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Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 18 March 2002, 16:49
I just thought i would start a topic for anybody who wanted to air their irritation with these gooseberry clock posts.

From now on i will no longer be replying to any gooseberry clock posts, unless they contain something of use.
too many of clock's posts have been nothing but a timewasting bunch of wank.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with clock as a person, but her/his posts are really getting on both tits.

from now on anything i may want to say regarding a post of gooseberry clock's will be posted in this topic, unless gooseberry clock has something to add to the discussion. I am tired of reading a well formed discussion only to have it descend into gooseberry clock induced crap.
This sort of thing makes the forums hard to put up with and will turn readers away.
Also, what about that stupid big signature graphic that clock has? how fucking irritating!

i strongly urge everybody else not to reply to gooseberry clock's shitty one-line put downs, and instead to air any outbursts in this topic so as not to interrupt the flow of the discussion.

Online forums can be fragile things and it would be easy for someone to disrupt the flow of many discussions in order either to make the regular posters post angry drivel rather than real comments or to make the forums hard to read for those people who might come looking for information.
Perhaps this is not what clock is doing, but it's damn close.

Those are just my thoughts, nothing personal clock, but i just don't like yr posts! maybe you don't like mine though, eh? all's fair in life and war...
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: foobar on 18 March 2002, 17:27
:D  

I hear ya, Calum, and i totally agree. I'd been waiting for someone to say this for a while.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: psyjax on 18 March 2002, 19:49
Ok guys... you just don't understand were this guy is comming from  (http://smile.gif)  Seriously, he is TRYING to be obnoxious.

http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/clockcrew.html (http://www.newgrounds.com/collections/clockcrew.html)

It all started back on www.newgrounds.com, (http://www.newgrounds.com,) a site were people submit flash movies and comment on them and stuff. Well this guy named Strawberry Clock came on and started submitting the crapyest movies you could ever imagine just to piss people off.

Everybody hated him, except that after a while Strawberry Clock started to gain a bit of a cult following by both people who hated his guts and those who viewd his work as existential DaDa pices. Thus, the Clock Crew was born, a Flash grupe devoted to making obnoxious movies and the like, his image at the bottom of the screen is a chatroom transcript between him, Tom, and Wade Fulp, the admins of Newgrounds.

Yes, he is annyoying, yes he is a Troll, but you are all falling for his trap if you get irritated by it.

Fair warning  :D
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 18 March 2002, 20:19
i agree with you totally, which is why i postulate putting any clock related jibberish in this topic instead of clogging up all the other topics with it.

I agree in principal with the dadaist ethic, but i hate the way the dadaists believe it must all be truly random. That is not art, it is boring as mince.

True art has a bit of guided substance, even if its roots are truly dada.

I still move that we do not reply to the gooseboy unless it's within this topic. that should solve the problem... you be the judges!
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Centurian on 18 March 2002, 20:29
Hey,

Its the internet. Everyone has the right to post whatever they want. The way things are going anymore you might get sued for it but you have the right to post it. If you can't accept that you had best jump on the MS bandwagon.
As far as you reading it well that is your choice. You can just not read it or you can click on his profile and choose to ignore him. That option is at the bottom of the page.

Personally I think his posts are non-productive and generally stupid but I don't have the right to say he can't post. In any case Gooseberry Clock has as much right to post as anyone.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: foobar on 18 March 2002, 20:35
Again, I absolutely agree
Let the man post ...
Corny, huh   :D

Psyjax, you've been researching... lol
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 18 March 2002, 20:40
centurian i agree with freedom of speech totally!
I won't set anybody to ignore, in case they say something i want to read! now *that* would be against freedom of speech.

BUT i reckon that since clock's comments are deliberately aiming to piss people off, rather than have endless flame wars in the forums, let's have them in this topic, out of the way.
I'm not saying stop him from posting, just if we are going to have a bunch of nonproductive interchange, let's keep it seperate from the productive interchange!

you reply to him if you want but all my clock related replies will be posted in this topic though (because i don't think i will have anything intelligent to say to clock), unless i think clock is contributing to the discussion, in which case i will treat his post like i would any other post!
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: badkarma on 18 March 2002, 23:04
he was also registered as red ranger software or something a while back spewing absolute crap (and actually acting like he believed it too). Too bad those posts got lost with the forum hiccups ....
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 19 March 2002, 01:43
Why don't you just delete my account like you did last time?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: psyjax on 19 March 2002, 04:20
quote:
Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
Why don't you just delete my account like you did last time?


