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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

smiley - sadface

Actually I had hope of 'returning' to the friendly playground I remembered HooToo was.
This would help me by distracting from real life.


Traveller in Time smiley - tit counting the ll s (smiley - brave Brittish English as it should be)

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs Reporting a fatal situation on the smiley - tit account


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit no longer a Guru.
"(Sorry for posting here, my own account fails to post. Also sorry for the number of postings)

However
Trying to help is deprecated.
Giving comment on _request_ is deprecated.
Silly play is deprecated.

< F124701?thread=8295641 > I was once a Guru for sure.
Ah, in Pliny I am a former Guru, no doubt about it! And as he is my official Sockpuppet, so is smiley - cogs. "


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit feeling smiley - bruised by this
"What is left of the community ?

Half the population still residing on the site seems in depression as well. smiley - skull"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit trying to be of any use
"I concider myself patient by not repeatedly posting to any of the reinstate Guru/Tester or application for Technician -Volunteer Jobs. "


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit Just with another feature
"I wonder how long it takes before smiley - cogs PS gets smiley - yikesed, apparently he (smiley - erm that is me) states to have Edited Entries.
(Well the link suggests the entries caught by the Captcha are edited_entry in Pliny)"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit Tubthumping on the player 'You get knocked down, but you get up again'
"As Jim Lynn stated once before (a smiley - wow by SEF) but better formulated;
My traffic to and from the site exceeds all the other users at times.

Not only the Captcha smiley - monster will notice me smiley - sadface"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit feeling seriously smiley - bruised
"I support the Committee (as smiley - cogs, I can not edit entries) with correct link!
And I propose others doing so as well

Even when they use the Bad GuideML version of the banner. (linking to nowhere)

I have and will always obey the House Rules! (even the rules between the lines)."


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Icy North

Hi CoG, smiley - cogs

I'm trying to interpret your thread here (you never make it particularly easy, but I love the challenge).

I can't work out whether you're down about the lack of participation on the site, or whether you've been on the wrong end of moderators (I see a hidden post just before this one).

Things have changed a lot over the last couple of years, which goes to explain both of those things. I hope you can stick it out, but you may not find it as easy to exercise your natural inquisitiveness without being the subject of the inquisition.

All is not lost. If you've ever read Asimov, then you'll understand that the 'Second Foundation' is still among us.

smiley - cheers Icy


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit feeling smiley - ill
"I always felt going through Peer-Review was like running the gauntlet.
Apparently entries are now getting approved by yea sayers only.

smiley - ok
smiley - cheerssmiley - erm

Any comment please? smiley - goodluck"

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs checking dictionaries
"Can not find a good word for it.

My fault seems to be my trying to help, trying to be usefull.
I do not need any incentive but apparently I do require a badge in advance.
Where as I started on this site see 'That would be 12 years' I concluded many just held a badge as the reward, without really performing the action it would imply.

Oh, the above monologue will probably go on for days."


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit counting active Volunteers (ACEs and Gurus, the community lubricant)
"5 at most on average 0 online, they all have a busy real life.

Apparently no Gurus have remained onsite as even Peet has retreated to his Mustardland.smiley - online2long"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit feeling low enough to fit under the ______________ line
"There is a relation with why the other ACEs are silent.

Yes I post a lot so this Journal will keep popping up on the Front Page."


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Milla, h2g2 Operations

Hi CoG.
As for active volunteers, there's about 30 listed. As you realise, we all have busy lives, and most also hold full time jobs. But we're here.
The old gurus have all left their volunteer positions. Many left long before we took over the site from BBC even.
The online counter is seriously broken, so please do not trust those numbers. There are always people online, and volunteers are usually around too, just not everyone at once.
I hope this helps.
smiley - towel


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Milla, h2g2 Operations

Also, all former volunteers are acknowledged, as you have noted. Becoming a volunteer is a process, and you need to be approved by management too, among other things.
smiley - towel


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Traveller in Time Reporting Bugs -o-o- Broken the chain of Pliny -o-o- Hired

Traveller in Time smiley - tit realle need glasses for this
"smiley - ta for info (I live in t<./>info</.>il and online, just in Pliny)

I know, I will be patient. Thanks for the confirmation And I think I know what actually went wrong, My bad, should have read between the lines better. smiley - bigeyes "


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs really, not realle, hands over glasses smiley - erm
"Hey this is no fun anymore, I had prepared days worth of little 'did you know?' single line postings."


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit never giving up
"I removed any link to the 'Ripley' skins on wiki, just as I read between the lines on h2g2 (!!_under_-_casts_!!)"

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs looking up
"smiley - erm Can you not post from your own account?"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit searching the Internet for comments
"Dictionary definition of comment: a remark, observation, or criticism

or even:
--a user response to published content on the Internet, written in a designated “Comments” section, often below the published content:
--There were many online comments criticizing the author.

even more to the point
--a note in explanation, expansion, or criticism of a passage in a book, article, or the like; annotation.

smiley - sorry, smiley - cogs we will have to share this Journal. I made one for you on my space if you would like to post. smiley - cdouble"


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit first posting to 'Captcha???' after seeing a posting window
"<BB< seems still to be hold captive by the Captcha smiley - monster, this may be smiley - frog related. "


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit still flooding smiley - cogs Journal
"Well the other 'comments' on request seem to have been received with some grace . . . "

Cool old Guy smiley - cogs not certain about the frogs
"Then it is a Captcha smiley - frog perhaps? "

Traveller in Time smiley - tit shifting his
"Perhaps the Captcha needs these glasses more then I do. "
Pushes the /O^O\ to the flare in the Clouds.


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Cool Old Guy (ex-SockPuppet) Trying not to post for the next 200 days !

Traveller in Time smiley - tit getting more and more of a did you know . . .
"Re- reading messages to his Personal Space (first time I use the term using full words, later in same conversation will be PS)

About half of them are negative the other half is request for help in any way. Any negative are by already agitated (by other cause) Researchers. Any requests for help end up in smiley - ta, some if not most somewhere else, but hey, I am everywhere.

Well I was everywhere, before I was 'Chained into Pliny' smiley - sadface I have about five suggesting to change preferences as if I do not know my way around. (smiley - ta anyways.) "


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