• Hey Moderator! November 20 - 7:17 am

So it's getting to be about that time of year again...no, besides that. It's time for me to start thinking about getting the Topics page ready for the new year.
So I'm looking at this wonderful embarrassment of riches - dozens of threads on a broad spectrum of fascinating topics.

And I'm thinking "What the [bleep] do I DO with it all?"

Seriously, it's getting crowded in here. Hard-to-navigate crowded. Crowded to the extent that potential posters might just give up in bewilderment.

So before I do this year's reorg I need to ask: What are the ethics of deleting threads? I'm talking ancient old ones that never went anywhere, or ones that served a specific purpose that no longer exists. I'm also thinking of combining nearly identical threads into one.
Objections, questions, opinions everyone?

You could create something like the "Vault of the Lost Threads" where the ancient ones can wait for lone visitors.

Kerrie, on the boards I mod when a topic hasn't had any discussion for a certain amount of time, I disable posting and move it to one of my 'cleverly' named holding areas (ex.,"The Mod's Dusty Attic") where it can be seen if anyone is interested. If someone wants to post on it again, they can leave me a message in the appropriate comments topic for that board. However, whether that would work here is uncertain to me.
Something else that I think makes things neater is when a topic goes long enough to warrant a part 2 is I make the next part a subtopic at the top of the first part. I feel this makes it easy to find and helps keep the sub-sections from getting cluttered with long lists of assorted parts 2, 3, 4, etc. from different beginning topics.
That's my thoughts FWIW.

Also, when I took over NextGen, it had been without a mod for about three years. I had to prune a lot of stuff. Some of it I backed up on my own computer just in case but, a lot was way off topic and/or irrelevant or violated the rules here and I just deleted them.

Ugh...that goes against my grain something fierce. Thank goodness for the Internet Archive Project and site-download programs.

Kerriem,

As the sole poster on some of those one and out topics; Save space. Let your delete key reign.

Hey if anyone is upset about it it will take him a long time to notice!

Can the Video Games mod or a Roving mod do something about that annoying crud topic in the Video Game sink?

Scott, please note the thread for shout-outs to other board Mods just below this one.

Thanks everybody for the great suggestions. After quite a lot of thought I've decided to go with this plan:

--Any thread (in any forum) wherein the last post is pre-2000 and has less than four or five replies is toast. Snick, I'm sorry, but there's just too many random odds-and-ends floating around here (like the thread in Trek Related started just to rant about an ep not being shown that night...)

NB - This of course doesn't apply to earlier parts of multi-part topics. Those will be dealt with just as soon as I figure out how Butch does that nifty internal-linking thingee (or he's nice enough to tell me...)

--Post-2000 threads with less than four-five responses will be checked over and if possible integrated with similar threads. If not, deletion will be considered, but only as a total last resort.

--Pre-2002 threads with long discussions that have since petered out for whatever reason will be moved to the new Kitchen Attic (thank you again, Butch...) where they will be available for reading but disabled from posting unless somebody asks to have them reopened.

2002-2003 Topics will be moved into the Topic Vault, and a new 2004 forum opened.

...So there you have it, a good chunk of my Sunday. Please let me know before then if you've got any threads you specially want saved, or if you have any questions or comments in general.

Kerrie, do you mean where I've got a group of threads at the top of discussion like for ST:Nemesis?

Right. Or like the way you've set up the Marrissa Stories discussion in your Sink.

Go into administration.
Select the topic where you want the various parts to end up.
On the page setup section put a checkmark in the "List of Subtopics" box and click the "Save changes" button.
Now you can move other threads into that topic just like moving an individual post or create new ones.

Hi Kerrie!

Just so you'll know, pursuant to some discussions in the Astronomy Class, I created a board under "Science Related" for "Space Missions". On the initial post, I asked for politics to be kept out, but you know how it is... you might want to keep an eye on it once we start posting.

Thanks for the tip, Scott.

I'll actually be reading that thread with interest anyway. That's part of the appeal of moderating the Sink - I don't have to go hunting through the Net etc to satisfy my love of research and trivia, it all comes to me.

And here at NitCentral, you don't get all those annoying pop-up ads!

Yes! When I eventually do put my fist through the screen because of those things, it won't be at NitC.

Kerrie, I have just what you need.

Pop-Up Stopper

Great program, and FREE for download. Highly recommend it.

