It seems like a lot of the people that posted here at Nitcentral when I started (about 1 and 1/2 years ago) have gone missing. 2 that spring to mind are Omer and Rachgd. So, who else is missing and why? Are y'all still lurking, but not posting, got bored, fed up, booted off or what? I'd like to know.

Wow. I'd never really noticed that. I was one of the originals. I remember when it was just the Four Treks, The X-Files, and Movies. The Kitchen Sink and babylon 5 came around the same time, and I was B5's first moderator. My how things change. I even remember what my old NC password was when I was a moderator. orange

I was one of the first! I was around before discus was made, but I didn't post until it had existed for a month or so.

What ever became of Rachgd's boyfriend?

James is still around. Isn't he SLUGBUG now?

Me, I've been around since we still did Brash Reflections on Voyager episodes by email. That would be... um, November 1997, when I first got Internet access. My first post to the Discus boards was within a day after they were created, I think. (Even scarier, I've been reading the Guides practically since the moment they came out, in November 1993!)

Oh yes, the good old times with the "Ask the Chief" column...

I rememer sending voyger nits in via e-mail for it's 3rd and 4th seasons (if I remember correctly)

I remembre how when the board first came out how cool it was (it still is) and how there were only the treks and a few other shows.

MPatterson, you too? I was beginning to wonder how many of the 'old' nitpickers were left around here! I was sending nits to Phil by snail-mail back before the publication of the NextGenII Guide. I think sometime we should make a tribute for the Chief, either here online or something.... He started it all!

[re: missing posters--anyone seen KND (Nyla) lately? I haven't been at Rel. Musings, so maybe that's why I haven't seen her.]

One thing I've ntocied. We older posters tend to be less than nice to newcomers. I didn't even realize I was doing it until the whole Peter debacle.

I think my first post was on the Buffy Movie, under mattpesti. It captures my style

The old Nitcentral membership logs are still on the main site, revealing the existance of a "Marlene Jenkins of Tempe, AZ".

Most of my earliest posts were on Phantom Returns.

James is SLUGBUG, but rachgd has gone forever...

Marlene is Machiko's first name, you think? Hmmm.

I've been here since the pre-Discus days, too. Even got my name in the DS9 guide!

Kira's name is in the DS9 guide as well.

I believe I found this site while Yahoo!-searching for the Nitpicker's Guides. This was slightly before the board started, but I really enjoyed reading the Ask the Chief columns and the first Bulletin Brash Reflections. I've been lurking on the board since it started, but I believe my first post was on Phanom Returns Part XIV. I dunno why I waited so long. :-)

Posters, what posters?
Film posters?
Advert posters?
Poster paints?
Posters, at the end of peoples beds?
And the rest?

No, these are 'bed posts'

I think I may have been among the first five to ever post . . . and I'm still here . . . anyway, I hope my posts over those two years have been enjoyed by others.

I was also one of the original Discus posters, having been part of the email-the-chief community.

I have noticed in passing the comings and goings of people, but never *REALLY* noticed it until now.

Some of the originals are missed.

Try Signs and Symbols. That seems to have the first reactions to Discus

The old Nitcentral membership logs are still on the main site, revealing the existance of a "Marlene Jenkins of Tempe, AZ".

Jenkins is hardly an uncommon name, though. (It was my grandmother's maiden name, in fact.)

In any event, there are so many boards here that it's easy to lose track of people -- what's really weird is glancing at the board for a show you don't watch and seeing all these posters you've never heard of... :-)

Pesti, what is your obsession with making Machiko as miserable as you can?

I drop by once in a while. I think my problem is that Voyager seems to disappoint me a lot, and I don't really enjoy talking about it anymore. Also, since Phil can't do the guides any more, the thrill of being first to find a nit is gone!

I was one of the original snail-mail correspondents, (I still have my autographed replacement page) then email correspondent, then the webpage...and well, you know the rest! I got married 5 years ago, (yikes! seems like yesterday!) and took my hubby's last name, so many people may not know that I'm the same person credited in the NGII & Classic Guides.

-Lisa Shock, neé Lisa Ferrington

(I used my experience with Discus to start my own Discus board about the Monster Rancher videogames, Monster Rancher Metropolis.)

