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Rule: 16

16] Posting a link in any thread with no description and the post is likely to be deleted without warning by mods. If you wish to post material that some might find objectionable, or it is a twitter feed or something you can't quote or post into a thread the put a description and if it is potentially objectionable then a warning so that people who don't want to see that sort of thing wont mistakenly click on the link. Even with news threads a description is needed.

TzavoLeon keeps breaking this Rule 16 and always gets away scot-free​

PapaDragon wrote:
TzavoLeon keeps breaking this Rule 16 and always gets away scot-free​

This retard keeps posting stupidity and acts like a moron when called out on it.

Ban this loser.  He is no better than Vann and Ultimate warrior.

Since you guys do nothing against him, I will continue to insult him in the most vulgar way cause clearly rules mean shit.

Chinese troll came back under the name AlexDineley.

Thank you for the heads up, I will look in to it...

Man, so many new members, and so much stupidity they keep spewing. It's getting rather pathetic.

miketheterrible wrote:Man, so many new members, and so much stupidity they keep spewing.  It's getting rather pathetic.

I feel like the fake Russian and the new guy are the same person.

magnumcromagnon wrote:

miketheterrible wrote:Man, so many new members, and so much stupidity they keep spewing.  It's getting rather pathetic.

I feel like the fake Russian and the new guy are the same person.

Which one? Flinty or the GBU? Both are equally bad.

We have several morons led by Vann7 (obviously) ranting about human sacrifices in Covid tread

https://www.russiadefence.net/t8495-coronavirus-pandemic-2019-20-3#322323

Honestly that whole tread might as well be merged with Talking Bollocks at this point...

PapaDragon wrote:
We have several morons led by Vann7 (obviously) ranting about human sacrifices in Covid tread

https://www.russiadefence.net/t8495-coronavirus-pandemic-2019-20-3#322323

Honestly that whole tread might as well be merged with Talking Bollocks at this point...  

Seeing how Garry doesn't have it in him to outright ban them, maybe it's time to have sections for longstanding members with a minimum 2000 posts and 2 year old accounts for the most important sections, and the newbie weenie plebs posts elsewhere.

There should also be a rule against newbie weenie plebs consistently engaging in 'strawman' peddling, meaning forming useless vapid/vacuous arguments without substance or evidence. A recent example of this is one of the new weenie plebs in a absolute turd pile of a post claimed the PAK-DP/MiG-41 wouldn't even make it outside the design stage, when there's already video and photos of experimental samples of pulse detonation engines (a likely engine candidate for the MiG-41) and the scientific and the engineering literature posted prior which he conveniently couldn't attempt to refute.

These new weenie plebs need at least a 1 year probationary period where they have at least to pretend to be on their best behavior, their worthless posts are eating up too much of the bandwidth.

This whole place has 1 admin and 1 moderator

No wonder it's a shitshow

magnumcromagnon wrote:

PapaDragon wrote:
We have several morons led by Vann7 (obviously) ranting about human sacrifices in Covid tread

https://www.russiadefence.net/t8495-coronavirus-pandemic-2019-20-3#322323

Honestly that whole tread might as well be merged with Talking Bollocks at this point...  

Seeing how Garry doesn't have it in him to outright ban them, maybe it's time to have sections for longstanding members with a minimum 2000 posts and 2 year old accounts for the most important sections, and the newbie weenie plebs posts elsewhere.

There should also be a rule against newbie weenie plebs consistently engaging in 'strawman' peddling, meaning forming useless vapid/vacuous arguments without substance or evidence. A recent example of this is one of the new weenie plebs in a absolute turd pile of a post claimed the PAK-DP/MiG-41 wouldn't even make it outside the design stage, when there's already video and photos of experimental samples of pulse detonation engines (a likely engine candidate for the MiG-41) and the scientific and the engineering literature posted prior which he conveniently couldn't attempt to refute.

These new weenie plebs need at least a 1 year probationary period where they have at least to pretend to be on their best behavior, their worthless posts are eating up too much of the bandwidth.

Ya keep calling people names who don't toe your line....even izd 30 is not out and there are videos on youtube for almost 10 years now on that and insult people that question things that have odds of not making out. Keep complaining...

Garry is a liberal in the good old sense of the word and I like that very much, but some old and quite a few new people are clearing abusing of that liberalism and outright dragging down the quality of the board. No matter how much you are against it and how long you want to resist it, sooner or later weeding is needed by the completely arbitrary criteria of good posters stay, bad ones leave.

LMFS wrote:Garry is a liberal in the good old sense of the word and I like that very much, but some old and quite a few new people are clearing abusing of that liberalism and outright dragging down the quality of the board. No matter how much you are against it and how long you want to resist it, sooner or later weeding is needed by the completely arbitrary criteria of good posters stay, bad ones leave.

All I am hearing is complaining. Unless someone is spamming, there is no need to sensor stuff. No one is forcing some of you to read those links nor forcing you to respond to comments. Rest all is finger pointing on off topic escalations and fanboism. I will respect Garry's decision whatever he chooses. Its his call to have fanbois only site. Not the end of life to get banned from forums. Suit yourself and keep complaining.

gbu48098 wrote:

LMFS wrote:Garry is a liberal in the good old sense of the word and I like that very much, but some old and quite a few new people are clearing abusing of that liberalism and outright dragging down the quality of the board. No matter how much you are against it and how long you want to resist it, sooner or later weeding is needed by the completely arbitrary criteria of good posters stay, bad ones leave.

All I am hearing is complaining. Unless someone is spamming, there is no need to sensor stuff. No one is forcing some of you to read those links nor forcing you to respond to comments. Rest all is finger pointing on off topic escalations and fanboism. I will respect Garry's decision whatever he chooses. Its his call to have fanbois only site. Not the end of life to get banned from forums. Suit yourself and keep complaining.

