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pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:24 pm
by Toothy
Jesus those people are a hot mess.
Well said. I went over there for five minutes tonight -- probably the second time I've logged in this year -- and it was fucking pathetic, with Vanders cheerleading the pub back into existence after the lost thread catastrophe. Bakaduin is over on another thread pissing on movie critics (everyone knows that the best 10 films of the year are the biggest 10 films of the year -- that if you haven't seen it advertised on TV, it must suck).
What a waste of fucking time. I can see going over there to talk Gator sports, but fuck the Pub.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2008 9:36 pm
by Weegie
I don't think Verti looks all that much older than her husband...I say this because everyone says Bill looks like he's in his 20's and I well...don't. But he's only one year younger than me.
All I can say about this whole sitch is I'm glad it didn't start from one of us in the BA...especially me.
I agree--I don't think he looks that much younger than she. He's cute, but he doesn't look like he's in his 20s. I don't care for two-tone hair, generally, but she doesn't look all that "hard" to me. She's just thin.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 1:05 am
by G8Rpmc
Kyle told me that all the threads in the Pub had been deleted and that some people were asking for me to come back and start the Boring Thread and the Fishing Fools thread. I went back and did that. What a weird deal....ALL the threads being deleted accidently. wow.....
I haven't had a problem with anyone over there, but I haven't been hanging around the Pub for some time now.
I heard that Pam96 had been banned for taking a pic of someone that was in the Pic thread and posting it on another message board. Supposedly she said some very "unkind" things about the person in the pic. I guess it got back to the "powers that be" and they didn't take too kindly to it.
Like I said, I haven't been there much. I started going back a few times after Kyle told me about the threads being deleted.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:54 am
by IHateUGAlyDawgs
I don't believe for one second that those threads were deleted accidentally. I don't care how many times Ray says it was an accident. That was deliberate. I don't care, it's not like they deleted anything I posted over there, it's just funny how the sheep blindly follow.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 7:58 am
by Tipmoose
I don't believe for one second that those threads were deleted accidentally. I don't care how many times Ray says it was an accident. That was deliberate. I don't care, it's not like they deleted anything I posted over there, it's just funny how the sheep blindly follow.
This is 100% correct. vBulletin is a very good piece of software and does not, in general, let you shoot yourself in the foot like that without plenty of warnings. This is at least the second time a 'glitch' has allowed things to get screwed up over there...the first was when Rad got access to the mod forum...either the people running things over there are complete MORONS or they're lying through their teeth. Or both.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:28 am
by DocZaius
You must need to be logged into GC in some form to even see the Pub these days, I take it. I can't access the link Doc posted.
Sorry, I didn't realize that folks couldn't see it.
It's a thread that Growl started explaining how ALL the threads in the Pub were "accidentally" deleted.
TitletownSteeler, with the third reply:
This place started going downhill long before that...
A few threads being deleted isnt lost charactor. But losing longtime regular posters is...
Its time to recognize that some good people have been run off from this site, mostly because a couple of the people you put in charge of the forums refuse to look at both sides of a disagreement.
Don't know who he is. I've seen his name around, but I really don't remember him being a Pub regular or anything. He's a "VIP Member," so he's paying for something.
Thereafter, vanders posted a long diatribe rationalizing her actions:
Personally I believe there are two sides of some of these reasons people were banned and I know another side~ but not every single reason at all nor do I want to.
This is a Gator Country Forum, it is described as this:
If you are looking to have fun and relax this is the place for you. Friends from all walks of life retreat here for tales and brews. Gator or not you are welcome here if you want to have fun, relax and post. Step right on in, folks, and savor the relaxed atmosphere!
I myself have ALWAYS abided by the rules and invited many newbees to the Pub. Variety is the spice of life. If EVER I was offended by a thread, I did NOT read nor did I post on it. But when some people made PERSONAL ATTACKS on others and were reprimanded over and over and over ~ and they continued to get in jabs that only the people directly involved understood. Believe me I'm on here enough , I saw it all.