I was also a member of the Nitpickers Guild when it was a newsletter sent through the mail. To join you had to be the first person to mail in a previously unpublished nit. Once I learned about the internet it became easier to be the first submittor...You just logged on when the show started and sent them in during the commercial breaks. My claim to fame appears in the Nitpickers Guide to Deep Space Nine. I sent in comments to Phil about the episode in which Odo becomes human. Phil e-mailed me back that he had already sent his manuscript to the publisher, but that he planned to phone them the next business day to rewrite the last chapter to include my comments. I received a warm round of applause at my local Crown Books the day I purchased my copy.

I'm one of the "originals" when the boards were put up, but I came to NitCentral during the final months of the "Ask the Chief" arena. I remember being pleasantly surprised when Phil asked me to moderate Movies, and I loved the early days when I had no idea what I was doing. Then came my long association with Religious Musings, a few ugly flamewars here and there, one of the few times when I lost it during an argument, and my final leaving of all my moderating posts. Ahh, good times.

I suppose I might as well chime in. I got the NextGen guide for my birthday 1994 and joined the Guild with a nit for Generations. I began visiting NCIEO as soon as the newsletter pointed me to it and hung with it almost daily until the board was established. I was never very good at finding nits, but I loved asking Phil questions.

I was really (I mean REALLY really) hoping for a Star Wars Guide, since I'm one of those few who likes both Trek and Wars.

I stopped visiting about a month after Discus went up, because due to some bug in my browser, I could only see the topics in "Tree View." My computer was excruciatingly slow, and it wasn't worth the trouble.

My interest in Star Trek waxed strong as the Voyager finale approached, and that drew me back to the Guild. I still hold to the Nitpicker's prime directives, to restrict myself to sources the creators deem canonical, and to do all nitpicking with light-heartedness and good cheer. (Good cheer, never bad cheer.)

Now if we only had a G. I. Joe board...

(And no, I don't have time to moderate it.)

We used to have one, Chronicler. It got lost in the Great Collapsing Nitcentral Disaster of 2000 (as opposed to the Great Collapsing Hrung Disaster).

And I was the Moderator, even though I readily admit that nobody came there.

I think.............I never posted here but once, a few minutes ago, but I started out in the Nitpicker's Guild waaaaaay back when it first began. Still have my membership card and the snail-mail newsletters...credited with a few nits in the TNG II and TOS Guides...

I think my last few corrospondences to NitCentral involved how disappointed I was with Mostly Harmless...then I went away for a long long long time, and probably will again.

But since none of y'all knew me then due to no MBs and stuff, and none of y'all know who I am now, I guess it doesn't matter ::removes smiley for she detests graphic smileys...::

I found the site through a Yahoo! search, too. I caught just the tail end of the original website--the better version. Phil's steady guiding hand is sorely missed here.

I lurked for a while when the new board first arrived. I can still remember when it seemed all exciting and new and cool and gee-whiz to have this board. Now I wonder.

I drastically decreased my participation last year. I found I was spending and inordinate amount of time at Religious Musings and getting and inordinate amount of upset over the postings there. The final straw was Peter--it's not my job to defend Nitpicker Central from trolls, and I was doing that a lot. I have two websites of my own where I can make the rules. Who am I to spend all day ranting about what happens here?

So I broke off my connection to Religious Musings completely, and haven't returned. A lot of people probably think Peter "drove me off", but it's more like the straw that broke the camel's back. I didn't like the kind of person I was becoming. Time to go out in the world and eat food and drink drinks and experience life. Far better than sitting around whining all day about how nobody was acting the way I want them to act.

I do think the discussion board is seriously lacking Phil's leadership, and it really needs him.

That's where this poster has gone.

Polling all posters -- how did you find out about this site? My story is like Princess Artemis' above. Found it through the guides, had a nit or two in there, posted way back when.

Got the guides first, then found the site through Yahoo!

In the pre-board days.

Exact same story as ScottN.

Through the guides.