Get Mozilla. It has built-in popup blocking.

Some people don't like how Mozilla displays...:-)

That's because Moz follows the standards and doesn't display "broken" HTML, unlike your Evil IE!

You know, I tried downloading Mozilla, but I literally couldn't get the thing to install! I eventually gave up and went with Netscape instead.

I just made a new conversation in
Media/TV More Or Less.

And now I think it should go in
"They Don't Have a Board Yet."

The title I used was "One Nit per show".

How much time and effort does it take to move it?

Or maybe you think it's fine where it is?

Thanks.

roger, you could have posted those same nits on Miscellaneous Nits VI.

Norbert is back....AGAIN.

Isn't it always on Friday?

Moderator -- Somebody named Dan is trolling (NOTE: TROLL IS MY OPINION).

Oh, and I'd have said the same thing if he was trolling for Kerry.

I'd say he was a troll. If not a troll, then certainly a smart-ass who's not interested in having a real dialogue, but spewing sound bites. The sad thing is how Brian Webber is such a knee-jerk liberal that he's automatically fighting back. Webber's argument can be enough to turn anyone away from liberalism. There's so much anger and hatred in them. (But that's just my opinion.)

Benn: Haven't I been the one laughing at this guy's rather obvious straw man set-up? C'monl even Peter wasn't as big a jerk as "Dan," who I still say doesn't actually exist. I'm telling you guys, we've been punk'd.

Webber, your memory's failing. Peter was a bigger jerk, but over a longer period of time. :-)

I have another suggestion. As if Nitcentral wasn't big enough already, how about a fan fiction board? You'd have to have limits, of course. Each piece has to be reasonably short; each piece has its own thread, so the comments would be only for that particular piece; the fanfics of all genres would remain in one section of Nitcentral; off-topic comments could be ruthlessly deleted.
I don't know of other places where they have comments and feedback on fanfic...but I haven't been looking. I like this place because I would be getting feedback. I hope.
So does a fanfic spot sound like a good idea?

On www.fanfiction.net, there's the possibility to give reviews to each fanfic. It also contains quite a lot of stories.

Or do you mean specific nitpicking of fanfic stories?

Either would be fine with me.

A fanfic board here would be pretty fun. Keeping it in the community, as it were.

Moderator Directory

I now moderate Crime & Justice Shows, and there are a few new boards.

Congratulations, Hannah!

Thanks, honey.

And why aren't you on AIM anymore? Work got ya down, buddy?

I just posted a new conversation under Humor; Politically Incorrect.
I'm curious to know if people think it's funny and/or tasteless. I'm sorry if it's not even funny, but you can delete it if you want.

(I wonder if my apologetic attitude detracts from the supposed humor of my witticism?)

I just did a search for the phrase "politically incorrect" and the browser window spontaneously closes. Why does it do that? The search function worked a few minutes ago, but not now.
Thanks.

Moderator? Where is the current board for Miscelleanous Emergencies? I wanted to make a suggestion on the spambot matter, but couldn't find it.

Luigi, it's right at the bottom - for some reason it wasn't included with the other Miscellaneous Emergencies boards.

I believe that the new board was added by its first poster. I haven't seen any postings by Kerriem in months....

I hope everything's OK.

Mark, noticed on a couple of threads that you were going to close the Sink for a week while you were gone.

I still have my moderator sign-in so if you want me to keep an eye on the Sink for a week, let me know.

Keith, that would be great. I think the main concern I had has agreed to limit himself to one thread, but it would be very much appreciated.

Yes Mark I will restrain myself to the one thread. I guess this will have to be a grudge that goes to the grave since Luigi doesnt wanna work things out or be an adult about this.

And I am doing this becaue I respect you and you have done right by me all along here. When a person does right by someone they can get a lot better reaction out of a person.

Mark from the R! board - I thought KAM was watching the Sink while I was gone.
I was.

I admit I did leave Rene's first "get a life" comment, but only because other posters had responded to it* by the time I got here & I wasn't sure if you wanted the responses deleted as well. I did delete his second posting though.

* Why on Earth does anyone feel the need to respond to trolls? They don't care about your opinion. Just ignore them & let the mods delete them. Eventually they'll get bored and go somewhere else.

Question: Why do you close the thread after it returns to a reasonable level of civility? The last few posts were extremely innocuous.

Note: Not saying it was wrong, just curious to see your reasoning.

