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General Comments / Farewell to Ornery
« on: August 15, 2021, 05:50:22 AM »
Kristine Card has informed me that she and OSC have decided to wind down their online presences, and to stop hosting Ornery and Hatrack River in early September sometime. 

The admin at Hatrack has started a thread to let people say goodbye and connect with one another beyond the forums.  Please feel free to use this thread in the same way, and if you'd like, leave your contact information for the other members.

I have spoken with Kristine Card about continuing to host ornery.org and the ornery forums on my webserver. She said they are open to that, so please let me know if you'd like for the forums and guest-article page to continue. If there is enough interest, I will make the arrangements to have it transferred to my server.  We should be able to transition seamlessly, perhaps with a few days of downtime.

With the advent of Facebook and Reddit, old bbc-style forums like this have been slowly dying off.  We've seen our membership drop significantly since the early/mid 2000's, and I think we've got only a dozen or two active posters now.  Perhaps it makes sense to let the forum close as OSC leaves the picture, or maybe it's worth maintaining. What do you guys think?


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General Comments / How to Submit An Article for Publication on the Front Page
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:19:45 AM »
As you are likely aware, our front page has a place for guest articles to be published.

Mrs. Card has expressed an interest in increasing the quantity and quality of the articles published in that section and so she asked me to make a small announcement here to make sure that every member of the forum knows that they are welcome and invited to submit articles for publication.

There is no requirement regarding content: all reasonable points of view and political persuasions are welcome.

Submissions can be emailed to me at: OrneryModerator@hotmail.com.

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General Comments / Terrorized Americans
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:18:12 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.

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General Comments / San Bernadino Attack
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:17:57 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.

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General Comments / Hell bent on the Caliphate
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:17:37 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.

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General Comments / A comprehensive guide to Republican abuse of Benghazi
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:17:15 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.

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General Comments / Finland is considering giving every citizen €800 a month
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:16:59 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.

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General Comments / What is a mass shooting?
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:16:38 AM »
Link to the topic on the old forums.


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General Comments / Bernie Sanders says and does
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:15:55 AM »
Link to Topic on Old Forums

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General Comments / here comes the next ice age
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:15:35 AM »
Link to Topic on Old Forums

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General Comments / The defensiveness of the pro-pot crowd
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:14:52 AM »
Link to Topic on Old Forums

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General Comments / Obamacare Predictions for May 2015
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:14:05 AM »
Old Forum Topic

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General Comments / Welcome to the New Ornery American Forums!
« on: December 12, 2015, 12:13:42 AM »
We have migrated the Ornery Forums to new software.

The old forum has been disabled, but will remain available for reference.

Accessing your Acccount
  • Password Reset - In order to access your account, you will need to reset your password. You can do that here: http://www.ornery.org/forum/index.php?action=reminder. Please enter your username or email address from the old forums, and a password reset link will be sent to you.
  • Account Missing -  If your account does not exist, please simply register it, using the same email address you registered with on the old forums. If you do not have access to that email address, please contact me to discuss the matter.
  • Problems - If you have any trouble accessing your account, please email me for assistance: OrneryModerator@hotmail.com.

Continuing Conversations from the Old Forums
There is no completely painless way to way to make this transition. After reviewing the matter for a bit, we decided to disable the old forums immediately. If you are in the middle of a conversation on the previous board, I recommend that you start a new thread here to continue that conversation. For the posts that were active in the past few days, I have created these topics already. If it goes back more than a week and you'd like to pick up the conversation, please follow suit.

Inactive Forums Removed
The Ornery Writers Workshop, Ornery U, and the Ornery American Book Club have been removed, due to inactivity. Posts that used to be appropriate for those forums can now be posted in general comments instead. If there is significant interest in bringing these forums back, let me know. :)

New Features
  • Like Posts - You can now "like" posts.
  • WYSWIG Editor - You can use a visual editor by clicking the appropriate button when making a post.
  • Additional UBB Tags Enabled - The following tags are enabled, feel free to play with them: abbr acronym anchor br code email hr nobbc pre s sub sup

If you run into any issues with the new software, please contact me by email (or post here) and let me know what problems you're facing so I can help resolve the matter.

Once the forums are up and running, we can look at enabling some of the other features of this software, like private messages and polls.

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