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     Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 343 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
i was wondering if it could be fixed where when somone posts a new comments in topics it can make them rise to the top like most boards so we will know where the news comments are. peace | ||
| Fortified Regular Poster Username: Fortified Post Number: 384 Registered: 04-2006 Rating: N/A |
Girl, this ain't phpBB boards!!! LMAO!!!! | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 344 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: |
LOL...i noticed Fortified...the posting script on this board is pretty bootlegged. lol dont get me wrong though i love posting here i just wish it was a little more high tech. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 1048 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
"dont get me wrong though i love posting here i just wish it was a little more high tech." Agreed....!! | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 1985 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: |
Bootlegged? WTF are you insinuating? That Thumper and Troy stole the software that's running on this site? I think not. If you have a suggestion for improvements, just send them an e. Don't accuse ppl of stealing and doing illegal shit! Oh yeah, and ask them to install some spellcheck software since your illiterate ass can't spell. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 347 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: |
"Bootlegged? WTF are you insinuating? That Thumper and Troy stole the software that's running on this site? I think not. If you have a suggestion for improvements, just send them an e. Don't accuse ppl of stealing and doing illegal shit! Oh yeah, and ask them to install some spellcheck software since your illiterate ass can't spell." you fucking idiot....i dont think anyone else but your negative, illiterate ass would read that as someone implying that they stole the software!!! or maybe your old, ignorrant, delapidated ass is too ancient to know that the word bootleg is nowadays often used to mean the same thing as "raggedy" or "tacky" or "less sophisticated" i really have to wonder about you sometimes mzuri. Are problems that serious in your life that you just constantly foam at the mouth to start shit????? really, everyone else with common sense knew what i meant. but really... ill give you a break because your old crusty ass is probably suffering from dementia. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 1050 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
”………..ass is too ancient to know that the word bootleg is nowadays often used to mean the same thing as "raggedy" or "tacky" or "less sophisticated" Uhhhhhhhhh…..Ms. Misty, not trying to throw rocks at you or kibitz in your discourse, but when you said bootlegged –it does imply something is counterfeit and not original. It applies to clothing, movies, music, software, etc…. When you implied bootlegged, I was thinking the same thing Mzrui was thinking –how is the software running this board bootlegged? The consequences would be dire if you were running such a publicly open forum with bootlegged software. This board would have been shut down years ago if the software was bootlegged. Trust me, I would know since I do dabble in the IT world and network security. Perhaps your choice of words should have been different. But I do agree with you, I wish this board did have more sophisticated and advanced bulletin board software running. | ||
| Yvettep Veteran Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 1371 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
I think many of us have already suggested spell check and html quick tags and stuff during Troy's recent emailing. So they're probably in the works. But he is just one guy. (Or so he claims LOL!) | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 5618 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Oooooooh, Miguellllll! Where are you when we need you? I've noticed how the word "crusty" seems to be a very popular term around here. A word that, along with the inference of someone being old and unhappy, are favorite put-downs. It's like being flaky and young and stupid are something to be proud of. All I know is that a copy of a recent movie that you buy from a hustler for $10.00 is referred to as a "bootleg," and such a transaction has shady, shoddy connotations. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 349 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
Ntfs, i admit the choice of words probably could ahve been better for people who arent familiar wiht the slang that ive heard and often use...i agree with that...but i myself KNOW how i meant it... we use to use the word bootleg all the time when i was in middleschool and highschool to mean something that was mammymade or looked mammymade or unsophisticated. I still use it in that way sometimes. it isnt in me to publicly accuse someone of stealing software that i dont even know and have NO reason for accusing them of stealing it...just from what i know about troy and thumper from what has been said on these boards about them they seem like respectable men so i have no reaosn to accuse them of stealing anything...i dont know much about them...certainly not enough to accuse them of stealing software. the reason i didnt feel the need to hold off on talking to mzuri the way i did for her misunderstanding is because she has a history of trying to start shit with me. So i could have cared less rather she misunderstood me or not...she could have easily asked me what i meant if she didnt know or said what she said in a more civil way. But i guess that's jsut not in her. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 352 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