I bought the TNG and TOS guides then found the site and have enjoyed it quite thoughoughly. I was not around during the pre-discus days so I have nothing to compare to but I always do like the idea of freely communicating ideas with litle direction other than to say this is the broad topic we need to stay with. So some people get a bit irritating, that is life and I get mad and then move on. It is very fun and nice. What do you wanna say?

I forget how I found this site. It was probably through a internet search engine looking for poor science in Voyager. It was months before I knew of other boards further down the screen. (Scroll bars don't flash in red. Oh, smileys are darn necessary if you have my sense of humor.)

I bought the 1st Next Gen guide (and eventually all the rest) and got a nit into the Next Gen 2 guide, recieved the snail mail newsletter. I think my brother found the site and brought it to my attention during my "Ooohh, gee whiz, look at this" stage of internet surfing shortly after I first got my computer.

I read the majority of the guides (except for DS9) but didn't know the guide was online. Then one day I was searching for "Star Trek" in, I believe, AltaVista, and this came up. I thought it was just a regular nitpicking site, not related to the books, until I saw the links to buy them at amazon.com.

Read the Guides, loved the Guides, own them all. (I'm an old-school Trekker, a MSTie and a bit of a Bad Movie fan to start with, so I really couldn't help it!)

Then I started to wonder why the Guide supply had dried up - around the same time I (finally) got Internet access. On a hunch, I typed www.nitcentral.com into the browser one day...and the rest is history.
I loved the concept of a board devoted to cheerful discussion of Trek etc, as opposed to profanity-laden statements re: other posters' parentage. (This assumption got a bit of a shock on my first foray into Political Musings [the WTC attack] but by then I felt comfortable enough to defend myself.)

So...hope I haven't driven you all too crazy over the last three years. I know I've had a whole lot of fun, anyway.

PS- I have to mention that I don't have any complaints about the way I've been treated by older posters (except whoever started that 'Has this site been dumbed-down' thread, but that's another story.)
I do sometimes feel left out when the in-jokes start flying, but that's not your fault. On the whole, I've been made very welcome.

I know nobody cares, but whatever happened to "AnonyMatt"? People like him can be quite funny.

Anonymatt whatever happened to him?

Anonymatt, would he beat Kirk in a battle?

Anonymatt, why wont he update the infinite reasons board on another site?

That Anonymatt?

he might be anonjerk ,inblacknights or Ominus Cow Herd, Scottn:

Diddnt Blue Berry and Mf and Peter got banned, also John-Boy..

Blue was not banned. There have only been three bannings in NitCentral history.

Peter, Brian Webber, and John Boy, though it looks like Rene may be heading in that direction, too.

Oh, and I know that the Cow Herd isn't AnonyMatt.

Scottn, I amost got banned because of my pore englis and gammer.I begged the mods in an email what happened to me.See bad news/has this happened to you. Seriously. They deleted my posts on the Star Trek 6 boards a long time a go in a galaxy far far away.

opps, Anonymous22

Kerriem,what was your first Trek? How old were you and why did you get hooked on it? (I know, Scottn I know)

mf was never banned, to my knowledge. The first person to be banned was Peter. It took a while for the Chief to come around to the notion. At one point, Peter posted pictures of aborted fetuses in the abortion thread in Religious Musings. The Chief killed images on the board because of it.

Peter liked to stir things up.

Anonymatt started posting very racist threads which quickly got deleted. I think we might have got to the point of deleting everything he posted, racist or not.
After a while he just went away.
I ran across him on another board briefly. I think it was the Internet Movie Database. He didn't stay long there either.

Tom Vane: I know nobody cares, but whatever happened to "AnonyMatt"? People like him can be quite funny.
Luigi Novi: Referring to black people as "niggers" and saying that arabs should be killed is "funny"?

Anonymous22: he might be anonjerk ,inblacknights...
Luigi Novi: How could it be inblackestnight? I've never observed that guy exhibiting trollish behavior.

And was mf ever around for long? I can only remember one or two posts that he made.

