The Astrobar Rules of Conduct? Pretty simple:
1. Respect others and be respected.
This above all else is the first "rule" here.
2. Take your fights outside.
This means if you have any gripes or bitches, take it up with that poster via PM or e-mail. With the net there are any number of venue's for you to
get in a pissing match with someone else. All of which are not this place. USE THEM!
:soap:
3. "The first drink is on The Lensman", has apparently been changed to "ALL drinks are on The Lensman".
Ahh, you guys are worth it! 8)
4. Have FUN! That's what you're here for, isn't it?
That's about it, as far as I can remember. I'm buzzing right now, and those sum up pretty much all I can recall! :P
HOW THE BAR CAME TO BE
I'd lurked on TrekBBS a couple of times and saw some bar threads where people just seemed to goof off and genuinely have fun. I thought that it'd be great if we could do that at Trekweb, a place that at the time had been described by some other BBS people as "A walk through the roughest part of town".
Two forums had gone over thirty days with 0 posts, so I decided to try starting up a bar thread in one of them, with the intent to hijack the forum and make it into something where people could hang out and relax. Since some old poster left TW because of hostility, and some new said they never felt at home there and left, I felt that such a thing might even help TW. And if successful, get it's own forum. At TrekBBS, you have people who'll post in one or two forums without ever going to the others. It's still board traffic, and that's what I was going for.
Two of the forums at Trekweb had gone for over thirty days with zero posts, so I picked one at random and posted an invitation for people to come and join me for a drink. So excited for this were people that no one responded! LOL! But eventually Siroth, then Iamspen showed up. We had some long conversations about flame wars and generally anything that meandered into our brains. Trekker2001 showed up next, then The Visitor. Somewhere during this time the "table and chair" that I described in the original two or three posts became a "bar".
A couple of things back then: We all welcomed a new patron by buying drinks and giving them a handful of coins for the jukebox. In those days, when there were only a few of us, I bought the first drink and gave people a handful of nickels for the jukebox. Over time, during unforseen absences, the others took over. This was the kind of stuff that helped glue our community together. We also voted on everything as well.
I had my own ideas about the whole thing, but I understood that in order for things to work, the group's wishes were paramount. So I've always gone with what the majority wants, and it's been a blast seeing that in action and seeing the spontaneous evolution of things.
Around this time, someone threw out an idea about putting a website to showcase our creative works. And this is when Cujo showed up. I can't recall if I'd seen Cujo on the CB or not. But he volunteered to set up a website for us. And he, along with The Visitor, could really drink!
(Continued...)
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Everyone Booze Up And Riot!!!
Milk and Cheese
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