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JLTucker wrote:Which post? Page one of this thread has all of the posts you have made.
Exactly. I made a post about 5 minutes after this was moved to the "hall of shame" that I believe was deleted by the asshole who originally locked the thread. I know for a fact that mods can see it but not us normal people. I don't mind arguing with anybody but I mind being censured by the mods.
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That's it, you're history.

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drugaddict wrote:I made a post about 5 minutes after this was moved to the "hall of shame" that I believe was deleted by the asshole who originally locked the thread. I know for a fact that mods can see it but not us normal people.
The "Hall of Shame" is visible to all registered members, you goddamned idiot. Not just mods. You even posted in it, thus proving that you know this and that you are deliberately making false accusations of abuse of power. The only people who can't see it are unregistered guests, moron.
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The Spartan wrote:No, I didn't. Athlethes who cash in when they can still run the risk of crippling injuries and many who do so don't make enough money to cover living expenses and the surgeries they invariably need to repair the damage to their bodies.

For fuck's sake, I only played ball in high school and my knees are shot to shit and will probably require surgery, if not outright replacement, at some point down the line. Probably in my 40's or 50's.
That's a pretty weak argument. I played HS football and a year of college. and in HS I weighed 300lbs and in college 320-30lbs, and my knees are perfect. For every horror story you hear about from people that played football, there are just as many guys who are just "sore in the mornings" or are fine.
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havokeff wrote:That's a pretty weak argument. I played HS football and a year of college. and in HS I weighed 300lbs and in college 320-30lbs, and my knees are perfect. For every horror story you hear about from people that played football, there are just as many guys who are just "sore in the mornings" or are fine.
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See that thread.

I'm not meaning to imply that everyone who plays is going to be crippled, but my point, clumsy as it was, is that the longer you play the worse you're going to be and rarely, IMHO, are the monetary gains worth the crippling problems that often go with a career in football.
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Darth Wong wrote:The "Hall of Shame" is visible to all registered members, you goddamned idiot. Not just mods. You even posted in it, thus proving that you know this and that you are deliberately making false accusations of abuse of power. The only people who can't see it are unregistered guests, moron.
Where is his post beginning with the word "merit" in all caps?

He doesn't really give a shit about being banned, but I personally am extremely curious where that post is.
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Frank Hipper wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:The "Hall of Shame" is visible to all registered members, you goddamned idiot. Not just mods. You even posted in it, thus proving that you know this and that you are deliberately making false accusations of abuse of power. The only people who can't see it are unregistered guests, moron.
Where is his post beginning with the word "merit" in all caps?

He doesn't really give a shit about being banned, but I personally am extremely curious where that post is.
I've been following and posting in this thread since the begining, before it was split, and I don't remember seeing him post that. I even looked for it when he first complained about it. He probably just hit the preview button, but didn't actually post it.
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spaceaddict wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:
spaceaddict wrote:Where is my last post? If I didn't know better I would think I am getting fucked because I pissed some dweeb off.
It's there; your connection, the 2500+ lurker situation, or something else is fucking with how you're seeing the forums.
That post is still missing. It bothers me that the mods can see it but it isn't viewable. I still think I am getting fucked by the asshole who tried to lock this thread from the get go.
What the fuck are you on about? I've never deleted one of your posts and the only ones I've replied to were the ones on the first page. The thread was locked in the N&P forum long enough for this tangent to get split here, after it was reopened and this one was also left open. If one of your posts went missing because you accidentally hit "preview" instead of "submit" or your connection to the board craped out due to the hit from one of the AMP threads being inundated by visitors from Slashdot and Digg, none of that is a problem of the moderators. Nobody has been seeing any posts of yours anywhere else.

You know, the thing to do when you suspect foul play by a moderator is to PM some other moderator or one of the admins instead of starting to bleat about conspiracies of the mods being out to get you and screwing around behind your back abusing their powers. If the mods really do want to go for you, they will do so in full public view without pulling any punches, by ridiculing you and mutilating your posts with multicolored ADDITIONS inserted into your posts in the Hall of Shame. We are not permitted to delete things or cover our own tracks. Mods who have done that in the past have been summarily stripped of their powers.