Because it was very late, and I was hugely jetlagged. I'll reopen it.

For those who saw it for the two minutes it was open, there was a topic opened today that was created solely to insult one poster. I removed it.

KAM: Sorry I don't just let thigns go and ignore them, its not in me to do that.

Mark: Thank you I am trying to be nice here. For what its worth considering things. Anyhow, Thank you for your kind treatment.

Can someone open up the Drive Me Crazy rants

Instead, I have created a new board linked from the first.

Putting this here because the Misc Emergencies boards are closed.

The Dump is visible to mere mortals.

Fixed.

Luigi, I can't post on the movies board. Says I'm banned.

That would be a surprise why? Luigi is way too ban happy. Part of his little feifdom building plans. Drive away anyone who disagrees with him, get rewarded for sucky, hypocritical behavior on his part and then next thing you know its Luigicentral!

Give it a rest, Adam.

I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance. Sorry for the inconvenience, Influx.

Mind you, it could have happened prior to Luigi taking over as moderator..

Now movie along, movie along, nothing to see here...

For debugging reasons, here's the message I got:
"Authentication Error
The system administrator has banned any posts originating from your computer and/or provider. Contact the administrator of this board for more information. If you have a valid user or moderator account for this discussion, you may still use that username and password to post."

I figure it's something due to the reorganization rather than any intent on Luigi's part.

I wonder if it's due to the Full IP block due to the spammer(as opposed to targeted-IPs) false-positiving you rather than anything in particular.

Influx and Art Vandelay: Can you try posting on PM or LM just to see if you get the same result?

And no, I can assure it was most certainly not any intent on my part.

Nope. Doesn't work on either of those, either.

uno -- "Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity."--Hanlon's Razor Or in this case, ignorance of what the problem is, is all. No insult intended, nor malice attributed.

I'm sure the problem will get worked out.

Parties responsible for the deleted message know how to contact me so I can explain why they are no longer welcome here.

Lord love a duck. Don't hit the wrong button in the Access Manager.

Moderator, there is a flaming post on the Star Trek 11 board that needs to be deleted.

Taken care of, Dotter. Thanks.

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion over who the Kitchen Sink Moderator is.

It's me. I took over as mod back in June when Mark stepped down.

There's even a note mentioning it on the front page of the Kitchen Sink.

Luigi, Butch, MikeC & whomever else people have been naming are not the moderator of the Kitchen Sink (at least not yet.)

Keith Alan Morgan, aka KAM, Kitchen Sink Mod

Sorry, Keith. It's like Nitcentral is one of those dinner murder mystery things.

"Who is the moderator?

Is it Luigi Novi, the arrogant Italian artist from New Jersey with the funny headings and the shifty eye?

Is it Mike Cheyne, the suspicious-looking Michiganite withe the friendly disposition that masks a hidden conservative agenda?

Is the secretive Australian Keith Morgan, whose cunning web comics may contain clues to his dastardly scheme?

Or is it.....................the BUTLER??????"

And what about .... NAOMI?

Dude, Naomi's the one who's been killed. Haven't you been paying attention? Sheesh.

Silly, silly Luigi. That's what they want you to think ...

Well, I am the Mod for the ST 11 discussion mentioned by Dotter above. It's just in the wrong thread.

Butch

Is he the redneck yokel his appearance and address would seem to indicate or is there something more sinister going on beneath the bib overalls and facial hair.

I moved the various TV threads from They Don't Have A Board Yet to a new folder Specific Show Discussions in the TV More Or Less folder in the Media folder.

A few other threads got moved to the Internet & Celebrity sections as well.

In the last few days, I've gotten this while trying to post and even just browse the site. I'm not logged in or anything, so I don't know what account it's talking about.

The blue part is where a link is, I've never clicked it because it says javascript something in the bottom of my internet window so I'm not sure where it actually goes...

Has anyone else received this? Is this a legit message? Could this be the work of some hacker? Is my computer messed up? Is the Pope Catholic? Does a bear.. well you know in the woods...

Please Help!!!
Below this doube line is what the message is.

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This Account Has Exceeded Its CPU Quota

Please contact this site's webmaster.

Wait a few minutes and use your browser's "Back" button or click here to try again.




