Reply to: What should be done about kontracta Matt's broken posting bot?

[suityou01]

Eh?

If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.

Heartily approve of the sig

[shaunbhoy]

Any recommendations for him?

You could always just have tried ignoring him, or not bothering to click on his adverts?

[RichardCranium]

If anyone had bothered reporting him we'd have dealt with him earlier.

Eh?

If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle.

[cojak]

kontracta Matt has been with us for 4 months and managed a few hundred posts. Almost all of these have been in The Counting Thread and Word Associations threads; there have been about 10 real posts.

The real purpose of the account is keep posting the .sig "I'll be right back after a message from my sponsors here and here" which contains two advertising links:

• www-kontracta-com (an accountancy firm called MPC Financial Consulting Ltd) and
• www-soletraderaccountants-com (an accountancy firm also called MPC Financial Consulting Ltd).

Now that is blatantly against the T&Cs and others have been stopped from doing that, and accountants are usually expected to identify themselves e.g. Matt@MPC_Financial.

But what really, really, really niggles me is that his posting bot that posts to The Counting Thread invariably gets the number wrong and that seriously offends my OCD tendencies.

It must be a posting bot because he's an accountant so he cannot possibly be such an utter innumerate feckwit that he can't even increment a number and get it wrong so often, Shirley?

So, FFS, can't something be done about his broken posting bot? There must be loads of free macro software
that could do a better job. Presumably such things are used in testing these days so there must be a few about.

Any recommendations for him?

If anyone had bothered reporting him we'd have dealt with him earlier.

[shaunbhoy]

DimPrawn, AtW & Sasguru as the forums cleverest / wittiest posters

Good God! What afternoon did that happen, and what had they been snorting?

[norrahe]

Not in TDP - there is always special "Last Post of 20xx" thread - usually one of my fembots win

FTFY

[RichardCranium]

Richard Cranium has been with us for 29 months and managed almost 10000 posts. Almost all of these have been in Test Please Delete, Counting thread or blowing his own petard.

Did you mean 'trumpet'?

The real purpose of the account is lost on me.

Self-aggrandisement, of course.

Instead of a public poll how about you message someone in control of the board, pointing this out and suggesting a ban?

But where's the self-aggrandisement, in that?

Now banned and sig changed - thanks RC

No worries. Mrs RC is a bit PMT so I felt the need to spoil someone else's day.

Now I'm off to the Wetherpoons with Mrs RC to get her half-cut to cheer her up. My work here is complete.

[AtW]

So we can't expect the pleasure of your company at 23:59 on Dec 31st?

Not in TDP - there is always special "Last Post of 20xx" thread - usually I win

[Zippy]

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I always said that TPD was evil

So we can't expect the pleasure of your company at 23:59 on Dec 31st?

[Zippy]

I've never bothered with TPD but remember a hoo-ha a while back about posts in that thread no longer counting towards a users total.

Is that no longer the case?

No. All posts count now.

[AtW]

DimPrawn, AtW & Sasguru as the forums cleverest / wittiest posters with Zeity coming in at the side.

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I always said that TPD was evil

[Clippy]

Of course TPD. 6 out of the 'top 10' posters notched up their posts in TPD.

You used to know who was who when TPD didn't count in the posting counts. DimPrawn, AtW & Sasguru as the forums cleverest / wittiest posters with Zeity coming in at the side.

I don't know who all the rest of the these johnny come lately's are????

I've never bothered with TPD but remember a hoo-ha a while back about posts in that thread no longer counting towards a users total.

Is that no longer the case?

[MarillionFan]

I know who you are referring to and I think the answer is TPD.

Of course TPD. 6 out of the 'top 10' posters notched up their posts in TPD.

You used to know who was who when TPD didn't count in the posting counts. DimPrawn, AtW & Sasguru as the forums cleverest / wittiest posters with Zeity coming in at the side.

I don't know who all the rest of the these johnny come lately's are????

[Zippy]

The other day I noticed one poster with a post count of over 20K, whose nick just didn't register. I mean how the heck can someone make so many posts and remain so inconspicuous, unless they're all in that stupid counting thread or something?

I reckon a lot of it has to do with the name itself. If you choose some boring non-descript name like xy34, you're more anonymous and easier to overlook.

I know who you are referring to and I think the answer is TPD.

[Clippy]

Instead of a public poll how about you message someone in control of the board, pointing this out and suggesting a ban?

How about working your magic on DeludedAussie.