"It's like being flaky and young and stupid are something to be proud of. All I know is that a copy of a recent movie that you buy from a hustler for $10.00 is referred to as a "bootleg," and such a transaction has shady, shoddy connotations" who here is being young and stupid cynique???? i know the original meaning of bootleg so noone here is stupid....however the slang version is used to mean more like something that's mammymade or unsophisticated. that's how i meant it i probably could have used a better word for people like mzuri who foam at the mouth to start shit and for others who werent familiar with the slang version...so next time i will choose my words better. | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 5619 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
And who here, in your words, is being this, misty? "...old, ignorrant, delapidated..." and who around here has "problems that serious in your life that you just constantly foam at the mouth to start shit?????" And where I come from, what you describe as being "bootleg", we refer to as being "bogus" which is certainly a more apt description of what you describe. | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 1986 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
I apologize Misty. I completely forgot that besides your being incapable of spelling you also do not have a grasp upon the definitions of the words that you use. My bad. Might I suggest something to you? http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/bootleg Please utilize the dictionary while you're posting (yes, you can open two browser windows at once) so that we may all be on the same page. And I beg your pardon for going off on you but I don't take kindly to folks suggesting that Black people can't afford software, are thieves, ghetto and that their shit is raggedy, tacky and whack. Please forgive me. I beg of you. LOL!!! | ||
| Abm "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Abm Post Number: 6733 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: |
I think the current format is designed to encourage the creation of NEW topics. Btw: I was the one who recommended Troy added the current star-based rating system to the board. But now I'm not sure that was a such good idea. | ||
| Doberman23 Veteran Poster Username: Doberman23 Post Number: 573 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
i think you guys are being way too sensitive, bootleg can mean half assed. if she thinks that something is half assed then she has the right to say that. geez mzuri you acted as if she came into your house smacked your new born baby and kicked your mom in the head. take it easy, it's not that deep. this board is what it is, noone is paying a dime for it or paying for the time that is being put into it other than the person who pays for hosting ... so until that happens just enjoy this board for what it is, a communication board for people to post 80% nonsense and 20% legitimate info and reasonable views. | ||
| Abm "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Abm Post Number: 6734 Registered: 04-2004 Rating: N/A |
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 1987 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
Dobey Son - First of all, I don't have any babies, all my children are adults. And I'm not being sensitive at all. I'm just not going to stand by while some bimbo insults the owners of this site. And lastly, people who advertise on this site support it financially. That would be the authors who feature their books on the main site (some of whom post here as well), those who pay for book reviews, and people who purchase banner ad space. I've made my financial contribution - have you? Everyone who posts here is not a cheapass freeloader - so get your facts straight. Thank you. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 1051 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
”i think you guys are being way too sensitive, bootleg can mean half assed.” Well, that could be possible. I guess it depends on what generation you are addressing. All my life, to say something is bootlegged means exactly what the dictionary says, something elicit, counterfeit or illegal. I recall buying bootlegged recordings by John Coltrane and Miles Davis when I was youngs. They were recordings made of live concerts and sold without the permission of the artist or their contract recording entity. I remember when I was in Malaysia, it was bootlegged software heaven! Hong Kong and Thailand was outrageous for bootlegged designer ware (copyright laws are very weak if non-existent in the East –China being the biggest offender) –Hilfinger, Nautica, Gucci, Pierre Cardin, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, et al. But if you are addressing a post 1970 Generation, they are bound to use words and phrases in another context. And when I say this I say it not to be critical. Every generation does that. ”if she thinks that something is half assed then she has the right to say that” Of course! It is her right to do so. But if she uses a word that is academically documented as meaning something other than what she implied –whose fault is that? But she explained herself and I was cool with it. Ha! Ha! Ha! | ||
| Doberman23 Veteran Poster Username: Doberman23 Post Number: 575 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
