Be Excellent To Each Other

Hi,
I seem to be unable to access my PMs (as, you've removed it from me). This creates a big problem for me, and others on this board. I can't say anymore without breaching privacy*. I'd appreciate their return, especially in the absence of any kind of apology. I doubt there are others similarly affected.

* I doubt you'll believe me, or care, but then, that's who you are.

Ah, you're being children. Still. Alright then. Well, for those who need to stay in touch, my address is: [email protected]

Good luck, and remember: it's just a forum on the internet. I shall miss thomsedavi the least. My massive and insatiable ego demands that you all either write tearfully at my passing, or gather to laugh and make really obvious and not actually witty comments that suggest only mean spirit and a lack of ingenuity, but do require a half-decent memory (so, well done you). Apparently.

Huh?

What The Holey Fuck?

Malc

What?

This place has been weird the last couple of days. What is going on? I think everyone would like to know if there is anything going on because I came back from shopping yesterday and people have been acting strangely since, and I have no idea what has caused it.

Is it just me or is everyone paranoid?

Dude, what?

If you're having a problem with PMs, that's one thing, but you seem to be assuming someone has purposefully deleted and/or blocked your PM box, which nobody here would do. Not even the evil Rev Stalin went that far, and it's what most of you all came here to escape.

CALM DOWN. Nobody is out to get you, really.

Apart from me.

Malc

No, I've had my PM facility taken off me. And, stuff. In any event, my email is above.

Some people asked me to stop CUS from being able to PM them. I asked him to stop so I didn't have to bother, he said "no" (not in those words, but still). I'm now in the process of hacking in a "don't let person 'a' message person 'b'" addition to the forum, and for the time being I've stopped CUSs PM's from working at all.

Zounds!

Oh, well, while a PM block is a reasonable feature if you're not keen on someone, but do you need to block him completely while you work out the code? Unless he's dementedly PMing people constantly, it seems a tad overkill, chap.

Can't you already put people as "enemies" in your inbox?

Malc

Mutiple now, eh? Wow! It'll be in dozens later, the way it's going.


No, I did say 'no'.

Grim... if I asked you to stop persons pursuing a personal grudge against me, what would you do then?

Oh, wait, they asked you first. Damnit, that means they win.


Because I complained about one person's specific and from-out-of-nowhere aggression towards me, to that person.

I'm sure you'd agree that's fair.

Mmm. Except the people who are, and stuff, obviously.

But, never mind! YOU'RE ALL IMAGINING THIS, IT'S ALL OKAY AND IT WILL NEVER BE YOU!

Eh? What on earth is going on?

No, bu you can create a rule.

If sender is 'CUS' then delete

seems to work.

Malc

We have rules?

ucp.php?i=pm&mode=options

Malc

So I see.
Neat, then. That's a little less work for me.

Unless CUS is rampantly spamming your inbox, can't you just ignore him? Also, where is this aggression? Other than a debate about pedalos, and the Mafia game, I've not seen anyone targeting anyone for anything really.

This is all entirely confusing.

I've had my PM facility removed because I asked if we really need so many threads on the mafia game ,and then asked someone to please explain why they feel the need to personally attack me whenever they get the chance.

Annoying, as my PM facility is the reason I'm staying here currently. But, then, the usual laws and rules don't apply to me (No, really, I can quote you it and everything, from a mod, and stuff).


It's enough to get rid of me though. Watch what you say yourself etc.

What on earth is going on? Am I missing something? Is it CUS that has gone mental, the entire forum or just me?

Er... What?

It's me that's gone mental. It's always the individual who is wrong.

Yes, I have been spamming everyone with offensive PMs. This may be due to my constant heavy drug intake* or being hilariously actually a bit mental, or simply me continuing the same forum-hating, World of CUS attitude as ever!

Duhhhh.

* Which is actually a lie. And very interesting results it did bring me, oh yes. Thanks.


It's not because of that then? So... is it because I mentioned Eastenders over Corrie? I dunno. I'm not psychic.

This surely can't be just down to one person's petty feud with me, despite the fact that I *genuinely need* to stay in contact with some people here, for their sake? Not billions, just a couple, for another couple of weeks or so. Because I can't understand why one person would automatically just 'get that', unless... well, I can speculate but you'd just call me crazy.

I think CUS has been upset about something for the last couple of days, so I'm trying to not hold his behavior against him, as on the whole it doesn't seem like *him*.

Just be calm dude. I'm sure at least a couple of people on here secretly want to stick pins in my eyes, but I'm not going to worry about it.

I want to do that. Not because I dislike you, but because it might be fun.

I simply wish to be able to check my PMs, or at least, receive a reasonable explanation why I can't.

The slippers. They are possessed.

I think some people are having meltdowns while the rest of us look on, baffled.

You've had a reasonable explanation. I will change things so you can read your messages.

[edit]Done.

No, you said that people had complained that I was sending them abusive PMs. Which isn't true. I sent one person two angry PMs asking them to please explain their previous and inexplicable abuse of me, including the assertation that as far as this board is concerned, I don't have the same rights. That's neither abusive, nor is it to more than one person. And it was yesterday.

