✭✭✭cyberwolf77


    To think I only found this forum and boards.ie because I googled nocturnal late one night. This place is way fun. Happy birthday Nocturnal Forum.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭SmileyPaul


    thanks to all the mods for making this such an oddly happy place for its themes :)
    I only joined the ranks of the nocs a few months ago but I can genuinely say this is the first place I have felt full comfortable within myself in.
    We have such a wide array of frequenters here, from fully employed to students, witha bunch of otakus as well as a transformer addict milled in their along the way and so many other kinds of people I've actually lost where I was going with this post!

    *joins in salute with two glasses of spirits*
    to the nocs


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,255 ✭✭✭anonymous_joe


    A year?

    Yikes.

    Haven't quite been here the year, but it's been a good time. ^^


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,280 ✭✭✭paperclip2


    Yaay for the good ship Nocturnal Forum!!! Lots of thanks to all those amazing posters who've sailed in it! :D Its a wonderul place to drop into and has kept me sane, (well, reasonably) on a fair few occasions. :) Big thanks to Doom, Nerin and all the mods who've steered a smooth and wonderful voyage over the past year.

    Happy B-day NF!!!:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,686 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Dinobot was such a prude.
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    want.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,686 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    And now for a birthday anthem:



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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭flying _squirl


    yar :pac:
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,686 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Did...


    Did you draw that on toilet paper?


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Wise words, Dinobot. Wise words.

    Let us all take a moment to remember his sacrifice in the name of the nocturnal forum...


    done!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭flying _squirl


    Overheal wrote: »
    Did...


    Did you draw that on toilet paper?

    hahaha, naw, just in one of my notebooks

    see
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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    SDooM wrote: »
    Wise words, Dinobot. Wise words.

    Let us all take a moment to remember his sacrifice in the name of the nocturnal forum...

    We'd do well to get anything this good on the 19th.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    SDooM wrote: »
    Let us all take a moment to remember his sacrifice in the name of the nocturnal forum...


    done!


    this moment has been brought to you by the letter N


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  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Are you not at all concerned that a single thread constitutes 80% of the forum?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 869 ✭✭✭flying _squirl


    seamus wrote: »
    Are you not at all concerned that a single thread constitutes 80% of the forum?

    does the concentrated awsumness scare you?
    :pac:


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    Galvasean wrote: »
    We'd do well There's no chance we'll get anything this good on the 19th.

    FYP.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 25,871 Mod ✭✭✭✭Doctor DooM


    seamus wrote: »
    Are you not at all concerned that a single thread constitutes 80% of the forum?

    Why should a social forum be concerned that people want to use it to be social?

    The Lair is pretty much the same thing as the forum request thread.

    Looking at the drop down, there's 35,000 posts ourside of the Lair. I don't have exact figures but I would estimate that is average for a forum on boards, in fact, large for one which is only a year old.

    The Nocturnal forum is a regular sized forum with one, ridiculous sized thread thread which serves a purpose.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    seamus wrote: »
    Are you not at all concerned that a single thread constitutes 80% of the forum?

    no not really!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,148 ✭✭✭✭KnifeWRENCH


    Jeez, this place has been around a year already? Man, that makes me feel really old. :( I remember when it was just an ickle baby forum taking it's first few steps into the big bad world of Boards.

    *sings*

    "Memory
    All alone in the moonlight
    I can smile at the old days
    I was beautiful then....."

    *weeps profusely*

    Congrats everyone, especially the mods who have done a brilliant job since Day 1.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    SDooM wrote: »
    Why should a social forum be concerned that people want to use it to be social?

    The Lair is pretty much the same thing as the forum request thread.

    Looking at the drop down, there's 35,000 posts ourside of the Lair. I don't have exact figures but I would estimate that is average for a forum on boards, in fact, large for one which is only a year old.

    The Nocturnal forum is a regular sized forum with one, ridiculous sized thread thread which serves a purpose.
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    :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,975 ✭✭✭nkay1985


    shellyboo wrote: »
    *goes to fetch trowelled*

    *does the inevitable*




    DANCE! YAY!

    That song is so full of win. Mood +100 after listening to that (twice :))


    Happy Birthday Noc. I loved the request thread and have loved lots of the threads from the past year. I'm not as regular as I probably was at the start but the old heads still know me when I pop into The Lair and the new heads are very welcoming!

    This definitely had the most awesome request thread though!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    SDooM wrote: »
    FYP.

    Are you somehow implying that Michael Bay can't do drama?
    Oh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,820 ✭✭✭grames_bond


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Are you somehow implying that Michael Bay can't do drama?
    Oh.

    exactly....what could be more dramatic than an explosion?!


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