Durp Snark 166: Starting Fresh

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

We should give What Jim temporary mode powers here and let him deal with the expected upswing in jerk reports. WE will appreciate it and it’s always good to feel needed.

Jim and I are legit pals and I want to keep it that way.

[Someone]

Bros before woes.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Jim and I are legit pals and I want to keep it that way.

Thank you, on both counts.

[Someone]

Not precisely snark, but prolific Dope poster kayaker's last activity was January 15, 2025.

Maybe his doc told him to quit drinking and he said FU watch this.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Ah, he's posting here now as a "refugee from another board".

I wondered why he bumped up one of my thread. huh.

Originally Posted by Someone

Not precisely snark, but prolific Dope poster kayaker's last activity was January 15, 2025.

Maybe his doc told him to quit drinking and he said FU watch this.

oh-oh

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Ah, he's posting here now as a "refugee from another board".

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Not precisely snark, but prolific Dope poster kayaker's last activity was January 15, 2025.

Maybe his doc told him to quit drinking and he said FU watch this.

I'm voting for, "AFK because the gyro stabilized sat dish on his yacht is on the fritz".

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm voting for, "AFK because the gyro stabilized sat dish on his yacht is on the fritz".

Recent posts have mentioned an ex-wife, son, daughter and girlfriend.
Surely one of them are aware of his activity on both boards.

[Someone]

I really think I started the whole kerfuffle with Cad.
Noooo. I didn't do it purposefully. I just thought someone should tell that OP not to do that to his family members. I'm sure I was flagged..I was 2 minutes from catching my own warning and edited it. I feel awful about it. Not enough to ask for moderation.
Cads ok, he gets emotional and he wants real time responses. Not always possible.

Oh, I'm concerned about Kayaker too. I miss his posts.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Oh, I'm concerned about Kayaker too. I miss his posts.

Me too. I had a PM conversation with him about 4 months ago, which I initiated (based on my admiration for his food-related posts, which match my own sensibilities); it took him a long time to respond, but eventually he did provide a friendly response.

I hope he's okay too.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I really think I started the whole kerfuffle with Cad.
Noooo. I didn't do it purposefully. I just thought someone should tell that OP not to do that to his family members. I'm sure I was flagged..I was 2 minutes from catching my own warning and edited it. I feel awful about it. Not enough to ask for moderation.
Cads ok, he gets emotional and he wants real time responses. Not always possible.

Eh, Cad has always been quite capable of kerfuffing on his own. If a mode as patient as What Exit told him to knock it off with the reports, he must have been making a boatload of reports over a long period of time.

[Someone]

This is too hilarious. First, there’s Domo-kun (Saint_Cad) on the cross:



And now I see he’s actually adopted it as his avatar!

[Someone]

People report posts?

[Someone]

NOTICE
YOU’VE REACHED YOUR
25 POST PER DAY REPORT
LIMIT. PLEASE
COME BACK TOMORROW

[Someone]

This is weird.

I looked at his public profile and saw in the Recent Visitors box was a member named "NotARobot". They have no listing in the Members List, and when I clicked their name I was sent back to the start page. Now I don't see the name, despite several refreshes. Good thing I took a screen shot.

https://i.imgur.com/cvLYcbk.png

[Someone]

I hope it's Fenris living on as a ghost in the machine...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I really think I started the whole kerfuffle with Cad.
Noooo. I didn't do it purposefully. I just thought someone should tell that OP not to do that to his family members. I'm sure I was flagged..I was 2 minutes from catching my own warning and edited it. I feel awful about it. Not enough to ask for moderation.
Cads ok, he gets emotional and he wants real time responses. Not always possible.

There’s no way that was your fault. This was an allegedly long pattern that eventually annoyed the modes enough to have had enough.

We had to do something similar here in the old days. We Noted/Warned one problematic user a bunch of times so she started making multiple reports a day asking why such and such posts were ok. She was eventually perma-boxed and then left on her own.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

This is weird.

I looked at his public profile and saw in the Recent Visitors box was a member named "NotARobot". They have no listing in the Members List, and when I clicked their name I was sent back to the start page. Now I don't see the name, despite several refreshes. Good thing I took a screen shot.

https://i.imgur.com/cvLYcbk.png

Well that’s fucking weird. The only way they could happen that occurs to me is if they account got a name change and I didn’t do it. @Rebo?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

There’s no way that was your fault. This was an allegedly long pattern that eventually annoyed the modes enough to have had enough.

