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Kranar
03-07-2008, 07:33 PM
I've made changes to user registration to make it harder for previously banned members to create new accounts. The idea is essentially to make it more of a hassle for someone to create a new account than it is for staff members to repeatedly ban the same individual over and over.

Depending on how much of a problem it becomes, creating a new account might become harder, all the way up to requiring individual approval of every new account.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Bobmuhthol
03-07-2008, 07:34 PM
Your Super Mods publicly think it's perfectly okay for banned users to create new accounts and continue posting. This change is unwarranted!

Stanley Burrell
03-07-2008, 07:35 PM
What was that recent spate about, or is it not worth it? I saw some posts flash before my eyes.

Drew
03-07-2008, 08:11 PM
That dude gs1481158015715803 was making a billion accounts, it was really annoying.

Kranar
03-08-2008, 11:57 PM
A tiny oversight on my part... I have now disabled personal messaging features for new registrations that have not been validated.

AestheticDeath
03-09-2008, 12:00 AM
Whoever this person is, they have a TON of free time.

diethx
03-09-2008, 12:00 AM
A tiny oversight on my part... I have now disabled personal messaging features for new registrations that have not been validated.

Good deal. I think I was getting every one of that idiot's PMs, except the ones he only sent to people who responded, heh.

Whimsi
03-09-2008, 12:05 AM
lol wonder who this is: http://forum.gsplayers.com/member.php?u=4501

Ilvane
03-09-2008, 12:08 AM
Same person, but he's right..he should be done.;)

AestheticDeath
03-09-2008, 12:41 AM
But who was it?! I doubt you can say who, or would. But do you at least know?

Skeeter
03-09-2008, 12:52 AM
When situations like this occur I always blame Methais.

Aaysia
03-09-2008, 10:27 AM
Good deal. I think I was getting every one of that idiot's PMs, except the ones he only sent to people who responded, heh.

I don't remember responding to any of his idiocy.. yet I got a PM too.

Elvenlady
03-09-2008, 11:05 AM
Same here.

Ilvane
03-09-2008, 11:33 AM
But who was it?! I doubt you can say who, or would. But do you at least know?

Yep! :)

Angela

Parkbandit
03-09-2008, 11:55 AM
You should just do away with the way people Backlash around her (making multiple accounts). If you can't post something for fear of us making fun of your stupidity.. perhaps this isn't the forum for you.

Gan
03-09-2008, 12:16 PM
Now I'm really curious to know who it was.

I suppose if its a regular poster, then we'll notice the bannination.

If it was GS41234... which is an obvious choice then it begs the question, was GS41234... a moniker for a regular poster.

:thinking:

diethx
03-09-2008, 04:06 PM
I don't remember responding to any of his idiocy.. yet I got a PM too.

...

I said I was getting all of the PMs he was sending except the ones he only sent to people who responded (to the original PMs he sent). You didn't need to respond to the first PM in order to get that first PM, heh.

For example, he sent a short message first about being Andraste and "paper-thin roleplaying", and when people responded with "You have the wrong person" or "WTF are you talking about?", instead of ignoring him, he responded with another LONG drawn out PM on which he spent way way way too much time being pathetic. Because I didn't respond to any of the PMs I got, I didn't get the long response ones.

Nieninque
03-09-2008, 04:53 PM
That's not quite true, I replied with a four letter word beginning with c and ending in unt, but his options were set to not receive PM's.

As such, you couldnt actually send PMs, anyway. He is/was a random prick with far too much time on his hands and a shoe size immensely larger than his IQ.

Methais
03-09-2008, 04:57 PM
When situations like this occur I always blame Methais.

Sorry :(

diethx
03-09-2008, 08:07 PM
I was just going off of the comments by others who said they PM'd with those responses and then got the long drawn out explanation. I didn't respond to him or get that one, so I don't know how it was first hand :)


He is/was a random prick with far too much time on his hands and a shoe size immensely larger than his IQ.

Sadly, too true.

Whimsi
03-09-2008, 09:55 PM
He is/was a random prick with far too much time on his hands and a shoe size immensely larger than his IQ.

He'll probably manage to turn this into a compliment on the size of his manhood. He does, after all, seem to enjoy self-delusion.

TheEschaton
03-09-2008, 10:30 PM
I didn't manage to get one of these PMs, I feel lft out. :(

Makkah
03-09-2008, 10:38 PM
Heroin is a hell of a drug.

Nieninque
03-09-2008, 10:40 PM
He'll probably manage to turn this into a compliment on the size of his manhood. He does, after all, seem to enjoy self-delusion.

After I pressed "post" I came to the realisation that my comment could probably apply to 90% of the PC contributors.

