There are plenty of shitty Dell P3 and P4 machines around here still and they are going nowhere fast. It probably helps that many government buildings here made use of them.
Some stuff never gets out for years. Some businesses like the shady one I worked for kept everything in storage and added it to the insurance. They told me the insurance company is pretty vague about this stuff, they state the value of their best computers and then state they own 1200 of them, despite the fact that only around 10 systems were that spec. A room existed in the building with plenty of systems from 286 up to 486 era which were no longer used, but were kept for insurance purposes. A single 286 was still running because their accounting software was stuck on there and it was too time consuming and costly to move it (by hand) to a newer application.
Tetrium wrote:Personally I find it more intriguing as to why these mods all seemed to behave like this 😜
There has to be some kind of explanation for it?
I mean, obviously some admin put those mods in power, now why would an admin even want to put people in power who misbehave and don't care they destroy 'their' own forum while doing it. How could an admin fall for that? And I mean multiple times if he put several of these mods in charge, that's just stupid 🤣
There were around 5 mods on that board, only two were a problem. The other three were mostly inactive but often attempted to overrule the two problem mods and would call them out on their bullshit when they were online, just a shame they only managed a few active minutes a week. The Admin had not been online for around 4 years, the forum regularly cleared up threads (automatically) once they had been inactive for 14 days so it was impossible to check, but I imagine those moderators were a lot better when they took the post. Perhaps they thought they were now the rightful owners of the forum and decided to have fun only to get mad when met with people smarter than themselves? Perhaps they were beat up a lot in school? Maybe their dad raped them like I secretly hope he did or perhaps their mother used to beat them every day. Who knows. Who cares. I've never seen them again so they either have different names and keep quiet about what happened or else they have disappeared. The internet is full of pieces of shit like them and it always bites them when they realize the internet isn't real and they don't have any power at all in the real world. As for the Admin, he ditched the site and went off to sell windows (as in, the glass kind) or something. I just laugh at people like that anyway, I save getting mad at stuff for the real world and they don't change anything about real life so there is no reason to get mad at them. I very much doubt they would ever do or say anything in real life either, I am quite sure if I ever met those guys in real life I'd make them my bitch and parade them down the road on the end of a leash.
I found it amusing how when the trolling was happening, other people joined in. The other three mods also did nothing to stop it. This was some serious stuff too as the forum allowed HTML so you could potentially jam some nasty ActiveX in a post - we only used it to annoy and not to harm. We also found that it was possible to get simple HTML markup into the topic subtitle to the extent that it was possible to modify the forum colors and such, my friend even figured out how to get this onto to the main forum page somehow and break the layout entirely along with adding a redirect and later a horrible midi (Cloud Cuckoo Land)... I miss the days when forum admins were so naive about this stuff as it allowed many, many hours of entertainment.
I can't really understand the mod I've had issues with here, who knows, the guy obviously has problems socializing with other people and that sucks, but I don't see why I should have to put up with his problems when I have enough of my own to deal with. I won't let up on it until I get an apology either from him and the user involved in the incident, granted this could lead to removal of my posting rights or something but I'd rather that than write it off, it's no loss to me but I think these people should take responsibility for their actions instead of being a pussy. I've been on a lot of forums and three out of many (at least 30 boards I can think of) suggests most mods are good, but like anything there are always a few idiots who have to ruin things.
In part, my clash with those mods is probably partly because I'm an asshole so it is a bad mix, hell, I abuse my mod powers on another board. The difference is, I do it to comic effect such as putting animated bug silhouettes in the "News" ticker or troll the other mod by making his poll say he is a moron. At the same time, I am decent to other forum members - I'm grumpy and I complain about things, but I always try to help and when a real problem strikes I deal with it by contacting the member to suggest they make a change to something, such as remove an offensive remark. I give them a set time and then if they have not acted I make a note of it and fix it myself. I am fairly lenient though. I might add the "moron" mod is useless and has never dealt with a single issue. Nobody has kicked off at me yet, so I must be doing something right though I try to maintain an active trend of being down-voted because the Karma system is stupid.
