Posts by boldhound8

silvergardener93 said:I don't find this funny.

Just find some free time and dig through the admin panel; that’s how we did it on the old forum and it worked just fine.

Man, it is so freaking exhausting getting sucked into arguments with someone where I have to repeat the exact same thing three times. It makes me feel like an idiot.🙂
Look, for the last time, the server isn't beefy enough, and that's what's causing the crashes. Moderators, admins—even the regular users—don't "help" the server by being here day and night, especially not when they're busy searching or handling other "heavy" tasks.

The fix isn't to cap the forum at 3,000 people and have everyone else get hit with a "server full, please wait" pop-up, nor is it to kill the search function or whatever crazy idea you're pitching. I seriously cannot believe someone is actually suggesting that 150 or 200 moderators should all huddle up on a Saturday night around 2 or 3 AM to run "admin operations" that they supposedly had to log in Notepad all day just so they wouldn't forget when they finally logged on.🤣
Here, I just logged on to the forum, and then what? Am I supposed to not act immediately, but instead open Notepad and start logging stuff like:
Code:

So I can stay up until 4 AM, chug a coffee, and then start grinding through the backlog? And then what, once I finish all that, I'm supposed to go back to sleep?☕

What's even more unbelievable is that someone actually thinks this will save the forum.🤣 How long have you been around here? 15 days? I've been here for 6 years, and this forum has basically functioned the same way for all those 6 years. Sometimes it runs a little better, sometimes worse; sometimes it goes 10 days without an error, sometimes it doesn't work at all for 10 days. We've had database crashes and lost PMs, users, threads... That's how it was, and that's how it'll stay unless there's massive investment.🙂
If you can't wrap your head around that, damn it, I'm not explaining it a fourth time. Maybe if you tried logging on in the middle of the night, man, everything would just fly right past you.😉

silentsailor5 said:You think you can just act like Tarik and not get fired on the spot? Not happening. 🤣

Man, forget getting fired—people see some guy in a black suit and immediately think I’m some puppet sent down from on high to deliver orders. Like, give me a break. I'm just out here stating my damn opinion!😁

Look, when it comes to training, we mods don't really have much room to move within the Control Panel anyway. There’s zero guesswork involved and absolutely no chance of someone being "uneducated" about the process. You don't exactly need a masterclass for the two or three basic options you're working with. It's simple. Period.😬 The new crowd might stumble a bit at first, but they get their act together fast enough. Honestly, saying those two or three new mods are wrecking the forum every single month is just straight-up ridiculous.😁

So, what do you think is actually faster? Honestly, he just does whatever he feels like doing at the moment. I’m telling you, I’ll probably be stuck there at the very end of a two or three-hour stretch just to get hit by a 503 error.😍

slywolf45 said:Those damn moderators!

They’re blaming everyone and everything else, but honestly? We don't even know what the hell is actually going on. 😲 I don't even know what to say about this one. Just total nonsense. 🙂Area 51?! Are you kidding me right now? Seriously? Give me a break! 🙂 :wtc: 🙂 I can't even begin to deal with this nonsense right now. It’s absolutely ridiculous how people try to spin history like they didn't see exactly what went down. You can't just rewrite the past to suit your own little agenda and expect anyone with half a brain to buy it. It's blatant, it's dishonest, and frankly, it's exhausting. Stop trying to play games with the truth.😳

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Look, what they’ve got written in the intro? It’s partially right. That's about it.😁 Look, the server is exactly what it is—a total disaster waiting to happen. It’s constantly redlining, pushed right to the edge, so any decent task—whether we're talking about heavy-duty admin stuff like they run over at Microsoft or just some random users running basic searches—is enough to knock the whole thing offline. And once it crashes? Forget about it. It takes forever to get back up and running, which doesn't exactly help the 3,000 users who are all frantically smashing F5 like their lives depend on it.😁

Look, just telling the mods or the users to stop "digging through the database" isn't going to fix anything. That's not the solution. The only real way out of this mess is a total system upgrade. Period.😉 What you’re suggesting is just sweeping the whole mess under the rug. Honestly, the easiest way out is to just kill off all the "advanced" features and strip everything down to basic reading and writing with zero bells and whistles. That’s how we end up stuck—we're constantly limited by whatever they decide to shut down or whatever they never even bothered to turn on in the first place just so the server can breathe easier. All these extra limits and random restrictions? They make absolutely zero sense. Total nonsense.


