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English Invader wrote:The amount of people on the forums seems to have gone down a lot in the last couple of years. Of the retro forums I frequent, only Lemon 64 and AtariAge get regular activity every day. The rest are ghost towns.
Facebook are draining all forums not only retro ones, people are in for a quick fix, words are frequent and soon forgotten on Facebook thats a shame and really bad for future generations as things are lost in the crowd.

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Misfit wrote:A silly question but do you have any information about size of the retro scene? If you compare C64/VIC-20/C16Plus4/Spectrum etc.
Just to check, we've had 112 new users join Lemon64 in the last month. Of course, some could be bots, some could be lurkers, some may never post. But gives you an idea there.
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Well, Denial itself is not bad as far as daily activity and newcomers are concerned...
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eslapion wrote:The alias is ebeation and the avatar he used is a photo of Alan Turing (my last avatar on that forum) photoshopped with a stupid kid's hat.
I am NOT ebeation, either, and my IP address reflects my real posted location, too. One more down for you! :)
But I find this masquerading very amusing, especially imagining that stupid kid's hat. :lol:

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Mayhem wrote: Just to check, we've had 112 new users join Lemon64 in the last month. Of course, some could be bots, some could be lurkers, some may never post. But gives you an idea there.
At Lemon64 new members are deleted after one month if they have not activated their account and after two months if they have not logged in. Thus one can get accurate number of members who have bothered to log in by looking at accounts older than two months. There were 636 new accounts created in the first half of 2015.

Why delete inactive accounts? Spam - the oldest dormant spam account used at Lemon64 was over three years old, never used before. Culling those accounts, together with aggressive IP filtering, has reduced spam significantly. Also, that way number of registered users gives true estimate of the community size, although there are quite a few people who haven't logged in in ages.

ETA: Another thing done to catch spammers is getting warning email when members with only couple of posts edit their old posts. Sneaky little rascals, those spammers.
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@TNT
I find it absolutely abhorrent that you dare post anything in this thread.

For years, I have been faced with a flurry of personnal attacks from a few specific individuals and I defended myself as best I can, with the social habilities limitation inherent to Asperger's syndrome, but it got so intense that many other people noticed the verbal violence, the nonsense and the predatorial nature of the falsehoods I was faced with.

Your reaction, far from appreciating the injustice and the cruelty behind these coordinated attacks, you elected to create thread which was nothing less than a social/political trap.

Its not me who elected to create the expression "PLA mafia" but I feel, given the circumstances, this was perfectly appropriate. How can you possibly support people who try at all cost to stifle the sharing of knowledge and bully to silence anyone who differs with their position?

The fact that you banned me from Lemon64 yet allow this account to exist says a lot about your bias.

Here: http://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58189

Your own comments:
You failed to answer my simple question FIVE times. You are spreading FUD. You are a troll. You are also banned from Lemon64.
I am a troll because I don't accept lies about myself and the products I sell and I will not yield to internet vandals who manage to close threads by posting personnal attacks and character assassinations (and FUD* in the form of technical falsehoods) whenever there is a conversation about important scientific aspects of Commodore 8 bit computers in which I am involved. I spread FUD because I post accurate, verifiable facts backed by large corporation's engineers and various high level scholars.

Be aware a lot of people have noticed what's going on - I received many PMs and e-mails of support. You should be ashamed!

* I don't know what you think FUD is, the official definition I know of is "Fear Uncertitude and Doubt" - When Jim Drew posts that a "PLA that consumes 10mA is a myth", something confirmed by Thomas "Skoe" Giesel back in 2011, THAT is FUD. I never purposely posted misleading information.
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I received many PMs and e-mails of support
Not just in my inbox apparently.

http://www.melon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2433
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eslapion wrote:@TNT
I find it absolutely abhorrent that you dare post anything in this thread.
I find it absolutely abhorrent that you spread your feuds onto every possible Commodore forum.
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TNT wrote:
eslapion wrote:@TNT
I find it absolutely abhorrent that you dare post anything in this thread.
I find it absolutely abhorrent that you spread your feuds onto every possible Commodore forum.
Hey buddy, I am the one who was effectively chased down and placated... I am the one spreading feuds? You've got things backwards. There would be no need at all for this thread if you hadn't acted favorably towards the people who bullied me.