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If you are the webmaster, your account may have gotten this error for one or more of the following reasons:
Your account has used more than its share of the cpu in the past 60 second sliding window.
Your account has too many concurrent processes running simultanously.
Your account has consumed too much memory.
Your site was recently very busy trying to run inefficient scripts.
The solution would be to optimize your applications to use less CPU.
Adding appropriate indeces to your SQL tables can often help reduce CPU.
Using static .html documents instead of painful .php scripts will practically eliminate CPU usage.

It's Phil's quota, as far as I know.

Web hosting usuallt says either, "You pay $X for each MB that people download from your site per month(including webpages)", or "People get to donwload a total of Y GB per month from your site".

Either we've been hitting Phil really hard, or his hosting service screwed up.

might have something to do with the spamming

I had it too a couple of times last night but it seems to be behaving this morning. Hopefully just a temporary glitch - or have I killed the board by asking Phil to set up a Primeval topic?!

Yes, it's all your fault.

;-)

If that were actually the case Phil could solve it by deleting some of the topics that have died. (Brimstone comes to mind.)

I got the message last night & earlier tonight.

Don't tell ScottN it's my fault, he'll be digging out the nishta again!

Is Phil the only one who can delete entire topics on the main page? (To test whether that's the issue)

OK, Callie.... Drags out the nishta.

Oh darn. You've already been nishta'ed. It only works once. I guess we'll just have to create a RepliCallie!

Polls Voice, yea, only Phil can do that or I would have closed or combined a few that I mod.

You've already been nishta'ed. It only works once.
How about Nishquadria or Quadronishtacallie?

Somehow, likely during all the IP address banning that's gone on, my IP address has been blocked for the movies boards.

Normally I'm at my apartment and can view Luigi's fine collection of links to movie posters, but other times, like right now, I'm at my family's house and like to post nits in Nitcentral; but can't on the movies board because the part of the IP address for this region is blocked. Could someone (preferebly someone with legitimate admin access on this site) look up the IP address of this post and look to see if the region is blocked on some boards or something and unblock it?

OK, Polls, try it now.

Private Discussion

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This discussion can be viewed only from certain IP addresses. The computer from which you are browsing does not have permission to view this discussion.


It gives me that when I click the "movies" link on the main page.

Sorry for the difficulty, Polls. Can you tell me what IP you're posting from?

Next time I'm over at my parents' house I'll find out. ...and thanks for the effort.

Luigi, it's 208.102.174.222

Roving Mod capabilities can be useful in many ways.

Okay, I removed that IP from the restricted list. If problems arise again from an IP similar to that one, I'll have to block that specific one, and not the entire range.

Okayyyyyyyy...

Rants is history. A little whining & complaining in normal, but some people have been turning the boards into a whinefest.

If you want to complain about your life get a LiveJournal account or one of those other blog thingies.

I've moved a bunch of threads from Rants, Topic Vaults & Topic Attic into Stuff Waiting To Be Sorted.

Any suggestions for new places to place some of this stuff, or threads to be merged, will be appreciated.

Offhand it looks like there might be enough threads for a section about Weather & another about Grammar & maybe enough for Cars.

The movies boards are blocked for me for some reason at this IP address. I made a message like this a little bit ago stating that I'm blocked in viewing the movies boards while at my parents' house; and that I'd test to see if it was fixed the next time I was there. Well, I'm testing it and I'm still blocked for some reason. My IP address might vary while here too because I think I get one randomly when I'm here, so if my neighborhood is blocked for some reason, unblocking one IP might not fix things.

Butch? Which IP is this? Thanks.

Hmmm, comes up exactly the same as above.

However when I checked Poll's other post above, it shows as:
74.215.197.2

Hope this helps.

Hmmm...that does not appear among the IP ranges blocked in the Movies Access Manager. But I put it in under "Allow". Let me know if it helps, Torque.

I saw the movies board while at my parents house again so hopefully what you did is the fix. Thanks.

PS, is there another board I should be posting these in given that this board is technically the Kitchen Sink Hey Moderator board?

In the lists of topics or subtopics, why are some in boldface?

Have you decided yet on a fanfiction section where we can discuss or post fanfiction? Thanks.

Because when I was organizing the various threads to specific categories I needed an easy way to differentiate between folders & threads so I bolded them & just didn't remove the bolding when I moved the folders to the main folder.

I should think posting fanfiction here could cause legal problems for the Chief, what with Copyright owners sending him Cease & Desist emails.

