Posts by ambermason16

fadedsailor932 said:I solemnly swear to be... well, let's just say I'll try to be slightly less...🤔 disgusting...🙂

Oh, please... you're coming at me with all these grand promises, and I just know some jerk is going to screw me over anyway... (but still, 🙂)

mellowraven22 said:What kind of Hello Kitty nonsense is this?



My Little Pony.

Now I finally see why you’re an admin while I’m stuck being just a regular moderator... 😢

🙏 🙏

edit:

[quietpuma29] says:
Hello Kitty? Are you kidding me!?

And... don't you dare disrespect the Kitty! NEVER disrespect the Kitty... 🙂

[Razor] says:
1: What’s the tolerance level for trolling on this forum?

12

2: Are there any plans to upgrade to a newer version of vBulletin? Honestly, the first thing I noticed is this terrible "skin" you guys are using—it’s a total eyesore and makes me want to close the tab immediately.

We're looking into the Hello Kitty skin... but an official announcement will be coming out soon.

3: I’d love for someone experienced to walk me through the general rules, like how infractions and bans actually work.

some wise and seasoned veteran

just another academic...

Basically, I wanted to point the head admins toward the old MPGH.net site. If you look at their layout, they really nailed the design and kept it at a professional level. Please give me a shout if you address my comments here so I can stay in the loop with the feedback. Thanks in advance!

If my experience with Reddit has taught me anything, it's that the high-level summit is already being planned behind closed doors.

P.S. Is there a specific section where I can introduce myself?🙄

You've got tha' covered... 😁

fadedorca13 said:assuming all those drunkards showed up because of the mods

You've got that completely wrong... 😁

Okay, now you're getting warm. 😁

My sincerest apologies—we completely missed the step of boxing everything up before we closed out.

Larry Walker24 said:Thanks!

Unfortunately, this person is a special case. They’ve already been handed a year of suspended jail time, but clearly, even that wasn't enough of a wake-up call.

Man... look—if the situation is actually as dire as it sounds, and you're dealing with one single individual who is relentlessly, persistently, and seriously harassing you to the point where you feel genuinely unsafe (and I'm emphasizing *genuinely* just so I don't get any private messages complaining that I'm being "too sensitive" 😁), there is absolutely nothing stopping you from sending a DM to one of the admins. If things have escalated to that level, you can sit down with them and decide if further action needs to be taken.

BUT!

After 7.5 years on this site... mostly serving as a moderator... I don't have enough gigabytes of storage to list every insult, threat, slander, or piece of filth I've ever dealt with. Honestly? I usually just laugh it off and forget about it within five minutes. But I will give you the same advice: don't let it get under your skin. Your enemy probably has the maturity of a 14-year-old, an IQ in the negatives, and a massive chip on their shoulder. 😁 Let them babble. Just ignore them and move on. 😉

Larry Walker24 said:And he actually sent it? Now Veronica is being targeted over her religion?!

Because I’m getting hit with insults and threats again!

Don't sweat the stuff with Veronica... the admins will handle it, don't you worry. Just keep hitting that report button.

I honestly don't get how people find the energy to write these frantic PMs... personally, they either crack me up or I just ignore them entirely. Try taking that approach instead. It works like a charm. 😁

crimsonsailor7 said:They already answered you. What's the point if we aren't even communicating...

Ugh, thanks, girl... 🙂

I swear I actually remembered. I’ll admit one thing: I was pretty harsh. We’re back to that whole assumption that there was some massive buildup before everything went south. But still, I was sharp. Maybe a bit too much.

Look, sorry—it’s just exhausting constantly checking my tone to make sure I don't accidentally offend anyone. I mean, no disrespect—if
placidfox55
had reacted immediately, I might have actually reconsidered. 🤷
But now, seventeen days later... what am I supposed to do?
🤷 Edit: I just reread that disastrous thread again... yikes. I can totally see how, on an especially bad hair day, this could send my blood pressure straight to 140/90. But I'm sticking to what I said above.

Matthew Wilson50, first off 🙂

Second: stop with the endless excuse of "yeah, I went troll mode and lost my mind, but they provoked me too, so they shouldn't get a red card either."

1. Just because they haven't been caught yet doesn't mean they won't be.
2. They aren't your responsibility. Explaining why they haven't been punished or why they're getting away with things? That’s not our job to justify to you.
3. Do us a favor and actually try: go read the Marianna Charles thread, the Nemesis thread, the Main Theme... just once—read them until there isn't a single unread post left. Seriously, give it a shot. Let's ignore the fact that we have to read EVERYTHING. Not just here on the message board, but through all the other PDFs too. Just try to be reasonable. Take notes on what warrants a ban, what deserves a deletion, what gets both, or what's already hit its limit... and then tell me if it's even humanly possible to execute that perfectly without missing a single thing. I guarantee you, it isn't.

