I can live with those.

~Zoo

Zoo...great to see you again

Nice, Roy

And you as well, Ock.

~Zoo

I could say 'Amen' or 'Allah Akbar' or even bow and supplicate but instead I think I'll just use a modern pictorial idiom (loosely meaning 'good on you, mate).

RAmen. 

Well, since the Stardock Gestapo closed your other article, I am forced to use this one to express my outrage at the behavior of those with "power" here.  This just drives home the notion that 1) Stardock doesn't really give two shits about JoeUser, and 2) Deleting and closing threads (that don't belong to them) must be deemed superior to discourse and communication.

Yet another fine example of why I will never blog here again.  To be blunt, JoeUser blows goats when it comes to a blog site.

They can exile me if they wish.  I agree that this particular admin knee jerked his reaction to my post which contained unique-to-the-thread information about a problem I had noticed with the forums.  He said it was a "me too" article.  Whatever.  It won't happen again.  If I notice something about a problem with any of these sites, and I further notice that no one has mentioned it in threads that relate to said problem, they can just figure it out themselves.  Why should I waste my time.  Once I noticed my post had been deleted, I think I said something to the effect of spending more time learning to script and less time deleting threads.  Shame on me.  The dudes on this thread were all posting tracerts and pings and whatnot...one look at the taskbar showed it was an issue with a stardock script.  A retarded monkey could have figured it out...and very oddly, after I pointed that out, the problem was fixed the next day.  I'm sure it was just a coincidence.

So I posted an article about it, and when the admin showed up to comment, I deleted his post.  I guess other admins felt this was not okie dokey as it (and I paraphrase) "made it appear as if Stardock wasn't addressing my concerns."  So Island Dog locked it.  I kinda figure if you're going to delete someone's attempt at being helpful, maybe a private message saying "Hey dude, to keep this forum clean, I deleted your post.  We are interested in people trying to help, but your comments didn't quite fit the criteria we hold as "help."  No offense is intended.  I could deal with that.

So I just copied and pasted the whole thread and reposted it.  For which I got more flack from ID and an email.  But to his credit, he didn't lock that one.  It's just listed as private.

Through all of this, I didn't really get too butthurt.  I was too amused at all of Brad's recent posts saying that government doesn't have to be so big and get in everyone's business to insure they do the right thing.  Yet what is this? 

Too funny, that's what.

I think it is ridiculous that your thread would be locked or deleted, where is the freedom of speech etc., that some of these very thread lockers do themselves?!  I read the thread, didn't see anything wrong with what you said, infact I tried to comment but couldn't, at the time.  I would have been pissed too had my words been deleted.  Fair is fair and it is not right to be treated in that manner.

Can I quote you sometime when I get into one of those endless arguments with someone who just refuses to see reason?

Unfortunately I don't even think a marvelous Ock quote can help some people see reason.  There's just no getting through to certain thick headed people...trust me, I've tried...a lot.

~Zoo

Of course, but don't give me credit.  They'll be more likely to see reason if they don't know the quote is coming from me.

Which brings the thread back to the subject.  As long as people confuse "knowing" something with "believing" it, there is no reason to be had.  Reason has been willfully and summarily dispatched by those folks.  How can you show something to someone that they so cavalierly throw away on purpose?