Top Gun

I drink, I just don't get drunk. I try to buy beer that's good enough that I don't want to kill the experience by guzzling it.

It's cute when people who couldn't analyze their way out of a paper bag try to talk shop. I mean I know even the barest minimum about UC Gundam and I was still substantially invested in it. That takes chops.

Never been, so wouldn't know.

Honestly you can just answer "Everything" and save yourself the viewing time.

once appeared on To Catch a Predator.

Yeah itsa a was fun.

Do you ever fucking turn off? Like I consider myself fairly progressive, but sweet Jesus man.

Hey I hear there's this amazing technology called private messages that lets you contact a single user. Could be just a myth though.

Just from a brief check, SMF is still being actively developed, with a new beta version of 2.1 having dropped within the past month. It may not be particularly scalable, but it's not exactly a dead project or anything.

What exactly is the bottleneck? The actual database calls? I have another forum that's been using SMF for an eternity; I could ask them what sort of hardware they're hosted on as a comparison point.

If this was about hate-banning and/or boning, trust me, I have far tastier targets on my list. (I mean have you seen Zeni's pics? No thank you.) It's the idea of having a basic code of social conduct users are expected to follow, and how when one person violates that code what is literally hundreds of times over, they've kinda proven that they're an active detriment to a community and need to go find somewhere else to play. I mean when I think of letting Zeni or Tic back in here, that old adage about the definition of insanity comes to mind. Hell, it's a minor miracle that moose was finally shown the door, and that still took, what, something like 40 psychotic meltdowns?

I guess there is a pretty massive overlap between WWE fans and his voting base.

What, are you afraid that you won't be able to confess your deep, passionate attraction to Zeni if he's not around? Far be it from me to stand between anyone and true love. Carry on, then.

No, he's still making threads. Lucky us.

Getting that as a rank reward is like winning a scratch-off lottery ticket that immediately punches you in the dick.

Never heard of 'im.

It continues to amaze me how much of a living, breathing stereotype you are.

Who are you, exactly?

You must be a barrel of laughs to have a conversation with mochi.

I'm just endlessly amused that they're using the Superhuman Samurai Syber Squad name.

There's one line from Rocket Power that always sticks in my head: "You used a lawn mower on your carpet! Twice!" "...it grew back!"

By that definition I've been old since I was 10.

Yeah, it was actually readable.

Or I guess you could ignore someone who knows what the hell they're talking about and wants to make this place better in lieu of, I dunno, letting a bunch of total crotchstains run rampant all over the place. I mean christ, who do I have to suck off to get a competent moderation policy? Because I have a bottle of Scope ready to go here.

For what has to be the fourth or fifth time, it's not a matter of "hating" someone. Yes, I think Zeni is a pathetic waste of oxygen whom no rational actor would want to spend more than five minutes interacting with. But that's entirely beside the point. An impartial observer would tell you straight to your face that a user who has never made any sort of positive contributions to a community, who regularly posts borderline-pedophilic insinuations, whose first act after getting unbanned was to spam the hell out of the forum index with useless drivel, has lost the privilege to participate here. Do you really want a new user to stumble across this place, wander into FFA, and see an entire board index full of Zeni? Like, is that the sort of community you're trying to promote? Because I hate to tell you, but no one in their right mind would want to dive into that hot mess. It doesn't matter whether or not the community is "of one single mind." A), that's impossible, and B), it doesn't matter, because we're not moderators. YOU are. So moderate! What more data could you possibly need? Were literally more than a decade's worth of unchanging posts not enough for you? I have literally no comprehension as to how any sort of additional sitting-on-of-hands is warranted. He has never changed, and he will never change. As someone who has actually done rocket science, this isn't rocket science. Someone posts shit, you ban them, we all move on with our days. I have been participating on forums for over 15 years, I've seen a lot of good moderators work, hell, I've even moderated myself. This is about as clear-cut of a case as you will ever see, and I simply cannot understand how you can't see that. Like, this is the dirty little secret of the ASMB: it was frequently a really shitty place to post, and I place that blame squarely on the original setup and policies that founded it. For a long while we had enough good posters around to mitigate those factors, but as enough of them left over the years the festering underbelly began to assert itself. And by that point you guys had already established that you wouldn't use long-term bans for pretty much anything, and it wouldn't matter anyway because of that absurd infinite-alt policy that rendered any one particular account pretty much worthless. You have your own forum here, a fresh start, and yet you're continuing the same policies that eventually led to the clusterfuck that was NodeBB. And it frustrates the hell out of me to see you not take any concrete lessons from that.