New user titles

[Dan Druff]

I didn't take away anyone's title. Some of them just got lost.

Anyone who wants them restored can PM me.

Also, PLOP was never banned here.

Wrong! Maybe I wasn't "banned", but I was post restricted to where I wasn't allowed to post at all. Let me know how much you want to bet. I can pull up old messages.

And my title wasn't "lost". The day you let me start posting again is the day my title was taken away.

Funny, I don't remember restricting you. Did you fuck with the forum in some way (or threaten to)? I wouldn't have just post restricted you for no reason.

See my above explanation to Deal as to why you lost your title. It was not intentional.

You can request a new title publicly or privately, and I will give it.

[Jayjami]

Just to demonstrate this new open and honest transparency, I'm announcing that I banned Jewdonk again.

He is now following me around into every thread to pointlessly troll me (see this thread as a good example), and his only other "contributions" here involve sucking Trump's dick in the mess of a thread he started in 2016.

I'm sure I'll be receiving yet another message from China in about 3-6 months, stating something like, "Marty wants to have his account re-enabled. He said he's not going to bash you, and just wants to create an epic thread."

And sadly I'll probably fall for it again, because I enjoy watching Marty embarrass himself. That's how we got the Robert Pickering saga.

OK Druff, we all know Marty is a total loser, but the community loves it when he trolls you. Literally no one gets under your skin like Marty. Please, please, ban Mumbles and LarryLaffer instead. On behalf of the community, TIA.

[PLOL]

Wrong! Maybe I wasn't "banned", but I was post restricted to where I wasn't allowed to post at all. Let me know how much you want to bet. I can pull up old messages.

And my title wasn't "lost". The day you let me start posting again is the day my title was taken away.

Funny, I don't remember restricting you. Did you fuck with the forum in some way (or threaten to)? I wouldn't have just post restricted you for no reason.

It actually was for no reason. But also an accident or "forum glitch". I just waited a while to tell you

[Dan Druff]

Just to demonstrate this new open and honest transparency, I'm announcing that I banned Jewdonk again.

He is now following me around into every thread to pointlessly troll me (see this thread as a good example), and his only other "contributions" here involve sucking Trump's dick in the mess of a thread he started in 2016.

I'm sure I'll be receiving yet another message from China in about 3-6 months, stating something like, "Marty wants to have his account re-enabled. He said he's not going to bash you, and just wants to create an epic thread."

And sadly I'll probably fall for it again, because I enjoy watching Marty embarrass himself. That's how we got the Robert Pickering saga.

OK Druff, we all know Marty is a total loser, but the community loves it when he trolls you. Literally no one gets under your skin like Marty. Please, please, ban Mumbles and LarryLaffer instead. On behalf of the community, TIA.

You mean no one is attached to my skin like Marty... kind of like a leech, which is pretty much what he's been his whole life.

I don't ask for much in exchange for running this forum. I don't attempt to make money from it. I don't even ask that people here be nice to me (see someone like Deal, who has trolled me for years yet never been banned or restricted).

But I've made it clear since I started his forum that I'm not going to have my enjoyment of the site ruined by some miserable asshole who follows me into every thread in order to troll me, including mundane ones like this.

Anyone who attempts to do this will be gone.

You will find very few other forums out there where the rules regarding treatment of the owner are so lax, but I have to draw the line somewhere.

[Dan Druff]

Funny, I don't remember restricting you. Did you fuck with the forum in some way (or threaten to)? I wouldn't have just post restricted you for no reason.

It actually was for no reason. But also an accident or "forum glitch". I just waited a while to tell you

So then I didn't ban you.

I think I remember something about an issue with your account. You were never secretly restricted, trust me. I never perceived you as any threat here, even in the days when you were still being initiated into the Gay Poker Mafia.

[Dan Druff]

Regarding Jewdonk, you have to understand that this is an ongoing pattern with him which repeats itself over and over.

When he first returns to the forum, he actually posts interesting content. This includes trip reports, stories about his work, stories about his latest epic apartment which he will sneak out from at 3am in a few months because the landlord's an asshole, etc.

Usually these quality threads (and I'm being serious here, not sarcastic) contain pictures and vivid detail. They are entertaining, and you can tell that Marty put a lot of time writing them up in MS Word lockdown.

