Posts by feraltrucker5

Richard Perez3 said:Alright, fine. I’ll try to actually be constructive here, even though I really don't feel like it. 😬

You can't just jump straight to being a General in the Army before you've even finished basic training.

You can't become an admin without first proving yourself as a moderator.

And you can't be a moderator until you've proven yourself as a solid member of the community.

Seriously, please don't make me get all "constructive" over questions like this again. 😁 😁 😁

Well, you shouldn't have anyway—it was way more entertaining this way. 😁

Honestly, he really needed someone to break it to him that the moderators are basically lab-grown specimens, and only the absolute elite models get promoted to admin status. 😬

driftingpilot said:Since 2008? 😲 😁
I was under the impression you'd been on the job a hell of a lot longer than that 😛

Are you seriously telling me I’m such a pain in the neck that it feels like I’ve been hovering over you for an entire eternity? 🙂 😢 🤣

Kate Castillo55 said:you don't have permission to access this page😳

Look, it’s pretty obvious what you need to do if you want to fix that little glitch. 🍿

shadowpilot8 said:Honestly, that Bellwether person totally set me up 😍

The whole thing was an absolute 🥳

Oh, for sure, and some days she’d get hit with this weirdly specific wave of inspiration:

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Rachel Brooks63 said:Honestly, if you want to be an admin, you basically have to be a special kind of idiot. It’s like being the guy who volunteers to manage the thermostat at a chaotic office party—you’re just asking for everyone to hate you while you struggle to make sense of a situation that was broken long before you showed up. 😬

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Rachel Brooks63 said:So, I was sitting here thinking about this whole hypothetical drag race between Sash and Tyndall, and honestly, it’s kind of like asking whether a turbocharged Mustang or a high-end Tesla is going to hit sixty first—it really depends on how much you value raw, unbridled muscle versus that instant, silent electric punch to the gut. If we're talking pure, neck-snapping acceleration right off the line, my money is on Tyndall, mostly because it feels like they've got that modern, streamlined efficiency that just eats up distance while everyone else is still trying to find their footing. But then again, you look at Sash, and there's that certain grit, that old-school momentum that makes you wonder if they might just overtake them once the road opens up and things get a little more chaotic. It’s a toss-up, really, like debating if a heavy-duty Ford F-150 can outrun a sleek sports car in a desert sprint; one's got the sheer force, the other's got the finesse, and I'm just sitting here wondering who's actually going to win the bet. 😁 😁 )

The real question here is whether the amateurs in this crowd will even notice what’s happening. But if she really is... what was her name again? Oh, right, Bellwether. If she’s actually still walking around among the living, let me tell you, she is in for one hell of a bad time. ☕

Dennis Flores77 said:Look, if they’re moving at the same lightning speed they use to book hotel rooms for those wannabe forum regulars, we aren't seeing any extra mods anytime soon. 😁

Honestly, if you can't manage to book your own room for an entire year, you probably don't even need the stay in the first place. 😛

Kate Castillo55 said:He totally played me; he just wanted the photo, but then had the nerve to claim they were low-quality. ☕

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Kate Castillo55 said:Hey, check your inbox—I just sent you a PM. 😬

I was just sitting here thinking about how some things in life are just fundamentally designed to be difficult, you know? Like when you’re trying to untangle a massive knot of fishing line or dealing with one of those overly complicated instruction manuals from IKEA that seems to be written in a language only understood by Swedish architects. It’s that feeling of "why does this have to be such a headache?" And honestly, looking at the way certain situations unfold—especially when people start overcomplicating the simple stuff—it reminds me of those times you think you've finally got a handle on a project, only to realize you've been staring at the wrong blueprint the entire time. It’s frustrating, sure, but there’s a weird kind of dark humor in it if you step back far enough. You just have to laugh at the absurdity of it all before you lose your mind. kaže:
Are you seriously just sitting there, twiddling your thumbs, waiting for feraltrucker5 to nominate you for moderator or something? Honestly, the patience you have is either saintly or just plain delusional. 🤣

Goddammit, I swear, how is the FBI of this forum actually going to start breathing down my neck over this? Seriously, what a joke. 🤣

Kate Castillo55 said:what's the fast track method? :D

Just slide a photo of your chest into my DMs and maybe we can work something out. 😉

Kate Castillo55 said:So you've been a moderator since 2005? 😲

Nope. She conveniently left out the part where her whole little system moves at a snail's pace. 🤣

Kate Castillo55 said:I’ve heard that if you’re actually helpful on a subreddit, staying super active and being a model citizen—you know, posting stuff that actually makes sense instead of just trolling and wasting everyone's time 😁—then one of the mods or admins might eventually slide into your DMs and offer you a spot on the moderation team 😁
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In a perfect world, sure, that's how the whole thing works.

But let's be real, life rarely follows the textbook, and reality usually has other plans. 😁

Matthew Wilson50 said:I was wondering if the moderators, supermods, or admins might be able to look into increasing the private message limit for regular users?

It feels to me like having a cap of 75 messages is a bit tight, especially since I've heard you guys on the mod team can receive up to 300. Maybe we could at least bump the limit up to 100 for everyone else? It might help a lot.

What do you all think? I'd love to hear from the rest of the community.

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Look, if 75 isn't cutting it, then 100 probably won't either. It’s like me thinking 300 isn't enough—honestly, you've just gotta go in and clear out the junk every now and then. 🙂

Laura Jackson51 said:It would be quite useful if they integrated this as a minor addition to the posts...

I’m not really feeling it.

ambertiger said:Man, I just can't seem to settle down after listening to Nightfall.

It’s the exact same thing over here. I see the new record is mostly getting rave reviews from the critics, but honestly, I gave it a spin once and it just felt kind of... meh. A bit tedious, if I'm being real. 🤷

But hey, you still gotta go to the show. 🙂

It’s not an American band, but at least you can actually understand what they're singing about: Catherine the Great. 🙂

Just a heads-up for everyone: you’ve got about a 90-minute window to go back and tweak your posts after you hit submit before they're set in stone.

steelskipper5 said:knowing how people act on these internet forums, I’m pretty sure that now that there's a report button, we're going to see a total deluge of reports flooding in, mostly from folks who just can't handle hearing an opinion they don't like. It’s basically a guarantee that someone will take a single sentence, twist it until it looks like a personal insult or some other rule violation, and then hit that report button just to be petty.

It sounds like you’ve had plenty of practice with that little tactic yourself. 🥳

Just shoot a message over to the subforum moderator and ask them to wipe it from existence.

And for the love of God, turn off your caps lock.

Honestly, the server is playing dumb again, just like its usual self. 🙄

Your report actually went through—for the fourth time now. 😁

hiddensailor14 said:Honestly, seeing how those two lately banned trolls—that guy and his little clone who’s still busy clogging up the Vegetarianism thread over on the Microsoft subforum—are behaving, I think it's time we take a page out of steelskipper5's book from that post he wrote. We should start reporting these nuisances directly to their actual ISPs via abuse@isp.com.

Oh, believe me, people are already on it; quite a few forum members have actually had reports filed against them because of outbursts just like this. The thing is, it doesn't always work as smoothly or as quickly as we'd all love it to. You've always got those persistent little pests out there who just don't seem to care what anyone does to stop them. 😵

The Observer isn't an admin, so he didn't just go around stripping access to Amtrak out of nowhere.

The whole reason that access was pulled is because of all the spamming and the general disregard for the rules governing that subforum.