Nobody has ever been banned from Nitcentral just because they have "pore englis and gammer". If they were, we'd have about six posters left. ;-)

wanna bet

If they kept the Star Trek 6 nits you'll seewhat I mean, Callie, email blarp55 at yahoo dot com (that's Butch the Nextgen Mod). and ask him for those particular deleted nits


I'd like a copy again, Butch, my comp crashed again!

edited to correct the e-mail address

Callie, someone named Stevie on the Emergancy board 3 or 4 picked on me for my views. At that point I had my medical problems.I had 2 hernia ops, very minor but still...then my dermal reaction, I almost died..If John A kept my emails, I told him of my major problem in 2001

I left a Trek related board like Nitcentral since they deleted everything about Scotty in Relics, I posted. I didn't appreciate it.

by Callie

>Nobody has ever been banned from Nitcentral just because they have "pore englis and gammer". If they were, we'd have about six posters left. ;-) >

More like 1 or 2. We would be tattling on each other like we was back in Kindergarden. then there would only be one person left, (and the Chief probably would ende up banning himself.) It would be like an evil spelling bee.

Apparently I missed Matt's "racist threads," which is understandable if they were quickly deleted. All those pointless threads he started were funny. Plus it was an educational experience. I mean, most of us had probably never heard of Meir Kahane before Matt showed up.

Tom,
Yes, the racist threads got deleted very quickly.

Anon22, I've sent you the deleted posts that I have. The grammar situation arose during the time of the previous moderator, Nick Angeloni. I don't know all the details of what went on.

I wrote to the chief and put in for the chief. The cheif hasn't replied in 4 - weeks. He might have been banned!
- no kidding

Weeks ago, I asked the chief for the instructions on how to set up a board, as my board tanked a while back, I lost the instructions I printed out, and the e-mail the Chief sent me disappeared. I never got an answer from him. If anyone here can help, e-mail them to me here. Thanks.

Most of us had probably never heard of Meir Kahane before Matt showed up.

I saw a live broadcast of The Morton Downey Show in 1987, and the guests were Rabbi Kahane and his "sparring partner", Dr. M.T. Mehti. My group and I got the impression that Kahane and Mehti, despite their philosophies, were good friends.

I knew about Kahane. When I was about 13, I had a friend who got into the JDL.

What ever happened to Darth Sarcasm? Why did he/she stop posting?

I don't know if it was the prime reason, but I remember Darth was in the minority opinion regarding AnonyMatt and strongly disagreed with both me and Luigi on the matter.

Well, its so nice to know that when I disappeared for a few months, nobody asked where I went...

Aren't I loved? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Say, whatever happened to Polls Voice a few months back, anyways?

I killed him... He was without honor...

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I'm headed for China!

be back Nov 9. hope I can find an internet cafe.,
there.

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can mod move this to good news?

Be sure to have your ID ready.

There didn't seem to be one, so I started a Good News thread here in the Kitchen Sink.

I'd sure like to know what happened to Craig Rohloff. I haven't heard from him in years.

Oh good lord, I've been here for more than ten years. I first posted on the "Take Me Out to the Holosuite" board on October 24, 1998. Of course, what I wrote was slightly wrong, but when has that ever stopped a good nitpicker!

I think I have the honor of "First Post", also in 1998.

I've certainly been around since the board started up as well. I'm sure I have some Doctor WHo posts dating back to 1998- I even appear in the Nitcentral newsletters Phil used to do before the forum started!

Me too!

Now we've got us all these newfangled young'uns!

I have no idea when my first post was but I was in the first newsletter with a correction about "Aquiel." I do know in my early posts I was just "brian"

I think my first post was on a Voyager episode board in March 2001, so it's only been over seven and a half years for me.

I sent Phil a letter in 1995 . . . typed on a conventional typwriter, no less.

I got a nit in the 2nd NextGen Guide and was on the mailing list for the newsletters. I first landed on NitCentral in July '99, though I think I didn't post anything until August or so.

Wow, I totally forgot this past March that it's now been 10 years since I started at Nitcentral. Where did the years go?

No kidding. I've been doing the nitpicker thing since 1994 when I bought Phil's first "Nitpickers' Guide;" that's officially over half of my lifetime that I've been a nitpicker.

Aww, it's sad reading through this and seeing so many familiar names who don't post here any more. I miss (most of) them!