I don't think it was deleted. From my understanding the server crashed and wiped out a bunch of accounts. For all the flaming, I think the Webmaster values freespeach more than picking on annoying posters.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: voidmain on 19 March 2002, 05:40
C'mon guys, you're going to make him cry.... And it pisses me off that the "ignore user" feature appears not to work.  I tried to set "Goosecherry Cluck" to ignore after about the second post. Maybe I did something wrong.  Anyone else able to get the "ignore" feature to work?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Centurian on 19 March 2002, 07:41
Hey,

 
quote:
Originally posted by VoidMain:
C'mon guys, you're going to make him cry.... And it pisses me off that the "ignore user" feature appears not to work.  I tried to set "Goosecherry Cluck" to ignore after about the second post. Maybe I did something wrong.  Anyone else able to get the "ignore" feature to work?


Never actually tried it since I don't put people on ignore but I saw it was there so I figured it would work. Sounds like maybe UBB bug report time.  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: voidmain on 19 March 2002, 07:53
Well, if it weren't for the giant graphic tagline I wouldn't have a need to put him on ignore but it get's right smack in my way. And I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier but I just blocked his images at my proxy server so now I don't have to look at those giant graphics.  Ahhh much better.

[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 19 March 2002, 13:29
of course, using opera i can just turn the graphics off from the chrome buttons on the browser, but there's no button to turn *only* the gooseberry clock graphic off, unfortunately...
(and i'm still looking for the "bullshit" control so i can turn it down!)
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 19 March 2002, 13:41
quote:
I said:
removing Microsoft bullshit from somebody's PC is, in my opinion, an upgrade.
btw dbl221, i think that is a great idea! everybody knows windows users need help!
 
quote:

Gooseberry Clock said:
Your opinion, not mine.

Wow. good comeback. I feel duly chastised.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: badkarma on 19 March 2002, 15:40
The ignore function is only for private messages void
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: foobar on 19 March 2002, 22:11
No comments from clock?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: psyjax on 19 March 2002, 22:25
quote:
Originally posted by -=f00bar=-:
No comments from clock?


I think you all hurt his feelings  :(

I mean, you shouldent chase people like that away. Flaming Trolls is hald the fun of forums  :D
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: voidmain on 20 March 2002, 01:59
quote:
Originally posted by BadKarma:
The ignore function is only for private messages void


That explains it! Thanks Karm! The proxy server trick works perfectly. I filter out just Clocks images and no one elses. It makes me a little nervous that images are actually allowed in posts.  I mean it would be trivial to include an image in your message that resides on a server you control and track the IP addresses of the people reading these forums.  And it wouldn't be too difficult to match up the time/IPaddr in the server logs with the time on a message posted in a forum and figure out the exact IP address of the each individual user who posts on this site.

Or am I just being paranoid?

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]

Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: jtpenrod on 20 March 2002, 13:26
quote:
I mean it would be trivial to include an image in your message that resides on a server you control and track the IP addresses of the people reading these forums. And it wouldn't be too difficult to match up the time/IPaddr in the server logs with the time on a message posted in a forum and figure out the exact IP address of the each individual user who posts on this site.

Or am I just being paranoid?


That's pretty much how "web bugs" - tiny little gif's no more than 1 X 1 or 2 X 2 pixels in size work (but you knew that already  ;)  ) My cache picks up quite a few of those fuckers every time I go on-line. WTF do I care? Since I use dial-up, my IP address is constantly changing anyway. Besides, I don't think I'll be getting a whole helluva lot of Macro$uck spam for visiting this site   :D  

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Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 20 March 2002, 13:30
true, i don't care either, since i post through a LAN, and it's not even mine, it's work's, but what if you *did* care?
Reason enough to worry, i reckon...

And as to why clock is not replying, it's because he only needs one incidence of his crappy graphic on each page to track all the activities on that page (given the scenario above), so what's the incentive for him to post in this topic again?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 20 March 2002, 22:51
Now why would I want to track the activites on THIS page? No, I have something much better in store for you guys.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: voidmain on 21 March 2002, 08:38
Good, he posted again.  Now I got *his* IP.  Time to go to work!  (http://smile.gif)
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 21 March 2002, 22:58
In case you haven't noticed, I'm on a 56K dial-up. What are you gonna do? Spam my ICQ?

