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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    Yeah I haven't seen Pony lately. Was he banned or did he just leave?

    Banned. But not perma.

    Though I think it was stressed that he shouldn't come back.

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Yeah I haven't seen Pony lately. Was he banned or did he just leave?

    Banned. But not perma.

    Though I think it was stressed that he shouldn't come back.

    i am actually really glad that a lot of the mean people got banned, I wonder what prompted the change

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Yeah I haven't seen Pony lately. Was he banned or did he just leave?

    Banned. But not perma.

    Though I think it was stressed that he shouldn't come back.

    i am actually really glad that a lot of the mean people got banned, I wonder what prompted the change

    What did he do?

    Also, maybe it was just me, but he didn't seem mean.

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  • Bob The MonkeyBob The Monkey Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i used to get the craziest spam. i figure some dude realised he could avoid spam filters by padding out the messages with passages from literature.

    "shall i compare thee to a summer's day
    thou art more lovely, and more temperate
    rough winds do shake the darling buds of OUR PATENTED PUMP EMBIGGENS THE SMALLEST COCK"

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Yeah I haven't seen Pony lately. Was he banned or did he just leave?

    Banned. But not perma.

    Though I think it was stressed that he shouldn't come back.

    i am actually really glad that a lot of the mean people got banned, I wonder what prompted the change

    What did he do?

    Also, maybe it was just me, but he didn't seem mean.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=66397&page=3

    bottom of that page

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i used to get the craziest spam. i figure some dude realised he could avoid spam filters by padding out the messages with passages from literature.

    "shall i compare thee to a summer's day
    thou art more lovely, and more temperate
    rough winds do shake the darling buds of OUR PATENTED PUMP EMBIGGENS THE SMALLEST COCK"

    I used to get spam sort of like that, except it was a bunch of random, nonsensical phrases without any actual advertisement.

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  • bongibongi regular
    edited September 2008
    i sometimes save some of my favourite weird spam

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  • FandyienFandyien But Otto, what about us? Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Haha

    Cats attack, kill student

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i used to get the craziest spam. i figure some dude realised he could avoid spam filters by padding out the messages with passages from literature.

    "shall i compare thee to a summer's day
    thou art more lovely, and more temperate
    rough winds do shake the darling buds of OUR PATENTED PUMP EMBIGGENS THE SMALLEST COCK"

    OK that's pretty funny.

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »
    Yeah I haven't seen Pony lately. Was he banned or did he just leave?

    Banned. But not perma.

    Though I think it was stressed that he shouldn't come back.

    i am actually really glad that a lot of the mean people got banned, I wonder what prompted the change

    What did he do?

    Also, maybe it was just me, but he didn't seem mean.

    http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=66397&page=3

    bottom of that page

    Yeah I saw that. He's throwing it in the faces of losers who logged onto to alt/joke accounts to try to get him banned. Maybe not the move I would make, but people stacking the votes to get him banned are the bigger assholes in that scenario, I'd say.

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defender wrote: »

    Yeah I saw that. He's throwing it in the faces of losers who logged onto to alt/joke accounts to try to get him banned. Maybe not the move I would make, but people stacking the votes to get him banned are the bigger assholes in that scenario, I'd say.

    true

    i think the reason a lot of people didn't/don't like pony is because he's just so smug
    he really is the sort of person that enjoys putting people down

    that doesn't excuse them being even worse though

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I did forget that CT decided to award a second and third prize.

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  • FramlingFramling FaceHead Geebs has bad ideas.Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    How the fuck are you getting 200 spam messages a day? I've received 5 unsolicited emails in the last year and a half of using this gmail account.

    Every other email has been from someone I know.

    As I said, I've had this address for 12 years or so.

    In 1997, there really wasn't any spam, so there really wasn't much reason not to put your email address out there. So by now, my address has been crawled by just about every crawler that has ever crawled for addresses.

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  • nefffffffffffnefffffffffff Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Defender wrote: »
    I have gmail and get maybe one piece of spam a month. Probably less. And it's almost always dropped into the "Spam" folder without ever hitting the inbox.

    I have gmail and i get as much spam in my inbox as I do regular mail. my spam-box perpetually has 7000ish filtered out emails.

    I don't even use that address for porn or anything. I don't know what it is.