my facts are straight ... for i am a cheapass freeloader, so there! (that didn't quite come out right) and as for you mr.information overload... bootlegged can be used like the word ghetto in todays dialect, and stop fronting like you don't still get music like you did when you where younger. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 353 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
"I apologize Misty. I completely forgot that besides your being incapable of spelling you also do not have a grasp upon the definitions of the words that you use. My bad. Might I suggest something to you?" uummm, i guess if i was such a dumb bimbo with no grasp of the english language as you imply i wouldnt have already graduated from college at 21 as a member of the national and international honors society with a degree in literature. yep, i surely am an illiterate bimbo....moving on. "And I beg your pardon for going off on you but I don't take kindly to folks suggesting that Black people can't afford software, are thieves, ghetto" see...you do nothing but show what a facetious wench you are mzuri....after i explained myself over and over you still choose to lie and hold on to your original ignorrant ass assumption about what i said. Not only that, now you choose to put words in my mouth...i never said anything aobut the owners of this site being "ghetto" and as i explained for liek the 4th of 5th time, i wasnt implying that he was a theif. "Dobey Son - First of all, I don't have any babies, all my children are adults. And I'm not being sensitive at all. I'm just not going to stand by while some bimbo insults the owners of this site." Mzuri, be honest you didnt give a care rather or not you felt i was disrespecting the site.....you simply used this little incident as an excuse to take another one of your digs at me. So please stop being the fake "person" that you are and pretending you were sooooo insulted from me implying that this site was mammymade.......bullshit!, i can see right through you. If anyone else had said it you wouldnt have jumped stupid like you did, not unless it was one of your enemies. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 354 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
doberman----"and stop fronting like you don't still get music like you did when you where younger." LMAO! Ntfs--- "They were recordings made of live concerts and sold without the permission of the artist or their contract recording entity. I remember when I was in Malaysia, it was bootlegged software heaven! Hong Kong and Thailand was outrageous for bootlegged designer ware (copyright laws are very weak if non-existent in the East –China being the biggest offender) –Hilfinger, Nautica, Gucci, Pierre Cardin, Hermès, Louis Vuitton, et al." lol...i heard that they were pretty bad about this too in asia. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 1056 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
”…bootlegged can be used like the word ghetto in todays dialect,……” True. And that’s the problem. You take standardized meanings and attempt to distort and manipulate them to your liking. And by doing so –the point is.....?????????? Instead of mastering the English language as it is, you unfortunately have a generation and mindset that arrogantly believes it can distort and twist words into meanings to suite their own misguided interests. And when those who do not follow nor understand your bastardization of words, you want to swell up with indignation and mock their confusion at the juvenile cherry picking and distortion of a major language. WTF..??? Sorry, but I don’t think so. …….and stop fronting like you don't still get music like you did when you where younger. Never said I didn’t. Where did you read where I fronted anything? I just lamented about the word “bootleg”. A word that 98.99% of English speaking people understand -according to any standard English dictionary. Not the definition used by some ghetto children. Ebonics is neither a virtue nor a science son. Sorry for your consternation. | ||
| Doberman23 Veteran Poster Username: Doberman23 Post Number: 579 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
lol actually a bootleg is a football play  or having something to do with liqour... and just cause you made me holla' at merriam to find out what consternation meant, doesn't mean that your the man now dawg. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 357 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
Ntfs, "True. And that’s the problem. You take standardized meanings and attempt to distort and manipulate them to your liking. And by doing so –the point is.....?????????? Instead of mastering the English language as it is, you unfortunately have a generation and mindset that arrogantly believes it can distort and twist words into meanings to suite their own misguided interests. And when those who do not follow nor understand your bastardization of words, you want to swell up with indignation and mock their confusion at the juvenile cherry picking and distortion of a major language. WTF..??? Sorry, but I don’t think so." the truth is words slowly evolve and change meaning. The majority of the words in the english language have veen doing this for centuries. you may call it a bastardization of the english language but the english language is ALREADY bastardized, as it has been for centuries. It began being bastardized even when the first englishman came to this country...so even you speak a bastard verison of the english language. there is no such thing as "correct" english but there is a such thing as correct sentence structure. Thats the only thing i can see as being correct. also, the only reason anyone swelled up at mzuri and mocked her is because of her attitude....if anyone else didnt understand the meaning of the word i would have explained to them what i meant in a civil way. she has a personal vendetta against me for whatever reason and thats the only reason she saught to address me in the way she did. I saw through her crap and thats the reason i swelled up at her. | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 1996 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