:shrug:

Some Rogue
07-17-2011, 03:46 PM
I've made changes to user registration to make it harder for previously banned members to create new accounts. The idea is essentially to make it more of a hassle for someone to create a new account than it is for staff members to repeatedly ban the same individual over and over.

Depending on how much of a problem it becomes, creating a new account might become harder, all the way up to requiring individual approval of every new account.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

I'd love to see this happen right about now...

diethx
07-17-2011, 06:33 PM
I'd love to see this happen right about now...

Agreed, but I'm also not a mod and therefore dealing with the hassle of approving each new account wouldn't be my problem. I've modded for other forums and I know that can be a HUGE pain in the ass, so I wouldn't really expect to see it.

But yeah, it'd be pretty awesome.

Rinualdo
07-18-2011, 12:30 AM
Are there really new users signing up that aren't IW?

Dugoar
07-18-2011, 12:44 AM
What about some kind of referral system? So any new user has to get approved by a current user.

Then if the new user turns out to be IW then they both get banned, or at least the referrer has some explaining to do.

This way rather than all new users having to get mod approved, they just have to get approved by the user referring them.

Haven't looked into it though. Maybe someone already made some vBulletin mods to do this. If not I suppose it probably requires significant code changes. Which may not be worth the trouble.

Latrinsorm
07-18-2011, 02:17 PM
Are there really new users signing up that aren't IW?The PC is like 60% lurkers. I heard all they do is look at your specific posts. Just having a look, getting their look on.

:|

Gnome Rage
07-18-2011, 02:21 PM
Did IW's new account get banned yet?

Androidpk
07-18-2011, 02:46 PM
I don't know why people get a hard on over having IW banned when Inspire is free to roam and troll and scam. He is far more of a disruption than IW ever was.

Tgo01
07-18-2011, 02:47 PM
I don't think anyone will lose sleep if Inspire was banned also.

diethx
07-18-2011, 02:48 PM
I don't think anyone will lose sleep if Inspire was banned also.

:yeahthat:

Drew
07-18-2011, 05:55 PM
I don't know why people get a hard on over having IW banned when Inspire is free to roam and troll and scam. He is far more of a disruption than IW ever was.

Agreed.

NeJaeden
07-30-2011, 02:06 PM
I don't know why people get a hard on over having IW banned when Inspire is free to roam and troll and scam. He is far more of a disruption than IW ever was.


Agreed.

This is highly appreciated.

Sam
07-30-2011, 02:16 PM
ohnoes

Asha
07-30-2011, 02:59 PM
This is highly appreciated.

That doesn't mean you were not a disruption.
Besides, being told you're less of a cock than Inspire doesn't really mean you're anything other than a piece of shit at best.

Parkbandit
07-30-2011, 03:57 PM
That doesn't mean you were not a disruption.
Besides, being told you're less of a cock than Inspire doesn't really mean you're anything other than a piece of shit at best.

Being better than Inspire at anything really isn't setting the bar high at all.

Seriously IW.. you have problems.

NeJaeden
07-30-2011, 03:58 PM
Being better than Inspire at anything really isn't setting the bar high at all.

Seriously IW.. you have problems.

one of those problems is not being registered as a Republican, fortunately

hoeahoehoahoeahoeahoaehoea

Parkbandit
07-30-2011, 04:01 PM
one of those problems is not being registered as a Republican, fortunately

hoeahoehoahoeahoeahoaehoea

No. One of those problems is that you can't stay away from a place that has permanently banned you.

With the type of addictive disorder you clearly have.. you should take up hard liquor and really go for the BA record. I think it's 5.0

You can do it! If not for you and all the glory/attention you would gain by doing it.. do it for your kid.

NeJaeden
07-30-2011, 04:06 PM
No. One of those problems is that you can't stay away from a place that has permanently banned you.

With the type of addictive disorder you clearly have.. you should take up hard liquor and really go for the BA record. I think it's 5.0

You can do it! If not for you and all the glory/attention you would gain by doing it.. do it for your kid.

I'm sure the same was suggested for you.. but prohibition was in effect during your youth so that wouldn't have been an option.

Asha
07-30-2011, 04:08 PM
I'm sure the same was suggested for you.. but prohibition was in effect during your youth so that wouldn't have been an option.

That one has been done. You fail.

diethx
08-20-2011, 06:43 PM
Depending on how much of a problem it becomes, creating a new account might become harder, all the way up to requiring individual approval of every new account.

So... how about this? I know Anticor is up for the job (on weekdays).

Inspire
08-20-2011, 06:50 PM
So... how about this? I know Anticor is up for the job (on weekdays).

Kranar, I'd like to suggest that you ban people who no longer play Gemstone.

Especially fat ass trolls like Diethx who only spam and harass actual players.

