[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[Felch]

No change. Anarchy in the OT!

[self biased]

You do seem to post here an awful lot ... maybe it's true?

that was in my thread! i'm 'poly famous!

[Aeson]

Then the rules should be amended. It is unacceptable to call someone a pedophile. Even for fun.

From the general demeanor of the forum, I would suspect most of the posters here would like to preserve the right to call people pedophiles, nazis, panda-****ers, and other not-so-nice things. I'm willing to listen to rule change discussions though and act on consensus among active posters if there is any.

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

You do seem to post here an awful lot ... maybe it's true?

You - you- YOU- laid-back, spread-the-light, smiling-friendly person, you -- I CAN QUIT ANY TIME I LIKE!

MAKE A RULE, DAD! IT'S NOT FAIR THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING ME A PANDA ****ER AND A POLYTUBBIE IN THE SAME WEEK! AAAAAAAA! :wiglaf:

-Also, when Wiggy trolled me the other day, it wasn't much of a rant. Make him do better.

[Nikolai]

Then the rules should be amended. It is unacceptable to call someone a pedophile. Even for fun.

[Aeson]

This is unacceptable. Aeson, please handle this ASAP: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/2...=1#post6311685

I am sorry, but that doesn't violate any of the forum rules so long as it's kept to the OT.

[Aeson]

Some dirtbag called me a polytubbie here: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/2...=1#post6311586

You do seem to post here an awful lot ... maybe it's true?

[Aeson]

I really HATE captchas, and making newbs jump that hoop on first post, but they've saved us an awful lot of hassle at AC2.

Yah, we have captchas too. But with a PR5 forum there are people willing to pay top dollar for links, and that means either paying for real posters or captcha services that decode captchas (or pay people to do them) in near real-time.

I'll look into some other types of spam filters to reduce the workload ... I'm not real familiar with vB yet still. Should be a way to hold certain posts with specific keywords in moderation. Anyone know?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

Some dirtbag called me a polytubbie here: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/2...=1#post6311586

[Nikolai]

This is unacceptable. Aeson, please handle this ASAP: http://apolyton.net/showthread.php/2...=1#post6311685

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

I really HATE captchas, and making newbs jump that hoop on first post, but they've saved us an awful lot of hassle at AC2.

[Aeson]

I spent about a week on the transfer over, most of it learning about vBulletin and testing vB 5 (which we ended up not using yet). Not much time since. Just some spam cleanup and a few issues here or there that pop up. There's a lot of volunteer work keeping the forums cleaned up as it's a spam magnet.

The server runs $80/mo + $20 for a backup server. January ad income was ~$109. (It's a little hard to tell since there's adjustments made during final accounting which aren't attributed to specific sites, and I have a few other sites on that ad account.) I haven't paid much attention since.

[Sava]

Net is apparently very slightly +.

nice!

How much work is involved in maintenance?

[Buster Crabbe's Uncle]

She's pretty cute, too.

[Lorizael]

Also the owner's wife.