Well this is my stop

[HeartoftheDarkness]

Well, Tegan's not the only one who is a mite upset

I know those role play thingos are funny, but what about the people who dont post anywhere but Sus-Rid? We Sus-Ridians love it there, and some of us dont post anywhere other than Sus-Rid because we just want a place to let off steam, and not have to stick to one subject. We just kinda say what we're thinking, and its hard to do that when you're in a thread that's meant to be about music, or johnny depp And some people dont get very happy with you when you interupt a thread by suddenly start frisbeeing plates at people for no reason, or torching everything in sight ....sorry, fond memories

What exactly is happening to Sus-Rid? Im still not sure I read the thread Buneater put in there, but i still havnt really a clue as to whats going on. Do we all have to make those script thingys now? I for one cant write a play or even a story even if an avocardo-polecat hybrid was giving me the Chinese Water Treatment

I bet im going to get a good talking to now

[Seagull Fred]

*waves hand* oooh! me! Me! I haven't done any talking yet, I wanna talk to HoD!!!

Okay, lessee. Good Dark Hearted One, do not despair! The random frisbees may still work their wonderful way into the 'new' version of the old SR.

Basically, you don't have to be a good script writer at all to work with the Sus Rid style. For example:

*the cast looks around as the voice stops*

Buneater: Wot?

Narrator: I didn't say anything. That was the point of the silence.

Heart of Darkness: i thought you promised me a frisbee!

Narrator: So I did.

*HoD is sucked into The Washing Machine Formerly Known as Squarmi's...Lud, I miss that machine...anyway, and after a few gurgles, a large frisbee is popped out*

HoD-as-Frisbee: Wait! That's trickery!

Horse: Neigh! It is simply the world in which we reside!

And so on and so forth. Does that make a bit more sense?

I'd also like to remind everyone that SUSTINAIRE RIDICULUM means TO UPHOLD THE ABSURD.

So we're not getting rid of the nonsense, really. We're just kind of making it more sensible...but not boring-sensible. More like...you know Monty Python? Or the Goon Show? The kind of humour that is logically illogical.

eg, "His eyes aren't wot they used to be - they used to be his ears!" <- from the Goon Show, courtesy of my dad

That kind of humour. You can still blow off steam here in the Dining Hall. Or you can follow the plotlines of SR. Tis up to you. We'll help everyone fit right in, never fear.

If you're still confuzzled, just ask away. We'll do our best to confuse you more But we'll make everything perfectly clear to you, all in good time.

Hope that helps,

Lauren aka Fred the Seagull

[Rilla]

*HoD is sucked into The Washing Machine Formerly Known as Squarmi's...Lud, I miss that machine...

At the no-longer-annual-obernewtyn-awards, i believe i went to live in that washing machine...

[Swallow]

You're a meglomaniac!


Meglomaniac: No i'm not!



Don't ask me why i needed to put that in, i just felt like it should be there

and Frankie, the dining hall is perfect for you to just go bonkers, talk about anything you want!! I'm all for throwing you about in random threads or getting potatoe peels or slimy grugs, that's what the dining hall is for, it was just susrid and the dining hall had turned into carbon copies of one another, and that's just plain silly (and not classy silly) so i seriously, go ahead and coat the dining hall in hot poink and start chucking food at people.... since when was the hall meant to be serious anyway, we have plenty of other threads for serious discussion

*picks up HoD-frisbee and tosses her to Lauren*

[HeartoftheDarkness]

If thats what i have to do in order to post in Sus-Rid, than im going to have to find another board to live on

Those play things are a Kayt, Buneater, Clare, Flit and Lauren thing. Not a me thing

So you 5 will probably have the time of you lives their, but i doubt there'll be much for me to do

[Arien]

Ok...you're probably all going to think i'm just whinging or something, but i'm a bit upset as well.
I love reading the camelalot plays, but for me this is just going to be like writersmerge- i'll only ever be an observer of Sustinair Ridiculum. I TRIED in the original sus rid. I did. But i just can't do stuff like that!
I'm not witty and imaginative like Kayt and Flit and Lauren and Buneater and Clare! I just can't do that sort of stuff...
The other susrid was just a place where i could do whatever, and not have to think 'Wow, I'm just so outclassed by other people here that i may as well not bother.'
Because that IS how i feel. seriously outclassed by everyone...

