NON-MONSTER FORUMS TO BE CLOSED AND REMOVED ON APRIL 27TH

[Count_Zirock]

To Ye Honourable UMA Powers-that-Be,
   Whither, pray, tell, into which area, hath ye MONSTER LITERATURE/LIMERICKS disappeared?
I am, in need, of adding, yet, another! Thanks!
EXANIMO EVERNOW,
BARON TIMOTHEUS, B.G.G.

You might have to wait a few days, Baron. Castle Dracula wasn't built by enslaved nobles who betrayed Vlad Tepes in a day, after all.

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[carbon]

It saddens me to learn that the UMA moderators hate kittens.

What is this hornet's nest I've just stumbled into?! Longtime lurker but only occasional poster here. Gotta admit I have a special fondness for forums that are run like saloons, with few rules and an expectation that users can hash out their differences while expressing themselves in whatever manner their (sometimes abrasive) natures dictate. Such forums are essentially self-policing, with users letting anyone who's out of line know it. But I'm also aware that saloons have bouncers for a reason.

Of course we've all seen forums where entire threads have been deleted, which has always seemed unfortunate since each of those deletions were interesting snapshots of a moment in time within the forum. While it's great the moderators here have agreed to preserve some folders/threads/posts (usually in read-only format) as requested by members, let's not forget that any of us can simply trot over to http://archive.org/web/ and save our favorite threads for posterity ourselves. The automatic systems at archive.org crawl the web every few months and have already captured much of the UMA site. You can find their direct link to the UMA forum here: http://tinyurl.com/UMAarchive While there, click on whatever forum topics interest you. If you get a "Wayback Machine doesn't have that page archived" message simply click the "Save this url in the Wayback Machine" link and the url will be archived. Make sure the individual threads you're interested in within the topic folders are archived, too. (You'll know they're not if you get the message telling you so). If you have some urls handy you can also use the "Save Page Now" box at the http://archive.org/web/ homepage to do this. The archived links could be posted here. It's as close to "etched in stone" as you'll find online, since the sole purpose of the archive website is to preserve web pages. Better move fast, though, time's running out! By the time some of you read this it may already be too late if the deletions have occurred.

Ideally, it would ruffle fewer feathers if the changes to be made here had been proposed by moderators as a test flight, of sorts. Put the deleted threads/posts in cold storage rather than permanently trashing them, thus preserving the option of restoring the deletions should the desire ever arise. Give the new forum a year to fly and then decide if it's time, on April 27, 2015, for the Return of the Exiled Threads...or some of them, anyway. Of course, realistically, that's not the way these things are generally handled; and nobody really expects the changes to be implemented in that fashion here. Still, there's no denying that such an approach might placate some of the dissenters — or at least give them a year to more comfortably acclimate the changes while pining for a possible return of old favorites.

And I realize the moderators don't really hate kittens, in case anyone thought I was serious.

[Mike Scott]

And I realize the moderators don't really hate kittens . . .

Quite the contrary! I think they're delicious!

[Count_Zirock]

Quite the contrary! I think they're delicious!

Especially if they're feral free-range.

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[Toy Ranch]

To Ye Honourable UMA Powers-that-Be,
   Whither, pray, tell, into which area, hath ye MONSTER LITERATURE/LIMERICKS disappeared?
I am, in need, of adding, yet, another! Thanks!
EXANIMO EVERNOW,
BARON TIMOTHEUS, B.G.G.

http://www.universalmonsterarmy.com/forum/index.php?topic=1068.2700

[Flower]

Quite the contrary! I think they're delicious!

The humor in this escapes me .. especially since I've worked with and attempted to save feral and other kittens.  There is more heartache than joy and you can never save them all. It's the ones who you can't save who haunt you all your life.

[Hepcat]

Ideally, it would ruffle fewer feathers if the changes to be made here had been proposed by moderators as a test flight, of sorts. Put the deleted threads/posts in cold storage rather than permanently trashing them, thus preserving the option of restoring the deletions should the desire ever arise. Give the new forum a year to fly and then decide if it's time, on April 27, 2015, for the Return of the Exiled Threads...or some of them, anyway.... Still, there's no denying that such an approach might placate some of the dissenters — or at least give them a year to more comfortably acclimate the changes while pining for a possible return of old favorites.

Truth!

[Mike Scott]

The humor in this escapes me .. especially since I've worked with and attempted to save feral and other kittens. 

So, you never tell jokes, because there's always someone who's going to take offence?

[Toy Ranch]

The secret to good roast kitten is having great dipping sauces!

[aura of foreboding]

Well, today's the day.  They're tearing down Tim Riley's Bar.

[poseablemonster]

The secret to good roast kitten is having great dipping sauces!

I understand it is a delicacy in some cultures. 

[Hepcat]

Hopefully the Pinball thread will be saved.

Pinball Machines

It's loaded with discussion about monster-themed pinball games.

[Toy Ranch]

Hopefully the Pinball thread will be saved.

Pinball Machines

It's loaded with discussion about monster-themed pinball games.

It's also loaded with the kind of cutesy crap we are trying to get out of here, and that never should have been here in the first place.

[Scatter]

Geez Bobby......I just read all nine pages of the pinball thread. Not seeing the "cutesy crap". All pinball talk, most of it monster related, and a great deal of it by The General. Was he posting "cutesy crap"? Maybe you should give him a good scolding?

[Mike Scott]

I just read all nine pages of the pinball thread. Not seeing the "cutesy crap".

I think he means stuff like Rocky and Bullwinkle.