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#77 Nov 16 2013 at 6:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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Queen EmmanuellaLima wrote:
Why is it so hard to find out what Karma Score is? I got labeled a troll the first day I got onto this site. I paid a year at advance and sent messages. I have not seen any messages back. The people on you're forum bashing, never even explained how this forum works. I assumed trolls are people that camp people threads. I did not know that you can be a troll for making threads and venting. I remembered this site from 2003 and could not remember my old account and email. From when I played FFXI and used this forum for that. From what I have been trying to find is how long does Sub-Default last. One post I found from 2007 said you have to post a lot. I have never been a heavy poster and I have run forums before so I know you can see isp and all post. You should be able to see I have not been on this forum that long.


I just reset your karma to 3.00. Try to annoy less people when you post this time.
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#78 Nov 16 2013 at 6:31 PM Rating: Good
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Ok, I can't resist asking. Just how soul crushingly far am I from guru?


As far away as 3.78114132302156 is. or whenever the check clears.
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#79 Nov 16 2013 at 6:32 PM Rating: Excellent
Can I buy an Admin account?

If one of you guys quit, can I have your stuff?
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#80 Nov 16 2013 at 6:36 PM Rating: Excellent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Second longest running forum tradition after the infamous forum prediction thread.
Third.

Third longest running forum tradition.
Smiley: madSmiley: motzSmiley: bah

Only admins can make offical forum traditions then! so <Thbbbbtttt!!!!!!>

1. I probably asked you this before, but: Did you ever see your DingartTM of "EQ-you" facing the giant spider?
Yes. I still don't know why I am wearing a giant Taffy on my head. and the spider is still scary!

b. Did you know that posting new info to ancient EQ quests still garners one a rate-up?Smiley: tongue (I assume that's Fleven doing that, but who cares?)Smiley: laugh
Actually there are a couple automated systems that do things along those lines. we don't advertise them so people won't abuse them.

^. I finally get to ask w/o retribution:. What'z mah karmaz?
4.24031616512498

4. Who karma-bombed this thread?

No one actually. There are about 6 people that rated maybe 10 individual threads throughout that whole post, but almost every post in that thread is either at the base karma of the person who posted, or has been rated up. Is that the correct thread?
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#81 Nov 16 2013 at 6:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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#82 Nov 16 2013 at 6:43 PM Rating: Excellent
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Shaowstrike the Shady wrote:


Are you Gary Oldman in RL?

Maybe? I don't think I am, but maybe I'm just That good of an actor that I can't tell?

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Can I buy an Admin account?

If one of you guys quit, can I have your stuff?

Yes, current rate to buy an admin account is presently $11,000,000.00 U.S. currancy or negotiable bearer bonds. Stamped asseyed bullion or certified Gems are also acceptable. Or a Citation X Jet. Get one of us any of those things and I'm certain you will have an admin account in mere moments!

When an admin quits, their gold plated custom admin armor is returned to the eternal vault of Justice, there to stand in a place of Honor or Shame for all eternaty (for example, we use Magi's helmet as a place to store wombat ****!) amongst the Hall of Administrative Justice. There you will find statues of all admins, past, present and future stretching onwards until the end of time. Upon the last day of admining, the mighty hammer of Bann is afixed in a suitably heroic pose to the statue of the then former admin, to preside over the captured spammers for all eternity until the final battle. Interesting side note, Exodus's statue was actually a giant wheel of cheese.
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#83 Nov 16 2013 at 6:49 PM Rating: Good
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:


Brokenwheel wrote:
Can I buy an Admin account?

If one of you guys quit, can I have your stuff?

Yes, current rate to buy an admin account is presently $11,000,000.00 U.S. currancy or negotiable bearer bonds. Stamped asseyed bullion or certified Gems are also acceptable. Or a Citation X Jet. Get one of us any of those things and I'm certain you will have an admin account in mere moments!

When an admin quits, their gold plated custom admin armor is returned to the eternal vault of Justice, there to stand in a place of Honor or Shame for all eternaty (for example, we use Magi's helmet as a place to store wombat ****!) amongst the Hall of Administrative Justice. There you will find statues of all admins, past, present and future stretching onwards until the end of time. Upon the last day of admining, the mighty hammer of Bann is afixed in a suitably heroic pose to the statue of the then former admin, to preside over the captured spammers for all eternity until the final battle. Interesting side note, Exodus's statue was actually a giant wheel of cheese.