And i didn't just post on sus rid to get more posts or stars or whatever. I actually had fun there...
The dining hall is different...if we do what we did in susrid here, we'd get told off. People said they were too confused to go into susrid...and i know you guys don't want that to happen to the dining hall. I love posting in here, but of course it's not going to be the same as sus rid

Ok, I've said whatever now, so yeah. don't hate me

[Brownie]

but it won't be susrid without you HoD

[Swallow]

Arien i don't hate you, we don't hate you! Trust me, your confusion and upset is understandable! But i think i need to stress this again

Turn the dining hall into what you were using sus rid for

you guys are complaining about how we took away your susrid, did you ever stop to think that you might have taken susrid away from the old susridders? You said yourself that you noticed the change, and that there was a difference, well, did you stop to think that it was you lot that caused that change and took the very ideal of sus rid away from those who once had it.
All we are trying to do is reclaim a little of that madness.

Now, the dining hall, i personally couldn't give a rats as to what kind of insanity goes on here, it's exactely the place for it. You may think that there are tight rules here, but there isn't. the only reason why the meaning word and winningness thread were closed was because they were taking up too much of the screen and we wanted for more threads to be shown on the first page.
The only things you can't do in this thread is bassically be nasty. And you know what we mean by that. Throw veggies, talk senseless crap and i promise you you will not be stopped from doing it. Go mad, it's what the dining hall is for.


Now as for feeling inadequate, welcome to my world I lead my life with the lowest confidence in the world, and you never know until you try, so give it a go! Trust me, you are going to see me fall on my a$s more than once in this susrid... i've never done anythign like it before in my life


But you have to admit, there was two threads for random silliness and no threads for the old susridders, we are just trying to give back what was lost.

[HeartoftheDarkness]

*sigh* Flit, we know that its changed a lot, but what we really wanted was a little consideration. No one cared about what we wanted, its like we're just meant to have our old Sus-Rid taken away and have this one forced on us. I feel like ive been evicted from my home and left out on the streets
Has no one heard of comprimise? We could have kept the old Sus-Rid and had the new one. It could have been called 'Classic Sus-Rid'

I guess it doesnt matter now though. Its probably being demolished right now

[Swallow]

I will have to check with buneater, but to my knowledge at this moment, the threads are not going to be chucked out, if that is what you are concerned about. We did take into consideration what you would have wanted, trust me. I'm not too sure what is being done with your old thread, but i do not believe they are being destroyed. But as i said, i have to check that with Buneater, and i'll let you know....


....or she will let you know.......

[avra]

The thing is, HotD, is that no-one actually really said what they wanted. There was just a lot of whinging, quite frankly. Everyone was given ample notice and explanation, but it's only now that you're giving us any useful input. There's no point complaining about the way something is without offering an alternative solution. Of course we will take any suggestions and whatnot in to account, but we need people to tell us! We ain't mindreaders!

All the MoO's and guardians discussed the SusRid at length, taking in to account as many possible perspectives as we could think of (there are quite a few of us now!) and if you guys have anything constructive you'd like to say please do tell us!

The thing I've noticed that's been said several times throughout this thread is that "that's what's the Dining Hall is for" and that's really all it comes down to. What we're doing now probably should have been done a while ago. The majority of things posted in SusRid BELONG in the Dining Hall. I'll say it again - that's what the Dining Hall is for. We're not stopping anyone from posting about anything they want to post about - we're just making sure it goes in the place it should have been in in the first place. You SusRidians who only post in SusRid will just have to become DiningHallians instead.

So, thankyou for your suggestion, HotD. That idea is also something that we had discussed, however, we thought perhaps we already had so many boards, and do we really need to add another one when the Dining Hall would serve the same purpose? Could we possibly re-name or re-define the Dining Hall in a way that would make it more appealing?

