Only one week to go until we're three years old!

And we'd like your testimonials about this website!

Maybe you've met someone cool here, or you just like the general atmosphere?
Not trying to put words into your mouths here - but you better be fucking nice...

These happy sentences will appear on the home page and on the signup page.
All the newbies will see it and be inspired to register.

What you need to know:

They can be as long as you want, but we'll strip it down to key sentences for the final piece.
If you are to mention someone, please keep it stricly first names.
You can swear! I mean there's no point pretending we're a politically correct website.
Your username will be clickable and you'll ultimately get more profile views as a result.
It will also show a photo of your lovely self - so be sure to have a real photo.

What do we get in return?

We'll pick around twenty testimonials to use on our birthday!
Those chosen will get 250,000pts and a special bar for their profile.

What you should do if you're interested:

It's simple! Just comment this blog.
If you'd prefer, you can also...send me a message.
(I hate myself for saying that.)
 

EE was founded on November 27th 2006! We'll be 3 years old!

That number is also the brain age of  www.emoearth.com/profile.php!

Alright, I know 3 isn't a very cool number, but this is history man!

In 7 years time (if we're not all dead by 2012 ahahaha!) we'll look back at this and think...

"Wow, seven years later and I still use the internet to laugh at emo blogs, I feel accomplished!".

Now I'm going to go through our history, if you have the time and want to learn a little more, then read read read! If not...

TL;DR Version: EE IS OLD BRO. PEOPLE HATED US. DRAMA ENSUED. RAPS WERE MADE. BADGERBADGERBADGERBADGER.

Starting Days

Nov 27th '06 - Was the day I started EE! It was a small forum with only a small amount of members. Our logo was drawn by Lozzy (who fucking kicks ass at drawing tbh) and the site itself was much darker than the EE you see these days. I had a few problems setting up the website, and I ended up being the 3rd registered member (I made 2 accounts and forgot the passwords v.v) and after I'd bottled enough courage I told Laura I had made a site for DA EMOZ. She was like "Oh that's cool." and was our 98th member! Hurray! A cute little fact, even on this new site I'm the 3rd registered member (genuine mistake, again) and Lozzy is the 98th! I think that's neat u.u

January 30th '07 - Me and the wife (I say that, but really Laura wasn't even aware of my plans...it just sounded more cosey to type) made a social network! It was quite well liked but many of our forum users were too busy being stubborn cun...arseholes and said they prefered the forum and wanted to stay there.

February 1st '07 -- They changed their mind.

February 7th '07 -- I think at this point I really forgot about the forum. The problem with me - as you're probably all well aware of - is that I can only really focus on one thing at a time. It was my first time with a social network and it was pretty cool to fiddle around with settings, ban people and ultimately annoy the regulars. (It still is :D)

Lance and THE WAR (also the song/rap)

I really miss Lance! I even sent him an email telling him how much I love him. For those who don't know who I am talking about...

LANCE KNUCKLEOZONNEZ (I think that was his surname...) was a boy like me, I say was, he isn't dead or anything...! Anyway, He made a website called Wutscene. This website was pretty much a carbon copy of my website *angry face*. At the time I was kinda pissed off, and so was he - but it was silly because we both bought the same script in the end, so of course they'd look the same!

Not long after Lance showed up, the drifters (what me and Lozzy refer to as 'The Fickle Ones') left EE for WutScene - which started epic drama!

I know what you''re thinking! Drama? What drama? - And you're not even thinking that at all, so shut up! :(

Emo Earth has never been terribly popular with other sites. I can name about 10 websites that hate me for reasons I don't know - I don't even talk to them! I like to consider myself a friendly, well-spoken, happy individual with nothing but love for the world and my members.

I may never reply to comments, messages, emails and friend requests - but the reason I yell at you all and loathe you is because I love you all so much.

Halfway through this WS vs EE 116 year war, Lance wrote me a rap! It included some very well thought out lyrics. I think one line was something like "Why don't you get Alex to buttfuck you Benji' and If you think that is mindblowing (and please hold yourself back from rushing to the stores) then you haven't heard his second rap which was almost the same but with accusations that I was an insane paedophile. That's only half true v.v

In response to his rap, I made a video pretending I was Hitler

Wutscene then died, everyone came back, we all made a sexy time and loved each other again.

EE's minor fall and the major lift.

Two years later and unfortunately the site got hacked quite severely. We lost all our member data and I was pretty much ready to throw in the towel.

Infact I pretty much did for 6-7 months. I think it was actually a really worthwhile break and regular members will probably agree they needed it, as did I.

