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Turias · Oct 22, 2004, 02:35 PM

Ok, so this thread will probably be locked (sorry mods), but I have to ask: What happened to daimoni? He apparently went back and edited/removed all 7396 of his posts. Did I miss something?

That must have taken a REALLY long time.

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
He apparently went back and edited/removed all 7396 of his posts. Did I miss something?

That's amazing.

-t

PacHead · Oct 22, 2004, 02:39 PM

Yep, I noticed that awhile back. What a huge loser.

Landos Mustache · Oct 22, 2004, 02:44 PM

If that is true that is almost as scary as having 25,000 posts to you name.

lil'babykitten · Oct 22, 2004, 02:45 PM

He left.

boots · Oct 22, 2004, 02:47 PM

He got sick of stuff here, and didn't want his words, which as posted are apparently the property of MacNN, out there as fodder.

Yes, it took him a long time.

Yes, it could be described as sad.

It could also be described as paranoid....or principled...or foresightful.

Only time will tell.

And yes, we did rib him about it.

Turias · Oct 22, 2004, 02:48 PM

Originally posted by lil'babykitten:
He left.

I figured.

I just don't understand what could drive someone to literally spend hours removing thousands of their old posts.

Xeo · Oct 22, 2004, 02:49 PM

Why the hell would you go and edit all your posts?

BTW, I found a couple he missed. There are probably more, but these two were on the first page:

One, where he says he's ignoring LoganCharles and two, where he is defending Lerk.

Originally posted by Turias:
I just don't understand what could drive someone to literally spend hours removing thousands of their old posts.

Yeah, no kidding. What an enormous waste of time. He could have found a way to automate the process, I suppose. But wouldn't have been easy.

Turias · Oct 22, 2004, 02:51 PM

Originally posted by boots:
He got sick of stuff here, and didn't want his words, which as posted are apparently the property of MacNN, out there as fodder.

I thought Demonhood cleared that up and explained that MacNN does not own the content of our posts in these forums.

Ah well.

Edit: Found the thread. Guess they own the text but not the ideas contained within.

Toutgood · Oct 22, 2004, 02:52 PM

do you guys (at MacNN) have them backed up somewhere?

Demonhood · Oct 22, 2004, 02:56 PM

i could, in theory, restore all of his posts. that would actually be pretty amusing.
i gave him a hard time about it when i saw him a couple weeks ago. silly hippy.

Xeo · Oct 22, 2004, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by Demonhood:
i could, in theory, restore all of his posts. that would actually be pretty amusing.
i gave him a hard time about it when i saw him a couple weeks ago. silly hippy.

Wow, the ultimate smackdown.

d4nth3m4n · Oct 22, 2004, 02:59 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
[B]Why the hell would you go and edit all your posts?

BTW, I found a couple he missed. There are probably more, but these two were on the first page:

One, where he says he's ignoring LoganCharles and two, where he is defending Lerk.

can't exactly edit posts in locked threads now can you?

boots · Oct 22, 2004, 03:01 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
I thought Demonhood cleared that up and explained that MacNN does not own the content of our posts in these forums.

Ah well.

Edit: Found the thread. Guess they own the text but not the ideas contained within.

But they do hold the copyright on the words we use, even if the ideas are our own. Some may find that troubling. Obviously it doesn't bother me, but y'all wanted to know the why so I told you.

boots · Oct 22, 2004, 03:04 PM

Originally posted by Demonhood:
i could, in theory, restore all of his posts. that would actually be pretty amusing.
i gave him a hard time about it when i saw him a couple weeks ago. silly hippy.

That would be one of the funniest things ever at MacNN. I can just hear him now...

[puff|puff|puff]What? I thought I deleted these. Maybe I just dreamed it. Oh, well. I guess I should get cracking. This will take a while[puff|puff|puff]

Silly hippy.

Zimphire · Oct 22, 2004, 03:15 PM

We used to have folks like that on IRC that would leave in a huff claiming that they wouldn't be back.

Only to show up a week or so later using a different nick or something of the like.

But yeah, the whole deleting posts. That is about silly.

Lerk did the same thing awhile back. Quit MacNN forever again, and deleted his posts.

I guess when he spazzed out, he didn't want anyone to have proof of it so we could laugh at him.

Landos Mustache · Oct 22, 2004, 03:42 PM

Originally posted by Demonhood:
i could, in theory, restore all of his posts. that would actually be pretty amusing.
i gave him a hard time about it when i saw him a couple weeks ago. silly hippy.

My Lord you have to do it! All those hours he spent all waisted! Ha ha ha ha!