[HeartoftheDarkness]

Well, that makes me feel a bit better
At least theres a chance our escapades arent being thrown out like yesterdays newspaper.

But still, you mayhave considered what we wanted, but no one actually thought to mention ay of this to us until it was already decided

[Natally]

*sigh* i will miss good old susrid, but it will live on

[avra]

True. However, with the number of members that we have, personally I think it's practically impossible to please everyone, so had we opened it up to a big discussion it would most likely have been ages before anything was decided and done, and still wouldn't have pleased everyone?

Personally, I didn't realise that there would be such an objection to using the Dining Hall. You can just do the same thing, but under a different heading. I didn't think it would be such a big deal? But personally I haven't ventured into SusRid since the Proboards have been around.



Edit: gawd, I say "personally" a lot. That's just to emphasise that these are my personal views and I'm not sure how the other mods thought, but I suspect they may have thought similar?

[Arien]

avra said:

So, thankyou for your suggestion, HotD. That idea is also something that we had discussed, however, we thought perhaps we already had so many boards, and do we really need to add another one when the Dining Hall would serve the same purpose?

umm...instead of creating a whole other board, is it possible for us to keep just a single one of our old threads on susrid? That way, if we feel like just going off and saying something completely irrelevant and unrelated to anything, we can go there
And it leaves a little part of the old susrid there for us to see

[Swallow]

That is certainly something to consider, but why can't you say something completely irrelevant in the dining hall? Why does it need to be sus rid? Is there any particular reason? Please tell me

[Dameon]

We didn't just do it on a whim, guys!

The idea was proposed by on of the MoO/Guardians, and we all discussed pros and cons. We put alternative ideas forward and listened to each others suggestions.

And then we voted unanimously to re-vamp Sus-Rid. I'm not an original Sus-Ridder, but...

Buneater: Actually...

Kayt: I'm NOT an original Sus-Ridder, but I agree with Flit. The original Sus-Ridders have lost something too, and there was no organisation. It just happened and now they have nowhere to go. With NEW IMPROVED Sus-Rid they will have their home back.
And new-style Sus-Ridders can go to the Dining Hall.

And all the sensible threads in the Dining Hall really do rather belong on the Main Members Board.

Avra's right, what can we do to the dining hall? Can we give it a new name? From what we've seen of Sus-Rid, everything you guys have been doing there would fit perfectly in the Dining Hall, as it's original purpose was. And Sus-Rid can be restored to IT'S original purpose.

Then everyone has a home to go to, right?

And we'll never turn anyone away from Sus-Rid, provided they try to get into the spirit. And if anyone doesn't understand, we're happy to help them out.

KSL

[HeartoftheDarkness]

*takes deep breathe*

Ok, I've cooled off now, and i just wanted to say that im sorry for snapping at you all

I really do like the original Sus-Rid, with all the crazy drama and acting, it was just that no one really said anything to us, and that made me feel really hurt. It made me feel like our opinions weren't worth enough to take into consideration

Really, i do like the old roleplaying Arien and i love to go all out and have long stories in Sus-Rid, and it annoys us when someone comes in and posts a sentence, or just a smiley. It gives Sus-Rid a bad reputation, and thats not what we want.

So again, sorry about using you as my living stress ball, and i really will try hard to post in the new Sus-Rid, and the Dining Hall

[Exodus/Rising]

hey there
me and natally have been discussing this on various train servicces for a while......

natally:lauren dont tell them what i think! thats for me to do.
just tell them what YOU think

lauren: but but..... i have no personality!!!

ook so i'll try. i am sad. i was only on here for a little while n everything changed.


i guess we could go to the dining hall, but do you know how hard it would b to change susriddians to dininghallians?
seriously, its a blasphemy......

but i guess if some ppl want susrid to be more "logically illogical", thats ok. n the mods do have the last say......

we all need to work on a new name. shoddy some space in the dining hall and hold on to it no matter how annoyed everyone gets. n all be weird there. plz can we go with my nut idea?? plz plz??

n mb we can all be nuts and some "logically illogical" person will take all our ideas and make a play

[Arien]

yeah...
We DID do some role playing sort of stuff before, but sometimes it got interrupted by a random smiley or something, and then the thread just went completely psycho
I'm going to try my best in the new Sus Rid, and i'm sorry for being angry before. And very sorry for taking away the original susrid from you guys!
I'm completely over it now, and i'm looking forward to seeing the new renovated SR. Sorry for causing drama and acting immaturely..

