Geekhack used to be such a nice place.
Paradoxically it's because there weren't any rules before. Well, I'm sure there probably were, in theory, since I remember having to autoclick past the usual "I have read and agree to the terms and conditions etc" button during geekhack registration. I know there's rules now, but they seem awfully specific so I suspect they've been amended and rammed after the fact. Seems like they boil down to "play nice and don't be an asstard" anyhow.
But those were the days! We could swear, ****ing swear, post porn, tasteless links, pirate flying windows screensavers, flame, troll, belch, fart, and generally frolick about like Caligula's happily giggling little harem of scandalous vandalous keyboard-fixated social outcasts. The odd thing - and I'm sure I can be proven wrong with countless examples - is that by and large geekhack's members of that glorious bygone era were well behaved enough to give iMav more chuckles than headaches. Except for a handful of obsoleted cankerous crotchety old technocultist fallbacks still living the dream of IBM's 19th century steam-powered dominance, but I won't mention any names, and I won't mention Welly (because you gotta love Welly), and I won't even mention certain horny Italians with hot girlfriends since I never chatted much with them anyhow.
Maybe I, too, am living in the past. Nostalgia is great, but it just ain't what it used to be.
RIP rip. Your lego will be missed.Two incidental observations:
1) Ripster's post count appears to be cryogenically frozen at 40k even though he's still leaking a little text now and then, and
2) This crazy "new" vBulletin grey/black/orange theme and gadgets setup is really bloaty and unresponsive and laggzy compared to the old vBulletin grey/black/orange theme and gadgets ... even without the million youtube vids and lego pics embedded on each page. Not meant to be hating on iMav, just reporting the big performance hit on my end.
