As SoggyFox pointed out, in the real world, there is identity theft.

Also in the real world, I get to choose who has access to my home address, my phone number, my full name.  The people I work with may know my full name, but they don't know my phone number or where I live.  They certainly don't get the chance to advertise it no people who would use it to harass me.  The ones who DO have access to that information can not give that info out due to privacy concerns. 

It should work the exact same way with the information I give to sign up for forums. 

If Delphy is as upset about this as you are, I will apologize to him.  I somehow doubt he is, though.  He does not seem to get upset / take it personally over people disagreeing with him.  

Will you PLEASE have some rum, nao?  I also made some oatmeal and craisin (dried cranberry) cookies. They are awesome.

You are correct. I apologize, it was someone else who called me stupid, in another post.

Actually, it's not my beloved site.  I don't post there and rarely visit.  I appreciate what Pescado and Delphy are both doing to save a site that a lot of people DO like, though.  I think it's admirable, even.  

I have a lot of respect for Delphy, I just think he's negative when people could use someone to be positive.  I speak in terms, of course, of exactly what he said that I quoted, this morning, in context, and another conversation much earlier in the thread.  

Did it make you feel better about it all to call me stupid?  

I kinda think Delphy's assessment is like a fart during a wedding ceremony.  It may be necessary, but it could've been held off on.  

Dude, seriously.  Can't you ever let go and be optimistic and, I don't know, happy?  

You may be right.  It may all be pointless.  In fact, in the greater scheme of things, it IS pointless - there are TONS of forums people could go join, there doesn't NEED to be an Insim or an Insim clone.  But it's FUN.  At least for now.  Because people are MAD.  They were betrayed by someone they once trusted.  They want to VENT.  At least the ones who actually know what's going on, because there are a lot of them who don't know.

And I woke up at 2:00 AM and couldn't go back to sleep, and have since been up reading the past 45 or so pages, and now have to go get ready for work.  So, sorry if this doesn't make a whole lot of sense.  Work'll be FUN today!

Actually, he did say he may do permanent damage.  And he did say it still may result in not getting anything.

And this, this is still morally wrong.  Taking our (the community's) content is fine. Going beserk and hellfire on someone's server is not.

I am with Nouk and Paden.  Do not burn.  We are not destroyers of anything except paysites.  We don't take down actual servers.

It won't show you logged in and looking if you aren't actually there looking.  If you don't have the window open and haven't been on there, your username won't show at the bottom.

Do you understand?

It's not an original object anyways, so fuck em.  The work they did has been paid for, someone else can attach the cheats to that object.  Or whatever they do to it.   Or people can use the other objects out there that do essentially the same thing - ie the Blender.

Ninja lollipops. Awesome.

That was the worst apology I've ever seen, and I should know, I've dated some real assholes who couldn't apologize if Shakespeare wrote it out on cue cards for them.  

But I don't care.  No skin off my old lady nose.

You forgot greedy.

It is time to invest in a BlackBerry!  

You did say members, too.  All of which are scattered to the winds.  

Ultimately, though, the decision for the security of the forum lies in one person's hands, and that person is the one who makes the decision.  It should be based on more than some sort of phone call thing, but it should also be based more on what makes everyone feel good and fuzzy.  He'll be the one actually responsible for it.  

I think if you tried to get everyone together now for a vote, you'd have a massive mess on your hands - a bigger mess than InSim is now.  It's nigh on impossible to find even half of everyone, even if there's a good amount of them here, at Oasis, or GOS.  

The running of the forum, further changes, that can be handled by the admins and moderators when it's up.  Then the teamwork starts and everyone pulls together with a freakin' montage of bad 80's music and paints the new forum with bright shiny colours and starts posting "Where were you when InSim fell?"

So you ask all members and staff everything before you change anything? Because, I'm guessing .. no.  You administrate your software the way you see fit as the administrator.

Is there something absolutely super special about vB?  Does it taste like cake?  Someone explain forum boards to me. I don't get it.