Posts by cosmicskipper39

crimsonsailor7 said:First I’m gonna lay down the ban, and then if people start complaining, maybe I'll actually sit down and consider* whether they're clones or what 🥳

Man, if only I had a crystal ball to see all this coming 😢

*just using a little bit of hocus pocus

Oh, please, just go ahead and roast me already so I can finally dedicate some poetic verse to you. 😘

Kimberly Sanders13 said:Haha, I had no clue, but thanks for the heads up. My Zeljko znatizeljka is pretty happy with it 😁

Then you clearly never watched Zeljko znatizeljka when you were a kid 😳

Just go ahead and install OpenOffice instead. It’ll save you from blowing a few hundred bucks on a legitimate home version you could pick up at Best Buy.

dustypuma5 said:I am absolutely not dealing with this "Americanization" nonsense. For instance, someone actually suggested we call hardware "STIFFENERS." I refuse to talk like that...

Comcast can't just go reporting people to the FBI or the CIA because they haven't been harmed. But, if a user is constantly trashing a specific site and causing actual damage, then the Admin—once they present the proof—can demand user data from Comcast to file a lawsuit for damages. And look, if Comcast decides a user is flagrantly violating the terms of service, they can temporarily or even permanently kill that person's internet access.

Just a few days ago, I dealt with a situation involving a client who has a DSL contract through Comcast with a Carnet discount because his kids are in school. His DSL was cut off because one of the kids was downloading unauthorized content online.
It was a massive headache, but I finally managed to get his connection restored by arguing the point and faking some router logs to show that someone else had hopped on the wireless without permission. 🙂

Stop living under the delusion that you can hide what you're doing online or that nobody can track you down when you're being an idiot. There will come a time when, following European Union standards, you could lose your right to DSL just for downloading pirated Windows software—and it won't be the ISP making that call, it'll be a copyright enforcement agency, and that ban would apply to all ISPs everywhere.

I don't need a translation for the word "abuse," but I would love to know what actually triggers a user report. Your example is great, but unfortunately, it has nothing to do with typing on a forum.

I don't live in some fantasy world where I think I'm anonymous online. But if anyone can just dig up user data, then fine, put it clearly in the rules so people actually know what they're getting into. Then maybe we won't have trolls or clones cluttering things up. 😉
We’ll all just communicate super politely and courteously on the forum, signing with our full legal names, swapping Social Security numbers and PINs... it'll be wonderful, and we won't even need moderators since we'll all be acting like polite little professionals in a corporate office.

I’d love to see what the threads on Reddit, Politics, or Psychology would look like under those conditions...😁

And don't even start with me about those Windows copies, because who the hell is actually going to bother pirating stuff in America anyway? 😂

dustypuma5 said:I figure if you report someone for abuse, the authorities will just hand over all those details in their response.

So, walk me through this "abuse" thing. Like, what exactly does a user have to do to get flagged?

It would make way more sense if someone was out there causing absolute chaos online and getting reported to the FBI, rather than some Comcast rep handing private info over to a random forum Admin.

Look, an Admin can block a user from the site—end of story. Anything beyond that shouldn't be their business.

I honestly still don't see any reason why anyone would ever hand out that kind of data. 🤷

hollowtrucker77 said:I can get my hands on the address and the name registered to the line.

If that's true, they seriously need to put a warning about it when you sign up for the forum.
I had no idea Comcast was just handing out user data like candy to forum admins. Are you actually serious right now, or are you just messing with me? 😕

vBulletin is actually a beast when it comes to hunting down forum clones. It nails things like writing styles, user habits—you know, login times, who they're hanging out with—and even which subforums they frequent. But honestly? Sometimes it just trips over its own feet, leaving mods and admins totally stranded.
The big headache happens when someone dodging a partial ban starts switching up their slang or jumping between different devices to stay online. It’s a nightmare. But word is, version 2.90 is supposed to fix all that mess, finally putting an end to these annoying forum clones once and for all.
The devs have already announced this powerhouse update, and it should be hitting the market by early 2012.
Hey, @cobanko, fingers crossed you'll finally get what you're looking for then. 🙂

Rachel Taylor40 said:I seriously hope this ban gets wiped. If not, just delete my username and my whole profile, because there's no way I'm sticking around a forum like this.

Look, you’ve got 26 posts under your belt, you're already clashing with the mods, and you've managed to flag FEMA already.