We had to do something similar here in the old days. We Noted/Warned one problematic user a bunch of times so she started making multiple reports a day asking why such and such posts were ok. She was eventually perma-boxed and then left on her own.

Roo? Sweet fancy Moses she was a pain in the ass of a rules-lawyering concern troll. Good source of laughs in the early days of the board, then it just got tedious in a bad way.

[Someone]

Ha! You beat me to it. I was like LOLRoo??? Yeah, I had fun poking at her back in the day.

I mentioned NotARobot around a year ago on the Getting Started forum. That’s totally a bot. We have one. Admit it lol. It’s okay, it’s the norm these days.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Roo? Sweet fancy Moses she was a pain in the ass of a rules-lawyering concern troll. Good source of laughs in the early days of the board, then it just got tedious in a bad way.

She disappeared about 3½ years ago from the Dope. Her last few threads were about finding another place to post. She was around a long time and overall a memorable poster though not really in a good way. But in her favor, she did go after Asshatee's anti-vaxx BS on the Dope. I never thought she was a troll, often a PIA, but not a troll. She was annoying all the way back on Mellophant also.

[Someone]

I kinda liked her, she was a fussbudget. I would speak up for her once in awhile. But then we swapped a couple peems where she got bitter at me for not taking her side on every crusade, and I backed away a little after that. I get the feeling there is a pretty big cauldron of rage behind it all.

[Someone]

NotARobot is online now. I click his name and I get the “you don’t have permission” message. It’s obviously Nonnymommy doing this to us.

Sputnik, Monstera deliciosa, NotARobot, Vinyl Turnip, NAF1138, maplekiwi, Jaglavak, What Exit?, running coach, picunurse, Rock

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

NotARobot is online now. I click his name and I get the “you don’t have permission” message. It’s obviously Nonnymommy doing this to us.

That’s the page you see when you get BANNED.

A friend told me.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

She disappeared about 3½ years ago from the Dope. Her last few threads were about finding another place to post. She was around a long time and overall a memorable poster though not really in a good way. But in her favor, she did go after Asshatee's anti-vaxx BS on the Dope. I never thought she was a troll, often a PIA, but not a troll. She was annoying all the way back on Mellophant also.

She made her own subreddit as a passive aggressive dig at being Perma Boxed

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Well that’s fucking weird. The only way they could happen that occurs to me is if they account got a name change and I didn’t do it. @Rebo?

@hajario It wasn't me...

(And now I have a Shaggy earworm.)

[Someone]

Me too Thanks a heap.

[Someone]

Tripler knows the secret details about the durp's Discobot, but he won't tell me Therefore, I'm blaming him for this latest shenaniganry.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

If a mode as patient as What Exit told him to knock it off with the reports, he must have been making a boatload of reports over a long period of time.

What he and DrDumbth fail to realize/refuse to see is that it's not the number of reports, or their frequency. It's the signal-to-noise ratio, combined with frequency. If some random schlub who reports 10 posts per calendar quarter, and 9 of 10 are not worth the modes time, they'll still be fine The modes probably won't even remember the low S/N ratio. If another random schlub reports 10 times a week, but 9 of 10 are actionable [q.v. Running Coach and his spam reports], they'll be fine, too. When SC or DrD make 10 reports per week and fully half of them are utter shit, that's going to start annoying the modes.

Originally Posted by Someone

This is weird.

I looked at his public profile and saw in the Recent Visitors box was a member named "NotARobot". They have no listing in the Members List, and when I clicked their name I was sent back to the start page. Now I don't see the name, despite several refreshes. Good thing I took a screen shot.

https://i.imgur.com/cvLYcbk.png

IIRC, "NotARobot" was a spammer from a little while back, who was probably trying to appear like a normal noob by reading and posting irrelevant things before starting to post their spam links. After they started, the banhammer came down and everything they had done prior to the ban was cornfielded. I'm not a mode, and don't have access to records that would indicate it, so just take that as something I surmised from what I could see.

Hmm... I'll investigate further with the info accessible to me if you know some non-mode tricks. If I don't get too drunk/stoned and forget to do it.

[Someone]

Reporting back: This user number <https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=16406> is the only one that reports back that I don't have permission to access that page, that signed up in the past 2 weeks or so. I.e. Cornfielded. Modes will have to report back with their info that it was or wasn't "NotARobot". None of the search tricks that work on Disgust work on VB, and I don't remember any other tricks on VB to try.

I've shot my wad.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Here we go.

