A Rep-Identifying Bookmarklet

[minestrone]

I agree that you and a few other rep-whores ruined whatever trivial amount of fun the rep system might have offered by obsessing about it to the exclusion of anything else, but I'm not sure why this mea culpa necessitates comparing yourself to a cleaning product

Well I warned you the rep system would be a balls up, I also warned you moving general to the bottom of the page would be a balls up. The later has been rectified as I advised, the former is looking like another bad mistake by yourself.

Oh, and suity was leaving plenty of neg reps to me using you name.

[NickFitz]

Well I warned you the rep system would be a balls up, I also warned you moving general to the bottom of the page would be a balls up. The later has been rectified as I advised, the former is looking like another bad mistake by yourself.

Oh, and suity was leaving plenty of neg reps to me using you name.

I don't know why you keep on addressing me as if I was Administrator. Glad to know the bookmarklet works OK though - not having any sockpuppets, I'd only been able to test it on myself

[MarillionFan]

I agree that you and a few other rep-whores ruined whatever trivial amount of fun the rep system might have offered by obsessing about it to the exclusion of anything else, but I'm not sure why this mea culpa necessitates comparing yourself to a cleaning product

New feature that you wanted to push. I remember you banging on about trolling, quality of posts, who adds value to the board, being a professional board etc A sanitised board in your image and that reputation would do that. I believe that you thought youd be top of that 'value' list and assumed that the posters you didn't like would be bottom.

Didnt work out did it Nick. Unlucky.

What's your next plan?

[minestrone]

I don't know why you keep on addressing me as if I was Administrator. Glad to know the bookmarklet works OK though - not having any sockpuppets, I'd only been able to test it on myself

You very clearly had a hand in moving general down to bottom, including the rep system and including the tag cloud into the site, you wanted this to be your little ego boosting trip, as I said last year this is a place where bored people in the same industry come to talk tulip. It is not a CMS repository of all things IT contractor related.

You wrote javascript nick and have a terribly inflated opinion of your skills.

[minestrone]

And if you were as good as you think you are in front end programming you would have had this script written ready for the shake down, instead you spend a few days writting this after the bomb has blown trying to pull off the "no, I'm on top of the problem"

You made a complete arse of the migration at the time and it looks like you are still looking technically feeble months later.

IT contracting can often be about pulling the wool over ones eyes and it seems you have done that with some. You are a javascript programmer and probably a poorly paid one at that.

[NickFitz]

Oh noes, the usual trolls are 'aving a go at me - yet, I'm down the pub rather than spending my Saturday night sat in my jimjams trolling a forum.

Sorry, losers, you'll have to wait until I've headed home for refutation of your trolling (if I can be bothered to dig out the emails in which I warned admin that the usual w4nkers would abuse the system)

[NickFitz]

New feature that you wanted to push. I remember you banging on about trolling, quality of posts, who adds value to the board, being a professional board etc A sanitised board in your image and that reputation would do that. I believe that you thought youd be top of that 'value' list and assumed that the posters you didn't like would be bottom.

Didnt work out did it Nick. Unlucky.

What's your next plan?

Admin chose to enable the rep system. I remember, once it was active and as I had done with the tag cloud, trying to suggest that it be used for purposes that benefitted those parts of the board that are useful - i.e. not General, where the prima donnas like yourself try to imagine you're important - but, as with the tag cloud, I was unsuccessful.

I'd be interested to see your figures on the number of threads dedicated solely to discussing the rep system that I've started, versus the same figure for you. My side of the scoreline will, I suspect, be tending towards zero; yours, somewhat higher.

What's your next plan?

You very clearly had a hand in moving general down to bottom, including the rep system and including the tag cloud into the site, you wanted this to be your little ego boosting trip, as I said last year this is a place where bored people in the same industry come to talk tulip. It is not a CMS repository of all things IT contractor related.

You wrote javascript nick and have a terribly inflated opinion of your skills.

