Posts by redmarlin3

In that case, you should probably just reach out to Axmi directly. He's really more the go-to guy when it comes to all the technical specifics...

I tried to delete it for you, but I just can't get it to work. 🤷

Just hit up Charles Ramirez59, Bellwether, or the Black Hawk crew directly—yeah. 🤷

Deleting a profile doesn't usually happen just because a user asks for it.

Those nicknames listed as n/a? Most of them belong to people who basically got lost in the shuffle when the database crashed a few years back.
A smaller chunk of those are just clones of banned users, and that's about it...

Honestly, I’m starting to think it’s high time we teach people how to actually set their image dimensions before they hit upload, just so we don't have to deal with this... ☕

Just click on his username. You should see four different tabs pop up, and one of them ought to be "Send a private message to [username]." If that option isn't showing up, it just means he's gone ahead and blocked his DMs...

Lisa Jackson84 said:I can't believe I’m not the only one who keeps Alan Ford stickers on my washing machine. Way back in the day, back when things were different, my bathroom was basically famous for having every single Alan Ford issue stuck to the washer... and now that they've started reprinting them, here we go again. Honestly, I’ve even got some on my laptop, so maybe I should just move the whole collection to the bathroom. I've got two copies anyway, so why not... 😛🙄

🙂

I honestly can't wrap my head around it. So many people feel this desperate need to have something to read while they're sitting on the toilet, yet nobody ever thinks to actually leave anything behind... You know, just a few comic books, some novels, or even a couple of magazines left on the counter. It’s like common sense just flies out the window the moment you walk into the bathroom... 🤷

I’ve actually got this meter-long stack of comics sitting right there in my WC:
Dylan Dog
Alan Ford
National Geographic
Dylan Dog Alan Ford National Geographic American Mountaineer.

🥳

Roger Foster95 said:Those invisible points get added straight to the account total—how does a regular user not realize that? 😕

Maybe I wasn't being clear enough; 😬 the warning cards issued to a member are visible only to the moderators—meaning all of them—the supermods, the admins, and of course, the user themselves when they check their "Options" menu.

+ With this newer version of vBulletin, every single card—even a yellow one—automatically triggers an instant PM to the user. So, honestly, there’s a very slim chance someone wouldn't realize they were flagged, or why it happened in the first place. 😉

Roger Foster95 said:That’s just not true. 🙂

Most of the time, posts just get deleted without any actual penalties for the offender. Why bother?
Even if the post itself isn't visible, you’d still see the post count on their profile.

I’d be all for deleting posts if we weren't nuking constructive threads just because they drift slightly off-topic. I'd support it if moderators weren't abusing the delete button and actually treated everyone on the forum equally. But in practice? It doesn't work like that. So, I'm against deleting posts.
There are penalty cards for every kind of violation. There’s a reason they exist. They're there to be used. 😉

Not gonna happen. 😉 Only the moderators can see this...

Roger Foster95 said:The thing is, off-topic stuff keeps happening precisely because there aren't any penalties. A post just gets wiped, no sanctions, no nothing. So why wouldn't a user keep rambling off-topic if they know there are zero consequences? 🤷
But honestly, the bigger issue with deleting posts is when someone writes ten lines on a topic, and maybe one or two lines are technically off-topic just to clarify a point—then a moderator "decides," in their own unique way, that the whole thing is spam and nukes the entire post. Most of the time, they do it just because they don't agree with the user, and in the process, they kill any chance of a constructive discussion through pure incompetence.

In most cases, going off-topic earns you a 10-point penalty card, but users can't even see those if the moderator just wipes the post entirely. 😉

Roger Foster95 said:The thing is, off-topic stuff keeps happening precisely because there aren't any penalties. A post just gets wiped, no sanctions, no nothing. So why wouldn't a user keep rambling off-topic if they know there are zero consequences? 🤷
But honestly, the bigger issue with deleting posts is when someone writes ten lines on a topic, and maybe one or two lines are technically off-topic just to clarify a point—then a moderator "decides," in their own unique way, that the whole thing is spam and nukes the entire post. Most of the time, they do it just because they don't agree with the user, and in the process, they kill any chance of a constructive discussion through pure incompetence.