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 03:46 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
That must have taken a REALLY long time.

Anyone bored enough to make a good estimation of how many hours were wasted on that ?

-t

Landos Mustache · Oct 22, 2004, 03:47 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Anyone bored enough to make a good estimation of how many hours were wasted on that ?

-t

Then we would be as pathetic as him.

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by Landos Mustache:
Then we would be as pathetic as him.

For a second I entertained the thought how long it would take Zimpi do delete all his posts...

-t

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by PacHead:
Yep, I noticed that awhile back. What a huge loser.

And you're a real winner?

Maybe he found God or some other profound life altering experience and wanted to wash himself of all the pain and anguish and bearing false idols and stuffs.

ps Haven't read the thread yet so this may have been revealed...or not.

Zimphire · Oct 22, 2004, 03:51 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
I thought Zimpi...

Because you are a fanboy.

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 03:53 PM

Originally posted by Zimphire:
Because you are a fanboy.

It's friday, I'm tired and I don't give a....

-t

Landos Mustache · Oct 22, 2004, 03:55 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
Ok, so this thread will probably be locked (sorry mods), but I have to ask: What happened to daimoni? He apparently went back and edited/removed all 7396 of his posts. Did I miss something?

That must have taken a REALLY long time.

You need to be careful as someone might think you are a "fanboy" as they confuse fanboy with "pity".

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 03:55 PM

Originally posted by Xeo:
Why the hell would you go and edit all your posts?

BTW, I found a couple he missed. There are probably more, but these two were on the first page:

One, where he says he's ignoring LoganCharles and two, where he is defending Lerk.

Yeah, no kidding. What an enormous waste of time. He could have found a way to automate the process, I suppose. But wouldn't have been easy.

This is why he erased his posts so people like this wouldn't be able to do things like this.

This mod obviously had bias against him.

Zimphire · Oct 22, 2004, 03:55 PM

Oh in that case, go on.

PacHead · Oct 22, 2004, 03:57 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
And you're a real winner?

Maybe he found God or some other profound life altering experience and wanted to wash himself of all the pain and anguish and bearing false idols and stuffs.

ps Haven't read the thread yet so this may have been revealed...or not.

Yep, you won't see me going back and removing all of my posts, like a huge loser who is full of crap.

Daimoni has posted so much outrageous political crap, that he must've realized his foolishness after he laid down the crackpipe, and he decided to edit/remove his posts, when he read them again with a sober state of mind.

The loser must've spent like 12 hours deleting his trash. Hehehehe.

Turias · Oct 22, 2004, 03:58 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Anyone bored enough to make a good estimation of how many hours were wasted on that ?

-t

If it took on average 15 seconds per post...

15 * 7396 / 60 / 60 = 30 hours.

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 04:00 PM

Originally posted by PacHead:
Yep, you won't see me going back and removing all of my posts, like a huge loser who is full of crap.

Daimoni has posted so much outrageous political crap, that he must've realized his foolishness after he laid down the crackpipe, and he decided to edit/remove his posts, when he read them again with a sober state of mind.

The loser must've spent like 12 hours deleting his trash. Hehehehe.

So if this is true...why would he be a loser?

or are you just trolling?

???

Turias · Oct 22, 2004, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
This is why he erased his posts so people like this wouldn't be able to do things like this.

This mod obviously had bias against him.

Who were you before "piGGy jacket"?

PacHead · Oct 22, 2004, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
So if this is true...why would he be a loser?

or are you just trolling?

???

Let me make it clear for you, since you obviously don't know what a loser is.

Anybody who spends years on some message board, posting thousands of threads, and then one day, in a rage of liberal desperation decides to spend countless hours (or days) erasing everything they have ever written is a LOSER. Now, that's not such a hard concept to comprehend is it ?

MindFad · Oct 22, 2004, 04:03 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
So if this is true...why would he be a loser?

or are you just trolling?

???

Internet Tough Guy�

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 04:05 PM

Originally posted by Turias:
Who were you before "piGGy jacket"?

Was wondering the same thing...

Wouldn't it be great to have some bot that searches through message boards and analyses the posts and gives a list of nicks that probably were posted by the same person ?

-t

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 04:10 PM

Originally posted by PacHead:
Let me make it clear for you, since you obviously don't know what a loser is.

Anybody who spends years on some message board, posting thousands of threads, and then one day, in a rage of liberal desperation decides to spend countless hours (or days) erasing everything they have ever written is a LOSER. Now, that's not such a hard concept to comprehend is it ?

Like you said, maybe he realized he was wrong. Maybe because of you. That would still make him a loser?

