Whitechapel - The WEF and The Engine.

The WEF and The Engine.

Will Couper — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 12:42:08 -0800

Something really only to salve my curiosity, here.

It's something I've been thinking about for a while now, but how many of the current Whitechapel denizens also posted regularly on the old Warren Ellis Forum and The Engine?

I've seen a few people mention that they lurked around one or the other, but I haven't seen many who've confessed to posting on all three.

Almost said something stupid about not recognising anyone. Stopped myself just in time.

Will

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Alastair — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:02:12 -0800

i posted on the engine but not the wef

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Oddcult — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:18:30 -0800

WEF, but somehow managed to skip the Engine. I think I was asleep for that one.

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RenThing — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:21:05 -0800

Missed both, unfortunately.

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Jim Moore — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:21:30 -0800

managed a few posts on all three.

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chris g — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 13:56:20 -0800

was on Engine, in a past life :P

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Yskaya — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:24:09 -0800

Engine, the tail end of the WEF and at it's anniversary days. Never print your website address in a comic, kids. they may look you up. ;)

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kperkins — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:09:17 -0800

Neither one, ever.

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sebfowler — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:30:30 -0800

Engine for me, missed out on WEF.

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Brendan McGinley — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:43:43 -0800

I was on WEF much, Engine a little bit.

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LokiZero — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:01:01 -0800

Both, me.

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Sobreiro — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:14:11 -0800

Proud WEF member since 2000 (!).

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Spiraltwist — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:22:03 -0800

I missed the WEF, but was a cog in the Engine.

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J.Brennan — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:45:45 -0800

Discovered the WEF just as it was ending and so was happy when The Engine began. I post when I feel I have something to add, mostly I read quietly.

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Rachæl Tyrell — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:46:14 -0800

WEF, indeeeeeeed. Oh, the drinking. Engine, not so much.

(Fraction & Heidi)

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Russell Lissau — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:08:28 -0800

I was a regular at The Engine.

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Cameron C. — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:17:00 -0800

neither ;_;

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Allen — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:18:40 -0800

I really wasn't using the internet much when WEF existed so I completely missed out, I lurked for most of the time the Engine was around, though I did post a handful of times.

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oldhat — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:36:40 -0800

I made a couple of posts to the Engine, but not much.

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mbakunin — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:18:45 -0800

Engine.

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Jamie Coville — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:42:43 -0800

Both for me.

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Brandon Seifert — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 23:28:01 -0800

Engine.

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Fauxhammer — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 04:07:21 -0800

I lurked at The Engine.

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IsaacSher — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:09:02 -0800

I was on both, although I wasn't the most active poster on either.

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Mike Carey — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:18:01 -0800

Wasn't the most active poster on either, either. But I read both, and often.

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Owen — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 09:38:24 -0800

Engine but I only posted on there a little bit, like the above I read heavily though.

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rough night — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:09:13 -0800

Both, but I was never very talkative.

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tim12s — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:25:06 -0800

WEF since ... 2000? 2001? and Engine. Thanks to the WEF, made lots of good, longterm friends here in San Francisco.

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Will Ellwood — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:38:41 -0800

Just the dying days of The Engine for me.

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kevinmellon — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:35:40 -0800

Missed the WEF completely, joined the Engine it's last week after lurking for quite a while. I continue to hold the illusion that Warren saw me join and said "Yup, we're done here."

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Paul Sizer — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 19:54:06 -0800

My wife Jane was a hardcore WEF junkie, and got me hooked on the Engine. Rode that until it morphed into Whitechapel.

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johnjones — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:00:01 -0800

I joined the WEF in 1999, I think and was also on The Engine, then came here. I'm pretty much a polite Warren Ellis stalker, I think.

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Seantaclaus — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:47:10 -0800

I wasn't aware of either previous incarnation before joining here, and didn't become aware of Whitechapel until early-ish last year.

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samishah — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 10:37:55 -0800

I spent a huge chunk of my college years on the WEF. Used to be a regular at the WEF DC drink-ups back when I was state-side.

