2006.

Great year.

Hello everybody, PhantomBPR here, it's been a while, I know.

This isn't really an announcement or any big news, but I had a few things on my mind.

First of all, congratulations everyone for getting through another year of school, they're always hell on the forum. This year however, I am very happy to see that the forum managed to stay alive well through winter right into summer. Usually we have a big remission in between, but this time it looks like we did just fine.

Let me also apologize for being absent, as I usually am during the school year. But things are winding down now with summer starting so I'll plan to be around more often.

So I've been thinking about the forum a little bit lately and I am very happy to see that it is still around. When I first started Phantom's Temple back in late 2005 early 2006 I never expected it to be around for five years, but we'll be reaching that point this year.

I'm glad to see that the forum has developed vitality and community within itself, and by that I mean I don't have to get on everyday and demand that people post, you guys have developed into your own society and that was one of my main dreams from the very start of this project.

So, I'm back again to ask you the age old question.

What would you guys like next?

There are a lot of different directions we can go in, and we've been talking about it for years now. Legends fandom isn't that big right now as it was a few years back when people were starting to get back into retro 90's shows, but we seem to be doing pretty well. We aren't a large forum, but we do well for ourselves and have created a stable community.

So things seem to be doing pretty good right now. My one question is, what would you guys like to see next?

Again, thank you guys so much for being so loyal to the forum, as I've always said:

"I fucking love you guys"  

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And if you just have any thoughts in general, feel free to post them.

Just to clarify, do YouTube links of Nick shows count or are those acceptable?

I can't see YouTube links having any detremental effect. I mean it's YouTube's "property" and Viacom is still waging their war with them.

Unless one of my confidants can think of an important reason as not to.

Pilots aren't always aired.  I feel that while it wasn't the pilot, it was the first real episode of production.

This

All right, we'll let Demi live......for now.

Case CLOSED

God damn, I deserve some sort of Certificate of Diplomacy for allowing this to be hosted here.

I?ve got a few things to say.

1.   I was against this topic from the start and I think it should be locked immediately, the only reason I have not yet is because I wouldn?t want to make a pre-emptive move before loose ends are tied up.

There is a little something known as jurisdiction. Look it up. I care about my members, and if there is a problem that all of you are facing regarding another forum, and then I can understand and allow a discussion about the problem. But from what I?ve read here, CNS and Phantom?s Temple have developed a beef with one another through all this mess. This whole ordeal just seems like a lot of unneeded bad blood that could have been taken up via IM?s. As Administrator, let me just say for the forum as a whole that discussion and support are one thing, but turning the forum into a battleship is quite another.

2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsJyfN0ICU

We could stay up all night arguing how unfair it is that Viacom is such a bitch about a show that hasn?t made a cent for their company in over a decade, and I?d have your back on that argument every step of the way.

But the truth is that any form of Legends you see today is a form of piracy. And having said that, any form of Legends you watch does not belong to you, so to argue about pirated videos online and ownership thereof is the biggest hypocrisy I have ever heard. They don?t belong to any of you. I don?t care who took the time to encode what, I thank you for doing it because it offers us a chance to watch the classic shows we are nostalgic for, but you can?t claim ownership of any of it because it?s not yours. My point being, this whole argument over ownership is ludicrous.

3.   Relations with CNS.

First and foremost, I want to make it clear, whatever actions you take on CNS are out of my hands and not my concern (again, lines of jurisdiction) but I?m not exactly comfortable with what has transpired. I don?t want CNS viewing this forum as a group of enemies plotting against them.

I don?t exactly agree with the actions they took, I think they made a few pre-emptive bans and this Johnnie character really raises several questions with the whole ?$100? bullshit, but that?s unimportant. The fact is, CNS needs to take up their own shit on their own forum, and I understand that MJ came over to make peace and I am not targeting you, however I am not pleased with the fact that my forum had to be used for negotiating these problems.

CNS is really starting to appear to be a really arrogant forum in my eyes, but my opinion is not important. If they want their links that bad then so be it, there?s no reason to target this forum. I just feel like this whole thing was completely unnecessary. If CNS feels the need to ban you for some reason that you think is unreasonable, well that?s their problem and your problem. I can promise you that here at Phantom?s Temple, you?ll receive a WARNING before any drastic actions are taken, but CNS is a completely different forum. Again, I don?t agree with their tactics, but that does not matter because I am not affiliated with that site.

I can?t help but think that sans the links on this site, this could have been taken up entirely between Retro Nick Show and Classic Nick Shows.

4.   Finally, let me just take the opportunity to apologize for two things. One, if I happened to miss a piece of information and misconstrue my conclusion on all of this, I am very sorry but it was a lot of information to take in at one time. And two, I am very sorry for being a tad vagrant in the past few weeks, but I?m sure any of you can testify how stressful college can be on life.

In conclusion, I think it?s time to end this thread and end this war between the forums. The classic Nickelodeon fandom is about discussing with likeminded people about the shows of our youth and possible venues to view them, not a battle ground of who owns what.

CNS representatives, I apologize for any bad blood between my forum and your own.

If anyone has anything else to say, add it now, otherwise this thread will be closed in 24 hours (Sunday 12:00AM EST. Oct. 18)