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#152 Nov 20 2012 at 10:42 AM Rating: Excellent
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That's why I said to merge it all back into =4 and not all in =28.

Like the good ole days when =4 was all we had and all we needed. How many forums that get two threads a day do we need?
I'd be in favor of this. It might balance out the politics talk a little.


You don't want to join the discussion on government funded electrolysis for transgender inmates? Smiley: frown
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#153 Nov 20 2012 at 10:43 AM Rating: Excellent
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I can start making separate threads for all my game deals but I don't think that would make anyone happy.
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#154 Nov 20 2012 at 10:48 AM Rating: Decent
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
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That's why I said to merge it all back into =4 and not all in =28.

Like the good ole days when =4 was all we had and all we needed. How many forums that get two threads a day do we need?
I'd be in favor of this. It might balance out the politics talk a little.


You don't want to join the discussion on government funded electrolysis for transgender inmates? Smiley: frown
Not as long as Alma or Gbaji are posting, it'll; be either about Alma's fear of the gays seeing his weiner or some incessant rant about marriage being only for the promotion of raising kids and blablablablabla. I've seen both a couple dozen times now, don't particularly need to read it again.
#155 Nov 20 2012 at 10:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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His Excellency Aethien wrote:
someproteinguy wrote:
His Excellency Aethien wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
That's why I said to merge it all back into =4 and not all in =28.

Like the good ole days when =4 was all we had and all we needed. How many forums that get two threads a day do we need?
I'd be in favor of this. It might balance out the politics talk a little.


You don't want to join the discussion on government funded electrolysis for transgender inmates? Smiley: frown
Not as long as Alma or Gbaji are posting, it'll; be either about Alma's fear of the gays seeing his weiner or some incessant rant about marriage being only for the promotion of raising kids and blablablablabla. I've seen both a couple dozen times now, don't particularly need to read it again.


That's crazy talk; If anything it'll be another thread about how the polls are wrong.
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#156 Nov 20 2012 at 4:40 PM Rating: Excellent
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O M G, I totally forgot about this thread. I guess that gas leak did affect me wittle branes! Did I miss anything?
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#157 Nov 20 2012 at 4:42 PM Rating: Excellent
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Wait, gas leak? Thats like what, the 500th close call between all the lightning strikes and everything. Are you absolutly sure the planet isn't secretly trying to kill you?
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#158 Nov 20 2012 at 4:47 PM Rating: Excellent
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IKR! We've been here two weeks, that's why I've been so sick! I feel better today. Smiley: grin
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#159 Nov 20 2012 at 6:28 PM Rating: Excellent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hah! In a suprise twist no one saw coming, For the first time ever in the history of ever, I'm going to ask the admins and users questions of my own, thus violating the basic Principal of the ask an admin thread and voiding space time's warranty! So without further dew;

1. To all the forum users of the world, if someone were to wave the magic "poof, you're an admin for a day" wand at you, what would be the very first thing you would do as an admin, and why?

2. Would you rather fly in a helicopter, or fly in a jet fighter?

3. For the admins, What is the best thing, and the worst thing about being an admin, in your oppinion?

4. and finally, why doesn't anyone ever ask about the theoretically secret but deliberatly poorly hidden forums with the 500 irrgulear and disturbing shaped pinyata's wearing monicles tied over a vat of molten pudding that we put there specifically to get people to ask questions about?

2. I'd have to go with helicopter. Probably get to actually enjoy the scenery instead of vomit that way.

3. Best: Being able to help and make an impact on the gaming community. Sounds corny, but it's true. Worst: Sometimes people forget you're entitled to your own personal opinion. Smiley: grin

4. That question has so many typos I refuse to acknowledge its existence.
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#160 Nov 20 2012 at 6:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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ooooo a question any admin. Have any of you gotten into an argument that got so heated that you made yourself step away from the site from a day or two?

I am always impressed by the way some of you guys remain calm during drama.

Once, and it was only for a few hours. It takes a lot to tick me off. Three kids makes you a tad thick-skinned.
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#161 Nov 21 2012 at 6:52 AM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hah! In a suprise twist no one saw coming, For the first time ever in the history of ever, I'm going to ask the admins and users questions of my own, thus violating the basic Principal of the ask an admin thread and voiding space time's warranty! So without further dew;

1. To all the forum users of the world, if someone were to wave the magic "poof, you're an admin for a day" wand at you, what would be the very first thing you would do as an admin, and why?

