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Tue 09/04/02 at 16:56
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Posts: 787
They annoy and annoy and wreck topics.oh yeah and spam.
and they think they can pull the wall over our eyes and imagine nothing ever happened. and when they get banned, they come back and do it again. only the rare few learn their lesson. however going through today's events, around 2pm in the playstation longest thread, i realised spammers or newbies bring a special something to this website.
or 2 things to be accurate so here it gos.

1)They spam. i thought this was a bad thing. well yes but not if they bump up your topic number of replys.
obviously this is only good for topics like longest threads
(and how many newbies have made them again and again!)
otherwise their abilities are useless and unwanted

2)They amuse us with their indirect knowledge of how to make good posts or such things. Just today at around 2pm in the playstation longest thread, we had a newbie called Gorefest who was going around insulting everyone in the forum. Then he thought he could hide from us by changing his name to Cuboid. and he would have got away with it, if he wasn't so stupid as to keep his unique tagline.
and he tryed denying he was Gorefest for 15 minutes until he realised his tagline gave him away.
Current status: sure to be banned
Another newbie called Matless was continuously swearing at other regulars. So we threaten him with the banning buttons and watching him grovel for forgiveness was as funny as hell. he looks like he's changing his ways so
Current status: saved by the grin of his teeth.

so there you go. Although no-one likes spammers/newbies they can provide hours of fun. But the bottom line is some newbies deserve a second chance. sadly most of them don't
*cough cough alex+daxter*

so if you have any newbies/spammers you want to embarass greatly, do it here.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:27
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"Jog on, sunshine"
Posts: 8,979
I think there is a post in FOG chat somewhere abou this. Me and Jimmy Duck decided that we would do something about it.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:21
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mandatare wrote:
>one newbie down, about 300 to go.

Although the events of this afternoon have brought us much pleasure I think that statement isn't very well thought out. Just remember that we were all newbies once upon a time and could easily fallen into the trap of the regulars.

But now we are regulars don't think that every newbie deserves to be banned, there are some good ones out there it's just a case of finding them and then making sure they dont screw up.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:14
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i'd say the con's far out weight the pro's.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:06
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Posts: 5,550
nh wrote:
> Yes it has been an eventful afternoon - but you have missed one thing here and
> that is that Matless is Alex and Daxter.

Maybe he is having a change of heart
> as he has calmed down a tad.

i hope so.
one newbie down, about 300 to go.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:05
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"Bounty housewife..."
Posts: 5,257
Microchips wrote:
> mandatare wrote:
and he would have got away with it, if he wasn't so stupid as
> to
> keep his unique tagline.
Thank-you! That ws me who spotted that,
> using my 'good' eyes. Check out the Ninty WLT. His apology to you is quite
> funny! He called you manderate!!

I'm going to check out the apology in a minute - in the meantime all I did was went down the topic to Gorefest and clicked the stats and there was the neme Cuboid - It wasn't too difficult to suss him out.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:05
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"Conversation Killer"
Posts: 5,550
Microchips wrote:
> mandatare wrote:
and he would have got away with it, if he wasn't so stupid as
> to
> keep his unique tagline.
Thank-you! That ws me who spotted that,
> using my 'good' eyes. Check out the Ninty WLT. His apology to you is quite
> funny! He called you manderate!!

i just read it. everyone seems to spell my name wrong for some reason even when they reply and it says my name up the top of the screen.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:02
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"Bounty housewife..."
Posts: 5,257
Yes it has been an eventful afternoon - but you have missed one thing here and that is that Matless is Alex and Daxter.

Maybe he is having a change of heart as he has calmed down a tad.
Tue 09/04/02 at 17:01
Regular
"Jog on, sunshine"
Posts: 8,979
mandatare wrote:
and he would have got away with it, if he wasn't so stupid as to
> keep his unique tagline.
Thank-you! That ws me who spotted that, using my 'good' eyes. Check out the Ninty WLT. His apology to you is quite funny! He called you manderate!!
Tue 09/04/02 at 16:56
Regular
"Conversation Killer"
Posts: 5,550
They annoy and annoy and wreck topics.oh yeah and spam.
and they think they can pull the wall over our eyes and imagine nothing ever happened. and when they get banned, they come back and do it again. only the rare few learn their lesson. however going through today's events, around 2pm in the playstation longest thread, i realised spammers or newbies bring a special something to this website.
or 2 things to be accurate so here it gos.

1)They spam. i thought this was a bad thing. well yes but not if they bump up your topic number of replys.
obviously this is only good for topics like longest threads
(and how many newbies have made them again and again!)
otherwise their abilities are useless and unwanted

2)They amuse us with their indirect knowledge of how to make good posts or such things. Just today at around 2pm in the playstation longest thread, we had a newbie called Gorefest who was going around insulting everyone in the forum. Then he thought he could hide from us by changing his name to Cuboid. and he would have got away with it, if he wasn't so stupid as to keep his unique tagline.
and he tryed denying he was Gorefest for 15 minutes until he realised his tagline gave him away.
Current status: sure to be banned
Another newbie called Matless was continuously swearing at other regulars. So we threaten him with the banning buttons and watching him grovel for forgiveness was as funny as hell. he looks like he's changing his ways so
Current status: saved by the grin of his teeth.

so there you go. Although no-one likes spammers/newbies they can provide hours of fun. But the bottom line is some newbies deserve a second chance. sadly most of them don't
*cough cough alex+daxter*

so if you have any newbies/spammers you want to embarass greatly, do it here.

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