Your message for SPOTM

[Ferrrrrre]

So for those not knowing what this thread is about;
check HERE first BEFORE POSTING IN THIS THREAD!!

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Nov 1, 2010 15:27:36 GMT -5 Ferrrrrre said:

-Maybe we could also make/do something (video, thread, ..) where we put our thoughts and
ideas of how we experienced SPOTM this one year and how we see SPOTM in the future and
look back on it next year etc..?

...

Okay, let's get the project going!
So think of anything you want to say/make about SPOTM:
Your message can be anything and can be edited!
You can also make a video/audio/image/poem, whatever tickles your fancy..

Some things you can write/talk/.. about:
- Your experience of the past year
- Your hopes for the futures
- ..
+ feel free to tell what you feel about the other messages..
It's up to you what you do here, but try to keep it related to SPOTM and a 'message'!

If you still have questions, remarks about this project; check here:
1 year SPOTM MESSAGE project

Plus below will be a list of all the people who participated!

Go and be creative!

DFTTB
(Don't Forget To Think Big)
ps. The 'deadline is extended so feel free to post/edit!

[newschooled]

Hey Guys,
I made a wicked awesome poster / desktop wallpaper for everyone to download and enjoy! It can be downloaded here: www.derpy.ca/images/stories/moon_birthday.jpg (1680px x 1050px)

[Freddy]

AWESOMENESS.

[qooqǝɯɐƃ]

Lol the candle is upside down.. weird. But it's a cool pic =]

[Freddy]

Nov 10, 2010 16:58:57 GMT -5 qooqǝɯɐƃ said:

Lol the candle is upside down.. weird. But it's a cool pic =]

It's because we're the SOUTH pole of the moon!

[Rogers91]

I love the moon. SPOTM has been a great place. When I am feeling like I need a good time the games section brings joy to my face. When I need to vent my stress I go to the debate club and tell people how it is. If I just want to talk then I head to the general chat and talk about my day.
Yeah we have had a few trolls and have had some down times but we are all here for some reason. To me its because I have somewhere to go and get help when needed.
This community formed by Dan Brown has broke free from its creator and is now a year old and with that it is time to grow and slowly start to change the world. The journey will be tough and it is possible we will fail. We are the South Pole Of The Moon and we will be around. DFTBA.


so uhh yeah thats some of my thoughts and feelings of the moon kind of.

[swiftthefox15]

[Quinn]

THIS PLACE IS BEWETIFUL!!1

Before I started posting on this little nugget of a sight, I was very confused w/ the type of person I wanted to be in life. Now, that issue is long gone, and i'm happy about it. This forum has effected me in so many ways, it is unbelievable. Here, a person can feel loved, accepted, and a part of something very big. I believe that we have made a few strives in ending world suck, and we will make many more in the next year. I will admit it, we have had our sucky days, but in hindsight we are invincible.
*tear falls down face*

HERE'S TO ONE AMAZING YEAR!!!!!!!1111ONE!!!!!!!

[Lyserg Zeroz]

{Great... I was writing something, my dad asked for the computer, and since he doesn't know how tabs work, he closed the whole thing...bleh}

I really like this place. I like the discussions here, I like hearing/reading about your point of views on different stuff, I like having found awesome music and songs here, I like the games, I like random posts about anything, and I'm also improving my english here xD (btw, feel free to correct any grammatical errors in my posts ;D). I think this place has changed me and has made me a little happier, it has changed the way I see some things, for example myself, the way I want to be, the way I see the world, the people, and the potential people have (maybe, partly because of all the "level 1/2/3/4/5" talk that there was). Tbh, maybe other people and internet communities also have had some similar kind of influence over me, and maybe if SPOTM didn't exist, I'd be with those communities and I would be more involved in those communities (or not), but right now, I consider SPOTM the most important one. I like this place, and I'd like to stay here.

[SwimFellow]

Stick with me. I'm writing from an iPhone..

When I first joined SPOTM, it was August. I mainly joined because of Dan 3.0.. Can't lie there. I wasn't expecting a very welcoming atmosphere. I thought I would mainly stick to the Dan 3.0 thread. However, I decided I would wander in to the beloved (and hated) Forum Games thread. It was there when I really felt as though I was part of this community. I soon branched out in to others and I felt great. I feel like I've been here for a year, like most of you. While I haven't, (but I wish I had) I feel accepted into this awesome community, and like I'm equal to you guys. It's now November, and it's almost our birthday. Anyway, you guys are some of my best friends, and I think it's great that we have this place on the Internet where like-minded people can gather ad discuss, well , anything. While this isn't the only one of those on the Internet, it is the best. I have definitely joined other forums, but none of them felt like a good fit for me. I think I've finally found that place.

SPOTM is a year
Old. Smart and kind are members
As well as noble.

I kinda suck at writing haikus.. sorry..

[Rob]

I joined SPOTM because Dan dropped out of college and I dropped out of graduate school... pretty much at the same time. I wanted to talk with him and like-minded people about our experiences.

