Forum: About Mellophant

I won't lie, I'm a snarker who thinks this site is fucking retarded. Can I post here if I openly admit that or will I be banned?

To avoid real-life stalking from any butthurt anti-snark mods, I'm using anon proxies to post. My favorite is anonymouse, but all its IPs are blocked from even viewing dumbo. Really? You can't even LOOK at the site if you're from an anonymouse...

I was wondering why, given the great number of 'theme' threads in The Dark Room, two of them have been stickied to the top, namely the 'Yay, cat pictures' and 'Post your damn dogs!'. Is there any particular reason these two have been stickied and...

What constitutes an acceptable April Fool's joke? I tried to participate in the April Fool's joke here on the board, and even though my posts were clearly marked "April Fool's", I was thrown into the dungeon. :sad: :sad: :sad: :sad:

Why was this thread moved to the Thunderdome? What Exit never explained why he moved it. I'm assuming it was because of the warning he had go give featherlou who was trying to start a fight in About Domebo, but we all know what happens when you...

I'm new to Squidoo and have decided to do a lens on Domebo. Please help me set this up - I'm doing this to advertise the boards. Thankyouverymuchsmooch! We can add a blog, text for the front page, photos, links.

The registration agreement says: "You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material " How does that not apply to stuff I see in Thunderdome? :roll: :mrgreen: ...

There are several threads with many posts reporting issues spread out all over the place, and I want to try to condense them. I'd like to use this temporary sticky thread to compile a list of the problems which still need to be addressed, so please...

I don't know the answer to this, so I'm asking the question. Does a moderator coming into a thread and issuing a pre-emptive warning to the posters who are either already active in the thread or who might post later work to avoid rule-breaking,...

Effective immediately, Winston Smith has stepped down as Thunderdome moderator. Thanks, Winston, for your help!

I was perusing the forums here, and noticed that two of the subfora were specifically highlighted on my little 'Jump To:' tree at the bottom of the page: The Dark Room and Room 101 . I was under the impression these were temporary forums. ...

WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get Both boards have a WYSIWYG edit option now. I want one too. Does anyone else? If so, post here and maybe help find a phpBB modification that I or CRSP can add. Here is one place to look:...

I think we should change the name of 'Room 101'. I humbly suggest 'The Lake of Fire'.

Been wondering. I've reported some of the posts (about five or six, I think) but thinking you can look up all posts by a particular member, to see all of the troll posts by this or that account, I wonder if I'm not flooding you guys?

I registered the user name "Lucifer" a while back. Please merge all of my Winston Smith posts into Lucifer. Thanks.

I'm just curious about this policy. The rules for Socks are that they are for "Asking sensitive questions" and all. But if it's also meant that Socks can criticize the boards, management, or perhaps even other poster's styles (moderators for now...

Reposted with a more constructive tone after NAF1138 told me my first one was too negative and moved it to the Thunderdome, where it was immediately hijacked into oblivion. =============================================== The things are not...

From CRSP. No. There's no reason for anybody to be looking at IPs, unless a poster is a dick. Like I said when I set this place up, the paranoia about socks over at SDMB was ridiculous. From The Hive There's one poster behind poopsock2 and...

Twice this afternoon I have been flamed outside of Thunderdome. I've reported both instances. One appears to have gone unresponded to, and I understand that not every report can be addressed immediately. In another I seem to be involved in a...

My thread asking that the moderators be replaced was moved to The Thunderdome. I feel this is a mistake as even though it was critical of the moderation staff as a whole, it wasn't a flame-fest and it contained a serious proposal about the future...

On the index page, I'm now seeing Capitol Hill right above Thunderdome, when it used to be right below Questions&Answers. Have I missed something?

All we really need is Jim. :wink:

To, for example, delete the spambots from the member count? Just asking.

I wanted to give an opinion on this but of course can't in the hive thread. Can we dispense with language like "modhat" and "modboots?". These terms are extremely ambiguous and IMO contribute to posters' misunderstanding of mod actions. I really...

