Site Topics - Part II

[mordecai]

Originally Posted by Artisan Fan

Fixed the title.

congratulations Fran, you ruined a perfectly good jab.

 

[Douglas]

i'm definitely lagging a little bit again. coincides with the time of day when i had some issues yesterday. it's not as bad today but pages are definitely taking longer to load than usual.

 

[LA Guy]

Member Slammyman was spamminated. He was running a campaign on the forum to take advantage of traffic to Amazon, etc... This is strictly prohibited. Any members trying the same **** will get gone the same way.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by LA Guy

Member Slammyman was spamminated. He was running a campaign on the forum to take advantage of traffic to Amazon, etc... This is strictly prohibited. Any members trying the same **** will get gone the same way.

I'll spaminate you, bigboy.

 

[Matt]

Ban hammer wielded after a stormy night in my PM box.

While we are certainly tougher on FS violations than we used to be, when you feel that you have an exceptional case, we are generally pretty receptive to working something out for you. When you break the rules, and send us 'your forum is marsupialed' PMs...we are...well, less than receptive. And we may well mock you. Because...well, we don't really care that much

Responding to that by reinsulting me (I was asleep by then), and then sending another PM noting my place of residence and calling me a "******* ****" probably won't make you any friends. It would also make you racially misguided since I am white, but aside from that, a subsequent apology won't be your salvation.

Byebye.

 

[foodguy]

good lord.

 

[Redwoood]

About whom are you talking here...just for...uh...transparency purposes?

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Redwoood

About whom are you talking here...just for...uh...transparency purposes?
[winstonwolf]nobody who'll be missed[/winstonwolf]

 

[Matt]

lawl...Alex the camel has...two socks....

So among my morning's PMs including the kerfuffle above, I wake up to a message from a different member at around the same time requesting a name change. Add J to the CC to execute as he sees fit and recommend that - with only a few weeks on the board and four posts, he may as well just start a new ID.

I just do an IP check...it's the same dude.

Cheeky.

He was using the socks to make unreasonable offers on his own sales threads (ie $80 offers on $135 shoes) as bumping tools.

Anyhow, both alter egos dead.

 

[Redwoood]

Is there a way to autoban these countless "shoestrade*" spambots that keep registering?
say, 10 minutes after or so.

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Redwoood

Is there a way to autoban these countless "shoestrade*" spambots that keep registering?
say, 10 minutes after or so.

The easiest way, as discussed previously, would be to give me spamination powers.

 

[Redwoood]

Oh, yeah, and anything with shopping.us in the footer (or message body*, for all I care) can go as well.

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

The easiest way, as discussed previously, would be to give me spamination powers.

While I agree that you would probably dedicate a lot of time to this task, I would be worried that a lot of this time would be dedicated to the abuse of power and the amassing of more power

* not this message, though, ok?

 

[kwilkinson]

Originally Posted by Redwoood

While I agree that you would probably dedicate a lot of time to this task, I would be worried that a lot of this time would be dedicated to the abuse of power and the amassing of more power

* not this message, though, ok?

I'd never want to be a full-on mod. **** that. Those guys put up with too much bullshit. I just usually am on the site at rather strange and traffic-less hours (tonight excluded b/c I'm off work) and want to be able to get rid of that **** without having it ruin my threaks.

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by kwilkinson

I'd never want to be a full-on mod. **** that.
+1

 

[Tokyo Slim]

Originally Posted by Mark from Plano

Other old timers have just drifted away for various reasons. I don't see people of their strength amongst the noobs who can take their place.

I'm still here.