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Post by Joey on May 4, 2010 22:27:12 GMT -5
I hope Dan would become an active member in the community once he isn't in charge. It would really be great if he could join the crowd, and he should.
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Post by Cortney on May 4, 2010 22:45:38 GMT -5
I don't like how everybody thinks the activity of one member affects the existence and potential of the entire tribe.
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Post by Ricky on May 4, 2010 23:06:08 GMT -5
well Cortney it does when the member is that influential. We would be kidding ourselves if we assumed his help would not be highly beneficial to the prosperity of the tribe. I'm not saying that he is more important than any other person here, but that he has assets that could help in long term projects and things that might have to do with ending world suck. It seems and probably is very selfish of us to ask more of him since he is already doing so much, but his position as leader of the tribe does demand his attention and full understanding of whats going on in the forum. If he takes too long planning what the future might bring and neglecting this forum, there might not be a community to come back to.
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Post by TheIslander on May 4, 2010 23:11:40 GMT -5
well Cortney it does when the member is that influential. We would be kidding ourselves if we assumed his help would not be highly beneficial to the prosperity of the tribe. I'm not saying that he is more important than any other person here, but that he has assets that could help in long term projects and things that might have to do with ending world suck. It seems and probably is very selfish of us to ask more of him since he is already doing so much, but his position as leader of the tribe does demand his attention and full understanding of whats going on in the forum. If he takes too long planning what the future might bring and neglecting this forum, there might not be a community to come back to. +1 There would still be a community without Dan, but less of a community than with him.
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Post by krzych32 on May 4, 2010 23:27:19 GMT -5
who's Dan?
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Post by Cortney on May 4, 2010 23:33:17 GMT -5
Ricky, Dan doesn't want to be the center of the forum, and that's what everybody is saying. His word carries so much more weight than anybody else's, so I can see how it would be difficult for him to participate.
"Hey, Dan posted in THAT thread, why didn't he post in MY thread? Is mine not good enough!?"
However, he does want to become more active on the moon, so I agree when you guys say he needs to be here. I just don't think we should say he should be here because he's super duper influential, since we're trying to move away from that.
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Post by krzych32 on May 4, 2010 23:55:23 GMT -5
Is Dan like a Godish figure or something.....oh God, I hope I'm not part of some kind of a cult...... Do we secrefice vergins around here?
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Post by Dimstow on May 5, 2010 0:08:52 GMT -5
Cortney As much as I agree with you than Dan's word shouldn't be Law, or even be 'the talk of the town', I do think it's important to say that..well.Dan IS important. At least right now he is. Right now, the Pogotribe is doing awesome, we're making awesome projects and seeing great friendships, collaborations and ideas flourish in ways that very few places on the internet(or anywhere else) allow. But this beautiful tribe we all love WAS started by Mr. Brown and is still being spearheaded by him. His Youtube community, his subscribers, those who listen to what HE has to say are the people joining this tribe and to ignore the fact that he's garnishing us with a population would just be silly. He isn't a god, he isn't a president, we don't swear allegiance to him and we don't even have to like him! (Though who wouldn't, did you see him during Neanderthal November? Dan's a sexy beast) But as of yet our beautiful tribe isn't self-sufficient, we aren't bringing in droves of people to our community by ourselves, and we wouldn't have the group we do now, or the means to increase our group in any large way, if it wasn't for Danimus Maximus Meridius Brownicus.
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Post by Ricky on May 5, 2010 0:23:02 GMT -5
Cortney he does already post every now and then saying if he likes a project, but never contributes. Yes his word carries a lot of weight, but its better that he is disliked by some for not posting on every thread than seen by most as someone who just doesn't care.
The problem, I believe, is that what he is doing is actually backfiring on him. If he only posts on extremely rare occasions he is making his word more important than it should be. By him participating as any other member (meaning being a part of one of the next triads [not an admin one, but just being chosen at random with everyone else], taking part of some discussions, and even playing a game or two, then it would built more of an image of equality and balance.
We need more of a peer than a leader of him.
P.S. krzych32: virgin sacrifices are on Tuesdays at 9:00pm right after LOST xD
Edit: I also agree with Dimstow. The tribe is not self-sufficient yet, and it needs all the nourishment we can give it.
and the Gladiator is an epic movie ;D
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Post by click3tyclick on May 7, 2010 13:22:30 GMT -5
Dan posted in the starcraft beta thread. He said something about his friend playing too much starcraft. I couldn't help thinking of it as a big deal.
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Post by RabbitWho on May 8, 2010 2:34:31 GMT -5
Dan's primary functions are publicity and organization... Can we keep going without publicity (fresh blood!) ... maybe? can we self-organize? ....maybe?
Also the fanatical devotion some people have to him can allow him to have the last word on some things. Which is essential and stops squabbles about the community dissolving the whole community.
These traits together = leader.
Basically what i'm saying is I don't know what happens when you cut the head off a chicken!
Could you change the title to Absence of Dan = End of the pogotribe? Because nothing we do here is as important as the life of any one of us.
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Post by ifyouwantblood on May 8, 2010 15:43:25 GMT -5
I will do rabbitwho (lol rhyme) I wasnt happy with my title in the first place and i really like yours =) Also i pretty much agree with you
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Post by click3tyclick on May 8, 2010 16:16:45 GMT -5
I can't tell if that was on purpose.
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Post by Johncoyne on May 8, 2010 16:36:04 GMT -5
^I think he would have taken the "I" out if it was.
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Post by RabbitWho on May 8, 2010 16:36:31 GMT -5
I will do rabbitwho (lol rhyme) I wasnt happy with my title in the first place and i really like yours =) Also i pretty much agree with you YAy! I like it a whole bunch now It's a really good question
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Post by Helmet on May 8, 2010 20:49:30 GMT -5
I bet after the secret project he will have to be more with the community and such, maybe by September he will start participating more
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Post by Cortney on May 8, 2010 23:22:03 GMT -5
I mentioned this to Dan the other day to get an up to date response. Pretty much, he does want to be more active on the net, but doesn't feel extremely obligated to post bunches on here. Reason being is that he's become more active on Twitter, Youtube (he does more videos and community stuff), Facebook, etc. He'd rather spread his web presence and be active other places as well rather than post a billion times here.
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Post by whiterfire on May 9, 2010 12:18:15 GMT -5
Just to be sure, Dan, in your will leave a letter containing information on your secret project. But I believe our members would step up, we would make our own videos, and debate in Dan's style. Dan would obviously want us to continue the tribe (I was about to say HIS tribe, but then I thought... no, it's ours).
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Post by whiterfire on May 9, 2010 12:21:34 GMT -5
Only the one who started pogotribe, the administrator, and the person who runs the wiki, who made the final list of our values, introduced all of us to the concept of tribes by showing us the video, is the first word in the large "DBU" at the top, the one who posts videos every day, and the one who runs the youtube channel "DBUniverse" and "Pogobat" In short, he created pogotribe
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Post by Trey on May 16, 2010 7:12:53 GMT -5
Only the one who started pogotribe, the administrator, and the person who runs the wiki, who made the final list of our values, introduced all of us to the concept of tribes by showing us the video, is the first word in the large "DBU" at the top, the one who posts videos every day, and the one who runs the youtube channel "DBUniverse" and "Pogobat" In short, he created pogotribe I think someone just got troll'd.. Anyway, Dan's absence wouldn't effect the community at all at this point. We have a fairly active forum, a youtube channel with all kinds of updates, and several projects being worked on! We are one mean machine!
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