I'm not really looking to weigh in on this specific situation since I don't have the full story, but I can say that's not how I handle things. In the worst-case scenario, I'll just strip out the off-topic part of a post and give the group a heads-up to stay on subject...

Alt accounts aren't against the rules, provided that:
a) they aren't being used by someone who's already been banned from the site.
b) they aren't jumping into the same threads just to mess with people or cause confusion... 😉

vividfalcon14 said:I think that "Guest" tag just pops up automatically whenever someone gets wiped from the database, based on how the ACP is configured. It's kind of like when an Admin uses the ACP to assign someone as a moderator—the system automatically flags them as a Moderator, even if they decide to go into their profile later and write something else entirely...

I'm pretty sure that only happens if the user doesn't have their own custom tag set. In my case, it didn't change at all when they first set up my account. 🤷

Roger Foster95 said:I have zero clue who this Shady guy is, but honestly, any moderator who goes around deleting posts should be replaced. ☕

Rules exist for a reason. You apply them objectively, and everything works fine. No big deal.
From what I can tell, this was flagged as off-topic. If a moderator is actually clueless about the rules, a lighter penalty for off-topic chatter should just be a yellow card. A harder strike would be a red card plus a 10-point deduction.
In reality, deleting posts is usually just pathetic moderator tyranny—a way to scrub anyone's words they don't agree with from the board. 👎

So what, 90% of the users who follow the rules and don't cause trouble are supposed to wade through pages of someone else's mindless rambling? Give me a break...

Off-topic stuff has always been deleted, and it always will be. If it's harmless, maybe move it to a general chat thread without handing out penalties. But either way, it has to go, because no sane person wants to sit through someone else's endless chatter and nonsense.

OT: Leave Shady alone. 🙂

So I'm handing out free cases of beer to my buddies, and what? 🤷

Donna Hill8 said:They didn't just put them there themselves! This is what it actually looks like: http://www.reddit.com/r/example_thread users like Willard Baby and Nina69—there's no way they wrote that on their own... 🙄 🙄 Stop trying to act all high and mighty when you're clearly just trolling someone else. ☕

The usernames that ended up looking like what you described were either:
a) accidentally wiped out when the database crashed a few years back; or
b) banned/mass-purged.
If I recall correctly, that's how it went down...

Kenneth Peterson5 said:🙄

I really didn't want to drag your embarrassment over to this thread too, but since you're being so insistent...

How adorable 😉

rowdyhawk10 calls a group of four users terrorists

User Adura fires back

rowdyhawk10 just replies and repeats the same thing

Black and white cloning and responding to slander

To you, this is: "First off, there is no such thing as a "Salafi movement," especially not a modern one. This is a terrorist movement that can't plant its roots here because it promotes anti-civilization values." — so, calling someone a terrorist is okay? 🤣

I mean, if I say that members of the ALF are terrorists because they use terrorist methods—like blowing up buildings and stuff—to get what they want, would some users take offense if they actually belonged to the ALF? 😲

Yeah, it’s a real shame to call things by their actual names, isn't it... 🙄

And how exactly do you explain the fact that Psychology and Religion share the same moderator? 😁

briskbison41 said:Wait, what? Is that it? Just a single letter? I feel like I’ve been staring at my screen waiting for a real point to land, and all I get is this... nothingness. If you're trying to start a conversation, you might want to actually bring something to the table first. Or maybe I missed something obvious... but I doubt it. Anyway, let me know when you have an actual thought to share...
What kind of absolute mess is this?
Well, that’s what I heard from a few of the moderators...
Maybe it’s just me... or maybe I’ve actually lost my mind. Honestly, I don't even know anymore...
And then there’s a third option... where I just end up getting screwed over by some mods...

