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Yeah, for that one we'd have to announce it and take nominations.

So that puts the celebration date on October 21st, right? Which is a Thursday. (Did you realize the birthday was right on the autumnal equinox? Cool!)

Hm... what usually goes in easter eggs? Just the finding them will be the most fun, regardless of what they are. You could always hold a contest; the first person to find them all wins a prize!

That would help get more people on the forum that day too.

Celebrate the forum's birthday by adding some new smilies! I have a feeling several people would be happy to see more variety. (Arionwyn not the least of them!

) I have been missing a :P smiley, and also one that's embarrassed; one that's laughing would be helpful as well.

Some people know that we are going to celebrate on the 20th.

It isn't a dumb question. It is a good point.

Pick somewhere in the early afternoon EST, and everyone should have the best opportunity, methinks.

Hey, could you time the release of the scifi forum with the birthday or would that be too much at once?

Okay, so I think that (at some point in time) we should announce we are having a birthday party, date and time. We should announce that we are releasing the scifi forum that day. (everyone really wants to know when we are releasing it, setting a date will quiet them for a while.

) We should announce the non surprise elements; like a chat room party, an attempt to get the most users online at one time, or whatever. I think we should make it a global announcement.

Anything else?

Author:	Whythawye [ October 2nd, 2010, 12:56 pm ]
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Hey all! We missed HW's first birthday! But we will celebrate its year-and-a-month on the 20th of this month to make up for it. Any ideas of what we should do?

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ October 2nd, 2010, 10:07 pm ]
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You should ask some of the people in the Introductions thread...they're pretty good at over-celebrating lavishly. Maybe we could do a big 'off-topic' day! (kidding). I don't know, I'm not much of a planner. eruheran

Author:	Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ October 2nd, 2010, 11:34 pm ]
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I don't know how one does forum celebrations... If we were like, something big and famous we would release an anthology or something... but for a year that's not exactly realistic. Um... um... clueless. Have you done something like this before? Oh! I know, change the theme of the forum to something ridiculous for the day!!! No one can ignore it then...

Author:	Whythawye [ October 3rd, 2010, 4:09 am ]
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Changing the theme would be fun, but a lot of hacks and things would break. :P Good idea though.

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ October 3rd, 2010, 7:46 am ]
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Did you change the HW logo to gold? Or am I imagining that it used to be blue?

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Author:	Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ October 3rd, 2010, 8:25 am ]
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It's blue on the homepage. It's gold on the forum. and he added a little button underneath that says 'fantasy' which might be what you're noticing because I sure noticed it.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 3rd, 2010, 11:27 am ]
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Considering that HW now refers to the whole thing, I deemed it appropriate to add that to the HWfantasy logo. I still need to get it on the home page though.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 3rd, 2010, 4:07 pm ]
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One thing that we could do for prizes is to create blog buttons that people can embed on their blogs, commemorating stuff like "most posts on HW" and stuff like that.

Author:	Zoe M. Scrivener [ October 3rd, 2010, 4:56 pm ]
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Jay and I were considering annual awards given to HW members for their accomplishments. So far we have: - Most Prolific Poster (based on average number of posts per month since joining): possible winner being calculated - Most Active Referrer: possible winner being calculated - Most Consistent Blogger: this would go to Neil of Erk at this point, I believe. Thoughts? Suggestions?

Author:	Evening L. Aspen [ October 4th, 2010, 12:21 am ]
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Oh, you could pm users and arrange a chat room get together or something. Then we could try and break the record of the most users online at one time.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 2:22 am ]
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Online users at one time, good idea. Changing bits about the forum style, good idea. (What about easter eggs?) Chat party, good idea. Goofiest poster? How about coolest poster? Most fantasy poster? (I am honestly not really one for goofy...) Year, month, and a day... that is awesome. Wish I had thought of that. Good idea.

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ October 4th, 2010, 2:24 am ]
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Works for me.

Author:	Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ October 4th, 2010, 4:23 am ]
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Yeah, for that one we'd have to announce it and take nominations. So that puts the celebration date on October 21st, right? Which is a Thursday. (Did you realize the birthday was right on the autumnal equinox? Cool!)

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 5:04 am ]
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Janin of Yen wrote: Yeah, for that one we'd have to announce it and take nominations. So that puts the celebration date on October 21st, right? Which is a Thursday. (Did you realize the birthday was right on the autumnal equinox? Cool!) It was? As in without the extra day? That might be cool enough to make us go back.

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ October 3rd, 2010, 6:26 pm ]
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Okay jay, shoot me down if it sounds silly. How about the goofiest poster. We could all send in our submissions through PMs to a designated person. Tally up the submissions and dub them with whatever wacky title you want.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 7:44 am ]
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23rd of September. I looked it up. Yes, I think Easter Eggs will be fun to do. What would we put in them? (Leave it to me to hide them. ).

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ October 4th, 2010, 8:52 am ]
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Taxi? Or a literal easter egg? (I had fun finding these on my Palm OS PDAs...(which reminds me...))