2. Would you rather fly in a helicopter, or fly in a jet fighter?

3. For the admins, What is the best thing, and the worst thing about being an admin, in your oppinion?

4. and finally, why doesn't anyone ever ask about the theoretically secret but deliberatly poorly hidden forums with the 500 irrgulear and disturbing shaped pinyata's wearing monicles tied over a vat of molten pudding that we put there specifically to get people to ask questions about?


1. I'd remove ~700 of Lolgaxe's posts. Smiley: sly And then I'd solve world hunger and stuff.

2. Jet fighter. Helicopters are neat and all, but I want to feel g-forces.

4. What?
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#162 Nov 21 2012 at 9:29 AM Rating: Good
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What was the Official 1st post on the Forums and Link / Quote ?

Does the person still post?
#163 Nov 21 2012 at 9:47 AM Rating: Decent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hah! In a suprise twist no one saw coming, For the first time ever in the history of ever, I'm going to ask the admins and users questions of my own, thus violating the basic Principal of the ask an admin thread and voiding space time's warranty! So without further dew;

1. To all the forum users of the world, if someone were to wave the magic "poof, you're an admin for a day" wand at you, what would be the very first thing you would do as an admin, and why?

2. Would you rather fly in a helicopter, or fly in a jet fighter?

3. For the admins, What is the best thing, and the worst thing about being an admin, in your oppinion?

4. and finally, why doesn't anyone ever ask about the theoretically secret but deliberatly poorly hidden forums with the 500 irrgulear and disturbing shaped pinyata's wearing monicles tied over a vat of molten pudding that we put there specifically to get people to ask questions about?


1) With great power comes great responsibility, so I would probably do the smart thing and logout just to be safe. Although ninja editing some sigs would be kind of fun...oh and reset Jophs post count...

2) I want to say jet fighter, just because it sounds more bad ***. But A nice little Apache cruise would be cool too.

3) I think most admins would say the nuke button, I know that would be one of my favorites, the worst thing would probably be holding back the trigger finger.

4) Isn't it self explanatory?
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#164 Nov 21 2012 at 9:59 AM Rating: Excellent
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oh and reset Jophs post count

Since it says "TILT" anyway, it'd probably be a month before I noticed. HA! Where's your God now?
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#165 Nov 21 2012 at 11:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
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oh and reset Jophs post count

Since it says "TILT" anyway, it'd probably be a month before I noticed. HA! Where's your God now?


Probably converting to Islam.
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#166 Nov 21 2012 at 11:58 AM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hah! In a suprise twist no one saw coming, For the first time ever in the history of ever, I'm going to ask the admins and users questions of my own, thus violating the basic Principal of the ask an admin thread and voiding space time's warranty! So without further dew;

1. To all the forum users of the world, if someone were to wave the magic "poof, you're an admin for a day" wand at you, what would be the very first thing you would do as an admin, and why?

2. Would you rather fly in a helicopter, or fly in a jet fighter?

3. For the admins, What is the best thing, and the worst thing about being an admin, in your oppinion?

4. and finally, why doesn't anyone ever ask about the theoretically secret but deliberatly poorly hidden forums with the 500 irrgulear and disturbing shaped pinyata's wearing monicles tied over a vat of molten pudding that we put there specifically to get people to ask questions about?


1. Give myself permanent premium, because I'm cheap frugal.

2. A helicopter; I have a thing for military technology in general, and have always been fascinated by the AH-64 Apache helicopter in particular.

3. Does this count since you're making us all admins for a day? Smiley: lol

4. I can just see a picture of that on the intarwebs, followed by the line, "Your argument is now invalid."
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#167 Nov 21 2012 at 12:46 PM Rating: Excellent
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Dalans wrote:
What was the Official 1st post on the Forums and Link / Quote ?

Does the person still post?


Thats kind of a tricky question actually. The origional forums were actually an iteration of the UBB Ultimate Bullitin Board software, of which the first post was either made by Allakhazam or a test user, which has since been lost for all time. The present day forums actually started out as the Item comment system. The first post were actually test posts by Illia, which no longer exist. The oldest remaining "official" post was this one https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=4588&mid=18644#msg96654851526145 by an unregistered user named Jabkoraz.