When pictures were taken from the Pub Album and posted on other boards with vulgar slanderous, Tasteless comments~ those posters deserved a ban. It is called harassement.... and punishable in many ways in a "real world."
Honestly, I miss some of the characters too~ for they added spice and laughter. But when it became a personal thing and hateful. .. I don't miss that. Those characters were warned and If I recall they even told me how many times they were warned.
We all should appreciate the mods who stood up for RIGHT~ they took a beating at many levels. I appreciate Gator Country for taking a stand and like any society YOU BREAK THE RULES YOU PAY THE PRICE. I may not be the favorite person/poster, but I rarely if ever get into anyone's crap and post things like this ~~~but some things just need to be said and the whining needs to stop.
It is time to rebuild and let's rebuild with some threads~ go at it, post what you want the pub to be~ and see what stays alive and going. This is your chance to make the PUB filled with a variety and let's not let the character disappear.
GO GATORS....if we build championship teams, we can rebuild the Pub. Happy Postings to all.
Not much of substance after that. Vertigo replied saying that TitletownSteeler didn't have both sides, only the side of the "disenfranchised" users.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:50 am
by Weegie
vanders uses ~~~~ too much.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:19 am
by IHateUGAlyDawgs
I think reptilius has been removed from the pub.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:41 am
by Toothy
In this response to Vanders's post, I remember that PMC and maybe others are friends with Vanders. I don't mean to drag Vanders down as a person. I am sure she can be a wonderful friend. I don't think she's a good moderator of a forum like the Pub.
Personally I believe there are two sides of some of these reasons people were banned and I know another side~ but not every single reason at all nor do I want to.
Ooh, Vanders has a secret.
This is a Gator Country Forum, it is described as this:
If you are looking to have fun and relax this is the place for you. Friends from all walks of life retreat here for tales and brews. Gator or not you are welcome here if you want to have fun, relax and post. Step right on in, folks, and savor the relaxed atmosphere!
Like a biblical or constitutional literalist, she believes that repeating the rules in her own voice somehow gives the force of commandment to her misappropriation of them.
I myself have ALWAYS abided by the rules and invited many newbees to the Pub.
Out with the old, in with the new.
Variety is the spice of life.
Another logical fallacy is the shotgunning of cliches. What exactly does that mean, or how does it apply?
If EVER I was offended by a thread, I did NOT read nor did I post on it. But when some people made PERSONAL ATTACKS on others and were reprimanded over and over and over ~ and they continued to get in jabs that only the people directly involved understood. Believe me I'm on here enough , I saw it all.
When pictures were taken from the Pub Album and posted on other boards with vulgar slanderous, Tasteless comments~ those posters deserved a ban. It is called harassement.... and punishable in many ways in a "real world."
Anybody else get the sense that these "attacks" are the most exciting thing for her?
Honestly, I miss some of the characters too~ for they added spice and laughter
.
When I am known for
adding spice, please do me a favor and put a bullet in my head.
But when it became a personal thing and hateful. .. I don't miss that. Those characters were warned and If I recall they even told me how many times they were warned.
This reasoning neglects the extent to which a place like the Pub IS personal. It is frequently about nothing EXCEPT personality. I agree entirely with her that attacks upon others are inappropriate. But Vanders and others mistake complaints about their policies as personal attacks. My posts about the rep and other changes in the pub were very deliberately written to avoid attacking or even naming other posters, and yet (in the pub thread and in other puritan responses) they were misunderstood and to this day are memorialized as attacks.
In other words: control freak, and control freak who can broach no "variety," whose enchantment with "spice" is entirely false.
We all should appreciate the mods who stood up for RIGHT~ they took a beating at many levels.
For RIGHT, whatever that is, though whatever it is, she defined it.
"A beating at many levels"? Name two.
