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Post by argonbalt on Mar 6, 2017 19:27:44 GMT
I take it you will be banning his new accounts as they come up then? otherwise he'll just keep posting. Yes i will be perma banning all obvious Dv spin off accounts. I cannot ban guests because they do not have a registered account but i have contacted Qswitched about that as well.
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Post by DeltaV in exile on Mar 6, 2017 19:29:51 GMT
Look this is silly. Unbann me. I'm not going anywhere, I love you guys too much. We're adults, we shouldn't have to protected from frustration during debates. It's going to happen at some point. As adults we have to know when to go get a beer. No and for every day you insist on posting under a guest account i will only continue your ban on the the original account, starting today. I asked for some kind of system before bans with direct discussion with direct warnings that bans are coming and exact rules on what is allowed and not allowed. At the time I was in NO danger of being banned. I got neither. Banned without clear warning or what I have to do to avoid banning. I haven't violated the very rules I had a big part in drafting. Being frustrating to debate is not against the Code of Conduct. Look for sure I bought a bit of life and zest the Board. Why just look at the threads was fortunate to start? Almost all of them have comments by other members in the hundreds. This is supposed to be fun.
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 6, 2017 19:34:29 GMT
No and for every day you insist on posting under a guest account i will only continue your ban on the the original account, starting today. I asked for some kind of system before bans with direct discussion with direct warnings that bans are coming and exact rules on what is allowed and not allowed. At the time I was in NO danger of being banned. I got neither. Banned without clear warning or what I have to do to avoid banning. I haven't violated the very rules I had a big part in drafting. Being frustrating to debate is not against the Code of Conduct. Look for sure I bought a bit of life and zest the Board. Why just look at the threads was fortunate to start? Almost all of them have comments by other members in the hundreds. This is supposed to be fun. argonbalt told you, you were getting closer and closer to being banned, and you kept doing the things that got you there in the first place NAoP has points towards being banned too. also "Why just look at the threads was fortunate to start?" is not grammer
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 6, 2017 19:35:05 GMT
No and for every day you insist on posting under a guest account i will only continue your ban on the the original account, starting today. I asked for some kind of system before bans with direct discussion with direct warnings that bans are coming and exact rules on what is allowed and not allowed. At the time I was in NO danger of being banned. I got neither. Banned without clear warning or what I have to do to avoid banning. I haven't violated the very rules I had a big part in drafting. Being frustrating to debate is not against the Code of Conduct. Look for sure I bought a bit of life and zest the Board. Why just look at the threads was fortunate to start? Almost all of them have comments by other members in the hundreds. This is supposed to be fun. Your ban has been extended to 2017-03-13 on your original account.
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DeltaV feeling unwanted :(
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Post by DeltaV feeling unwanted :( on Mar 6, 2017 19:35:56 GMT
My opinion on this issue is unrelated to the fiasco of a discussion we had earlier, and the contrary opinions you had failed to present. This is an ongoing issue that you keep inciting. Please do act like an adult. Obligatory I'm not your buddy, guy. I thought we were all friends here. I've grown quite fond of you and I thought you felt the same. Well, my beer is getting cold I thought maybe if I spoke to you guys, there was some mistake or something. Well... see you later. `
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Post by RiftandRend on Mar 6, 2017 19:42:12 GMT
Why is DeltaV being banned? I haven't read all of their posts but all the interactions I have had with them have been positive. I think DeltaV wanted a more explicit warning (assuming they didn't get one), something like a PM saying "shape up or we will ban you now".
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Post by gedzilla on Mar 6, 2017 19:59:37 GMT
To DeltaV: I honestly feel that in general you are a good contributing member of this forum. If you really like it, dont comment or post in alt or guest accounts until your ban is done. Then come back, and im sure many people would be happy to have you.
