Will they be back?

[onomatopoeia]

Saturday, April 4 will mark the one year anniversary since the last TERB posts by both shack and michell76. As far as I know, their last altercation of many was a pissing match somewhere in the Politics forum, in a thread since removed.

I know that shack has not been permanently banned, because his posting history can be accessed using Search. I don't know about mitch; he can't be found that way. It is possible that he asked mods to delete all of his posting history. That's frequently done by Escorts who permanently retire.

Will they be back? Are they back already with different handles? These questions, and more, will be answered on the next episode of Soap.

 

[SaulGoodman777]

Saturday, April 4 will mark the one year anniversary since the last TERB posts by both shack and michell76. As far as I know, their last altercation of many was a pissing match somewhere in the Politics forum, in a thread since removed.

I know that shack has not been permanently banned, because his posting history can be accessed using Search. I don't know about mitch; he can't be found that way. It is possible that he asked mods to delete all of his posting history. That's frequently done by Escorts who permanently retire.

Will they be back? Are they back already with different handles? These questions, and more, will be answered on the next episode of Soap.

I've heard rumors and speculation that mitch returned but it was from one of our low intelligence members. Mitch had a unique posting style that would be recognizable so I'm going to go with he's not back and probably won't be if it's been a year(whoa, time flies) but I miss interacting with him, he was a cool guy.

 

[onomatopoeia]

I've heard rumors and speculation that mitch returned but it was from one of our low intelligence members. Mitch had a unique posting style that would be recognizable so I'm going to go with he's not back and probably won't be if it's been a year(whoa, time flies) but I miss interacting with him, he was a cool guy.

The purging of mitch's posts cost me a lot of reaction points. That doesn't apply to shack; I don't think he ever gave anyone a 'Like' click.

I had some suspicion that mitch and Trevor Wong were the same person, because they both posted entire pages of Twitter links sometimes, but Trevor's posts are gone now, too.

I couldn't imagine shack using a different handle.

I've already said that I was bobistheowl on this board from 2003-17. My original handle was banned from only The Lounge in May, 2014, and the handle itself was banned in early January, 2017 under extremely mysterious circumstances, but it was later reinstated. In the meantime, I forgot the password.

I've never made any effort to re-instate the bobistheowl handle because I consider it highly unethical for anyone to have two active handles on the same board. I can access my old posting history through Search, and that's good enough for me.

 

[jeff2]

And that Poker guy. What happened to him?

 

[SaulGoodman777]

The purging of mitch's posts cost me a lot of reaction points. That doesn't apply to shack; I don't think he ever gave anyone a 'Like' click.

I had some suspicion that mitch and Trevor Wong were the same person, because they both posted entire pages of Twitter links sometimes, but Trevor's posts are gone now, too.

I couldn't imagine shack using a different handle.

I've already said that I was bobistheowl on this board from 2003-17. My original handle was banned from only The Lounge in May, 2014, and the handle itself was banned in early January, 2017 under extremely mysterious circumstances, but it was later reinstated. In the meantime, I forgot the password.

I've never made any effort to re-instate the bobistheowl handle because I consider it highly unethical for anyone to have two active handles on the same board. I can access my old posting history through Search, and that's good enough for me.

Ya it's weird how some handles seem permanently banned but then come back. Not back to posting but visible again.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Ya it's weird how some handles seem permanently banned but then come back. Not back to posting but visible again.

Sometime soon I'll copy/ paste one of my posts from a private message, which explains why I was partially banned in 2014, then fully banned in January, 2017. The first part of the story is funny, and the second part is really strange, but I swear that every word is true. Look for a PM notification sometime in the next few days.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Ya it's weird how some handles seem permanently banned but then come back. Not back to posting but visible again.

I'm one of about 75 people who have moderator status on the message board at dafont(dot)com. Other than the owner of the site and his three of four staff members, none of the mods are paid; we just accepted an invitation when chosen.

There aren't any required tasks that I have to do. I just have access to the mod's private forum, I can flag or hide posts, and I can ban people, but the staff mods can overturn my decisions.

If someone receives a short term ban on TERB, (called a 'snickers break' on some boards), they are temporarily purged from the leader boards in the members section, and their posts cannot be found using Search until they are reinstated. I know this because I was once given a 48 or 72 hour 'time out' using this handle.

 

[SaulGoodman777]

Sometime soon I'll copy/ paste one of my posts from a private message, which explains why I was partially banned in 2014, then fully banned in January, 2017. The first part of the story is funny, and the second part is really strange, but I swear that every word is true. Look for a PM notification sometime in the next few days.

Sounds interesting, I look forward to reading that. It's kinda strange the way the rules are enforced here or not enforced depending on who you are. Some members seem to get away with murder.

