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Trivial Pursuits => People & Places => Topic started by: jough on May 03, 2006, 04:35:01 pm
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So, I had a realisation as I was watching a little piece of the shitty Stephen King miniseries "Storm of the Century," and that is: we have one too many members.
How do we address this problem?
Writing a little script to grab a random user out of the database, it chose The Mayor himself, carlosdelvaca.
Now, do we just delete The Mayor and pretend he never existed? That hardly seems fair, with so many more viable options.
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I am leaving it up to the membership. Please state a member that needs to go, and WHY. You can pick someone who has been a PROBLEM. You can pick an obvious spam account. You can pick someone who joined in 2003 and has not yet posted (although I think most of them were purged already), or you can pick Paul or Smells. Pick anyone you want.
Your response does not need to be in the form of a question.
Voting will remain until 12:01AM 6 May 2006, at which point someone will have to go.
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This is not a healthy exercise.
~Paul
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I vote for me, just because I wanted to get in the first punch.
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I vote for Anon Y. penis, who registered in 2004 and has not posted, and has a stupid name, and doesn't even have anything amusing in his/her/its profile. But it's the stupid name that really clinches it.
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My vote goes for Lt. Geyser Shitdick; while a relatively recently-registered member of the Zero-Posts Team, his(?) name sufficiently squicks me that he(?) has my vote for going.
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Don't delete a random person.
Delete all the zero post accounts that haven't posted in a month or two.
Also, is the 'one too many' thing arbitrary or is there actually a reason you want to cap membership at 560?
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Yes, I'm also interested in why 561 is one too many. I could see maybe 501, but 561 seems arbitrary. Am I missing something from this Stephen King book?
But alas, if you have to, Lt. Geyser Shitdick sounds like a guy I could go my whole life without meeting. Of course now, this thread will pull him from lurkitude just to defend his honor.
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I wonder if this is how Stalin's purges started.
Nice Jough (http://touamb.com/index.php?action=profile;u=116) is obviously an imperialist plant, here to overthrow our glorious revolution.
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At least FJ is a real human.
And no, there is nothing special about the number 560.
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Yes, I'm also interested in why 561 is one too many. I could see maybe 501, but 561 seems arbitrary. Am I missing something from this Stephen King book?
But alas, if you have to, Lt. Geyser Shitdick sounds like a guy I could go my whole life without meeting. Of course now, this thread will pull him from lurkitude just to defend his honor.
I do wonder if this noble cause will backfire if we mention specific individuals. However, anyone who registered before 2005, hasn't made a single post, and did not bother to fill out their profile is a candidate for account deletion, in my opinion.
But damn, Llamadeus is an awesome username.
EDIT: Also, anyone who has provided an e-mail address should at least be contacted before their account is deleted. I know this is an oligarchy (perhaps a divine right monarchy?), but it's only fair.
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I vote for myself, because I'm the guy who sucks. Plus I got depression.
(actually I would really prefer not to have my account deleted, but I guess if I did it would be no big loss, seeing as how I lurk mostly)
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I think granting clemency to basically good dudes who just strayed a little (oball) would be a good idea, but you're the Jough.
I vote for Lt. Geyser Shitdick also. He never responds to my PM's.
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good gravy, this is a terrifying thing.
I would vote for mr Chris Onstad.
come on, what a jerk. What has he ever contributed? All he does is take take take.
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Yes, I'm also interested in why 561 is one too many. I could see maybe 501, but 561 seems arbitrary.
Come on sillyheads it obvious Jough is just being God's Own Dick.
And noooooo not Ferocious J!
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Arbitrary thinning of the herd is fun, more or less.
What happens if we nominate Jough? Does the board end? Just morbidly curious.
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If we can someone to death in town square, next year's harvest will be good.
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if you nominate Jough, he decides that he's going to ban you, instead.
this is my prediction.
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If we can someone to death in town square, next year's harvest will be good.
Nice typo.
~Paul
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If we can someone to death in town square, next year's harvest will be good.
I'm glad I'm not the only one reminded of Shirley Jackson.
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My vote goes for Lt. Geyser Shitdick; while a relatively recently-registered member of the Zero-Posts Team,
Good job, V: Lt Geyser disqualifies himself (http://touamb.com/index.php/topic,2781.0/topicseen.htm). Who else can we frighten out of hiding?
Also: Can we link to individual posts? I finally learned how to do it with the old board software and a fat lot of good that does me.
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Also: Can we link to individual posts? I finally learned how to do it with the old board software and a fat lot of good that does me.
The button that looks like a couple of papers next to the post title is the "link to this post" link.
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if you nominate Jough, he decides that he's going to ban you, instead.
this is my prediction.
Mine also, but I felt I couldn't let that stop us exploring the possibility. I like to think of myself as the embodiment of the human instinct that makes babies put their fingers into power sockets.
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i hate psychology trolls.
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So, what, jough gets a tiny Hitler mustache and then the purge begins?
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The button that looks like a couple of papers next to the post title is the "link to this post" link.
^&% *@!&* technologically adept noobs who know more than I do Thank you.
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^&% *@!&* technologically adept noobs who know more than I do Thank you.
You can also do it by copying the link from the title of the post itself.