I participated in an open discussion (to which you contributed little of value) and admin chose to try some of my suggestions. Some worked out, and some didn't, and admin did as he felt best accordingly. I see nothing in this that I should be ashamed of, and anything I suggested that is still in place doesn't have my name on it so can't be said to boost my ego.

I advised admin that the tag cloud would become a tool of w4nkers; in fact, we had a bloody good laugh together envisaging what was likely to happen (this was a phone conversation) and it turned out we were right. Admin has chosen to prune it rather than turn it off, and that seems to be working.

Yes, I wrote JavaScript. Did you notice the bit where a function returns a function object over which a closure has been formed? I must admit I was a bit lazy there; I could have used an anonymous function and gone heavy on the lambda calculus thang, but I wanted the code to be reasonably comprehensible even to somebody with only an amateur acquaintance with programming, such as yourself; it's merely good manners to make it easy for people to understand code one posts on an anonymous forum[*] that could, for all they know, be seeking to do something malevolent.

([*]Of course I'm not anonymous on the forum, given that it's trivial to identify me; it's trolls like you that are anonymous. Why are you so unwilling to reveal yourself on here? What is it you have to hide?)

And if you were as good as you think you are in front end programming you would have had this script written ready for the shake down, instead you spend a few days writting this after the bomb has blown trying to pull off the "no, I'm on top of the problem"

You made a complete arse of the migration at the time and it looks like you are still looking technically feeble months later.

IT contracting can often be about pulling the wool over ones eyes and it seems you have done that with some. You are a javascript programmer and probably a poorly paid one at that.

As it happens I've been working; I know the emptiest vessels on here have plenty of free time to make noise about the rep stuff, but it was only last evening that I had a spare half-hour to sling together that rather sloppy code, given that I have more to do with my life.

I'm not sure what the other stuff you're going on about is to do with: what "shake down" should I have been ready for? Am I supposed to have a stock of code ready and waiting in case a product written by a company I don't work for is shown to have some aspect to its output that nobody had noticed before?

Given your superior intellect, you will doubtless be happy to inform members of the CUK community of the scripts they should have ready and waiting for the eventual occurrence of an information disclosure vulnerability in the various third-party products they work with.

In fact, given that you constantly strive to give so much back to the CUK community, why don't you start by telling us what we need to do to prepare for hitherto-unknown issues with: Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, the .NET Framework, SQL Server, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, the Microsoft Zune SDK, Microsoft Mouse drivers, Microsoft Natural Keyboard drivers, Windows CE, Windows Phone 7, and the EtchaSketch the IT department told you was a laptop computer

BTW, I'm sure admin won't mind if I suggest that he turned the rep system on, about six months after he could have done, in much the same spirit as somebody giving a few sticks of gelignite and a box of matches to a pack of chimps and waiting to see how long it takes for things to go sky-high. Looking after us lot is a pretty thankless task; I suspect, from my conversations with him, that he likes to throw these new capabilities into the mix now and again just to keep himself entertained by upping the mayhem threshold. If I'm correct - and I think I am - then Y&IHBT; HAND

[doodab]

Well, I think it's a handy little script. Thanks Nick!

[MarillionFan]

Oh noes, the usual trolls are 'aving a go at me - yet, I'm down the pub rather than spending my Saturday night sat in my jimjams trolling a forum.

Sorry, losers, you'll have to wait until I've headed home for refutation of your trolling (if I can be bothered to dig out the emails in which I warned admin that the usual w4nkers would abuse the system)

Sorry Nick, touche, you're right - cut me to the bone that did.

[NickFitz]

Sorry Nick, touche, you're right - cut me to the bone that did.

Presumably this is your way of admitting that your pathetic attempts at sarcasm are just as pathetic as my pathetic attempts at sarcasm - or are you going for the more daring path of suggesting that my pathetic attempts at sarcasm are just as pathetic as your pathetic attempts at sarcasm?

EDIT: MF on a family day out (he's on the right):