Often enough someone outside of the forum will tell something bad about DLP or much less often something good. Of course, these opinions tend to generalize all members of DLP and never really show the whole story, but it gave me an idea.

List 5 to 10 members you first think about when thinking about DLP. In other words without much debating what people equal DLP for you. I'm just wondering if we can find the core members that represent this forum in our minds.

You can add some observations about these members, but since it suppose to be spontaneous, there is no need for that. My list:
- Taure,
- Nuhuh,
- Blaise,
- Giovanni,
- Midknight,
- Perspicacity,
- Vash,
- joe,
- Oz,
- Big D on a Diet (not very active now).

Honorable mention - The Santi (though, it has more to do with his fic than his own presence).

 

Jon
Joe
Taure
Nuhuh
Big D
Blaise
Santi
Vash
DarkSyaoran

 

jbern
Joe
Taure
Voice
Vash
GL
Nuhuh
Perspicacity
Blaise
Jon

 

Vash
Midknight
Tehan
Taure
Ounce
Perspicacity
Blaise
Dark Sayaron
Merril II
Ellisande

(Huh, didn't even think of Lord Ravenclaw, though I think its because of lack of face time. He tends to be more behind the scenes.)

 

Four of these bullshit posts, and the only one that mentions Raven is the one that dismisses him as "behind-the-scenes." Are you niggers serious?

 

Jon
Vash
Midknight
Oz
Taure
Nuhuh
Blaise
DarkSyaoran
Giovanni
Inq
Tehan
Seratin
Xiph0
Amerision
Aekiel
Ellisande
Sesc

Honorable Mentions:
IP82
Big D
Tinn
Sree
Bioplague
Tragedian(May he rest in peace)
Knox
Darius
nonjon
LT2000
I LUV GINNY

There's probably a few more people from way back that I should mention, but I can't recall their names right now. Honorable mentions for people that are either gone or post so rarely that they might as well be.

 

The forum is different things to different people. The OP asked us for our gut-reaction, without thinking about it too much. Those are the ones that sprang to mind.

Some view the authors as being important, others view those on IRC as the core. I just thought which popped into my head the most, those being whose posts generally run along with what I see DLP as.

Lord Ravenclaw didn't pop into my mind off the bat because he doesn't post that much in the forums compared to certain others. And since I don't frequent IRC to me DLP is the forums.

And 'behind-the-scenes' wasn't dismissing him. He just didn't pop into my head first thing, because he keeps the site running, you know, behind the scenes.

 

I'll be sure to mention to Coyote he's dead.

 

Zeph
Zephnote
Zephyrus
Zephcemi
Led Zephylin
The Great Zeph
Overlord Zeph
IncrediZeph
Zephiroth
Zephtastic
Zephalicious
Zippity Do Da Zeph

These fine gentlemen are really all that springs to mind. I might be missing one or two, though.

 

This is a stupid thread.

What, or 'who' DLP is, will be different to everyone, depending what they come to the forum for. If they only really visit for the WBA/Library, they'll lean more towards the authors. People that actively post in Politics/Real Life discussion tend to be another subset, as are the IRC frequenters, or the Funny Picture spammers.

And then there's the people that obsessively spam refresh on The Santi's thread.

Any way you slice it though, the entire community is what makes DLP... DLP. Trying to pigeonhole certain people into it is futile, realistically. At one point, when the 'core' was all that truly posted, you could have made an argument, but I'd say the site has branched out a little bit in the recent years, for better or worse.

TL;DR - This thread is bad, and you should feel bad.

 

I think the real "person" behind DLP is Lion. by long shot he is the most colorful person here...

But I digress: DLP is made from DLP. DLP is an entity that will assimilate you and you pet mudkip.

 

Yeah, basically the tags have this one right. We trying to make a popularity contest here? Because I hate to say it, guys, but mknote already won that.

 

I think some people are missing the point. It's not about making a true representation of DLP or popularity contest. It's about what iLost said - your gut-reaction to this question without overthinking it. Just to see what people "are" DLP in our subconscious.

 

DLP in my subconscious is DLP.

DLP is such a melting pot of personalities that it's tough to even attempt to find the one group that represents DLP, because in actuality there is no ONE group that represents all of DLP.

I think of DLP as DLP, not Santi's DLP, or Taure's DLP, or even Ravenclaw's DLP. It's not the "leaders" of DLP, it's the group as a total that represents us, and so I think the very premise of this thread unneeded.

 

Which is pretty much pointless, and considering DLP's history, kind of inflammatory.

 

I don't think it's as inflammatory as it maybe once would have been. Rep is gone, and people have grown up. Somewhat. Until the next MoR thread.

Doesn't make this thread any less retarded, however.

 

QFT. Those who don't IRC are second-tier DLP citizens at best, irrespective of their stories, posts, postcounts, or clever avatars. DLP is a forum associated with an IRC, not the other way around, and all the core IRC folks already know who they are.

Unnecessary thread is unnecessary.