However, as time passes, Marty starts to get both increasingly bitter and lazy.

Gone are the interesting threads and posts.

Replacing them are hastily-written, repetitive troll posts, aimed at the usual people he doesn't like. Even his Trump thread posts are incredibly lazy and devoid of any kind of fact or debate. (Nowadays it's just something like, "TRUMP 2020, SUCK IT LIBERAL SNOWFLAKES!!!11")

The final stage of Marty's degradation is to relentlessly troll me. Basically whenever he sees me post, he comes back with something repetitive and obnoxious, even if I'm posting about something harmless and non-controversial.

I don't believe that the Good Doctor actually consciously changes his posting style, but it's just a result of his general anger and bitterness, combined with his obvious psychological illness and alcoholism. Basically he is incapable of acting like a normal adult here, and needs to be put into timeout for awhile. At some point later, he starts to miss the community, and vows to come back a new man.

Rinse and repeat.

The only reason I keep allowing it is because his follies have given many lulz to this community for over a decade, and I'm a sucker for tradition.

But I always know the way it will end when I unban him.

[hongkonger]

LoL @ a new thread to announce a user title adjustment that took him maybe 3 minutes on forum platform a 9 year could manage

Thank God we have an expert 'computer scientist' like Todd taking care of his massive membership with these game changing modifications

If a 9-year-old could manage running a vBulletin forum, how come Tydepoker was always so full of terrible bugs and design flaws?

Are you saying you lack the mental capacity of a 9-year-old?

I'm assuming that last one was a rhetorical question?

[MumblesBadly]

Are you sure about that?

I am, you must read things in context.

King Solomon was not saying that pursuing wisdom and folly both lead to death for the individual any ways so don't bother or they go hand in hand. Quite the opposite, he promoted wisdom and knowledge heavily above foolishness or drunkenness. What he is trying to say is he looked within himself and found such things as madness (drunkenness) and decided rather to pursue wisdom. In the end man is man and the cycle will repeat, nothing is new under the sun etc etc etc.

Context my good man, context.

Uhhh... no. Because the context is clearly spelled out in the rest of that part of Ecclesiastes, which concludes that chapter of that book.

Ecclesiastes 2:12-25 New International Version (NIV)

Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless

12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?
13 I saw that wisdom is better than folly,
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.
15 Then I said to myself,

“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.
Like the fool, the wise too must die!

Toil Is Meaningless

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun? 23 All their days their work is grief and pain; even at night their minds do not rest. This too is meaningless.

24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God, 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Basically, the author is saying that the pursuit of wisdom is a fool's errand if the pleasure of living is sacrificed in the process. If Solomon was the true author of this book, and supposedly when he was quote old, he was basically saying the deathbed equivalent of "Damn it!!! I should have spent more time with my 400 wives and less time pursuing wisdom! What a fool I've been!"

[PLOL]

I almost feel like we're starting to get off topic

[tony bagadonuts]

Just to demonstrate this new open and honest transparency, I'm announcing that I banned Jewdonk again.

He is now following me around into every thread to pointlessly troll me (see this thread as a good example), and his only other "contributions" here involve sucking Trump's dick in the mess of a thread he started in 2016.

I'm sure I'll be receiving yet another message from China in about 3-6 months, stating something like, "Marty wants to have his account re-enabled. He said he's not going to bash you, and just wants to create an epic thread."

And sadly I'll probably fall for it again, because I enjoy watching Marty embarrass himself. That's how we got the Robert Pickering saga.

Todd, you ban Marty because you don't like him and he doesnt like you. While a polarizing figure there's no doubt that many of us enjoy having him around.

You let mouth breathing mongoloids like FPS Russia have the run of the place, spooging their juices into every single thread yet it's Marty that gets banned???

[Dan Druff]

Just to demonstrate this new open and honest transparency, I'm announcing that I banned Jewdonk again.

He is now following me around into every thread to pointlessly troll me (see this thread as a good example), and his only other "contributions" here involve sucking Trump's dick in the mess of a thread he started in 2016.

I'm sure I'll be receiving yet another message from China in about 3-6 months, stating something like, "Marty wants to have his account re-enabled. He said he's not going to bash you, and just wants to create an epic thread."