You're the one doing the spreading. You're the one who feel the need to distribute laconical antagonizing posts. I was done here...
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I totally get the AS issue. Three guesses why (in the genius range please). But you cannot put it out on us. You could also say that you'd have Schniggeldiblabb syndrome. But it has no use, since no–body knows what you're talking about. This is a VIC–20 forum, not a psychiatric one. Do not disclose such thing as an excuse. It makes no sense.

You are hyper–focusing like a laser and don't get the big picture in return. It's hard for others to fathom and easily misunderstood. However, you got all my sympathy. But please relax. The world is cruel to every single one of us. Loyalty is very well appreciated. I know you have plenty of that. So please give in, don't updset the other autistics, brush your teeth ;), get out, get a drink, get laid. And continue your brilliant contributions. If you doubt that I don't know what I'm talking about: I remember when and how I learned to walk. Then my parents couldn't get me away from the TV all day. And I mean the back of it. I have a pornographic memory and can browse the phone book and wank. Oh, that word isn't in the dictionary!? I got the blues, dude.

You're very unjust to people who have to live with wholly other designs of neural pathways and who just try to live in peace despite of not grokking it all either. Don't give a shit once in a while, please. Accepting that you don't know everything and your problems or mental blindness are not so much different in the end to what others have to suffer, no matter how you label it, spreading a little forgiveness and just shutting the fuck up: that's culture. Please be a part of it. I'd enjoy that.

BTW I got myself an apartment this morning. With mains and water as "flat rate". But I'm an alcoholic now. ;)
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eslapion wrote:The fact that you banned me from Lemon64 yet allow this account to exist says a lot about your bias.
There are too many users. We can't see everything. If no one reports a post or a user, how are we expected to miraculously see everything that goes on? There's only a few mods, and we do this in our spare time. Pay us $500 per month, and maybe we'll check every post on every thread.
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Mayhem wrote:There are too many users. We can't see everything. If no one reports a post or a user, how are we expected to miraculously see everything that goes on? There's only a few mods, and we do this in our spare time. Pay us $500 per month, and maybe we'll check every post on every thread.
If you are honest in this then truly forgive me Mayhem.

I was in the belief that this mockery account was very well known and even supported by some Lemon64 admins. It has been created last july.

Nonethless, TNT banned me from Lemon64 for the way I defended myself from people who are related to those who created that account and even had the indecency to label me a troll and accused me of throwing FUD while I was the target of internet bullies.

IMHO, TNT acts as if he did support and endorse this bullying.
pixel wrote:So please give in, don't updset the other autistics, brush your teeth ;), get out, get a drink, get laid. And continue your brilliant contributions. If you doubt that I don't know what I'm talking about: I remember when and how I learned to walk. Then my parents couldn't get me away from the TV all day. And I mean the back of it. I have a pornographic memory and can browse the phone book and wank.
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I suspect somehow this might be volunteering more information than is advisable...
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eslapion wrote: My 2 cents worth: You should let people apply for an account then have it approved by an admin.

AFAIK, This is how it works on Amibay - it reduces spam. (and a lot of other problems)
Yea, I was banned on AMIBAY even before my first post. Admin doesn't respond, so works like a dream.. :lol:
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@Kakemons:
No system is perfect I guess...
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eslapion wrote:I am the one spreading feuds? You've got things backwards.
Eh? Your very first post in this topic :
eslapion wrote:This idiot, in a last post on Lemon64, is essentially trying to present me as somebody who badmouths just for the sake of badmouthing. I suspect Groepaz created this account.
Not accusing a member of Lemon64 without any evidence at all...


I posted in this thread to validate numbers presented by Mayhem and you decided to attack me telling all the world how butthurt you feel and again brought up posts from another forum. Not spreading feuds at all...

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