deskthority.net vs geekhack.org

itlnstln · 06 Oct 2011, 18:12

I think that was one of iMav's other hobbies.

litster · 06 Oct 2011, 18:14

If I remember correctly, if you are banned at GH, your avatar and your signature are not displayed in thread views, and your title text is changed to banned. But, if you drill down to look at the banned user's profile page, the avatar is still there on the profile page and it had the text "banned" above the avatar picture. that could be what whiskerbox saw.

Soarer · 06 Oct 2011, 18:22

itlnstln wrote:
Soarer wrote:Sounded more like someone had done the douchy thing of setting their title (or whatever it's called) to 'Banned.'
Word. That makes sense.

It wasn't keyboardlover though, his few remaining posts said 'guest' (i.e. deleted account)...

itlnstln · 06 Oct 2011, 18:25

Soarer wrote: It wasn't keyboardlover though, his few remaining posts said 'guest' (i.e. deleted account)...

That was this morning. He was banned by iMav for a couple of days, then last night, ripster errantly perma-banned him, and what we might have seen was iMav trying to restore his account.

That said, some of his posts were deleted (the SP Group Buy, for example), so there was some speculation that he had his account deleted.

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 18:31

Sounds like I better start studying up on motorcycles.

Specifically I clicked the Ban button in a rather obscure section I stumbled across in my Mod tools thinking I could keep KL out of my subforum. Whoops!

This probably makes me the world's worst keyboard forum moderator.

Soarer · 06 Oct 2011, 18:32

itlnstln wrote:
Soarer wrote: It wasn't keyboardlover though, his few remaining posts said 'guest' (i.e. deleted account)...
That was this morning. He was banned by iMav for a couple of days, then last night, ripster errantly perma-banned him, and what we might have seen was iMav trying to restore his account.

That said, some of his posts were deleted (the SP Group Buy, for example), so there was some speculation that he had his account deleted.

Yeah, I'd gathered that. There was a user with a douchey 'Banned' above his avatar though...

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 18:34

Soarer, you have Assburgers? You go on and on and on....

whiskerBox · 06 Oct 2011, 18:36

Soarer wrote:
itlnstln wrote:
Soarer wrote: It wasn't keyboardlover though, his few remaining posts said 'guest' (i.e. deleted account)...
That was this morning. He was banned by iMav for a couple of days, then last night, ripster errantly perma-banned him, and what we might have seen was iMav trying to restore his account.

That said, some of his posts were deleted (the SP Group Buy, for example), so there was some speculation that he had his account deleted.
Yeah, I'd gathered that. There was a user with a douchey 'Banned' above his avatar though...

Wow that was stupid of me, sorry. Yes to all, at one point I saw his avatar and his title said "Banned" like he changed it due to his exceedingly high levels of douchness and at another point I think he was actually banned. IDK.

guilleguillaume · 06 Oct 2011, 18:48

I just hope iMav decide to punish Ripster for this.

Parabellum · 06 Oct 2011, 18:50

Yeah that ripster fellow is quite the troublemaker!

mtl · 06 Oct 2011, 19:02

@entire_situation: lol

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 19:06

Luckily being a Forum Mod is not a paid position.

whiskerBox · 06 Oct 2011, 19:08

yes this should be his new board

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 19:12

After 6 months of KBC PBT Engraveds and no cleaning sessions I was on my way.

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Jim66 · 06 Oct 2011, 19:15

I find iMav most rude. A couple of weeks ago lister showed me a link to a couple of IBM M4s that iMav was selling. I have been looking for one of these for ages, so I send him a PM and wrote on the thread.

He replied to my thread post and said that they were still for sale, however he won't reply to my PMs. He doesn't say on the add that he doesn't want to post out of America.

It doesn't take much to reply saying; "Sorry, they are no longer for sale/sorry I only want to ship to America".

Does someone else want to PM him'? See if they get a response?

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 19:20

Not me. I'm scared of the guy myself.

Last time I ever push that button.

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Wow - still down.

My Momma said I could be anything. Then I broke Geekhack.

litster · 06 Oct 2011, 20:34

I think iMav once said that he was sick of the pissing matches and he was almost ready to turn off GH. Maybe he just did...

Edit: nope, it seems to be back, but the site is very slow.

ripster · 06 Oct 2011, 21:01

I was looking forward to discussing Zen and the Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Dogvergnügen.

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itlnstln · 06 Oct 2011, 21:25

litster wrote:I think iMav once said that he was sick of the pissing matches and he was almost ready to turn off GH. Maybe he just did...

Edit: nope, it seems to be back, but the site is very slow.

After all that, I wouldn't have been surprised. Maybe he's some kind of masochist. I guess we all are if we keep going there.

webwit · 06 Oct 2011, 23:45

itlnstln wrote:Hmm... Shut GH down for a little bit, and activity increases here on DT. This is not a bad thing.

I'm not sure. It feels like GH rehab here!

litster · 06 Oct 2011, 23:47

GH is still down. It must be much harder to recover than I had thought.

That lady in the picture above is looking for KL's account under the table.

webwit · 06 Oct 2011, 23:54

I bet iMav is taking this opportunity to update vBulletin and destroy the themes once again.

N8N · 07 Oct 2011, 01:30

The sad thing is my set of WASD lasered keys just showed up today, and I was going to post pics.

The sadder thing is I didn't have a keyboard to put them on, so I just picked the one that bothered me the most - a Noppoo. I got all the way done with the board save for the space bar when I remembered why that was a bad plan. Probably just as easy to mod the space bar at this point.

Spoiler - the black WASD lasered keys look very similar to the Noppoo ones. But with a consistent font size, better kerning, etc.

Conclusion: I like 'em, and it's what this board needed.

ripster · 07 Oct 2011, 16:46

Hey, GH is back up and I STILL can post here.

Anybody know what threadcrapping is?

sixty · 07 Oct 2011, 18:09

ripster · 07 Oct 2011, 18:35

Ah, I SEE!

Why not just ignore off topic comments. That's what I do.

Anyway, on the 10th Anniversary I congratulate Topre for figuring out how to do Red LEDs and discovering that you can dye plastic many different colors.

However their inability to make PBT spacebars like IBM did YEARS ago astounds me.

It must be a Japanese thing.

Spoiler:

002 · 08 Oct 2011, 07:51

You mean red LEDs like on this old JDL Topre board?:

And coloured keycaps like this old Axess Topre board?:

ripster · 08 Oct 2011, 17:00

Now THAT'S a nice spacebar. PBT.

Too bad it won't get much use.

Maybe the use of ABS plastic on ANSI layouts is Topre Racism?

litster · 08 Oct 2011, 18:55

It is not that big of a deal because space is rarely used in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, unlike Latin languages.

ripster · 08 Oct 2011, 18:56

In other words Japanese engineers don't care about roundeyes.