When I realized actually having a one-on-one conversation with Dan was damn near impossible, I began exploring the community. I found it was a welcoming place with people looking to positively change the world (a lofty goal, but quite admirable).

Then came along Tribal Leadership and the triads project. Lucky me, I got into the first generation. This is when I started meeting lots of awesome people like Asher, Chelsea, Dandy, Jelly, Zang, John and others. I got my first taste of SPOTM leadership when my generation had to run another round of triads. It was grand.

All the while, I had become more and more interested in the forum leadership scheme and decided that I would try to help as much as possible. I made countless suggestions and participated in every forum-centric discussion I could. I also applied to be an admin several times. This is when I began actually getting the balls to converse with the admin team only to discover they're just normal folks like anybody else. It was awesome talking with Bree about how annoying people were, talking with Erin about comics, talking with James about coding and talking with... well, we'll move that to it's own paragraph.

Yeah, you guessed it: Cortney. The single greatest person I met on these forums is Cortney. What started out as two cool legends sharing sex jokes and being flirty has now evolved to a full-fledged relationship with all the perks. Meeting my love is the best thing that has happened to me as a result of joining SPOTM.

Somewhere in there I became an admin amongst some turmoil and I honestly feel that I helped calm things down. I think we've gotten back to a good place community-wise and that we're once again headed for greatness.

It's unfortunate that some have taken the drastic measure of deleting their accounts (Francisco, Chris, Chelsea, Diana, Elliot, Jon, IfYouWantBlood). I hope that sometime down the line when we, as a community, get back on our feet and our goals match back up with theirs that they rejoin us. Parting is such sweet sorrow.

So, to you, the everyday PogoTribian, the once-in-a-while SPOTMer and the Dan 3.0 critic... I say thanks. Thanks for making this a community worth being involved with. Thanks for making this a community brimming with potential. Thanks for caring. Thanks for being awesome.

[Ferrrrrre]

It's almost a year ago since I joind the forums (09 Dec. 2009) and I have to say that even though many don't agree and many do agree: We have made a lot of progress since that early start of what we can the Pogotribe.

Okay, we've had some good things, some vary goode things and also some bad things.. but we can't really expect to always have a good time around here. Sometimes we have to do things that we may not like doing but in the end are very contributing to the good things and I wanna add to that; that I wouldn't want it to be different..

This is who we are and what makes us AWESOME.

Also there isn't a plan/manual to the things we're doing here. Yesh, we may all want to decrease worldsuck but by just having a large group of people WANTING to do something and WANTING to do it TOGETHER is already a great step into the right direction!

But enough of being a negative Nancy!

I like you guys, every single one of you (excect maybe.. okay, no. every single one .. for now).
Every day I wake, looking forward of logging in on the forums and check what has happened (since yeah, we are globally spread so when I sleep, a lot goes on around here and vice versa)

I believe we can get somewhere and we will. Even by projects that can help solve small things or just by having the kind of discussion we're having in the Debate Club section.

I hope after this one year of figuring lots of things out, we've reached some kind of checkpoint, from where we'll reach even more AWESOMENESS..

I believe in you Pogotribe. I like you Pogotribe *hug*

"Just by reading this message, you have earned yourself a #cookie. Have a nice nom nom*
Thank you for being with us. (yesh, I talking to you!)

SPOILER: Click to show

ps.
I hope people will one day say about you:
'hey, that's x from the Pogotribe' and be in a state of awe
or read an article on wikipedia about you..

[qooqǝɯɐƃ]

My time on SPOTM hasn't been up to my expectations and I now know my expectations were set quite high. I like many other people expected SPOTM to be taking action against worldsuck, but our expectations proved overwhelming. We've lost a lot of members but we're still here, the 70-something of us and it's time to restart, maybe think a little smaller and be fine with failure but never give up.

I love coming here and chatting with everyone, and I hope this second year will prove more productive for the SPOTM community =D


Happy Birthday SPOTM!!!

[Joey]

AHH DAY LATE!!!!!!!

Anyway....

I joined awhile back, almost around when it started, then I really didnt do much due to school and activities....but then winter came. I was bored as heck most nights and needed something to do. I remembered SPOTM, and decided to try it out. Needless to say I fell in love. I started getting active and really started to get the feel of the community. I started to transition into a regular member, and I was excited. I was just getting to regular when the jump to proboards happened, it was perfect.

The jump to proboards didnt just change the looks, it allowed everyone to start fresh, so even though I was still a n00b, I could easily become one of the most active members and have something to prove it with. I really dont remember much about the old forum, except one thing. I remember specifically a valentines day thread, and how so many people were giving me advice on whether to tell a girl I like her or not...which leads me to my next point...

