CivPlayers, WePlayCiv and Apolyton are dead

[Athmos]

What the ?

[Thoth]

How am I just hearing about this Panda incident? This sounds amazing.

Probably because you are sensible enough to not waste time in the OTF.

Unfortunately Poly's search function isn't cooperating and I can't find the original thread (it was circa 2009 iirc).

[antisocialmunky]

Sounds like a fun way to win a PBEM.

[Sullla]

Titillating as this gossip may be, I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this thread. Community forums wax and wane over time, with a lot of the Civilization community migrating in recent years to Reddit Civ and the official 2K forums. There's nothing unusual about that, and any long-running series of games has seen the like. I also don't see why we would be celebrating the lack of recent traffic at Apolyton, We Play Civ, and CivPlayers. This isn't a competition between fan sites, and it's not a good thing to see other Civilization fan communities dwindling away. At the very least, I don't think we should be chortling at their internal issues when we've had plenty of disagreements of our own.

I'll keep the thread open for now, but I'm leaning towards locking it unless there's something of merit to discuss here.

[MJW (ya that one)]

This was ment as a "goodbye" thread to those websites. If you read the thread people are just reacting to the sheer weirdness of Pandas--not attacking other websites. Having said that if no-one wants to say "goodbye", and just wants to spam about Panda-drama, then this thread doesn't need to stay open.

I'd give it 24 more hours in case someone else has something nice to say.

[v8mark]

I thought you meant actually dead as in down or taken offline, not just dead as in no-one goes there. So yeah, I agree that this thread is a bit random.

That's been the case for a while, and I'll always be a little bit sad about Apolyton - it was my first internet home way back in 2000, at the age of 15. But I've not been active there for more than 10 years, and there really isn't much there anymore.

[MJW (ya that one)]

I thought you meant actually dead as in down or taken offline, not just dead as in no-one goes there. So yeah, I agree that this thread is a bit random.

That's been the case for a while, and I'll always be a little bit sad about Apolyton - it was my first internet home way back in 2000, at the age of 15. But I've not been active there for more than 10 years, and there really isn't much there anymore.

When I type apolyton.net or apolyton.com in my address bar I get nothing.

[v8mark]

Me too, but the forums still exist.

[Hail]

"Pandapocalypse"

What was that?

Asher caused Dale (yes that Dale and he was a mod at that time) to freak out and abuse his position by sending pictures of Pandas to him.  Now Asher should have been banned earlier, and it's pretty obvious that this was meant as an intentional straw that broke the camel's back, but it wasn't acceptable for Dale to lose his cool like that. Dale got rightfully banned and this incident inspired someone called Seeker to make WPC to get away from people like Asher (he should have stayed and waited for Asher to inevitably get banned).

Edit: Two silly things not worth own post.

1. It was started initially by Asher attacking Dale by attacking his mod of Civ4:Con.
2. In case you still don't get it this caused the site to get nuked by having half the members quit to WPC; an apocalypse. It involved pandas so "Pandapocalypse".

Close but not quite.

Asher accused Dale of sending pictures of Dale having sex with a panda to Asher via PM (which wasn't actually possible).  Then Dale freaked out on Asher and uttered death threats.

Pandagate was one of the absolute funniest pieces of internet forum drama I have ever seen.

why wasn't possible? there are no pandas in Australia?

[darrelljs]

Well, Apolyton gave us Blake. Actually back in the beginning it was my main Civ (and Alpha Centauri) site. So I'm quite sad to see it go even if I haven't visited in years.

Darrell