So, Grimby's banned? What's the deal, guys?

No, the topic of the thread is "...Grimby's banned...", and I was saying that no one would have known that if it wasn't for the glitch.

 

At no point were we ever trying to hide the fact that Grimby was banned. It was going tk be obvious very quickly. We are just restrained by the policy on not discussing bans. Can everyone just wait a couple of hours until Grimby can come and discuss the details he wishes to?

 

Aw, but it's funny watching people go mental over nothing!

 

I didn't literally mean a publicity stunt, I just think the same thing that has been said by others. The procedure taken to handle this was silly. I don't blame MS as I know MS had little to no involvement in it, but...it's still silly. He is the head admin, not a mod, not a user. There is a certain degree of difference in how his situation should be handled. Punishment can still be fair and yet dealt in different methods.

Basically what I just mean to say is that there should have been some warning beforehand and that it's silly/suspicious that there was not. Which has already been cleared up by others.

 

Well, then I commend you, Grimby. It must have been some lashing out at this manager, as obviously that was done via PM and not in public or in the MS. At least you're back faster than Keith Olbermann.

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Did you call them a *****?

 

... I step down because MS is as boring as space is infinite and the next week the head admin bans himself for flaming a mod?!? The universe truly hates me. What issue could there possibly be to excite Grimbylicous that much? No, I don't expect you to answer that question - I literally cannot fathom that ... you know... stuff still actually happens.


I knew it was worth checking out Comms at 4am on a Sunday night

 

My main Tech Admin duties are the loading of new banners to the TFN server and creating the styles so they can be used here. I also update the forum headers when mods leave or new ones are chosen. And I keep an eye on the Comms Tech Thread. In addition I mod in Comms, Collecting, and Games: CCG etc.

If we open a new forum either Grimby or I have to create the board scripts for that forum as well.

As far as the new boards go, my main tech background is as a DBA and Philip Wise has hired a consultant to handle that side of the board move. I've been doing background stuff (lists of banners that we have and all the bits in case of problems in the move, a list of all of our banned users, things like that.) Grimby and I are also looking at the database mapping to convert between the IGN database format and VBulletin. VBulletin does have scripts to aid in conversion from several database formats to its own but IGN isn't one of the supported formats so Philip's consultant will have to 'home-grow' one. And that is what's taking a lot of the time associated with the move.

 

Man, I almost feel like $enny. The best bit of drama comes about and I wasn't there to participate in it first hand. What a ripoff! I demand a recount! There must be some hanging chads somewhere!

 

So then, which Manager provoked Grimby into flaming them? I wonder....

Glad its all a load of nonsense (relatively speaking) and not something more serious like the actions of he who will not be named.

How was the experiance of getting banned Grimbers? A bit surreal I bet?

 

I would say provoking is far from the truth.

 

Whether or not it was provoked it really irrelevant. And obviously we won't be going into details about that - that falls under both "PMs are private" and "bans are not discussed" categories.

 

Welcome to the Comms forum, noob.

 

That's not as bad as me saying aloud inside the Staples Center (as I first found out about all this via Facebook) "What the hell has Grimby done?".

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The comms faithful have been deprived of anything for so long, it was surely inevitable.

 

It was probably an argument about whether or not Palpatine = Sidious.

 

Shows how far we've fallen. Back in the day this would have been a 30 page Comms epic with all manner of bizarre conspiracy theories. Now 4 pages? 4 ******** pages?

 

There's been a lot of poking with a stick to see if people are still alive with all the stuff that's gone on here recently. I've regularly gone days and even weeks between checking in here. Guess something had to be done.

 

OK, so....

What exactly did you hope to acomplish by doing this? Gettng some admin, and ms on your side for whatever reason,vbecause you showed them spirit? And furthermore, what messegs does that show regular users that you're willing to be a matyr for the ms, yet can't make it open, yet know someone will eventualy notice?



Basicaly saying, if you feel like you need to be put on even levels with other uers, fine. You think you went over the top to get that, cool.


But,why let it get to a point that you could have obviously seen coming, get this far?