Goonhub
01-08-2015, 05:39 PM
There were basically three waves of introductions to the group. First was my call in #goonstation for everybody who was interested in the solarium to join the channel I was making back when this all started. That was public and I only ended up getting three people (SailorDave, Readster, and spectral, who eventually vanished and I never saw again).
There were other people who weren't on IRC at the time who were working on the solarium or were otherwise interested, so after the initial 4 of us we actively sought out anyone who was interested in the solarium or was known for being particularly nerdtastic, which is how ClockworkCupcake, SecretAgentCow, and others came in (I can't remember when River_ came in and unfortunately the dude's vanished off the face of the internet. I hope he's okay).
It wasn't really secret, but not many were interested at the time. We often ran into people insisting that there was nothing interesting to actually find with the solarium and that it had all been discovered, so the recruitment was difficult and we didn't wanna pull in people who weren't gonna actively help.
Finally, the last batch of people were all direct invitations to people who were known personally by people already in, which is how Valterak came in. I guess nobody knew you well at the time, FishDance, so you missed out
Around that time is when people outside of the group started taking notice of the solarium and we started having trouble with a few people (who I won't call out, since it's been ages now) ghosting us constantly in-game in order to copy our achievements/methods to present them as their own and claim that they had a "burst of inspiration" or whatever, so we started to get a bit more secretive in response to that.
There were other people who weren't on IRC at the time who were working on the solarium or were otherwise interested, so after the initial 4 of us we actively sought out anyone who was interested in the solarium or was known for being particularly nerdtastic, which is how ClockworkCupcake, SecretAgentCow, and others came in (I can't remember when River_ came in and unfortunately the dude's vanished off the face of the internet. I hope he's okay).
It wasn't really secret, but not many were interested at the time. We often ran into people insisting that there was nothing interesting to actually find with the solarium and that it had all been discovered, so the recruitment was difficult and we didn't wanna pull in people who weren't gonna actively help.
Finally, the last batch of people were all direct invitations to people who were known personally by people already in, which is how Valterak came in. I guess nobody knew you well at the time, FishDance, so you missed out
Around that time is when people outside of the group started taking notice of the solarium and we started having trouble with a few people (who I won't call out, since it's been ages now) ghosting us constantly in-game in order to copy our achievements/methods to present them as their own and claim that they had a "burst of inspiration" or whatever, so we started to get a bit more secretive in response to that.