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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Topic started by: SysAdmin on December 08, 2012, 05:10:27 PM
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http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/My%20Funny%20Pics/AorgEbay02.jpg
We found this mysterious picture on the internet today. If it's for sale we don't know about it.
:)
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Squirrels involved? guess who? :-)
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Wow! :mickeymouse:
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Saw this ages ago...still funny though
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Wow, I wonder who's behind this. Want to bet on it?.....
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That can't be right, adbots already bought it...
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Brilliant! Got to love Franko's humour.
Can we please have him back?
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http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af79/frankosamiga/My%20Funny%20Pics/AorgEbay02.jpg
We found this mysterious picture on the internet today. If it's for sale we don't know about it.
:)
April Fools day is still months away, this must be an early one.
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I remember that pic. Oh Franko we miss you.
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Franko wont come back. He is scared of the Pyromania/Karlos/Argo bot.
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brilliant! Got to love franko's humour.
Can we please have him back?
+1000 !!
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+1000 !!
+10,000!
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Tell us how many pluses we need and we'll get them :D
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I have a feeling that Franko once said he had washed his hands of this place though. I hope this is a false memory but I seem to recall it.
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@SysAdmin
Can you please remove Franko's ban?
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A fair price. But as with all eBay sales, a little high.
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@SysAdmin
Can you please remove Franko's ban?
I seriously doubt the other moderators would be pleased with me doing something like that.
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Brilliant! Got to love Franko's humour.
Can we please have him back?
The number of replies will dramatically go up. :)
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Why don't you ask them?
I seriously doubt the other moderators would be pleased with me doing something like that.
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I seriously doubt the other moderators would be pleased with me doing something like that.
LOL. Well I've got to moderate him over on AW.net so I can't see why you guys should have an easy life. :D
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You moderate Darrin?!? I thought you sat there eating popcorn like the rest of us lol ;)
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I know I'm one of the silent majority, but please could i add my voice to plea's for unleashing Franco?
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"unleashing" is the right word. :)
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You moderate Darrin?!? I thought you sat there eating popcorn like the rest of us lol ;)
LOL. Who do you think posts the news items? :D
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I know I'm one of the silent majority, but please could i add my voice to plea's for unleashing Franco?
Sure, just hop along to his own forum - Commodore Retro Amiga Portal (CRAP for short).
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LOL. Who do you think posts the news items? :D
Santa?
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Why don't you ask them?
Feel free to ask them if you like.
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I seriously doubt the other moderators would be pleased with me doing something like that.
in all honesty.. the forum is here for the users... if the users ask... the moderators should do some soul-searching :/
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I'm not very active these days, but the colorful characters are what used to keep me coming to the forums. I wasn't around for whatever got Franko banned from Amiga.org, but I can tell you that Amigaworld.net has been far less interesting since Helgis was banned. (I'm speaking purely of the popcorn factor. Helgis appeared to be, by and large, an a**hole.) Every forum needs at least one willing punching bag.
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Time for a YouTube break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PrZk7a2UE
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Time for a YouTube break.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PrZk7a2UE
I haven't see that before. Brilliant!!! :D
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The number of useless replies will dramatically go up. :)
FTFY
I know Franko had a following, and good for him. While he had some useful posts in the beginning of his membership, the noise he injected into the signal here was overly obnoxious. I suppose things inevitably change as people who offer substance begin to drift, if not be driven, away, and if Amiga.org should devolve from a mostly useful forum to a Franko free-for-all then so be it, but it would be a sad day IMNSHO.
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If someone gets banned can they never come back? or it is not so often they do/can that. If they want to, they could just use a different username.
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Franko was alright with you if you were alright with him. And the thing with him is that he knows how to push someone's buttons if they start messing around with him. Simple formula is if you don't want to engage with him then simply don't bother.
I remember the final couple of threads that resulted in the ban. Both Franco and the other party were banned. However one was allowed back even though I felt they were far worse in the little arguments.
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I remember the final couple of threads that resulted in the ban. Both Franco and the other party were banned. However one was allowed back even though I felt they were far worse in the little arguments.
Quoted for truth.
I liked Franko because he was one of the few people around here who were completely unwilling to compromise their stance on what is and isn't "Amiga" for the sake of diplomacy or "keeping the name out there" and who demonstrated a real passion for the platform, rather than just hanging around perpetually carping about how it's not fast enough to play YouTube on. We could use more people like that.
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Quoted for truth.
What in the name of Dizzy does that mean:huh:
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We could use more people like that.
The guy spammed this board with nearly 6000 posts in one year. In the latter half of his onslaught he invaded every godsdamn conversation and turned it into an off-topic mudslinging contest. He got insulting the second you disagreed with him (and no, I'm not referring to his "scottish humour" bull**** - search around for some of the things he said about Wayne) and after he was banned he openly admitted to trolling.
If somebody ever deserved to be banned and never mentioned again, it's that guy.
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What in the name of Dizzy does that mean:huh:
It means he agrees with you 100%.
