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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Primus on June 09, 2005, 07:28:26 am

Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Primus on June 09, 2005, 07:28:26 am: http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/forums/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=2842

:wtf: Pfft. Adbot?
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Setekh on June 09, 2005, 07:38:45 am: Hmmm, not for long.
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Unknown Target on June 09, 2005, 08:52:09 am: Where is this super influx of newbs and n00bs coming from?
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Liquid Fire on June 09, 2005, 12:36:10 pm: On three seperate forums that I visit, there have recently been popular threads praising freespace and inviting more players to try it out. That might have a hand in it.

Besides, are you complaining? I've got a few links to websites made for games that don't have enough newbies. It's a depressing sight.
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Unknown Target on June 09, 2005, 12:54:06 pm: I'm not complaining, it's just when we get a giant influx like this, we inevitably get spammers like that member, or ultra n00bs like JoeLo.

Anyway, what forums do you mean? :)

EDIT: And you probably should remove that new member that this thread is about...look at his homepage. I don't think GS will like that much.
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Setekh on June 09, 2005, 06:01:04 pm: Already has been. :yes:
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Dark RevenantX on June 09, 2005, 06:07:18 pm: I need to update my graph...
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Taristin on June 09, 2005, 06:14:31 pm: *Raa wishes he saw the user name before it was deleted.*
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Mongoose on June 09, 2005, 06:15:31 pm: I'd be willing to guess that I know at least one of those games, LF. :)

/points sadly to sig...
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Night Hammer on June 09, 2005, 06:40:20 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
*Raa wishes he saw the user name before it was deleted.*

:nod:
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Setekh on June 09, 2005, 06:47:05 pm: The name was a bunch of messed-up ASCII characters. It meant nothing. :p
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Taristin on June 09, 2005, 07:14:59 pm: Sure. I bet it was in the shape of something naughty... ;7
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Unknown Target on June 09, 2005, 07:17:06 pm: Not really :p
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Dark RevenantX on June 09, 2005, 08:15:49 pm: `¡™£¢?§¶•ªº–?œ?´®†¥¨ˆø?“‘«åß?ƒ©¬…æç˜µ÷`€‹›‡°·‚—±Œ„´‰Á¨ˆØ?”’»ÅÍÎÏÓÔÒÚÆ¸Ç˜Â¯¿

I can't seem to find the messed up charecter.
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Taristin on June 09, 2005, 08:35:32 pm: Agætis byrjun... :doubt:
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Setekh on June 10, 2005, 12:28:24 am: Quote
Originally posted by Dark RevenantX
`¡™£¢?§¶•ªº–?œ?´®†¥¨ˆø?“‘«åß?ƒ©¬…æç˜µ÷`€‹›‡°·‚—±Œ„´‰Á¨ˆØ?”’»ÅÍÎÏÓÔÒÚÆ¸Ç˜Â¯¿

I can't seem to find the messed up charecter.

You're right, because it's no on that list of yours. :)
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Taristin on June 10, 2005, 07:38:34 am: You know... a sig like that is about as bad as a sig image. :doubt:
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Post by: aldo_14 on June 10, 2005, 08:23:31 am: It was 4 or 5 'square' characters (which I think is another form of the linebreak character).
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: DaBrain on June 10, 2005, 10:34:49 am: Hehe, I saw him when I got online. The name was strange... so I looked up the sig.

Well, I knew he was going to be banned after I saw the link. ;)
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: Unknown Target on June 10, 2005, 11:40:52 am: Dark, do you really need that giant sig?
Title: Nice Newest Member
Post by: StratComm on June 10, 2005, 12:05:21 pm: Agreed, it really does defeat the purpose of the sig image ban.

And IIRC, though I didn't see the member in question, that square is simply an unassigned ascii value. (Typically the print equivalent of a nonprintable character, such as the control characters most OS's use). If it was unicode, it isn't hard to see unicode values with no associated character in Ariel.