You guys have really seen me grow up. You know I am the kind of guy that really...well.....lets his emotions talk. Anger, love, hate, I jump to stuff alot. And I am still pretty much like that, but over the past...oh six months, I really have noticed a change in the way not just my SPOTM relationships, but my real life relationships have changed greatly. I'm not just the emotionally unstable kid here anymore. Being here has really helped me when Im in that low spot, and if you guys have noticed, I havent had one of those in awhile(when I ask for advice). I used to be this rock hard kid IRL, the one that had no emotion, the one that you could bounce a joke off of and he could take it, the one that had no feelings. And here I was the exact opposite, the kid that couldnt take anything, the kid that always had a feeling of some sort. And being here has really changed the way I live both of these lives, molding them into one. And yes I know that through that some people here probably dislike me, and I know in real life opening up has lost me alot of "friends" because thats not "who I was" but it really has shown me where my true friends in life life, and I have realized that I am ending up around people who...well are basically SPOTM in real life. I see you guys everyday reflected in my friends, and I think of you as included in that group. So for me, SPOTM has changed not just me, but my relationship with the world. And I really thank you for that.

I want to apologize here for not being active recently, school started, and then life got VERY hard. Alot of....anxiety/stress...clogged my life, and just this last weekend things came to a climax, and it wasnt fun, but I realized something. I really havent had time for SPOTM, and life gets harder, and when I get on, it gets easier......a pattern perhaps? You guys dont care that I am who I am, that I got rejected alot, that Im not afraid to say that it hurts to have SHIRT happen to me. You know me, and just as I have found my true friends, I have found that you guys are included in that group. So yea.

As for the future, I dont know. I would hope to see myself as an Admin, but knowing the way things are, I dont think Im ever going to get a position other than member. And I used to be so upset about it, that I had so much to offer and they turn me down. But now I'm not so upset, because even though I still am the same, I dont need a position to do good, it might help me do better, but for now Im stuck like this, and its okay.

So random reflections...hmm.....well, I remember Bree getting mad at me, alot. Danielle giving me love advice in that valentines day thread. Getting super upset about Admin positions. Zak. Fights. Zak. Uhhhhh....thats about it. OH! And if any of you remember Sammi, the semi active member, well yea I thought she was super cute ! But thats about it.

SPOTM, thanks for everything past, present, and future. I love you. Happy First.(Now wheres the vodka?)

[Raydawn]

i love spotm!

[Nancy R.]

Nov 16, 2010 16:27:03 GMT -5 Ferrrrrre said:

But enough of being a negative Nancy!

First of all, I hate that quote lol. Secondly, I may have been here for only some months, since June, mind you, but I can say that I grew a bond to this place. I mean, the people here are amazing. I cannot spend one day without checking this place at least once, even if I have to use my phone for that. I think that I found some people that I can talk to here and I have to admit, I am having fun, even if sometimes the conversation is limited to "twss" and "your mom" or references to my tastes (I kind of blame myself for the last part). This place is good enough to stay. I haven't met someone who wouldn't like to talk or would say things about me and even if someone does, I am sure that the rest of you would take it as a joke and embarass the hell out of him/her. Anyway, I am not good at writing speeches (Bombmaniac comes shouting "Lies from a person that has rockets instead of fingers!!!!") But seriously. I am not good at speeches. All I want to say is that I want to see this place growing so that one day what Ferre said will happen. Soon I'll have my six-month-anniversary in here, so yeah, it seems that I've been here for longer than I imagined. I wish that this forum will go through another fruitful, great year.

~Nancy R.

[austkyzor]

I'm super late to the party here - but as long as the message gets through, who gives a SHIRT?

When I joined back in August - I was looking for a sense of community - I was living on my own for the first time - and while my roomies are great, they're not a community.

And, quite frankly, they're horrible conversationalists.

Anyways - I was looking for a good community - and that's what I got, and so much more. I've met some really great people here - much better then some of the people in other groups I'm a part of. The moon has become such a normal part of my life that I sometimes see things, and I wonder what members of the moon would think about it - rather then, say, one of my friends.

So, I'm glad I landed here - and I hope to celebrate a full year on the moon next November.

[Sean]

SPOTM IS GREAT.

This is all.

[Kevak]

Looks like I'm later, Aust

I've been a faithful viewer of Dan's for a while now, I found him because of the 'How to solve a Rubiks Cube' - tutorial. I think I watched him at least way before "Who Want's to be a Youtubetrillionare?"

Anyway, I sorta joined the original moon back in...idunnolol.
But I went there twice, posted once, and never came again.
Then, ages later, in...June or July or something, I joined the new moon. First person I got to know was Bree, in the IRC chat. She introduced me to the moon.

I love this place
I have so many buddies here and we do awesome stuff and it's fun and.. yeah...awesomeBBQsauce.

[Xanast]

This has been my dream since I was 5. The first time I saw the site, I fell in love. Now, to be posting on this thread, it's...... it's just so......... I'm sorry I get very emotional. AND, that's not my message. HHHHAAAAAPPPPPPYYYYYY BBBBIIIIIRRRRRRTTTTHHHHHHDDDDAAAAAAAYYYYYYY SSSSSPPPPPPOOOOOOTTTTMMMMMMMM!M!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!1!!1!!!!!1!1!1!1!1!!!!1!1!111111