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I think I started getting a LOT more spam when I sent my resume to a craigslist job posting, and they referred me to this "sign up for this job hunting site!" I'd say never try craigslist for jobs because most of them seem to be scams or just address/sucker mining, but I got my current job through craigslist, so you never know

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    in the case of alt accounts voting for pony i say: who cares? the entire contest was unfair to begin with so why get your panties in a knot over the fact that some people threw in more punches than others?

    welcome to se++ whine whine whine

    mully on
  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I had spam once fried in a skillet, with cheese.

    It's pretty good when you're soaking wet in the woods when it's 40 degrees out.

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    It's still a bigger dick move than laughing at them for it.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    than laughing at who for what
    than laughing at pony for being nominated?

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Thank Pony laughing at them for both cheating and failing.

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    sculder wrote: »
    in the case of alt accounts voting for pony i say: who cares? the entire contest was unfair to begin with so why get your panties in a knot over the fact that some people threw in more punches than others?

    welcome to se++ whine whine whine

    i voted for pony myself so it's not like I really dislike their efforts to get him banned, they did at least indirectly lead to his suffering

    i just don't applaud them

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i don't know, i think the amount of windbagging that pony has done in the past has vastly outweighed 2 extra votes in a silly internet poll

    the point is: there was no fairness or undickness in that entire thing so why single folks out

    i actually had people yelping at me for voting tfs

    mully on
  • HacksawHacksaw J. Duggan Esq. Wrestler at LawRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Pony wrote a fucking dissertation on why he shouldn't be banned. Thing was huuuuuge.

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  • mullymully Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i would like to say here that i don't mind pony so much and didn't vote for him
    just so we understand this isn't an "i hate pony so i think anything that anyone does to him is fair" kind of deal

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  • Centipede DamascusCentipede Damascus Ho! Ho! Ho! Drink Coke!Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I liked Pony. I honestly didn't understand how some people hated him so much.

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  • fallaxdracofallaxdraco Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    his dissertation was transparently and baldly manipulative and snide

    it's actually the main reason i voted for him

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  • MysstMysst King Monkey of Hedonism IslandRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I really haven't noticed either of them not posting.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    You people are too quick to hate other people on an internet forum.

    Dorks.

    EDIT: I didn't vote for anyone.

    it sure is a nice view / the air sure is clear etc etc up here on my high horse etc etc

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    ascot wrote: »
    They probably stopped sending spam to Defender after he kept replying to each spam email individually with an essay on why he wasn't interested in what it was advertising

    Also, this made me chuckle. If only for the hilarious discussion in the Spore thread the other day.

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  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Ben I don't think that you get spambots.

    I once hit my cousin with a spam email swarm of exponential growth that started out as 12^3rd and incremented upon that.

    I'm bad at math but man in 1998 changing your email addy was kind of a big deal.

    Weaver on
  • PerrsunPerrsun Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I've had a Hotmail account since pretty much Hotmail opened, I use that as my address when I know I won't be wanting may from that service very often. That thing now a lot of spam, and the filters only catch maybe 2 or 3 a week, but let everything else through.

    My gmail account on the other hand, I get a lot of spam on it, but I never see any of it. They have a good filter there.

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  • Tweaked_Bat_Tweaked_Bat_ Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    There was a period of time where I would get ones like this EVERY DAY. It provided endless reading material.

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  • CrossBusterCrossBuster Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Immeasurable rod

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  • DefenderDefender Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Yeah I doubt that she will like getting speared. That doesn't sound good.

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  • JunpeiJunpei Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    i used to get the craziest spam. i figure some dude realised he could avoid spam filters by padding out the messages with passages from literature.

    "shall i compare thee to a summer's day
    thou art more lovely, and more temperate
    rough winds do shake the darling buds of OUR PATENTED PUMP EMBIGGENS THE SMALLEST COCK"

    I get this quite regularly on my gmail for some reason, however they are all passages from Harry Potter books. I'm pretty sure I've received the entirety of all the books by now. If I get some today I'll post them

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    www.spamusement.com is pretty great.

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  • fightinfilipinofightinfilipino Angry as Hell #BLMRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    "Prince has one"
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  • AirAir Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    when you get a huge amount of spam its kinda worrying to think that maybe somewhere hidden in there is an email or two that you want to read
    like an old friend getting in touch
    or some other situation where you are getting something good from an unfamiliar email

    and oh yea the other day in my inbox was an email from something@viagra.com
    i mean how did that get through

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  • DodgeBlanDodgeBlan PSN: dodgeblanRegistered User regular
    edited September 2008
    man i've just started getting something@viagra.com

    and my castle has not been violated before.

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  • moriarty's bonesmoriarty's bones __BANNED USERS regular
    edited September 2008
    wubble woo is a very funny joke

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