Sleepywood Sold, Old Site Probably Gone Forever

[Justin]

At least it has a chance of being a decent forum (again) now.


I remember my original account on Sleepywood was permanent banned because of a small question about the Japanese version of the game. I don't remember what it was, really, but I couldn't think of a reason why they would've banned me for it. It was even in the "Other MapleStory Versions" section of the forum... so whatever. There was no warning, infraction, or anything - just a flat out permanent ban.

Someone probably had it out for you. That's the type of forum sleepywood EVENTUALLY turned into. ...Who the hell am I kidding, it was like that even before Ruk gave the site to Adura, just to a lesser extent.

That said, Sleepywood was the big forum for the first few years of maple's lifespan and was where all of the good nitty gritty game mechanics info was at. Until SP came along. Just goes to show you, management really DOES make the entire foundation of a site.

[Hypermug]

Someone probably had it out for you. That's the type of forum sleepywood EVENTUALLY turned into. ...Who the hell am I kidding, it was like that even before Ruk gave the site to Adura, just to a lesser extent.

That said, Sleepywood was the big forum for the first few years of maple's lifespan and was where all of the good nitty gritty game mechanics info was at. Until SP came along. Just goes to show you, management really DOES make the entire foundation of a site.

Indeed it does. Just about the entire staff recognized the fact that Adura just sat around all day, not contributing to staff discussion or improvement of the forum. And when we wanted to/did make progress, he held us back. Pretty pineappleing annoying.

[IllegallySane]

Someone probably had it out for you. That's the type of forum sleepywood EVENTUALLY turned into. ...Who the hell am I kidding, it was like that even before Ruk gave the site to Adura, just to a lesser extent.

That said, Sleepywood was the big forum for the first few years of maple's lifespan and was where all of the good nitty gritty game mechanics info was at. Until SP came along. Just goes to show you, management really DOES make the entire foundation of a site.

Thanks for reminding me just how drama filled the forums could be. I swear a price were placed on Tiger's head or something due to how much crap he gets from others, not to mention server forum wars that'd break out, especially from Vengance people. It was such a mess.

[Jordan]

Brandon is right on.

We had to go through a lot of trouble to help his forum. Even as administrators, Brandon and I had very little influence over the site. Everything was micro-managed.

[Zelkova]

Shakar was banned. Is he back?

I'd like to think I had a hand in that. I wish I did anyway... I don't know when he was banned.

http://www.basilmarket.com/show/vide...html#video_top

I'm sure he was a plantain to more people than just me.

[Judgment]

Thanks for reminding me just how drama filled the forums could be. I swear a price were placed on Tiger's head or something due to how much crap he gets from others, not to mention server forum wars that'd break out, especially from Vengance people. It was such a mess.

Oh, I particularly remember the incident where Veng members actually mocked Tiger's father because he committed suicide. Whether they were that heartless or it was a "just in the moment" comment, I don't want to know.

On a side note, is MapleTip still around as a website and forum?

[Aircalibur]

I'd like to think I had a hand in that. I wish I did anyway... I don't know when he was banned.
I'm sure he was a plantain to more people than just me.

Shakar was banned early this summer. Maybe a bit earlier. He came back in early August. I'm not entirely sure why they put up with him.

@Judgment Mapletip is up as a site, but I'm not really sure when their database was last updated. When I looked for something there in may, they were really out of date.

The forums are all but dead. Most boards haven't had a post today at all.

[MrTouchnGo]

I'd like to think I had a hand in that. I wish I did anyway... I don't know when he was banned.

http://www.basilmarket.com/show/vide...html#video_top

I'm sure he was a plantain to more people than just me.

Shakar9696's account his gone. He was one of the few to receive a ban comment, apparently he was trolling and something about glitch abuse. Well, that's not what I expected him to be kicked for, to be honest. O_O"

dated September 3 at 9:10am

I'm so disappointed that he didn't make a rageblogpost about how all Basilers are papayagots anyways. :(

edit:

He's back, by the way.

dated September 5 at 10:51am

Oh. Did not see that. Dammit.