Wow, that's more than I've spent on gil. Oh well, do you guys at least offer tours of the Halls of Administrative Justice?

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 7:50pm by Brokenwheel
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#84 Nov 16 2013 at 7:00 PM Rating: Good
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You may make one change of your choice to the site. What do you do?
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#85 Nov 16 2013 at 7:02 PM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
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[1. I probably asked you this before, but: Did you ever see your DingartTM of "EQ-you" facing the giant spider?
Yes. I still don't know why I am wearing a giant Taffy on my head. and the spider is still scary!

Wood Elf Helm graphic?...no?


4. Who karma-bombed this thread?

No one actually. There are about 6 people that rated maybe 10 individual threads throughout that whole post, but almost every post in that thread is either at the base karma of the person who posted, or has been rated up. Is that the correct thread?
Huh; I seem to recall an admin half-answering this very question saying it was a naughty person who is no longer on the site. I figured enough time has gone by that I might now find out. (My posts were certainly red-arrowed as most were good or better during the thread and when I looked several months later while bored and reading my bookmarks, they were almost all Decent.)
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You may make one change of your choice to the site. What do you do?

I bet it would be filtering every word to wombat.



Also, how many posts of mine have been nuked? 10? 20?
#87 Nov 16 2013 at 7:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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Szabo wrote:
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What does your room look like?
Depends. I have a whole house to myself, so I get my choice of rooms. The computer room looks like this: Screenshot Screenshot , the room where I sleep looks like this Screenshot except now the bed looks like this: Screenshot . The Kitchen looks sort of like this Screenshot The Garage looks like this: Screenshot . most importantly, the libraries look kind of like this: Screenshot Some of those are older pictures but you get the idea. The book fleet for example has expanded somewhat heh.

If you could eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Pommegranites

Mudkip or Pikachu?
Wombats!

Best/worst movie of 2013?
Best? Eh, i dunno, Thor or Enders Game or Hobbit i guess. The Counselor was the worst for sure.

What's one thing that you couldn't live without?
Oxygen? That or my computers

Curly fries or regular?
Regular, prefferably frozen uncooked ones!

Question for Kao:

Native table support for posts?

We'll look into it, we have list support though so tables would add some complexity that could be abused.

Brokenwheel wrote:
Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:


Brokenwheel wrote:
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Wow, that's more than I've spent on gil. Oh well, do you guys at least offer tours of the Halls of Administrative Justice?

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 7:50pm by Brokenwheel

One does not simply walk into Admin Justice hall. you have to be on a noble and just quest. People sometimes like to use our doom volcano to dispose of things, etc.


IDrownFish of the Seven Seas wrote:
You may make one change of your choice to the site. What do you do?


There are probably a few bans I would have implemented sooner in hindsight.

Friar Bijou wrote:


Wood Elf Helm graphic?...no?


4. Who karma-bombed this thread?

No one actually. There are about 6 people that rated maybe 10 individual threads throughout that whole post, but almost every post in that thread is either at the base karma of the person who posted, or has been rated up. Is that the correct thread?
Huh; I seem to recall an admin half-answering this very question saying it was a naughty person who is no longer on the site. I figured enough time has gone by that I might now find out. (My posts were certainly red-arrowed as most were good or better during the thread and when I looked several months later while bored and reading my bookmarks, they were almost all Decent.)


I'm a half elf damnit! Not no stinkin unwashed wood elf (specifically a half elf, half dragon as per the ongoing character backstory I never finished for my Eq1 character)

There are no rates appended to those posts now. The only way to remove those all would have been a full dev purge, which breaks things. Are you sure it wasn't a different thread?
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#88 Nov 16 2013 at 7:30 PM Rating: Excellent
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Also, how many posts of mine have been nuked? 10? 20?


I have no quick way of finding that info. i'd have to sort through 425 pages of posts and count them. So lets just say 14?
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#89 Nov 16 2013 at 7:33 PM Rating: Good
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What happens if I open two tabs or use two devices, and try to post in two different threads at the same time?

Besides nuking bad posts, can karma do anything?

What's your favourite job in the original FF?

How much woodchucks could a wood chuck if a wood could chuck woodchucks?

What are those tiny (little more than dots) red bugs on the stones on my drive?

How do I post images? Is it [img] [/.img]?

What are admin notes, and does asking about them warrant having rumours about me started? Can I be told what The Matrix is?