In short, just obey the ban (including guest accounts), and then come back :-)
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Post by thorneel on Mar 6, 2017 20:03:02 GMT
2017-03-02 Looked into the Vigilinks operations on the forum, Proboards is officially partnered with Vigilinks as an advertising revenue and info farming, seeing as the board and accounts are free the is pretty much the "Cost" of existing on Proboards as a forum. Hosting information is cheap, but not free and so this is basically what is supporting the general Proboards system in conjunction with traditional advertisements. If any one dislikes this it is up to them individually to disable it. So there is a way to disable it for oneself in the profile?
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Post by Enderminion on Mar 6, 2017 20:06:03 GMT
2017-03-02 Looked into the Vigilinks operations on the forum, Proboards is officially partnered with Vigilinks as an advertising revenue and info farming, seeing as the board and accounts are free the is pretty much the "Cost" of existing on Proboards as a forum. Hosting information is cheap, but not free and so this is basically what is supporting the general Proboards system in conjunction with traditional advertisements. If any one dislikes this it is up to them individually to disable it. So there is a way to disable it for oneself in the profile? money
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Post by argonbalt on Mar 6, 2017 20:06:17 GMT
2017-03-02 Looked into the Vigilinks operations on the forum, Proboards is officially partnered with Vigilinks as an advertising revenue and info farming, seeing as the board and accounts are free the is pretty much the "Cost" of existing on Proboards as a forum. Hosting information is cheap, but not free and so this is basically what is supporting the general Proboards system in conjunction with traditional advertisements. If any one dislikes this it is up to them individually to disable it. So there is a way to disable it for oneself in the profile? Not specifically that i know off i believe rocketwitch might have known a way
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Post by teeth on Mar 6, 2017 20:07:04 GMT
You guys talking about disabling ads? Just get uBlock Origin.
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Post by vegemeister on Mar 6, 2017 23:23:58 GMT
So there is a way to disable it for oneself in the profile? Not specifically that i know off i believe rocketwitch might have known a way Well, there's www.viglink.com/opt-out/, but that doesn't seem to work even if I disable uMatrix on the forum. But even if it did work, I think that 'solution' would rely too much on trusting ad goons not to lie. The link rewriting also doesn't happen if I block javascript from ajax.googleapis.com, but that makes WYSIWYG post previews and other features stop working. Also there's a link at the bottom of the page where you can pay protection money for the entire forum. (Aside: apparently it's actually Viglink, not Vigilink. I read it wrong the first time.) Edit: The viglink opt-out does work, but only if I allow viglink.com through uBlock, which requires enabling "advanced mode" and using the dynamic filter. Which, of course, means trusting that "opt-out" is a binding promise from an advertising company. God this is disgusting.
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Post by newageofpower on Mar 7, 2017 0:23:14 GMT
To DeltaV: I honestly feel that in general you are a good contributing member of this forum. If you really like it, dont comment or post in alt or guest accounts until your ban is done. Then come back, and im sure many people would be happy to have you. In short, just obey the ban (including guest accounts), and then come back :-) Why is DeltaV being banned? I haven't read all of their posts but all the interactions I have had with them have been positive. I think DeltaV wanted a more explicit warning (assuming they didn't get one), something like a PM saying "shape up or we will ban you now". RiftandRendThat's because Delta V has this habit of editing/deleting posts that make him look bad once he realizes it.
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Post by Rocket Witch on Mar 7, 2017 18:58:11 GMT
So there is a way to disable it for oneself in the profile? Not specifically that i know off i believe rocketwitch might have known a way I don't remember commmenting on this before. I haven't seen Viglink style stuff in years though, and I've never seen it on this forum, so I was confused about what it even was until vegemeister's post (I too misread it as Vig ilink). If it helps anyone, I'm using Firefox with Adblock Plus and only allow first party cookies. It's probably the plugin that's doing the work.
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Post by The Astronomer on Mar 14, 2017 9:58:42 GMT
Ah yase, Greetings, fellow adults. I too, drink the beer. yes we are alll old enough to drink beer, surely there's nobody here is is more mature then an adult and younger then 21 *proceed to get milk out of the bag because I'm not 21 yet* *sit on one of the table in the empty bar* ...I don't believe in him anymore.... . .
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