wtf. Luna made you mod interdant? And when were you going to share this with the rest of the class?
I meant Iron rod*
Well I figured you'd say something like that. I don't think I've ever seen you ill-tempered. Hell I've even seen Luna get pissed off and banned Jay's alterego, Pedo. And she seemed like the most calmest of us all! How many users have you banned since assuming this role of watch keeper?
It's mostly been working on Sinister's accounts, so the answer's pretty much one, repeatedly, with two others that once addressed proved very brief.
As for the number of aliases targeted... I have no idea anymore, countless. The 30 second delay before posts alone was enough to inspire having three accounts running at a time for a faster flood, the spam being done manually instead of with automation (automation though does lead to some crazy glitches). Such dedication.
I let a lot of it slide for a while, mostly going for deleting the duplicates while keeping one trace of spam around or quoting them in a topic designed for them (which I stopped doing once they lost their charm, becoming boring copy/pastes of haet), but overtime the users here opted for trial running a stricter approach of mute/delete on sight, attempting to rid of the footprint left by the spammer entirely. With the code as it is right now that's mostly a futile effort, but it's also not much work to fix so it's really not much of a hassle. The spammer becoming annoyed over it is kind of ticklish too at points, but it's not as entertaining as the former "creativity" it used to be.
Beyond that there was one run in with an account that claimed to be Dexter, and another user that would silence the chat through sheer retardism that once dealt with showed much less persistence (both of which I let go for a while), opting to use them as an example for asking the forum about notions of quality control versus freedom. After so many complaints over a large expanse of time, dealing with them was the answer that was agreed upon.
I'm personally thankful that a character limit's been added to posts. The spam from before used to be a lot more taxing to rid of, like when the Dracula novel killed our original music topic. These days it's mostly sheer volume and chat flooding, which both are simply a matter of patience and button clicking to work around.
"ps. how are you hiding from the "Online Users"?"
Funny story, I'd actually requested that Luna make my account appear to always be logged in, but she misunderstood the request and ended up accomplishing the opposite. I was before using a refresh site on an old near-death laptop set to minimum power settings to keep my avatar on the online user's list for the purpose of reducing the spam flood risk once I noticed that more would hit the place when my being offline was telegraphed. I requested it to be done server-side so that I wouldn't need to worry about that laptop's status as much, but the constant invisibility has been lolsy for watching Sin's confusion at times over it.
Sinister? What were some of his notable puppets? His name sounds familiar but I probably know him better from his aliases.
Wait, so you've been forcing Luna to get off her ass and make repairs to the site??? Don't be mod-est Turncoat, you can tell me. I for one am glad! I don't mind the puppets here and there but when you get the real assholes who spam nonsense it's kind of annoying and a bit childish.
Do you have the ability to make others invisible or can this only be done by Luna/Michael?
"Sinister? What were some of his notable puppets? His name sounds familiar but I probably know him better from his aliases."
Segfault, theBlack, Anonymous Genius, whatever, A User, you'll find them in topics like these:
The Official Thread of Anonymous Genius
The Thread for Fucking Good Music
I mostly stick with the alias "Sinister" from it being my favorite among them.
"Wait, so you've been forcing Luna to get off her ass and make repairs to the site???"
Closer to requesting that she make changes based on practical suggestions made by users here. The ones who're really "getting her off her ass" are the ones spamming the place, as without the problems being presented in a way we cannot ignore they likely wouldn't be addressed, sort of like taking medicine to cure the ailment. I'm closer to being the messenger.
Most of the requests have been falling flat lately since the solutions are being implemented into a new "SC 2.0" in place of improving what'll otherwise eventually become outdated code, which is why you'll see the chat expressing a refresh glitch from time to time when Sinister feels like it (like right now for instance). Even so, the functionality is better than it once was thanks to the conflicts thrown at the place from time to time.
"I don't mind the puppets here and there but when you get the real assholes who spam nonsense it's kind of annoying and a bit childish. "
Puppets have always been a thing, but spam gets in the way of everyone except the ones spamming, so yeah, agreed.
"Do you have the ability to make others invisible or can this only be done by Luna/Michael?"
I pretty much can only delete posts and ban/unban accounts. There's a User Index link where I can see every account on the site, but it always crashes.