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And if ANYONE wants to stage a protest because of this decision, then knock yourself out. If you feel the need to choose between "Wes" and "this mess", then go ahead and choose.
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Oh....easy there Governor....your talking like I side swiped your vette or something. Whatever your crisis is now I didn't mean to make it worse with my comments. I only said a sit out, not a complete walk out or anything about making choices between Wes and your website. I know how to demonstrate peacefully Rich and you have plenty of mods dressed in full riot gear in case it gets out of hand. Lets see what happens shall we?

I'll be sitting out on Fauna for the next two days, if ANYONE wants to join me thats their decision. But I don't need ANYONE else to do what I need to do nor am I asking ANYONE to join me. I'm doing this not in protest of fauna and its rules, but rather in honor of a guy that I feel made this place a whole lot safer from bona fide bad guys and generally just more entertaining to be a part of.

Catch you in 48 hours....

One last thing...has it ever dawned on you that when you initially suspend someone that perhaps a "cooling off period" is in order before they can become reinstated to post? How many times have you suspended someone only to have them immediately come back to continue what caused their suspension? I mean, for chrissake, even a jail has a drunk tank to sleep it off for 24 hours before you can be on your way again.
 
Marcia, I am not even sure he does. And not because of Rich, he respects him. Thats all I will say on that. :raspberry
I was trying to say my peace of what I knew of the situation. I am happy to see, though, that I am not the only one that will miss him here. :bolt01:
 
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Oh....easy there Governor....your talking like I side swiped your vette or something. Whatever your crisis is now I didn't mean to make it worse with my comments. I only said a sit out, not a complete walk out or anything about making choices between Wes and your website. I know how to demonstrate peacefully Rich and you have plenty of mods dressed in full riot gear in case it gets out of hand. Lets see what happens shall we?

I'll be sitting out on Fauna for the next two days, if ANYONE wants to join me thats their decision. But I don't need ANYONE else to do what I need to do nor am I asking ANYONE to join me. I'm doing this not in protest of fauna and its rules, but rather in honor of a guy that I feel made this place a whole lot safer from bona fide bad guys and generally just more entertaining to be a part of.
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No crisis here, Bill. I'm just telling you the way it is here now. I am making it plain to everyone that I'm not putting up with the crap any longer, no matter who it is from and what the reasons behind it. The point of this thread, as far as I can tell, is to try to second guess my decision about some "guy" who proved he was not compatible with the stricter enforcement of the rules here lately. If you find that worthy of "honor" then that is your decision to make. If you feel that some entertainment value has been lost with his absence, then so be it. Personally, I have decided that "entertainment" is not a goal I want to strive for with this site.
 
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Then get rid of neil and all will be fair and well. :dgrin:
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Sorry, but I find it difficult to believe that anyone would feel that retroactive stricter enforcement of the rules would be fair at all.
 
Jim O said:
Ummm....Rich?

His name is Chuck. :>poke2<:
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So it is......... Thank you.

But unless "Chuck" or "Critical Bill" drops that statement in his user title:
Die Dynes Die
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I will be changing it to something else. Like Fined & Suspended........ And he is getting awfully close to the 100 point ejection limit.

I can see that I am going to have to create a catchall warning that says something along the lines of:

ANYTHING at all that the moderators or admin consider as generally abusive in nature of this site or the members (either past or present) within. Evidently I need that to catch the loopholes that some people seem keen on searching out and exploiting.
 
Ok I'm Lost Now

Rich, I am starting to understand the hows and whys of this new turn over, but what I don't understand is why is it that The people Wes made go away can come back with new name and lose all their warning points ???? maybe it just me but this doesn't sit right in the scheme of things JMO
 
Huh-whu?

Rich, I am starting to understand the hows and whys of this new turn over, but what I don't understand is why is it that The people Wes made go away can come back with new name and lose all their warning points ???? maybe it just me but this doesn't sit right in the scheme of things JMO
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And just who are those "people" you are referring to? Are they actively posting now? For the record, I am quite grief-stricken with regard to Wes' absence even though I think his ousting was a long time coming. I only wish I had the opportunity to say goodbye.
 