Sorry, Arien - I clicked on "Modify" instead of "Quote". I swear, I haven't been tampering with your posts!

[Dameon]

Phew!

*wipes forehead*

I'm SO glad that tempers on both sides are starting to cool. I'd hate for us all to be torn apart by this. The spirit of Obernet isn't like that.

And exodus/rising: You just made a good start on a playish type thing right there!!!

HOD/Arien: I'm glad you guys are willing to give the revamped Sus-Rid a go. We'll never know if the system works unless we try it out!!!

*slimy grugs for all*

KSL

[Elspeth]

HeartoftheDarkness said:

*takes deep breathe*

Ok, I've cooled off now, and i just wanted to say that im sorry for snapping at you all

I really do like the original Sus-Rid, with all the crazy drama and acting, it was just that no one really said anything to us, and that made me feel really hurt. It made me feel like our opinions weren't worth enough to take into consideration

Really, i do like the old roleplaying Arien and i love to go all out and have long stories in Sus-Rid, and it annoys us when someone comes in and posts a sentence, or just a smiley. It gives Sus-Rid a bad reputation, and thats not what we want.

So again, sorry about using you as my living stress ball, and i really will try hard to post in the new Sus-Rid, and the Dining Hall

*grugs Frankie*

Frankie, nothing drastic is going to be done. Most of the threads will either migrate here or stay at SR but we will ask for people's opinions and thoughts before we do ANYTHING. I'm sorry if it sounded like we were just going to do things without consulting you lot at all - I certainly never intended to give you that impression. It's hard for me because I do feel a little like Flit said - as though SR has been taken away from me (and the other oldies). But it's our own fault, really. We had a chance to step in and guide people in the new boards, but it somehow never happened.

I guess what I want to do is create a new SR which is not exactly the same as the old-old SR and not exactly the same as the old SR but somewhere in between, where oldies and newies can come together and create a new SR.

And Frankie, seriously, it's not all about plays. And even if it was, the plays aren't exactly works of art. The plays on the Camelalot website aren't polished creative pieces - they're the work of a dozen people, writing up things that came to them on the spur of the moment. And don't for a minute believe you're not capable of that sort of thing. SR isn't about competition or being more creative - not at all.

If you have any more concerns, don't hold back. We really want to hear them. I don't want to drive people away from SR - I actually want to bring people back to it. I miss it a lot in my life, if I'm honest.

[Elspeth]

Arien said:

yeah...
We DID do some role playing sort of stuff before, but sometimes it got interrupted by a random smiley or something, and then the thread just went completely psycho
I'm going to try my best in the new Sus Rid, and i'm sorry for being angry before. And very sorry for taking away the original susrid from you guys!
I'm completely over it now, and i'm looking forward to seeing the new renovated SR. Sorry for causing drama and acting immaturely..

*grugs Arien too*

You see, I think this was the problem with SR. No mods really went in there to make sure things were going smoothly and this is exactly the thing I want to prevent in the future. Frankly, I wouldn't even tolerate a single smiley post in the Dining Hall, so you can rest assured that sort of thing won't be happening in the new SR.

[Natally]

wooo!

*patiently waits for new board*
i dont know what to say. but i'm happy that things have been resolved.
i'm a little confused about whats going on now...

so susrid is again absurd place... but for plays
but its not all about plays.
and not completely random.

have i got it right?

[~Dani~]

I know its a wast of space to just post a smiley, but you can't say anything against one sentance posts!! Sometimes all you need to say is in one sentance. But anway, I am glad Sus Rid is changing for the better. It was great before, but sometimes a little overwhelming!!!