Rusty's RPGHQ Ruminations

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 6th, 2025, 09:00

VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them. Apologies if this affects anyone else, but don't blame me.

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » February 6th, 2025, 11:24

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 09:00
VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them.

But rusty! This will prevent many Slavs from accessing this site! Good.

Btw, could you please explain to non-tech savy people like me what exactly the problem is? Sounds like the guy is just using a VPN to connect to this site? What's the problem with that?

Marcus · Post by **Marcus** » February 6th, 2025, 11:26

Nvm, I just saw your posts in the Administrative Action thread:

rusty wrote:
@Vergil banned for spamming, 2 days

@Vergil perma banned for immediately attempting to ban evade and spam again

Guess we now know who the "insane guy" was.

MrTwinkls · Post by **MrTwinkls** » February 6th, 2025, 11:32

Marcus wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 11:24

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 09:00
VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them.
This will prevent many Slavs from accessing this site!

Nope.

Post by **orinEsque** » February 6th, 2025, 12:41

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 09:00
VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them. Apologies if this affects anyone else, but don't blame me.

Never thought I'd see the day. Good riddance to him.

Gunnar · Post by **Gunnar** » February 6th, 2025, 13:34

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 09:00
VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them. Apologies if this affects anyone else, but don't blame me.

Can we admit now that this guy has been here to fuck up the forum from the beginning? That is why he pulled the gay routine constantly to rub our noses in faggotry in order to piss off the community here that clearly doesn’t like that shit. Fags are corrosive to communities and civilization in general. They should just be banned altogether.

Post by **orinEsque** » February 6th, 2025, 13:39

Gunnar wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 13:34

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 6th, 2025, 09:00
VPN ip ranges are going to get banned as some insane guy goes through them. Apologies if this affects anyone else, but don't blame me.
Can we admit now that this guy has been here to fuck up the forum from the beginning? That is why he pulled the gay routine constantly to rub our noses in faggotry in order to piss off the community here that clearly doesn’t like that shit. Fags are corrosive to communities and civilization in general. They should just be banned altogether.

I'm not sure about the rest, but i agree that fags are 100% corrosive to the community. There is no such thing as a good fag. They'll resort to pushing fag boundaries as soon as they feel confident.

Roderick · Post by **Roderick** » February 6th, 2025, 14:07

What a dumb faggot

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 7th, 2025, 03:20

web irc client is down, network troubles with the server hosting it. I'll see if it's working tomorrow

celsus · Post by **celsus** » February 20th, 2025, 20:15

hey @rusty_shackleford
What is the size of database of this forum?
I'm wondering if 1gb database limit of my chosen hosting plan will be enough for forum of similiar size to rpghq

Post by **loregamer** » February 20th, 2025, 20:28

celsus wrote: ↑ February 20th, 2025, 20:15
hey @rusty_shackleford
What is the size of database of this forum?
I'm wondering if 1gb database limit of my chosen hosting plan will be enough for forum of similiar size to rpghq

Sabotage the competition and give false info @rusty_shackleford

Shillitron · Post by **Shillitron** » February 20th, 2025, 20:37

celsus wrote: ↑ February 20th, 2025, 20:15
hey @rusty_shackleford
What is the size of database of this forum?
I'm wondering if 1gb database limit of my chosen hosting plan will be enough for forum of similiar size to rpghq

No you need at least 20 gorillion gigapixels. Sorry.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 20th, 2025, 20:42

celsus wrote: ↑ February 20th, 2025, 20:15
hey @rusty_shackleford
What is the size of database of this forum?
I'm wondering if 1gb database limit of my chosen hosting plan will be enough for forum of similiar size to rpghq

about 500mb for the database only, we don't use any sort of managed hosting solution tho

Post by **traxtan** » February 21st, 2025, 00:33

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 17th, 2023, 06:30
There's a bug where you'll get notifications from reactions after disabling reaction notifications on posts that were already rated by at least one person.
I can see what causes it, but I'm too lazy to fix it right now.

2 years and he still hasn't fixed it...

Statesman · Post by **Statesman** » February 21st, 2025, 17:15

traxtan wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 00:33

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 17th, 2023, 06:30
There's a bug where you'll get notifications from reactions after disabling reaction notifications on posts that were already rated by at least one person.
I can see what causes it, but I'm too lazy to fix it right now.

2 years and he still hasn't fixed it...

But have you bought a HQ Platinum Pass™ to prioritize the bug fixing?

Wretch · Post by **Wretch** » February 21st, 2025, 17:21

What was vergil spamming?

Stack of Turtles · Post by **Stack of Turtles** » February 21st, 2025, 17:41

Wretch wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:21
What was vergil spamming?

He kept posting "testing" in the Whatever Popped Into Your Head thread because Rusty put his account on auto-moderate (so every post had to be approved) and he was freaking out begging for it to be taken off in chat and repeatedly posting to see if it was still on (there's no other way to tell if it's on as far as I know than to try to make a post).

