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Revision as of 07:10, 11 November 2009
The Mario Fan Games Galaxy Forums (MFGG forums, or just forums) comprise the hub of MFGG's communication and public opinion, particularly on matters dealing with fangames and current events. They may also discuss topics, or lacks thereof, that bear no relevance to the foundation of the main site. It is generally agreed that the community of the site and forums are entirely separate, despite sharing the same name.
Contents
History
The MFGG forums started out as a simple guestbook on Thunder Dragon's Bowser Technologies website. This feature was eventually replaced with an EZBoard, marking the first incarnation of the MFGG forums. When Bowser Tech was replaced with MFGG on the 16th July 2001, so were the forums.
February 2003 marked the opening of the VBulletin forums, completely replacing the EZBoard for a number of reasons. This version of the forums was hosted by Spitfire, who, in October of the same year decided to stop hosting the forums due to them being hosted on an illegal copy of the VBulletin software. The forums were then moved to Retriever II's Penguinia and upgraded to the Invision version you see today.
MFGG was eventually moved to Retriever II's new server, Taloncrossing due to the amount of bandwidth needed to run the forums, however all information was carried over.
The forums have also recieved a number of modifications over the years such as a Custom Word Filter and Badges.
Community
The community of the MFGG forums is a fragile weaving of silly and serious members alike. They are arguably rather stupid as a whole, but undeniably much better off than most users of the main site which is agreed to be a separate community.
Over the years, the forum members have melded together in a sort of unofficial family. The members can poke fun at each other, sometimes without injury, and often share secrets or problems that would best be left off of the internet.
The members have breathed personality into the forums, making it a message board experience... like no other, shall we say. The MFGG forums are much more liberal than most other forums, and the morality, as well as sense of humor, is entirely different.
There is the usual plethora of rancid, overused, ruined inside jokes, generally only intelligible to the community. Some jokes, fads, or memes include the Arrival of Blaine the Train, Delccordion, and the controversial SoVeryHappy.
Memes
Like most forums, the community contains its share of memes (or fads) and is prone to arguments over idiotic and trivial things.
As there is an article on this already, only important or prevalent memes are listed.
IPB Structure
The IPB forum structure of MFGG is as follows:
Staff Section*
MFGG
- News Forum, for forum/site announcements.
- Fangame Discussion, for discussion about fangames or to show off one's own.
- Released Games
- WIP Games
- Community Fangame Project
- CFP - Mario Bros. Team
- CFP - Wario Bros. Team
- Submit-it, for suggesting a file of one's own creation for the site's gallery.
General
- General Chat, for general discussion, as long as it has value.
- Arts Board, for graphical, musical, or literal arts, or the discussion of art in general.
- WIP/Sketch, for showing one's own WIP artwork and sketches.
- Wifi and Online Gaming, for discussion of video games that can be played online.
- Wii Discussion, for temporary discussion about the Wii.
- Help Forum, for help on almost anything.
Danvers State Hospital
- Casual Conversation Castle, for casual discussion only viewable to Casual Members and the MFGG staff.
- General Friendliness
- Archives
- The Vault
- Mini-game competitions, for storing finished minigame competitions.
- Sprite competitions, for storing finished sprite competitions.
- Drawing Competitions, for storing finished drawing competitions.
Old IPB Structure
This was essentially the way MFGG was structured before the 21st of June 2007 and since the Invision forum was installed.
Staff Section*
General
- E3 forum, appearing only during and shortly after E3
- A forum on a recent release, such as the DS, the Wii, or a particular Mario game
- General Chat, for serious matters such as deaths or politics
- Fangame Discussion
- Arts Board
- General Friendliness, for posting art of others and request topics.
- Help Forum
- Wifi and Online Gaming
Fun Stuff
Submissions
Archives
Obselete or deleted sections
- Forum Games
- The Mothership
- Gehn's 233rd Age
- Cave of Flames, which caused more harm than good
- Pointless Post Palace, MFGG's "spam" section of off-topic discussion and general stupidity. Has now been replaced with the Casual Conversation Castle.
- Pointless Refuge
- Worthless Post Palace, where spam and unworthy PPP topics were stored.
- Donkey Kong meets Mega Man
- SPECTRE, password was jaws
*The forums in Staff-Only are not entirely known
In previous versions of MFGG, such as the EZBoard and vBulletin, the order of forums was different, but this has changed over time. Many of the forums have suffered name changes, such as during an April Fool's Prank, or because of an administrator's boredom. This generally affected the PPP more than the others.
See Also
Secret | Forum 6 |
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MFGG | News! · Development Center · Developer Discussion · Community Fangame Project |
General | General Chat · Arts Board (Doodles) · The Gaming Corner · Help! |
The Dungeon | The Lounge · Archives (The Vault · Sprite Competitions · Drawing Competitions · Minigame Competitions · Music Competitions · Gaming Tournaments) |
Deprecated | Pointless Post Palace · Worthless Post Palace · Casual Conversation Castle · Submit-it · General Friendliness · Wifi and Online Gaming · Forum Games ·Serious Forum Games ·Ωffhand Ωration Ωlympus · News Archive |