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Important Announcements => The Welcome Center => Topic started by: meta knight on March 19, 2008, 04:45:47 PM

Title: hello
Post by: meta knight on March 19, 2008, 04:45:47 PM: i hope you will be nice to me
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Post by: Kor on March 19, 2008, 05:15:39 PM: Welcome to the forum. You'll find folks here are pretty friendly.

With all the threads here feel free to start posting to any that catch your interest, or start your own thread.
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Post by: meta knight on March 19, 2008, 05:27:01 PM: thanks kor i will have a fun time here
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Post by: Kor on March 19, 2008, 05:27:59 PM: I hope so. Feel free to start posting away. :)
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Post by: action9000 on March 19, 2008, 05:38:17 PM: Nice try Nabil.

BANNED.
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 19, 2008, 06:32:23 PM: Will this guy ever give up? By the way action, I think that qoute's worthy of keeping.
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Post by: action9000 on March 19, 2008, 06:45:00 PM: Quote
By the way action, I think that qoute's worthy of keeping.
:lol B)
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 19, 2008, 06:46:24 PM: Hmph! Looks like you'll have to ban him by IP. :angry:
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Post by: Mornai on March 19, 2008, 06:52:19 PM: This may be a stupid question, but how did you know that was nabil? (by the way, i wonder when he will just give up on trying to get people to send him LBT movies. <_< )
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Post by: DarkHououmon on March 19, 2008, 06:56:31 PM: I asked Action about it and here's what he told me:

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His birthday, location, IP address and writing style matched (all lower-case letters, very poor english in a specific style, no punctuation, etc.) nabil very closely (the birthday matched perfectly and the IP was only off by a couple of digits in the last grouping). meta knight's activity on the GoF also very closely matched what I've seen of nabil on MSN (in his username anyway) in recent times (references to smash bros. Brawl, mainly).

the e-mail address he registered with resembled his other one very closely. I banned meta knight. Right away, he e-mailed me (from the same e-mail address he uses under the nabil r username) asking me to unban him.

The evidence wouldn't have held up in court (all circumstantial, I suppose) but there was enough to make a logical assumption that it was nabil.
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Post by: The Chronicler on March 19, 2008, 07:34:58 PM: Good effort on keeping an eye out for him, Action. And you managed to ban him only an hour after he joined yet again. :lol:
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Post by: Petrie. on March 19, 2008, 08:20:05 PM: Asking to unban is pretty much a dead giveaway
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Post by: lbt/cty_lover on March 19, 2008, 08:22:39 PM: You admins are, like, the police force of GoF. I mean, you guys, like, know nabil_r as good as some officers know California drug lords.
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Post by: Mornai on March 19, 2008, 08:24:43 PM: Quote from: lbt/cty_lover,Mar 19 2008 on 08:22 PM
You admins are, like, the police force of GoF. I mean, you guys, like, know nabil_r as good as some officers know California drug lords.
That's part of their job, (i think). Keep away spammers or something like that. Anyway it's always good to know you have trustworthy people around. :D
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Post by: Petrie. on March 19, 2008, 08:33:01 PM: Yes we're good at what we do. :) We're working on (improved) steps to prevent this from happening again in the near future even as I type this.
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Post by: action9000 on March 20, 2008, 02:33:27 AM: Quote
i wonder when he will just give up on trying to get people to send him LBT movies.
The amount of time he's wasted trying to convince us to give him LBT movies, he could have gotten a job for a few days and bought them himself. :p
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Post by: Kor on March 20, 2008, 03:30:43 AM: Their not very much new, used even cheaper. Even if you not do ebay. They are pretty inexpensive used on Amazon.

I didn't even know it was him. Good detective work.
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 20, 2008, 12:36:34 PM: Quote
His birthday, location, IP address and writing style matched (all lower-case letters, very poor english in a specific style, no punctuation, etc.) nabil very closely (the birthday matched perfectly and the IP was only off by a couple of digits in the last grouping). meta knight's activity on the GoF also very closely matched what I've seen of nabil on MSN (in his username anyway) in recent times (references to smash bros. Brawl, mainly).

the e-mail address he registered with resembled his other one very closely. I banned meta knight. Right away, he e-mailed me (from the same e-mail address he uses under the nabil r username) asking me to unban him.

