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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Hey, this happened almost a year earlier than the current thread. You both should have seen this.
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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    So I guess I need a new explanation as to why my attachment was deleted 3 years after it was posted.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Add spyware to your pong program and then attach it to vbforums.

    We're very nostalgic around here and would enjoy the chuckle.
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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Quote Originally Posted by Spetnik
    So I guess I need a new explanation as to why my attachment was deleted 3 years after it was posted.
    Because we have policies to uphold, but can't possibly monitor all of the forums constantly.

    Having slipped under the radar once does not exempt something from our rules.

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    Zing!

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Or maybe I was considered such a trusted member that the moderators then overlooked certain things when it came to me. Welcome, Penagate, you seem new (or at least in relation to this thread). Enjoy your stay here at VBForums. Let me know when I get my privileges back.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    What about me?



    I'm so lonely

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Whats with the Jan 02 join date and only 2 worthy (questionable) posts?

    I'm a slacko but I've got at least a hundred posts.

    You need to provide less programming and more assistance in the real forums. Then beg for your imaginary priveleges.
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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Quote Originally Posted by Spetnik
    Or maybe I was considered such a trusted member that the moderators then overlooked certain things when it came to me. Welcome, Penagate, you seem new (or at least in relation to this thread). Enjoy your stay here at VBForums. Let me know when I get my privileges back.
    I didn't look at the date of the post when I deleted the attachments. What I saw was a zip file containing just an executable with no source code. It didn't help that your account has just two non-chit chat posts.

    The policy on this (let's call it the 'snake game policy' ) is pretty clear and has been this way as long as I have been a moderator, if not a member. It helps prevent the posting of viruses, adware, etc. If you want to post a program, you need to post the source code as well. As far as I know, there are no exemptions to this rule for anyone, regardless of their join date, popularity, or even moderator status.
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    Quote Originally Posted by sunburnt
    I didn't look at the date of the post when I deleted the attachments. What I saw was a zip file containing just an executable with no source code. It didn't help that your account has just two non-chit chat posts.

    The policy on this (let's call it the 'snake game policy' ) is pretty clear and has been this way as long as I have been a moderator, if not a member. It helps prevent the posting of viruses, adware, etc. If you want to post a program, you need to post the source code as well. As far as I know, there are no exemptions to this rule for anyone, regardless of their join date, popularity, or even moderator status.
    It's ok. I forgive you this time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Foxer
    Whats with the Jan 02 join date and only 2 worthy (questionable) posts?
    That, my friend is an excellent question. What did happen to my several thousand posts?

    Seek, my friend. Embark upon this quest to discover the mystery of Spetnik's lost posts (or just ask some longtime chitchat members).

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    That is strange,
    I knew you had been one of the "Lost", but per http://www.vbforums.com/showpost.php...8&postcount=26

    you had been somewhat restored.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Due to the way the forum software works, it takes a lot of effort to keep those post counts as they were - they need to be manually changed on a regular basis.

    As they have been at their 'real' level (based on remaining posts) for a long time and as nobody really cared (including myself - also about 1400 posts), the decision was taken to not update them.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Can Si_teh_greek Has A Var ??

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    What are you talking about kllegg?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NotLKH
    That is strange,
    You didn't happen to go on a delete spree, circa the Black Avatar Era?
    Getting close...

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Unfortunately there is nothing we can do about the lost posts - previous owners of this site didn't have a good enough backup system, so they are gone forever.

    There are much better processes in place now, so the chances of it happening again are far lower.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Not only did you spell my name wrong, but you used 2 l's. You FOOL!


    Get an extra var to hold all teh post counts of evrys1ngle membars kthxbai!

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    You added an R, so it was only fair.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Quote Originally Posted by Spetnik
    Or maybe I was considered such a trusted member that the moderators then overlooked certain things when it came to me. Welcome, Penagate, you seem new (or at least in relation to this thread). Enjoy your stay here at VBForums. Let me know when I get my privileges back.
    I don't know who you are, but you're already too cocky for my taste. Every member on this forum shares the same level of privileges. I don't know a time when that has been different. You have no respect from me, regardless of what your former status may have been.

    P.S. I'm the CC police.

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    Quote Originally Posted by si_the_geek
    You added an R, so it was only fair.
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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    Quote Originally Posted by timeshifter
    Every member on this forum shares the same level of privileges. I don't know a time when that has been different.
    I guess a lot has changed in my absence.

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    Re: TCPing - My legacy to IT

    I guess so.

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    Quote Originally Posted by spetnik
    I guess a lot has changed in my absence.
    Not really - you just seem to have a rose-tinted view of the way things were.

    As was said earlier, the only reason your attachment wasn't deleted before is that it wasn't spotted.

    As far as I am aware, you have never had any kind of special privileges (due to the crash, my "join date" is incorrect), and I can't think of any reason why you would have done.
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    Maybe an R would have helped him pronounce my name properly (rather than "see the jeek").

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    Quote Originally Posted by si_the_geek
    As far as I am aware, you have never had any kind of special privileges (due to the crash, my "join date" is incorrect), and I can't think of any reason why you would have done.
    Hmm, you do not seem to share my twisted view of reality.

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    Twisted viewers of reality have been known to receive the big red button of ban, and it's usually quite an occasion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by si_the_geek
    Maybe an R would have helped him pronounce my name properly (rather than "see the jeek").
    I don't get it

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    Quote Originally Posted by timeshifter
    Twisted viewers of reality have been known to receive the big red button of ban, and it's usually quite an occasion.
    I see. So I would get banned for merely expressing in ChitChat that I feel that I deserve privileges that I do not deserve? Wow. A lot sure has changed.

    What about beer? Are we still allowed to talk about beer?

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    Unless you're talking about the colour of the beer, you will get banned unless you pass the new VBF test. I've failed for my 27th time. You know what they say, 28th time lucky!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spetnik
    So I would get banned for merely expressing in ChitChat that I feel that I deserve privileges that I do not deserve?
    No*.


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    And there is no more simple banning and it's done. As I said, we make an occasion out of it.

    It usually involves Pena getting drunk right before we throw him into the arena with the banee. Humor ensues

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    Even times get so bad, penagate has to ban himself*

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    ** You didn't really ban yourself. You liar!

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    Hey, I did the best I could.

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    Quote Originally Posted by penagate
    Hey, I did the best I could.

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    If they make me a moderator again I'll ban him. And the rest of you .. for conspiracy to brain wash a moderator into banning himself.
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    What about me? I can't be involved in any conspiracy, I'm too stupid to care!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spetnik
    I see. So I would get banned for merely expressing in ChitChat that I feel that I deserve privileges that I do not deserve? Wow. A lot sure has changed.

    What about beer? Are we still allowed to talk about beer?
    I feel ya.

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