You told me that said person wanted to hide away from me all nice and safe now that they had got their last word in, and wanted me to stop PMing them. Given that their behaviour was blatantly abusive, and specifically vindicative, I said 'no'. Churlish of me, but damnit, I'm sick of being singled out, and I don't see why I should HELP them. I note that if I was in fact 'sending people abusive PMs', I could have done so very quickly (you know fast I can post) to that person (or 'people' as you now claim, which is INTRIGUING and I believe simply untrue) to 'get the last word in'.

Except, I didn't, and I haven't now that you have returned my PM facility. Nor do I intend to, though I imagine you've programmed it in so that I couldn't.


Thank-you.

No one ever PM's me anyway.

For the record, I received a PM from CUS yesterday that was certainly random, but not abusive. In case you're wondering, CUS, I've not replied to it simply because I have no idea what I could write in response to it

Errrrrrrrrr. Oh! That's right. I think I PMd you to laugh at something you had said, because I was having to be politically sensitive in a few ways, as bloody always. It was funny, whatever it is.

No, I said "Some people asked me to stop CUS from being able to PM them."


You wouldn't - you'd be helping me. You were going to stop PMing them one way or another, I just hoped I wouldn't have to do anything about it myself (which I didn't, thanks to Malc knowing how shit worked).


Well, you believe wrong.

And now you can send messages again, too.

Ergo, abusively. Since they probably don't want me to stop PMing them the winning lottery numbers. And again, I don't see that as a reasonable answer.


But simultaneously, making things worse for me. You can see the bind I was in.


Oh, I can well believe that various people have complained about me. Certainly. And it's a darned good thing that I never complain about anyone, let me tell you.

In any event, Grim... you certainly can't be saying "In the past, people have complained about you, so bad you", because well... I already went down that path yesterday. I think we can all agree today that it's a bad idea to consider the past, and instead to only consider the very recent past.

So! With that in mind, Grim..., who are these people who want to not get PMs from me? Given that they could, as far as I know, simply make me a 'foe' and thereby ignore me across the board, no pun intended. And given that I would have PM'd them yesterday or indeed, quite recently anyway. So presumably, I was rather unpleasant in my PMs.

So, let me know please, because honestly, I don't remember sending any unpleasant PMs lately, and it's probably a good idea if you let me know so I can change my ways! Probably best to tell me in private though. I always avoid naming names, to my disadvantage.

What the fuck? Removing PM privileges now? Seriously?

All of this "on the sly, behind the scenes" modding is what makes forums shite, and was one of the downfalls of Stu's place.

No - read the thread. I took the PM privileges (look carefully at that word) away while I was making the changes to the forum that would allow people to stop getting PMs from others if they chose. I tried to solve it amicably, but I couldn't. I was always going to turn his PM stuff on again. Turns out that Malc knew how it could be done, so it's done.

Also: "on the sly, behind the scenes" modding - CUS was aware of what we were doing. How else do you expect us to do things - should we check with you first?

I love the way you pop on from out of nowhere, make a completely uninformed comment, then fuck off again shouting 'CLEEEEEEEEEEEEK' as you go.

Very helpful.

If CUS hadn't started this thread, nobody would know anything about this. So yeah, check with me.

If CUS hadn't logged in for the fifteen minutes I was doing stuff, even he wouldn't know anything about this. So what's the problem?

[edit]I'm going to have to shorten Myoptika's lead.

I certainly think that CUS should at least have been told that he was about to lose his PM ability before it actually went ahead so that he at least knew what the hell was going on, either in an email or PM (actually, no, PMing him would make no sense), but if he were sent an email regarding it first, fair enough, he didn't say.

If you are able to block people from PM-ing you then that should be written in the rules/FAQ area and mods should instruct people to do it themselves in the future, pointing towards the FAQ so that this doesn't happen, because you don't want this place going the way of WoS and not to at least explain to CUS that his PM ability was going to be suspended seems unfair (if that is what happened) and too much like that last days like was What WoS Was (also the name of my new band...)

You should do it by magic, and only after a 4 week vote and the consultation of goat entrails.

As usual, no wrongdoing has been committed as far as I can see. Certain access was restricted while changes were made.

Although it raises the point that we should perhaps have a status link somewhere up near the logo where upgrades, technical gubbins etc can be listed. Like Demon used to do when you fingered [email protected]. You'd get a list of ongoing stuff. I'm not talking about another pinned thread either. Just a simple text link at the top.

I've passed trying to be helpful. This place is descending into a clique-run hidey-hole corner of the internet. We've had near enough 200 users for a month now, with very few new people arriving. If I were a new guy, I'd see nothing here to entice me into the numerous debates on what I've bought recently, who I'm going to the pub with and various other nonsense.

Apologies for "popping out of nowhere", but this place just hasn't turned out how I expected it to. I don't think any one person is at fault, but maybe the WoS haters had a point. Maybe our little gang is a cunt-clique.

Because he did log in then, and I can imagine you would find it quite distressing if you logged in and couldn't access your PM account for reasons you didn't know. I think you have to assume that the person is going to log in at that time and prepare for that, in case that actually happens and any undue upset is caused.

Today is going to be a bad, bad day.

If I didn't like this place or the people who frequent it, I wouldn't come here at all.