[ March 21, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 22 March 2002, 22:21
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
it's because he only needs one incidence of his crappy graphic on each page to track all the activities on that page (given the scenario above)


Actually, that's not a bad idea. Feel free to click on it at any time to see the most popular platform and browser.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: psyjax on 22 March 2002, 22:43
quote:
Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:


Actually, that's not a bad idea. Feel free to click on it at any time to see the most popular platform and browser.



Looks like win2 98 and Mozilla/Netscape based browsers. That's only this section of the forums. I wonder what the hit readouts are for the whole site?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Centurian on 22 March 2002, 23:18
Hey Gooseberry Clock,

Just to let you know Bravenet isn't very accurate when it comes to picking up browsers or OS's. I use a bravenet counter on my site and it picks me up as either Windows 2000 or Linux when I am using Linux. When I am using W98 it picks me up as W98. They almost never get the browser right.

Their IP is usually off a bit also. A friend of mine has high speed internet (lucky bastard) with a set IP. When ever he visits my website his IP number is one off of what it actually is about 75% of the time. I have noticed with my dialup they get it wrong about 60% of the time.

The other stats tend to be quite accurate though so I kept it.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: voidmain on 23 March 2002, 06:09
And also to let you know, I don't get counted because my advertisement filter in my proxy server also strips out all counters. But if you want to be more accurate you'll have to add at least one hit for Linux/Konqueror in yer little database.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 25 March 2002, 14:07
hey, go to this topic if you can be bothered (http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000076) and look at the sadness of gooseberry clock.
he is complaining that he is not allowed to flood the forums. shall we start a campaign to relax the flood control regulations just for him? hmm? since he has so much of value to contribute? can i suggest instead that he should be banned for 60 years between posts rather than the customary 60 seconds?
Also, in a sulk, he has posted a post full of a big long line of exclamation points so that you have to scroll sideways all the time to read the posts. what a sad git.
Can somebody with admin access sort that out please?
ta.....
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 25 March 2002, 15:24
quote:
Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock in this forum (http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=000087):
To whoever sent me that virus

I wasn't fooled for a second.


Gods! this moron turns up everywhere!
fuck off, clock!
nobody sent you a virus! nobody gives a shit about you! why would anybody here waste their time?
here's twenty pence, go and buy a second hand life......
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Calum on 25 March 2002, 16:02
quote:
Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock in this topic (http://forum.fuckmicrosoft.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=000024):
From #cracks Microsoft Windows Whistler ( XP ) RBDC9-VTRC8-D7972-J97JY-PRVMG (Yes this one works with 2419) or F6PGG-4YYDJ-3FF3T-R328P-3BXTG Activation Fix (1) boot up in safe mode (2) run regedit (3) {HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogonActivation Required} <- change that to 0 (4) reboot

As we have established numerous times already clock, if we used these cracks, we would still be using windows.
To get linux for free, you don't need any cracks, you just download it and install it AND IT'S ALL LEGAL!
you hate that don't you? you'd rather be breaking the law, even if it turns you into the mindless borg drone you will be for the rest of your so called life.
again i say, gooseberry clock, fuck off.

PS, webmaster, this is not a warez site, lets not have dickheads posting their micro$hit cracks here please? can you oblige by taking a hard line? thank you very much...
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Master of Reality on 25 March 2002, 21:04
quote:
Originally posted by Gooseberry Clock:
Now why would I want to track the activites on THIS page? No, I have something much better in store for you guys.


... and what is that?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 26 March 2002, 01:44
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:
he is complaining that he is not allowed to flood the forums.


This is the only board where I have to wait an entire minute between posts. Have you no respect for NetCaptor users?
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Tux on 26 March 2002, 03:57
At first it was just annoying maybe even a little funny, but now this goose fucker is really getting on my nerves. Goose please just go back to making your second rate flash animations, and your clock obsessions...Go post your meaningless drible on your clock bbs, no one here cares for what you have to say.
Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: Gooseberry Clock on 27 March 2002, 00:35
Or better yet, you could hang out at my board (http://www.redrangersoftware.f4w.net/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl), maybe even post a little every now and then. And don't forget to check out the rest of my site as well.

[ March 26, 2002: Message edited by: Gooseberry Clock ]

Title: Gooseberry Clock blows goats in his/her spare time
Post by: CommonSense on 29 March 2002, 05:13
quote:
Originally posted by Calum:

PS, webmaster, this is not a warez site, lets not have dickheads posting their micro$hit cracks here please? can you oblige by taking a hard line? thank you very much...


In the spirit of not censoring, I'll let it go for now.  That information is way too easy to get on the Internet, anyway; it's not as if this is earth-shattering stuff.