And sadly I'll probably fall for it again, because I enjoy watching Marty embarrass himself. That's how we got the Robert Pickering saga.

Todd, you ban Marty because you don't like him and he doesnt like you. While a polarizing figure there's no doubt that many of us enjoy having him around.

You let mouth breathing mongoloids like FPS Russia have the run of the place, spooging their juices into every single thread yet it's Marty that gets banned???

There are others here I don't like, but they don't get banned.

I already explained my reasons for banning him.

FPS is restricted to a few posts per day.

[ftpjesus]

Just to demonstrate this new open and honest transparency, I'm announcing that I banned Jewdonk again.

He is now following me around into every thread to pointlessly troll me (see this thread as a good example), and his only other "contributions" here involve sucking Trump's dick in the mess of a thread he started in 2016.

I'm sure I'll be receiving yet another message from China in about 3-6 months, stating something like, "Marty wants to have his account re-enabled. He said he's not going to bash you, and just wants to create an epic thread."

And sadly I'll probably fall for it again, because I enjoy watching Marty embarrass himself. That's how we got the Robert Pickering saga.

You do realize banning Marty is rather pointless hes about to ship out again and wont be online much the next few months anyway.. BTW maybe I'm wrong.. But the timing seems odd considering how tired you were on radio tonight.. Perhaps you were a bit tilted by Bovada and allowed your mood to influence your actions.. If I'm wrong I'm wrong its all good.. But I know I get grumpy and shit when I haven't slept for whatever reason as my dogs can attest to when I go to feed them and get annoyed because theyre all hyper and happy and I'm like fuck you and your perkiness pups..

[MumblesBadly]

Todd, you ban Marty because you don't like him and he doesnt like you. While a polarizing figure there's no doubt that many of us enjoy having him around.

You let mouth breathing mongoloids like FPS Russia have the run of the place, spooging their juices into every single thread yet it's Marty that gets banned???

There are others here I don't like, but they don't get banned.

I already explained my reasons for banning him.

FPS is restricted to a few posts per day.

Druff, how about just do the same with Marty? Can you handle him trolling you once a day? And if that is still too triggering for you, perhaps it would be an opportunity to learn how to exorcise the power that Marty's comments have over you. Here's a primer on one possibility if perchance you haven't explored that avenue.

[Deal]

lol, as the sole admin on the site how can you possibly say this. Things don't just get lost. Did the leftist / antifa's break into your database? Your fake accreditation as a computer scientist is showing.

For a guy who jumps to conclusions and blames people for things just because it is what you would do in that situation you sure have a hard time accepting fault for your own blunders.

You love trollishly mouthing off about things you don't understand, especially when it comes to technical issues.

Remember when you laughably chided me that it would take "5 minutes" to upgrade this site to SSL, failing to understand that there are a lot of internal issues with vBulletin which made this a much bigger job?

Yes, titles get lost because of how vBulletin works. For example, JMM, who has never been banned or post-restricted here in any way, lost his "PFA Bert Sugar" title. I never touched his account since giving him the title. It just vanished.

How does this happen? vBulletin has a flaw where auto-promotions of user title will override custom titles. So when someone went from "Member" to "Contributor" by reaching 500 posts, it would clobber their custom title.

Same with anyone whose access level was changed for any reason (such as a post restriction).

I later found that setting a custom title as "HTML allowed" (even if I don't include HTML in the title) fixes this problem, but I discovered it on my own.

I don't administrate forums in a passive-aggressive fashion. Never have, never will. If I am restricting or banning someone, I say so. I even announce when I ban someone from a thread.

As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.

So finally you admit that you had no idea what you were doing and mistakenly activated a feature that didn't work in the way you assumed. Was that so hard?

You managed to fumble your way to implementing SSL years behind the industry. Millions of vBulletin sites had already made the change before you and 5 step tutorials by the hundreds are available online. It might be difficult for a truck driver to make the vBulletin change, just as I would have difficulties backing a rig into a bay. However for someone in the field these tasks are super rudimentary. Stating otherwise just proves your expertise level.

Your balls are showing. Peace out.

[Kuntmissioner]

It actually was for no reason. But also an accident or "forum glitch". I just waited a while to tell you

So then I didn't ban you.

