We will. It is just a matter of the code being written. Everyone has full time jobs, after all. Coding takes time (especially since Wotmania's coding was apparently ... erratic? and translation it to this format therefore becomes a hassle). I have a lot of stuff stored on my computer and a backup disk; I know Tor has a lot more. It'll show.
I know work and life come first and I'm the last person to give anyone grief about letting trivialities like earning a living interfere with MB contributions, but we have a narrow window of opportunity here. After four years of NOTHING from WoT, then one book, then a two year drought and the author dying, we're finally on pace to see one very good volume a year until the series is done. In about eighteen months. That's maybe two years worth of WoT fandom at a fever pitch that may never have been higher.
IMHO, if RAFO's to be a serious SF/Fantasy site we cannot afford to miss that boat. It doesn't even matter how you or I or anyone here feels about the series: How can anyone in the SF/Fantasy community take us seriously if we largely ignore the end of a two decade epic like that? I don't much care for Martin, but when ASoIaF finally comes to a close I expect every fantasy site on the net to be all over it simply because of the hundreds of thousands of people who DO like it.
Which also means it's a golden opportunity at the perfect time to attract the sites future mainstays. There really aren't enough regulars now, but the "regularity" with which each of us finds ourselves with too much work or too many kids or too much studying to spend hours a day here is only going to continue. There's a reason my sig reads like it does; I've always liked newbs because I've never really stopped feeling like one, but the big picture is that if we don't get new high quality members one of these days the Last Wotmaniac is going to login and find a ghost town.
Honorbound and honored to be Bonded to Mahtaliel Sedai
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
Last First in wotmania Chat
Slightly better than chocolate.
Love still can't be coerced.
Please Don't Eat the Newbies!
LoL. Be well, RAFOlk.
This message last edited by Joel on 16/10/2010 at 12:43:52 PM
>: [ So apparently none of us were good enough for wotmania....
09/10/2010 08:33:46 PM
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I want to know more about this!
09/10/2010 08:36:02 PM
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I know! I don't understand why they're using the wotmania domain name for this...
09/10/2010 09:45:26 PM
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I guess Jason offered a lot of money then? *NM*
09/10/2010 08:41:09 PM
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We were told it was about the "trust" that the wotmania members had put in Mike by signing up. *NM*
09/10/2010 08:46:11 PM
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Indeed. Imagine this has quashed any vestiges of good feeling towards the man. *NM*
09/10/2010 08:47:12 PM
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Yeah, I wasn't overly angry with Mike before, but that's changed *NM*
09/10/2010 08:58:51 PM
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Someone had already pointed this out in the other thread from a while back. It's bullshit.
09/10/2010 08:48:27 PM
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Huh. I completely missed that.
09/10/2010 08:49:52 PM
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I bet you say that a lot, Beks. *NM*
09/10/2010 09:01:22 PM
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nonsense. I will indulge in my internet RIGHT to nerdrage!!! *NM*
09/10/2010 08:50:46 PM
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Oh, I'm not saying don't be mad over it and don't talk about it.
09/10/2010 08:58:47 PM
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I don't know; pretty sure a redirect page isn't terribly rough on the servers. *NM*
09/10/2010 09:13:58 PM
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Of course it isn't, but he didn't have to do it.
09/10/2010 09:21:14 PM
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The dragonmount wotmania landing page with the redirect is still accesible if you google wotmania *NM*
09/10/2010 09:37:16 PM
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Truthfully (and I'm sure I've expressed some of this before at one point or another)...
11/10/2010 10:40:44 PM
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That's a little bit bum!
09/10/2010 09:01:21 PM
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For what it's worth, after A Memory of Light comes out Dragonmount will go down like a rock.
09/10/2010 09:44:27 PM
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good point, but that doesn't make me feel better about Mike being an ass *NM*
09/10/2010 09:46:18 PM
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Oddly it makes me feel better. He has a point. "Read and Find Out" is a timeless name.
10/10/2010 12:14:29 AM
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Right, like Planet Tolkien did after the Silmarillion.
10/10/2010 02:28:01 AM
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I essentially totally disagree with everything you said and its underlying premises. *NM*
10/10/2010 05:36:01 AM
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I just messaged dragonmount on twitter!
10/10/2010 12:02:56 AM
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Why would he name his movie site wotmania? *NM*
10/10/2010 12:12:09 AM
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He might have picked it as it has some recognition in the area he is making films
10/10/2010 12:25:52 AM
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He didn't, it just redirects there. And judging by the Twitter comment that wasn't on purpose. *NM*
10/10/2010 12:57:04 AM
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I'm not angry at anyone. Wotmania died aug 2009.
10/10/2010 02:04:57 AM
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It doesn't matter *why* it was wrong, it just was
10/10/2010 02:54:07 AM
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Point taken. And I am sorry for the loss of Wotmania, the way it used to be.
10/10/2010 08:15:59 AM
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*throws chocolate fudge at you*
10/10/2010 11:34:42 AM
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*returns fire w/ Marshmallow shooter!!*
10/10/2010 01:32:10 PM
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Re: >: [ So apparently none of us were good enough for wotmania....
10/10/2010 05:33:00 AM
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Too much bitterness yet.
10/10/2010 06:11:42 AM
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Well...
10/10/2010 06:47:49 AM
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I guess maybe that's fair.
10/10/2010 06:55:07 AM
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Insularity has been a problem for years now
10/10/2010 07:23:10 AM
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Re: Insularity has been a problem for years now
10/10/2010 05:44:27 PM
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I don't think most are well-versed, unfortunately
10/10/2010 06:52:49 PM
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Dear Jason:
10/10/2010 08:44:47 AM
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This.
10/10/2010 11:27:36 AM
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I don't agree.
10/10/2010 11:40:25 AM
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Re: I don't agree.
10/10/2010 11:44:05 AM
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There is email... Or the Dragonmount forums...
10/10/2010 11:53:42 AM
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Agreed.
16/10/2010 01:21:50 PM
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I agree.
10/10/2010 01:52:27 PM
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And now Jason is free to make his own choices with the domain... *NM*
12/10/2010 11:30:54 AM
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Yes.
13/10/2010 12:14:07 AM
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Hi
10/10/2010 11:38:13 AM
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Re: Hi
10/10/2010 01:29:48 PM
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Unless someone is willing to buy the domain or he's willing to sell it, it's his.
10/10/2010 03:35:23 PM
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Stupid browser cache!
11/10/2010 03:01:09 PM
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Frankly, I agree, but having heard the arguments the other way, I can see that side.
16/10/2010 02:08:08 PM
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Classy response, Jason. Thank you for taking the time to let us know what was happening.
10/10/2010 06:46:32 PM
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