Historical events in Thinkdigit forum!!!

[Thom_Yorke]

Can anyone post all the historic events that had happened in TD forum!!like I know some user vaibhavtech was very annoying!!! and something related to shalu sharma happened!! but i don't know them in details. can some old member elaborate and add some events that were very contovetial and historic in TD forum!

[krates]

k850i vs n82

[gxsaurav]

Aayush Arya challenged me to prove that I got album art for all my albums in WMP & Media Center, & he will pay me Rs 1k. I proved it but he chinked away saying "I won't pay, I never said". Although it was right there in Official Mac thread.

[Faun]

...and then forum got this ugly theme, curse of angulimaal

[Chirag]

April 2007. All nice members left..

[din]

Back in 2004

We had a member - Vinny. He was intelligent and his writing style was great. But his language was very sharp and rude sometimes. Sometimes he wrote adult matters too, that also in western living styles.

In short, majority of the members were getting angry and Mods had to take action. After a few more heated up debates, he started writing very provocative and abusive posts about a minority religion. And things became worse. The chit chat and fight club were not there then. Mods took immediate action but he kept on making new ids like
TheUndead, deleted_empathy,TimothyMcVeigh etc. I tried to solve it by talking to Raaabo, dexter, other mods and this guy. Raaabo was very active in forum those days. But it was all out of control.

Finally he left the forum. dexter cleaned up all the threads. I still remember him because some of his posts were excellent. But that incident showed us how people goes both extremes. I think he was an IIT dropout.

[Thom_Yorke]

Originally Posted by din

Back in 2004

We had a member - Vinny. He was intelligent and his writing style was great. But his language was very sharp and rude sometimes. Sometimes he wrote adult matters too, that also in western living styles.

In short, majority of the members were getting angry and Mods had to take action. After a few more heated up debates, he started writing very provocative and abusive posts about a minority religion. And things became worse. The chit chat and fight club were not there then. Mods took immediate action but he kept on making new ids like
TheUndead, deleted_empathy,TimothyMcVeigh etc. I tried to solve it by talking to Raaabo, dexter, other mods and this guy. Raaabo was very active in forum those days. But it was all out of control.

Finally he left the forum. dexter cleaned up all the threads. I still remember him because some of his posts were excellent. But that incident showed us how people goes both extremes. I think he was an IIT dropout.

Thanks for sharing!!! I was looking for this kind of responses only!!!

Originally Posted by T159

...and then forum got this ugly theme, curse of angulimaal

why do you post only so short and vague msges???

Originally Posted by Chirag

April 2007. All nice members left..

why what happened?

[Kl@w-24]

^ ^ ^ I remember that one!!! I think it was him who started a thread about the models on Digit's cover!!! In one post he wrote that he w*nked off on the cover girl of Digit's July 2004 (or 2003?) isue!!!

[a_k_s_h_a_y]

The Harry Potter 5/6 Spoiler Thread.
Some guy whose name starts with Q was involved,
And one female.

It was the EPIC thread !!!!!!!!!! Awesome Entertainment !!

[Ethan_Hunt]

There was an epic battle between "Which game had the best graphics, Doom III or Half Life 2?"

I suppose Gx will remember this as it was between him & Enoonmai. Those had some massive amount of knowledgeable posts I had ever seen. Too bad they removed that thread.

Also there was a heated debate in a topic called "fanATIcs V/S nVidiaots" That had been raised to an extreme level of fanboyism. Was a very interesting read again.

God I miss those days back when I joined the forum.

[Kl@w-24]

^ ^ ^ If I remember correctly, GX was the first guy on the forum to download Doom 3 on his 64Kbps connection.

[eggman]

I remember the shalu sharma one!!!!!! well at that time last book of Harry Potter series was to be released. Everyone was supercharged!!! Just few days before the official release of book , pirated edition of book in the collection of photographs of book had come out on the net!! Some girl(as was claimed by the member) named Shalu Sharma had read the book and had posted some big spoiler in the thread. or she was exchanging her thoughts on the book with another member Quiz Master, which obviously contained spoilers. Some other unfortunate member or guest had accidentally read the spoilers , as there was no spoiler warning. This pissed that member so off that he created a new id based on Pink Floyd's album (Dark side of the moon, i think) and as claimed by him, actually Hacked into that female Shalu's account!!! (I dunno how is that possible or how true was the claim.......was it some kind of Spell from Hogwards???). The hacker said it was to take revenge from shalu for spoiling the book and went on to prove that Shalu is a fake and was indeed Quiz master himself with an alibi. THe now defaced female Shalu came back with a new id and did some crying and said goodbye to forum. I still dunno how right Dark side of the moon in his claim, but he entertained us a lot.

That was an EPIC thread.

[Ecstasy]

Originally Posted by Kl@w-24

^ ^ ^ I remember that one!!! I think it was him who started a thread about the models on Digit's cover!!! In one post he wrote that he w*nked off on the cover girl of Digit's July 2004 (or 2003?) isue!!!

Rofl, desperate.

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by Kl@w-24

^ ^ ^ If I remember correctly, GX was the first guy on the forum to download Doom 3 on his 64Kbps connection.

That I didn't know.

[Kl@w-24]

^ ^ ^ Now you know.

[SunnyChahal]

I joined the forum in Sept 07 and spammed all over this forum. Do you need something more historical?

[gxsaurav]

There was an epic battle between "Which game had the best graphics, Doom III or Half Life 2?"