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Oh, you can nominate me if you want. Who knows what kind of effect it will have in the Fluxus that is TOUAMB.
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I know of Lt. Shitdick from the PWOT (http://pointlesswasteoftime.com/) forums (http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/smf/index.php). He's good people. The obnoxious user name is actually a reference to one of the articles on there (http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/film/matrix50.html).
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I stand corrected; Lt. Shitdick has now posted, and appears to be decent people, so I retract my nomination.
In exchange: ~~~abc~~~, who appears to be registered twice. Can we make the tildes go away?
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Nice typo.
~Paul
We will can them to death. This is not code language. We will throw cans at them because we have cans.
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Ash: just PM me with a name.
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I'd like to throw out a nomination for cogit (http://touamb.com/index.php?action=profile;u=235). Has one post and was last active in 2004. Sound like a prime candidate. Just thought it's one more suggestion.
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Yeah, dude, I'm not axing one of the admins.
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Why does Andalucia not appear on the members list?
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Um...
Okay, on further investigation it appears that andalucia requested that her account be deleted. It disappears from the members list if someone requests that their account be deleted (since users can't delete their own accounts).
Hey, 'lucia: request DENIED.
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Yeah, dude, I'm not axing one of the admins.
Man, good to know Ash still wants to shank me and leave me in a ditch! Or, alternately and more horrifying-ly, that he wants to shank JL.
Seriously, dude, what the fuck.
Anyway, my call is that anyone with a post or more gets to live (unless it's spam -- basically, if it's on-topic, even if it's terrifying on-topic ala Kai, it's good enough). I mean, at least they did something, whereas all the 0-post people are either incorrigible lurkers or really incompetent spambots.
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Anyone ever read that short story, "The Lottery?" It should be like that.
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Anyone ever read that short story, "The Lottery?" It should be like that.
Hey-o! Welcome to two pages ago!
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jl dunston
Asherdan
It better not be either one of these.
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It better not be either one of these.
I see August thinks it would be fine to delete me.
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I see August thinks it would be fine to delete me.
Yeah baby! C'mon over here and I'll delete you good!
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Hey-o! Welcome to two pages ago!
Yeesh.
:tug collar:
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I was replying to Jough's bit about "can't delete an admin," Ash, which clearly implied that the mystery name was an admin (which means me, JL, or Jough, but what are the chances you'd tell Jough to go delete himself?). I realize the arbitrariness of the list is part of its charm, but still, dude. I know your shankin' knife's getting rusty, but keep it in your #####.
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Don't worry wombat, I will defend you!
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Don't delete wombat! Don't choose her! Out of those names, she is not the one to pick!
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Well thank you. At least the noobs appreciate me. *sniff*
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No, no, no. On the yard with spot checks and such it has to be kept elsewhere.
What, keeping it in your automaton isn't good enough for you? Sheesh, human supremacists!
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i vote to delete this thread.
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i vote to delete this thread.
Finally some sanity. Thank you KevBob.
~Paul
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I think ark just nominated himself for possible extermination.
Also: While we only have one too many members, many Bothans may die in order to bring us this forum.
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I think ark just nominated himself for possible extermination.
i think rainbows are pretty.
i _know_ no good will come of this thread.
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Only a few hours left to cast your vote.
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Writing a little script to grab a random user out of the database, it chose The Mayor himself, carlosdelvaca.
Now, do we just delete The Mayor and pretend he never existed? That hardly seems fair, with so many more viable options.
Jesus H. Particular Christ on a crutch! Get stuck in a training class all week, have no time to read the board, and then I come back to almost getting arbitrarily booted! I appreciate your leniency, Herr Jough.
How about Abhorred? Registered in 2003, 0 posts. Everyone abhors that fucker.
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I say we get rid of that accursed Emmanuel Goldstein!
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I say we get rid of that accursed Emmanuel Goldstein!
*singing* I sold you and you sold me
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I vote for getting rid of Peter Falk. Enough of him!
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It is done.
As it turns out, there were 136 too many.
Thanks for the votes.
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What, no kill-list for us to cackle about?
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V: they're gone. Their posts are gone. It is like they never existed. We shall not speak of them or ever see their likes again.
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The thing is though, there'll always be this thread to remind us that they were here, to expunge them entirely shouldn't this thread be removed too?
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Because, like any good serialized drama, a message board needs to leave an out. Just in case.
There was no body, she may have had an evil twin, it was a parallel universe, my cousin did it, etc.
If we ever need to merge with an alternate dimension to rewrite an unwise cloning or a replacing of a hand with a sentient mechanical hook out of the story, we need a little sumpin' sumpin' to get the ball rolling. Perhaps things will get so bad that we have to deage someone and then reage them without memory of having done something terrible.
You never know. It's always good to have an out.
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I am waiting for a week from now.
at this time, we will get a thread saying "HOLY HELL WHERE IS (insert original board member here)?"
all will be confused
and then someone will say "oh lord... did we... did we vote her off?"
and we'll all look at Jough. And he'll just laugh.
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V: they're gone. Their posts are gone. It is like they never existed. We shall not speak of them or ever see their likes again.
Until someone accidentally digs up the mass graves.
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Until someone accidentally digs up the mass graves.
You know.. I thought that buffet looked a little weird come to think of it.