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iwz by iwz · Oct 25, 2002 · 177 views · Journal

i have to say that i feel that if i shut down ezabel today, i would be satisfied. i really can't believe the whole thing. people actually care about this site! some more than me! what an awesome feeling. this place has a vibe all of its own, and only over the past few months have i realized that it can exist without me. i've been busy, and haven't been on as much, but everything just keeps on going. the vibe changes, the activity ebbs and flows, people come and go.

i will call this site my experiment. an experiment in wasting time! haha. nah, but i wouldn't consider this a waste of time at all. i feel pretty good about the whole thing. let the vibe roll on.

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sux2beme #1 sux2bemeOG 2002

hmmm, i guess this isn't about pink's song.

thefunkyfresh #2 thefunkyfreshFounder

ian... you are the most amazing human being alive. look what you have created! you're own world, full of people with ideas! plots, subplots, and motives! it's genius!

magnum #2.1 magnumOG 2001

dont forget evil genius's trying to take over the ezabel world mauahahahahahaha!

sux2beme #2.2 sux2bemeOG 2002

and to think he's never played sim city

delliott101 #3 delliott101OG 2002

The creation has taken on a life of it's own... but don't go away, Ian... just stand there, out in the rain and yell "It's alive.... IT'S ALIVE!!! YEAHHHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!"

ekulu #4 ekuluOG 2002

who are you?

delliott101 #4.1 delliott101OG 2002

Um... that would be Ian Zabel... the creator of this web-site you are so fond of...

ekulu #4.1.1 ekuluOG 2002

never heard of him...

sux2beme #4.1.1.1 sux2bemeOG 2002

your nose is growin'

punkprincess #5 punkprincessOG 2001

weeeeeeee! and its true, anyone who actually joins this site, gets addicted! its insane!!! eZabel is GOOD TIMES. and SPECIAL TREATS!

punkprincess #6 punkprincessOG 2001

something i realized that has happened to eZabel, its turned into something different- not bad different- just different. There are now SERIOUS conversations that are held, whereas before- it was more of just a post something funny, silly, or memorable... interesting, what will happen next as the genras continue to be? also its funny people go threw spurts of being on here more, IE: whenever eZabel is NEW to someone theyre on ALL The time... or when they are sick, or they have nothing to do at work... its funny i enjoy analizations :-D

sux2beme #6.1 sux2bemeOG 2002

you stir up some interesting questions:

  • how much of eZabel's difference is due to eZabel growing?
  • how much is due to us growing?

punkprincess #6.1.1 punkprincessOG 2001

i think its more of eZabel growing. Before you were here, before ekulu was here, before delliot was here, i mean even before gfsrocks was here! it had a different vibe, and it keeps changing as new people join. im not denying the fact that we all ARE growing everyday... we are, but i guess i just have a strange take on things.

flyingfree1125 #7 flyingfree1125OG 2001

i swear this is the greatest site ever made. there has been some great jokes on this site (adam) that some people believed. it's great. if anyone ever destroys ezabel, i will hunt them down and hurt them soooo bad

ekulu #7.1 ekuluOG 2002

hahahahahahha

punkprincess #7.2 punkprincessOG 2001

matt did once- hahaha oh wait, that was just my "gullableness"

sux2beme #7.3 sux2bemeOG 2002

i would just tweak their nose. then i'd wait for ian to restore the server from backup.

sux2beme #7.3.1 sux2bemeOG 2002

(geek alert)

skaorsk8 #8 skaorsk8OG 2002

you know what Ian...there are so many things I like about this site..but there are so many thigns I would change, and expand, if it were mine... I'd like to take those ideas, make them work, if you ever decide to give anyone new website priviledges...

When I first heard about this site (most likely from Tina) I checked it out and I thought...wow, what a bunch of losers...then a few months later I looked at it and I thought, I wish I knew what was going on here...then one day, I realized that no one else had any idea what was going on here either, so I didn't have to start at the beginning and read all the musings, I could just pick up wherever.

And let me say, finally, that I don't know if you are aware, but I talk to quite a few people who just "ghost" on this site, maybe they have usernames and maybe they don't, but they just read everything and never post. And also I think that you probably have everyone's email password saved in your database, cuase everyone uses the same password for everything. I'm done now, really. Although I never met anyone from this site in real life that I didn't feel like i knew super well already.

iwz #8.1 iwz

what kinds of ideas do you have? what would you change or expand? and if you had more privileges, how would you use them?

haha, so you're saying eZabel is just perpetually full of losers who have no idea what's going on on this site? HAHA! nice!

yeah, there are definitely lurkers here. no idea who they are though. tell them to sign up! they get cool features!

know any coldfusion or java?

skaorsk8 #8.1.1 skaorsk8OG 2002

i'm emailing you my ideas. I'm keeping them quiet for a bit, until more stuff gets unveiled

sux2beme #8.2 sux2bemeOG 2002

ian, do u use encryption for the passwords?

iwz #8.2.1 iwz

no, only for the "Remember Me" autologin.

sux2beme #8.2.1.1 sux2bemeOG 2002

ouch! why on earth not?

malibu #9 malibuOG 2001

i think one of the coolest things on ezabel (like delliot101 has said many times before) that you get to know people better. just like skask8 said, even if you have never met these people or don't see them that often, you love em!

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