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 9:12 am ]
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A cool treat that is hidden on the site somewhere and that people run to find.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 10:29 am ]
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Janin of Yen wrote: Hm... what usually goes in easter eggs? Just the finding them will be the most fun, regardless of what they are. You could always hold a contest; the first person to find them all wins a prize! That would help get more people on the forum that day too. All kinds of things, depending on where they are hid. What about short stories or Drabbles that we all write for them? That would be cool. Yes, that would do that too. Cool.

Author:	Duchess Daisy Mimetes [ October 4th, 2010, 10:33 am ]
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Ooh, this is exciting! I like the Easter egg idea... and I think it would be neat to try and break the record for most users online at one time, too.

Author:	Zoe M. Scrivener [ October 4th, 2010, 12:47 pm ]
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Cool! I like both the Easter egg (I think we should call them birthday eggs, though) and record break ideas! Just to let everyone know, I actually won't be able to be here on that day, because I'll be on a trip with no internet access, but I'll help with whatever I can beforehand!

Author:	Whythawye [ October 4th, 2010, 1:19 pm ]
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Birthday Eggs, nice idea. Alright, sorry to not have you. Thanks for the help!

Author:	Lady Eruwaedhiel [ October 5th, 2010, 10:22 am ]
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Celebrate the forum's birthday by adding some new smilies! I have a feeling several people would be happy to see more variety. (Arionwyn not the least of them! ) I have been missing a :P smiley, and also one that's embarrassed; one that's laughing would be helpful as well.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 10:28 am ]
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Lady Eruwaedhiel wrote: Celebrate the forum's birthday by adding some new smilies! I have a feeling several people would be happy to see more variety. (Arionwyn not the least of them! ) I have been missing a :P smiley, and also one that's embarrassed; one that's laughing would be helpful as well. I might add a :P smiley... I prefer less smileys rather than more. Haha.

Author:	Airianna Valenshia [ October 5th, 2010, 10:29 am ]
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Okay, so all of this is apparently hush hush at the moment since it is under HRM only, but my question is, when are we going to let everyone else know what's going on? I understand this is where we are doing all the planning, but don't we need to let everyone else know that we are at least having the celebration on the 20th (or did we decide the 21st based off of Janin's idea of a year, month, and day?).

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 10:41 am ]
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Some people know that we are going to celebrate on the 20th. We will probably announce some things a week before hand or so, so they can prepare to be here on time. Other things we will surprise them with.

Author:	Constable Jaynin Mimetes [ October 5th, 2010, 10:58 am ]
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Somethings we can announce in advance. I imagine we'd put it under Announcements, in place of the last celebration thread. A lot of people might not notice it, but on the day of the celebration we'll do surprise things (like change the color of something) that no one can ignore, and of course they'll want to know why. What we could do, if we really want to make sure everyone knows about it, is sticky it in every forum.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 11:09 am ]
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There is a Global thread type, that is cloned in every forum on the site. We will probably use that. I am also looking for a hack that will prominently 'announce' announcements.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 11:18 am ]
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Place a banner at the top of the site that gives a compelling headline and a link to the full announcement post.

Author:	Evening L. Aspen [ October 5th, 2010, 11:40 am ]
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You could change the header graphic to something involving balloons and confetti or something, like Google does on special occasions. Then you could add confetti falling down the sides of the forum. My dad found some code to make snow on a blog... maybe there's something similar for confetti. Yipes! I just realized that I might not be able to be here for the Birthday Bash! I'll see if I can get on sometime, but I don't usually have access to a computer on Thursday afternoons after classes... I'll see if I can make it. Great! I've always wanted to do one of those everybody-online-at-once things.

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 11:51 am ]
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I like the banner and confetti idea. Methinks I could rig that up.

Author:	Arias Mimetes [ October 5th, 2010, 1:53 pm ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote: Some people know that we are going to celebrate on the 20th. This is probably a dumb question, but is the timezone differences for some people going to affect anything?

Author:	Whythawye [ October 5th, 2010, 2:06 pm ]
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It isn't a dumb question. It is a good point. Pick somewhere in the early afternoon EST, and everyone should have the best opportunity, methinks.

Author:	Arias Mimetes [ October 5th, 2010, 2:37 pm ]
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Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote: It isn't a dumb question. It is a good point. Haha, good to know. Sometimes I think I should be able to figure out timezones easier than I can :P Sir Emeth Mimetes wrote: Pick somewhere in the early afternoon EST, and everyone should have the best opportunity, methinks. Sounds good.

Author:	Andrew Amnon Mimetes [ October 5th, 2010, 8:09 pm ]
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Could it be like maybe noon EST? That would be good for me and Elanhil....but if not, that's fine. eruheran

Author:	Whythawye [ October 6th, 2010, 1:41 am ]
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Janin of Yen wrote: Hey, could you time the release of the scifi forum with the birthday or would that be too much at once? That... sounds like a good idea. Gives us some time to get everything solid anyways. And yes, noon EST is great.