Look, if something slips through the cracks, the smart move is to report the post and give us time to react. Don't quote it, don't double down on the trolling, and then act shocked when you end up with a red card.

Human Rights Watch, obviously. (And seriously, how many times am I going to have to stumble across this thread being deleted?!)

Look, you’re asking me this a good two weeks after the fact. Just because you got a 100-point penalty on this post doesn't mean the post itself was worth 100 points... it just means I finally lost my cool. Maybe it happened because you started a thread we already nuked—which seems most likely, since at 3 AM I'm practically shouting "LifeIsSchizophrenic !!!" at my screen. Or maybe it was something else. Regardless, I don't remember. Your three-day, not seven-day, ban expired ten days ago. This isn't your first rodeo, and it certainly won't be your last... get over it. In the future, please don't wait this long to ask these kinds of questions; I'd be happy to give you an answer. But honestly, I can't recall what we were even talking about.

Something definitely went down... you'll earn a penalty from me pretty easily enough, but I really have to reach a breaking point before I start handing out bans. So... yeah, I don't remember. Sorry, but that's just how it is. ☕

Oh my god, seriously... if you’re going to take advantage of this increase, do it smart (just a heads-up for everyone: Re: you have... doesn't count as smart 😬)

p.s. Grace Ortiz13, give me a break... this is pure injustice and it's totally throwing everything off balance...

Kenneth Scott41 said:I wouldn't say you went overboard... 10mg seems perfectly reasonable, I suppose.

"Totally fine" my ass. It’s funny how whenever I mix this with my Hep C meds, I can handle hundreds of milligrams without blinking. But now? Dealing with this nasty flu I picked up here in Chicago? Even the tiniest dose knocks me sideways.

Is anyone overdoing it with the Mayer? I’m starting to think 10mg for breakfast was a massive mistake... nothing life-threatening, but I’m currently sitting here drooling all over my chin. Is it the coffee? Did I drink way too much coffee?

hollowtrucker77 said:there isn't really any connection to be found here
😁

Of course there isn't. It's just business. :polishes katana:

jadetiger962 said:Look, when you're issuing a warning, there's an option at the bottom that says, "Save a copy of this message to your Sent folder." You can just uncheck that box. 🙂

Give me a break! You’re some kind of tech wizard or something? I’ve been staring at that damn cache system for seven years, and it still hasn't clicked. Not once. 🙏 👍

So, Grace Ortiz13, you got any more brilliant ideas? Seriously, what kind of mess have you dragged me into this time? 🙂

Two major things to consider here:

Can someone please tell me—does anyone actually remember if there were ever any 90 PMs around? 🙂

Look, I don't gain anything personally here—it’s not like there's money in this for me—but if the Forum admins don't mind my input, I think you guys seriously need more PM capacity. Honestly, a better way to handle this would be to just back up those messages into .txt files or save them elsewhere periodically and then clear out the inbox. That’s exactly what I do. Sometimes it feels like that’s the only productive thing I actually do on here... *sniff*. 😳)

mistywolf17 said:But seriously. Every single time I issue a ban, that automated message gets saved to my inbox, and more often than not, the banned user actually replies to it. Then there are all the other PMs regarding moderation duties. And just regular PMs. 😢 😁

I suppose I am fully behind you all in your fight for greater rights. 😁

I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it! 😠

Grace Ortiz13 said:Well, good luck with that. If you actually have anything useful to offer. 😁

Let's just flood their thread with comments; maybe then they'll finally get through those two blue ones. 🤣

I like the way you think.. 😈

And mooooveeeeee!!! 🙂

mistywolf17 said:I know how you feel; even 300 feels a bit low to me. It seems like it fills up in no time at all. 😁

That’s exactly why I say—be careful what you wish for. I’m out here clearing out my inbox three times a week just to keep up with the clutter.

If everyone on this Forum suddenly jumped to 90... would we even notice the dip?

That sheep is a total joke.. 🤣

By the way, why hasn't anyone pulled together 90 bucks yet? 🤔

And seriously, watch out for what you wish for.. 😬

I couldn't agree more.. 😳

Man, if nothing else, at least I can stop panicking that I've somehow slipped into some bizarre alternate dimension.. this is starting to feel just like riding the Amtrak. 😁