Post by JCD - NomadWarrior on Nov 4, 2005 18:16:30 GMT -5
UPDATED 18/02/2006
The more visitors, the more attention. But also, the more questions.
I've lined up a few I've heard the most through the time.
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1. What is Severance?
It's hard to describe and even harder to put in an genre, but Severance is a general - based forum. We don't exactly specialise on things, but try to cover a lot of subjects, that are popular, important, helpful, learnful or full of humor.
In my opinion, I have based this forum to have a bit of entertainment, but not the way it's being told and propagandised around the usual entertainment sites.
Instead, I've decided to mix the elements, a bit of serious here, a bit of humor here, a bit of eye - opening over there, a bit of nothing there. Being a Dutchmen, this creates a unique style of work on my side. But with Severance, I want to give people a place to show their own work as well, not a place devoted to my being and 'how great' I would be.
2. What sort of forum is Severance?
Again, it's hard to put in a genre, but you can call it a mix of elements. Games, sports, music, movies, you know, the regular, with news, commentary on the news, humor, but also graphics and all that. It's general. Most things named here are things I want to do with Severance but haven't yet; which points out I have a lot more to do with Severance than just being a forum where you can discuss general stuff.
3. What does the name Severance (or Serverance) mean?
Well, eh... I'm not exactly sure. Acer and me came to the name when we were talking about the 2nd version of my old Battlezone Halo forums around Summer 2005.
Severance, or Serverance, (don't worry about either name; they mean the same to us) and it's staff has it's target and purpose to: Serve anyone who visits the forums. In response to the elitism in forums and sites, and how the common people and clients are simply payers instead of the ones we all are doing our work for. And because of that, we've put this up. I hope, that with this name remembered, we'll never become (too) elitist, and deny people out of places, or concentrate on how big, rich and great we'd become. I don't say I don't have ambitions to make Severance a huge, wide - span community, but it will never be the main point of Severance.
4. Does this have anything to do with Severance agreements? (See those google ads for those examples...)
No. We're not into banking, or agreements like that. I'm not even sure why they picked such names, but the name, and the forum, and it's ideas and plans have, of course, nothing to do with them. See point 3 for what we do represent.
It also opens a possibility to be the only ones with such a name for a well - running forum, when thinking about it.
5. So, what can you actually do here? (except posting...)
Tons of things! I'm not in the mood to go PR, so I won't.
Well, We've got around 25 boards with around 4 categories of discussion, of which at least one subject be of your liking, and daily updates, cool features, nice design*(which aren't even my own words) and a mix of views at things. Discussion, features, hobbies, and a place where you can unfold your talents and show them to others.
6. Why doesn't my activation work?
I've dedicated a thread to that here. Any more questions can also be answered there.
7. Do you have a website?
We had a website, twice, but trough the time I had to let go of it. I am studying PHP lately, and am preparing a server for the website, and the website itself to be made. I have no idea when it is done, so I won't point out when.
Okay... I expect it to come July 2006.
8. Are you planning to do other projects like Severance?
I have my plans. I fact, I have tons of ideas which are filling a whole lot of collegeblocks of mine. I review them once in a while and use get out more ideas. Through the ideas I do have a few ideas I think will work great, but won't tell about it because I cannot promise it will ever come. No hyping for things that aren't there. That's just bad tactic.
I will, however, announce it if it really does come. Until then, I can't say anything more, but rest assured that Severance itself won't be stopped by me.
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This thread will be updated when there are changes, like new questions, thread deletion, the help becomes old and unsufficient, or other things.
- JC
The more visitors, the more attention. But also, the more questions.
I've lined up a few I've heard the most through the time.
---------------------------------------------------
1. What is Severance?
It's hard to describe and even harder to put in an genre, but Severance is a general - based forum. We don't exactly specialise on things, but try to cover a lot of subjects, that are popular, important, helpful, learnful or full of humor.
In my opinion, I have based this forum to have a bit of entertainment, but not the way it's being told and propagandised around the usual entertainment sites.
Instead, I've decided to mix the elements, a bit of serious here, a bit of humor here, a bit of eye - opening over there, a bit of nothing there. Being a Dutchmen, this creates a unique style of work on my side. But with Severance, I want to give people a place to show their own work as well, not a place devoted to my being and 'how great' I would be.
2. What sort of forum is Severance?
Again, it's hard to put in a genre, but you can call it a mix of elements. Games, sports, music, movies, you know, the regular, with news, commentary on the news, humor, but also graphics and all that. It's general. Most things named here are things I want to do with Severance but haven't yet; which points out I have a lot more to do with Severance than just being a forum where you can discuss general stuff.
3. What does the name Severance (or Serverance) mean?
Well, eh... I'm not exactly sure. Acer and me came to the name when we were talking about the 2nd version of my old Battlezone Halo forums around Summer 2005.
Severance, or Serverance, (don't worry about either name; they mean the same to us) and it's staff has it's target and purpose to: Serve anyone who visits the forums. In response to the elitism in forums and sites, and how the common people and clients are simply payers instead of the ones we all are doing our work for. And because of that, we've put this up. I hope, that with this name remembered, we'll never become (too) elitist, and deny people out of places, or concentrate on how big, rich and great we'd become. I don't say I don't have ambitions to make Severance a huge, wide - span community, but it will never be the main point of Severance.
4. Does this have anything to do with Severance agreements? (See those google ads for those examples...)
No. We're not into banking, or agreements like that. I'm not even sure why they picked such names, but the name, and the forum, and it's ideas and plans have, of course, nothing to do with them. See point 3 for what we do represent.
It also opens a possibility to be the only ones with such a name for a well - running forum, when thinking about it.
5. So, what can you actually do here? (except posting...)
Tons of things! I'm not in the mood to go PR, so I won't.
Well, We've got around 25 boards with around 4 categories of discussion, of which at least one subject be of your liking, and daily updates, cool features, nice design*(which aren't even my own words
) and a mix of views at things. Discussion, features, hobbies, and a place where you can unfold your talents and show them to others.6. Why doesn't my activation work?
I've dedicated a thread to that here. Any more questions can also be answered there.
7. Do you have a website?
We had a website, twice, but trough the time I had to let go of it. I am studying PHP lately, and am preparing a server for the website, and the website itself to be made. I have no idea when it is done, so I won't point out when.
Okay... I expect it to come July 2006.
8. Are you planning to do other projects like Severance?
I have my plans. I fact, I have tons of ideas which are filling a whole lot of collegeblocks of mine. I review them once in a while and use get out more ideas. Through the ideas I do have a few ideas I think will work great, but won't tell about it because I cannot promise it will ever come. No hyping for things that aren't there. That's just bad tactic.
I will, however, announce it if it really does come. Until then, I can't say anything more, but rest assured that Severance itself won't be stopped by me.
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This thread will be updated when there are changes, like new questions, thread deletion, the help becomes old and unsufficient, or other things.
- JC