Fortress of Awesome: The Reform

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Fortress of Awesome: The Reform

Postby ~Yuri » August 20th, 2017, 7:47 pm

So, today marks the day we are making a big change to the forums: It will be easier to enter the Fortress of Awesome forums now.

You may be asking: What is the Fortress of Awesome? It is the depths of runouw. It's where all the memeing, random posting and weird humour belongs. In fact, one could call it a spamming forum, and they wouldn't be necessarily wrong.

Before today, to enter the FoA you needed to PM a moderator, who would then put up a poll there asking if everyone thinks you should enter or not.

However, we decided that's pointless, and thus, got rid of this system. Now, to enter it, you must ask a mod/glomod and you will be put in. HOWEVER, since before today it has always been a place for veteran users, there is still one single restriction to entering FoA:

  • You must be active either in the chat or in the forums.

Note that you can still get out of FoA if you so wish, or if for whatever reason you're causing trouble there. Though FoA is a place for spamming, not everything is accepted there. Any kind of offensive content is banned from there just as much as it is in the forums, and posting anything of the kind will not only get you out of FoA but will probably get you a ban as well.

So, active users who are curious about it yet didn't quite make the cut before, feel free to PM anyone with a orange or green name. And new users who also want to get in, start posting and get active in the chat as well.

That's all for today. viva la revolución
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Re: Fortress of Awesome: The Reform

Postby Positron » August 20th, 2017, 7:49 pm

Ayy lmao
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Re: Fortress of Awesome: The Reform

Postby Maaaaarrrrriiiiio » August 20th, 2017, 7:51 pm

LETSSS GOOOOO SPAMMING CHANNEELLLLLL
b-b-but I won't be active in 2 days :cry:
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Re: Fortress of Awesome: The Reform

Postby Vajrin » August 21st, 2017, 1:55 am

yay :D
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