Misty Darling - I don't need an excuse to go off on you or anyone else. Your problem is that you take things that are said here personal but you're really not that important to me. I remember you whining at me over something or other but I do not recall specifically what the issue was because I need my brain space for things that really matter. Just trust and believe that I would have said the same shit to any other person that made that bullshit allegation. And I do care about what is said about Troy Johnson because he is an honorable man. You don't need to question my intentions on defending that. I'm sorry you grew up wearing mammymade "bootlegged" shit, but I didn't roll that way. My mammy ordered my clothes from the Spiegel catalog. The things that my mammy did make were created by a master seamstress, and so I don't know nothing about bootlegged being mammymade. Poor thang. LOL!!! Since you got your lit degree or whatever perhaps you can start proofreading your posts so that we don't have to suffer thru trying to read your errors and typos. Thanks. | ||
| Troy Regular Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 433 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Here is the real deal. I've been hosting discussion baords for almost 10 years. For the purposes of Thumpers Corner. I found this software the most reliable of the three different versions that I've used -- it has never crashed and it has been in use for over 4 years. The latest failures were due to my web host not the software. The vast majority of the problems come from folks trying to mess things up. The hackers with the spam recently forced me to require registration. The hackers have even automated the registration! As a result, I have to manually apporve all new registrants. Spammers and hackers add a tremndous amount of overhead and expense to the whole Internet -- I wish they would all just die. The software was not free it only cost a few hundred buck, but at the time it was big purchase for me. There are some things I do not like about it. For example I do not like the "Start New Thread" at the very bottom on the page. But for the mst part it just runs by itself. The software is old (relatively speaking), I could uprgade to another verion -- maybe I'll look into doing that. I could try changing the software completely, but then I'd have to research what is available, make sure it runs on my version of the server operating system. Deal with all of the technical problems associated with new software. I (and all of the users) would have a learning curver. I'd defintely have to shell out a few bucks (hundreds, thousands). The problem is that after 9 years I'm still doing evertything myself. ON top of a full time day job which involves activities that have absolutely no overlap with what I do with AALBC.com ...OK I'm starting to vent... At any rate, if someone knows of some good discussion baord software, Please start a new thread and include a link to the site as well as some of the features you like I would greatly appreciate it. And yes a spell check would be very useful. I could actually add the fuctionality, but I'd have to build the dictionary myself which means more time, effort, money.... I gotta post some reviews, but I'll probably end up crashing. | ||
| Grind Regular Poster Username: Grind Post Number: 135 Registered: 04-2006 Rating: N/A |
Troy, phpbb is widely used and free. http://www.phpbb.com | ||
| Grind Regular Poster Username: Grind Post Number: 136 Registered: 04-2006 Rating: N/A |
And easy to install. | ||
| Libralind2 Regular Poster Username: Libralind2 Post Number: 381 Registered: 09-2004 Rating: N/A |
Frankly Troy, unless folks step up and give you cash..fugg um and do your thang mah broffer LiLi | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 360 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: N/A |
troy, thanks for your response if it's going to cost alot and take that much time then i would be fine with just leaving the boards the way they are and dealing with it the way it is....but if you're willing to, here is some software that ive seen that works well although i dont know how much it costs. This software from political palace, i would thik it wouldnt be much more expensive than the equipment we ahve right now. http://pub12.ezboard.com/fpoliticalpalacefrm1 it has an editing feature where you can edit your posts any time you want and the topics move to the top. It's not real fancy or anything. it's an ezboard. also eventhough i dont know anything about setting up a messageboard (this is something i ive been looking to learn anyway)....so if you would like help and would liek to cut back on time, perhaps you could get me to see the ins and outs of setting up this type of thing and allow me to help along with others who would like to....thats if its possible for people to help with the equipment through cyber space. but all of this is up to you to decide... peace | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 2001 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
