Dino-Spam Alert - Page 2

badams52 · March 31, 2003, 20:12

* cowers in the corner expecting the hand of Ming to return soon *

Gatekeeper · April 1, 2003, 03:07

I was under the impression that Dinosaurs was never going to see the light of day, thus having a forum for it was, well, not necessary. Has its status changed, or is Sid still focused elsewhere?

Gatekeeper

Lemmy · April 1, 2003, 04:08

I bet the admins just keep the Dino forum to tempt innocent new posters to spam there and then brutally hit them with a PCR for their pleasure. Ming already admitted he enjoyed giving the PCR.

Mr. President · April 1, 2003, 04:52

I was a moderator for a while, on a forum far, far from here. Then it died.

Anyway, my point is that deleting posts and whatnot is fun.

Dilbert: You don't think you're abusing you power?

Dogbert: What would be the other reasons to have power?

Reinhard-Baer · April 1, 2003, 05:54

Oh wonderful you try to be creative and bring dead things back for the sake of creating interest and what did you get in response? You get punished. Well thank you Mr. War of Art I hope you enjoyed what you did. Accusing other users is fine work, congrats.

Btw when you don't want that people post in a forum how about closing it? Well I don't understand your actions and never will but I know exactly who to blame for

Ok have a nice day and to all other new user a nice advise:
Don't post into so called "dead" threads or you will get punished, the only problem is: what are dead thread?
Seriously I've no idea. Just try it out, post there and see what you get in response.
Ah it's nice to see this community is sooo friendly to new people and such a warm welcome

Immortal Wombat · April 1, 2003, 06:21

Quote:

Originally posted by Reinhard-Baer
Is there another thing you would like to change? How about my signature or the American flag?

Well, if you're offering...

FrustratedPoet · April 1, 2003, 06:24

Another thread has been mysteriously bumped in the Other Games forum (this time the thread had been dead for 5 years!

).

Link:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=12306

Reinhard-Baer · April 1, 2003, 06:31

Ok why are you so anxious in punishing people? What's wrong in posting nice, little comments even if it's old? Will the world light up in flames? Will the human race die? This can't be the common sense of this site to ran around and accuse other people. We just want to have some fun in posting. I cannot understand such behaviour.

Lemmy · April 1, 2003, 06:34

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What's wrong in posting nice, little comments even if it's old?

Imagine 10k people doing that....threads and forum views will become so cluttered with these "nice little comments" that the good usefull and informative posts won't be noticed.

Reinhard-Baer · April 1, 2003, 06:44

Quote:

Originally posted by Lemmy
Imagine 10k people doing that....threads and forum views will become so cluttered with these "nice little comments" that the good usefull and informative posts won't be noticed.

Ok understood but to me this sounds like something little babies do:
"Ah look this evil man does this and that and buaaahh"
I think the mods are competent and see when someone does something wrong and they will act accordingly we surely do not need to push their nose on various subjects. Let them do their work alone I'm more than sure they can.

Rasbelin · April 1, 2003, 07:32

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Originally posted by flash9286
maybe your my dl and im just trying to get my post count up

Flash is trying to spam in order to get a custom avatar? Funky...

flash9286 · April 1, 2003, 08:21

only 160 to go, wait 159 now

H Tower · April 1, 2003, 08:47

Quote:

Originally posted by Reinhard-Baer
Ok why are you so anxious in punishing people? What's wrong in posting nice, little comments even if it's old?

nice little comments provide little contribution to the forum and waste the time of other posters when they read them.

Quote:

Ok understood but to me this sounds like something little babies do:
"Ah look this evil man does this and that and buaaahh"

the insults begin

Quote:

I think the mods are competent and see when someone does something wrong and they will act accordingly we surely do not need to push their nose on various subjects. Let them do their work alone I'm more than sure they can.

how would you know? All of us have an interest in keeping the site running smoothly, if that means reporting a spammer everyso often, then so be it.

Dauphin · April 1, 2003, 08:49

Quote:

Originally posted by FrustratedPoet
Another thread has been mysteriously bumped in the Other Games forum (this time the thread had been dead for 5 years!

).

Link:
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=12306

I'm amazed we have threads that are that old.

If there are anymore let me know, I want to see what I posted all those years aog.

Dauphin · April 1, 2003, 08:52

Found one. Woohoo!

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=12336

DrSpike · April 1, 2003, 09:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Big Crunch
Found one. Woohoo!

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=12336

You were Doctor T?

Dauphin · April 1, 2003, 09:01

No, I was the thread starter. Not sure why I appear as a guest with my old username. The account I am using now is the account I used then.

(You can check by my ID number. Before 'Chuckles' and after 'Christian Person' come 'Christmas')

Reinhard-Baer · April 1, 2003, 09:07

You guys are hilarious I like it here after all. I plan to stay

Beware of Reinhard Dracula

rah · April 1, 2003, 09:27

Next time, just show some restraint. Bump one or two, but not ALL of them. Being the last poster listed on every thread in a forum is just like painting a target on your forehead.

Hueij · April 1, 2003, 12:55

I can't be bothered to check the guy's "offence", but whatever he did I think **'s that start a thread here to whine about it should be kicked from this site for ever...

rah · April 1, 2003, 13:03

Well, he was a DL and the Reinhard-Baer ID has been deleted and the violator is currently serving a vacation.

RAH

Ming · April 1, 2003, 13:17

Quote:

Originally posted by rah
Well, he was a DL and the Reinhard-Baer ID has been deleted and the violator is currently serving a vacation.

Well, not quite true. It is standard practice NOT to delete the DL. We wouldn't want somebody to come back and create the same DL handle again... so it is just perma banned

H Tower · April 1, 2003, 13:27

Quote:

Originally posted by Ming

Well, not quite true. It is standard practice NOT to delete the DL. We wouldn't want somebody to come back and create the same DL handle again... so it is just perma banned

yeah, and if we delete all those permabanned dl's our membership would drop below 5000, and we can't have that happening

Maniac · April 1, 2003, 13:27

So basically of the 29000 users some 27000 are permabanned DLs of AH?

Immortal Wombat · April 1, 2003, 17:04

a DL? what a surprise.

I was hoping after the mods seemed to miss it initially that it would be left to mature the slow way and then drift down to the OT as a warlord and become an Uber-Troll. It had all the classic signs. All of them!

And then at the last moment, my hopes were cruelly dashed. *sigh*
How long is the owner's vacation? Did they get extra days for sheer blinding stupidity and having a DL as transparent as clingfilm? Or days taken off for traditionalism and suicidal gutsiness?

Urban Ranger · April 2, 2003, 09:26

Quote:

Originally posted by rah
Yes, i've checked them out on occasion and have come to the same conclusion.

Nation states is quite "ahem" similar.

NationStates is mainly an RPG forum just like the Democracy one.

Alex · April 2, 2003, 10:21

Precisely. Food for the spam sharks.

XarXo · April 2, 2003, 15:36

I created two or three threads to revilalize a bit de Dino forum, but doesn't worked.

A good thing in not-very-used forums is to change the limitation of last 10 days to a correct date until a minimum of 10 threads are shown.

rah · April 2, 2003, 16:10

Quote:

Originally posted by Alexnm
Precisely. Food for the spam sharks.

Agreed. If you search deep, you might find some actual content, but you must wade through all the rest first.

Skanky Burns · April 2, 2003, 18:15

In the nationstates forum, FP actually made a decent post. AFAIK, that was the only post in the entire forum worthy of reading.