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JayJhabrix
Inspiring
August 16, 2009
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14 posts deleted!

  • August 16, 2009
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Yup from the "Joke..." thread. These forums are rapidly going from the sublime to the ridiculous... specially with all these little, tin-pot Hitler's abounding.

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    Didn't know the 4th Reich had taken over here.  Seems like this place gets more pathetic every time I visit.

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    Kami_Bambiraptor
    Kami_Bambiraptor
    Participating Frequently
    August 17, 2009

    You know, before I saw this post, I was thinking to myself  "No, there could not have been so many posts deleted; it must be yet another Jive forum glitch. I know! I'll bet that when someone edits a post, this gets logged as a 'reply'. That would fit!", but, no.....apparently not! So I say gosh-wow! Will this post get deleted???

    Were I the forum hosts, when the complaints were coming from the everyone from the curmudgeons, to the pretty easy-going folk, to the ones who are very gently spoken, I would take notice, I would like to think.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    August 17, 2009

    Kami, this is what I wrote on the subject in the "Joke..." thread:


    Getting into a 32 message thread to find that it ends in message number 18 is disconcerting. And discouraging. Maybe those who were following the thread when those missing messages vanished know what happened, and hopefully they learned some positive lesson, although I doubt it. For the rest, this discrepancy in the number of messages leaves us puzzling: is this a new bug in the software (today I got 404 errors after four attempts!)? Or maybe a bug in the new moderators, who perhaps think that a private and hidden use of a guillotine serves some useful purpose? To their pride, may be. We have this wise saying in Spanish: vence quien convence, to win, you need to convince (in a free translation). With it's variant vences pero no convences, you may be dominating but you are not convincing. And this other one: la pluma es más fuerte que la espada, the pen is stronger than the sword.

    Phos_four_dots
    Phos_four_dots
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2009

    That was mostly my doing, Jay. I kept posting an "Up Yours!" image.

    I was waiting for video to render and had a jab at wasting some of Jochem's time.

    Sure wish I could've seen him fuming over it. Of course, he'll deny it caused him any distress at all.

    And I'll bet he'll be lying.

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    JayJhabrixAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 16, 2009

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    Anonymous
    August 16, 2009

    Maybe they ran out of server space......

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    Anonymous
    August 16, 2009

    I can understand why these people with the ability to delete posts are using this to control the tendency to post frivolous or abusive messages, but they should leave a note like the old hosts used to. This also serves as a warning to others to desist from such practices.


    The present "1984" style of obliteration is not moderating, it is annoying.


    <thinks>Oh, maybe they get some satisfaction out of being annoying!</thinks>

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    Anonymous
    August 16, 2009

    Truly unorthodoxy.

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