Look, the only way you’d have 5,000 posts is if you were grinding them out in some private chat room that nobody else can see. On any decent forum, people don't just dump threads into the void where they're invisible... unless, of course, the content is nothing but pure spam or completely useless garbage.

briskbison41 said:"Enough ignorance"? :confused
He was asking about his old posts. I had to break it to him that if you look through a profile, you can only see about 15 pages... which means he's capped at 300 posts total. Not exactly much of a deep dive, is it?
Another suggestion was just to dig through the PDFs and manually list out all the topics he actually ended up posting in...
I explained it to him using a slightly different set of words...
The only thing I didn't mention just now was that whole "Who became what" possibility...
Am I really that far off base with everything I've said...

Look, I’ll be honest with you... hunting through subforums like I'm searching for a needle in a haystack just to find one tiny bit of useful info is incredibly unreliable. It’s exhausting, really...
What if you miss the mark entirely...
What happens if you just... completely blank on a subforum you used to post in? You know, one of those corners of the site where you spent way too much time back in the day, but now it’s just gone from your brain... It’s a weird feeling, honestly. Like walking into a room in your own house and realizing you have no idea why you went in there in the first place... anyway, I was just thinking about that.
And don't even get me started on how long it actually takes to go through this many pages... it’s honestly ridiculous...

You can save yourself a few hours of grinding just by clicking on the "subscribe topic" button... honestly, why wouldn't you? 😉
And maybe add a few more options like "Who became"...

briskbison41 said:Most of our recent posts have been moved over to this one specific sub-forum. It’s one that us regular users can't even see, and you can't even get an accurate count of the posts there...

Oh God, what an absolute disaster... 🤣

briskbison41 said:Is there any actual chance the moderator will ever show you some mercy? Honestly... I highly doubt it.

🙂 You’ve already shown how little you actually know about this topic, and now you’re really doubling down on it... 😁

I probably would have jumped in sooner if I’d actually seen this thread...

Look, irontiger29; you've got fewer than 2,000 posts under your belt, so I'm betting you don't exactly have a massive list of subscribe topics...

Go all the way down to the bottom of the screen to that little window where all the subforums are listed, then just scroll all the way back up until you hit "subscribe topic"...
So, those are all the threads you’ve been active in. Once you toggle that setting, it'll pull up the thread title in one column and the total post count right next to it. If you click on that number, a window pops up labeled "Who Posted." Just find your own name in that list and click the number sitting next to your handle... that'll pull up every single one of your posts within that specific thread. Simple enough, I guess...
Look, that method isn't exactly lightning-fast compared to just using an automated search engine tool that spits out maybe 300 posts at once. But honestly, if you aren't looking to get picky about things like specific subforums or certain date ranges... it’s probably the most effective way to go about it. It just works better when you don't care about filtering everything down...

Andrew Sanchez572 said:Well, honestly, there are those moments when you start a discussion with someone and things just spiral out of control, eventually devolving into outright insults. In those cases, I make sure to give a warning that I’ll be filing a report. It’s a necessity. I wouldn't dream of egging someone on toward bad behavior only to sit back and gloat about it afterward, haha... though I did manage to get the better of him once 😍

It really is a subtle issue... ☕

True, but that information is strictly for the moderators.
I absolutely detest logging onto the forum the "day after" only to find I've been slapped with a warning for off-topic posting or something similar. I always find myself wondering who on earth decided to report me... yet I have no right to know.
And then there are those slippery types who lack any real arguments; they provoke you, pull back, and then turn around and report you for being off-topic. Or for "trolling," simply because you called them out on their own trolling. 🙄

From my brief stint moderating, people rarely report stuff for being off-topic; if anything, it's more likely a mod was just watching the thread closely and decided themselves that things had gone too far.🤷