His original name was GAZOO. The new name was GAZOOII Please try to get it right next time.
Geeeez that is driving me crazy. His name is reference several times in this thread.
Anyway…
I wonder with all the problems the guest memberships causes why not just eliminate them.
You can lurk for free so if someone really wants to post make them join from the get go.
That would stop a lot of sock puppets and trolls. Even if someone buys additional memberships they are most likely doing so they can troll in some fashion which will eventually get them banned and the Dope keeps the $14.95.
Would that not prevent these types of issues all together?
I understand that the second user name Gazoo created was against the rules but I think Skip could have been given more information as to who to contact and at what email address in case they needed more assistance.
If I called a number to inquire about their services and there answer was “you are not our customer so fuck off until you are one” I would not be calling back. That is the feel I got from the response
:dubious: Hello?! He was! He even said so! Go back and read the thread linked in the OP again, for comprehension. :rolleyes: ETA: On this message board anyone who has more than one account is a sock. This is because they want to keep all the posts under one name, all the posts stay with that person. Yes, they were a sock!
I don’t get this thread at all. I think it seems obvious from Gazoo’s picking a new version of the same user name that he wasn’t trying to pull a fast one. I think it also seems obvious that Skip wasn’t trying to give him/her a hard time, but was just giving a reminder of how the board works. I think that SomeUserName is right that Skip’s post might have been more detailed, but overall, I don’t see the big deal. Gazoo can always e-mail someone with questions, right?
No one can tell me that Gazoo or Magoo is a sock puppet, and therefore I think he/she is posting in good faith. Good riddance to anyone not playing. I have had enough. Goodbye.
It’s an old arguement, Winston, and I don’t think it pays to rehash it, but the application of rules that are NOT hard-and-fast and really clear-cut, like one user ID per person, seem to be enforced with different stringency, frequency, etc. depending on who the Mod is, and their mood that particular day. Enforcement of many of the rules is a judgement call (like what “being a jerk” means, for example), and humans have different judgements from each other, and even from themselves on a different day, or how something strikes them.
You are one unwise, obstinate, whiney bitch, do you know that? You make my head hurt. And if I’d been in the same room with you when you made the Adolf crack to Otto, you might very well have been slapped. Bitch!
Please don’t. I want to see that dense fucking moron actually try to sue somebody.
I would never want to be a mod here. It’s a difficult and thankless job. If I were a mod for a day though, the first thing I would do is ban Abby_Erma_Sanchez and wait to get a summons to appear.
Does anyone else get the impression that Abby_Emma_Sasha thinks that Gazoo was actually banned, not that the second user name was banned?
Unless I’m hopelessly confused about this issue myself, I took Skip’s post to mean that Gazoo is welcome back, but just needs to use the old account/user name. I know that this was already pointed out, but maybe she missed it?
You guys won’t believe what happened to me yesterday.
There was this widget store that I used to go to awhile ago, back when I was into widgets. I hadn’t been there in years. But yesterday for no particular reason I felt like stopping in and checking out the widgets.
When I got there, there was a sign on the window that said – get this – “Welcome, valued customer, and thank you for shopping at Widget Warehouse. We’ve recently moved! Please visit us at our new location on 123 Maple Street, and have a Widgety day! Fred Smith, manager.”
Can you fucking believe the rudeness of that note? Fred Smith is a total fucking asshole. And when I tried to go into the store it was locked!
That is exactly what happened. I think that is also what happened to the fellow here, just that username was banned, not both accounts. That’s fair. We are only allowed ONE username, and this was in the registration even before the boards went pay. I signed up just before they boards went pay, and I vividly remember reading that, and how strongly it was stressed. They aren’t banning both accounts, as they would for a troublemaker, they are just closing the newer one, so that the returning poster can “make good” and use their first account. (And they still have the option of changing their name as well.)
I don’t get the impression she cares much at all about what happens to Gazoo. She does seem awful twisted up about this Magoo character, but I have no idea who he is.
I don’t care who the fuck is welcomed back. I do not wish to be part of this garbage anymore. Cancel my membership, I want nothing to do with you people.
Only moderately interesting as flameouts go. Can’t you be more entertaining and make this larger and more spectacular? Don’t people have dramatic exits anymore or we stuck with these kind of really lame ones?