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Post by Mac Write on Mar 31, 2008 22:59:02 GMT -8
Today I am pleased to announce that in the coming month, West Coast Ferries forum will be moving from ProBoards to vBulletin forum platform. We are now testing the new Impex importer released by Jelsoft which crawls the Proboards forum and creates a database that can be imported to vBulletin. As I am extremely familiar with vBulletin, I will be helping the West Coast Ferries staff make the transition and train them on how to use vBulletin. We also will be getting a new URL for the forum forums.westcoastferries.ca I hope you will all enjoy this move to a more flexible forum platform. This will introduce allot of new things that will benefit our community. Regards Mac Write |
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Post by Nick on Mar 31, 2008 23:05:09 GMT -8
Ummm, can we get some kind of confirmation from the mod squad on this one? I am not entirely opposed to change, but this seems like something we should discuss.
EDIT: Or is this some kind of April Fool's joke that I am missing? I thought we had enough of that with the Queen of Richmond trip coming up tomorrow.
Oh, and BTW, that link is dead.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 1, 2008 6:01:50 GMT -8
Hey Mac, if you're going to do an April Fool's joke, at least have your initial post done on April 1st itself, not on March 31st.
....but you were just 1 minute early.
Or are you saying that your entire archive of posts on this forum (since you registered) has been 1 big April Fool's joke, leading to this punchline-moment? If that's the case, I say "Bravo!" to you.
It was such a great idea to create a character named "Mac Write" to post such foolish things over the past 3 years, all leading to this climax moment.
The "Multi Year running April Fool's scheme", that's just brilliant, Trevor. Are you going to be retiring the character name "Mac Write" now that the joke is completed??
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Post by Mike C on Apr 1, 2008 12:10:08 GMT -8
Why would we move to vBulliten? Why waste time (and possibly money) doing something we don't need...
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Post by farout on Apr 1, 2008 14:51:44 GMT -8
OK so are we moving the site or are we not, I'm kinda confused here? yes or no answer please!
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Post by Balfour on Apr 1, 2008 15:07:13 GMT -8
No we are NOT moving to vBulletin. This forum is staying put here.
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Post by Scott on Apr 1, 2008 15:19:26 GMT -8
I'm guessing this is Mac's April Fools joke. And just to back up what Coastal Skier said, we're not moving - and Mac knows this.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 1, 2008 19:44:13 GMT -8
OK so are we moving the site or are we not, I'm kinda confused here? yes or no answer please! It was an April Fool's Joke by Mac Write. There might be some delusional wishful-thinking on his part as well, but the entire Moderator staff is interpreting this as an April Fool's joke. And if Mac was serious about this, then the joke's actually on him. So either way you look at it, it's kind of funny. |
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Post by Mac Write on Apr 1, 2008 20:43:29 GMT -8
This move is John not me. it will be hosted by him and run by him. I am just helping out. Notice I said it would be forums.westcoastferries.ca?
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Apr 1, 2008 20:51:27 GMT -8
Hate to say it but I think you are playing a full joke on us and we'll be throwing one back at you just because we like to, but you wont know when the joke is coming  BTW JOKE IS ON YOU! This move is John not me. it will be hosted by him and run by him. I am just helping out. Notice I said it would be forums.westcoastferries.ca? I'm guessing this is Mac's April Fools joke. And just to back up what Coastal Skier said, we're not moving - and Mac knows this. Do you really think that we're going to believe that it was John when he says you are pulling an April Fools Joke? Nice try, but not this time. |
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Post by Mac Write on Apr 2, 2008 0:47:15 GMT -8
Now that April 1st is over, it was an April Fools joke.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 2, 2008 17:59:49 GMT -8
Now that April 1st is over, it was an April Fools joke. .....and that reminds me: Us moderators were wanting to try out some of the admin functions on the proboards forum. So I've decided to test out the " Ban member for 2 days" function, but I needed a subject-member to test this out on. I just happened to see your string of posts, and so your name came to mind. Thanks for taking part in this proboards experiment. You contribution to proboards-science is appreciated. Let us know how it worked out for you.... |
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Apr 2, 2008 18:28:06 GMT -8
I would like to present to you on endorsement of Mr. Skier what Mac Write's purpose was Here is an except from a conversation the night of March 31st on MSN "I want to get some blood boiling on Johns forum against me (give them some fire) I mean kindling" "My first idea was to make an announcement that I was taking over the forum but then I scratched that (too un-believable)" "The post you would do would go something like this "Today I am pleased to announce that in the coming month, we will be moving from ProBoards to vBulletin for the "West Coast Ferries" forum. We are now testing the new Impex importer released by Jelsoft to crawls the Proboards forum and creates a database that can be imported to vBulletin. As Mac Write is extremely familiar with vBulletin, he will be helping the West Coast Ferries staff make the transition and train them on how to use vBulletin. We also will be getting a new URL for the forum forums.westcoastferries.ca I hope you will all enjoy this move to a more " These were all quotes of Mac Write. |
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Post by Low Light Mike on Apr 4, 2008 6:00:31 GMT -8
Now that April 1st is over, it was an April Fools joke. .....and that reminds me: Us moderators were wanting to try out some of the admin functions on the proboards forum. So I've decided to test out the " Ban member for 2 days" function, but I needed a subject-member to test this out on. I just happened to see your string of posts, and so your name came to mind. Thanks for taking part in this proboards experiment. You contribution to proboards-science is appreciated. Let us know how it worked out for you.... I'm still trying to get a handle on the proboards functions, and so we need to continue this experiment for a few more days. Thanks for volunteering to take part. |
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Post by Fenklebaum on Apr 11, 2008 13:16:31 GMT -8
.....and that reminds me: Us moderators were wanting to try out some of the admin functions on the proboards forum. So I've decided to test out the " Ban member for 2 days" function, but I needed a subject-member to test this out on. I just happened to see your string of posts, and so your name came to mind. Thanks for taking part in this proboards experiment. You contribution to proboards-science is appreciated. Let us know how it worked out for you.... I'm still trying to get a handle on the proboards functions, and so we need to continue this experiment for a few more days. Thanks for volunteering to take part. Flugel Horn, you remind me of Shaft... in that you're one Bad Motha... Fenk, shut yo' mouth |
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Post by lmtengs on Jan 4, 2012 19:48:08 GMT -8
Just thought I'd bring up another thread from the pit of doom for the sake of reminding everyone of the teenage years of WCFF...
I literally 'lolled' at a few comments in here. ;D
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