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jeffajohns — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:49:22 -0800

I was on the WEF and Engine daily. Usually had the good sense not to post though.

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nigredo — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:00:26 -0800

Used to lurk at the Engine.

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Dmitri — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:14:57 -0800

Lurked on the Engine for a while, but didn't really get active or anything until Whitechapel came about.

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stsparky — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 01:01:58 -0800

Both, and the one day thing. And I think I tried that groups thing - Ning.

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Alastair — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:33:06 -0800

oh yeah was on the secret community

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Greasemonkey — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:39:32 -0800

Posted regularly on the WEF, lurked on Engine.

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remotepush — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:37:21 -0800

i posted semi-regularly on WEF. was on engine, though posted very rarely. and i post here semi-regularly.

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Jon Wake — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:41:49 -0800

I was a chatterbox on the Engine.

I miss the Engine.
I miss real names.
I miss having guys like David Lloyd and Dave Gibbons showing up to pal around.
Sniffle.

Alas, it is gone.

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Angela Hunt — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:43:10 -0800

The Engine.

And it sent me and my art to Florence, something that I truly don't think I'll ever be able to pay back, so I do everything I can to pay it forward.

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Robson — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:49:58 -0800

Posted (not a huge amount but with some regularity) on both.

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Fauxhammer — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:29:50 -0800

Man, The Engine intimidated the hell out of me. I mostly read and tried to avoid attracting notice to myself.

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Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:50:03 -0800

I was on the Engine. Good times. I just tried googling for a relevant piece of evidence, and found something great. You may remember me as the girl mocking/celebrating her own frightening moment of fandom:

Though I should state, for the record, that I clearly don't endorse the viewpoint within the linked blog post. Obviously, if seeing me in my underwear later inhibits your ability to receive my wisdom on the topics of mathematics or artificial intelligence or other areas of science then the problem is most certainly not with me. Heh.

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Angela Hunt — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:52:19 -0800

HA! I remember that! I think it was when I decided you were someone I absolutely had to talk to more. :)

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Art Grafunkel — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 01:10:33 -0800

Coincidentally, I wrote an article a few weeks ago about the WEF, and my short period as a member there. It's in Flemish (=Dutch), but Google Translate is your friend.

I remember coming in at the end of the "Fuck You Fraction" meme, through 9/11, right to the end of the messageboard. Met a lot of interesting people, like Wooller from ninthart, Arni from nextcomics, and through Arni I got to discover that young, multi-talented, whipersnapper Ben "Witchity" Templesmith.

Also, at the WEF, I did things like this:

Which of course pleased Warren to no end.

You do realise it's all still there, right?

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kmcleod — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:55:24 -0800

@V regarding photo:

Is his last name on the back? I was thinking Warren Buffett.

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Will Couper — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:04:30 -0800

I'm really quite interested about the journeys a lot of people in this thread have made from one forum to another, and quite annoyed that I managed to miss some things along my way.

For myself I wandered into the WEF sometime in 2001, I think. Joined the Engine when it began it's brief existence. And, like here, I would drift in and out, read a lot and occasionally post. I even, on one memorable occasion, managed to skirt trouble on the Engine, which was strange.

Will

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Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:41:39 -0800

@Angela Hunt <3 !!!

@kmcleod Ha!

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ScottBieser — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 19:04:51 -0800

I was introduced to The Engine about six months after its founding by another cartoonist who later got herself banned for not shutting up. I think I annoyed everyone there quite thoroughly before it closed up.

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Rachel — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:03:11 -0800

Was there for both incarnations, hitting naughty children with sticks and stomping around like I helped run the place.

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Richard Pace — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:48:42 -0800

I was at the WEF near the beginning, wandered off pretty much at the same time I wandered away from comics and found myself at The Engine for it's last year-ish.

I mostly lurk when I'm here.

~R

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Martin Johnstone — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 07:18:38 -0800

Lurked at both the WEF and Engine. Now i lurk here.

