Posts by redmarlin3

Christian Taylor3 said:Yeah, I get that it makes zero sense to jump in and start arguing about a thread that’s five years old. It feels pointless, right? But look, when you're talking about the trauma of losing a friend... that kind of thing doesn't just expire. It doesn't matter how much time passes. Not even if we're living in the year 2196... 🙂

Feel free to start a new thread if you're looking to dive deeper into this...

Christian Taylor3 said:Experience is what sticks. It doesn't matter who was posting on this thread before, or who’s gone quiet, or who isn't even active on the forum anymore... experience is what counts.

It really matters, because people end up quoting those ancient posts and dragging themselves into these endless debates... just trying to force some kind of interaction that isn't even there anymore...

The most aggressive example of this happened a while back, when someone decided to dig up some ancient thread and start arguing with a user who hasn't even been active on the forum for a year and a half...
Why even let a conversation like this get out of hand in the first place?

Christian Taylor3 said:In other words, why on earth would a new post—assuming it’s actually a fresh take or a new experience—be subject to getting flagged by the moderators?... 🤷

It really just depends on the context. If we’re talking about a single post within one specific thread, I’ll just shut the whole topic down and call it a day... peace and quiet at last. But if the same person is jumping around and reviving five ancient threads in the span of a single hour? Yeah, that warrants a warning. You have to let them know that's not how this works...

Christian Taylor3 said:By the way... The eternal mystery... It’s called Google, and honestly, that’s exactly how most people end up stumbling onto threads like this in the first place...

Look, I honestly have no idea how anyone even manages to dig up a thread about cellulite from all the way back in 2003...
Could you please explain what that actually means? Exactly. I was Googling earlier, trying to dig up that old thread from back in 2006—the one titled "I'm feeling sad"—about that friend who passed away...

That’s a fair question. 😁 Personally, when I was moderating two of our sub-forums, I’d let people bump threads if they were actually adding something useful to the conversation, but on a third one, I wouldn't allow it at all.
Take the World News section, for instance. You have tons of threads dedicated to specific animals, plants, or even certain countries. If you jump into one of those messy threads and write something more substantive than "OMG look how cute this is! It’s pretty much the same deal over in Hiking. People show up looking for info on, say, Yosemite, and they start a new thread. That’s totally normal behavior.

However, over in the women's corner, we lock most of the old threads, and if someone tries to bump five old topics in a single day, they get a warning. Why? Because that sub-forum operates differently. Most of the topics discussed there are either fleetingly relevant or involve deeply personal stories that just don't make sense to revive.

I saw a brutal example the other day—someone bumped a thread from maybe five years ago that some girl started after she lost a friend. Neither the original poster nor most of the people who commented are even active on the forum anymore. So now, someone digs this up just to offer condolences?! Like, what is the point? 🤦 It will always be a total mystery to me how people even stumble upon those threads in the first place, and honestly, what kind of headspace do you have to be in to decide to respond to something like that?!
Another issue specific to the women's corner is that back in the day, before we had dedicated Fashion and Cosmetics sections, everything was lumped in there. So then you get someone bumping a thread about, I don't know, cellulite, from way back in 2003. 🙄 It just makes no sense. 🤷
But again, I’m saying we mostly just lock them; the only way you're getting a strike is if you're spamming the main index with resurrected threads.

So, there you go. Now you know how at least three of our sub-forums work. 😬

feraltrucker5 said:You clearly have no idea... you haven't even heard the worst of it yet. 😬

No way. It literally cannot get any worse than e-cigarettes being peddled under the guise of being "alternative." It just can't. 😁

feraltrucker5 said:Don't give me that crap like you were actually at that show instead of seeing Against!😲 🙂

Against absolutely crushed it. 🙏 🙏 👍 The band was high-energy, the crowd was losing their minds, and there was a massive circle pit right in the middle of the mud. 🙂 :punk:

