Woohoo! I see that I can!

I always thought the filters there were laughable...

Military members...Vets...CAN'T SWEAR properly without Big Brother Censor Bot making it all Fukking asterisks?

Oh well. I guess it's too late to add it to Tongo's discrepency list, huh?

Guess it is too late, hehe

I gotta roll guy, or I'm not ever gonna get up for church!

I'll be seeing you around - nice chatting again!

Nighty Night, Chief.

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Originally posted by HAL9000:
My secret? I was TongoRad.

Hope you don't hold it against me. I needed to make a point. I made it. I have cancelled both HAL's and Tongo's accounts there.

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You were a genuween MPSer, then... Me, I went through Stardark, Starduck, Tardark, and Stardark_Starduck_Ta. Partly because my account was deleted, partly because no-one would answer my emails asking why I wasn't getting the benefit of 'On warning' tags like other people. Point being, I never had a second persona, it was always me. My only crime was that I couldn't stop scratching the itch that is Mil.com.

As far as big memberships and bugs are concerned, does anyone know of sites with similar or larger user bases that don't have the same problems? It amazes me that the neccessary investment isn't going into M.C. Who finances it?

Of course, there's more to the site than just message boards, but you'd think the point of capitalism would be that the site owners would tender out the board side of things to whoever could do it best. GIJARGON, for example, was very popular before it was hacked, and Trackpads is still a good site with a great arcade section (and a greatly enlarged PM box). It doesn't cost that much to build a good site, but Mil.com just don't seem to want to start from scratch, when they can simply badmouth potential rivals (who then get posts about how negative Mil.com is, which prompts posts on Mil.com about what a bunch of whiners they are, and so on and so forth...).

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Originally posted by HAL9000:
Sorry Chief.

I wanted to keep the mischief mostly to myself. I wanted to last more than a few posts.

My secret? I was TongoRad.

Hope you don't hold it against me. I needed to make a point. I made it. I have cancelled both HAL's and Tongo's accounts there.

No more games.

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oh you must have cracked up then at me defending the 'newbie'..yeesh.

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Fantastique

“Freedom is Not Free!”

Registered: Sun, 29 October 2000
Posts: 5421
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Originally posted by TongoRad:

The Late Unlamented HAL9000 Poll Question:
Has anyone seen him?
Choices:
Not lately
Has anyone seen him?
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Well, I can tell you this:

If he were up your azz, you would know it.
But then again, you'd have a right to.


You know as well as most here do, that HAL is posting on that other board. Explain the point of this thread you started.

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And then they come out to "Eat their Young"

Oops!! That remark got me banned once at Milquetoast.Com!!

only because ya dissed ossifers RIML..lord knows ossifers are always above reproach!

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Originally posted by Amvet91Alpha:
only because ya dissed ossifers RIML..lord knows ossifers are always above reproach!

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And only a special group of Ossifers - the Swift Boat Ossifers against John Kerry... his "Special Political Interest"

That was after he found out hist first sorry azz excuse wouldn't fly - that I was dissing someone who wasn't there to defend themselves...

hey leave the swifties along ya knee jerk lib!

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Originally posted by Joker:
As far as big memberships and bugs are concerned, does anyone know of sites with similar or larger user bases that don't have the same problems? It amazes me that the neccessary investment isn't going into M.C. Who finances it?

Of course, there's more to the site than just message boards, but you'd think the point of capitalism would be that the site owners would tender out the board side of things to whoever could do it best. GIJARGON, for example, was very popular before it was hacked, and Trackpads is still a good site with a great arcade section (and a greatly enlarged PM box). It doesn't cost _that_ much to build a good site, but Mil.com just don't seem to want to start from scratch, when they can simply badmouth potential rivals (who then get posts about how negative Mil.com is, which prompts posts on Mil.com about what a bunch of whiners they are, and so on and so forth...).

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I went to F150.com (?), anyways, a Ford Truck site, got on the message boards there. They have about the same number of people registered as mil.com. However, the WORST it ever got was a little lethargic. I NEVER got posting errors.

Now...

Just a few things.

1. Technically I WAS an MPS. That will never be repeated. I'm very surprised that the normal people with a nose for it did not spot me right off. I was relatively subtle, but left lots of clues. However, at NO time did I ever post as HAL AND TongoRad at same time. I was honest when I said HAL was not posting there anymore. This was technically true, if deceptive. If I had complained about the board errors as me, it would have been dismissed as just another cranky old member and water under the bridge. No drama. Loyalty is an important quality in life. I submit however that it works both ways. We are all 'customers'. If we are good customers then the provider of the product we use or the place we patronize owe US loyalty in return by keeping product within the realm of quality we should expect.

Just because a place is 'free' is no excuse to accept a bad product. Nothing is truly 'free'. Boards generate traffic for a website and give sponsors an added incentive to advertise their products and services. Sometimes discussion boards are a first impression of a site. I don't have to go on about appearance and first impressions in the business world.

2. Just because I'm on the same site as some people who were MPS'ers and returned time and again to really mess with people doesn't mean I necessarily approve of what they did. I don't. However...knowing how I'm seen now, it hardly matters.

3. I will NOT go back and 'report any findings'. With this post and this topic, I'm dropping the issue of the 'other house'. Anyone can go back and forth and read. This site needs its own identity to survive.

4. I was a pretty benign 'troll' compared to most of the ones who agitated folks there again and again, including me. My demise WAS ironic in a sense. I also do not intend to be hunting people down here. They know who they are. I will simply ignore them and go about my business with those I wish to participate with.

5. I have to wonder which aspect of me was worse: Being an anklebiter and chasing people off of that place....or posing as someone else in troll fashion.

I'm no better than anyone else...I am done mentioning Mil.com. This community needs to learn to stand on its own or risk becomming a 'me too' operation.

Rant Off

Good point Hal. it's one thing to bring up an issue and talk about it, or even make joking banter..it's another if that's all that is done. Time to start talking about some real issues, and time for me to just simply stop reading a thread if it bugs me.

I still can't get over that you were tongorad, lol!

Thor is right and wrong about ajfa..he is a troll, but not one here..yet..but..

I don't approve of coming back over and over just to fug with someone either.

HAL9000...SO, you were TONGORAD, huh??? LOLOL Makes me PROUD...nice, sociable, respectable kind of computer NERD, who shows up and mixes it up with the biggest KUNT over at The Far Side, and draws blood....

One who fooled LOTS of assholes into doing their best to BAN him, because they didn't have the ****ing BRAINS to understand what he was saying?

JEEZ...I love it!

Yogi

I was never really out of line or impolite either. That was the secret.


There was no reason to get pissy at a new member like that. I never mentioned ANYONE by name to bring down the thunder like that.

Yes I was sarcastic. But like EVERYONE ELSE, I have the right to be.