Help me fight Forum Spam

[Ryan_DuBois]

I think my favorite topic so far is:

Lung cancer sex doll anal strap-on frog sex with minors

Can't think of a more exotic combination than that.

That said...



Woohoo! It's almost Christmas! Well, for me it is (we're doing it on like the 22nd or 23rd). YazZ bought me LittleBigPlanet and I suspect I'll have Red Dead: Redemption before all is said and done. I'll post mini-reviews in the video games thread if we have it back by the time I beat them.

[ChubbyTeletubby]

You know, I miss Michael. I do.

I really do. Anyone who admits to pissing in the sink in such a casual 'George-from-Seinfeldesque' manner deserves SOME credit.

*shields himself from the coming onslaught*

Sorry! Sorry! I was just saying. Sheesh...

And yes, Merry Christmas to all!! I'll be away for a week but I hope everyone has a groooooooovy Christmas. And a happy new year. Our country and our planet is spiraling into the hellish abyss of inescapable destruction, but we might as well say a toast to its demise.

Cheers!

[Ryan_DuBois]

I don't miss Michael. I can't say that I hate him, either, although I usually refrain from saying so on the forums; there's always the chance that he'd see something like that during a lurking escapade and take it to mean that we all want to see him again.

*shivers*

I'm with everyone about Old Man Higgins, though. Man. I miss the old forums in general, but if I had to pick a single thread to visit again, it would probably be the Old Man Higgins one.

[Locke]

I remember getting a PM from OMH once asking for cheese (and a related one from some other member, possibly also a Chubby clone, warning me not to give it to him), but the thread itself happened before I was active on the forums. I never minded MRH himself, but his chemistry with half the members was off (he clicked with Leblanc somehow though, which did unfortunately get old). Whatever happened with him on the old forum was (again) before my time, so I probably didn't get a lot of what went into his latest appearance.

I think Drums was my favorite troll.

EDIT: I tried to look up the old forum on archive.org just now, but I think the URL was different. Either that or I'm out of luck. Anyone remember?

[Ryan_DuBois]

Yeah, I've tried to look them up on the Wayback Machine before, too. It used to work, but the best I could do the last time I used it was get into to the first couple pages of forum topics (and not see the actual posts themselves). It is still good for digging up a couple old stories that have been deleted/hidden, though. I swear I somehow managed to read Story X in either 2007 or 2008, although I can't remember how I did it. Not even sure if I used the Wayback Machine.

But yeah, most of those old forum pages are now hidden by that Shape By Force company or something.

For MichaelRayHolt, my biggest problem with him was that he was constantly nitpicking people about their grammar. If you mispelled one word or placed a comma in the wrong place, you could count on seeing a rant (or snide remark) about how stupid you were before the day was up. In other words, he was yet another former member who championed a dumb cause.

I always tried to argue with him that that whole point of good grammar is just so that people can understand your writing, and that as long as someone's grammar does that there's no point in having a fit about it. But he wouldn't listen.



Oh, and he always posted long passages from The Bible here, said the Earth was at the center of the universe, and I think either Chubby or End once told me that he believed the Earth was flat. He came around and pissed off some more people while I was away from Infinite-Story, but I'm not sure exactly what happened there; I just know that Katie and End have a couple 1's from him on some of their higher-rated stories. So chances are that it was hilarious.

[End Master]

Seriously, talking about that fucktard MRH is the last thing anyone should be wasting their time doing while waiting out the spambot apocalypse. The guy just failed at life and had no redeeming qualities.

Ryan: Yeah it was pretty hilarious. He blew up and made himself look like an idiot as usual. If you want I'll tell you more in a PM since I'm sure everyone else here is mostly familar with the events already and the long standing stories of verbal insults between us is probably boring to everyone now (including me).

If we must talk about people who have a crappy past with most of the other forum members, at least talk about Ves. The girl was a drama queen no doubt, but she was at least amusing and made some worthwhile contributions to the forums and site in general.

[Ryan_DuBois]

As much as I hate to say anything good about MRH, he could write decent stories (with perfect grammar, of course). It was the forums and pretty much everything else where he was incompetent.

If you ever feel like writing some history in a PM, I won't say no to it, End, although I have a vague idea of what happened already.

[Usoki]

As much as I hate to say anything good about MRH, he could write decent stories (with perfect grammar, of course). It was the forums and pretty much everything else where he was incompetent.

Correction. He could write decent story openings. Never, at any point, did he ever progress a story past its opening sequence. Well, maybe once or twice, but still. He never really reached anything I would call a rising incident, let alone a climax. That was my biggest irritation. He had story ADD. He'd start one, talk about how awesome it was, write a few rooms, and then get bored with it and move on to the next story.

I never understood how he could have that much ego when he has so little to show for it. I mean, I don't have all that many great stories to my username, either, but at least I'm not trying to announce to the world that I'm the second coming of Shakespeare.

[apotheosis]

Shit, I forgot you guys know my name. Fortunately only my first name, but I'm sure one of you has enough time on your hands to figure out the rest.

Also, HOID is going to be reaching a million hits soon. Get excited.

[End Master]

Well I didn't have time to dig up your last name, but I did notice your buddy gojo345 gave you a "1" again and left this little comment:

I loled when I saw that you removed my rating... I am putting it back, because you are obviously butthurt. have a nice day, and don't rage too hard this time lol

MYSQL DELETE "where `user` = 'gojo345' and `rating` 'my dignity';"

For more info on Apoth's past PM battle with gojo here's the thread:

http://forums.infinite-story.com/showthread.php?t=78

[donteatpoop]

lol. Butthurt

[Cat2000]

From all of this, it seems like I missed a whole lot during my frequent absences...

Checking in just to let you all know I'm still alive. I have been working on a story, but then I got ill over the weekend and slipped back out of it, though I do hope to get more of it done soon.

And my voice has gone all weird... which is bad, cause my job requires quite a bit of talking to people. I'm struggling just to communicate out loud

[Ryan_DuBois]

Shit, I forgot you guys know my name. Fortunately only my first name...

You think that's fortunate; imagine having everyone believe that your real name is Ryan DuBois for two years.



Yeah, all in all I'd say I'm still the most enigmatic member around on this site.

[Locke]

Re: Infinite-Story spambot

Thanks - I'll take a look. I need to prevent new signups I guess. Ugh.

Justin

[Ryan_DuBois]

Two quick questions for everyone:

Is anyone else getting redirected to some "web ring" site when they go to the home page on the main? I can get around it if I link into my stories really quickly, but it could potentially become a pain in the ass.

Also, has anyone PMed or recieved a PM from Dreamshell? I'm considering letting him/her share my other account with King Malice, or we could give them the Sven account, assuming it's not another spambot. Actually, I'm almost sure that King's own account is working by now, so I'll give them mine.

[EDIT]

Looks like King's account might not be working yet after all; not sure why, though, since he was trying to get on the forums when Smeester and Crunchy were. Oh well.