Yeah, that was probably the most expensive ticket I've dropped in the last decade, goddammit... 😠

Even though anything following them is bound to sound mediocre by comparison, I’m still honestly shocked by how much noise people can jam into their ears and how they all call this high class music. 🙂 😁

What’s up, guys? This thing is incredible. You seriously need to check out my 😍 😍 😍

I knew right from the jump that having a day off was going to be a total disaster. 😁

Raymond Brooks8 said:Hold on—what the hell is everyone's problem now? Everything was practically settled, and suddenly 😕 😕
Anyway, I have a feeling I know exactly who you are. We’ll see about that...

Ivy G., you're honestly hilarious... 🍿
I'm lying, more like... just feeling pathetic, honestly... 😁

darkmaker94 said:redmarlin3, please tell ZgSash to fix this.

We already tore each other apart over on Reddit, don't sweat it, someone will show up soon enough... 🙂

darkmaker94 said:You're lying, because it isn't.

I seriously can't believe I just got stripped of my moderator status (for 3 PDFs, no less) without anyone even sending me a single PM first. Like, WTF?!? 😕😕😕

Don't get all worked up, 🙂 look, what point would there be in sending DMs if your account actually got hacked? 😉 Maybe someone would call your cell, but this whole thing just went down in the last two hours. Everyone just panicked at the thought of some random lunatic having access to the admin panel, and that was it. I'm sure they'll sort it out soon enough. As you can tell from everything I've posted here, I didn't buy it from the start... 🙂

Raymond Brooks8 said:I have no idea what you're talking about now. 🤷

Fine, go ahead then—translate this sentence into Greek. 🍿]

[Alright, alright, I'm bored, so what's next... 😁]

Raymond Brooks8 said:The Hotmail one... I can send you my email via DM if you want—better not to post it here in public.

There's really no need to send me anything. I'm a moderator, I can see your email right here. 😉

Ivy, Ivy, honestly, have some shame. 🙂

Maybe learn how to browse two windows at once, or at least figure out how multi-tabbing works... 👋

Raymond Brooks8 said:I'm 95% certain I used my Hotmail account when I first signed up for this Reddit...

So which email address are you actually getting notifications sent to? 🍿
And what happened to your accents? 🍿 Did you get hacked? 😁

Raymond Brooks8 said:I'm pretty sure it was a Hotmail account.

No, that's exactly why I'm asking. 😁
[Just to clear things up, I'm talking about darkmaker94's actual email account, not the username Raymond Brooks8!]
Unless the hacker went ahead and registered a different email address in the meantime...

Raymond Brooks8 said:@redmarlin3: the email address is hosted on a Hotmail server
@Terminate: As far as I can tell—and I’ve been pretty careful lately—I haven't picked up any Trojans or installed a Keylogger 🤷

I’m talking about the actual email you used to register for this Reddit thread.

Wait, I need to remember... which server were you using for your email address again?

Oh yeah, I’m with you on that. ☕ A slap in the face is a thousand times more effective than some more-or-less harmless :asshole:. It’s got this scavenger vibe to it. Kind of like when Dr. House starts tearing someone apart just because he can, especially when he's dealing with some dim-witted guy like Joe, whose biggest achievement in life is probably repeating a sentence that includes his own mother and a dog. 😁

Well, yeah, 😁 you end up getting a specific number of rounds 😁

But those so-called high-quality trolls (we have one right here on the forum that we all pretty much adore 🙂 ) aren't actually offering what you claimed—that "alternative way of thinking." I wouldn't go so far as to call them revolutionaries, because they aren't actually providing any unique perspectives... they just wrap the same old ideas in different packaging. 😁

They actually killed off that feature a few years back, ever since one of the admins accidentally banned himself by mistake. 🤣

HELP ME PLEASE, I'm getting 🙏 🙂 🙂 🙂
again.
I really want to troll this, though I know, I KNOW, that it’s probably not the right move... 🙂