Due to a particular loudmouth who can’t take a hint and proceeds to use our website to break a couple of laws, we’ve had to ban him from posting, probably taking a lot of other AOL users with him in the process. If you are one of the folks banned from commenting, we apologize.
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I’ll hope that someone at AOL is helping you to track down this lawbreaker, so that direct action can be properly brought by the ultimate authority: his mommy.
Or his juvie officer.
Whichever’s easier to contact.
Honestly, I’d think that AOL would take a complaint from an internationally-famous customer about another customer’s Terms of Usage violations with a bit more alacrity and decisiveness than this.
Maybe I’m lulled into excessive optimism by Stewart’s Cherry Soda, though?
I missed it. What happened?
Wow, isn’t it fortuitous that the subject of this log lends itself so well to a title that continues an adage whose first half was used as the title for the previous one?
Or did you have some knowledge ahead of time when you wrote the “Put Up” log, Peter, that this punk was being banned, and planned the running title theme? 🙂
There’s always a dûmbášš or two who ruins it for everyone else.
Ah, I love my cable internet.
Lets see, IM on AOL, do I still have the ability to post my thoughts (if I had any)hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Chocolate.
Ðámņ it, I hate stuff like that. There are precious few authors that provide this level of interaction with their fans and some dûmbášš has to mess with it.
Differing opinions are cool, screwing with someone’s site to do something illegal- not.
Hey Glenn, I know a bit about web scripts.
If you know the scripts for this site well enough to safely tamper with them, try adding ban-by-partial-name, and ban-by-homepage features, and a text size limit. That should be enough to frustrate most idiots without blocking dozens of AOL subscribers.
I saw the multiple spam postings below, and it was enough to make me want to run screaming from the room. Good gosh, to think what awful nutcases are out there! Because of that, it also took awhile for the file to load on my browser.
I find it annoying that public figures who are kind enough to make themselves available to their public (and it IS a favor, don’t kid yourself) have to put up with this sort of nonsense. It made the PAD Speaks! board on AOL tough to get through, and PAD finally had to crack the whip in order to restore some semblance of order.
Sadly, he’s had to do it here. Perhaps now the trolls will go elsewhere. One may hope.
Perhaps now the trolls will go elsewhere.
Maybe.
I agree, now lets get back to serious and fun topics. When is PAD going to try his hand at a Jem and the Holograms comic book. Its Showtime Synergy !
Hmmm… Peter on a Jem comic? Well, that could actually work. Given Peter’s ability to take a concept that pretty much blows and turn it into an entertaining and sometimes thought provoking story I could see him doing something with Jem and the Holograms, especially when you coniser the fact that teeny bopper stuff like that is extremely popular (though that trend may be disappearing).
In any case I would love to see Jem and the Holograms do a battle of the bands with the Misfits. Not the Misfits from the cartoon, but the Glen Danzig Misfits. That would be a sight.
Is there any way of setting a maximum length to comments? How about preventing repeated comments within a certain timeframe (5 minutes, perhaps?)
Won’t stop the crank, but might slow him down enough to make continued harrassment inconvenient without causing too many problems to current users
I think what could be ideal for slowing down multiple posts would be a “floodgate control” option. There are some forums that have an option like that, and it could be an excellent control option even for the software on this site.
It’s truly a shame that some people abuse the rights that others don’t even have.
Just for the record PAD, I hope you know that while you and I don’t often see eye to eye on some issues, I’m always very interested in what you have to say. Especially since I’m no longer connected to AOL I truly appreciate this chance to keep in touch with you and some of those guys.
What else does PAD do besides the upcoming Ninja Turtle project? I know he worte quite a bit in the past, but what’s he currently up to?
I didn’t even know Jemas had an AOL account. (Insert rimshot here.)
oh yes, can we have a Jem and the Holograms comic? Pleeeeeease? 🙂
I don’t know about anybody else, but a Transformers comic book by Peter David would be beyond awesome. That’s the 80’s nostalgic book that I’d like to have stick around, and with Peter David as scribe (even for a limited run) would make my month each month.
Why not force registration with a MANDATORY emailed click-thru?
Works for Renderosity, DC boards and a host of others.
Is the blog limited in that regard?
I didn’t even know Jemas had an AOL account.
oh yes, can we have a Jem and the Holograms comic?