Troy Johnson is just one person and besides operating the business side of his website with the book sales, book reviews, setting up authors' web spaces, sorting thru 500 e-mails a day, and all the other myriad and sundry things that his operation entails, he also works a full-time job plus he has a wife and children and a household to oversee. And a man needs some time to himself every once in a while. I feel that the current software works just fine. It serves the intended purpose and best of all we can upload raunchy pix and gifs and they are hosted here. LOL. I would hope that Troy can spend the upcoming weeks preparing for the very busy Christmas selling season or some other revenue generating activity instead of appeasing a whiney some-timey complainant. Ain't nobody around here had anything negative to say about the "bootleg" software except for that one. And Troy needs our support even if all we can do is be thankful that he has provided us with a place to camaraderie, chat and cuss each other out. Hey Whiney - Come up with something new to discuss and it'll be at the top. And go buy yourself a happy meal. | ||
| Misty Regular Poster Username: Misty Post Number: 363 Registered: 02-2006 Rating: |
I already established that in my post mzuri when i stated "if it's going to cost alot and take that much time then i would be fine with just leaving the boards the way they are and dealing with it the way it is....but if you're willing to, here is some software.......but all of this is up to you to decide" now go suck an egg mzuri because you act like you dont know when to STFU. and from here on out im ignoring you because you are a waste of time. | ||
| Mzuri "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Mzuri Post Number: 2002 Registered: 01-2006 Rating: N/A |
Ignore this simpleton: You should have had sense enough to know all of that prior to complaining about it in the first place. But grown folks have to draw your dimwitted behind a friggen picture. Grow up and wake up to reality. If anyone around here is a waste of time and brain matter - that would be U! Fake ass bootlegged Rosario Dawson wannabe wench!  | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 5630 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
If it ain't broke, don't fix, Troy. The only people who seem to have a problem with how things are, are those who want to "have it their way". Like so many of this instant gratification generation they want to eliminate whatever they categorize as "useless knowledge". But the extemporaneous things that transpire on this board are what keep it animated and amusing. When you have the time and capital to update the software, then exercise your option to do so, babe. To those who prefer a more stodgy, sterile attmosphere, how many times do they have to be told to exercise their option of not reading what offends them. | ||
| Ntfs_encryption "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Ntfs_encryption Post Number: 1060 Registered: 10-2005 Rating: N/A |
"If it ain't broke, don't fix, Troy." Ya got that right! I’d like to see him migrate to vBulletin Version 3.6.1 (website: http://www.vbulletin.com). If you would like to see that it looks like in a real format, go to: http://forums.allaboutjazz.com/. I love this boards format, interface and the tools that are avaliable to the posters. I talked to the administrator and he felt it was the best software for the AAJ forum. I can’t recall what they used years a go but there was a big difference when they went to vBullentin. It uses MySQL and PHP which makes website integration possible. Another nice bulletin board software is Invision Power Board. If you go to: http://www.organissimo.org and click on the forums link, you can see the music forum which is run by Invison. Nice and basic. As I said, I think it would be nice if we did have more flexible software to run the board but it appears that bro Troy has a very full plate at this time. He is like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest trying to run his business, his personal/family life and this board. I appreciate everything he has done and I can certainly understand the complexity of juggling sites around. vBulletin or Invision would be nice but like Cynique said: “IF IT AIN’T BROKE –DON’T TRY TO FIX IT.” It may be old school, but it still works! | ||
| Troy Regular Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 437 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
Thanks for the feedback AND understanding. I will check out the software when time permits. I do not actively participate in other boards so I really clued in on relative useablitily and I have not researched discussion baord software in a few years. When I do stumble across other boards in my internet travels what I find are usually boards that might look slicker, but do are not offering up much too more on any other deminsions -- at least nothing to make me stop and say "Hey I gotta get this software!" One thing I do like about this software is that all of the boards previous posts are easily retrieved and indexed by Google -- this help in a lot of other ways... The bottom line is that there will have to be have to be a truly compeling reason to switch. But I will absolutely check out the suggestions -- thanks for this | ||
| Nom_de_plume Newbie Poster Username: Nom_de_plume Post Number: 36 Registered: 07-2006 Rating: N/A |
I'm sayin. Ain't nothin but the same nine people CONSTANTLY cussin each other out anyway, no matter the format. |
