finding a new hidden and arcane piece of bbcode from another veteran user after you've been on the site for like 5 years. like thumb or table
subforums
pagetops
the added visibility granted by pagetops because a lot of the time you have to just click through pages of the thread to find something
empty posts made to try to put something on a pagetop
deleting the empty posts when you're the mod in a mafia thread in order to reclaim the pagetop from someone who stole it
the fact that i used to be so mad that you couldn't change it from 25 posts per page and found that so tedious when i started and it wasn't until like very recently that i would say i've gotten used to it
private topics, adding people to private topics before you click preview and seeing you have to do it again
adding people to private topics. sorry this should be its own sincere bullet point. its like You get to be in on this
adding listmods to "users that can
moderate
this topic" even though i think they automatically get mod privileges in private topics
i think that the site update added the ability to add moderators to any old topic too. that's fun
yup and those go away when you hit preview
"uh this is nearly unreadable on mafsilver"
threads where the joke is essentially made by the title of the thread, sorta like those reductress articles where it says "oops the joke was just in the headline and there's nothing else here." except you'll find 4 to 5 people farting around in the thread body. and ythan
threads that people make and then lock instantly
"uh this is nearly unreadable on mafsepia"
the way that there's this person called noraaa who has been gone for more than 10 years, and yet whose phrase "i like tv shows maybe too much" is occasionally reanimated. and other such cases
people who have threads like that but then they come back to the site. another ythan trait
the way that there's this person called Noraa who showed up like 9 years after noraaa. whats up with that. prequel user
"uh this is nearly unreadable on"- oh right. lol. good riddance honestly. I didnt say that
whatever the hell scuMobile was
mith showing up
games that die in signup hell because they're just an extremely silly and indulgent idea that really only appeals to the mod
the interests and occupation fields, slightly less obviously but still obviously
they're like little easter eggs but for people
people resurfacing in general
he has to come back. i know he will. i will make 5,000 more walruses in hopes that he shows up to one of them like jay gatsby
the people who put those quotes in their sig like "wow omg this person is so good at scum" or like "wow this person is so bad at scum" or like "you are a horrendous stain of dogshit and i hope you never win or enjoy a mafia game as long as you remain on the site" (from 2013)
people making a comment that is generally a breach of social etiquette but is also constructive to the conversation, and all of those nuances are made more ambiguous by the fact that it's a web forum
people making a comment that is unconstructive and cruel and is also typical and in accordance with social ettiquette. but because you can't hear the handful of people that chuckled at it, it's much easier for someone to step in and be like "hey, that fucking sucked." Yes i am autistic and yes i joined this site while i was in high school
the feeling of making a thread in speakeasy. which i am nobly denying myself here
the financial advice? i guess
the meets or whatever
people getting married or whatever
people seeing people be transgender and saying "oh i could be transgender too"
relatedly (although not necessarily, i think) i am really happy that there seems to be a phenomenon of listing "he or she" as a pronoun here which is not something i've observed as particularly common in other places. idk if it's actually more common than i think it is or if there's just a bunch of people that see other people doing it and think "ah that's cool, i think it works for me"
finding out somebody is/isn't a mod because you're like "your username didnt used to be that color"
the back room with peeling wallpaper where all the former site chat mods hang out and wearily share cigarettes
francisco lindor
robert pattinson
polls
nested quotes
the pristine penthouse with velour carpet where the former administrators giddily share ketamine. or whatever zor's bringing i guess
the thing where zoraster would sometimes just show up with a new bbcode tag he made just for something
ok i just remembered about the supp winners subforum. LOL. i'd like to think you're all straightedge in there
the secret tags s***g** and s**p******. if you know them you know them. i don't even have the second one right and i don't know if it still exists or works outside of the hive or if i even have the concept right
HURT WITH A BLADE: anybody remember hurt2
high effort posting
and the low
and the mid effort bulk of the posting
and the post-effort mid of the bulking
and they dont st
friending
at some point you have to admit that the anime avatars add a little bit of character
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The fact I am actually on the list and therefore I couldn't post a screenshot of me trying to search my name on the page and getting no results disgusts me.
Official Gimmick List:
INVENTOR OF UPICK!
LORD OF THE 11TH HOUR!
ASEXUAL!
KING SCAR APOLOGIST!
DREAMER OF THE NE0N DREAM (SUPP 2021 LAST PLACE WINNER)!
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
"Well, I..."
"What? Nothing? You would make the prince suffer over... nothing?"
I can't begin to count how many times I've said something meaningless without context like "I agree" only to find that I accidentally pagetopped. Those are my favorites.
- as a corollary to foeing, i like drk's life quest to pushing for being able to foe herself
- i also liked drk's puzzle hunt that i wasnt able to solve
- as a corollary to anime avatars, i like when people still have an avatar from a somewhat old avatar thread such as the implosion avatars.
- and also when people have avatars of their own faces
- how the activity overview is so bad on mobile these days
- when people put a website that isn't "theirs" in their profile for joking or referential purposes
- how links to posts are like ?p=12749523#p12749523
- the one time you called mafiascum an "app"
- the gaping 2.5 year time hole in GD obviously
- annadog threads obviously
- any plotinus mechanic such as the get a room and even the game where you couldnt post in english which i think was somewhat difficult for players
- i also like how theres a hydra waiting list on plotinus's wiki page
- also the wealth of lovely tidbits or high-concept userpages on the wiki that are not very visible or ever platformed
- the time where 5 people did like an absolutely ridiculous fantasy draft to guess the next president and just how many awful and horrid names they were forced to come up with
- titles that don't have any pun or cleverness factor but that just sound cool as a title for someone to have
i guess i also like when old users come back and make a thread thats like "ok who the eff is still on this stupid web site anyway"'
another thing that i kind of like but recognize that it can be detrimental bc of peer pressure is when people /in to an "ITT I will..." with something like "here before they flake" or something like that. But i only like it because we as a community have all kind of accepted how that often happens
ok last thing for real but you know how sometimes one user will have a special unique nickname or shortening for another user and that can often even be a bedrock component for the relationship between those two users
the fact that i can make a post and its there attached to the other posts in a whole thread of posts that other people can attach their posts to and i can can just read the dang thing any time i like
people who are active on the site but i’ve still never played a game with
*glances at RH9*
edit: oh and also i have never played with flavor leaf. huh.
also people who exist in the back of my mind on this site and who i’ve talked to in contexts completely unrelated to mafia but who i’ve never played with (radiantcowbells, chennisden)
banned users who i still find funny and randomly talk to (just shellyc lol)
"Let us say that you are right and there are two worlds. How much, then, is this 'other world' worth to you? What do you have there that you do not have here? Money? Power? Something worth causing the prince so much pain for?'"