I used to favor OpenGL a lot at that time due to learning 3ds Max , later on I jumped in DirectX & WPF due to which I found how correct Enoonmai was cos OpenGL is only workstation centric & hardly general purpose like DirectX (DirectDraw, WPF etc etc)

^ ^ ^ If I remember correctly, GX was the first guy on the forum to download Doom 3 on his 64Kbps connection.

Ah! those were the days of cable internet

I remember the shalu sharma one!!!!!! well at that time last book of Harry Potter series was to be released. Everyone was supercharged!!! Just few days before the official release of book , pirated edition of book in the collection of photographs of book had come out on the net!! Some girl(as was claimed by the member) named Shalu Sharma had read the book and had posted some big spoiler in the thread. or she was exchanging her thoughts on the book with another member Quiz Master, which obviously contained spoilers. Some other unfortunate member or guest had accidentally read the spoilers , as there was no spoiler warning. This pissed that member so off that he created a new id based on Pink Floyd's album (Dark side of the moon, i think) and as claimed by him, actually Hacked into that female Shalu's account!!! (I dunno how is that possible or how true was the claim.......was it some kind of Spell from Hogwards???). The hacker said it was to take revenge from shalu for spoiling the book and went on to prove that Shalu is a fake and was indeed Quiz master himself with an alibi. THe now defaced female Shalu came back with a new id and did some crying and said goodbye to forum. I still dunno how right Dark side of the moon in his claim, but he entertained us a lot.

I used to talk to shalu too & after her ID was hacked, I was banned by mehul cos he claimed I was endorsing piracy (which I was not) & everyone thought its a big conspiracy

[victor_rambo]

Though I did not witness that personally as I joined much later, I remember someone mentioning that once when the forum was poorly managed, without any upgrades, etc, the mods went on strike.

I don't know how much of this is true, but can somebody confirm this and tell us more about this?

[gxsaurav]

^^^ that was a reason the forum was upgraded to vBulletin from PhpBB

[mrintech]

I missed all the above events Though Joined in 2005 (via Cyber Cafe), but at that time I had no Internet connection

[Kl@w-24]

Yup, the original forum ran on PhpBB. A lot of the old threads are now gone and so are the members.

[Faun]

Originally Posted by Kl@w-24

^ ^ ^ I remember that one!!! I think it was him who started a thread about the models on Digit's cover!!! In one post he wrote that he w*nked off on the cover girl of Digit's July 2004 (or 2003?) isue!!!

I loled...but thats impossible to jack off, perhaps he had a gadget fetish.

Originally Posted by a_k_s_h_a_y

The Harry Potter 5/6 Spoiler Thread.
Some guy whose name starts with Q was involved,
And one female.

It was the EPIC thread !!!!!!!!!! Awesome Entertainment !!

Fishface

Originally Posted by Thom_Yorke

why do you post only so short and vague msges???

Beacows, it really happened.

Originally Posted by Sunny1211993

I joined the forum in Sept 07 and spammed all over this forum. Do you need something more historical?

Kiddo abtom

Originally Posted by gxsaurav

I used to favor OpenGL a lot at that time due to learning 3ds Max , later on I jumped in DirectX & WPF due to which I found how correct Enoonmai was cos OpenGL is only workstation centric & hardly general purpose like DirectX (DirectDraw, WPF etc etc)

OpenGL is still used by id tech engine, it rawks !

[kumarmohit]

Yep the April 2007 events, AKA the "April Crisis" was the most important event in TD history coz a number of good people including an enmasse resignation by mods and member admin took place and forum was moved to vBUlletin as a result but most of the good people never came back

[tarey_g]

Back in 2004 GX used to have long arguments with some user (i forgot his name) wrt ATI and nVidia. GX took the nVidia side while he was on other.
It was just like the Mac/PC debate these days, less crappier though.

[gxsaurav]

His name was Anispace, he used to favor ATI due to DirectX when ATI was doing better then nVidia with there Radeon 9xxx series. I sold my Radeon 9600 in favor of GeForce FX 5900XT cos nVidia was giving better OpenGL performance then ATI which is what I needed in those days (3ds max shaders coding).

Later on I became a fanATIc again & bought a Radeon HD 3650

I remembar one Incident when Aayush was new here & he said "PCs cannot boot from USB drives". Me & Sourabh made so much fun of him

[Ethan_Hunt]

^Actually his name was Anidex. I clearly remember that argument.

[Kl@w-24]

^ ^ ^ Nope, it really was anispace.

[Faun]

I remember stalker getting banned since he cheated someone by selling him bad hardware in Bazaar section, I think the buyer was utsav

Originally Posted by gxsaurav

His name was Anispace,

Anispace is still here

Originally Posted by gxsaurav

I remembar one Incident when Aayush was new here & he said "PCs cannot boot from USB drives". Me & Sourabh made so much fun of him

I too remember an incident where dhcp was attributed to be as "it just works" Mac's privilege...roflcopter. Since then I knew that there is a huge difference between knowing news and interpreting it

Metalheadgautham should remember the incident well

[Ethan_Hunt]

Originally Posted by Kl@w-24

^ ^ ^ Nope, it really was anispace.

I can guarantee you it wasn't Anispace. Anidex's language & flame wars were really a notch above the others.

Here's the thread: fanATIcs vs NVidiots

Enjoy.

[Kl@w-24]

^ ^ ^ Eh??

I must have been confused between the two!!