Roadwarrior thread locked?

[joeyramone]

mutha is fixing

[cowtown]

mutha is fixing

[kirrabi]

All I know is manos kept promising something by next Tuesday, then next Tuesday. Slowly this image of Popeye's Wimpy took shape.

[macunaima]

Did Tszara flounce? I hope not.

[justinian]

Well, hum, this was about as exciting as the conclusion to "Al Capone's Vault".

[Dallan]

I was really looking forward to all those IM conversations being posted, and the reaction of those who probably didn't even know their chats were being saved for future publication.

That would have been the biggest scandal since Nijo stumbled on that camuflated site.

[Ian_in_DC]

This is oarsum. And insane.

I have four simple words of advice: Who the fuck cares?

[That was a rhetorical question - there are obviously posters who care about this make believe world. I still don't see how any of this has transgressed over into the real world.]

[crossfire]

who cares? True but knowing the nature of this place, such a thread will probably get tons of hits and comments - though many of those comments will of course be of "who cares" but they will still look regardless

[AntiEverything]

This is oarsum. And insane.

I have four simple words of advice: Who the fuck cares?

[That was a rhetorical question - there are obviously posters who care about this make believe world. I still don't see how any of this has transgressed over into the real world.]

Already asked that

The answer seems to be TP.

[evo_morales]

The current mod team let smokey basically fuck with this place far longer than alias or rosie. Bad on them.

Correction: You let Smokey fuck with your head, though you were stupid enough to let him. Smokey is now banned and he has still left scars on your fragile ego.

[Piel!]

The current mod team let smokey basically fuck with this place far longer than alias or rosie. Bad on them.

Correction: You let Smokey fuck with your head, though you were stupid enough to let him. Smokey is now banned and he has still left scars on your fragile ego.

Two write, everydoby noes taht Remtite is in teh Azamon Baysun doing work to ferthur teh revolooshun.

TEH TIDE IS SIRING!!!!!

AVIV HOGU!!!!!!!

IVAV OBLIVIA!!!!!!

VAVI VENICVEWHALER!!!!1!!!!!!!


HEC!!!!!!!111111

[koolhass]

I am the ghost of christmas past...

[pezworld]

Hi Koolhass! How goes it?

[koolhass]

life's just as complicated outside

I'm with mutha on the 4th annual death of the stew post.

I would really appreciate if someone could explain to me (in a few, clear sentences) what happened with zara/shmish/manos/my handle getting deleted.

[Daejn]

I could really appreciate if someone could explain to me (in a few, clear sentences) what happened with zara/shmish/manos/my handle getting deleted.

Not bloody likely. We've got six pages of speculation on this thread, and no clear answers.

[macunaima]

Maybe cowtown will oblige?

[joeyramone]

The current mod team let smokey basically fuck with this place far longer than alias or rosie. Bad on them.

Correction: You let Smokey fuck with your head, though you were stupid enough to let him. Smokey is now banned and he has still left scars on your fragile ego.

right, i was stupid enough to "let him" post jew hating swill. Nice to know he still lives through another troll handle, though

[AnniesCat]

The current mod team let smokey basically fuck with this place far longer than alias or rosie. Bad on them.

Correction: You let Smokey fuck with your head, though you were stupid enough to let him. Smokey is now banned and he has still left scars on your fragile ego.

right, i was stupid enough to "let him" post jew hating swill. Nice to know he still lives through another troll handle, though

It looked to me he was joey baiting and you were too stupid to let it wash over you. you were scared of Smokie, pure and simple.

[Felix]

mutha is fixing

[justinian]

Sorry, pal - bablefish can't quite capture the essence of that.

[joeyramone]

The current mod team let smokey basically fuck with this place far longer than alias or rosie. Bad on them.

Correction: You let Smokey fuck with your head, though you were stupid enough to let him. Smokey is now banned and he has still left scars on your fragile ego.

right, i was stupid enough to "let him" post jew hating swill. Nice to know he still lives through another troll handle, though

It looked to me he was joey baiting and you were too stupid to let it wash over you. you were scared of Smokie, pure and simple.

frightened to death, you're right. So, you support him calling people "pedohiles" and "kiddyfiddlers"? why is that?

and as for scared, methinks you're the one hiding behind a troll handle. Ironic, ain't it?

[cowtown]

mutha is fixing

[i_have_shiny_shoes]

Sorry, if you're reading this, I just wanted to make the 300th post on this thread.

Again, my apologies.

[thoughtpolice]

mutha is fixing

[milton]

I'm a bit disappointed that it's taken me till today to read this thread..

Bit disappointing in the end - it promised so much!

The Weekend of Doom came and went, but where were the old posts and emails?