Is there a user heatmap?
#90 Nov 16 2013 at 7:44 PM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
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I fear I'm a boring person. Have I managed to peeve off any admins or skirt getting warned about anything? Closest thing I can imagine was poking into the whole IGN/Affinity/ZAM thing once upon a time or the time I was bored and spamming OOT.

There is nothing in your admin notes officially, and I remember some grumpyness around the IGN thing, but the closest you ever came to getting warned and or yelled at was during the more recent forum redesign when you were fairly vocal about some of the design choices. I think it was either the quote widths or the overall display or something like that. At any rate something in those particular posts really set someone who shall remain nameless but wasn't myself off and they actually wanted me to mute you for a while over something that had no merit whatsoever, to which I replied something along the lines of "are you absolutly @#%^ing insane? Do you want to just destroy the forum and be done with it?" and they relented. I didn't mention it at the time because you were somewhat irritated as it was, and I didn't want to make things worse.

I think you also annoyed Fleven once with an image of some sort, but I forget what that was. Other than that, not that I can think of.

Lol, [:yawn:]

It's ok, SPG's secret admin notes are probably all compliments.

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#91 Nov 16 2013 at 7:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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What happens if I open two tabs or use two devices, and try to post in two different threads at the same time?

edit: forgot this one: If they were identical content in the same thread from two devices, one would error out with a duplicate post message. If they were different content it would just write two different posts with the exact same timestamp in two different threads. Thats actually one of the tactics some of our spammer robot friends use to try and flood the place, not realizing we just ban the user account if that happens.

Besides nuking bad posts, can karma do anything?
There are various levels of Nuke associated with it. an admin nuke is just a bigger version of the same -2.00 nuke that applies after two consecutive user 1.00 rates on a given thread. Beyond that, it's not designed to do much else. There used to different karma rates you could assign, 1.00 through 6.00, but almost no one ever used the middle ones.

What's your favourite job in the original FF?
Whichever one translates into "ranger"

How much woodchucks could a wood chuck if a wood could chuck woodchucks?
It depends, are we talking the entire lifetime of a single woodchuck? or just how much at a given time? or the entirety of all wood chucked by all woodchucks?
What are those tiny (little more than dots) red bugs on the stones on my drive?
Stone mites. Be careful, they will eat through your nose hairs!

How do I post images? Is it [img] [/.img]?
You don't directly post an image unless you ar an admin. The only available user image posting method is uploading the image using "your imageds" then posting the [img=##### ] tag for whatever image you uploded.

What are admin notes, and does asking about them warrant having rumours about me started? Can I be told what The Matrix is?
Admin notes are the user account specific notes fields that admins put notes about a various poster. For example, your redacted for security purposes admin notes say:
Admin Notes:
Signup IP: xx.xx.xxx.xx
Signup Time: Tue May 22 13:55:44 2012
Watch this user, they may in fact be a spy for the Lithuanian Mafia!


And no one can tell you what the Matrix is, you have to experiance it for yourself! (because telling you it's just a giant computer simulation ran by crazy and inimical AI's would be too easy)
Is there a user heatmap?


Sort of. there is a top 250 posters map.
http://www.zam.com/cgi-bin/top250.pl

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 5:56pm by Kaolian
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#92 Nov 16 2013 at 7:58 PM Rating: Excellent
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May my personnel file be redacted?


Are you sure you want me to post yours? there are a couple things in yours actually...
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#93 Nov 16 2013 at 8:03 PM Rating: Excellent
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Zorvan wrote:
Having come back to these forums recently, I have only one question:

Where's Piko?

Well, her account is still flagged as admin, so I assume she still works here, but I haven't seen here recently either. I do know she has been really involved with her other sites promoting enders game and the hunger games, and she apperently got to meet Harrison Ford, which is totally not fair. Beyond that, I dunno? she was hired as an admin just before I was, so if she is gone, that means there are only a couple people that had admin before me left. which is scary.


While it's still flagged as admin, it's more just honorary. Our Pikko's gone on to much bigger bentos with her Game/Games sites.

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How old are all of you admins, and do you have beards? Are those things related? If you do have beards, what kind, and do they have names?

I've always thought mods should have beards. Even the female mods.


I'm 27 and I do indeed have a beard. I don't think such a thing is necessarily related, but that's just my opinion. Mine's just kind of a scruffy, pre-lumberjack sort of thing, and I don't have a name for it, though I am open to suggestions.

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What happens if I open two tabs or use two devices, and try to post in two different threads at the same time?

