IAmA 11 year TBT member, ex-mod, current twice a year visitor. Ask me anything

[vel]

who was truly the mvp back in the days

 

[Horus]

without a doubt, the top one

Are you sure?

Any updates?

 

[tybalt_cake]

How was TBT in 2005? Describe it exactly as you remember i

Also if by some coincidence you have a Screenshot from tbt in 2005-07 post it!

 

[DarthGohan1]

How was TBT in 2005? Describe it exactly as you remember i

Also if by some coincidence you have a Screenshot from tbt in 2005-07 post it!

It was a lot of fun. We were all excited speculating about ACWW coming out for DS. Just a bunch of kids interested in video games, graphic design, web programming, etc. Smartphones weren't a thing in 2005, and a lot of us were probably still living at home with our parents, so at night we'd just all be on our PC's on TBT, Nsider (official Nintendo forums at the time), and MSN messenger hanging out, maybe working on other stuff at the same time, too. I don't think any of us really knew anyone personally, so it was kind of cool getting to actually know the active people on TBT, too. A lot of the forum is still set up the same as it was... I remember TBT HQ, Brewster's, and Gamer's Lounge. Everyone got really excited when new sages or mods would get announced. Sporge ran a text RPG. Justin was always causing trouble. Jeremy was working on building the TBT website.

I don't have a screenshot from that far back, however I do have a link to the old board:
http://s3.zetaboards.com/The_Bell_Tree/index/

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Why isnt this site dead yet

I don't think it will ever die

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who was truly the mvp back in the days

Besides me? Hmmm... Justin!

 

[Aleigh]

How do you get high in the ranks? Like becoming a mod, or other helping staff like that?

 

[DarthGohan1]

How do you get high in the ranks? Like becoming a mod, or other helping staff like that?

Back in the day if you were really active on the forum, contributed to the community and wanted to take on a bigger role, and the staff was in need of more help, they'd add a new mod or two. But I'm sure with a much bigger community now it's probably a lot tougher since there are so many active members!

 

[tybalt_cake]

How different are were the forums 11 years ago from now?

How would you rate the users from now?

 

[Liamslash]

4. Becoming a mod and getting access to / finally getting real evidence of the super secret staff board.

Teach me please.

 

[Rymi1]

Wow :3

 

[AnimalCrossingPerson]

My parents wanted to make sure I was one of the first 300 members. They knew TBT would be a big deal.

Um... wowzers. Weird.

Well, good job being #128!

 

[DarthGohan1]

How different are were the forums 11 years ago from now?

How would you rate the users from now?

Seems like there are lot more members now. "Liking" posts wasn't a thing 11 years ago, though. And we talked about AC, Nintendo, Pokemon, etc... so not much has changed in that sense. Jeremy is still lead admin, too.

Users seem nice nowadays, hard to say for sure though since I'm never around. We had an awesome group back in the day.

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Teach me please.

After many bribes to Jeremy, you'd be surprised how quickly you can become mod

Basically something like: "Hey Jeremy, if I promise to ban Justin can I become a mod?" | "Sure, why not"

 

[The Pennifer]

Were you into art or writing? (Really cool to see the screenshot of the old Bell Tree page ... I truly wish I had known about Bell Tree earlier!!!

 

[N a t]

You're like, the lost city of Atlantis, only surfacing once every bajillion years under some sort of lunar anomaly. What...are you...?

 

[Horus]

What it feels like to be ignored on an Ask me Anything

 

[DarthGohan1]

What it feels like to be ignored on an Ask me Anything

Too many creepy pics o.0

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You're like, the lost city of Atlantis, only surfacing once every bajillion years under some sort of lunar anomaly. What...are you...?

I am the hero Gotham TBT deserves, but not the one it needs right now.

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Were you into art or writing? (Really cool to see the screenshot of the old Bell Tree page ... I truly wish I had known about Bell Tree earlier!!!

Both are interesting, not great at either, though. I think the best art I ever did was my sig

 

[Liamslash]

Basically something like: "Hey Jeremy, if I promise to ban Justin can I become a mod?" | "Sure, why not"

Justin banned me on twitter though

 

[Horus]

Too many creepy pics o.0

Eternal pain

 

[DarthGohan1]

Eternal pain

now creeper dude is making me feel guilty :\

 

[Mints]

what are you going to do with all those tbt bells you got there? ( ͡? ͜ʖ ͡?)
pls be single

 

[tybalt_cake]

Can you unban me from Splatoon <3? How can i get unbanned <3?