Originally Posted by Zamfir
I swear I'm going to save down this answer. Wish I could automate it...
*ahem*
How it came into existence
Sometime in the early 2000s (2001?), a deranged, sheep-bothering poster with S&M predilections known as T-40 posted something like the original post to this thread: namely, that every thread he posted in proceeded to drop like a rock. He did it as a test, expecting to see this thread drop even faster than the others.
Perverse human social interaction on the int3rwebz being what it is, several posters ensured this was not to be.
Since then, the cast of characters has changed remarkably (some are more persistent at posting over the long haul than others). The thread is a repository of all kinds of off-topic comments, images, vids, and other content. It has become a mini-community within Harmony Central Bass Forum (HCBF), where conversations meander every which way, with no presumption of logical connections between comments.
Btw, we were here long before Open Jam was ever created, and we pride ourselves on relatively less inane, which is to say, far better content. You can read without feeling sullied (usually). However, trying to read the whole damn thing is asking for a trip to a mental health facility of your local police force's choice.
Because one poster coughfrunobulaxcough gets flustered at seeing bass- or music-related content, other users sometimes post that here, too. But I digress.
The current thread contains only a portion of its history. The original thread hit well over 10,000 posts and was eating forum server space well beyond what Harmony Central admins were willing to tolerate. Consequently, the first ten posts would get snipped off into a new Thread Killer (TK) after the thread hit 1,000 posts, and the preceding thread would drop off the forum.
This worked reasonably well until
bassaussie broke it
And we lost most of the first ten posts. Fortunately the original T-40 post was recreated by the same, despite forgetting his password for a couple of years.
Why it still hasn't collapsed in on itself
Musician's Friend (which bought HC) installed a whole crapload of new server space around 2006 (2007?). Consequently the thread was able to resume and exceed its absurdly huge proportions of yesteryear. It is the duty of every regular Thread Killer to keep the thread bumped up somewhere in the first four pages of HCBF.
So, then what you are saying is this. I have aided in building the self esteem of T-40 and thereby have helped pull back one human being from the brink of sheer dehumanization.