Look, even though I’m technically "black," that whole thing above? That’s my territory. My business. Period. Look, here’s my honest take.And just to be crystal clear—I’m talking about the mods, not the actual site owners or the corporate brass. I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea here.

feraltrucker5 said:🙂 => 😢 🙂 🙂

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It's a well-known🤣🤣 fact

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Alex Cook said:🙂

🙂 + 🙂 = 🙂

Lisa Martinez82 said:Look, three years ago, this Reddit thread suddenly spiked to about 1,000 members. Now we're sitting at 4,000, but if you look at the stats saying "Peak users reached 14,650 on September 7, 2009, at 7:13 PM," I'm telling you right now: that number was 14,650 users. 🙂

What happened on September 7th?😁 England was basically out of commission until the 9th, and I think we didn't even find out about the unblocking until the 11th.
Was it the start of the school year?😬

Supported!
Honestly, we should just wipe out all the old-school users and only keep the legends who've been here since 2009.😁

Melissa Castillo said:There’s actually an emoji 🙂 (=:Placebo:), so this isn't exactly breaking new ground.

Yeah, it happened back when that absolute degenerate 🤣 Srića was running the show here, but it didn't last long. We don't see this kind of nonsense happening all the time.🤣🤣

So, you're running that NVIDIA 8800 GT with 512 MB on some random 16" no-name monitor, right? Are the images actually looking huge and annoying you, or are you just asking for the hell of it?🙂

Why is everyone so obsessed with trying to generalize everything?😁 We’re talking 100+ different forums and 100+ different mods here—who actually expects a cookie-cutter response? It’s just not happening.😁

Look, I’ve been lurking and posting on these online boards and various corners of the web for way too damn long. I can sniff out from a mile away when someone is just trolling or acting like a complete idiot for the hell of it, versus when they actually have a point. Personally, I don't go around deleting stuff left and right unless someone is being straight-up obnoxious or just won't stop repeating the same nonsense over and over. Then, yeah, it’s gone.

And honestly, just ask a specific question. Post a link to what's actually bothering you. This vague, "reading between the lines" crap isn't going to help you, and it sure as hell isn't helping us.😁

Look, if you’re gonna go ahead and post your own damn photo, then man up and take whatever comments come your way, period. Stop whining like a little bitch about how people insulted you or why they said this or that, or why someone hasn't been banned yet, or how to change a username, or who the mods are, or how to make a burner account... just stop.

Every single month, it's the same crap—someone gets their feelings hurt because they didn't get the specific kind of praise they were fishing for on their picture.🤦 Why even bother posting photos at all?

What are you gonna do? Go after him too!🙂

Alex Cook said:Carlos.

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Just go ahead and enjoy yourself. It’s not like I’m sitting here crying over a mess like this, even if something like this might be hard for you to wrap your head around😉

placidmarlin3 said:Honestly, I've seen it fail firsthand a few times now. And since I’m usually the one getting slapped with a 500-point penalty for way smaller stuff than this, I can't just sit back and let this slide without calling it out, even if this is technically just a private forum.😉

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Everything's broken, including the system. Just putting it out there for the record.😁

Go screw yourself🤣
Someone totally hijacked my username, I didn't write this crap, you're the one who did it 🤣

feraltrucker5 said:Look, if you actually bothered to read the rules, you'd know the game mods have to give the green light first. Plus, it wasn't exactly free, was it? Just sit tight while Ken, Spec.tre, and I hash out who you're supposed to be paying up. 🙂

I can pay Ken😍

Michelle Sanchez3 said:Well, I have been around too, through the San Francisco days, the Goa threads, and all the music discussions. I don't really write with Willard anymore; I think I eventually left him sitting at about 20,000 posts, though I lost track of how many times I hit that 20k mark myself. If they hadn't gone around deleting all those old threads and various topics, there probably would have been 40,000 posts without any trouble at all.😁

Anyway, where on earth have you been hiding? 😬

I'm right here, buddy! But honestly, after spreading myself so thin across all these different sub-forums years ago, I'm finally consolidating my presence😬. I don't even know if I've posted in ten threads total between everything🤣. I never really touched the music boards, and as for... San Francisco... I haven't been in there since 2005, dammit.😁

redmarlin3 said:Don't even look my way, he just wanders in and out of here 😬

Anyway, honey, you look like you've lost some weight lately 🙏 🙏 🙏

Man, whatever. I've been dealing with this crap for way too long. Getting old sucks, so I'm just taking shortcuts now. Typing out twenty letters is a waste of time when you can just be efficient.🙏

Captain Willard

Look, I’ve been hanging around here way too long. If I actually sat down and started listing everyone who’s bailed on this forum since I joined, we wouldn't get anywhere fast. So, honestly, let's just leave that list to the Captain.😁