What does it mean to be in a 'Community'?

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Ronin Storm

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Re: New Ed Community Squad!

Taffy said:
just what is it that your trying to say here Lynx? Or did you just want to start a 'debate'?

[mod]That feels a little antagonistic. Let's keep that down, yes? :)[/mod]
 

Haven

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Ahh guns'n'roses that great capitalist icon ...

if you sell socilism isn't it capitalism ?
 
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Blammo!

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:) that was beautifull Ronin. Now I really understand why you guys devided the board up into usergroups. Great idea tbh, I can see it working as a charm.
 
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LynxGB

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Im trying to start a war thats for sure. The point I was trying to come across the other day with is a community is as you say open and free to all its members. SO DITCH UR ED team unless its going to be for all and concentrate on community things or do your ED thing but dont be so up tight on who can and can't play. I had/have nothing against not playing in the ED team and thats never been my arguement for those of you who think it is. I am happy playing on a competitive level between friends and in friendlys.

My point is ur either a clan or a community not both!
 

Ronin Storm

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LynxGB said:
My point is ur either a clan or a community not both!

My point was exactly opposite that, I believe.

Our community is open to new people and continually brings in new faces. It is a rare community that can actually claim to be "free", in any sense -- this place has rules that are defined by the Admin and Mod Teams and requires that all its members abide by those rules or leave, for example. That aside, where our community is open, not all of our activities are entirely open.

Sometimes that's self-evident. Only eight people can play Starcraft at once, IIRC. Civilization games need to be played over a few sessions and, as such, place a requirement on the participants to stay involved over those sessions.

Other times, it's enforced. Alien Swarm games set on "Elite" really only support six, and then have no room for those who are not serious veterans. Battlefield 2 clan matches for Enemy Down, where the clan wishes to shoot for the top position, require the best players we have.

I do not feel there is any requirement to define ourselves down just one route. I believe that we can continue to contain one or more clans, though likely not in the same game-space, and our community as well. After all, Battlefield 2 is just one of the games we partake in, and the Enemy Down ladder is just one of the activities going on amongst our Battlefield 2 players, albeit an important one to that group.

Play Starcraft, Guild Wars, Civilization 4, World of Warcraft...? THN has people doing all of those things, and more, in parallel to anything that might be going on in Battlefield 2, and all these things are open to our community to come and get involved. This is not in conflict with any Battlefield 2 activities that are also underway. This tells me that we do not need to make such a choice as "be a community or be a clan", even if the history of THN did not (and it does, for the record).
 
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LynxGB

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lol - all very good - but Im not trying to put my point across no more. THN is a website. lol. thats it.

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Fi$hy

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And a teamspeak server, and a tech site, a comedy site, a radio station, a private server, a IRQ channel. Not to mention supporting a large community of Gamer's and those with an interest towards tech and comedy.

So yes, just a website reached @ www.thehavennet.org.uk providing a gateway to a community of websites and servers along with other things.

A "Haven" of useful stuff if you will.
 

Ronin Storm

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[mod]Looks like we're at the end of useful discourse on this subject. Time to close the thread.[/mod]
 
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