The UBB forums went away in October of 2003. The first official test of the new forum system was conducted by Illia in September of 2003. The first official user testing by a non admin (me at the time as it turns out) took place in October. Posts from that era tend to not display in full thread format anymore due to several interim upgrades, but basically it was a test post of various fonts and things. the new forums proper were opened to general testing in November. Many of the posts from that era are incomplete or missing, so its hard to link to the actual first "forum post" definitivly, but its probably this one: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=105881369356008#6
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#168 Nov 21 2012 at 2:14 PM Rating: Good
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Speaking of filters, why are some of them more severe than others? A**hole, for instance, is turned into ******* while **** is merely given an asterisk and *** isn't filtered at all.

What gives?

In my opinion, you should change the filter to replace all swearwords with the word "kitten" like ArenaNet does. Makes for interesting posts sometimes.
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Speaking of filters, why are some of them more severe than others? A**hole, for instance, is turned into @#%^ while sh*t is merely given an asterisk and *** isn't filtered at all.

What gives?

In my opinion, you should change the filter to replace all swearwords with the word "kitten" like ArenaNet does. Makes for interesting posts sometimes.

Reminds me of the episode of Family Guy where Stewie replaced the word "and" with the word "fart."

I think that would be more hilarious than "kitten," only because I'm a little twisted and think that fart jokes never get old.
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#170 Nov 21 2012 at 2:21 PM Rating: Excellent
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Mazra wrote:
Speaking of filters, why are some of them more severe than others? A**hole, for instance, is turned into @#%^ while sh*t is merely given an asterisk and *** isn't filtered at all.

What gives?

In my opinion, you should change the filter to replace all swearwords with the word "kitten" like ArenaNet does. Makes for interesting posts sometimes.


Some of it is legacy from the old UBB days. There are many things that should be filtered but aren't, and there are more than a few things that shouldn't be but are. An adjusted list was added as a feature ticket some time ago, but its not been worked on yet We were also going to drop the filter in Asylum almost entirely. But yeah, we know some things are off.
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#171 Nov 21 2012 at 5:49 PM Rating: Decent
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Many of the posts from that era are incomplete or missing, so its hard to link to the actual first "forum post" definitivly, but its probably this one: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=105881369356008#6


You have no idea how much restraint it took for me to not necro that.
#172 Nov 21 2012 at 5:56 PM Rating: Excellent
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I have a question for the admins.

Where have all the cowboys gone?
#173 Nov 21 2012 at 6:04 PM Rating: Excellent
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Hah! In a suprise twist no one saw coming, For the first time ever in the history of ever, I'm going to ask the admins and users questions of my own, thus violating the basic Principal of the ask an admin thread and voiding space time's warranty! So without further dew;

1. To all the forum users of the world, if someone were to wave the magic "poof, you're an admin for a day" wand at you, what would be the very first thing you would do as an admin, and why?

2. Would you rather fly in a helicopter, or fly in a jet fighter?

3. For the admins, What is the best thing, and the worst thing about being an admin, in your oppinion?

4. and finally, why doesn't anyone ever ask about the theoretically secret but deliberatly poorly hidden forums with the 500 irrgulear and disturbing shaped pinyata's wearing monicles tied over a vat of molten pudding that we put there specifically to get people to ask questions about?


1. Been there, done that!

2. Jet fighter... need for speed baby!

3. Best thing, being able to edit Kaolian's posts, his typo illness drives me *************

4. Huh what?
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#174 Nov 22 2012 at 2:18 AM Rating: Excellent
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1. Give myself permanent premium, because I'm cheap frugal.


I approve of cheap. People undervalue it.
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I have a question for the admins.

Where have all the cowboys gone?


Sunny came home with a vengeance.
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#176 Nov 22 2012 at 6:07 AM Rating: Good
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
Dalans wrote:
What was the Official 1st post on the Forums and Link / Quote ?

Does the person still post?


Thats kind of a tricky question actually. The origional forums were actually an iteration of the UBB Ultimate Bullitin Board software, of which the first post was either made by Allakhazam or a test user, which has since been lost for all time. The present day forums actually started out as the Item comment system. The first post were actually test posts by Illia, which no longer exist. The oldest remaining "official" post was this one https://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=4588&mid=18644#msg96654851526145 by an unregistered user named Jabkoraz.

The UBB forums went away in October of 2003. The first official test of the new forum system was conducted by Illia in September of 2003. The first official user testing by a non admin (me at the time as it turns out) took place in October. Posts from that era tend to not display in full thread format anymore due to several interim upgrades, but basically it was a test post of various fonts and things. the new forums proper were opened to general testing in November. Many of the posts from that era are incomplete or missing, so its hard to link to the actual first "forum post" definitivly, but its probably this one: https://everquest.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=105881369356008#6


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