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Agreed, and a big cause of this drop off (as we have also noticed here) has been the rise of Facebook. Maybe we should do a paper on it Image

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*Shudders* I'd almost forgotten that a lot of creepy smileys graduated in 2009...
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Interesting article MsMary. U, I think we have ourselves exceeded the usual life-cycle. Including the original EZ Board, this is the 15th year of KW.

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It's unbelievable, in a way, that we survived EZ Board. :lol:

So that guy's made only 27K posts at Rotten Tomatoes, huh? Pfft. ;)
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Avatar wrote:U, I think we have ourselves exceeded the usual life-cycle. Including the original EZ Board, this is the 15th year of KW.
Av, I think that we are in what I will hazard to call the 3rd stage of the forum life-cycle. There's the Start-up, the Hey-day and the Twilight (don't tell Effy or Frosty! :lol:). I don't know if there is a 4th stage (maybe the Fade-Out :( ). My best guess isn't that we've exceeded the usual life-cycle, but that we are in the middle of one of the stages, a bit like the person talking about Rotten Tomatoes. There's no doubt that we are having a good run (post, post, post!) and it may be all part of the whole cycle.

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Well, by cycle I thought you meant life expectancy. If instead, as you appear to, you meant "stage of development" then I mostly agree. Other options probably include "Revival" or "Plateau," which last I would settle for. :D

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aliantha wrote:It's unbelievable, in a way, that we survived EZ Board. :lol:
No kidding!

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I'd settle for "plateau". "Revival" sounds like too much work. :lol:
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"Plateau" seems appropriate given our namesake.

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Maybe we should rebrand as 'Kevin's Plateau'! :lol:
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Kevin's Monadnock, if we want to be geomorphologically precise.

Speaking of revival, I'd run a Pantheon spin-off from the Arc storyline if there were enough people interested.
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Hahaha, hey Syl, nice to see you around man. :D I'm in if you do.

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[Syl] wrote:Kevin's Monadnock, if we want to be geomorphologically precise.
Too subtle for this crowd!

Good to see you, Syl!
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[Syl] wrote:Kevin's Monadnock, if we want to be geomorphologically precise.
Too subtle for this crowd!

Good to see you, Syl!
I don't know about it being too subtle. It is a bit SRD-ish.

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Sorus wrote:
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[Syl] wrote:Kevin's Monadnock, if we want to be geomorphologically precise.
Too subtle for this crowd!
I don't know about it being too subtle. It is a bit SRD-ish.
It's a bit of an in-joke, Sorus. Goes back to a 'Tank thread a while back and I used it in this post when Syl asked us to say nice things about him for his 10th Watch Anniversary :lol:

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I didn't know you were allowed to have fun in the 'Tank.

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Avatar wrote:
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Speaking of revival, I'd run a Pantheon spin-off from the Arc storyline if there were enough people interested.
I'm in if you do.
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Sorus wrote:I didn't know you were allowed to have fun in the 'Tank.
You never know unless you try. ;)

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Maybe the Watch would be more active if I started threatening more to demod mods who don't post anymore.

All in favor of demodding Creator, say "Aye"!

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