DEAR ASSHOLES WHO WHINE A LOT

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Most name changes come out of the thread-that-doesn't-end. Not GFchat.

True that. Certainly all the ones I'm responsible for come from there or journals and most of the name changes I go through are other people's choices.

It's not like we change people's names that often and I like to think that generally it's still pretty clear who the person is afterwards. Admittedly I'm a bit easier to spot thanks to my fabulous water-mark but of all the recent changes, it was only the HIV thing that could have led to any confusion and that was kinda the point. If you can't tell who someone is from the style and content of their posts and their av and sig then chances are they're not saying anything too monumental. I really don't see why it makes such a difference to people whether they know immediately who made a particular post and to reiterate, we don't even do it that much.

Crash, the only namechange request I've not cc'd you into recently was changing the HIV ones to Dwarves, other than that I've given you a complete head's up of changes and in fact reasons therefore for every one I've requested so you can't complain about being out of the loop there.

The whole point of name changes is either for cheap laughs or to be annoying, either to the person who's name gets changed or to everyone else. I guess what's happened is that myself and Skills have ended up being the most active mods here and as such, our collective sense of humour has become the over-riding force behind the majority of mod actions of late. Now I'm not going to stop contributing to the place because God knows hardly anyone else ever posts but maybe we need some balance. Now might be a good time to shake up the staff a bit, let those who have no interest in moderating the place anymore step down and get some new blood in who might have some good ideas about how to get some interaction going here that extend beyond coming up with increasingly inventive ways to fuck with people's posts and profiles.

Or you could just make me and Skills admins.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

2 hours?

I think 10 minutes is closer to the mark.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The only reason they became dwarves is because there were seven names to change and I thought it apt. They came close to being named after days of the week and the annoyance of ambiguity was exactly what I was going for.

Not knowing who people is can be fun, just look at aeroplane week. Like I said though, if my sense of humour is off-kilter with the rest of the boards then get someone involved who's a counter-point to that. Or, do exactly what you did, pull rank and change everything back again. That's cool, you're an admin, that's your perogative.

How ya doing, buddy?

It's not too much to ask. As site admin, one of the key things you do is tell the mods to stop fucking about so much from time to time, and that's what you've done here. Skills tried to appease the whinging masses but apparently not well enough but there isn't really an issue here at the end of the day. You want fewer silly names and I know Styphon has had enough of the really long ones if nothing else so we'll cut it out for now.

Anyone got Miles' opinion on comedy name changes?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

To be fair, what I think doesn't hold that much currency anymore.

You're still one of only five people with the power to ban me or de-mod me here. You tell me to do something I'll do it, mate.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Tails

Look at you, no spine having Brit!

Well excuuuuuuuuuse me for defering to the guy we elected as someone to defer to. =P

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Lick this, bitch.

:grabsdick:

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Colonel Skills

Some admins have code access, some do not.

I do not, and don't because that would create delicious chaos.

Crash does not because handing someone vBulletin of all things and saying HERE LEARN SOME PHP is a recipe for complete and utter disaster on a scale not seen since Hiroshima.

I'm quite jealous of how far beyond S-Mod powers you already are, unless you're just sending requests to CHz like I do.

Soluzar, Admins can all technically chage the code but in practice it's only really CHz that does so. We all generally know our limits here so if everyone else died and I ended up as default admin for example, I'd venture no further than the name change, subforum creation and pissing about with forum descriptions sections of the admin control panel. Hence there would be little point in making me an admin, I can achieve more by sending a stream of requests to CHz to break things for me.

Most of us S-mods can edit sigs and avatars (And put any size pic in the avatar space), delete posts, ban people of lower rank than ourselves and edit threadbans. Skills can apparently do more than that but like I said, I've yet to ask CHz to do something for me and be turned down.

I have no idea if CHz writes this stuff from scratch or borrows bits, all I know is that if I ask him to sort something, he does. It's a pretty much perfect working relationship.

Crash, I was simply trying to head off a pointless arguement and divert attention from the fact that any drama arising from name changes is at least 50% my fault. Playing the staff rank card seemed easier than producing a load of tl;dr posts that I know Tails hates so much.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Soluzar

While we're on the subject, how on Earth do you have a custom background for your posts? I have never seen that anywhere else, it must be some custom CHz magic, right?

I asked CHz, sent him a pic and he did the rest. Since then I've been fervently hoping nobody would take it away again.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I don't see that many people disagreeing with you in here Crash, certainly there's not enough serious opposition to warrant throwing your toys out of the pram like that.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Crash, I feel sad when you call me names or say bad things to me.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.