DrDire wrote:just wanted to say that i think its your loss for not allowing Negke access to your forum, the whole dirty IP thing seems ridiculous to me.
Way to go for making a small community even smaller by not allowing people who are actually interested in the subject matter, and talented as well, be blocked from it.
"oh no, he could be hijacked and post some spam on our precious message boards (with code and design from what seems like 15 years ago)"
just my opinion
![Twisted Evil :twisted:](./images/smilies/icon_twisted.gif)
Man, I can't believe I am responding to this silly post...I must be getting very old!
"just wanted to say that i think its your loss for not allowing Negke access to your forum, the whole dirty IP thing seems ridiculous to me."
So, it's a loss for the Café not having negke, you say DrDire!?. Are you serious!, a small Quake2 mappers forum as us should need negke?, how and what would he do?, come every day and tell us about mapping in quake2. And if he has that big a potential, why hasen't he arrived 7 years ago when we started the Cafë?. (Remember this has nothing to do with negke, but the safety of the Café).
About 5 years ago, an about 12 year old kid joined the Café, he did not talked dirty or was degrading the Café like you, but spoke with the mappers who was around and showed off his projects. Later on, maybe 2 years after, he made the mod of the Café; Strogdm!, and become the coding wiz, Paril, which I am sure everybody in the community knows about today!.
"Way to go for making a small community even smaller by not allowing people who are actually interested in the subject matter, and talented as well, be blocked from it."
Well, I don't think we can get any smaller, the game is so old now, that we all should be proud, still to be here!. Ohh, well, I could shut down the Café...but that would be nasty to the most prominent mappers still alive and kicking, namely people like Maric, spirit, Jester, Le Ray, margaal, skeletor, WizardExt...and many many more, which has given us Quake2 lovers so much and is still visiting the Café on a regular basic. I will not let go of nearly 500 members, almost 25,000 posts and 8 Quake2 mapping contest in the last 7 years for anything!, especially not for a small minded little prick like you DrDire!. What are you?, like 8 years old?.
We don't block anyone, which has a decent approach and an hounest behavior. A clean IP, so we don't have to spend our time on removing spam/hacker and all kind of rubbish. We try to be a responsible, "almost" adult forum!. So, if you don't have the $5 to get a solid IP, maybe you are to young to join the Café. Or maybe you are just some of the people we are getting OUT of our forum!.
"oh no, he could be hijacked and post some spam on our precious message boards (with code and design from what seems like 15 years ago)"
Yep, you are right, we did had some hijackers and a lot of spammers, even people posting illegal contents, virus, stalking, stealing identities and more, which our members did not like!, so we took care of the problem. (even had a complaint from the forum host about all of this shit!).
And if you think you can insult me with your bad attitude about our old forum, you are wrong!. Although I am sure all the members, writers, mappers, viewers and players of The Quake2 Café could have that feeling and might remember your name, maybe just for a little while!.
"just my opinion Twisted Evil"
DrDire, I see you have joined this forum 2 weeks ago and made 7 posts!, you have a big future here Iam sure.
-W1
The Q2Café - The Kitsch Forum..15 years of Quake is nothing!