All About Canting Away
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One great thing about having so many bloggers in Canting is that it seems to get mentioned in a lot of blogs. LOL Full of Pie has just written a really touching one, 'How I Found Canting Away'. I'm going to use this as an excuse to ask people a few questions. Please note the polls above for your replies.
It's a little problematic doing it this way these days. In the old days, those in Canting were exclusively Slammers (members of Sal's Realm of Runescape). That isn't necessarily now. As word of mouth has spread (see aforementioned bloggers), then we have people in there from several others forums, plus those disdaining forums completely. This makes it incredibly hard to be as democratic as I'd like us to be. My vision of Canting isn't even that it's a benign dictatorship. It should be a fraternity/sorority. The reason that people tend to all get captain level membership is because that is the level required to start a clan wars on Canting's behalf. In short, anyone with that silver star could enter us into something.
Unfortunately there's a limited number of silver stars. The ranks all rely upon my personal friends list. That only has 200 slots. Jagex announced freaking months ago that eventually there would be a division between clan lists and friends list. This doesn't appear to have happened. This means that Canting Away is usually largely populated by dozens of people without stars, nestled between others (no better or worse than themselves in terms of tenancy). This isn't fair. I know that many people have said that they don't give a monkeys, but some secretly (or loudly) do care. I've had instances where people have been quite upset about this. Usually someone like TheArcturus1 then offers to gift that person his star, because he knows, like any Canting veteran knows, that the silver star doesn't mean much. Just that you can start a game of Clan Wars.
Before Jagex made that announcement, I was musing over a solution. It's highly imperfect and will soon see us run out of stars again, but it might be a stop-gap. Something that Pie wrote has bubbled this idea to the surface of my musings again. Should we start an actual Canting Away cc? I mean create a character called Canting Away, whose whole purpose in life is to facilitate a chat channel. Much as W60_penguins, as a character, probably isn't getting high combat levels. This will remove from the mix people who are my friends, but never go into Canting. It would also make us easier to find. After all, there might be others, like Pie, who searched Canting Away, not knowing that you have to enter Merch Gwyar to get into the cc. There's a poll at the top of this entry for you to vote on that.
(Edit: Slight technical hitch. Someone already has both Canting_Away and CantingAway. *blinks* Who are you? I have deep suspicions involving Reaver. >.> Second technical hitch: Grief just pointed out that you only have 100 ppl on the friends list in f2p)
Second big issue, who are Canting? Even I couldn't give you a definitive list these days. As far as I'm concerned, if you've ever visited the cc for more than five minutes and I haven't subsequently banned you, then you're a member of Canting. However, this place is full when I'm curled up in my bed and I might never have met you. I couldn't tell you how many of us there are, let alone our names. I've just registered us on Runehead, so I can try to create a list of our names. I'll get a response in 24-48 hours to see if we've been successful in the registration. Therefore I'd like to hold a census. Could you please comment with a list of all the people you've seen there? Past or present. Screenshot the Canting clan lists when you're in there, if you like, or just type out a list. If we're successful in Runehead, then I'll add all of the names there. If we're not, then I'll try to find somewhere else to do it.
Thirdly, Kienayar has PMed me about the official clan event announced by Jagex, The Triumvirate. Do we want Canting to enter? I've had a quick read through and barely understood a word of it, but I'm happy to enter us, if you would like that. Again a poll is attached at the top.
Canting Membership So Far:
Alexben
Ambo100
Amidamaru
AquarianPixi
Armmadylo
Armydude07
Audina
Audioworm (Doddsy)
Aurorabwolf
Aximili E I
Bass Daddy
Bigbigsniper
Biscuit
Blingking
Bloodsharts
Blue Dragon
Booya643
Brock
Bullet292
Cameron
Cansis
CCFCBoy
Cellphy (Cell, Nya)
Choccy
Chodesworth
CJ Andrews (Ashen Verdict)
Cooljman (Soulja)
Coopee4
Cossack
Daisyjake1
Daz Rhyfelwr
Demsale
Demsla
DentheMen
Desireful
Dr Leviathan
Dr Skull
Ed the1 Mage
EdwardBarber
Egghebrecht
Elit Druin
Em
Eman1051
Emanick
E Zenaku
Ferrariliam
Ferus Deity
Firemakers (Ultra Man 0)
Flanker
Fram Roper
Fred Lay
Full Gangsta
Full of Pie
Grief is Fun (Sabre Grief, Sabre Fuego)
Guildwars186
Gumguy3
Gwalagic
H Alger
Happy Rant
H34vns S T R
Heb0
Helk
Helm360
Henrique651
Hi OliSykes
Hugsssssss
Hydro
I Ftw Tbh
Iggyfangmax
iHerty
i kitra i
Inanimate 77
IVIiltarus
Jdeh Rhyfela
Jaxana
Jim Machamer
JJ IS ONLINE
1Kamou1
Katarat1
Kayla (Cougarsrule9, Kaylalyak)
Kienayar (Duke Kie)
KINGOF KRUNK
Kitt Fox
Kitty Molly
Koenig Khole
Krazy Karl5
Lee M16
Legolas4161
Lightslei
Lilshu
Lil Vic
LordBuckeyez
Lordo
Llandre
Lucas 2am
Man U Man
Marcos
Massecure360
Meosable
Merch Gwyar
Merxese
Merx KOsCows
Metax Range
MFI
Mister Tiz
Mking47
Moodcreator (Doomcreator, Doom)
MTC I PuRe
Nebualator75
Neo Avatars
Nezantra
Nqueen
ODST Isaac
Oldmaroon
Onua
0woodcut0 (oreos)
p an da
Pen Knee
Pepsimax209
Pinkytm
Plurfish
Prm3 Ranger
Pure Failed
Pyromancery
Rachy (Fuge5111)
Rafftank
RavenDarkEye
Rawrsome
Razanga
Reaver321
Renikins
Retep
Ridiculouswc
Rilkar Spine
Rizzo
Ryan
Sabre Mark
Sabre Merx
Sacrosanct
SaporGenitor
Sayf 4 Layf
Simple013
Sir Nerdsy
- Sk3tch
Skilla 4lyfe
Somethingen
Somisareg
South Parrot
Sparhawke
Steto Fire
Tanyakins
Teacuptime
TheDezzick
Thingy
Tim J Winter
Timothy Gold
Tomaz
Tomcat2222
Tully155
Tun Ton Ten
Twitch
Warlock (Joshua Mack)
WC Boy (Pivoty)
Weirdhead
Wellington T
Whiskas
Whitehawk
WilliamXtreme
Willy Wonka
Willzyx
Wolfhe (Whitewolf127)
Untouchabl3
Vandyballer
Vaskor
Vogrinjr (Synapsi)
Vykonne (TuMadre)
xCJRx
xCurt (R3ignof3vil)
Xela King
Xer Man
Yaaaaaz
Yuanrang
Yummygina
Zachman3334
Zoorhana
ZVI5 (Deathrole)
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