Dungeon Master Forum

Yeah, there was a little issue with date enumeration when the board was first set up...

yes. and I was but a glint in my mothers eye.. but it goes to show.. I've been a DM fan from birth.. born to it..

It snowed last night !(about an inch)
From a very long and very warm autumn we had at my place an rather sudden change to a frosty white scenery..

It's sudden got freezing here in the last few days - so paornbaly no snow

Aparently a half inch of snow beside aberdeen though!

Yes, it has got a bit nippy down here too. I shall have to start wearing some underwear.

I feel like shamelessly showing off today:

www.is-magic.de

The guy on the very right of the photo there is me, after I won a Magic tournament with 54 participants. In case it is removed from the start page, look under "Turniere", then "Fotos" from "8.10.2006" (we Germans list the day first, then the month). The bottom photo is the one. Seems I am at least mildly successful in my Magic life.

Hey, cool, nice to see another real life photo. I had expected you to look like your avatar though!

That's funny. You won the tournament, so they gave you more cards. That's like winning a pie eating contest and being given more pies. But congratulations anyway. Knocking out 54 other people is quite a feat. I haven't played Magic since 4th Ed. It's probably a lot harder now that there are like a hundred-thousand new cards, and they gimped the value of all the originals by making reprints. *sigh*

I wish I would Gambit!

Tom, you are right about the cards in a way, but after all, they are what we players are addicted to. I certainly wouldn't mind winning a dungeon-making contest and winning the right to play some more dungeons first. By the way, really old and rare cards are now worth more than ever. Should you still have some original dual lands (Taiga, Tundra, Underground Sea and the like), they are at an all-time high.

Congrats , Trant! Was not that easy , I guess

How's the weather at your place?
There was a storm and 3 metre waves, I heard in the radio..

Thanks zoooom! Yeah, but I don't live directly at the coast, so I didn't really encounter the waves. The storm was rather heavy, but not so bad that it kicked trees over. I suspect we'll have worse ones this autumn.

The weather over the previous few weeks has randomly wandered around between moderately warm, nicely sunny, annoyingly rainy, and averagely overcast. Then, suddenly, November comes along, and it's bloody freezing! Wtf? Looking out my window before I go to bed, I now see a thin layer of frost on the surface of all the cars. And last night I saw a BLOODY GORGEOUS beauty of a fox sniffing around outside our house . Not that that's anything to do with the weather but he/she was such a beauty...and with a lovely floofy tail .

I need some help. I can't seem to stop being a grumpy old fart on another forum that's overrun with children and over-sensitive moderators. Should I:
a) Keep it up
b) Leave
c) Nuke all the snivelling morons?

a) Keep it up and just go into lurk mode for a day or so if somehting annoys you

a kid-forum with over-sensitive moderators? Wchich one is that? please give me a link... I`m just curious If I had to guess... it`s 99% of forums on the web

Take option b) Gambit, that`d be the best way I think
or d): try to get a mod`s privileges and be very over-sensitive person

I've bloody well had it with your suggestions adamo! /ban adamo

Oh, it doens't work...ah well, as you were : )

So tell us what's the forum, Gambit?
Or do you not want children of an agrophobic, tunnel-vision, fireballing disposition in it too?

Continuing the 'board' discussion:
There are 850+ users registered on this forum, and it says in the index:
"Most users ever online was 53 on Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:12 pm"

Did I miss something? That's is not only quite a party, but a large percentage of people coming back to the forum. I assumed that the majority of people would register, post and then forget about it, or pop back once in a while.

It also indicates to me tha the DM 'thing' is still not losing it's appeal.

53 users would have been a spambot logging on multiple times on to every forum

It would not surprise me if 10 people, luirkers and regulars, were loggedin if not more - flashchat once had 11ish - which still isn't bad!

Ahhhh. The spam thing-idea I can never work out... Still, someone, somewhere probably wants Viiaaaggraa.

Yeah, I think the actual amount of real users on line at the same time is probably single digits. We're not exactly mainstream...

As for that forum, I have left. Can't be arsed with it anymore. The circle is now complete: Once I was but the enthusiastic, wide-eyed youngster who could not understand the grumpy olds. Now *I* am the grumpy olds.

Gambit: You were doing a public service, I am sure. People forget that.

As a 'user' I never know how much work it is to set up (Cows?), maintain (Beo), and pay for (Cows) a forum. It's a great community, though.

Maintain = gambit alot of the behind the scenes forum, stuff, with GG, myself, cows and Gambit twatting spammers and splitting posts when we see them (plus other mods monitoring posts)

I reckon we've got a downturn on spammers or just we all delete alot, but sometimes if you are away a day or weekend you can spend about 5 -10 minutes of a session just checkign up on them deleting five users, and banning obviously spamming e-mail accounts

Similarly with guest posts, I usually take some extra time to taq the IP address and ban it

And i'm getting grumpy too, dunno if age has anything to do with it!

5-10 minutes would make me grumpy too, Beo. And I'm already old.

I notice a lot of fake usernames popping up - since the DM forum is one of the Net windows I keep perma-open when I'm on the computer, I noticed the "Newest User" thing at the bottom and tend to check it to see if it sounds like an actual person or not. I think I've deleted the grand total of two posts from the Creative Endeavours forum, which were spammy advertising crap, but generally I don't see much by way of actual posts - it's more fake members, really.

??????

No guests should be able to post spam to the creative forum - do you mean registered users? : (

Yeah, ever since knocking guest posting alot of the spam mail has dried up, I think IP blocking helps too

Oh, I don't think they were guests...just crappy, spammy users who hadn't been deleted by an Admin yet. T'was a while ago now...couple of months probably, that I last deleted a post.

Ouch,m that's nasty to have active users posting

Usually the pam bots are pretty passive...the active spammers rare ; (

beowuuf wrote: Usually the pam bots are pretty passive..

Pam bots eh? are those like the ones in austin powers? only without the boob guns?