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warrenellis — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:27:59 -0800

Well, make the most of it, this is likely the last message board I'll ever run...

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undulatingungulate — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:20:08 -0800

Lurked fairly long-term at the WEF. Glanced at the Engine occasionally.

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Corey Waits — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:55:54 -0800

Well, make the most of it, this is likely the last message board I'll ever run...

I hope it continues a long and fruitful existence then - there's no other place on the internet quite like a Warren Ellis forum.

I wasn't into comics at the time of WEF, but was a regular reader and semi-regular poster at The Engine. I liked having to use real names, and I liked the general tone of the place too, though it seems to me that the spectrum of discussions is broader here (maybe I just spend more time here though).

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joe.distort — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 11:34:58 -0800

this is likely the last message board I'll ever run...

sadly, i feel like all the good boards are dying or becoming secondary to facebook. i love msg boards but they just dont seem to move like the used to, eh?

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warrenellis — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:02:41 -0800

sadly, i feel like all the good boards are dying or becoming secondary to facebook. i love msg boards but they just dont seem to move like the used to, eh?

Whitechapel's had steady traffic for the last... I dunno, 18 months? In general, message boards are going away, because there are so many more and simpler ways to connect with people and have conversations now. I think there'll be communities around Things, like WC, for some little while to come.

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ralf.haring — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:09:41 -0800

Missed the WEF. Occasionally posted on the engine, mostly lurked, but did get a shirt. Don't really follow stuff here anywhere near as much as I did on the engine.

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pjtaylor — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:36:28 -0800

I was more WEF than the Engine. But I do have an Engine T-shirt.

I made a WEF skin for Monopoly, once upon a time...

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Carla Speed McNeil — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 16:31:40 -0800

Latecomer to all three parties.

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KSullivanLingle — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:45:17 -0800

The Engine put up with a lot of my lurking. I'm pretty sure I posted a handful of times, but I'm awful like that. It's rarely because I don't have anything to say, but usually because what I do that is of any value is far too jumbled in with the gin. That and intimidation, perhaps. I meet so many new people in my day to day life, one should think that the screen of the intertubes would make it even easier. Strangely, not so much.

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shining_lion — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:09:13 -0800

WEF: Dave Sim's Big Black Cock

The Engine: I, too, enjoyed the pro's dropping by. Truth be told, Warren's message boards are the only ones I've ever really frequented, because while they each had/have individual qualities and rules, the way he runs 'em keeps them habitable.

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lexmachine — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:15:41 -0800

I was a WEF regular, but was also somehow asleep for The Engine

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Melinda — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:31:36 -0800

I have no idea what you people are talking about.
*cough*

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Ariana — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:48:37 -0800

I have no idea what you people are talking about.

I've never seen this woman before in my life.

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alexwilson — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:56:33 -0800

Engine and one or two other fora (like the 24 hour one a few years back). Never regular on any forum.

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Lee Edward — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:11:07 -0700

I used to hang out a bit on the WEF, and I sort of lurked a little bit during the Engine days, but didn't really spend as much time as I had the WEF. Work issues, mostly. In the WEF days, I was pretty much unemployed, and during the Engine days, I was pretty busy. Nowadays, not so much. I just haven't been as sociable of late. Got old.

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seanviola — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:02:30 -0700

Been reading since WEF. Thanks for all 3.

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JamesGilmer — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 03:12:46 -0700

I was around and chatted on WEF and went to WEFUK drink-ups while I was over there (Warren actually showed up at one and while drunk I can remember talking to him about BLACK HAWK DOWN), I want to say that was on Father's Day 2001. I lurked on the Engine and mostly lurk here. Made loads of friends on WEF and the sat communities and then ended up meeting my wife at a concert I went to because a fellow WEF member had recommended Belle and Sebastian to me. So in a convoluted way Warren was the butterfly who set in motions the things that lead to me meeting my wife in Sept 2001.

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moali — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:50:05 -0700

I was on the Engine for abit, mostly towards the end I think.