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Four years...

I dug up this thread a few nights back, and it brought back so many memories it's difficult to name or number them.

So much has happened since October 2009, yet it feels like it was only yesterday that this forum was brimming and buzzing with activity, tournament matches used to last ~15-20 minutes at the most by the time 10-12 votes were cast and we had a clear winner, ~20 threads in General Section had new replies within 10 minutes, and we had at least 35-40 members online at the same time...

...how time has flown.

Yes, ideas are bulletproof, but in order to make an idea into a realised success, wholehearted contributions from the entire community are required. Even V's stand against the utopian Parliament wasn't successful until the community woke up and took up his cause as their own.

An idea cannot be a success story unless and until it has the numbers behind it. And in today's world, all successes and failures are measured by numbers. That's what Horror Dot Com's community has been. The numbers behind the ideas, which have been immensely successful time and time again.

Thank you yet again.

Eight years and counting.

The mirror is the same, but the reflections have changed...many of the old guard have disappeared or have gone out, NEW Radio is no more, facebook has come and conquered foruming big-time, new faces have taken over...

Maybe some fresh and novel ideas are the need of the hour, and so that rehashed stuff doesn't turn our forum into a more staler unit than it already has become in recent times, I have decided to take a backseat from now on. New threads/posts from me will be less, maybe minimal. We need new blood, new ideas, new directions. Let's change the direction of the winds a bit, and see where they lead us.

Needless to say, the ongoing tournament will be my absolute last. For long we have run with those ideas, but like all good things/times, it must come to an end. For fresh ideas to thrive and flourish, older ideas have to make way.

I will be around. Behind the shadows, lurking, doing my moderating duties to the best of my abilities, and hoping that newer, fresher ideas take over and take HDC towards unseen, full of potential directions.

Remembering NEW Radio, monalisa, and stygianwitch. R.I.P.

Congratulations to Cheebs and Disease yet again.

And...Happy Halloween, HDC.