The evidence wouldn't have held up in court (all circumstantial, I suppose) but there was enough to make a logical assumption that it was nabil.
Hang on... if he ever reads this he'll know exactly what to do if he wants to sneak on again undetected.
Title: hello
Post by: DarkHououmon on March 20, 2008, 01:57:05 PM: I only posted that to answer Mornai's question.

I heard that banned members can't view anything on the board anyway.
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Post by: action9000 on March 20, 2008, 02:43:17 PM: Quote
if he ever reads this he'll know exactly what to do if he wants to sneak on again undetected.
If he can fake being another person well enough that the admins don't notice, I really don't care if he sneaks back in or not. As long as he's not the nabil we all know and dislike, there's no problem. B) :p :lol
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 20, 2008, 06:38:48 PM: Good point.
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Post by: Lain_EX on March 20, 2008, 06:49:53 PM: Oh no! Not nabil r again! :angry: It really has to be banned by IP, don'tcha think?
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Post by: Mornai on March 20, 2008, 07:05:26 PM: I'm not trying to help nabil, but maybe he tried to start over and to make friends here at the GoF?
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Post by: The Chronicler on March 20, 2008, 07:25:16 PM: I wonder if he's a regular visitor. After all, you don't need to be a member to view these forums (except for the after midnight section).
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Post by: Petrie. on March 20, 2008, 10:50:02 PM: Quote from: The Chronicler,Mar 20 2008 on 06:25 PM
I wonder if he's a regular visitor. After all, you don't need to be a member to view these forums (except for the after midnight section).
Not anymore (for him anyway). I got smarter with the IP banning, so he can't even see the forums...just gets an error message now.
Title: hello
Post by: Malte279 on March 21, 2008, 05:15:07 AM: Quote
I'm not trying to help nabil, but maybe he tried to start over and to make friends here at the GoF?
I wish there was a chance for this as I don't feel very good about the whole affair. I'm still relatively sure that in Nabil_r's case it is to some degree a mental issue rather than intended viciousness. How else to explain his "demands" to the admins to send him LBT movies in chats where the admins warned him that he was going to be banned if he continued telling people to send him LBT movies. There have been many warnings and we told him why they were issued and which kinds of behavior he would have to change in order to stay welcome at the GOF. He did not change his behavior by a iota and consequently we had to ban him for the good of the GOF.
I hate the idea of banning somebody for what may well be a mental issue :(
But there was just no way to tolerate his pestering of everybody for movies anymore, so I'm afraid there was no real alternative.
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Post by: Petrie. on March 21, 2008, 08:40:03 AM: Malte, you know very well I would respond differently if it was face to face. We don't know anything for sure, and rules are rules. You bug members, you're bound to be on my bad side.
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Post by: kjeldo on March 21, 2008, 04:50:44 PM: hi!
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 21, 2008, 05:30:20 PM: Quote from: kjeldo,Mar 21 2008 on 08:50 PM
hi!
Have you actually read the rest of the thread?
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Post by: Tails_155 on March 21, 2008, 05:33:26 PM: this forum is generally friendly, don't worry
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Post by: action9000 on March 21, 2008, 05:46:27 PM: Quote
this forum is generally friendly, don't worry
Apparently somebody else didn't read the first page, either. :p :lol
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Post by: Tails_155 on March 21, 2008, 05:50:02 PM: ah lol I'm not fully awake today XD
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Post by: Clawandfang on March 21, 2008, 05:50:10 PM: Quote from: action9000,Mar 21 2008 on 09:46 PM

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this forum is generally friendly, don't worry
Apparently somebody else didn't read the first page, either. :p :lol
Probably never will either. I know I'm not generally in the habit of checking on welcome topics I've already posted in.