[Toastyc12]

Oh, I particularly remember the incident where Veng members actually mocked Tiger's father because he committed suicide. Whether they were that heartless or it was a "just in the moment" comment, I don't want to know.

On a side note, is MapleTip still around as a website and forum?

Ah, Mapletip. I still use Maplewiki for old-school quest help. I don't think either version of the site has been updated in quite some time.

[Kevo]

No offense to this site whatsoever, but before I learned that Adura was somewhat of a nutcase who was so paranoid that he stalked people's private pages and threatened them if he saw any mention of himself (as well as many other deep flaws), Sleepywood was my favorite site to discuss things. This site had the smart people and good info since Fiel and Isaac came here, as well as many others, but sleepywood was just sort of just the default forum for maplestory since Basil was and still is a haven for utter stupidity and Shakar (yea, synonyms, but still). It's really a shame that it's pretty much in deep trouble, basically more people are gonna shift to Basil since even Nexon has done everything but endorse that site as an extension of itself, since the maturity of sites like Sleepywood and Southperry don't fit into their image.

Kinda an aside but I enjoyed that Ewand debate from ages past :)


Sleepywood was the place with all the interesting drama.

[Arrol]

I'd like to think I had a hand in that. I wish I did anyway... I don't know when he was banned.

http://www.basilmarket.com/show/vide...html#video_top

I'm sure he was a plantain to more people than just me.

Truth be told, I had people thought I was shakar, mainly the DB hater on basil.

[ImaGuy]

Kinda an aside but I enjoyed that Ewand debate from ages past :)


Sleepywood was the place with all the interesting drama.

I agree. The zakum/Ht threads bought the best guilds from every server together in their world forums. The drama threads there made for amazing reads They could give one insight into the higher ups of each server xD.

[Locked]

I really wish we had archives of it, if anything. Kind of sad to see all that history gone, especially since they decided sometime in 2012 to wipe the forums and put everything in their dumb archive forum messing sh`it up.

[Cere]

I really wish we had archives of it, if anything. Kind of sad to see all that history gone, especially since they decided sometime in 2012 to wipe the forums and put everything in their dumb archive forum messing sh`it up.

Well, there's always Wayback, fragmentary as it is when it comes to fora. /single glistening tear

[FrozNlite]

Kinda an aside but I enjoyed that Ewand debate from ages past :)


Sleepywood was the place with all the interesting drama.

OH MY GOD THE MEMORIES FLOODING BACK OF THOSE DEBATES

[MariettaRC]

On a side note, is MapleTip still around as a website and forum?

Yep, but all dead.

It's really not worth coming back to since the community's all but fallen apart.

[IllegallySane]

OH MY GOD THE MEMORIES FLOODING BACK OF THOSE DEBATES

THEY ALL BURNED MY EYES AND KILLED BRAIN CELLS. One of the stupidest ones came from this abrasive tool who was purposely ticking off the entire White Knight sub-forum about how much they sucked on a consistent basis with stupid logic. Or something like that. He got permabanned for that.

[Dark Link]

I remember SW. Used to keep track of Top 20 Paladin list and whatnot in the Khaini section. Then some mod went on a power trip and started deleting posts and banning people left and right, myself included.

The Khaini drama was hilarious though.

[KhainiWest]

I remember SW. Used to keep track of Top 20 Paladin list and whatnot in the Khaini section. Then some mod went on a power trip and started deleting posts and banning people left and right, myself included.

The Khaini drama was hilarious though.

I remember they wouldn't let me on the top 20 DrK list because apparently a "good friend" of his told him I was dcing hack his guild. Frankly I was at work the entire time he was being dc'd from HT so I have no idea how he came to the conclusion it was me. Dropped the site all together after that

[Curtiss]

I regard this with mixed feelings. While there's more of a "HELL YEAH DOWN WITH YOU PEACHES" element to it, I suppose I did have some fun browsing there ages ago.