who invented CmON?
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Drake Farstrider
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I got a bunch of Tau that I had painted up but was thinking of striping and possibly re-painting.
Frodoz...
...CMoN was created by Chern Ann (a guy) and was open for joining on Dec. 1, 2001. If you go to the PYP II thread, here in the General Discussion forum, there\'s a link to the 2004 CMoN Yearbook. Chern Ann\'s picture is in there.
He\'s really busy now and isn\'t on CMoN hardly at all, but borg has been here from the first day and is Chern Ann\'s right-hand man - although borg might be a woman because we\'ve never seen a picture of him/her! lol
As to why he created the site - probably because there wasn\'t one out there like it. I\'m pretty sure it\'s the first one where you could post your mini\'s pics in a gallery and have people vote on them (although I\'m not positive about that).
If you\'re really interested, you could always ask borg.
Hope that helped!
...CMoN was created by Chern Ann (a guy) and was open for joining on Dec. 1, 2001. If you go to the PYP II thread, here in the General Discussion forum, there\'s a link to the 2004 CMoN Yearbook. Chern Ann\'s picture is in there.
He\'s really busy now and isn\'t on CMoN hardly at all, but borg has been here from the first day and is Chern Ann\'s right-hand man - although borg might be a woman because we\'ve never seen a picture of him/her! lol
As to why he created the site - probably because there wasn\'t one out there like it. I\'m pretty sure it\'s the first one where you could post your mini\'s pics in a gallery and have people vote on them (although I\'m not positive about that).
If you\'re really interested, you could always ask borg.
Hope that helped!
green stuff
Active member
Since, he\'s grown up
.Herb the bitter
New member
Well somebody has to say it...
Everybody knows Al Gore invented CMON.
Everybody knows Al Gore invented CMON.
Drake Farstrider
New member
Originally posted by dauber22
lollollollol
...nor most of Sturm\'s comments
Not that we need to worry about those anymore.
borg
Administrator
Here comes the horse\'s mouth. lol
CMON was originally my idea. I went to a site called hotornot.com, basically a site where you submit your pictures, or someone elses for that matter and people vote on them. I figured that it would be a great idea to have a site like that for miniatures and hence the name. I took a pretty basic script and ran with it. Didn\'t take long for people to start submitting other people\'s work, or pictures of \"non-miniarures\", at that time, Chern offered to help and the rest is history.
We added features, moderation, forum... etc... all that good stuff. So there you have it!
CMON was originally my idea. I went to a site called hotornot.com, basically a site where you submit your pictures, or someone elses for that matter and people vote on them. I figured that it would be a great idea to have a site like that for miniatures and hence the name. I took a pretty basic script and ran with it. Didn\'t take long for people to start submitting other people\'s work, or pictures of \"non-miniarures\", at that time, Chern offered to help and the rest is history.
We added features, moderation, forum... etc... all that good stuff. So there you have it!
My bloody brother put a pic of me on hot or not... I wasOriginally posted by Modderrhu
So how did you score on hotornot.com, borg?
Thanks for the history lesson, it\'s kinda interesting how this thing got started.
until i saw i scored better there than i did here I\'ve only just recently caught up with myself :bouncy:
Just for the sake of clarity, though Borg already covered this, this is the official line from the FAQ pages:
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About us
CoolMiniOrNot was inspired by HotOrNot.com and similiar sites, and was the brainchild of David Doust (borg). The site started out in 2001 with a simple image voting script. People liked the idea, word spread and CMON soon passed the 400 submission mark.
Whilst the site was gaining in popularity, there were problems with people submitting others pictures without permission, the general anonymity of submitters and the lack of browsing features.
At about that time, Ng Chern Ann started a revised script on littlebrush.com with much needed features that would benefit CoolMiniOrNot. David contacted Chern Ann, the two struck a deal to share the site and within weeks CoolMiniOrNot got a total overhaul:
1. Pictures had to go through an approval process to avoid the submission of pictures that was not their own
2. A browse page with detailed searching
3. Vote tracking
4. a better forum
Ever since then new features have been added, often on a daily basis!
Today CoolMiniOrNot is the largest painted miniature archive on the Internet, and is constantly growing.
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Amazing the stuff you can find out if you actually read those things.
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About us
CoolMiniOrNot was inspired by HotOrNot.com and similiar sites, and was the brainchild of David Doust (borg). The site started out in 2001 with a simple image voting script. People liked the idea, word spread and CMON soon passed the 400 submission mark.
Whilst the site was gaining in popularity, there were problems with people submitting others pictures without permission, the general anonymity of submitters and the lack of browsing features.
At about that time, Ng Chern Ann started a revised script on littlebrush.com with much needed features that would benefit CoolMiniOrNot. David contacted Chern Ann, the two struck a deal to share the site and within weeks CoolMiniOrNot got a total overhaul:
1. Pictures had to go through an approval process to avoid the submission of pictures that was not their own
2. A browse page with detailed searching
3. Vote tracking
4. a better forum
Ever since then new features have been added, often on a daily basis!
Today CoolMiniOrNot is the largest painted miniature archive on the Internet, and is constantly growing.
______________________________________________
Amazing the stuff you can find out if you actually read those things. 