When I get banned...

[Ryojin]

Lovely.

[Jeff]

Originally Posted by Giz

I miss those days, I really do lol.

heh, remember Crash?

He stopped speaking to me (to this day) because I reprimanded him for banning someone simply for pissing him off.

[Mr. Matt]

Originally Posted by n0e

heh, remember Crash?

He stopped speaking to me (to this day) because I reprimanded him for banning someone simply for pissing him off.

Crash was amazing. Who gave that dude powers anyway?

[Jeff]

well he was fine at the start... (there's a LOT of drama that never made it to the forums about him)



Let's just say I've learned several lessons from that whole experience.

[Mr. Matt]

Originally Posted by n0e

well he was fine at the start... (there's a LOT of drama that never made it to the forums about him)



Let's just say I've learned several lessons from that whole experience.

Do tell!!!

[Ryojin]

I'm curious too.

[Arld]

Originally Posted by n0e

Despite popular belief, I rarely ban anyone.

but you, on the other hand, have been banned before =D

[Ensign Riles]

Originally Posted by n0e

Despite popular belief, I rarely ban anyone.

That may be true, but when you do, it's an absolute massacre.

[Totes]

Originally Posted by Giz

But you wouldn't have known it either. You'd get timeouts and errors and you'd just think the forums were having technical issues. We used to have a fun stealth banning system in place in the old days. Installed by none other than myself. It was great!

to clarify: the system worked off the users IP, and it would then simulate database errors, timeouts, etc, so the user was banned, but he/she thought the forums were just having issues of some sort.

we used it to get rid of popular users who were trouble makers (who deserved a ban) this way their 'following' didn't rebel because technically they didn't know. Clever eh? Oh we were all about the clever and fun back then.

Should have done this to jackripped.

[Giz]

Originally Posted by n0e

heh, remember Crash?

He stopped speaking to me (to this day) because I reprimanded him for banning someone simply for pissing him off.

Alan stroked his ego way too much which made him such a loose cannon when he returned for that couple of weeks.

Originally Posted by Totes

Should have done this to jackripped.

If he was a dick while I was an admin I probably would have (after a couple warnings though - I wasn't reckless or power abusive or anything like that, ask Mr. Matt ). Then again the community as a whole was different back then. I have no idea how the moderators/admins handle things this day and age. I'm just guessing a lot more civil and controlled.