People forget this is the GS4 players corner.

diethx
08-20-2011, 06:51 PM
Kranar, I'd like to suggest that you ban people who no longer play Gemstone.

Especially fat ass trolls like Diethx who only spam and harass actual players.

People forget this is the GS4 players corner.

Quoted before he realizes that this was the stupidest post of the month and edits it out to something nearly as stupid.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 06:56 PM
she's a person too, bro.

don't sink down to their level.. process negative energy.. create positive.. be..

Inspirational.

she needs to insult you. let her. even act perturbed by it. it must soothe them. contribute to their therapy.


She's not a person, she killed her own cat. Who does that?

Inspire
08-20-2011, 06:58 PM
She's the Doctor Kevorkian of cats.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:04 PM
lets give her the benefit of the doubt. she's the Dexter of cat killers.

clearly that cat was a murderer. she rid the world of it's evil. i have included the cat's pic so you can understand her motives.

http://www.baxterbarktwice.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/evil-1.jpg

she did us all a favor ridding the world of his vile presence. thanks, Steph. I can now sleep better tonight.

let your secret out so we can begin to thank you for your efforts. there are other cats out there steph. they have clawed their owners. they have sniffed indifferently at a generous helping of Meow Mix. they have pawed at the faces of countless innocent dogs. think of the justice you could establish in the world. THINK!


omg evil pussy!

waywardgs
08-20-2011, 07:06 PM
wow... these two... talking to each other... just wow.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:09 PM
wow... these two... talking to each other... just wow.

Blame the troll who bumped an old thread for no reason.

She's such a stupid cunt.

Androidpk
08-20-2011, 07:13 PM
So... how about this? I know Anticor is up for the job (on weekdays).

How about not?

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:17 PM
Let me be a moderator. I'll make people follow TOS.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:19 PM
Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts.


You wouldn't know it but these boards don't allow spam, (The posting of the same message over and over, even if quoted) or harassment, (basically the whole failworthy trollwagon.)

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:21 PM
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TheEschaton
08-20-2011, 07:40 PM
You realizing posting the same message days and days apart falls under no known definition of spam, right?

Androidpk
08-20-2011, 07:41 PM
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

If that were actually enforced a greater majority of PC users would be banned by now.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 07:49 PM
If that were actually enforced a greater majority of PC users would be banned by now.

QFT

waywardgs
08-20-2011, 07:55 PM
She's quoting something YOU wrote. It doesn't matter that you wish you hadn't written it. Own up for once.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 08:14 PM
She's quoting something YOU wrote. It doesn't matter that you wish you hadn't written it. Own up for once.

No regrets here. She's still a cat-killing fat ass spam troll who breaks TOS frequently on a message board for a game she doesn't even play.

waywardgs
08-20-2011, 08:44 PM
No regrets here. She's still a cat-killing fat ass spam troll who breaks TOS frequently on a message board for a game she doesn't even play.

Then why did you delete your original post?

Back
08-20-2011, 09:09 PM
I have no love for diethx. She went, and continues, to go straight for my throat without ever actually having had any interaction with me whatsoever. She is in that class of people who need to put others down so they feel better about themselves and needs to fit in with others like her.

But once you put something up on this board, or any other, its community property. Any text, AIM, PM, post, picture, video, whatever. In my opinion if you put it out there its out there and out there is public domain.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 09:11 PM
I have no love for diethx. She went, and continues, to go straight for my throat without ever actually having had any interaction with me whatsoever. She is in that class of people who need to put others down so they feel better about themselves and needs to fit in with others like her.

But once you put something up on this board, or any other, its community property. Any text, AIM, PM, post, picture, video, whatever. In my opinion if you put it out there its out there and out there is public domain.


Some people need to learn that not everything you read on the internetz is real.

waywardgs
08-20-2011, 09:32 PM
Some people need to learn that not everything you read on the internetz is real.

Wait, so are you claiming that post was fiction now?

Alfster
08-20-2011, 09:41 PM
I have no love for diethx. She went, and continues, to go straight for my throat without ever actually having had any interaction with me whatsoever.

LOL

Back
08-20-2011, 10:43 PM
LOL

Even you have to admit shes a miserable little cunt.

diethx
08-20-2011, 10:52 PM
Oh come on, I haven't made fun of your teeny tiny little baby penis in SO LONG.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 10:54 PM
Oh come on, I haven't made fun of your teeny tiny little baby penis in SO LONG.

Wow, you sleep around a lot don't you.

How many guys have you slept with from the PC? Fucking nasty whore.

diethx
08-20-2011, 10:55 PM
Wow, you sleep around a lot don't you.

How many guys have you slept with from the PC? Fucking nasty whore.

http://www.straferight.com/photopost/data/500/medium/double-facepalm.jpg

Rinualdo
08-20-2011, 10:56 PM
Wow, you sleep around a lot don't you.

