Wordforge
Wordforge was created in mid-2003 after the TrekBBS modified the
rules to the popular The Neutral Zone forum (now obsolete). Though
originally conceived as a board for creative arts, Cassandra (now
known as Caelia Praetorius), retooled it in order to provide an
area for those unhappy with their treatment at the TrekBBS. Since then
Borgs and many others use wordforge for an all purpose news,
discussion, rant, rave, entertainment, porn, trolling and internet source.
It survives to this very day.
= Discussion Forums =
Knowledge
The Wordforge - An area where words are forged according to popular definition used throughout the rest of the board. Also used for tongue-in-cheek board announcements and as a driver for the portal news service.
The Embassy - A forum devoted to introduction threads from new members. Lurkers with no posts will eventually be locked in The Embassy until they post.
FAQs - Contains the board s rules and regulations, as well as explanations as to the quirks of the board.
Announcements - A forum for board-level announcements. Includes three sub-forums as follows: Polls, a forum for discussion of the polls shown on the portal, updated at irregular intervals. Area 51 - Outer Perimiter: contrary to the policies of many boards, posts in the Wordforge staff forum, Area 51c , are released for general viewing, typically monthly. This is where those threads are put. Lastly, there is News around the World, a forum for posting of news items by the Wordforge reporters (see the relevent thread in FAQs ).
The Colosseum
The Stands - A forum for comments to The Arena debates.
The Arena - A unique challenge system designed so that two members may engage in a true debate. The forum population votes on a winner based on what happens in the challenge thread.
The Bar - A forum for creating challenges for The Arena and for discussing the rules for the debate.
Wordforge
The Red Room - The most active forum on the board, The Red Room offers a no-holds-barred debating atmosphere for sensitive issues, philosophy, politics, religion and other like topics. It has very little moderation, and the board administration recommend having a thick skin to participate in this forum.
The Green Room - A home for the community, joke and sports threads of Wordforge. Occasionally, a thread from The Green Room will be moved to The Red Room and vice versa.
The Blue Room - This forum is designed for thread-based blogs for Wordforge members. Because it deals with the real-life aspects of members lives, it has the strictest moderation on the board.
Mindforge
Geekforge - Posters come here to chat about the latest plasma TV s, get help with software, or talk about the latest Mars rover pictures. The sub-forum, Wordforge Arcade is for talk about video and web games, including those in Wordforge s vBulletin-based Arcade.
The Workshop - A place for Wordforge members to post user-created art, writings, and other works. It features the published author Margaret Wander Bonnano.
Entertainment Central
Media Central - Discussion of television, movies, music, and video games (there is some overlap with Wordforge Arcade. Due to the board s beginnings, this forum has a science fiction slant. Firefly_(television_series) has a large following here.
Help!
Quotable Wordforge - Memorable user threads and quotes are stored here to protect them from automated thread pruning.
The Help Desk - A forum for members to ask questions, give feedback, or offer ideas for new directions the board could take. A no-Flaming, no-trolling rule is strictly enforced.
= Membership Forums =
The Gray Room - This forum is designed to keep threads about other Bulletin_board_system out of the main forums, as many do not wish to talk about other boards in The Red Room . Because a majority of Wordforge s membership comes from the TrekBBS, discussion in this forum tends to center on that bulletin board. However, there are threads about other bulletin boards, including other TrekBBS spinoff boards like [http://www.trollkingdom.com Troll Kingdom] or [http://www.lonaf.com LONAF].
The White Room - This forum hosts the discussion and posting of pornography and other adults-only, not work-safe content. Due to the fact that Wordforge enforces no age limit of its members, this forum is hidden unless specifically joined by the user.
Mod Hideout is for staff only and includes:
Area 51c - The forum for staff discussion. Threads are released, roughly monthly, to Area 51 - Outer Perimiter. The c in the name stems from the fact that it is the third incarnation of the forum; the first one was on a previous incarnation of the board software and the b version was invented for the sole reason that hidden forums spark the imagination of certain excessively paranoid members. Area 51b never actually existed. Its subforum, Recycle Bin is used for storage of threads right before release, and for bad threads (such as those made by a spam bot) before deletion.
= Links =
[http://www.wordforge.net Wordforge.net]
Wordforge Deletion
=Wordforge=
Your article on this forum has been speedily deleted in accordance with 12:15, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
This is Academic Challenger. As Doc said above, there was already a vote on this article. By the way, I deleted a version back in August that contained only the link to the website, and that is not allowed in Wikipedia, and articles like that can be speedily deleted. As an administrator I was able to look at the entire history of this page, and I will post some info about it here.
I agree that the reposted version below is a bit rubbish, but that wasn t my goal, I was out to recreate the origonal wiki that I hope you still have in the private histories. I m sorry from recreating it, it s a faux pas, I just thought no one would notice enough to get rid of it again.
So what I want to do is appeal the first deletion. I can clean up the page, make it much more historical/socialogical and wikified version, so it won t annoy as the type of entry you most recently deleted. If you restore -that- history, I assue you I will make it a real entry and not require deleting 21:04, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
=Undeleting the article=
The best thing for you to do would be to request undeletion of this article at 20:27, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
I have just ended the Votes for Undeletion debate on this article, and left the article deleted since there was a pretty clear decision. You asked where should go if you had become notable . Well, if you have significant new information (presumably more than you offered in the VfU since it didn t swing the debate), you can just request the page be unprotected and then move it from your userspace, where you say you ll rewrite it. You normally request unprotection at 00:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
= Promo =
Please stop using wikipedia to promote wordforge. -- 02:36, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
= Internet Trolls =
Hey, you keep removing my section on troll culture from internet trolls, why Wordforge, TrollKingdom (don t know about the other one, it s a hold-over from an older version really) are great vibrant and unique examples of troll culture, each expressing unique ideas, most definately ideas central to troll culture. But rather than question whether their principles do or do not cover signficant areas of troll culture, you decides to label the section as promotion which it s not. I ll wait for you to respond to this before I put it back. 01:10, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
:They are all minor examples trolls, the article isn t a list of trolls or groups of trolls. Your constant attempts to promote wordforge aren t very helpful. -- 01:13, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
::They are examples of troll communities, not trolls. You ve decided I m out to promote wordforge and have worked backwards from there. There are lots of examples cited in the internet trolls artical, many of years and years past with very little relevence to present day trolling. The sites I reference are active sites with a huge amount of relevence to the troll cuture section 02:17, 19 October 2005 (UTC)