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The result of the debate was DELETE. — JIP | Talk 10:47, 1 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The-amb[edit]

Non-notable message board with no Alexa ranking and 125 members. Fails WP:WEB tests. FCYTravis 03:17, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. can this be speedy?—Gaff ^ταλκ 04:09, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. nn. -- NSLE _{(Communicate!)} ^<Contribs> 06:06, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
• Original message board contained roughly 25,000 members.

• Did I just stumble onto B3ta by mistake? http://www.yourallgay.com/ Oh yes, and delete. the wub "?!" 01:58, 26 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

• "http://web.archive.org/web/20040515165357/http://www.ataris.com/phpbb" <- The AMB ver 2.0, just before it reached 25,000 members.

• "A website's impact can be demonstrated by meeting one or more of the following criteria:

  1. Having an Alexa ranking of 10,000 or better
  2. Having been the subject of national or international media attention within the last 2 years
  3. Having a forum with 5,000 or more apparently unique members"

Screenshot: http://www.beforewespark.com/ambvr20.jpg

• • That screenshot is not of the forum in question. Rather, it is of an official forum site later shut down. The messageboard in question is a fan-created site that does not meet inclusion criteria. Furthermore, the article itself admits that the old "AMB" messageboard had just a hundred or so more regular users than this fan board - which tends to suggest that the usercount number shown is massively inflated. Given that the screenshot itself displays "Most users ever online was 79 on Tue Mar 04, 2003 2:50 pm"... it is HIGHLY unlikely that there were actually 25,000 unique users. I frequent boards with around 2,300 unique users which have had 300+ users on simultaneously. FCYTravis 23:29, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Now you guys are just being cocky. Bunch of nerds.

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