How many guys have you slept with from the PC? Fucking nasty whore.

trololololo



Against my better judgement I'm going to write the following and tell you the truth about my life.

I'll start by saying that I'm a very private person. I grew up a Jehovahs Witness and unless you were part of the church you were considered to be a "worldly" person and a bad person. So growing up I had no friends because I was not allowed to play with anyone outside of the church.

When I became a teenager I found Gemstone and got hooked. It was an escape from a life that I didn't agree with. I was only allowed to play for an hour here or there and spent most of my time being a twat dragging bodies out of TSC to decay and whatnot. But having a place where I could be someone different than who I was forced to be was salvation.

Eventually I got out on my own and came back to GS. I played on and off for a few years, never really making any close friends. I was part of the Trophy Room gang when Debia, Jubuls, the original Tijay, Xak, etc used to hang there.

Anyway, fast forward about 9 years from there and it brings us to last year. I guess I should also tell you that I am a 28 year old bisexual male, I'm not a girl but it's sometimes fun to play around. I have been in a relationship for 4 years now with someone I care about very deeply. Unfortunately that person had a drinking problem and it got out of control. One night he decided to swallow a tube of pills and drink himself to death. I woke up at 4am to find him barely breathing. I called 911 and they rushed him to the hospital where he stayed for awhile. He went into rehab from there and got help for his drinking problem but I wasn't alright. His suicide attempt affected me in ways that I wasn't prepared for. I became severely depressed myself and sunk into gemstone like a tick. It was getting harder and harder for me to get out of bed in the morning and I started missing more and more work. I eventually was let go, which made me sink even further into GS.

Thankfully I was able to make silvers in the game and sell them to the PC community. Had it not been for all of you, I wouldn't have made it over the last year, financially or mentally. That is also part of the reason why Myklians changing was hard on me. I was using gemstone to survive and to pay my bills. It became a full time job. When Myklians were changed I realized my life was about to become much more difficult and I freaked out. I was already in a bad place because of the suicide attempt and I no longer knew how to deal with anything.

So where does that leave me now. Unfortunately I have a drug problem. I smoke marijuana every day. I don't like taking pills to be normal, so I turned to drugs to stabilize my mood and help me feel better. Most of the time I am alright, but every now and then I turn into an ugly monster, which is what you see from time to time on lnet.

So, this is the mess that is my life. Feel free to make fun of me now in typical PC fashion. I'm sorry if I have insulted you personally. Please know that it wasn't personal if I went off on you. I have a lot of problems that I don't know how to deal with or overcome. I have become someone that I don't want to be, so I am sorry if I have affected you negatively because of it.

Inspire
08-20-2011, 10:58 PM
After fucking 3 different guys and taking 12 loads at the glory hole. I returned home and strangled the life from my pussy cat.


QFT

Makkah
08-20-2011, 11:41 PM
What is a tube of pills? Shoulda been a bigger tube.

Back
08-20-2011, 11:57 PM
Oh come on, I haven't made fun of your teeny tiny little baby penis in SO LONG.

I do not find you: funny, charming, sane, attractive, smart, educated, swag, reliable, beautiful, intelligent, charming, successful, nice, witty, pithy, pleasing, brilliant, super, significant nor normal.

And the thought of even showing you my penis makes it shrivel.

Androidpk
08-21-2011, 12:01 AM
Wow, you sleep around a lot don't you.

How many guys have you slept with from the PC? Fucking nasty whore.

Just me.

TheEschaton
08-21-2011, 03:29 AM
Back....

You, Inspire, and IW are the only people on this board who like diethx less than you three. I could combine my like for all three of you and it wouldn't surpass my like of diethx. That's not to insinuate an infatuation with her, but rather an opinion on how low I view all three of you.

AnticorRifling
08-21-2011, 03:25 PM
After fucking 3 different guys and taking 12 loads at the glory hole. I returned home and strangled the life from my pussy cat.


QFT



You do realize that fake quotes like that are more harrasment and report worthy than anything you've ever reported right?

Back
08-21-2011, 03:31 PM
Back....

You, Inspire, and IW are the only people on this board who like diethx less than you three. I could combine my like for all three of you and it wouldn't surpass my like of diethx. That's not to insinuate an infatuation with her, but rather an opinion on how low I view all three of you.

You’re just pissed that I won that game of Diplomacy we played four years ago.

waywardgs
08-21-2011, 03:32 PM
You do realize that fake quotes like that are more harrasment and report worthy than anything you've ever reported right?

Please tell me he doesn't actually pm you about bullshit tos violations...

Asha
08-21-2011, 04:41 PM
Please tell me he does.

waywardgs
08-21-2011, 05:05 PM
Actually, yeah. Post them here.