Besides nuking bad posts, can karma do anything?

What's your favourite job in the original FF?

How much woodchucks could a wood chuck if a wood could chuck woodchucks?

What are those tiny (little more than dots) red bugs on the stones on my drive?

How do I post images? Is it [img] [/.img]?

What are admin notes, and does asking about them warrant having rumours about me started? Can I be told what The Matrix is?

Is there a user heatmap?


1) Did you ever watch the 2009 Star Trek movie with the Romulans using Red Matter to cause black holes? Probably not that.

2) Can cause many, many people to get emotional for no real reason.

3) Fighter, because swordchucks yo.

4) 42, which is the answer to all things.

5) Those would be mites, which aren't bugs, but arachnids and therefore relatives of the spider.

6) Yes

7) Admin notes are notes that are on all accounts that let us know various bits of information, such as any indiscretions, when they took place, what actions were taken and by whom, etc. It's primarily there so that admins can assess someone's account without necessarily needing to get in touch with an admin who has dealt with the individual before. Asking about your own would likely not cause issues, but obviously we couldn't divulge another member's without their permission.

And no, no one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to experience it for yourself.

8) Kao's always stealing maps, so if there is, he's probably got it.

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 9:18pm by Vlorsutes

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 9:19pm by Vlorsutes
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:

Zorvan wrote:
Having come back to these forums recently, I have only one question:

Where's Piko?

Well, her account is still flagged as admin, so I assume she still works here, but I haven't seen here recently either. I do know she has been really involved with her other sites promoting enders game and the hunger games, and she apperently got to meet Harrison Ford, which is totally not fair. Beyond that, I dunno? she was hired as an admin just before I was, so if she is gone, that means there are only a couple people that had admin before me left. which is scary.


While it's still flagged as admin, it's more just honorary. Our Pikko's gone on to much bigger bentos with her Game/Games sites.

Demoncard wrote:
How old are all of you admins, and do you have beards? Are those things related? If you do have beards, what kind, and do they have names?

I've always thought mods should have beards. Even the female mods.


I'm 27 and I do indeed have a beard. I don't think such a thing is necessarily related, but that's just my opinion. Mine's just kind of a scruffy, pre-lumberjack sort of thing, and I don't have a name for it, though I am open to suggestions.

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 9:06pm by Vlorsutes


I am now saddened to note I spelled her name wrong.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:



Also, how many posts of mine have been nuked? 10? 20?


I have no quick way of finding that info. i'd have to sort through 425 pages of posts and count them. So lets just say 14?
Sort by karma, and calculate by amount of pages with negative scores. Anyone can do this. My old account had 202 nuked posts, outside of journals (640 including journals Smiley: laugh).

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#98 Nov 16 2013 at 9:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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#99 Nov 16 2013 at 9:21 PM Rating: Good
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Did you just into Kao's post, Vlor? Hao

I thought that film was a flop, and didn't see it. I made the mistake of reading reviews and listening to those quasi intellectual film critic type characters talk about it until I concluded it was probably as bad as the Garfield film. I could say the same of a lot of reboots.

Is this one of those people who get emotional over karma?

Edited, Nov 16th 2013 10:37pm by Demoncard
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The actual physical corporeal shell of Clstr 7, in all it's mac servery evilness is presently residing as a coffee table somewhere in Nizdaar's house. The malevolent evil AI entity that is Clstr 7 though is alive and well, living in the evil AI witness protection program. Last I heard it was running some sort of point to point teleportation device testing facility in an abandoned cake factory for the Apature Science corporation.
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Are you considering allowing users to rate a user a different direction if, at a later time, they say something that clarifies their previous post and you realize you just rated them down for nothing?

Will you be doing away with the karma system's up vote/down vote in favor of a likes/dislikes system where anonymity isn't an issue? Once someone is at sub-default or excellent, you have no idea if they are still getting rated up or down. In fact, when I see excellent posts, I just leave them alone because, barring new posters, they aren't going to see a visible change in my rate up. I'd like to know how many times a certain post has been rated up, at the very least.

Do you plan on merging the class and job forums in the FF14 section? There is little to no activity on almost all of them anyways: discussion largely takes place in General.

Do you plan on adding any other perks to premium? Right now, all I'd gain is the ability to change my avatar to a custom image (something most forums offer for free)? Everything else is superfluous. Would love to contribute because I spend a lot of time here but paying money for a pretty picture doesn't quite seal the deal!

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