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Rich, I am starting to understand the hows and whys of this new turn over, but what I don't understand is why is it that The people Wes made go away can come back with new name and lose all their warning points ???? maybe it just me but this doesn't sit right in the scheme of things JMO
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Details, please. Sorry, but I don't keep tabs of everyone on this site, and certainly do not take the time to verify identities of each new registration.

Did this happen SINCE the "get tough" policy has been implemented, or are you talking about historical references? If it was prior to the tightening of policy here, then sorry, I am not interested to hear about it. A LOT of people got away with a LOT of stuff before that. Sorry, but I am not making the tightening up retroactive.
 
Rich I'm talking about Since The toughing up Chris above just became a New Member today or yesterday he use to be Boapit Just an observation Not trying to cause trouble just looking out :) and was curious
 
Oh and I meant no disrespect To Chris I was just wondering about The new name so to speak and the warning points nothing more or less
 
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Rich I'm talking about Since The toughing up Chris above just became a New Member today or yesterday he use to be Boapit Just an observation Not trying to cause trouble just looking out  and was curious

For your information, I was never ejected from this site and certainly didn't leave because of Wes, even though it was in HIS best interest. Also, "boapit" was simply my user name. My posts were always signed "chris kennard" as required by the TOS. Therefore, I have changed nothing. I merely dropped the username to display my name in its place.

CHRIS KENNARD
 
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Rich I'm talking about Since The toughing up Chris above just became a New Member today or yesterday he use to be Boapit Just an observation Not trying to cause trouble just looking out  and was curious

For your information, I was never ejected from this site and certainly didn't leave because of Wes, even though it was in HIS best interest. Also, "boapit" was simply my user name. My posts were always signed "chris kennard" as required by the TOS. Therefore, I have changed nothing. I merely dropped the username to display my name in its place.

CHRIS KENNARD
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Dude Chill I never said you were, all I was saying was since you drop Boapit and came back as Chris You have no warning points Hmmmmm Maybe I should do that :rofl: Not....
 
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Dude Chill I never said you were, all I was saying was since you drop Boapit and came back as Chris You have no warning points Hmmmmm Maybe I should do that :rofl: Not....
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Well this is a problem. The system does have the capability to merge user names (in other words take one registered name and copy NEARLY all pertinent info into the destination name). However it does not accommodate some of the hacks done to this system over the years. Warning points are one of the hacks that are not recognized by this process. I just went and merged Boapit into Chris Kennard just to see for myself what would happen. Sure enough, the posts followed along, but the warning points got dropped in the process.

Yep, it's a flaw in the system, and not sure how easy it will be to fix. I've contacted my programmer about it to see what he can come up with.

Best I can do is to ask everyone to keep their eyes open for new registrations that are of past active members here so I can try to limit this as much as possible.

Sorry, but the developers of vBulletin didn't have all of my future plans in mind when they designed this software. :)
 
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Best I can do is to ask everyone to keep their eyes open for new registrations that are of past active members here so I can try to limit this as much as possible.
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Anaconda Al and CloudNine for one pair. I doubt that he's coming back, but one of his ID's is banned, the other "suspended". The total is well over 100 points.
 
WebSlave said:
Well this is a problem. The system does have the capability to merge user names (in other words take one registered name and copy NEARLY all pertinent info into the destination name). However it does not accommodate some of the hacks done to this system over the years. Warning points are one of the hacks that are not recognized by this process. I just went and merged Boapit into Chris Kennard just to see for myself what would happen. Sure enough, the posts followed along, but the warning points got dropped in the process.

Yep, it's a flaw in the system, and not sure how easy it will be to fix. I've contacted my programmer about it to see what he can come up with.

Best I can do is to ask everyone to keep their eyes open for new registrations that are of past active members here so I can try to limit this as much as possible.

Sorry, but the developers of vBulletin didn't have all of my future plans in mind when they designed this software. :)
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To my understanding, it is (was) not against the rules to have multiple user accounts unless it was done to bypass a suspension. Perhaps the same rule should apply to bypassing warning points in general? I think that's what you're getting at here, but I suggest it might be best to spell it out with the rest of the rules. For example, I don't think it would violate any existing rules for me to start a new user name and lose my warning pts. No, I have have no intentions of ever doing that, I'm just saying that I suppose someone nearing 100 pts. might though.
 
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