However there is a place called Fanfiction.net where you could probably post fanfics.

The M*A*S*H board has a section for discussing fanfiction.

NextGen has a section for discussing Stephen Ratliff's Marissa stories. (The horror, the horror! ;-)

I thought Non-Sci-Fi novels had a fanfiction section, but I didn't see it when glanced through the contents. So if you want to create a thread for Fanfics here go ahead.

The Internet More Or Less subtropic would probably be a good spot for it (under the Media folder).

This should go in TV More or Less/Comedies but I can't start a new thread there.

Why hasn't anybody started a thread on "The Big Bang Theory"? It's not even mentioned here.

A Start New Thread button has been added there.

47s, & whatever other names you use, will you stop using Nitcentral as your personal whine-about-your-life blog?

Get a Facebook, Myspace or Twitter account if you want to pester people with your made up little fictions about how awful your life is.

It seems like all you do here is whine about your life & when someone asks for proof you refuse to give any then pester me to delete posts.

I AM SICK & TIRED OF DEALING WITH YOU!

And frankly I think quite a few posters would wish you would stop posting entirely.

1. Take your whining elsewhere!

2. Read what a thread is supposed to be for instead of just posting whatever rambling nonsense is going through your head!

Gee, I think I can talk any subject that's relavent short
of being a troll.

I'll admit I lost my temper when I wrote that rant, but I had been looking at several posts of yours on boards that were unrelated to what you were talking about & did not feel it was my job to move your posts to the proper threads, if any.

Stay on topic for the threads & I'll try not to lose my temper.

thanks ,kam

hope we are buddy buddy on the internet.

Happy New Year!
I don't know which boards I can post to without registering first. Could those boards be listed somewhere? Or would that be making it too easy to spambots and others? Thanks.

Happy new year, Roger.

One of the ways you can tell is to look at the bottom of the topic you want to post to. If, below the "Add a Message" box, there are just two boxes, one for Username and one for Password, together with the message "This is a private posting area. Only registered users and moderators may post messages here" then you need to be registered.

If the area under "Add a Message" has three boxes, for Username, Password and E-mail, together with the message "This is a public posting area. Enter your username and password if you have an account. Otherwise, enter your full name as your username and leave the password blank. Your e-mail address is optional" then it's free and open to post on.

I hope that's right! Other Mods will correct me if I'm wrong.

Happy new year too ,Roger and Callie
,ScottN and Andre and ol sigh.

Moderator, could we get a "Vancouver 2010" board in Media => Sports => Olympic Sports?

Thanks.

Done.

Luigi, if you're still the Voyager moderator, I noticed three episodes in the seventh season that quote posts from earlier on the board that don't exist. In other words, some posts seem to be missing. The episodes are Imperfection, Drive and Repression. I've been reading the Voyager boards up to that point and don't recall noticing this previously. Repression, in particular, is a very small board compared to an average Voyager episode.

Are we supposed to be able to contact moderators through the contact link on the left? All I see is the profiles of the moderators - no e-mail address. And there appears to be no moderator message board under the Voyager topic.

I've answered this on the main Voyager board.

Someone named "JONN" is posting nonsense on the Political & Legal Musings boards

Merry Christmas and Happy new year
!!!!!!


from Sherman,

(this time I'm using my real name).

Looks like spambot testing, John.

Merry Xmas, Sherman, and everyone else.

Laforge the Useless says Happy 4th...2011

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(sorry Kam)

I cannot get Don or Anyone TO post my stuff
on sTAR tREK'S Lines You never HEAR 100... can someone please look into this -I did write to the chief.
and i did write to the mod but his email bounced back.

I don't know where to ask this but all the posts, and there were a lot, that has shown up today appears like SPAM. They all have different ladies' names, aren't posting about anything specific, and yet not saying anything negative. It's a bit strange but I doubt Nitcentral has that many new people posting on the site in one day, let alone women.

Is this thing on?

Hey, Keith, in the Specific Shows discussion in the TV More Or Less section of the Sink, there is the following notice:

Note: The Chief has banned discussion of The Simpsons & Charmed, so no threads for them.

Since these bans are no longer in effect, perhaps you should remove this notice.

Done.

Keith!

Brian Kelly was interested in a "Community" (the television show) topic.

Thanks for all your help!

Phil

Community board created.

