How To Improve This Place

**Frownland** · 05-11-2021, 12:58 PM

Joining the discord might work better than bedazzling a fossil: https://discord.gg/ndbr7bg

**Marie Monday** · 05-11-2021, 01:00 PM

indeed

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Originally Posted by jwb

I say we track down this polish broad and rob her ass.. I wanna get paid for people **** posting

that's a quintessential jwb post right there

SGR · 05-11-2021, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

It would probably be a good idea to set up a kind of contingency forum, if it were possible to move most of the content from here to there in the event of this one biting the big one.

I am highly doubtful that that would be a simple task, given a new forum will likely have a much different backend architecture than this one does.

But yeah, who knows how much money is being made with this site. My guess would be that as soon as the cost to host it exceeds the amount of money they make from it, it'll be biting the dust and we'll be hung out to dry. If we're lucky, the owners will give the mods advance notice which will give us a brief period of time to coordinate a move to somewhere else.

DianneW · 05-11-2021, 01:03 PM

I belonged to a Forum for only a few months and the mods were strict although mainly towards females for what ever reason. The so called boss disliked me for being one of the lads to best describe the situation. A crowd of us would act the fool and we did have a lot of laughs, nothing too rude, but on the edge of suggestions innuendos, so when I joined in a mod would stamp on me..others knew the rules better than me and just did nothing basically..got use to that..was not that personnel with the lads but got told I was obscene by a mod. and criticised for the slightest reason, then suspended from certain threads for a few weeks then got banned for good for standing my ground..apparently you never are allowed to answer back and that I found out when I got the next ban....ok the record is 4 but all had the same rules....some joined me on another site but it did not really work that same....as it is true the memories over time build up and hard to leave behind...Now if the main, moved over together, then move your memories, hey presto that could work...

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as a newbie I do not have attachments as yet....

The Batlord · 05-11-2021, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

Yeah, that's definitely a risk.

Another course of action could be to try to pressure advameg into doing something. The mods could go on a strike.

I think attracting their attention for any reason is not in our best interest.

Guybrush · 05-11-2021, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I think attracting their attention for any reason is not in our best interest.

You might be right about that. At least one might want a backup forum in place first, just in case they go ape****.

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By the way, I've been writing bbpress.. which is wrong. This board runs on an ancient version of vbulletin.

Is it still getting swarmed with ad-bots due to the ancient captcha?

SGR · 05-11-2021, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by tore

Is it still getting swarmed with ad-bots due to the ancient captcha?

No idea on volume, but you can usually see three or four active spam accounts in the 'active users' on the bottom of the front page at any given moment. All with a joined date of the current day.

**Marie Monday** · 05-11-2021, 03:04 PM

I don't know what a captcha is, but there are plenty of ad-bots.

Now I'm trying to imagine all of us invading and taking over another existing forum when this one dies. That would be disastrous but epic

The Batlord · 05-11-2021, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

I don't know what a captcha is, but there are plenty of ad-bots.

Guybrush · 05-11-2021, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Marie Monday

I don't know what a captcha is, but there are plenty of ad-bots.

Now I'm trying to imagine all of us invading and taking over another existing forum when this one dies. That would be disastrous but epic

Captcha is a method to keep bots from signing up and spamming the boards. Needless to say, it doesn't work very well here, another reason why the boards should get updated so mods don't have to spend time kickbanning and cleaning up after bots.

.. All that work you never get any credit for doing

05-11-2021, 12:58 PM	#211 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,548	Joining the discord might work better than bedazzling a fossil: https://discord.gg/ndbr7bg __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

05-11-2021, 01:03 PM	#214 (permalink)
DianneW Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2021 Posts: 1,161	I belonged to a Forum for only a few months and the mods were strict although mainly towards females for what ever reason. The so called boss disliked me for being one of the lads to best describe the situation. A crowd of us would act the fool and we did have a lot of laughs, nothing too rude, but on the edge of suggestions innuendos, so when I joined in a mod would stamp on me..others knew the rules better than me and just did nothing basically..got use to that..was not that personnel with the lads but got told I was obscene by a mod. and criticised for the slightest reason, then suspended from certain threads for a few weeks then got banned for good for standing my ground..apparently you never are allowed to answer back and that I found out when I got the next ban....ok the record is 4 but all had the same rules....some joined me on another site but it did not really work that same....as it is true the memories over time build up and hard to leave behind...Now if the main, moved over together, then move your memories, hey presto that could work.... p.s. as a newbie I do not have attachments as yet....