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 04:13 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
Was wondering the same thing...

Wouldn't it be great to have some bot that searches through message boards and analyses the posts and gives a list of nicks that probably were posted by the same person ?

-t

And you? 100 posts in a few years and bam!!! 1500 in a few months. Dig up an old alias?

???

chris v · Oct 22, 2004, 04:14 PM

You know, there are those who would say that those of us who are still here are the real losers. We who know Dai in real life anyway can assure you that he's doing fine, and doesn't miss this kind of bullsh*t at all.

TheBadgerHunter · Oct 22, 2004, 04:19 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
So if this is true...why would he be a loser?

or are you just trolling?

???

So who are you?

goturtle · Oct 22, 2004, 04:22 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
And you? 100 posts in a few years and bam!!! 1500 in a few months. Dig up an old alias?

???

Nope. Discovered the lounge and got addicted. Shame on me.
I only have one more alias that I once used one time for fun, and even with that, I didn't try to hide my identity because it involves a turtle as well

So try again, Sherlock !

-t

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 04:27 PM

Originally posted by goturtle:
Nope. Discovered the lounge and got addicted. Shame on me.
I only have one more alias that I once used one time for fun, and even with that, I didn't try to hide my identity because it involves a turtle as well

So try again, Sherlock !

-t

99.9 percent of the people in here hide their identity. So I don't get what you mean?

???

lil'babykitten · Oct 22, 2004, 04:29 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
You know, there are those who would say that those of us who are still here are the real losers.

Ya!

turtle777 · Oct 22, 2004, 04:34 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
99.9 percent of the people in here hide their identity. So I don't get what you mean?
???

That was in reply to your *OWN* post where you assumed that I dug up an old alias. Re-read your post and mine, and you might get it.

-t

boots · Oct 22, 2004, 04:36 PM

What I find amusing is that the hippy hating hippy can cause this much commotion...and he hasn't even been here for like, almost two months. That's power, right there. Especially for a loser.

piGGy jacket · Oct 22, 2004, 04:40 PM

Originally posted by turtle777:
That was in reply to your *OWN* post where you assumed that I dug up an old alias. Re-read your post and mine, and you might get it.

-t

I never assumed anything. I was only inquiring. So you would be the one assuming.

ps. Have to leave now but I would enjoy continuing our conversation later in the weekend after I have some fun.

Krusty · Oct 22, 2004, 05:39 PM

Well, its probably childish to delete all of your old posts, but I just looked at the standardized links for searching all posts by user, editing posts, etc. Looks like something that could be at least partially automated (if not fully automated) without too much effort.

Xeo · Oct 22, 2004, 06:20 PM

Originally posted by d4nth3m4n:
can't exactly edit posts in locked threads now can you?

Oh. News to me. Just tested and confirmed it. Can you believe that in 3 and a half years I have never tried to edit a post in a locked thread?

Xeo · Oct 22, 2004, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by piGGy jacket:
This is why he erased his posts so people like this wouldn't be able to do things like this.

This mod obviously had bias against him.

Ahaha, too funny. I couldn't even tell you what his political stance is, let alone anything else from which I might form a bias.

Toutgood · Oct 22, 2004, 06:31 PM

Originally posted by Krusty:
Well, its probably childish to delete all of your old posts, but I just looked at the standardized links for searching all posts by user, editing posts, etc. Looks like something that could be at least partially automated (if not fully automated) without too much effort.

yeah, I was thinking the same thing. the only thing interesting about this thread was the idea of some going through thread by thread, deleting everything.

If that took like 10 seconds per post it'd have to be over 20 hours or so (somebody do the math). A simple way to check is to see at what times the posts were edited and see if there's much of a difference.

Or we could just get a life...

iLikebeer · Oct 22, 2004, 07:07 PM

Do they still have flood control? i.e. you can only post or edit a post once a minute. Factor in the efficiency of post by post and you could probably only do like 40 or 50 an hour. He prolly did it over the course of many, many days whenever he was extremely bored.

Whatever floats your boat, no big deal really.

Xeo · Oct 22, 2004, 07:12 PM

I think he did it by hand. The times would have been much closer, more than 2 or 3 within a minute's time, if done by some automated method.

However, he did not do it all at once. Looking somewhere in the middle, there were a bunch edited on a particular day in May. Later ones had edited dates in July. Apparently it was just a philosophy of his not to leave his posts around too long.

Odd and paranoid indeed.

philzilla · Oct 22, 2004, 07:56 PM

my guess it that it will take you lot longer to bitch and whine about it, while he gets on with his life.