Also, false accusations of abuse of power by mods are grounds for an instant permban, so you're on very thin ice here, as Darth Wong pointed out in the other thread.
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Ah, a bit late then. Off to Parting Shots this goes.
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havokeff wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:The "Hall of Shame" is visible to all registered members, you goddamned idiot. Not just mods. You even posted in it, thus proving that you know this and that you are deliberately making false accusations of abuse of power. The only people who can't see it are unregistered guests, moron.
Where is his post beginning with the word "merit" in all caps?

He doesn't really give a shit about being banned, but I personally am extremely curious where that post is.
I've been following and posting in this thread since the begining, before it was split, and I don't remember seeing him post that. I even looked for it when he first complained about it. He probably just hit the preview button, but didn't actually post it.
Why the fuck would this imbecile accuse us of abusing our power by deleting just one of his posts? Does it not occur to him that if we were actually abusing our power and deleting his posts, we could simply delete the post where he complains about it? What an idiot. Either he's too stupid to realize that we could simply delete any post where he accuses us, or he's knowingly posting false accusations in a childish attempt to make us look bad because he knows we won't delete those accusations.
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Where is the post of his that begins with the word "merit" in all caps?

He did not click "preview" by mistake, he'swearing this to me.
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Frank Hipper wrote:Where is the post of his that begins with the word "merit" in all caps?

He did not click "preview" by mistake, he'swearing this to me.
And we should believe in his infallibility because ...?
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Darth Wong wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:Where is the post of his that begins with the word "merit" in all caps?

He did not click "preview" by mistake, he'swearing this to me.
And we should believe in his infallibility because ...?
Why would he lie to his brother when this doesn't really mean much to him?

I'd know if he were lying to me by the tone of his voice, even over the telephone; he hasn't been able to pull a convincing lie out of his ass with me since we were kids...little kids.

Not like it's necessary, but that he's also asking me not to worry about this lends more credence to what he's telling me.
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Frank Hipper wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:Where is the post of his that begins with the word "merit" in all caps?

He did not click "preview" by mistake, he'swearing this to me.
And we should believe in his infallibility because ...?
Why would he lie to his brother when this doesn't really mean much to him?
Do you know the difference between "infallible" and "honest"? Have you ever owned a dictionary?

If the guy honestly thought he was being fucked with, and for some reason discounted the possibility of error on his part or a technical problem, he should have followed the rules and complained to another mod via PM. Immediately leaping to the conclusion that he was being censored (as if we would single out one post which was probably no different from his other posts, and leave every other post alone, including his accusations) and then publicly accusing mods of abuse of power is generally the act of either an imbecile or a troll.
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Frank Hipper wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Frank Hipper wrote:Where is the post of his that begins with the word "merit" in all caps?

He did not click "preview" by mistake, he'swearing this to me.
And we should believe in his infallibility because ...?
Why would he lie to his brother when this doesn't really mean much to him?

I'd know if he were lying to me by the tone of his voice, even over the telephone; he hasn't been able to pull a convincing lie out of his ass with me since we were kids...little kids.

Not like it's necessary, but that he's also asking me not to worry about this lends more credence to what he's telling me.
I locked the topic before splitting it.

He likely pushed Submit at the time and the server went "Topic locked".

Making accusations that obviously someone has it in for him, without showing a shread of proof is one of the dumbest fucking things to do. At the very least he could've contacted an Admin to see what was going on instead of throwing out accusations.
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More to the point, I've had posts disappear on me at the time of posting before. I've had it happen on other boards, and I've even had it happen here, on my own board. That's why you confirm that your post was made properly, by viewing the thread.

If this guy is on such a paranoid hair-trigger that he will publicly accuse people of persecuting him at the first indication of any oddity, then we were bound to have problems with him sooner or later.
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Split off the last part, as per Dalton's suggestion. Left Mike's final point about posts.
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