Posts by driftingstag84

Sophia Lee53 said:It didn't work for me. I tried waiting it out like you suggested, but nothing happened. 🤷

So I'm asking here. Maybe someone actually knows how to fix this. I don't really understand all this stuff about ad blockers and technical glitches, so if anyone can help, please. :-)

Honestly, the technical support on this forum has gone downhill fast.

If you want to browse this site without being bombarded by ads, just download Opera Mini and you'll be set.

It has a built-in ad blocker for every website, which makes everything load way faster—even on a crappy connection. 👍

That’s my best advice. (I've been using Opera for years).

Link to: Opera-Miniand

Here you go.

This Regulation is fully binding and applies directly across all US states.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...X%3A32023R0005

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driftingstag84 says: Some people try to hide things by using white text as a spoiler, but that’s useless if you aren't using a white background or skin on this forum. On mobile devices (iOS, and I assume Android too), web browsers have a built-in function that recognizes the Spoiler tag. It hides the content until you actually click it—kind of like clicking the "+" to expand a sub-menu in Internet Explorer or opening a sub-forum. PCs don't have that functionality. It would be great if we could technically implement something like that here in vBulletin. Spoiler

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It is possible. ☕

Casey Bennett said:Come on, Amy Rogers, please tell me exactly how this new/old mod pushed the COVID narrative?
Did they hand out bans? Did they delete on-topic posts? What exactly did they do? I am genuinely curious.

Furthermore, I can't see deleted posts because I'm not a moderator there. And I know you won't believe me, because based on everything, you've already decided that all mods are lying and serving some secret agenda known only to you, but I can't even see an IP address. Even if I could, it wouldn't do me any good because IP addresses change every 24 hours anyway. Not to mention VPNs, Tor, and all that.
In short, I have no idea who you are, what you do, or where you are in real life, nor do I care one bit.

What bothers me is precisely the rhetoric you're using in this post, and not just you. You've all memorized these silly phrases, deeply convinced that anyone who isn't against vaccines or believes in a global conspiracy isn't a "loyal soldier" following the narrative. Oh, my dear, you certainly are. You are absolutely following it.

Contrary to those conspiracy theories you love so much, no one here moderates on orders; we moderate according to the Reddit rules that are available to everyone. We are all volunteers doing what our own consciences dictate. The fact that some of us hold opinions diametrically opposed to yours and your group's is simply our right.

That's not true. Sure, IPs change every 24 hours, 😁😵
plus VPN, Tor, and whatever else... like what, for example? 🤦
Acting like a genius in every field, yet the money still flows.

Casey Bennett said:I actually found this place entertaining for a while, but frankly, I'm bored now. It’s become nothing but endless repetition and sheer stupidity. 🙄

Laz Quote🤣

silverpuma61 said:You weren't reading because it was fun; you were reading because you felt obligated, or maybe even worse, you were doing it just to suck up to the boss. Though, I suppose one might actually expect that kind of behavior from Andrew. He’s a bit of a novice, still riding the high of being black. 😍

By the way, I'm not even on that Reddit, so you completely missed the mark with that bolded part. 😍

She didn't realize that Morgan Peterson and driftingtinker are the ones running the show, so she overstepped. 🤣

Casey Bennett said:Of course. 🙂
😁

Like silverpuma61 told you, they aren't on that Reddit because I banned them. So it's not very classy to act smart when you aren't even 100% right in this case.

Casey Bennett said:What is this thread even supposed to be if not just a collective vent session? It’s not like you’re actually presenting any evidence on the floor. And then there’s the matter of the replacement... it's as if the church immediately jumps to shuffle a wrongdoer off to another parish. We actually need to verify the truth of these claims, don't we? This isn't North Korea, after all.

Personally, I don't see a single concrete complaint regarding the accuracy of mister's moderation... some petty color issue, perhaps? But what did he actually do wrong in his role as moderator? Look at three whole pages of discussion and we still haven't seen one specific grievance.

edit: make that four pages. My god, what am I even doing with my life. 🤦

If you read with any actual understanding, you'd realize immediately she isn't complaining about the moderation. That means you've truly asked yourself the right question. 🙏

Amy Rogers6 said:Seriously, what even is this? How low can we go? Some new moderator just popped up on the COVID subreddit under the name bluelynx52—this guy has, what, twenty posts total, and he’s claiming to be a mod???????????? Who in their right mind makes someone a moderator with only twenty posts??? It’s obvious he’s lying and hiding who he really is—he’s clearly some clone of one of the mods, or an admin, or maybe even the forum owner... What kind of games are being played here??? What is actually happening to you people??? You’ve completely lost the plot. This is rock bottom... absolutely bottom of the barrel.😵😵😵

The absolute peak of this nonsense is that the guy introduced himself as a new moderator in that thread about Sprajc and Bakic that he started. So, naturally, I asked him the exact same questions I'm asking here—who is he and whose clone is he? The result? The guy just deleted my post, claiming off-topic threads get nuked... Unbelievable.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Brava Mrs. Hilderik, you just put Anderlon on the Ignore list 🤣
He only has 20 posts. This isn't like you.

