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the fall of customize?

the fall of customize?

When I first discovered winamp skins I went to a site called customize.org. Then I went to skinz when cust dissapeared. But since cust has come back its become a haven for l33ts. What's the deal there? Whose in charge of the zoo there? Its just wallpapers and screenshots and they constantly attack Stardock's stuff. I read on deskmod the wb3 announcement and the cust admins were on attacking it there. Then on cust itself they attack it some more. What kind of skin site has admins that bad mouth new releases of the software they support on their site?
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Reply #151 Top
We actually take the policy that people who are disruptive are eventually banned (exiled) and posts if they get out of hand are deleted (or individual posts can be deleted as well those that's very rare). But typically the person being disruptive on the site is warned and then banned. That doesn't happen often either but occasionally you get people who make racist posts or use excessive profanity or mass personal attacks on someone, etc. We just don't want those kinds of people here.
Reply #153 Top
The difference between the people who hang out here and the people on cust is that on cust there's a large population of people who just go out of their way to be nasty. There's a guy there called Max something or other whose the posterchild for that kind. Darwn may know him...
Reply #155 Top
yes thehamster I am Maximillian on custo and many other skin sites too, I have been here for a while now browsing the plentiful skins and submissions this site has to offer, and just started using the msg boards, i merely voiced my opinions, and moved on, can we be friends i dont want to argue anymore.
Reply #156 Top
Too bad, Frank...I'll wake you from your nap in time for the next one....promise...
Reply #157 Top
darwn we can be friends... that's easy.
arguing is not easy and no fun.
hang around, we're not a bad lot here...
Reply #159 Top
it's my evil twin...
Reply #160 Top
"Robohead says he doesn't come here often because the high and mighty attitude here, yet he still posts as Skinz.org, admin'd by shoggot, the king of high and mighty attitudes. "
- frogboy

A personal attack! I am wounded, sir.

So, will you be warning yourself first, or go straight to banning yourself? Since it's the first offense (in this thread, anyway) in recent times, I'd say a warning would be enough.

Here's hoping for prompt action by the admins. Can't have personal attacks here...

Reply #161 Top
Shog...isn't 'high and mighty attitude' a compliment?...
Reply #162 Top
it's probably in funk & wagnel's slang dictionary - but the short answer is, no.

Your mother is a whore - and I mean that in a -good- way. All due respect.

Was that an insult? I put the appropriate weasel words around it, so it can't be, right? I'm betting anyone you said that to would still take it as an insult...

Point is, it was insulting. I took it as an attack, as I think most would (wait, I'm not popular here - so I'm sure I'll be told I'm wrong, most of you would love nothing better than to be told that you have a high & mighty attitude... sigh). So that leaves the question: will frogboy be warning himself first? Or will he go straight to the ban?
Reply #163 Top
The Frog Man actually said "mass personal attacks". I don't think that saying that one satement can be construed (at least not logically) as a "mass" attack. It's funny how things can so easily be taken out of context and taken to an extreme, isn't it?
Reply #164 Top
Um...Shog....what if my mother really WAS a whore?
And perhaps there really IS a 'good' way to be a whore, or called one...
Reply #165 Top
You crack me up, Jafo!

Maybe instead of "warning" Frogboy, we can slap him around with a dead trout....actually, a trout might be too large and too expensive....I have a plastic Iguana on my desk that I could throw at him when he comes in, though, if that would make things OK. How does that sound, Shog?
Reply #166 Top
lol, clash of the titans...

I would love to see an all out slagging match between Frogboy, Shoggot, Miriku, Jark, Jier, Chaz and Gorman.

Shoggot, Miriku and Jier often come across as the bad boys of the community. - Anti-corporate, freeware lovin', rebel warriors of the people... men on a mission.

On the other hand you have Frogboy, Jark, Chaz and Gorman - the noble mediator fighters for freedom, fairness and global harmony & balance.

Damn, I talk shit sometimes
Reply #167 Top
Let me see, you make lots of money, have to do little, and can schedule your own hours. Only downside is having to work with sleezy people.

And yet, everyone looks down on you?

I think it's the sleezy customers that give prostitutes a bad name.

/me falls down from high and mighty steed called Attitude

*ouch*
Reply #169 Top
"Let me see, you make lots of money, have to do little, and can schedule your own hours."

Crae, who are you referring to when you say that? I'm confused.
Reply #171 Top
though I have a job pretty much like that now, if I did not that sure would sound enticing (cept the sleezy customers part)

nah can't stand sleezy...
Reply #172 Top
I worked that one out...
Reply #173 Top
Sounded like Bill Gates to me.... sorry, couldn't help it...Nobody had slammed him in awhile. Of course, that is just envy talking. I wish I had Bill Gates $$$$.
Reply #174 Top
It's the oldest profession in the world. Maybe it's stigma stems from a religious origin.

Yeah, let's turn this into a religous debate! <-- bait