Photogator

[Tipmoose]

This is not a nomination. I just wanted to post up a PM exchange he and I had today. I brought up the fact that they've now disabled negative rep, and mentioned to him that every time I think GC Admins can't get any more stupid they surprise me. here's his response. The man sure loves to talk... [img]{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Its also clear that he doesn't know anything about Darths Den or The Hole. Seems rather obsessed over Darth tho. I replied to him telling him that there are non-public boards and that's almost certainly where Darth is getting his posts, and it also explains the "nothing to see here. Quiet you!" response from Growl.


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Ya, I saw that. It's ridiculous how they do the entire thing but watcha gonna do, right?

The worst thing of all is that they changed how many points it takes and, just as I predicted, the rep thread got 100 times busier. So, now all the rep traders are a couple weeks from maxing out again because they have frantically been trading rep. Meanwhile EVERYONE else had their rep stars & bars cut by about 80%. So now the gap between the "rep traders" and "rep earners" is FREAKING HUGE! It looks 100 times worse now than it did 3 weeks ago because everyone who had EARNED 3 or 4 bars now has none and all the rep traders are about to be right back with their 20 star maximum.

So what happens then? Does Growl change the numbers again so that 30 people or so can continue to play their rep game? I guess you had better prepare to lose all your gold blocks in a couple weeks because the rep traders will all be maxed out again and won't get to play "rep trade" EVER AGAIN!

And since their wishes are all that matters, the other 9,970 Gator Country members will have to either shut off their rep, learn to live with one green block (since they will have to eventually earn 1,000,000 points to get a second block), or join the trade game.

The only alternative is that the rep trading is about to end because all the traders will be maxed out and won't ever be able to earn another block. Do you see that happening? If it does happen, then we have our solution because everyone with 20 gold stars will look like clowns for a couple years until a few people who play fair finally start to earn stars.

I'm just venting to you because I am not about to say any more on this. I already have a target on my back because I dare to do anything but worship certain mods/admins and I am already fighting with myself to not let them know how I really feel about some stuff, lol. It's like dealing with mall cops who really think everyone isn't laughing at what they think is a 'cool job," ha, ha.

It's just like how Darth has been "stealing" post & casino dollar credits for months and when I had the audacity to post something asking him how he manages to do it, I get a PM from Growl telling me his post count is none of my business. I figured he'd hacked the board, which is easy if you know how (and could cost Ray thousands if he messes up), but Growl's response tells me he is getting 4 posts and $4 for every 1 post he makes with his knowledge. No sweat off my back but I don't like being pounded because Darth is making posts "bragging" about a post count that is totally false.

Did you notice that he hadn't made a single post since the 18th of the month and yet, last night his post count went up by 10,000 posts and his casino cash went from around $170,000 to around $880,000? He "earned" $700,000 yesterday without making a single post. And I am a bad guy because I simply asked Darth in a post how he pulled it off?

Is he Growl's brother or something? They have to know. He had one thread that had around 33,000 posts. Of those, Darth had done about 27,000. When the post was taken down, he lost credit for all those posts and yet he is now showing more than 150,000 posts? WITHOUT ANY BABE POSTS COUNTING! And nobody even asks where he made those 150,000 posts since he joined last July? I've watched for 3 months. He made about 2,000 posts total that weren't in the babes thread.

Again, the only worry I have is that he is hacking the board. Somehow he got $700k in cash yesterday without making a single post. But if i bring it up, I'm likely to get banned. If i knew my post would stand anyway, I would do it, but they will delete it I'm sure because they think i have a rivalry with Darth (I don't - I don't care about Darth, I only cared about the crap they kept throwing at me because Darth kept hounding them about me because I posted babe pics and he hated that).

Anyway, I am just showing that I see how things work here and I have stopped caring. I "might" eventually ask Ray if he is aware of what Darth is doing and if he says yes, then I won't bring it up again. I REALLY don't care (you are the ONLY person I have even said anything too about his post count). But if they are helping him then they should have told me so i wouldn't accidentally out him. Ray has shared many VERY sensitive things about his business (I knew all about the move to the new site and all the legal issues it would create many months in advance for example) and he knows I'd never say a thing. What really pisses me off is that I am being treated like some child because I did no more than ask where Darth's 150,000 other posts came from.

So that and the ridiculous rep crap can burn GC terribly for all I care. In both cases it is about honesty vs. dishonesty and in both cases the powers that be have sided with dishonesty and made me the bad guy (and anyone else who is against rep trading), So "F" them. Let 'em drown for all I care. Ray can protect his business himself and if he wants to trust it to people who run it this way, so be it. I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the show and it's gonna get better and better as the rep stars keep piling up, lol. (And they obviously think nobody else is gonna notice what Darth is pulling - either that or they are justy to damn thick to see it themselves.)

Anyway, sorry for the rant but I REALLY needed to vent to someone and you gave me the shot, lol. Hope you learned your lesson, ha, ha.

Glenn

[G8Rpmc]

Interesting.

I've had a little bit of contact with Photo. I really like the photos he posts in threads he started....threads with a huge variety of styles of photography (no babes in those threads

[apexgator]

It's sad really, the way some people are obsessed with rep points both positively and/or negatively.

[IHateUGAlyDawgs]

yeah, I like the fact that he disagrees with the modship...but he's really into rep too...just for different reasons...guy has his own issues.

[TTBHG]

I can honestly say that I am thankful that I have no earthly idea who you folks are speaking about. I don't miss that place at one iota.

[Toothy]

Again, the only worry I have is that he is hacking the board.

That, and the messages the KGB is sending me through secret receptors they implanted in my skull that time the UFO picked me up. But I got my tinfoil hat on!

Anyway, I am just showing that I see how things work here and I have stopped caring.

Which my 13,000-word rant makes abundantly clear.

[radbag]

photo was very critical of the pub that last dust up....interesting.

thanks tip

[TTBHG]

^^I just negative repped you.^^


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[G8rMom7]

LOL to Toothy...his posts are always too long to read. I try to scan them but eh. Anyway, I saw that book PMC actually at my car wash (for sale). I looked through it and read the forward from Danny Wuerffel...neat looking coffee table type book.