Linda King said:Link to my previous post:

Putting it in a quote one more time:

Thanks, I love snakes. 😛

And one for this Nazi ragazz too. The rest is on me.

guys, why is your Italian so fluent? Based on how you're acting, you didn't even address her properly. Just stick to American English; don't embarrass yourself. 😵

I think the image was way too big at 831x1249; this forum works best with an 800x600 resolution. 🤔

Linda Wood96 said:So, what’s the damage if you were to build a whole new forum from scratch? Like—say you hire a crew of 4 or 5 devs to build something using the latest tech, migrate everything over from this site, and then just keep adding features based on what people actually want. Are we talking millions of dollars here, or could you probably pull it off for a few hundred thousand?
Honestly, I still think this place is pretty unique compared to most of the internet today where everything feels stale after like three days. If they just added better sorting options, tighter moderation, or maybe a way to collapse posts that the mods or the community flagged as irrelevant... man, this place might actually see a comeback. Not that it’s totally dead right now, but you know what I mean.

I nearly choked on my coffee☕ at the numbers you're throwing out. Thank god you didn't suggest billions.🤦

boldcanyon14 said:The way the mods are running things here is an absolute disgrace. The sheer number of appeals against the site rules proves it.

They act entitled. They shut down actual arguments with one-sentence replies just because they can't be bothered to engage. They constantly mock other users, call people out, and delete or ban posts that don't deserve it, purely based on their whims.

I still remember when ego tried to act smart and posted something like: "Yeah, sure, side effects from vaccines are great—my colleague's kid now has eight working legs," or some nonsense like that. When a huge group of us complained or commented on it, every single one of those posts was wiped clean, while his original post stayed up. It’s a joke.

Look, I get it. If a moderator belongs to a certain group (based on what’s been publicly stated on this forum), then COVID is a much more terrifying disease to them. I understand why they feel that way, and that's fine if they're posting as a regular user.

What is absolutely unacceptable is when they post as a user and then hand out bans to anyone who disagrees with them. Lately, that's exactly how they've been operating, and it's shameful.

Furthermore, there are a few people constantly trolling, yet they never face consequences because their views align with the moderators. I could easily find over 100 fake posts that went unpunished from a very well-known clique that we've warned about a hundred times already. Their responses are always just "OK" or a sarcastic smiley face. There are maybe 4 or 5 of them, and they operate this way constantly. We've even seen some newcomers join in on the systematic trolling. It completely dilutes the discussion and turns everything into a fight, while the mods just sit there and do nothing.

I think the superadmins should take a look at this subforum if they haven't already and have some internal discussions. If you truly don't find this suspicious and you support this style of moderation, then it's clear what's really going on here. I honestly don't see the point of this subforum; as I said, you're just creating a backlash, and you certainly won't
convince anyone of anything by acting like this.

Btw. Huge props to Gerald Chavez7. The guy actually has arguments for everything, debates people with opposing views normally, and I've even seen him hand out a few deserved bans on both sides, so there's at least one sane person left in there.

I won't bother commenting on ego's moderation; you only need to look at what's written under his avatar.
Same goes for Aleta; I think she became a moderator by pure accident, through circumstances known only to the admins.
But I will say, all my respect goes to Gerald Chavez7. 👍

In this case, it's Alice.
1- She can because the Supermoderators and especially the Administrator allow it.
2. It’s because she’s permitted to lead discussions just like any other Forum member, which makes it easier for her to hand out warnings and delete posts.
It works like this:

Alice Ogord said:Keep spamming this thread with trolling, irrelevant posts, and ad-hominem attacks and I'll have to lock it until you all cool off. Or, you could just calm down so everyone who actually wants to participate has a place to write. The choice is yours.

That bit about ad-hominem is the best part. It basically means, "I'm done playing with you all; I'm closing this thread because I am the Moderator laughing."
And don't even get me started on deleting posts filled with nonsense—she deletes them only after realizing what she wrote. Then there's the double standard between Substandard Forum members and those who aren't. The "good" ones can call someone bottom of the barrel while the others get hit with a red card and a deletion immediately.