Anyhoo - just on the offchance she does peek back in here, I have a question for Zara:

Zara - to my knowledge we've never fueded. I've either missed or been too lazy to read the fueds that you referred to in this thread.
However, I notice that you've complained about revisionism to make you look bad, deleting of posts, editing, etc.
It's a bugbear of mine, so my question is this - given that you dislike the selective editing/revisionism that can lead to such a situation, can you confirm that you personally have never been in the habit of deleting posts that annoyed you while a mod, or PMing mods asking for the same to be done when you weren't?
Thanks. That's all.

[popping in]

I would really appreciate if someone could explain to me (in a few, clear sentences) what happened with zara/shmish/manos/my handle getting deleted.

Manos blocked me (shmish) from the forum one day. Can't remember the exact reason why, but it was when everything had really come to a head behind the scenes and Manos was making sweeping and really weird executive decisions without discussing it with anyone that was supposed to be helping to run the forum and hold stuff together. (like blocking mods from the site entirely without discussion). At the time, as I'm sure it is now, being a mod was a pretty active job. We were dealing with the crazy porn posting guy all the time, which could take up hours of your time and the crazy white supremisists who seemed determined to try to guide the direction of the forum to follow their crazy ideology and it just seemed like an odd time for Manos to come in throwing his power around and dismissing all sorts of agreements that those who spend long hours at the forum has made long before.

After I was dismissed and had signed back in as doodle, Jono (the sweetest and most trusting mod on the board) and I were in touch to talk about the issue and he granted me access back into modland. I took advantage of his good nature that night... something I regretted very much afterwards. And apologized for. And continue to regret very much.

Anyway, I deleted Manos. I did not speak to anyone about it before hand and it was utterly and completely of my own doing. And, even though I can look back now and see that it was wrong I don't feel at all bad about that aspect of this entire mess. That still seems just.

From my perspective at the time it was the right thing to do and deleting the handle was the only way (with my small amount of technical know how about how the back room actually worked) that I could figure out to do it.

It was for the reasons I won't try to explain because it's already been done to death in this, and many other, threads. I didn't delete anyone else but Manos and I believe I left the mod room for good after right after I did that. Probably because my "shmish" handle had been permanently deleted by Manos.

I did not and would NEVER have deleted Koolhass, because he was great and always a pleasure to have in the mod room). I don't know how or why that deletion or demotion happened.

I actually received several PMs after the event from members of the forum thanking me for making the move to remove Manos. And then there were others who were less than kind and even less informed.

Anyway, that's the truth. I know only a portion of you will believe it... because, well, there are as many realities in this world as there are people.



And how very funny all this is to think about now so very many years out. It was all so important then. What a laugh I have at my own expense.


I enjoy you people. Even those of you that I don't enjoy.

It's been a hoot to come back and poke around.

[Piel!]

Jono (the sweetest and most trusting mod on the board) and I were in touch to talk about the issue and he granted me access back into modland. I took advantage of his good nature that night... something I regretted very much afterwards. And apologized for. And continue to regret very much.

Jono = zara??

GOM!11!1

[popping in]

heh heh heh...

Well, I've never met them in a room together, so I guess anything is possible.

Then again, the only two of you that I'm VERY sure aren't the same person is S8 and Lavite. Other than that, I can never be sure.

[AnnieOakley]

popping in= zara.
Easy peasy.

[thoughtpolice]

I did not and would NEVER have deleted Koolhass, because he was great and always a pleasure to have in the mod room).

I have a completely opposite view of the same person, formed in modland before you were a mod. Well done on axeing the Greek.
But that is ancient history.
Good to see you here Smish, are you still selling Atlanta one yard at a time?

[popping in]

hmmm, TP, I was a mod right out of the gate. Koolhass actually asked me to come on board right away... but anyway, doesn't matter. It's all long dead grudges and soap opera like feuds that are funny now, though it was all infuriating at the time.

Yes! Things are going well for me in real estate. We've had a hot market the last couple of years, amazingly enough. Went from selling 7 houses in '06 to 6 houses in '07. Those were my "penance" years.

Joined a kickass RE team with two other great agents and took over the roll of sole buyer's specialist for the team. That kicked my numbers up to 36 houses sold in '08 and this year I'm standing at 27 home sales with another dozen or so clients in the hopper that are hoping to buy before the end of the year.

Don't know if I'll beat last year, but I am going for it. LIfe is pretty good when you work for yourself and you can find a way to make it a success.

[soda 3.0]

Ah, old feuds - still as sweet as the new feuds.

Lovely to see you here, Shmish - the board hasn't been the same without you. And Jono, for that matter.

[popping in]

Thanks Soda. It's nice to be back occasionally. There are lots of cool folks here.

[AnnieOakley]

Aye. I mish dat Smish.