:hoj: Where is the pissed off buddhist smilie? Or the mildly irritated christian smilie? Am I missing some backstory here?

I was tootling around on the dope and saw this thread referring to a thread Amazon Floozy Goddess had started where she was looking for tips for her online business. Her thread was axed on the basis of it being an online business, but it made me...

This post and reply split from here after PM discussion with Myrnalene - TheFlame I'm gonna hijack your thread, pretty pretty. I'm way less concerned with MC than with the establishing the severity of the moderation in general. There have...

Can someone change my username, or tell me how to do it?

Under Board Preferences in the UCP (User Control Panel) go to the Edit display options. Set your posts per page as desired. Also set your Posts per page in The Dark Room as desired. Currently this is working in ProSilver. I am about to add the...

When I leave for a while and come back, I'm getting logged out (I've set "Log in automatically" but it doesn't seem to be working). Is anyone else having this problem? It just started yesterday evening.

:lol: Yay, you guys! Links open new browsers! Yay for you! :lol:

I know vBulletin allows for that, but I don't see a way here.

viewtopic.php?p=44697#p44697 Gimme a break. Telling or suggesting to someone they're full of shit is cursing at them, now? Even the Dope isn't that uptight. I thought the aim here was to be different, looser. This ain't it. Look, I'm no MC...

We don't seem to have anywhere for placing threads about 'newsworthy stories' really, do we? I can't see discussing a natural disaster, or something like the shooting incident in Binghampton, being suitable for JJ, so where would we put such a...

I get it once or twice a day, and if I F5 and refresh it goes away. Here's the message: jtablesession::Store Failed DB function failed with error number 1062 Duplicate entry '8a7a622e8629e25b36ed7ff33f73c933' for key 1 SQL=INSERT INTO...

Please see Should Polls be Allowed Outside of The Polling Booth for some details.

I've just looked at the AcidTech theme, on the phpBB website. It's based on the same template as the BlackPearl theme, meaning that any problem we have with adding mods for the BP theme will also be present in AT. Really, I'd like to ditch BP, and...

Q.E.D. has decided to step down as a member of staff. Thanks for the help with the site, Q.E.D..

How do I do it? Just using the quote tags leaves out who I'm quoting and the old SDMB method of using doesn't seem to work here.

I'm curious what members think about this. I don't really see the point of having a random piece of text under your avatar where you can write clever things any more than the existing pieces of text under your avatar where people already write...

I might have misunderstood the purpose of Room 101. If so, just let me know. But I thought it was a place of confinement for the board's trolls and spammers, where we would poke at them and throw tomatoes like a public gallows. But right now, it's...

Looking over the rules, I see no official stance on posting in languages other than English. Would it be possible to have a thread for those interested in learning and practicing another language? Specifically, I'm thinking of Spanish, as I know...

When one of y'all splits a thread and leaves a message in the original thread like post #76 in this thread*, would it be too much of a pain to link to the new splitoff thread? That way I can follow both threads of the conversation. I've nearly...

I made a signature (I didn't have one before), and now it appears on every last one of my posts since I started on this board. Sorry about that :tongue:

Where's CRSP? I haven't seen him on the boards for a few days. Has anyone been in touch?

With the avatars. I looked and looked for a thread regarding this wide-spread surprise, but have found nothing on it. Perhaps I have just stolen some of Lib's meds and am imagining all this. As always, ignore me. Ooh! New smilies too! ...

Apologies if this is in the wrong place or the subject has been done to death, please move or lock in either case. Could TPTB kindly stop pissing about with the smily set? I'm seeing an increasing number of posts with little x's where...

When we were allowed to change the number of post per page, I set mine to 100, since I like it that way. This has created a problem for multiple page threads in The Dark Room, specifically with the "Guess the Movie from the Screenshot Game" thread....