Ask an Admin THREAD 2009Follow

If I'm not mistaken I do believe Nexa was the last one.

As to the admin notes curiosity, unless you're someone like BT that's broken just about every rule there is, you should already know pretty much what they are. If I had to guess, I'd say mine would go a bit like this:

Account creation stuff
Premium stuff
Won a silly FFXI clock during the month long contest.
Won a copy of Conan from the Conan contest (it's never been opened).
Made a fuss about getting my named changed.
No rated twice.

I'm pretty sure the way the terms of service are written your posts are yours to use as you see fit, but by posting them here you also give us the right to use them, specifically via reply to quote and things of that nature. Or if we wanted to take a post and copy it to the front page. etc. We couldn't sell your dingart for example, but you also likely couldn't successfully sue us if we put one of them on the front page. I doubt it is something that will come up often.

One area I have seen is when someone submits a post to become a guide for a game, and then later gets pissed at us and wants that guide removed, we have removed them. Also if somethign was posted and the person posting it stole it from someone else and us phosting it would put us in copyright violation, we also immidiatly remove things.

If you post stuff to the wiki it's no longer yours as a memorable case showed :D However I think someone did redo most of that content eventually.

Edited, Dec 18th 2009 2:15pm by Xsarus

In case it hasn't been answered:

How come you don't like spiders, Kao? Any particular childhood trauma involved?

I guess that's two questions, but they sort of go together.

Who is the most whimsical poster? What makes you laugh? What makes you dread coming to work? OOh and more about DF's wedding!

I came up with a new question.


When we use the "report post" function, do you guys actually read our posted reasons or am I overthinking what I post in my reasons section?

I thought that was the case.


And for some reason I'm getting deja vu. Have I asked this question before and am just too tired to remember?

Ah. Wake me when I get to 13. That sounds like a nice number to stop at.

So I should making them more interesting then?

Wiki's are different. a forum post is yours. its your content, no one else but an admin can change it. Wiki is a shared sandbox. Once you put your toys in the sharad sandbox, they are communal toys and you don't get to take them home when you leave.

When I was 12, out at my Grandparent's farm, there was an old 57 chevy in pieces. Me, being an inquisitive youth prone to assembling things, was trying to see if enough parts were there to make a real car out of it someday. As I flipped over a wheel laying on the ground, I discovered a very large and very pissed off black widow heading straight for my fingers. It struck at me, I was quicker. That was the first time.

The second time, I was at home. I was asleep when i felt something walk over my stomache. Half asleep still, I look down and see a brown spider walking across my bare skin. I sit bolt upright and stupidly sweep the spider off with my bare hand, braining myself on the oak bunk bed above in the process. spider hits the bed, Starts running back towards me. I grab one of the shoes, kill it, and then later identify it as a brown recluse. That was the second time.

After that, I bug bombed and spider trapped and did my best to eradicate them as a species. I discovered that my childhood home was filled with many more deadly spiders than I would ever have given credit to. We had a thriving colony of recluses, and anyone who says they are not present in washington is absolutly full of ****.

So yeah. the little bastards are out to get me. So I fear them.

User notes are often an indication of if we expect to have to look back at them someday and take action on them.

Other forums? Lets see. I tend to lurk in the fark and engadget forums from time to time. I have a fair post count in the wtfcomics.com forums (page is down at the moment) I have been known to post in the various eq and eq2 forums, and the Firiona vie EQ server forum. I used to post a fair amount on macrossworld.com, but not recently. I have maybe 2-3k more posts on various Radio Control and hobby message boards. Alot of those are under my other gamer handle though.