death of word association

first of all, i am deeply saddened by the closing of the word association thread, it provided a laugh when i needed one at a stressful day at work..... i can only hope someone will undo the suicidal rating on it

ennis -- i hate you like i hated my dog after she used to crap in the house (so it is only for a little bit ;)) the only way i can see that the thread went suicidal is because of the reddies you got for your last post in there...

btw -- here my post would be if the word association thread would still be alive (*hint hint*)

being towed away :: my horse ?!?

was Ennis negged that bad where it send the thread from extremely positive to suicidal?

:drink: : burp : just start another easy peasy japanesy..... :D

Finally! This is supposed to be a security forum, not a forum for useless thread like the word association or Non Sensible thread.

If you want to continue your word association thread, go make a conference room like the Non Sensible guy.

:drink: This forums got nothing to do with security.It's general chit chat.

yeah, ennis from the looks of it was negged pretty bad... also, i agree with TidaLphasE23, this is the general chit chat... i guess we could always put it in tech humor...

I only got negged by one person, the person being pretty high up on the Top 10 list meant that it hit me pretty bad, luckily he will be reimbursing me so his message says.

Anyway if his intention was to get the thread closed so be it, there is little I can do.

my horse : Mr ED

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i guess we could always put it in tech humor...

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Wouldn't Cosmos be better?................no antipoints there?

just a thought

It is a choice by individuals not to use antipoints in Cosmos. There is no technical reasoning preventing their use. However, as was suggested, why not start a conference room on it?

I think ultimately there are some still annoyed at the post whoring effects of the thread.

Granted there is no antipoints in cosmos but that won't stop anyone from negging a member or members in a another thread I say start a Conference Room no post counts to worry about and no worring about it being closed by antipoints.

Im glad it got closed, i mean the non-sensical thread was okay since there were actually discussions in there at some times, but that thread was utterly crap (even though i posted in it ) ...and ig ot negged by the same person, didnt say nothing about bringing me back up though ? :( :)

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...and ig ot negged by the same person, didnt say nothing about bringing me back up though ?

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Who gives a ****? They are just gif's.

The smilies at the end were supposed to point out that im just messing around :)

Nemory you remind me of the girl at school that had a different hair color every other day cuz without fail - every single time I look at the AP thing under your name, it's different somehow...

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Who gives a ****? They are just gif's.

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[applause] Left open indefinitely.

so i go to make a public conference room where we can continue the word association thread, but alas, that option does not exist... :(

That's the problem with conference rooms, you have to individually invite each person that participates, and most of the time, the topic gets boring and people stop posting. I believe in another thread mnstgrl said she was going to look into different software for the conference rooms. I believe that making the conference rooms more accesible and user friendly would be a huge improvement to the site.

Sorry bout your dog dj, that's sad. :(

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Who gives a ****? They are just gif's.

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what about that sayin, a picture is worth a thousand words :-D

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Originally posted here by djscribble
first of all, i am deeply saddened by the closing of the word association thread, it provided a laugh when i needed one at a stressful day at work..... i can only hope someone will undo the suicidal rating on it

ennis -- i hate you like i hated my dog after she used to crap in the house (so it is only for a little bit ;)) the only way i can see that the thread went suicidal is because of the reddies you got for your last post in there...

btw -- here my post would be if the word association thread would still be alive (*hint hint*)

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Well, I'm sorry, I just can't stand post whoring, and that was what that thread was doing. Ennis is a buddy of mine and I have in fact boosted him back up. If people would quit making these worthless threads that allow you to reply with "O" or some crap, then it would maybe take longer than 3 days to become an addict.

The last few months on AO, you might as well allow newbies access to addicts with the crap threads people can post in 900 times and become a senior. It's killing any point to the addicts, and making AO look like you can just post whore away to get a better status.

I'm still partly asleep, and getting ready for work, if you want to yell at me and tell me I'm a bad person, PM or something and I'll get to that when I get home. < / Half asleep >

On a brighter note I got fan mail and thank you notes from people for closing that thread. If you think I was out of line, sorry, but I really can't stand watching threads like that. I'm not the only one who feels that way after some PMs I got, and from some AIM conversations I had. I know a few seniors do NOT like that.

I'm not saying no one can have a "fun" thread, don't take it that way, but a fair warning:

Knock it off with these bull **** threads. Not to sound mean, but any more of these bullshit threads I find, well, they are wonderful for spreading out. It probably wouldn't bother me, but the fact that you couldn't make a technical discussion last that long with that many replies does.

Again, sorry, but I'm not putting up with that.

I did it in private and I’ll do with publicly also, Thank you Gore for closing this thread! I can only applause the fact that a senior member work to make AO a better place.

If i was MemorY i would've helped you neg the crap out of that tgread too :)

now that your reasons are understood i see that you were not out of line at all... i just wish there was a way to make a thread that was public, and it did not count posts (hoping this is what the new conference rooms will enable us to do)

Well another one bites the dust :)

wow ennis got it all that bad and suicided that... wow that is pretty stupid from what i can see i think.