And look at us now! I found an old backup and decided to bring us all back together! Shiny happy people!

Long live EE! >:D

Wow it was much longer than I thought ;D

Thanks to the 1013 people who took the last test.

As an added note, chat is down. I really can't be fucked with that right now and have more pressing things on my mind.

Anyway enough of my bullshit. Here are the answers.

1. How many of the columns are straight?

Answer: Two

2. Are the center squares the same colour?

Answer: Yes

3  Are these rows completely straight?

Answer: Yes

4  Are there circles and triangles in this picture?

Answer:  Neither. If anything it's just 3 pacmen.

5 How many black dots can you see in this sentence?

Answer:  Three, two on the 'i's and one on the question mark. Pays to read the question huh?

6 How many F's can be found in the sentence?

Answer:  Six - your mind just glances over 'of' because it's a connecting word rather than a 'real word'...or something.

And thats it. Nobody got them all right.

If you think you did, then leave a comment.

Question 1: If your life depended on the following options, which would you choose?
About 30% of all people got this question correct! It's a very hard question too!

1. Flip a coin and have it land on tails five times in a row.  Probability = 1/32
2. Roll two dice, each of which must land on 1. Probability = 1/36
3. Roll a 7 twice in a row using two dice. Probability = 1/36
4. Get dealt 2 aces in a standard deck of cards.  Probability = 1/220

Question 2: Which of these is heaviest?
The objects being weighed and their colour are immaterial. You just need to know unit conversion.

1. 125lbs of green paper.  Weight : 125lbs
2. 60kg of white glass. Weight: 132lbs
 

Question 3: Multiply the sides a hexagon has by the number a pentagon has and it's...
Once you know that a hexagon has 6 sides, a pentagon has 5, and the sum is 30 - it can be quite easy.

1. Less than the number of days and nights rain fell during Noah's flood.  40 days and 40 nights!
2. Less than the number that represents the first point gained in a game of tennis. 15.
3. Less than the number of years of marriage marked in a silver wedding anniversary. 25 years
4. None of these.  Obviously there is one! So many people chose this option!

Question 4: What are the first three numbers of Pi written backwards?
Very simple. Although you were under a time pressure - typing "What is Pi" into google would of given you 3.141.

1. 414.3
2. 314.1
3. 411.3
4. 141.3

Question 5: Who is not, not, not a person that has not, not set foot on the moon?
Lots of double negatives. It eventually boils down to "Who has not set foot on the moon?"

1. Neil Armstrong- He has!
2. Laura Carlson - Pretty sure she hasn't!
3. Nobody - Well we know somebody has!
4. 12 inches - This was just to confuse you even more! :D

Question 6: Hannah loves how her name is spelt. So much infact, she's moving next year to...
If you notice, Hannah's name is a Palindrome (It looks the same both forwards and backwards). So with that in mind...

1. Arboles, Colorado - Nope! But 3rd most popular!
2. Nowhere. - Most popular choice! 90% of people chose this!
3. San Jose, California - Second most popular!
4. Saxet, Texas - Yes! Only 7 people (out of 940) got this question right. Woo! :D

Question 7: What day comes after Sunday?
This was a very cruel question. The trick is, there is no trick. Only 20% of people got this right.

1. Saturday
2. Monday
3. Wednesday
4. Thursday

Question 8: Finally, which number would most scare a chinese man?
This question actually popped up on TV when I was creating this quiz, it's really hard (only 2 people got this right!).

1. 4 - It's pronounced almost the same as 'Death'! Many chinese hotels refuse to have a '4th floor' and instead go from 3rd to 5th floor.
2. 7
3. 13
4. 661

Nobody got every question correct! Not a single sausage.
If you think you did, then please leave a comment and I'll take a closer look at your answers.

Thanks to all that tried ^^
 

We need layouts!

We'll be implementing a new template system (some of you may remember it!) where users can browse layouts made by other people.

This time it's much more simple, and you simply click a layout and you're done!

SO! If you feel like making a layout, that will hopefully be used by 100's of users (maybe even a new default?)   - then please send them to me asap!

Tips!

Make them simple yet effective. They shouldn't be too busy for the eyes.

Give them themes! Christmas, Halloween etc! People will use these quite often!

Try and use Tinypic for images, other hosts usually expire media after time/bandwith.

Rewards!

You'll get satisfaction when you see others using your work!

You get to put a copyright at the bottom of each profile.

75,000 points for an approved layout.

2,500 points for each user who selects your layout!

You get the "Designer" bar under your photo!

How to format and send your designs!

EE uses CSS for it's designs.

This means sending it via messages simply will not work.

