Origins Of Post Hell?

I know why post hell exists,but what purpose does it have when you can just delete the thread,Also when was it created? at the start of doomworld or somewhere after that?

It came in quite recently. I have been on DW for ages, and it is a very recent addition.

What´s the purpose of postHELL?

It´s a Pillory...

trooper77 said:

I know why post hell exists,but what purpose does it have when you can just delete the thread,Also when was it created? at the start of doomworld or somewhere after that?

To quote the FAQ - "Post Hell is the forum where bad posts go to die". It's been a part of the forums since at least June 2001.

neubejiita said:

It came in quite recently. I have been on DW for ages, and it is a very recent addition.

Registered: 02-09

uhhhhh wat

Besides the animal noises and Captain Jean Picard of the USS Enterprise, what other annoying sounds were used to keep people from reading Post Hell?

HWGuy said:

Besides the animal noises and Captain Jean Picard of the USS Enterprise, what other annoying sounds were used to keep people from reading Post Hell?

More like eye destroying colorscheme and animated gifs! Your eyes will jump out of your sockets after reading Post Hell becauise of that.

If you're a masochist you can use Post Hell theme for everything on this forum.

It's a rip-off of SomethingAwful's gas chamber forum. The original version of post hell even had the same green color scheme.

EDIT: here's a thread from when the color scheme was changed.

HWGuy said:

Besides the animal noises and Captain Jean Picard of the USS Enterprise, what other annoying sounds were used to keep people from reading Post Hell?

The music for a time was of someone "singing" e1m1, buggered if I can find it.

Planky said:

uhhhhh wat

Under different nicknames, as I have been xaero, makron & bejiita.

Planky said:

The music for a time was of someone "singing" e1m1, buggered if I can find it.

I'd much rather hear that than our Post Hell's music now. Rutabaga Salad or something like that right?

The "Law & Order" gavel noise was there for a while.

Yeah, that was there for a while after that guy out of Law and Order died.

As for what annoying noises there have been, here are a few I recal:

The Ride of the Valkyries music. Not especially annoying, of course.

Fredrik's cirka.mid and a small part of Testikill's Ball of Hell, a song by two forum members inspired by several identical maps in 1337.wad. This was pretty damned annoying, but strangely pleasant and reassuring once you had got used to it. Links in the first two posts of this thread. Recommended.

The Picard song

Somewhere around that point (or probably before) I disabled the features in the browser that would play the sounds. But later ones seemed to involve some sorts of animal noises.

Law & Order was the best... Made it seem so dramatic :)

There was also that gibberish car commercial (accompanied by a muffled Law and Order)... oh, and also lots of fire.

The Picard song wasn't irritating, it was funky.

Deathz0r's unmusical singing of D_E1M9.

I imagine a hell where William Shatner is singing Rocket Man. :P

"Relatively recent"? I'm pretty sure it was here when I registered like 8 years ago...

Post Hell originated when Satan was cast out of Post Heaven for trying to overthrow the lord. Didn't you read Paradise Lost?

Krispavera said:

Post Hell originated when Satan was cast out of Post Heaven for trying to overthrow the lord. Didn't you read Paradise Lost?

Paradise Post

Rutabaga Salad lost some of its sting when it became the hell theme.

when reading troll posts, rutabaga salad only makes those posts funnier.

Planky said:

The music for a time was of someone "singing" e1m1, buggered if I can find it.

http://www.d-e.at/junk/e1m1_(wtf_mix).mp3

neubejiita said:

It came in quite recently. I have been on DW for ages, and it is a very recent addition.

Fail.

It's been around ever since we switched to VBulletin, nearly a decade ago. Also, everything fraggle said.

I think the purpose of it is to show off the abject stupidity and retarded attempts at trolling and so forth and preserve them for eternity for everyone to laugh at. If we just deleted them, some of the classic threads in there would have been lost to the sands of time.

exp(x) said:

http://www.d-e.at/junk/e1m1_(wtf_mix).mp3

A Capella E1M1?

And yes, I browse PH when I see new stuff there because I find stupid shit amusing when people make mistakes whether big or small.

Am I the only one who noticed the fire looks like hands giving middle fingers?

neubejiita said:

It came in quite recently. I have been on DW for ages, and it is a very recent addition.

You mean recent by like 10-11 years ago right? Oh dear, we have a time traveler here with a broken Delorean.

The Picard song gave a very epic feeling to Post Hell, especially with multiple open tabs on a thread consisting mostly of Cybie butts, and with the tabs timed so that you got an "interference" effect ;-)

If you want something really bad and controversial, use the free software song, if you dare ;-)

To me, it sounds like Richard Stallman raping a goat...or maybe a GNU. Jeff "Yak" Minter, you're next!

No one has mentioned the past music stylings of:

MY NAME IS FREDRIK JOHANNSEN, I COME FROM SVEDEN

Annoying honda "viral" audio ad

http://doomworld.com/linguica/civic.swf
This will always be the post hell music to me.

This would work too ;-)