I think I remember something about an issue with your account. You were never secretly restricted, trust me. I never perceived you as any threat here, even in the days when you were still being initiated into the Gay Poker Mafia.

Initiations trip report?

[Indyrick]

[Kilgore Trout]

Decided to update the default user titles, which had been in place since I started the site in March 2012.

The previous titles, which would automatically update based upon number of posts, were: n00b, Member, Contributor.

The new titles are: Cubic Zirconia, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Plutonium.

People with custom titles are not affected.

If you would like a different set of titles, perhaps ones unique to this community, post your suggestions.

I demand my own, user specific, title of my liking.
Todd, are you ready to meet my demands?


Where is Tyde? What happened? Can we not have anything nice around here?

[limitles]

Decided to update the default user titles, which had been in place since I started the site in March 2012.

The previous titles, which would automatically update based upon number of posts, were: n00b, Member, Contributor.

The new titles are: Cubic Zirconia, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Plutonium.

People with custom titles are not affected.

If you would like a different set of titles, perhaps ones unique to this community, post your suggestions.

I demand my own, user specific, title of my liking.
Todd, are you ready to meet my demands?


Where is Tyde? What happened? Can we not have any nice around here?

Agree bronze sucks as a title but you won't get one of your liking.
Contest to title trout......
One part of Mother Juggs and Speed

[Dan Druff]

You love trollishly mouthing off about things you don't understand, especially when it comes to technical issues.

Remember when you laughably chided me that it would take "5 minutes" to upgrade this site to SSL, failing to understand that there are a lot of internal issues with vBulletin which made this a much bigger job?

Yes, titles get lost because of how vBulletin works. For example, JMM, who has never been banned or post-restricted here in any way, lost his "PFA Bert Sugar" title. I never touched his account since giving him the title. It just vanished.

How does this happen? vBulletin has a flaw where auto-promotions of user title will override custom titles. So when someone went from "Member" to "Contributor" by reaching 500 posts, it would clobber their custom title.

Same with anyone whose access level was changed for any reason (such as a post restriction).

I later found that setting a custom title as "HTML allowed" (even if I don't include HTML in the title) fixes this problem, but I discovered it on my own.

I don't administrate forums in a passive-aggressive fashion. Never have, never will. If I am restricting or banning someone, I say so. I even announce when I ban someone from a thread.

As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about.

So finally you admit that you had no idea what you were doing and mistakenly activated a feature that didn't work in the way you assumed. Was that so hard?

You managed to fumble your way to implementing SSL years behind the industry. Millions of vBulletin sites had already made the change before you and 5 step tutorials by the hundreds are available online. It might be difficult for a truck driver to make the vBulletin change, just as I would have difficulties backing a rig into a bay. However for someone in the field these tasks are super rudimentary. Stating otherwise just proves your expertise level.

Your balls are showing. Peace out.

I just saw this.

What a sad little troll you are.

Nothing was "mistakenly activated". Read the above again. Do I need to explain this in smaller words for you to understand?

Regarding SSL, vBulletin's own staff admitted that this version of vBulletin (which I've heavily modified and added to, hence the freeze at this version) was not designed for SSL implementation, and doing so is not a trivial process.

You basically have to go through a lot of individual components you added -- whether ones you wrote in yourself, ones you downloaded, or even things like custom BBcodes which you added through vBulletin's own admin portal.

It's not a difficult technical task, but it's a pain in the ass to track down and remember everything.

There's also not a one-size-fits-all tutorial unless you installed a standard vBulletin and barely touched it. (For example, my vegascasinotalk forum, which I took over from someone else and was barely modified, was far easier to implement than PFA.)

I got to it "years behind the industry" because it's unnecessary. This isn't a banking site. Security of that nature isn't particularly important on a site like this. I only bothered with it because google was starting to penalize sites without it. You were actually the one who cried about the site "not being secure" before I had implement it. Again, you barely understand anything you post about regarding computers, and your naive rants would be laughable ("SSL = secure site, No SSL = site not secure!!!!11") if not laced with such insufferable arrogance.

BTW, how many vBulletin forums do you run?

Doesn't surprise me that you worked from SSL for Dummies tutorials to get things done, though.

[Hockey Guy]

I like to request a new user title for big dick.

I think "big pussy McFucksicle" would work well for him.