I miss your old handle bitcointrader70 , what will be your new handle next week?

magnumcromagnon wrote:

gbu48098 wrote:

LMFS wrote:Garry is a liberal in the good old sense of the word and I like that very much, but some old and quite a few new people are clearing abusing of that liberalism and outright dragging down the quality of the board. No matter how much you are against it and how long you want to resist it, sooner or later weeding is needed by the completely arbitrary criteria of good posters stay, bad ones leave.

All I am hearing is complaining. Unless someone is spamming, there is no need to sensor stuff. No one is forcing some of you to read those links nor forcing you to respond to comments. Rest all is finger pointing on off topic escalations and fanboism. I will respect Garry's decision whatever he chooses. Its his call to have fanbois only site. Not the end of life to get banned from forums. Suit yourself and keep complaining.

I miss your old handle bitcointrader70 , what will be your new handle next week?

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You are nuts and you are missing your brain....get it checked out before its too late. Thousands of posts and this is your level of intellect. No wonder some of you have those high school girl club mentality....some just don't feel like complete without a little posse....I hope the moderator checks you out on accusing people and calling names. It is never too late...fix yourself

The 'Cosmic Ignore' button is your friend. The current gentleman in question, and at least one of his possible previous shadows, made it to 'ignore' in two days if not less.

auslander wrote:The 'Cosmic Ignore' button is your friend. The current gentleman in question, and at least one of his possible previous shadows, made it to 'ignore' in two days if not less.

ya, I don't even waste a single nano second on you ignoring....but because I don't ignore I get to see your crap of what your dogs or cats are doing. Keep crying and complaining or engage fairly. No one gives a crap if any of you ignore and certainly not me....mod will tell me if I am breaking any rules. I don't attack folks by names to make it personal nor do I complain to mod but I do respond if I see one....so some of you ladies get it.

Man, so many new members, and so much stupidity they keep spewing. It's getting rather pathetic.

If you have ever been panning for gold you have to go through a lot of gravel before the gold starts to appear... and there is no guarantees there is gold in this stream...

Seeing how Garry doesn't have it in him to outright ban them, maybe it's time to have sections for longstanding members with a minimum 2000 posts and 2 year old accounts for the most important sections, and the newbie weenie plebs posts elsewhere.

Well to be fair I am not going to just ban because you suspect someone might be similar to another member who has previously been banned.

This isn't America, suspicion is not enough to convict.

These new weenie plebs need at least a 1 year probationary period where they have at least to pretend to be on their best behavior, their worthless posts are eating up too much of the bandwidth.

If new members didn't bring up old shit we have talking about to death several times over before then it would not be the internet.

This whole place has 1 admin and 1 moderator

No wonder it's a shitshow

Yet you keep coming back day after day.

Thank you for the support... if I wasn't making so much money doing this I would give it up real quick...

Garry is a liberal in the good old sense of the word and I like that very much, but some old and quite a few new people are clearing abusing of that liberalism and outright dragging down the quality of the board. No matter how much you are against it and how long you want to resist it, sooner or later weeding is needed by the completely arbitrary criteria of good posters stay, bad ones leave.

The thing is that I don't make this personal... people who have been banned before I don't secretly hate and am looking for excuses to make it permanent.

And those thinking the newbies are the problems there are plenty of old hands that pop up with some negative statistic from this weeks US propaganda source they post and watch get chewed up and spat out.

Learning to not get angry that some people don't care about anyone else is an important skill, it doesn't bother me that Navalny is an evil self centred ass, and that the people who think he is wonderful don't seem to know much about him except he opposes Putin and that is enough.

To make weeding out effective I would have to block new members again, which is something perhaps to discuss first.

I miss your old handle bitcointrader70 cry, what will be your new handle next week?

I know you mean well, but would you mind letting me handle it?

So perhaps a civil discussion about whether the new member option is closed for a bit.

I have had a look at the system and there are a lot of users that have signed up but never posted a single post, so I am thinking of getting rid of some of those just to free up some system space.

Will send emails before I do so of course, but even the most hardcore lurker could take the time to post at least once...

Some conversation on these subjects that is not arguing would be appreciated.

BTW one solution to members with so many accounts would be an email ban on gmail.com and yahoo.com and hotmail.com accounts... would effect a lot of members though...

GarryB wrote:

BTW one solution to members with so many accounts would be an email ban on gmail.com and yahoo.com and hotmail.com accounts... would effect a lot of members though...

One option is to put a wait time to confirm email and activate like 30 days or 60 days rather than immediate.

PapaDragon wrote:
This whole place has 1 admin and 1 moderator

No wonder it's a shitshow

I disagree that its a shitshow. This is a fairly diplomatic forum compared to other ones ive seen.

Its not easy running an English language Russia forum. English speaking ppl have been subjected to the most successful demonetization and propaganda scheme in history.

Anyway, this might be the first website ive come across where the mobile version is better than the desktop version.

Is there any equivalent to the "Latest topics" button on the desktop version ? "View posts since your last visit" should be but its not reliable. The list that comes up doesn't always include all posts. The Notifications tab just keeps adding up and up and its not always reliable either. But on the mobile, Latest Topics covers them all.

You know Backman, I thought about it and I agree with you. We may shit on Garry's method of ruling this place but he is very much well mannered and thoughtful regarding free speech and is willing to stand his ground over it.

It is commendable and I have given him and George a hard time over the past while but I do appreciate their methods and I respect that

But I also agree with magnum in saying we should have a newbie section and non one.