Once you're complete, send the entire CSS code to designs@emoearth.com

We'll then review it and email you back when it's approved!

 

1.  J-F-M-A-M-J-J-A-S-O-N-? What letter comes next?
   If you notice, they're all the first letters of each month in the year. The next one will be D.  (A huge amount of people said 'J')
    
2. How much soil is there in a hole measuring 1m x 2m x 2m?
   None! It's a hole. (4m was a popular answer here)
    
3. Would a bullet travel faster through water at 25c or -5c?
   A bullet would have a much harder time going through ice. Water freezes at 0c. The answer is 25c.  (Some people thought bullets couldn't travel through water!)
    
4. A man dressed all in black is walking down a country lane.
   Suddenly a large black car without any lights on comes round the corner and screeches to a halt. How did the driver know there was a man in the road?
   It was daytime. (Others claimed he was making some noise)
    
5. What is light as a feather, but even the strongest man cannot hold it more than a few minutes?
   Your breath. (Other good answers include a 'promise' and their 'heartbeat'
    
6. There was an airplane crash, every single person died, but two people survived. How is this possible?
   Every SINGLE person died. They were married / in a relationship. ("It's not possible" said about 200 people.)
    
   
7. How far can you walk into the woods?
   Halfway. Any further and you'd be coming back out! (Top marks to the person who said "Far is a relative term, so however far you think "far" is.")

Full Marks (50,000pts) : MorbidMeakers,PEDO, DrpDdJrdn, SkeeterFagot, hellohaileyy, TantalizingInnocence, Maeghan111, magneticLIES, Vittles, SINsurlyYours, Jonnypyro, Abner, xXAriannaXxXRawrXx

One Wrong (25,000pts) : Beccaeileen, Xie, GetRealorDieTrying, KristaMarie, CellarDoor, jessiex3, PaigiePandaBear, Annieily, JessicaJailbreak, xxSceneAngelxx, JawBreaker, RiversRiot

I'll keep this short.

• New upgraded forum ,yay.
• Mods can now do their shit on there.
• New server, that's why you've seen no blank screens or downage.
• Report any new bugs to me.
• Shoutbox is online.

This is a list of the staff members new and old.
A few things still need to happen.

• Laura still needs to go through this list.
• She might replace, remove or add additional staff members.
• You'll know your place is final when you see your icon on your profile (one of the coloured bars below)

Benji
Mialene
Laura
 

Aidenz
AlexKirsty
JawBreaker
jamieerose
KrissiEndlessly
magneticLIES
Scarzii
SINsurlyYours
TiffyLeeAnne
ZydrateLove
 

BRIEISLEG3ND
TantalizingInnocence
ValentineMarie
 

Abbadon
Elliecakes
LadyEmKat
Pedo
ReneeGabrielle

*We're still debating 3 other users, so check back.

Blacksly
CraigTalent
MistaBwanden

 

Lozzy has worked hard on a new feature called Q&A, much similar to "MyMag" on MYB or the Yahoo Answers system.

We've got our own spin on it. You earn points for asking a question, and you earn points for answering questions.

The best answer (once chosen by the initial question asker) will be awarded 1000 points!

To try it out go to My Stuff > Q&A

To browse questions go to Explore > Latest Questions

We hope you enjoy it and please report bugs as usual!

In other news, I've fixed the dreadful image gallery bug, so no more pictures leaving the layout!

~STAFF TIME~

I do pretty much ALL the work on this website, and it's wearing me pretty thin.
So it's that lovely time where I ask regular members to sign up to be staff members.

What we need:

1 Administrator
Our new site administrator is Mialene!

3 Report Handlers
We'll be needing report handlers for the growing annoyance that is - reports.
Mainly to allow the administrators to do more important things, like ban members for personal gratification!

3 Point Approvers
Also needed are point approvers! People who will be able to check on the status of offer submissions and approve/deny each one.
It's pretty straightforward, but boy is it tedious!

6 Chat Moderators
Once chat is up, we'll be requiring 4 American and 2 British chat moderators.
Hopefully people who are familiar with the old chat room and don't tlk like diz.

10 Site Helpers (6 to still be chosen)

People who know this site inside and out,  and who can help newbies!
You'll likely get several messages a day asking for help and you'd be required to keep your calm!
Some newbies can be fucking irritating.

2 Forum Moderators
I almost forgot this! If you use the forums alot and wouldn't mind moderating them, please apply to be one!
Moderating consists of deleting, editing and moving topics/posts.

If you're interested just send me a message or leave a comment on this blog!
Me and Lozzy will choose them tomorrow!
Thankyou! :D