It can be found under
Media (TV, Print, Sports, etc.): TV More or Less: Specific Show Discussions: Comedies (supposedly) ;-)

Why is the Kitchen Sink no longer private?? Better fix that before the spambots move in.

Because I tried to ban a troll, but something wasn't working right.

Okay, back to private.

Excellent.

I wonder if this troll is who I think it is, namely someone who has caused trouble countless times here before. Even Phil had to step in a few times.

Maaaaaaaaybe. If you don't see any posts by who you're thinking of then the ban probably worked.

If it's who I'm thinking of, he hasn't posted anywhere on Nitcent since the 19th. (Yes, I've checked.)

Actually, if it is who I think it is, this persons last post was an insult, directed at Keith. This post was subsequently deleted.

This person has been rude to other posters. This person has been rude and insulting to the Moderators here. This person has been obnoxious and abusive, yet whenever someone calls this person out, said person adopts a "Wahhhhhhh! Nobody likes me!" attitude. This person has been banned from several forums here in the past.

Phil himself has had to step in and delete many of this person's posts.

This person seems to have burned their last bridge here. Nitcentral will not be a poorer place with this person gone.

We've got the same person in mind, Tim. At one point, I made the mistake of facebooking him. I eventually deleted him. No regrets there.

He tried to FB me. I didn't accept.

And now that we've finished the "we all know who it is" section, we now return you to your regularly scheduled Nitpicking.

Tonight, on K-NIT TV-47! Is your computer secretly plotting to take over the world? Find out on K-NIT News at 11!

Secretly? No, it's pretty darn arrogant about it!

And really it won't work unless it can get more speed out of the dune buggies.

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What I did would only affect my boards, so I can't claim any credit for him not posting on other boards at NitC.

Given all the different superhero comic-based shows coming up next season I was wondering if I should make folders in the TV Superheroes folder* for shows based on Marvel properties & DC properties or just leave it as is?

* More specifically found at The Kitchen Sink: Media (TV, Print, Sports, etc.): TV More or Less: Specific Show Discussions: Superheroes

Apologies if this is in the wrong place, but I've noticed a couple strange things with the site lately. Occasionally, my posts don't show up when I click the Last Day or Last Week links. Also, today for example, when I go to Last Week I see the last 10+ days.

Neither of these are troublesome per se, I just thought I'd point them out in the off chance they're symptoms of a larger issue (or that I've missed some changes and didn't read about them). Thank you

Refresh the page but not from cache. In Firefox, that would be Shift-Ctrl-R. Not sure what it is for Chrome or Safari.

There's a long discussion about this here (scroll down to the end). The board is failing and the Chief will be looking for somewhere new to migrate to in due course.

Potential troll over on Classic Trek and The Kitchen Sink. See:

Classic Trek: Turnabout Intruder 2
Kitchen Sink: Media: TV: Specific Shows: Comedies: I Dream of Jeannie
Kitchen Sink: Media: TV: Cartoons: Cartoons we could have done without

That's no troll, that's Judi in one of her many aliases.

Turnabout Intruder is legitimate as it's mentioned earlier in that thread that Kirk would find his centre of gravity etc thrown off when waking in a female body.

The I Dream of Jeannie post is tongue in cheek/a joke.

The Fonz post is also a joke as i hate Happy Days.

Francois, she may not be a troll per se, but her little obsession with sex changes does verge on being troll-like.

And Judi, if a word you use comes up censored, you should probably consider that a sign you have stepped over a line and should rethink your post.

I don't know who the Star Wars moderator is, but we have a title for Episode 9. "The Rise of Skywalker"

Is there even a Star Wars mod at the moment? Or has another one gone AWOL?

Thomas Garrison is the last listed one.

Perhaps he's gone searching for Mr. Hat...

Can't remember the last time he posted.....

He last logged in back in May of last year.

As Natalie has apparently blocked me from posting on her Red Dwarf boards I'll respond here to Kevin and Tim's argument...

I actually think autism is something Natalie has NEVER said she said (although there are quite a few she DID say she had).

She (and for that matter, Tim) has never been anywhere near as abusive as Andre. The few posts left of his around here are by no means the worst of his vitriol.