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/go...ing-off/843952

Finally remembered how to do multi-quote.

Thanks for finding that. It was about 6 months after I joined as a refugee, and it really shocked me that someone who seemed rather integral to the board decided to flounce out.

No where near as shocking when Tuba died.

Originally Posted by Someone

Me too. I had a PM conversation with him about 4 months ago, which I initiated (based on my admiration for his food-related posts, which match my own sensibilities); it took him a long time to respond, but eventually he did provide a friendly response.

I hope he's okay too.

His brother died just a few weeks before Kayaker's daughter announced she was expecting. Kayaker's brother was supposed to be at the family dinner where she did the announcement.

Then he went on vacation, posted pictures, and dropped off the face of the earth. For his kids' sakes, I hope he's okay.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Reporting back: This user number <https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=16406> is the only one that reports back that I don't have permission to access that page, that signed up in the past 2 weeks or so. I.e. Cornfielded. Modes will have to report back with their info that it was or wasn't "NotARobot". None of the search tricks that work on Disgust work on VB, and I don't remember any other tricks on VB to try.

I've shot my wad.

https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=16406 is ElishGrit and nothing looks off about them. Maybe something about them set off the autoban.

NotARobot is https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=15185. Nothing looks weird there either. Based on the user number they didn't join that long ago.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

@hajario It wasn't me...

(And now I have a Shaggy earworm.)

I'm not familiar at all with Shaggy's music so that was completely unintentional. Or is it a Scooby Doo thing?

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

NotARobot is https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=15185. Nothing looks weird there either. Based on the user number they didn't join that long ago.

The link takes me to a vBulletin message telling me I don't have permission to access to that page.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=16406 is ElishGrit and nothing looks off about them. Maybe something about them set off the autoban.

NotARobot is https://www.giraffeboards.com/member.php?u=15185. Nothing looks weird there either. Based on the user number they didn't join that long ago.

The three previous from that one also came up "you don't have access".

Meh, whatever. A few too many at the time. "Spam, spam. spam, baked beans, spam, and spam. Would you like more Spam with that?"

"Could I get some hashbrowns with that?"

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

The link takes me to a vBulletin message telling me I don't have permission to access to that page.

Exactly. That was the point.

[Someone]

Somehow I missed your earlier point, Alky.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I'm not familiar at all with Shaggy's music so that was completely unintentional. Or is it a Scooby Doo thing?

"It Wasn't Me" is a pretty raunchy song by a performer called Shaggy, no relation to the Scooby one. It's about a guy cheating on his girlfriend, every verse followed by the line "it wasn't me". In mentioning it, Rebo earwormed herself... and me

[Someone]

Never mind

[Someone]

Meh, maybe that one will convince a Mode that they weren't a spammer or whatever.

Bets on that? I'll give you 2 to 1 odds against... No Mode bets, because you already know the answer...

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

"It Wasn't Me" is a pretty raunchy song by a performer called Shaggy, no relation to the Scooby one. It's about a guy cheating on his girlfriend, every verse followed by the line "it wasn't me". In mentioning it, Rebo earwormed herself... and me

and me

[Someone]

I remember that song. The youngest was still in school then and played it.
If you missed it, it does have a good beat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ca8jthAs

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I remember that song. The youngest was still in school then and played it.
If you missed it, it does have a good beat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ca8jthAs

I have definitely heard that song but never paid attention to the lyrics.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

I remember that song. The youngest was still in school then and played it.
If you missed it, it does have a good beat.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_4ca8jthAs

That was hilarious. Now I've got the earworm, too.

ETA: Coincidentally, when the video stopped playing, the tail end of that very song was playing on the radio. I thought something went wrong with my computer. Nope, just one of those trillion to one coincidences that happen every day.

[Someone]

Guess who has worked for a debt collector before, and appears to have no moral qualms with it?

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is...del/1016486/12

[Someone]

In Sputnik’s scale of career evolution, the bottom three, in ascending order of honesty are;
A. GOP Politicians
B. Tow truck driver
C. Debt collector.

None of those feel the need to be truthful about business matters. ( a generalization on my part.)

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

Guess who has worked for a debt collector before, and appears to have no moral qualms with it?

https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is...del/1016486/12

Got it in one. Just when I thought he couldn't get any more ick.

[Someone]

Also got it in one.

[Someone]

Got dammit. Me too. And I’m usually out of the loop in things. I guessed him and then Darren Garrison

[Someone]

I couldn't even venture a guess, given how many of them are likely candidates.