Ghosts of Wellesboards Past 2001-2011

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Welcome to the all new, pimped up Wellesnet Forum! You'll find new features and gizmos to make your experience here that much more swell. Your member information is still here, so you will be able to log in with your old password. If you have lost your password, you should be able to retrieve it. If not, email me, and I will get it to you.

Some bad news: you may have noticed how bare the forum is; why did I keep member info and not the old posts? Well, thanks to some weird computer glitch beyond my meager skills, I have been unable to import the old categories, topics and posts as I was supposed to be able to do. And while I hold out some small hope that I will at some point, do not hold your breath waiting for this to happen. So we go from 1200+ posts of wisdom and erudition to zip. In the meantime, check out the new board, get some arguments going, decide if you want an avatar (you may create your own now if you have the means-more on that later), and so on. Email me if you have any problems. I hope everything will run smoothly, but one never knows about these things. I am off now to see Citizen Kane at a local theater, my well earned reward for enduring two days of computer ####. More later!

[Steeler1]

Well, I love what you have done to the place!

I wish I had more time to post like I have in the past, but things have really picked up here at film school!


Fun stuff

[ToddBaesen]

So the old board is gone - too bad as their was some interesting threads. Oh well. Maybe they can be restored at some point, like an old Welles movie.

[LA]

Wow, this looks good.

Todd: Yeah, maybe someone has some stills of the old posts.

[Jeff Wilson]

But would the stills adhere to the writer's original intentions? The old forum posts still exist, the problem lies in converting them over to the new board. This board came with a converter, but after converting the member info (thankfully we at least still have that), it refused to go any further, citing some computer babble I don't understand. The annoying thing is, at the support forum for this board, several other people have had this problem, but no one has solved or bothered to try and fix it. So we'll see. They may come back, they may not. I hold out hope, albeit small.

[LA]

Oh well, we'll see what happens.

The main thing is: we have a board. And very stylish smileys too.

[Lee Gordon]

it's nice

[Rick Schmidlin]

How do i get my new face for my posts?

Rick :p :p
Aw there it is

[Jeff Wilson]

I have learned that posting recent news articles in their entirety on web boards has gotten some sites in trouble, as it is a copyright violation. While the odds of someone finding this board and suing me over the posting of an article are seemingly small, I would ask that if you have an article of interest, please post a link to it, and not the article in full. This applies to anything of recent publication. I'm not going to delete anything already up, but please only quote a relevant paragraph or two in you want to bring something up. Thanks.

[Le Chiffre]

At http://www.archive.org one can find "snapshots" of most everything that's ever been on the web.

I know the old tierranet board was mostly garbage before it was erased (as it's mostly garbage now), but there were a few good items on it including these-

http://web.archive.org/web....13.html

http://web.archive.org/web....13.html

http://web.archive.org/web....34.html

Anybody remember the URL for CBanks' D For Dialogue? Or maybe we can find all the old Wellesnet posts that were lost after the upgrade.

[Jeff Wilson]

I have the raw posts from the previous version of this board, before the upgrade made them unusable, but I'm not sure people would want to read the coded text. I suppose it would be possible to put up another version of the board using the old software, as an archive, but after looking at some of the old posts, I'm not sure it's really worthwhile.

[Le Chiffre]

Hmm, you may have a point there.

[Cole]

I’ve always wondered about the following internet board supposedly devoted to Orson Welles:

http://film.tierranet.com/wwwboardowelles/wwwboard.html

I don’t know when I first visited that site – maybe two years ago – but I never once saw any serious discussion take place there. It was full of spam, smut, and mindless crude humor posted by anonymous, deranged wackos. I checked it a few times over a course of several months, and the content was always the same: meaningless, senseless trash.

Having no reason to go there, I haven’t visited the site for the last year, but out of curiosity I visited it today and scanned over some of the messages posted there the last few months. Am I reading some of those messages correctly? Are there Wellesnet members writing trash on that site? That web site is a joke, yet it appears that certain members have been offended by the anonymous, mindless postings there, and as a consequence they’ve abruptly quit visiting this site. Incredible.

From the links that Mteal provides, it looks like the site had substance to it at one time. Does anyone here know the story of that site, and what happened to it?

[Jeff Wilson]

The story of the tierranet board is that it uses an antiquated script that allows anyone to post anything under any name without fear of being traced. Coupled with the fact that the guy who runs (ran?) the Touch of Welles site it was affiliated with no longer bothers with it, it has degenerated into what you see now. It was decent for a while, until people started getting out of control, and because nobody could stop them, it snowballed.

[Le Chiffre]

I suppose it's inevitable that any unmoderated board will eventually degenerate into spam, or at least petty bickering. For example, fans of Stanley Kubrick's ng at alt.movies.kubrick will probably have seen the massive barroom brawl that's been going on there for the past couple weeks, where longtime posters have managed to drive Kubrick's own daughter off the ng (one idiot even called her a "twat").

Anyway, here's another old tierranet thread that I thought was amusing enough to print off. George Hickenlooper's defensive response to Jonathon Rosenbaum's savaging of THE BIG BRASS RING film.

http://web.archive.org/web....94.html