Am I the only one who misread those two and portmanteaued them into “Jemas and the Holograms?”
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Due to a particular loudmouth who can’t take a hint and proceeds to use our website to break a couple of laws, we’ve had to ban him from posting, probably taking a lot of other AOL users with him in the process. If you are one of the folks banned from commenting, we apologize.
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I’ll hope that someone at AOL is helping you to track down this lawbreaker, so that direct action can be properly brought by the ultimate authority: his mommy.
Or his juvie officer.
Whichever’s easier to contact.
Honestly, I’d think that AOL would take a complaint from an internationally-famous customer about another customer’s Terms of Usage violations with a bit more alacrity and decisiveness than this.
Maybe I’m lulled into excessive optimism by Stewart’s Cherry Soda, though?
Posted by Jarissa @ 04/05/2003 04:42 AM ET
I missed it. What happened?
Posted by Ray @ 04/05/2003 05:10 AM ET
Wow, isn’t it fortuitous that the subject of this log lends itself so well to a title that continues an adage whose first half was used as the title for the previous one?
Or did you have some knowledge ahead of time when you wrote the “Put Up” log, Peter, that this punk was being banned, and planned the running title theme? 🙂
Posted by Luigi Novi @ 04/05/2003 06:24 AM ET
There’s always a dûmbášš or two who ruins it for everyone else.
Ah, I love my cable internet.
Posted by Josh X @ 04/05/2003 06:44 AM ET
Lets see, IM on AOL, do I still have the ability to post my thoughts (if I had any)hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Chocolate.
Posted by Chris @ 04/05/2003 09:45 AM ET
Ðámņ it, I hate stuff like that. There are precious few authors that provide this level of interaction with their fans and some dûmbášš has to mess with it.
Differing opinions are cool, screwing with someone’s site to do something illegal- not.
Posted by Dave Gahan @ 04/05/2003 11:27 AM ET
Hey Glenn, I know a bit about web scripts.
If you know the scripts for this site well enough to safely tamper with them, try adding ban-by-partial-name, and ban-by-homepage features, and a text size limit. That should be enough to frustrate most idiots without blocking dozens of AOL subscribers.
Posted by Jason Froikin @ 04/05/2003 12:09 PM ET
I saw the multiple spam postings below, and it was enough to make me want to run screaming from the room. Good gosh, to think what awful nutcases are out there! Because of that, it also took awhile for the file to load on my browser.
Posted by Avi Green @ 04/05/2003 12:33 PM ET
I find it annoying that public figures who are kind enough to make themselves available to their public (and it IS a favor, don’t kid yourself) have to put up with this sort of nonsense. It made the PAD Speaks! board on AOL tough to get through, and PAD finally had to crack the whip in order to restore some semblance of order.
Sadly, he’s had to do it here. Perhaps now the trolls will go elsewhere. One may hope.
Posted by Mark Patterson @ 04/05/2003 12:43 PM ET
Perhaps now the trolls will go elsewhere.
Maybe.
Posted by troll @ 04/05/2003 12:49 PM ET
I agree, now lets get back to serious and fun topics. When is PAD going to try his hand at a Jem and the Holograms comic book. Its Showtime Synergy !
that would be nice to see. I enjoyed that cartoon
well the good news is i can stil post here
the bad news is a accidently copied more than I meant to in the last post
sorry about that guys and gals
Ahm, Dave Gahan, you are not the same person as the lead singer of Depeche Mode … ???
(Just to be sure – if I have to go shouting like a madwoman in front of my stoic looking computer or if I have to say disappointedly: Oh, what a funny coincidence.)
Nope, not the same person as the lead singer of Depeche Mode. But if it will make you feel any better it is my real name, not some made up screen name, and the other Dave Gahan is a distant (and by distant I mean my side of the family migrated to America 150 years ago, his stayed in Ireland, and while we both share some ancestors he doesn’t know I exist) relative.
Feel free to go mad or be disappointed…hopefully not to disappointed. It’s such a self esteem builder when people refer to you as not the “real” Dave Gahan. 🙂
As far as I know I’m real too…
What ? Peter David is going to write a Jem and the Holograms comic book ?!
WOW! That guy can make Anything!
Yet, Jem and the Holograms?
If he want to do 80