3. The Moderator has a Supermoderator.

Jason Kern63 said:If everyone shared your mindset, we wouldn't have airplanes, advanced technology, or even bicycles. Someone had to step up, invent things, and get moving; otherwise, our streets would still be covered in dust instead of paved with asphalt. Vaccine efficacy was tested for a period of time, and it proved they work at preventing the most severe outcomes. As for the fact that they haven't been studied on millions of people yet—well, there simply wasn't enough time, so they left it to voluntary participation. You either take the shot or you don't. Who is going to wait five years to test a vaccine when the need is IMMEDIATE??? Did you write a letter to the troops during a war saying, "Please, don't attack us right away; wait five years until we can arm ourselves properly so we can fight better"? Look, brother, the war has already started. You go out to fight with a hundred-year-old relic, knowing full well your chances of hitting anything are slim. If we all thought like you, we’d currently be living in a version of the Republic of Mexico that stretched all the way to the Adriatic Sea.
History will eventually reveal whether it was smart to vaccinate or not. Personally, I know at least ten people who would have jumped at the chance to take the vaccine if they had known the reality of COVID—people who ended up on oxygen for ten days, barely able to breathe, and heaven knows what the long-term effects on their bodies might be. Of course, someone who merely sneezed twice during an infection is going to downplay the severity; after all, they were lucky enough to avoid the worst of it.

Drop the war comparisons and try coming up with something smarter. And for the record, people were leaving and then returning from their service in Munich. A person has their own views; respect them.

Jeremy Johnson18 said:Honestly, watching you jump on Wikipedia like that, Johnson, is just sad. Even Smith's doing it.
Seriously, you never miss an opportunity to chime in on threads like this, even though your total contribution is basically zero since nobody ever asked for your opinion.

So, why does an "intellectual" like you have nothing better to do than hunt people down and harass them on a forum?
I’d ask what kind of idiot lets you act like this, but honestly, it's pretty obvious.

Look, get a life, go outside, or just drop dead for all I care—but change your routine, because this is getting exhausting.

Short - Clear - Loud 👍

Casey Bennett said:No, not everyone on the Forum feels that way. It’s just those people who trashed the thread with their anti-Corona nonsense that doesn't even belong here.

If that's your take, I suppose you're just assuming you know exactly what every other member is thinking? 🤔

Gregory Turner71 said:Can you drop the links to those posts? And are we actually talking about the Corona thread here, or are we discussing specific Corona topics on other forums? For what it's worth, I haven't seen a single one of your reports either.

Here’s one gentleman who decided to go after every single member on the Forum. ☕

A diplomatic response 👍

Amy Long5 said:Great guy.

He managed to scrape together $800 from 1,400 fools just to sue a virologist in America.

Now he’s launched lawsuits against all sorts of people who have nothing to do with it...

Here is some info on

Name is destiny!
Fuellmich translates to "fill me up"—I hope you already sent your $800.

You haven't even looked at what this is about, yet you're complaining for no reason. What does Reiner Fuellmich have to do with the Weimar District Court? 🙂

Go ahead, read the news.
https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/news...drig-li.134388
https://www.achgut.com/artikel/ein_v...down_gecrashed

Just type into Google: Urteil vom 6 OWi - 523 Js 202518/20
and you'll see everything in black and white. Read the ruling.

Adam Collins4 said:What are the current infection numbers in Italy, and how many deaths have we seen so far?

Alright, let's keep this moving then—what's the actual mortality rate for the flu?

So, what's the next move then—trying to figure out which one is just a nasty case of the flu and which one is actually the Corona?

I mean, honestly, it really is just like the flu...

🤣

What kind of absolute nonsense are they pulling out of their asses just to ensure that people over 70—who are already dealing with health issues—end up dying from some random virus?

Look, I personally have family members who are well over 70, and I don't want even a single percent of this... just because some people can't seem to stay put at home.

Mr. Adam Collins4 is spinning his wheels and asking questions again. ☕
Here, read this:
https://www.usatoday.com/news/virus-stats-update-1390033

A smooth transition to Windows 10👍

What a mess you've got there.
Try this approach (unfortunately my PC is set to Italian), but just look at the images—it isn't difficult.
Search for it in the Device Manager and try this driver first. If that fails, test the others; one of them has to work.







Best,

So, there’s the 99.9% fix (I removed the other part)

Download audio driver
Let me know if it works.
Best regards,