Brian... Me too... (except for the half a lifetime part).

I can relate to that Brian. I was born a couple of years before you and I remember reading the original Nitpicker guide too. So yeah, wow, it really has been a good chunk of my lifetime too.

I also had the original book which I bought at a store that doesn't even exist anymore. I wish I still posted here more often, actually, but grad school kind of saps the time away.

Looks like we've lost Steve McKinnon. He hasn't been seen since his little meltdown in response to a post I made on June 22nd, in the Batman (1966) thread.

Sorry that I cost this fading site a vital poster, but I wasn't expecting that to happen (as my comment was not meant as an insult, just a general comment).

This is, IMO, the most pointless departure of poster since JEP's storming off after the whole Cambridge/Paris fiasco, last year.

My meltdown is over. I'm back. I just needed to step away for a couple weeks because for better or worse the comment pissed me off. A bit of an over-reaction, I admit, but here's my side.

Tim is right in saying that the site feels like it's fading, considering I see the same dozen names (at the most) or so day in day out. Still, old habits die hard and I've been here for over 20 years so sometimes it's a nice place to be.
I really regret not exploring the site more, because i could have been posting from day one of 'Arrow', 'The Flash', and others, instead of focusing so much time on TOS and Doctor Who, but it is what it is.
Tim's noticed that I've posted in several other threads with little recent activity, like 'Space:1999', 'UFO', 'Blake's 7' and others, and I was just trying to see what others thought about such shows. 'Batman '66' was supposed to be the same, since like those others, I've recently been making way through the series on DVD and just wanted to share my thoughts.
Tim commented that he was expecting posts about 'Superman and Lois' and "Instead, it's about some show that aired nearly sixty years ago."
I started over making a tongue-in-cheek response, but as I wrote it I got pissed off more and more and wrote what I wrote. After all, are we just supposed to post about present-day shows and ignore 99% of the site? Are we took ignore TOS now that it's over 50 years old? The first 10 years of 'Doctor Who' because it's so old?
Of course not, and I know now that Tim didn't mean that.
Add to that I posted a 'Happy birthday to Jodi Whittaker' a week earlier and Emily's response was negative, something that surprised me, and she's still upset that Whittaker left the show.
So I asked myself why I'm bothering and took a break.
I'll try to be less sensitive and I apologize for criticizing 'Superman and Lois'. I haven't seen enough of it to comment, other than the occasional article at cbr.com.
There.
You can't get rid of me that easy.
(And thank you Tim and KAM for caring).

We all need a good vacation from time to time. Welcome back Steve.

Welcome back, Steve. Once again I'm sorry to have offended you, as that was never my intention.


Tim is right in saying that the site feels like it's fading, considering I see the same dozen names (at the most) or so day in day out. Still, old habits die hard and I've been here for over 20 years so sometimes it's a nice place to be.

With one or two exceptions, those people ave been ere since the start, or at least when this site was in it's glory days, at the turn of the century. And, unfortunately, those days will not be coming back.


After all, are we just supposed to post about present-day shows and ignore 99% of the site?

Ironic you should say that, Steve, because that is exactly what's happening. There are forums ere tat ave ad no activity since Dubya was President. And it's not because the material they cover is old, but rather it's because those that posted in said forums are long gone. Probably migrated to Facebook and such. I myself belong to a Facebook group devoted to TOS which has massive activity every day (and it's members included author Greg Cox, one of my favourites).


Add to that I posted a 'Happy birthday to Jodi Whittaker' a week earlier and Emily's response was negative, something that surprised me, and she's still upset that Whittaker left the show.

That's just Emily being Emily.


You can't get rid of me that easy.

Nor did I want to.

In fact, there is only one poster here whom I wouldn't mind seeing the back of. This person as contributed noting of value ere and is an irritating presence in our little family. I'm sure I'm far from alone here in wishing that this person would just go away.

Nah I’m sticking around….

I turned on the lights, and I'll probably be around to turn them off when this place shuts down.

Somehow, I'm pretty sure Tim's not talking about you, Rodney.

Wait until Emily reads a book you have written, Steve... then you'll know negativity.

She won't though.

We all know who I mean.