You're practically a local legend here, Rachel Taylor40. 😬

The mods can't be nearly as brutal as you are. Just stay chill and keep it classy, then you won't have to go making huge threads about Tilly or any other moderator.

When things get too annoying, just hit ALT+F4 and all these forum headaches will disappear instantly. 🙂

Kids these days just don't have any patience left. They want everything handed to them on a silver platter, instantly. Seriously. If we forced them to deal with nothing but dial-up until they hit 25, maybe they’d actually appreciate what they've got right now. 🧐

Jacob Foster11 said:And if you can't figure it out, honestly, that's on you. 🤷

Man, this post really caught me off guard. Usually, you're the saintly one here, patiently explaining every little thing to the newbies. 😂

Matthew Anderson4
To me, that logo looks just like a printer. Probably because no actual sheet of paper could survive all the absolute nonsense I've typed on this forum.

I was missing my modem driver, but then Windows started nagging me about needing some update for Vista

Sam Evans11 said:I honestly don't know what I'd do, you know I'd need this on a t-shirt🤣

It’s a total win-win if she’s into Suicidal Tendencies—then she might actually call you for coffee in the morning.😘

Throw on that Suicidal Tendencies shirt tomorrow and be standing outside the hospital around 7:30. I'm positive 😬
will spot you.

steelskipper5 said:You couldn't just give yourself a rating. Unless, I guess, you cloned your own account.

Every time I scroll through PZK or check out banned threads, I notice the exact same pattern: people can’t help themselves. They just have to open up three or four different accounts just so they can go around giving themselves five-star ratings. It's pathetic.

Look, it’s not like I actually get it, but giving yourself five-star ratings? That would be about as easy as if they introduced some kind of "upvote" system where you could just praise other users on Reddit whenever you felt like it.

It’s like every single Democrat on Reddit just lives to lecture some Republican, and vice versa. Or you’ve got the heavy metalheads looking down their noses at anyone who listens to country music, or the vegans acting all superior toward anyone who actually eats a burger instead of living on tofu and mushrooms... then you have the Linux nerds constantly condescending to anyone brave enough to use Windows. It's endless.

Honestly, we should just rename this entire site to Reddit Horror. Seriously.

You really think that’s how it ends, just getting dumped in some hospital? 😬

Some Technician grabs you by the arm and hauls you off to a locked ward just because you dared to look at him and smile. Then a doctor rolls in, confirms you're totally out of your mind, and hands you a year-long sentence in that ward.

Maybe there's some dive bar where all the medical Technicians from Seattle hang out, so just catch him there during his break 😁

jowo, man, you gotta chill out just a little bit 😉

Maybe I should start begging for some stuff for us losers who love dropping links instead of actually hitting the like button 😉

I don't feel like I'm missing anything, except maybe some video tags—but hey, you can survive without them. Honestly, I couldn't care less about getting likes on my posts when I can just drop a "thanks" if someone actually helps me out 🙂

briskbison41 said:What kind of "insight" are you talking about? You mean being able to see which users are just farming reputation points...?
Look, you can give those "points" to other people normally, and technically you could boost your own original account if you were using a burner account to give yourself a thumbs up. But you can't just directly inflate your own reputation score.

As for "favorite users," we basically already have that feature through contact lists. We've got block lists and friend lists, but with the friends list—or "favorites"—it’s more convenient because we don't see their posts; we just see the pluses next to their nicknames on the homepage. It makes it way easier to spot when our friends are online.

And all that stuff about highest ratings, most popular users, or 5-star rankings? Honestly, it's redundant. Sure, there are some forums out there that use those features just for show or because they found some obscure vBulletin hack that isn't used much, but here, it would just be a playground for spammers and trolls. It wouldn't serve any actual purpose.

Back on that old monitor forum, we used to have those little "star" ratings, but let's be real: people were just handing them out to themselves anyway since the option was basically dead 😁

Nicholas King said:A pretty good musical metaphor—just totally misapplied here.

It would be way more accurate to picture an orchestra where the people who can't play a single note are standing there, stone-faced, telling the actual musicians that skill doesn't even matter as long as they make enough noise.

BTW, you’re being incredibly malicious—nobody ever called anyone a "stinking threat polluting threads with retarded messages." All anyone said was that people have the right to choose which band they want to see play. ☕

Prefer whatever the hell you want. You've got plenty of options out there, but stop trying to pin malice on me just because we don't see eye-to-eye on this.

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