 

[SaulGoodman777]

I'm one of about 75 people who have moderator status on the message board at dafont(dot)com. Other than the owner of the site and his three of four staff members, none of the mods are paid; we just accepted an invitation when chosen.

There aren't any required tasks that I have to do. I just have access to the mod's private forum, I can flag or hide posts, and I can ban people, but the staff mods can overturn my decisions.

That's a lot of moderators for a font site. How unruly does it get?

 

[onomatopoeia]

That's a lot of moderators for a font site. How unruly does it get?

It usually doesn't get unruly at all.

dafont is the Internet's largest site for computer fonts which can be downloaded for free. Some, but not all of them, have a fee if they're used for commercial purposes.

There are 75 mods because 75 people accepted a mod invitation. There is probably at least one mod living in most of the time zones. I know of at least one mod who has been dead for almost 10 years. Another guy visits the site once every few years, identifies a few fonts, then leaves. Sometimes months go by with no posts in the mods forum. There are just a whole lot of people who could perform certain board maintenance tasks, if they happen to be looking at the forums when something needs to be done. Serveral of the moderators are just people who are really good at identifying fonts, and they're able to confirm correct identifications.

Several years ago, I was feuding with one of the staff mods in the private forum. He's from France.

I posted this reply:



To read it, he would first need to recognize that the font is Wingdings. Then he would have to open the character map and match each of the symbols in the message which corresponds with an upper case or lover case letter, or a symbol, or a piece of punctuation. That would probably take a minimum of 20 minutes, if not longer.

I never expected him to actually decipher the post, but apparently he did, and he also removed the thread.

The message says:

Don't fuck with me, bitch. I'm not telling your French ass again!

 

[SaulGoodman777]

It usually doesn't get unruly at all.

dafont is the Internet's largest site for computer fonts which can be downloaded for free. Some, but not all of them, have a fee if they're used for commercial purposes.

There are 75 mods because 75 people accepted a mod invitation. There is probably at least one mod living in most of the time zones. I know of at least one mod who has been dead for almost 10 years. Another guy visits the site once every few years, identifies a few fonts, then leaves. Sometimes months go by with no posts in the mods forum. There are just a whole lot of people who could perform certain board maintenance tasks, if they happen to be looking at the forums when something needs to be done. Serveral of the moderators are just people who are really good at identifying fonts, and they're able to confirm correct identifications.

Several years ago, I was feuding with one of the staff mods in the private forum. He's from France.

I posted this reply:

View attachment 571748

To read it, he would first need to recognize that the font is Wingdings. Then he would have to open the character map and match each of the symbols in the message which corresponds with an upper case or lover case letter, or a symbol, or a piece of punctuation. That would probably take a minimum of 20 minutes, if not longer.

I never expected him to actually decipher the post, but apparently he did, and he also removed the thread.

The message says:

Don't fuck with me, bitch. I'm not telling your French ass again!

LMFAO! That's the craziest font I've ever seen. You would definitely need a character map to decipher that. Thanks for sharing, I'm going to search up the wingding font for a closer look.

 

[Ceiling Cat]

 

[onomatopoeia]

LMFAO! That's the craziest font I've ever seen. You would definitely need a character map to decipher that. Thanks for sharing, I'm going to search up the wingding font for a closer look.

Wingdings has been a standard Windows pre-installed font since at least Windows '95.

The easiest way to see all installed fonts on a Windows computer is to open the Character Map app. The path is

C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe

The character map app looks like this:



For easy access, a copy of the app can be copy/ pasted from system32 to desktop, or a shortcut can be made, using the path above.

Notice the downward-pointing arrow in the list box which shows Arial in the screen cap above. Click on the arrow to see the names of other installed fonts. Note that the font name and the associated font file name are often different, which is why access to the character map can be useful when one wants to insert non-keyboard text into some kind of document, or a TERB post.

Here's the character map for Wingdings:



Note the scroll bar on the right side edge. There are more symbols in Wingdings than can be displayed in this view.

With the scroll bar at the bottom, you can see the additional glyphs:



Let's suppose that I want to put that hand symbol in the upper left hand corner of the screen cap directly above into a TERB forum post. It can't be done, because Wingdings is not one of the fonts installed for use on TERB. I could, however, copy the hand into an app like notepad, increase its size, then post a cropped screen cap:




'How did you make the screen cap?' says the boy with no manners sitting in the back of the class, without first raising his hand to be acknowledged.

'I'd use my unregistered copy of WinSnap 3.55*', said Mr Onomatopoeia. ' It was uploaded for me by one of the other moderators at dafont. I just had to change the display language from Spanish to English in the Options menu.'

*I'll edit this post later, when I'm not on the gaming computer, with a link to where you, too, can own this useful tool. It's not an installed app; you used open it when you want to use it, and close it when you're finished.