If the comparison to previous posters must be made, then Natalie reminds me of a fellow called Sherman (can't remember his alias names at the minute) who always had a new tale of woe everytime he logged on. I think one time Luigi decided to deconstruct one of his lies piece by piece just to prove he was a compulsive liar. He would frequently ask moderators to proofread his posts or delete ones that called him on his bull excrement.
He was never banned but he just moved on.

you are not blocked. The software is failing. I tried to allow the RD section to be edited by any mod.

a fellow called Sherman (can't remember his alias names at the minute)

Laforge The Useless, He's Dead, Jim, and the 47's are some of them.

Mind you, this all happened before it became necessary to register to post here.

He is, to my mind, approaching AnonyMatt levels of annoyance.

Is there anybody here to stop this ridiculous flood of one sentence topics set up by Jeff? Nobody cares!

Are there any Roving mods? I'm echoing Rodney's sentiment.

What exactly is he doing that violates the Chief's rules?

Yes, I wish Jeff would write more in-depth thoughts and less links, but I don't believe that violates any rules.

If you use the Last Day view you can see who made a post and just not click the link if you don't like the poster.

If he only did a couple then I would agree but starting a board and posting a link a number of times just adds to the amount of data we will need to ship over. To me, this feels very much like spamming a site.

I knew he was trouble from the get go. From his first post, red flags went up for me.

In the year-and-a-half since, nothing has convinced me otherwise.

possibly Jeff has made people nostalgic for me

No.

Wish Jeff would take the hint and leave.

He's like a pushy door-to-door salesman that keeps ringing the doorbell of the same house.

This is in despite the people in said house telling him again and again that they are not interested in his products.

I'm a Roving Mod, but I'm with KAM on this.

KAM beats Man. • • • • • •

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The date for this section indicates that something was posted, but I can't find anything. In fact, I can't find any thread that gives yesterday's date.

I'm guessing our resident pest, Jeff Winters, made another one of his pointless threads.

Why won't he go away?

Has anyone ever told you how annoying your constant need to know every little thing a moderator has done in their section is?

And no, Jeff didn't do anything.

Another poster who is on the verge of being permanently banned created a thread I felt was an attack on another poster.

I now know what happened and why it happened.

If you wish to discuss this further, I'll be happy to do so in the Moderator section.

Hey if a roving mod is around can you please remove Natalie's disgusting slur against me from the legal musings board and move it to the garbage dump?

Thank you

You made a dig at me in the Doctor Who Cemetery section. I felt the need to fight back.

Did I? Kate made an off colour joke and I remarked that she was channeling you. Where was I wrong? To be honest, I wouldn't have been surprised if you'd posted it yourself and used her name.

Natalie, I read Rodney's "dig at you" and it did not rate the response you gave him in the Beaumont Children thread. If you took offense at his comment, and you clearly did, they you should have requested an apology, or asked Emily to remove the post in question (since you have her e-mail addy).

However, your comment that he wants to be in a relationship with a child, who was most likely murdered, is, IMO, very poor taste.

Remember, Arnna Beaumont was a real person, a young child who's life was probably taken from her at a very young age. Making jokes about her like that is, once again, in very poor taste.

Natalie, you were doing so well here, but you seem to be backsliding into your old habits I'd thought you'd abandoned. Remember what happened as a result of your last transgression. Not only did you end up banned from yet another forum (Movies), but it also cost you your position on the Moderating staff here.

And remember what Phil said in his post, that your
name had come up "too many times". That means you are definitionally on his radar. One or two more such transgressions, and he might decide to ban you from the entire site. I'm sure you don't want that to happen, considering how upset you are that you can't post in Doctor Who anymore.

Natalie, once again I ask, please think before you post. Surely you can find a way to rebut a statement from Rodney, or anyone else, without sinking into such poor tasteful posts like the one that started this incident.

Natalie cares very little whether she's banned from here, as she's on a significant number of forums under an equally large amount of aliases, and given past patterns she will continue to abuse her hospitality here until she's finally banned. Honestly, why not just move to Twitter? They're even more forgiving than here.

Rodney, the post has been taken care of.

Tim McCree, new Roving Mod, at your service!

Thanks

No problem.

Hey Tim, if I may ask, what was the reason you shut down discussion in the legal musings page?

I read over the thread in question, after Natalie revived it, and saw potential trouble. I decided to get ahead of the problem.

Note that it's only that one particular thread, the rest of the forum is unaffected.

Why does everyone keep ignoring the "Kitchen Sink" part of this thread title and treat it like a thread for generic mods?

Sorry KAM.

Perhaps you should start a thread called "Hey Moderator" and move all non-Kitchen Sink related posts into that one.

