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electrondady1:
hello david ,
it has been confusing !
a bit like the soviet union under stalin.
you know somethings going on but are afraid to ask.
it seems there was political purge,
maybe even an attempt at a coup d"etat
some disgruntled monitors and members (hard liners?) have started a copy cat site.
strange thing is ,they are using this site as a platform to promote it!
i never could figure out what irc was all about.
i think it's a place you can go to whip or get whipped.
i had to sign in this morning but no bigi
i like the new face lift on the forum.
cheers!
rossw:
--- Quote from: electrondady1 on January 12, 2012, 10:57:44 AM ---it seems there was political purge,
maybe even an attempt at a coup d"etat
some disgruntled monitors and members (hard liners?) have started a copy cat site.
strange thing is ,they are using this site as a platform to promote it!
--- End quote ---
There was never a coup d'etat.
Some people who felt passionately about the board, and the way it was being ignored finally got a response from the "home office".
Unfortunately, the response was a kneejerk reaction - and virtually all moderators and admins were demoted/ejected/sacked without notice.
Your so-called "copy-cat site" was simply an enthusiast trying to figure out what all the fuss was about the claims of great pain and suffering in a migration, and how hard SMF was to set up. It took virtually no time to set up. The changes here, and the possibility of putting some useful content on the alternate site, saw it very roughly set up and it went live later that day.
--- Quote ---i never could figure out what irc was all about.
i think it's a place you can go to whip or get whipped.
--- End quote ---
So rather than trying to figure it out, you (like so many others) lash out at, make entirely false assumptions about, and attack those things you don't understand.
I can see why they made you an admin. You have the same mindset.
For those who are capable of thinking for themselves, and have an interest in the appropriate use of technology, IRC predates *EVERY SINGLE WEB-BASED FORUM*.
IRC is basically a real-time chat system. It supports a large number of people who can discuss a wide variety of things with eachother, in real time, over very low capacity links (even 2400 bps modems work perfectly well with IRC).
One of the "problems" with IRC is that you can't go back and suppress comments that the administrators don't like. You can't expunge views you don't agree with, edit a persons views or posts.
DavidHK, I'll try to prepare you a quick summary of the last few months. It'll probably shed some light on things.
electrondady1:
I can see why they made you an admin.
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i'm just a concerned citizen
i feel bad that people are feeling bad
rossw:
--- Quote from: electrondady1 on January 12, 2012, 04:10:33 PM ---
I can see why they made you an admin.
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i'm just a concerned citizen
--- End quote ---
Ahh, sorry, my bad. electronbaby was made an admin.
Perhaps they'll read your comments, decide you're up for the job and appoint you too!
dnix71:
Yesterday I got an error from the server itself and was then bounced to the front page of otherpower. Googles's cache wasn't that old. Other times I have gotten a hard 404 that must be coming from a poisoned DNS server, because it's instant. No delay trying to look it up. Closing Firefox, clearing cache and cookies and a restart fixed that. My bookmark of this forum used to be a numeric url, but now it's simply http://www.fieldlines.com/board/
My browser does show the old numeric while loading the page.
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