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The guy spammed this board with nearly 6000 posts in one year. In the latter half of his onslaught he invaded every godsdamn conversation and turned it into an off-topic mudslinging contest. He got insulting the second you disagreed with him (and no, I'm not referring to his "scottish humour" bull**** - search around for some of the things he said about Wayne) and after he was banned he openly admitted to trolling.
If somebody ever deserved to be banned and never mentioned again, it's that guy.
Which guy?
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Franko was alright with you if you were alright with him. And the thing with him is that he knows how to push someone's buttons if they start messing around with him. Simple formula is if you don't want to engage with him then simply don't bother.
Isn't that kinda like saying "a land-mine is alright if you're alright with it?" Despite the fact the channel's full of them and they're magnetic?
This place is better off without him.
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It means he agrees with you 100%.
Then why couldn't it just be written like that!?!?!?!? Flaming youth talk :crazy:
Isn't that kinda like saying "a land-mine is alright if you're alright with it?" Despite the fact the channel's full of them and they're magnetic?
This place is better off without him.
There is a difference. A landmine you can't reason with, Franko you can. To an extent anyway ;)
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Then why couldn't it just be written like that!?!?!?!? Flaming youth talk :crazy:
There is a difference. A landmine you can't reason with, Franko you can. To an extent anyway ;)
Does anyone know the name of the cartoon in that YouTube clip where the evil guy comes inside the house and pops the balloon man?
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Does anyone know the name of the cartoon in that YouTube clip where the evil guy comes inside the house and pops the balloon man?
Balloon Land, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxucYzKXXCI) from the co-creator of Mickey Mouse!
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What in the name of Dizzy does that mean:huh:
I take that to mean because the comment has been quoted the original poster can't retracted the comment and change his post.
or I could just be paranoid :laugh1:
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There is a difference. A landmine you can't reason with, Franko you can. To an extent anyway ;)
I've had better luck with land-mines! :p
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If you let Franko back, you have to let Doomy back. After all, he *WAS* the first Amiga.org "troll." ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNti5bN9ILU
(Moto's version is better, but I only have it as an mp3.)
*AND* Atheist too. We need an OS4 zealot who will bringeth back the Rapture.
Sorry for playing devil's advocate. Argo, feel free to give me a point, for this. ;)
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Balloon Land, (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxucYzKXXCI) from the co-creator of Mickey Mouse!
Thank u so much. I used to watch it as a kid. I loved it when I was a kid, hehehe. I used to dream as a kid about a planet filled with ballloon creatures and plants and even houses hehe and I would go there and pop them just like the cartoon and I get all giddy heheheh.
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Looks like Franko still reads AO:
http://crap.forumotion.co.uk/t146-erm-nobody-bothered-to-ask-me#872?tid=94cc5ab36498ac155116a7f5201bdcce
I've no idea what is in the YouTuve vids as I'm at work and they're blocked. Click at your own peril! :eek:
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@thread
folks interested in discussing possible lifting of bans and/or other matters related to moderation on the site, please open a new thread in the site feedback forum (http://www.amiga.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21). thanks!
-- eliyahu
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The best thing about Franko is his taste in music. I go to crap not for the trolling or amigas but for the music.
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Quoted for truth.
I liked Franko because he was one of the few people around here who were completely unwilling to compromise their stance on what is and isn't "Amiga" for the sake of diplomacy or "keeping the name out there" and who demonstrated a real passion for the platform, rather than just hanging around perpetually carping about how it's not fast enough to play YouTube on. We could use more people like that.
Isn't that a general thing here, ie the "if it doesn't have a Paula chip on the motherboard it is not an Amiga" type attitude? Seems plenty of people wave that flag quite loudly here :)
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@thread
folks interested in discussing possible lifting of bans and/or other matters related to moderation on the site, please open a new thread in the site feedback forum (http://www.amiga.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=21). thanks!
-- eliyahu
Done!
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=718254#post718254
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Well technically he is right. The only computers to bear the Amiga name had Paula chips. (Except a handful of intel boxes and tablets licensed from the late and unlamented Amiga Inc)
Isn't that a general thing here, ie the "if it doesn't have a Paula chip on the motherboard it is not an Amiga" type attitude? Seems plenty of people wave that flag quite loudly here :)
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Isn't that a general thing here, ie the "if it doesn't have a Paula chip on the motherboard it is not an Amiga" type attitude? Seems plenty of people wave that flag quite loudly here :)
It's not so much his exact position as that it was quite clearly something he believed in, whereas with a lot of other people it seems to just be an argument they take to use against the opposing "camp" but drop whenever it would conflict with another position they want to take. At the time Franko was around, a lot of people who generally fall in that camp were saying things like "well, I like the 68k as much as anybody, but at least CUSA is getting the Name out there" or "I know the C64x isn't what any of us want, but Barry's a smart match for our community anyway because he's a successful businessman with money." Hell, even I was trying to at least be diplomatic until I got a better feel for what kind of people they were. The mad Scotsman, however, was having none of it, wasn't going to compromise his positions for anything, and clearly relished defending them. Whatever else you think about the guy, I totally have to respect that.