If I wanted to insert a symbol from a font which IS installed on TERB, like Tahoma, I would just copy the symbol from the clipboard, and click edit -> paste with the cursor on the spot where I want to insert the symbol, (or I'd press the [Ctrl] key and letter v).

The symbol below is 'Arabic letter Teh with ring', but I call it 'perv':

ټ

Amaze your friends by adding an extra large emoticon,



(I was expecting that symbol to appear as text)

☻

the blackface one does appear as text.

or a vulgar fraction

⅝

from the Arial font, but 26 point size is the largest allowable on TERB.

'How do I do this on my phone?' says another kid destined to be a career barista. "You can't", says the teacher. You need to have a computer, not just an Internet portal.

The easiest way to create a document which displays as Wingdings would be to type it using a regular alphabet font, then select the entire document, then change the font to Wingdings. I made the diss message as an image file, so that someone couldn't decode it by just displaying the text with an alphabet font.

 

[wigglee]

As I recall, shack was a liberal except when it came to worshipping Netanyahoo, and Mitchell was an obnoxious Maga moron.

 

[onomatopoeia]

Click here to download WinSnap v.3.5.5 in a .rar archive, (screen capture app described in post #13).

 

[unassuming]

LOL, i didn't even notice they weren't posting at least under those handles since then .

 

[ogibowt]

got to thinking about a couple of others....Darts...one of many handles he had...major troll
and James T Kirk has disappeared.... enjoyed his posts..always had an interesting take on things

 

[SaulGoodman777]

Wingdings has been a standard Windows pre-installed font since at least Windows '95.

The easiest way to see all installed fonts on a Windows computer is to open the Character Map app. The path is

C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe

The character map app looks like this:

View attachment 571797

For easy access, a copy of the app can be copy/ pasted from system32 to desktop, or a shortcut can be made, using the path above.

Notice the downward-pointing arrow in the list box which shows Arial in the screen cap above. Click on the arrow to see the names of other installed fonts. Note that the font name and the associated font file name are often different, which is why access to the character map can be useful when one wants to insert non-keyboard text into some kind of document, or a TERB post.

Here's the character map for Wingdings:

View attachment 571804

Note the scroll bar on the right side edge. There are more symbols in Wingdings than can be displayed in this view.

With the scroll bar at the bottom, you can see the additional glyphs:

View attachment 571807

Let's suppose that I want to put that hand symbol in the upper left hand corner of the screen cap directly above into a TERB forum post. It can't be done, because Wingdings is not one of the fonts installed for use on TERB. I could, however, copy the hand into an app like notepad, increase its size, then post a cropped screen cap:


View attachment 571810

'How did you make the screen cap?' says the boy with no manners sitting in the back of the class, without first raising his hand to be acknowledged.

'I'd use my unregistered copy of WinSnap 3.55*', said Mr Onomatopoeia. ' It was uploaded for me by one of the other moderators at dafont. I just had to change the display language from Spanish to English in the Options menu.'

*I'll edit this post later, when I'm not on the gaming computer, with a link to where you, too, can own this useful tool. It's not an installed app; you used open it when you want to use it, and close it when you're finished.

If I wanted to insert a symbol from a font which IS installed on TERB, like Tahoma, I would just copy the symbol from the clipboard, and click edit -> paste with the cursor on the spot where I want to insert the symbol, (or I'd press the [Ctrl] key and letter v).

The symbol below is 'Arabic letter Teh with ring', but I call it 'perv':

ټ

Amaze your friends by adding an extra large emoticon,



(I was expecting that symbol to appear as text)

☻

the blackface one does appear as text.

or a vulgar fraction

⅝

from the Arial font, but 26 point size is the largest allowable on TERB.

'How do I do this on my phone?' says another kid destined to be a career barista. "You can't", says the teacher. You need to have a computer, not just an Internet portal.

The easiest way to create a document which displays as Wingdings would be to type it using a regular alphabet font, then select the entire document, then change the font to Wingdings. I made the diss message as an image file, so that someone couldn't decode it by just displaying the text with an alphabet font.

That's cool as fuck. I never would have imagined it would available on windows. When a get a minute I'm going to mess around with it.

 

[Insidious Von]

Isn't Richy, Mitchy?

 

[onomatopoeia]

I can confirm that mitchell76' posts have been purged, but reaction points received from him have not been. His contributions to TERB live on in quoted posts.

Mitch identified a lot of bobblehead dolls in New Sports Trivia, and I saw his quoted posts and Likes proffered. The links to the posts quoted could not be found.

shack is not permanently banned because his past posts can still be found using Search, and he has retained his custom title - that would be removed, if he had received a permanent ban.