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This is essentially the worst April Fool's joke the site's ever made. I'm sorry Gum, but...really, this is it this year? I'm quite disapointed. I was expecting a 'FBI have removed this site due to hentai overload' or something. A single, single thread...seems like a cop out this year, no offense. :(

At 3/31/09 10:13 PM, Pure-Metal-UTA wrote: And even then, more than a quarter of those new flash submissions are shitty spam flash made by trolls.

you make it sound like a bad thing..

anyways, im ascared guys :(

At 3/31/09 09:45 PM, JoS wrote: I was talking to Wade about this, part of the reason is also the BBS is becoming a very big legal liability for NG.
This factored into the bandwidth issue has caused the NG staff to decide the best course of action for the whole of the NG community is to shut down the forums. While they are certainly exploring the possibility of revisiting the issue, perhaps keeping select forums open (like the Flash forum) for the time being it is my understanding all of the forums will be removed.

But, under that legal liability, news posts apply to the exact same thing. As you said, if somebody had not called the secret services, the police, etc, then there could have been major lawsuits on Newgrounds for acting inappropriately. But, notice, if one makes a comment on doing the same thing in, let's say his newspost, a PM to somebody, or ANYTHING ELSE IN TEXT LOCATED DIRECTLY ON THIS SITE, Newgrounds would be up for the blame as well. There would have to be NO TEXT WHATSOEVER on newgrounds such as newsposts to prevent something like this from happening again. What happened in the past days/weeks was an irregular occurence, and as I have heard, there have been previous incidents like this.
Nope. This is still an april fools joke.
TO SUM UP: Legal liability, in any which way of text, flash, etc belongs with newgrounds and therefore is it's responsibility. It would not make any sense to take the BBS away, unless you take PM's and Newsposts away with it too.

this place most likely is going down because if this was a joke they would be trying waaaaayyyy to hard to convince us...

quite frankly what keeps me from thinking this is an april fools day joke is that to be one, it would have to be VERY well planned out and elaborate. and span days before April Fools day.

i find this hard to beileve because Tom fucking sucks at April Fools day jokes.

I know a lot of you look down on me because of my antics, but I have one request. As I watch the BBS in its final hours I have one thing to say:

KEEP THIS THREAD GOING.

When I plan to go, I wish to go out in glory. I wish this for the BBS as well. So fellow members, keep posting your final farwells to the BBS until its final breath. Let the BBS know that you cared. Remember the good, the bad, and even the ugly. Remember your first ban, your first thread, your first time when you posted a longer than a paragraph post. Remember the BBS in its prime. Recall old mods and there funny lock messages.

Remember

IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN!!!!!

Were leaving together,
But still its farewell
And maybe well come back,
To earth, who can tell?
I guess there is no one to blame
Were leaving ground
Will things ever be the same again?

Its the final countdown...

Were heading for venus and still we stand tall
Cause maybe theyve seen us and welcome us all
With so many light years to go and things to be found
Im sure that well all miss her so.

This is probably the best feature of the site. Kindof moronic that they'd take this off, because theres already an art forum and they could just add a lit forum too. Good times here, good times.

At 3/31/09 10:07 PM, WadeFulp wrote:

At 3/31/09 09:03 PM, MasterDragonClock wrote: Anyways, the forum is Newgrounds's new cornerstone. Before, it was flash. Now, most of the people on the site come here mostly for the forums. Tis true. Tom's not stupid.

Do you really believe that? Newgrounds gets some 10-15 million unique visitors each month. Do you really think the forums see even a million unique visitors? Try a few hundred at best. Even if there are 1,000 or 2,000 unique BBS users, do the math, what percent is that out of 10 million uniques?

Serious business, eh? Ah, well. The BBS is the most dynamic feature on this site, you have to admit though.

On a related topic, unlock ZiggyZack99. Kthx.

We'll all be so lonely. If it's a joke, you got me. If it's not, goodbye.

Where have you gone, NewGrounds BBS? The users turn their lonely eyes to you.

I hope that this is a cruel, sick joke done by the admins and mods.

Then I'm leaving Newgrounds.. i might come back to watch a couple movies but the NG Gamerscore Leaderboard was the best damn thing. Goodbye :(

I was told to post this here:

All you morons out there who are sitting at your computer desks and crying about the BBS need to grow a fucking dick.

It looks like you're going to need to get a new hobby, oh boo-hoo.

OH NO I MIGHT HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE!!!

Grow up.

WAIT A MINUTE!!!!! Tomorrow's April Fools!!!! why I oughtta!!

In b4 404d

Dont worry guys it's just a joke if it's not i'll let poozy fuck me.

but on the off chance it's not and the bbs is going down... We can go to 4 chan even though we'll
all be bummed about .I will too even though I lurk moar than anything you guys are the family I never had.

May i have a link to toms message of the bbs closing?

At 3/31/09 10:30 PM, physicsman09 wrote: All you morons out there who are sitting at your computer desks and crying about the BBS need to grow a fucking dick.

nobody is crying but the people in your head to create strawman arguements.

its perfectly reasonable to be unhappy about losing something you dumped 4 years of your life into.

of course you don't give a shit, because you don't understand shit.

At 3/31/09 10:33 PM, homor wrote: reasonable to be unhappy about losing something you dumped 4 years of your life into.

of course you don't give a shit, because you don't understand shit.

Haven't you made epic poems about how much "Tom is betraying the faithful"

Maybe you should have done more productive things with your life than "dump 4 years of your life" into Newgrounds.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK....i hate you fuckers for doing this to me...i almost want to cry.

At 3/31/09 10:35 PM, physicsman09 wrote: Maybe you should have done more productive things with your life than "dump 4 years of your life" into Newgrounds.

kiss my ass, i spent my time here because i enjoyed it.

i've gone outside, and i've done more productive things.

you want to make it so i'm just a loser whose only upset because he has no life outside newgrounds, that way i just become a simple strawman arguement, god forbid you argue with a real person!

Goodbye forums. i will always miss you.

Also if this does happen would the admins PM everyone that the BBS was closing?

At 3/31/09 10:38 PM, homor wrote:

you want to make it so i'm just a loser whose only upset because he has no life outside newgrounds, that way i just become a simple strawman arguement, god forbid you argue with a real person!

I didn't make it so you were a loser, you managed to do that pretty well yourself.

11k posts, and you wrote an entire freakin epic poem telling Tom not to close the BBS.

I only pointed out the evidence.

It's times like these i love that i linked to icanhazcheezeburger in my sig.

The song backwards sounds like Wade says, "Lol, noobs"

It isn't April 1st for the States, foo

April 1st is tomorrow. However if this is my last post on the BBS, then, well....
That's my mama!

At 3/31/09 10:42 PM, physicsman09 wrote: I only pointed out the evidence.

god you are such an idiot.

writing long posts and having alot of them doesn't make you a loser.

but that brings me to my next point:

why are you keeping this stupid shit going? why do you insist on trying to win this meaningless "i have da bigger dick!" arguement.

all your effort to win such a pointless arguement proves that YOU yourself are the loser.

At 3/31/09 10:44 PM, Boris-4-U wrote: April 1st is tomorrow. However if this is my last post on the BBS, then, well....
That's my mama!

That's MAMA LUIGI to you Mario!