MTG Salvation

But last night SubSpirit came on and told us he had 400% traffic at peak hours. Well, if this isn't peak it's pretty close to it, so let's look...

MTGSalvation - 330 (130 members and 200 guests)

MTGNews - 348 (90 members and 258 guests)

Doesn't look like 4x. Hell it doesn't even look like 4% more. Looks like we're keeping up good. Except in the members dpartment, where we're beating him like a redheaded stepchild. You know, not that I'm keeping score or anything...

Lol. I wonder if it's possible to find out how many "active" memers 'News has left compared to Salvaion.


P.S. Plastik, it was a bit before my time on 'News to know why you were banned, but you seem pretty cool to me. (for what that's worth)

We have 130 members online now. They have 32. That should be an indication.

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We have 130 members online now. They have 32. That should be an indication.

Meh, maybe. And for the curious, we're all beating Misetings: Currently Active Users: 81 (42 members and 39 guests)

Though I think that site is intended to be exclusive of sorts.

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Lol. I wonder if it's possible to find out how many "active" memers 'News has left compared to Salvaion.


P.S. Plastik, it was a bit before my time on 'News to know why you were banned, but you seem pretty cool to me. (for what that's worth)

I was banned for being a worthless ****wad. That's all you need to know. Suffice to say, despite what Zoneace and Beta-male would have you believe, my actions will not pe repeated here (proven by mu accounts I now have at Misetings and MTGNews, and I haven't gone psycho on those yet... Maybe it's just this name...

>:D < That smiley doesn't work, so I'll use this one:

We are ***** slapping mtgnews into oblivion as for Misetings... We don't get many new members over there. Vets on MS scare off teh n00blings. Meh.

MTGS 2 everyone else 0

I know alot of people who don't even browse the MTGnews forums for rumours, they just look at the spoiler on the front page, no matter how incomplete. You have factored those in, and I think that boosts their numbers some what.

I'd like to go back to MTGnews for a little while and see what's left... respond to idiots... do what I usually do. If my account remains banned, I'm not resigning up, though. As far as I'm concerned, they've lost me as a customer (S_S is a good businessperson like that).

It's the closest it's been that I've seen!

MTGNews: 303 (72 members and 231 guests)

Here: 309 (136 members and 173 guests)

Yep, kids, we're beating S_S. Also, we just passed 1.25k members.

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Actually, at the time you posted this, we already passed 1.3k...

And you have to remember that among MTGNews 20k members, there are bound to be a ton of inactive accounts with less than 10 posts or so. It's bound to happen on a forum that has been along for a couple of years.

Yeah, but we hit 1.25k since I posted the last one. It's an event of note.

You're winning now, and if things continue down this road, it's over for News. I'm one of the few who is staying for as long as I can.

I agree, news is slowly strangling itself, but S_S is providing the hands.:)

I've seen power trips like this before. SS's actions are only going to end him with a forum that will equate to Hiroshima. Only his most devout followers / biggest R_E, etc haters will stay at 'News by the time this is done.

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You're winning now, and if things continue down this road, it's over for News. I'm one of the few who is staying for as long as I can.

No, isir. You know as well as I do that this is a war, and in a war nobody wins. We're all just sitting over here losing less. It's not a good feeling, but it's not a bad feeling, either. Then end of MTGNews is not something to celebrate, but something to grieve. This war will end with much blood spilled, many corpses counted, and a community standing in the middle of it all like a giant iron pilliar, or blood, corpses, and a hundred tiny shards of glass running to others for cover. Which scenario is true is up to us to decide, but we decide it through actions, not words. It is almost unquestionable now that News will, in one way or another, fall. The question is who it will land on and where it will go.

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I've seen power trips like this before. SS's actions are only going to end him with a forum that will equate to Hiroshima. Only his most devout followers / biggest R_E, etc haters will stay at 'News by the time this is done.

It's funny, because the only things that survive a nuke are cockroaches. Just saying...

This is not a war. That's the exact wrong mentality in this situation.

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This is not a war. That's the exact wrong mentality in this situation.

No sir, this is a war. It's one sided, but it's a war. It is destructive and it seeks to end all, and for this I have no definition but war.



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Well, considering that Plastik posted that, I'd take it tongue-in-cheek... but still. It sorta is a war. Just not Forum vs. Forum... more like Community vs. Scott.

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I love when I rant and ramble and generally lose it and then someone pulls the exact crystal-clear mentality I was in when I wrote it through the rubble. It's great.

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This is not a war. That's the exact wrong mentality in this situation.

I wouldn't consider it a "war" per se, I'd consider it more of "Debunking SS's rampant attempts at propaganda".

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I wouldn't consider it a "war" per se, I'd consider it more of "Debunking SS's rampant attempts at propaganda".

Propaganda is his weapon and the forums are his battlefield. A war of words is a war no less than a war of guns and lead. He's one man standing alone against what he sees to be an insidious enemy; an enemy who would destroy his (commonwealth) little forum (And the commonwealth in parens is to complete the analogy to Red Faction. It means nothing.). It's a bloody war, and the bulets are words and they're striking our community and tearing it apart. Those who leave may never come back but those who stay will be strengthened by it.

The funny thing is, this place has become even more popular than MTGNews was. MT members have even decided to start joining here.
I remember Scott (S_S) from back in the PoJo days. I even recall when he got married and it was broadcast over the internet. He's a decent guy, but his poor business attitude is what's driving him down. There have been many complaints about Shuffle & Cut as well as Magic-Arsenal (I think both of those are run by S_S). I know that I don't plan to even use store credit for Magic-Arsenal that I win in the master tournaments on Magic-League.com

This is hillarious.. Mtgnews can lie down and die.. ^^ And they would even fewer members if it werent for the suspendations

I think the funniest part is how S_S looks like some mindless guy staring at you through the computer. No, seriously.

S_S

That's great. Not that MTGN is drowning (not that it makes me sad, but I don't care what happens over there anymore.) It's great that this place is doing so great. Little makes me happier than seeing a community thrive.

It shouldn't be a war unless we make it a war.

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Figured I'd check News, and this is what their stats were right now. I found it pathetic compared to normal, so I figured I'd share. The guests are most likely banned members that actually AREN'T logged in I guess...