EDIT: I take that back.
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Post by: Kor on March 21, 2008, 09:02:24 PM: Maybe instead of being not fully awake, its in your nature to be nice, friendly and helpful. A more positive spin and angle I think. :yes
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Post by: mcr mad on March 21, 2008, 09:21:16 PM: god wont this dumb*** give up, he's got less brains than gourge bush for f** shake
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Post by: AvestheForumFox on March 23, 2008, 12:08:59 PM: I just learned just now about this whole issue. thanks, DH =P

And I do agree with Malte, I feel Nabil has mental issues. He does not know how to communicate properly, but there was no other alternative, we've tried talking sense into him. It didnt wok, it seemed as if we were talking to a brick wall... and bricks dont do flips when you tell them to.
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2008, 12:49:31 PM: Quote
It didnt wok, it seemed as if we were talking to a brick wall... and bricks dont do flips when you tell them to.

I love that analogy! Is it copyrighted? :lol
Title: hello
Post by: AvestheForumFox on March 23, 2008, 12:53:26 PM: Quote from: landbeforetimelover,Mar 23 2008 on 11:49 AM

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It didnt wok, it seemed as if we were talking to a brick wall... and bricks dont do flips when you tell them to.

I love that analogy! Is it copyrighted? :lol
I dont think it is. I think I did hear it from somewhere before, but I cant say from where.

I just used it, and I don't see men in blue suits at my door with court papers, so I'm sure its not copyright
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Post by: Nimrod on March 23, 2008, 01:19:37 PM: Quote from: mcr mad,Mar 21 2008 on 08:21 PM
god wont this dumb*** give up, he's got less brains than gourge bush for f** shake
Please be more careful with your choose of words mcr_mad. It¥s not nice, no matter if Nabel_R will read this post or not to talk about him in that way. Anyway you don¥t know him very good.
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Post by: AvestheForumFox on March 23, 2008, 01:30:46 PM: I unblocked him from my Trillian to see what he'd say to me... ready for this?

you sure?

are you sitting down?

I hope so....

here it is....

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[12:24] alimahmood17@hotmail.com: can i be a admin on the gof
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Post by: DarkHououmon on March 23, 2008, 01:33:54 PM: An admin? XD
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Post by: Malte279 on March 23, 2008, 01:38:46 PM: Quote
[12:24] alimahmood17@hotmail.com: can i be a admin on the gof
Yeah sure, we can never have enough admins. Ready for a promotion ceremony Adam?
But seriously I don't think how anyone with some basic sense for reality and basic abilities of communication could even ask the question in this situation. When did he ask this Aves?
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Post by: AvestheForumFox on March 23, 2008, 01:43:22 PM: Quote from: Malte279,Mar 23 2008 on 12:38 PM

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[12:24] alimahmood17@hotmail.com: can i be a admin on the gof
Yeah sure, we can never have enough admins. Ready for a promotion ceremony Adam?
But seriously I don't think how anyone with some basic sense for reality and basic abilities of communication could even ask the question in this situation. When did he ask this Aves?
just a moment ago

a few minutes before I posted that
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Post by: Kor on March 23, 2008, 01:47:54 PM: I assume, not being an admin so don't really know, that being banned at least once would disqualify one from being an admin. And asking a Mod seems unusual. I assume it is Petrie who decides, not mods.
Title: hello
Post by: AvestheForumFox on March 23, 2008, 01:51:18 PM: Oh yes.. I, the Mod of the RP section holds the true power of unbanning and admin right giving.

Bow to me and despair! bwahaha! *chokes* *coughs* Okay, Petrie, **gags** release me from the force clutch, **hacks** I'll stop!
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Post by: landbeforetimelover on March 23, 2008, 01:51:51 PM: He asked me if he could be an admin at my website too. :rolleyes: It wasn't too far fetched though because he hadn't been BANNED from my website. :p He's certainly got a mental problem now. No matter how stupid he is, there's no way he would ask that unless he's got some sort of mental retardation. I guess he wasn't just being an a$$. :(
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Post by: Kor on March 23, 2008, 02:09:41 PM: I'd guess if member just joined a few seconds ago they would be more likely to be made Admin here then someone banned.