Ultraviolet Posted January 30, 2003 Heh, I started looking through the top 10 posters list, starting from the back, and out of 200-something pages, from page 153 on, it's all zero-post users. For those whose ban information has to be stored, I could understand the record being there, but otherwise, why haven't they just been deleted? I see names of widely known undesirables and misspelled names of regulars in there. MACVILWHORE. jon c. Various incarnations of Demon Hunter and Esco. Haha, Islebot. NightFang shows zero posts? Odd. Deadrail, Not-Shotgun_Bill, zdoomsucks, haha... OMG OMG WHAT IF TERRORISTS ARE REGISTERING ON DW SO THEY CAN USE THE PRIVATE MESSAGE FEATURE AS THEIR PRIVATE MESSAGE SERVICE??? 0 Share this post Link to post
Nanami Posted January 30, 2003 Probably laziness. Some of those zero post members are still active in the community but don't post in the forums, but it's true that a lot are never ever going to be used. They'd have to get a list of which ones are not being used. Or just have them expire after x amount of days of unuse or something. 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted January 30, 2003 Yeah, I've always been rather intrigued with these quite-sensible-otherwise-but-a-moron-on-the-forums characters. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted January 30, 2003 Heh, my NarcoTerror dude is still up there. 0 Share this post Link to post
DooMBoy Posted January 30, 2003 Heh hehed: Heh. Heh. I noticed that Doom Anamoly has an old username called Doom Anomoly. Ah, misspellings are terrific fun :) 0 Share this post Link to post
læmænt Posted January 30, 2003 If you piss off the mods sufficiently badly, you, too, can have a zero postcount! 0 Share this post Link to post
Arioch Posted January 30, 2003 lament said:If you piss off the mods sufficiently badly, you, too, can have a zero postcount! The trick is to not piss them off too badly. Just enough to get your postcount reset to zero but no further is quite a difficult trick to manage. 0 Share this post Link to post
Job Posted January 30, 2003 Or a dopey-ass title. But bans (read zero-post status) is how it works. If everyone got a dumb title for stupid shit they've done, I tink 90% of us would have one. 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOM Anomaly Posted January 30, 2003 DooMBoy said:Heh. I noticed that Doom Anamoly has an old username called Doom Anomoly. Ah, misspellings are terrific fun :) actually, thats not mine, someone registered that In October After I registered, Dunno who tho, they never posted. :D ....Jezum Crow DooMBoy, you spelt my name wrong too!! Is the Ravage's secret underground school of misspelled pleasures company back up? :D 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 30, 2003 I registered some username a long while ago that I was going to use for some impish mischief, but I only posted once with it before abandonning it. I can't even remember what the Hell it was called...it was some seemingly random string of letters. 0 Share this post Link to post
Little Faith Posted January 30, 2003 I think I have one around I haven't used too. Lamers4Christ was his name as far as I remember. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 30, 2003 the_Danarchist said:I registered some username a long while ago that I was going to use for some impish mischief, but I only posted once with it before abandonning it. I can't even remember what the Hell it was called...it was some seemingly random string of letters. Oh Jesus...I found it here: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=133 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted January 30, 2003 the_Danarchist said:Oh Jesus...I found it here: http://www.doomworld.com/vb/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=133 That was the best post you ever made =P 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted January 30, 2003 Heh...I know. It cracks me up to read it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Fletcher` Posted January 30, 2003 DOOM Anomaly said:....Jezum Crow DooMBoy, you spelt my name wrong too!! Is the Ravage's secret underground school of misspelled pleasures company back up? :D Not quite, it only teaches dislexic speech. Doomboy learned that one somewhere else. "Trick or Trout." "Aah, it's the Williams boy. Give the kid a fish." Heh. :) 0 Share this post Link to post
pritch Posted January 30, 2003 Yes I was pondering another clear out of zero-posters last night. We had one a while back IIRC. We'll see. 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted January 31, 2003 On occasion, accounts would get borked and Zaldron or I would transfer posts from a user's old account to their new one.pritch said:Yes I was pondering another clear out of zero-posters last night.Wait, since when could you prune the user db? 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted January 31, 2003 Lüt said:Wait, since when could you prune the user db? Could've sworn I heard about Linguica doing it before. 0 Share this post Link to post
DOOM Anomaly Posted January 31, 2003 Ultraviolet said:Could've sworn I heard about Linguica doing it before. I think he may be reffering to as to how Pritch as a idividual being able to do it, correct me if Im wrong tho. 0 Share this post Link to post
Insomniak Posted January 31, 2003 Heh Pritch, TheHighestTree, and me can all be thankful that the current forum software doesn't have negative postcounts...yet. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ichor Posted January 31, 2003 It did at one time, back when there was a DOLT status (a little before my time though). 0 Share this post Link to post
Lüt Posted January 31, 2003 That was BBhacks. vB doesn't support negative postcounts and it would take some work to make it do so. 0 Share this post Link to post
nxn Posted January 31, 2003 Insomniac said:Heh Pritch, TheHighestTree, and me can all be thankful that the current forum software doesn't have negative postcounts...yet. Why would it concern pritch? Didn't he work out his negative postcount by himself? I think Fredrik was the one that went from -31337 to 0 thanks to the forum change. 0 Share this post Link to post