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Originally posted here by NemorY
The smilies at the end were supposed to point out that im just messing around :)

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You weren't messing around when you PM me saying how I was mean for taking away your light green dot, saying I should have negged Spyder and them instead because "they have a lot of APs and you don't".

Now, if you're going to say you don't care about these things, why PM me complaining you got negged? You said you would have helped me close it, you said it was cool, but in PM you bitched at me.

... What is it with that?

wouldn't this be something that is better taken care of in PM's rather than here in an open thread??

Oh, you are saying let Memory stay in the closet? Considering I haven't gotten a PM back, or a responce, no, **** him.

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wouldn't this be something that is better taken care of in PM's rather than here in an open thread??

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Absolutely not. Its much more fun this way :D

:shocked: nemory is in the closet???:shocked: oh no...

For goodness sake - a thread is closed and what happens? Some idiot starts yet another thread complaining about it. No doubt this will turn into another pointless waste of space thread, unless one of the mods comes in and locks it (although no doubt we would just then get a "why was the 'closed word association thread' closed?" thread). I used to have to deal with this issue when I moderated one of the intranet forums at my college and boy did it get tedious after a while.

For those of you who want to create these threads, go get a room or start your own forums and host your nonsense there, where everyone else doesn't have to see it. This is General Chit Chat, not General Crap Posting and Post Whoring.

As for Gore forcibly closing the thread, I'm disgusted that he had to do that in order to try and stop the blatant post whoring in there. If you got some negs as a result, that's your problem - hopefully next time you'll think before cluttering up the site with your meaningless drivel.

Personally, I think the admins should be giving out some warnings to persistent offenders - APs don't work because somehow they manage to stay in the green zone even when they post more and more useless rubbish that I see every time I click 'view new posts'. I don't know whether there are a legion of AP alliances still in operation or whether greenies are just handed out to all and sundry nowadays, but either way something needs to be done about it.

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Personally, I think the admins should be giving out some warnings to persistent offenders - APs don't work because somehow they manage to stay in the green zone even when they post more and more useless rubbish that I see every time I click 'view new posts'. I don't know whether there are a legion of AP alliances still in operation or whether greenies are just handed out to all and sundry nowadays, but either way something needs to be done about it.

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The true is Senior don't want to punch full neg point. Some of us are becoming very powerfull, example Gore.

Well, the admins should impose a limit on how many negative points can be assigned at any time - i.e. calculate how many would normally be given out and cap it at say 30 APs (use whichever figure is lower). It's not difficult to do, unless such a limit is already in place.

They did that already. APs have been pretty much cut in half, and you give maybe half of what you used to. Also, it depends on which forum you're in. Security forums hit harder, and GCC and Cosmos probably hardly touch at all.

I don't really think anymore restrictions needs to be made, I think people can just learn the tried and true method of "Do what you want, and pay for it later".

Meaning don't be an *******, and if you do something like I did, make sure you boost them back up. If people learn not to abuse the system, and actually take responcibility, then there would be no probems.

first of all i am not an idiot, i was merely expressing my sadness for the loss of something i found fun.

second of all, if you hadn't posted this thread was done and would have drifted off into oblivion, only by your angry reply did i even think about reading this thread again.

thirdly and finally, your post was completely and utterly out of order, i don't care how many people agreed with you or how many seniors decided to greeneyify your post. your rudeness was uncalled for, and in the process you only helped add to the problem of "useless rubbish" and if i may add Mindless Drivel.

someone please close this thread, it has outlasted its usefullness

Damn, did someone mistake Sand Paper for toilet paper today?

I don't care if you think I'm a *****, you're probably right, and ether way, too bad. It's not like I've never put up with crap from anyone here, so deal with it or leave, no one's forcing you to stay.

Either way, I got you to reply ;)

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Originally posted here by djscribble
first of all i am not an idiot, i was merely expressing my sadness for the loss of something i found fun.

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I beg to differ - apart from anything else you seem unable to find the Shift button on your keyboard. I'll give you a clue, it's usually slightly to the left of Z and one up from Ctrl. Found it? Good, then all you have to do is depress it at the same time you need to type a capital letter.

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second of all, if you hadn't posted this thread was done and would have drifted off into oblivion, only by your angry reply did i even think about reading this thread again.

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If you hadn't started this thread in the first place, none of us would have had to waste our time reading or replying to it.

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thirdly and finally, your post was completely and utterly out of order

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Someone who starts a useless thread complaining about another useless thread being closed really can't tell someone else that their post is out of order.

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i don't care how many people agreed with you

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Erm, surely if people agree with me then you should care?

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or how many seniors decided to greeneyify your post.

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Just the one, it's not like I have an army of seniors waiting to backup every post I make.

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your rudeness was uncalled for, and in the process you only helped add to the problem of "useless rubbish" and if i may add Mindless Drivel.

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Once again, your hypocritism comes to the fore.

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someone please close this thread, it has outlasted its usefullness

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It never had any usefulness in the first place.

*v_Ln dances a jig