Well KAM maybe tell us where the other one is or put an announcement on the front page?

Some mods have threads in their own areas so people can contact them on those.

ClassicTrek has Ask The Moderator

NextGen has Poke The Moderator With A Stick

Doctor Who has Calling The Moderator

True, not every mod has such a thread, but they should.

I see a post in this thread in the Last Day view I think someone is trying contact me. It's like using the Batsignal to contact Superman. ;-)

Tim: Keith, I really think I should try to lighten your load.

KAM: No-NNNNNNO-No!.

KAM, your forums (this one and Comic Books) are no longer restricted to members only. Better fix this, fast!

That's funny. I only added an IP address to block and the other restrictions are still checked especially Registered Users.

You would think the IP block would be added to the whole, not subverting the whole.

Apparently fixed.

Yep, back to normal now.

Keith, could you please delete all the threads and posts that i posted to your sections as Natalie Salat. They are the fruit of a poisoned tree.


Thank you, good sir,
Paul

How many bloody sock puppets do you have?

I am asking for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

Well Paul, I’m not KAM but I see no reason why we should acquiesce to any request by you.
You’ve lied to us for over 10 years and were it not for one member digging deep you would have happily continued with the ruse. Had we more members here you might have flown under the radar a bit more but you simply couldn’t. As it’s Phil’s site we can only leave it to his discretion if he bans you outright.

Oh for god's sake.

I think Tim needs to erase everything from this troll on the Star Trek threads, as well.
I can't believe I stuck up for this guy at one time, because I thought Tim was being too harsh to him/her/it.

We all did Steve. But I think Tim is probably as angry at himself as we are at Paul.

Some of his/her posts are part of conversations so deleting everything would make a hash of some threads.

Also being asked to erase all their posts makes me think of a burglar asking a homeowner to erase all trace of said burglar having been in the house.

•••• straight I'm angry. I considered "Natalie" a friend, but that friendship, like everything else, was based on a lie.

I agree with KAM, the posts stay. We may need them as evidence.

Evidence for what? That a pervert was on this site?
Better to get rid of the idiotic ones that had nothing to do about the topic at hand, than to allow him/her/it to look back at 'the good old days' when he/she/it was trolling us.
But, you guys are the Moderators.

In case Paul inhabits someplace else and, like us, nobody twigs on for a while. Maybe we can serve as a bit of a warning.

Yeah, he fooled us all for the better part of a decade.

Nope. For more than a decade. I believe he came here first in 2008.

At least now the truth is out.

I can't remember where it was posted (though not this particular board), but not too, too long ago, the moderators removed the 'start new discussion' button for movies.

I don't need to say it, right? You know what I'm implying, yeah?

The more one-or-two-post threads we have, the more the aging software has to deal with, and it's already crumbling.

You can blame our resident pest, Jeff Winters, for that, Kevin. He making new "discussions" in the movie forum which consisted little more than "what do we think of" or "I heard that", in short his usual shtick. In fact, it was unlikely that he had ever even seen the movie in question, rather it was just another one of his pathetic (and irritating) calls for attention.

So a decision was made to remove the 'start new discussion' buttons in the movies section to stop this.

A for restoring it, that would be JD's call to make. He's the Mod for the movies forum.

Sorry for the late response Tim and Kevin, let me look into options for movies here, I wouldn't mind restoring new discussion access if it won't be a Jeff mess.

Bugger me, finding anything around here is hard. Trying to post about Matthew Perry’s death and do you think I can find the correct Cemetary thread here????

I guess the Friends moderator should probably create such a thread over there, assuming one doesn't already exist.

Oddly enough one of my news feeds had a story about Brittany Spears appearing nude on a beach, next to the story of Perry drowning. Not connected, obviously, but unintentionally humorous.

Rodney is the Friends Mod, Keith.

If the Friends board had the kind of activity that Trek and Who did, then I would. Setting up a board for one person seems redundant.

Good point.

Well, the show did have a bunch of guest stars and supporting players, besides the main six, some of whom may have passed away before Perry.

But if you don't want to do it, that's fine. It was just an idea.

KAM- we have a board (as difficult as it is to find) for general celebrity and/or movie & TV star deaths. They can be put there. As I said, the traffic on the Friends board is non-existant and not therefore not worth the effort to add more boards to an already cluttered board.