I appreciate Gator Country for taking a stand and like any society YOU BREAK THE RULES YOU PAY THE PRICE. I may not be the favorite person/poster, but I rarely if ever get into anyone's crap and post things like this ~~~but some things just need to be said and the whining needs to stop.
What rules?
The whining needs to stop -- her sense of irony is not strong.
It is time to rebuild and let's rebuild with some threads~ go at it, post what you want the pub to be~ and see what stays alive and going.
Now this is a disaster and she is the helpful folks at FEMA.
Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job.
This is your chance to make the PUB filled with a variety and let's not let the character disappear.
Some character is more equal than others.
GO GATORS....if we build championship teams, we can rebuild the Pub. Happy Postings to all.
In our own image.
Go Gators indeed.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:49 am
by DocZaius
I think reptilius has been removed from the pub.
They deleted the thread you started. I looked reptilius up and the only posts are in response to the thread about ales and the thread about wisdom.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 9:51 am
by IHateUGAlyDawgs
they removed my buttsecks picture? Damn.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 10:08 am
by IHateUGAlyDawgs
reptilius has sent a message to baritubacocksucker hoping to resolve whatever misunderstanding that has caused reptilius' expulsion from the Pub.
Waiting patiently on the reply.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 12:02 pm
by MinGator
Well said.
What a waste of fucking time. butt fuck the Pub.
fify
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:31 pm
by a1bion
I gotta say, just reading through some of that stuff, there's some real malicious stuff there. I know we went over and goofed on them and did the fake usernames to screw with them, but it was always in fun. Just screwing around. Nothing like what they've got going on now. That's just crazy.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:12 pm
by G8RKyle
Yeah, there is some serious hatred over there. I think a lot of stuff went on behind the scenes in the Hole and the mod forums.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 4:33 pm
by DocZaius
Kyle, you were supposed to keep us apprised of stuff going on in the Hole.
Shame on you.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 5:14 pm
by G8RKyle
I never went over there because of all the graphic images. I can't look at that at work for sure, and not at home either.
I think a lot went on over PM's and such. And I don't have access to the Hole anymore, I cut that out a while ago.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Wed Dec 17, 2008 8:42 pm
by a1bion
Looks like the Scout site axed all of their non-sports forums this evening.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:01 am
by DocZaius
Holy crap, you're right.
I think I know why.
I almost posted it here, but there was a thread on the Scout site about how they took over the Rhode Island Scout message board. Kind of like we once did with the TCU board, but... more.
They convinced a bunch of regulars at the Miami Scout site to join them. I'm not sure exactly what they were doing, maybe just posting porn or whatever, but someone from the Miami board ratted them out (I think the Miami forums lost a bunch of traffic to it) and Scout deleted all their posts on the Rhode Island forum.
So now, maybe Scout's cracking down all around.
That's my theory, anyway. Maybe TTBHG will grace us with his presence once again and give us the scoop.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:07 am
by DocZaius
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:20 am
by DocZaius
They've moved to the Duquesne forums.
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:25 am
by Tipmoose
Apparently Ray changed the Pub to The Barbershop early this AM, and has since changed it back. Lacuna and verti are having an orgasm over it all. Slobberin Ray's knob in a disgusting display. *shrug*
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:32 am
by radbag
all the mods (including ttbhg) are no longer listed as mods...i pm'd bullg8rdaddy and he was very short...asked him where the site was and he replied "gone until further notice"...asked him why and he came back with "i dunno"
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 8:35 am
by radbag
Apparently Ray changed the Pub to The Barbershop early this AM, and has since changed it back. Lacuna and verti are having an orgasm over it all. Slobberin Ray's knob in a disgusting display. *shrug*
here's that thread if anyone cares -
http://www.gatorcountry.com/swampgas/showthread.php?t=88797
pam and vertigo going at it on SCOUT
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:17 am
by a1bion
Some of us can't read the Pub since we can't log in. You're gonna have to copy and paste the relevant posts.