The Official Escapist Ghost Thread

[lacktheknack]

<color=#f7f7f7>PLEASE NOTE:

<color=#f7f7f7>ALL comments must be colored "F7F7F7" when fresh, and ANY AND ALL QUOTES must be recolored "WHITE". Otherwise, we can see the comments, and you wreck the ghost thread. Don't do that to me! D: Also, check your preview to make sure that something didn't go wrong. For example, color doesn't appear to cross paragraphs, which is caught by using the preview.

<color=#f7f7f7>With that established...

<color=#f7f7f7>This thread exists to discuss your feelings on ghost threads in general, as well as scare newer users.

<color=#f7f7f7>A while back, we had an inflammatory user make an inflammatory thread and say inflammatory things. When the Escapist users overwhelmed him with quotes, corrections and rebukes, he quickly edited ALL of his posts so that there was nothing there. This sparked an amazing aftermath in which discussions were had, poems were written, jokes were told, etc, all completely invisible. The thread, sadly, was locked.

<color=#f7f7f7>Yesterday, it happened again. A user made a double-thread, and attempted to delete it, resulting in the users jumping at the opportunity to make another ghost thread. I believe they did it, but the thread got locked again.

<color=#f7f7f7>So, I figured that making an official ghost thread would let it stay open. It's just for fun.

<color=#f7f7f7>But yes, discussion. How do you feel about ghost threads? Do they annoy you? Do you find them exciting? Do you actively contribute to them? Are you filled with the urge to strangle whoever makes them?

 

[L3m0n_L1m3]

<color=#f7f7f7>This seems rather pointless to me, to be honest. But I'm not one to crush dreams..... Usually.

 

[BreakfastMan]

[color=F7F7F7]Ghost threads are pretty cool. It is fun to see the people who don't know that they can highlight text freak out. XD [/color]

 

[lacktheknack]

<color=white>This seems rather pointless to me, to be honest. But I'm not one to crush dreams..... Usually.

<color=f7f7f7>Think of it as a discussion about ghost threads that's gone meta.

 

[teh_Canape]

[HEADING=2]that is something you don't see every day[/HEADING]

 

[staika]

Yay another ghost thread

I love ghost threads but I wish I saw what the guy who made the first ghost thread said. I tried to piece it together from the quotes but I could not :/

Edit: The ghost thread yesterday did start up and I was one of the guys who instigated it

 

[Palademon]

<color=#f7f7f7>Well this is actually the first time I've come across this, so it's rather interesting.

 

[Soulgaunt]

<color=F7F7F7>I hate white text more than anything. It's more annoying than... I can't even think of a good example of something that I hate nearly as much as white text. I just hate it that much.

 

[Zyst]

Omg you guys! You are all so cool!! :OOOO!!!!!@1

amidoingitright?

 

[necromanzer52]

Oh, I get it.

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

<color=F7F7F7>
This is something I have never seen before. In fact, I wasn't aware you could do this. So when I came to this thread, I was a bit shocked. Oh well.

Why white? You got something against black text? You racist!

 

[lacktheknack]

<color=white>
This is something I have never seen before. In fact, I wasn't aware you could do this. So when I came to this thread, I was a bit shocked. Oh well.

Why white? You got something against black text? You racist!

<color=#f7f7f7>But everyone uses black text! Let's give white a bit of love! D:

 

[staika]

<color=#f7f7f7>snips

I hope we don't get warnings out of this. I'd hate to get a warning or for you to get a warning since you seem to be in the yellow. I'd hate for the RP to lose you for two weeks or whatever the suspension is D:

 

[Auninteligentname]

[color=F7F7F7]I've never seen this before. So when entered this thread, I thought you all posted blank. Then I highlighted it all...[/color]

 

[Rawker]

<color=F7F7F7>I honestly don''t think I would have known what to do and would have just cast it off as simple trolling if I weren't so used to reading Doc Scratch's text on Homestuck.

On topic, I think ghosts are real to some degree, but pop culture really doesn't do anything to help actually validate them and more so just makes a mockery of them. Example: ghost adventures. The one show with the two douches who run around yelling at ghosts. The other show, I forget, that seems pretty legit. They actually go at it with some scientific basis and actually rule out whether or not a ghost could actually be there.

 

[lacktheknack]

<color=white>snips

I hope we don't get warnings out of this. I'd hate to get a warning or for you to get a warning since you seem to be in the yellow. I'd hate for the RP to lose you for two weeks or whatever the suspension is D:

<color=#f7f7f7>I doubt it. I'm not breaking any rules. All the parts needed for a valid thread are there, they're just gray.

 

[Tharwen]

I reloaded this thread 3 times before realising something was strange about it and it wasn't just my connection failing...

 

[staika]

<color=white>snips

I hope we don't get warnings out of this. I'd hate to get a warning or for you to get a warning since you seem to be in the yellow. I'd hate for the RP to lose you for two weeks or whatever the suspension is D:

<color=white>I doubt it. I'm not breaking any rules. All the parts needed for a valid thread are there, they're just gray.

I hope so, But what do I care I just got my neo badge

 

[emeraldrafael]

<color=F7F7F7>Im hoping this works.
-Anyway, I remember doing this on another site. Someone always liked to mock people and cause problems. So one of the admins did somethign with his posts and made it so they always looked like this (this was before alll the members got hte option to use colours). that way, he could post whatever he wnated and it seemed like he didnt exist. he eventually got pissed and left, then the whole site got the colour option.
-Then when all the members got colour options, we started using certain colours for all our posts and doing this kinda stuff.

 

[LarenzoAOG]

<color=#f7f7f7>PLEASE NOTE:

<color=#f7f7f7>ALL comments must be colored "F7F7F7" when fresh, and ANY AND ALL QUOTES must be recolored "WHITE". Otherwise, we can see the comments, and you wreck the ghost thread. Don't do that to me! D: Also, check your preview to make sure that something didn't go wrong. For example, color doesn't appear to cross paragraphs, which is caught by using the preview.

<color=#f7f7f7>With that established...

<color=#f7f7f7>This thread exists to discuss your feelings on ghost threads in general, as well as scare newer users.

<color=#f7f7f7>A while back, we had an inflammatory user make an inflammatory thread and say inflammatory things. When the Escapist users overwhelmed him with quotes, corrections and rebukes, he quickly edited ALL of his posts so that there was nothing there. This sparked an amazing aftermath in which discussions were had, poems were written, jokes were told, etc, all completely invisible. The thread, sadly, was locked.

<color=#f7f7f7>Yesterday, it happened again. A user made a double-thread, and attempted to delete it, resulting in the users jumping at the opportunity to make another ghost thread. I believe they did it, but the thread got locked again.

<color=#f7f7f7>So, I figured that making an official ghost thread would let it stay open. It's just for fun.

<color=#f7f7f7>But yes, discussion. How do you feel about ghost threads? Do they annoy you? Do you find them exciting? Do you actively contribute to them? Are you filled with the urge to strangle whoever makes them?

<color=#f7f7f7>This is dumb.