Personally, I wouldn't consider this spamming, and I tend to think the right thing to do was just to NOT APPROVE those posts, but I have to suspect the decision was made to approve them all in order to create the appearance of spamming in order to have an excuse to rile him up further...

Edited to add: By the way, the reason Rusty did this is because Vergil made what I interpreted as a joke, but what may have been taken, and may have been meant for all I know, as a threat, saying that he was thinking about trying to find a time when all the mods were asleep so he could spam without anyone noticing.

Wretch · Post by **Wretch** » February 21st, 2025, 17:45

Stack of Turtles wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:41

Wretch wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:21
What was vergil spamming?
He kept posting "testing" in the Whatever Popped Into Your Head thread because Rusty put his account on auto-moderate (so every post had to be approved) and he was freaking out begging for it to be taken off in chat and repeatedly posting to see if it was still on (there's no other way to tell if it's on as far as I know than to try to make a post).

Personally, I wouldn't consider this spamming, and I tend to think the right thing to do was just to NOT APPROVE those posts, but I have to suspect the decision was made to approve them all in order to create the appearance of spamming in order to have an excuse to rile him up further...

“Testing” is pretty inflammatory…

I think if it was fag images again rusty would have continued to let it slide.

Stack of Turtles · Post by **Stack of Turtles** » February 21st, 2025, 17:46

Wretch wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:45

Stack of Turtles wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:41

Wretch wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:21
What was vergil spamming?
He kept posting "testing" in the Whatever Popped Into Your Head thread because Rusty put his account on auto-moderate (so every post had to be approved) and he was freaking out begging for it to be taken off in chat and repeatedly posting to see if it was still on (there's no other way to tell if it's on as far as I know than to try to make a post).

Personally, I wouldn't consider this spamming, and I tend to think the right thing to do was just to NOT APPROVE those posts, but I have to suspect the decision was made to approve them all in order to create the appearance of spamming in order to have an excuse to rile him up further...
“Testing” is pretty inflammatory…

I think if it was fag images again rusty would have continued to let it slide.

You're probably right, Rusty loves fags but hates test.

Post by **Oyster Sauce** » February 21st, 2025, 17:51

I wonder if it would be possible to make a bot that 404 reacts posts with dead image links @loregamer

Wretch · Post by **Wretch** » February 21st, 2025, 17:57

Oyster Sauce wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:51
I wonder if it would be possible to make a bot that 404 reacts posts with dead image links @loregamer

Please don’t make a bot to misuse the 404 react. It’s for calling people retards.

Sincerely,

The staff.

Post by **traxtan** » February 21st, 2025, 18:06

Statesman wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:15

traxtan wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 00:33

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ February 17th, 2023, 06:30
There's a bug where you'll get notifications from reactions after disabling reaction notifications on posts that were already rated by at least one person.
I can see what causes it, but I'm too lazy to fix it right now.

2 years and he still hasn't fixed it...
But have you bought a HQ Platinum Pass™ to prioritize the bug fixing?

BobT · Post by **BobT** » February 21st, 2025, 21:54

Stack of Turtles wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:41

Wretch wrote: ↑ February 21st, 2025, 17:21
What was vergil spamming?
He kept posting "testing" in the Whatever Popped Into Your Head thread because Rusty put his account on auto-moderate (so every post had to be approved) and he was freaking out begging for it to be taken off in chat and repeatedly posting to see if it was still on (there's no other way to tell if it's on as far as I know than to try to make a post).

Kek, wish I could have seen that. I can only imagine the sheer panic.

SoLong · Post by **SoLong** » February 23rd, 2025, 02:21

Not sure what thread to put this in, so I'll put it here.

@rusty_shackleford I remember that apparently the site's userbase ballooned back when the Sir Aylin mod was banned on Nexus. How's the site's growth looking at the moment?

I've been trying to tell people fed up with Nexus and other pozzed sites how to find uncensored mods, but unless you know the exact mod name few people apparently realize this site exists.

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » February 23rd, 2025, 02:25

SoLong wrote: ↑ February 23rd, 2025, 02:21
Not sure what thread to put this in, so I'll put it here.

@rusty_shackleford I remember that apparently the site's userbase ballooned back when the Sir Aylin mod was banned on Nexus. How's the site's growth looking at the moment?

I've been trying to tell people fed up with Nexus and other pozzed sites how to find uncensored mods, but unless you know the exact mod name few people apparently realize this site exists.

We've had unending steady growth since launching with a few bumps.

maidenhaver · Post by **maidenhaver** » February 23rd, 2025, 02:38

Post by **rusty_shackleford** » March 3rd, 2025, 09:14

Despite many long hours meditating, I have been unable to come up with a good design for the '24 paypig badge. I'm now taking ideas.

gerey · Post by **gerey** » March 3rd, 2025, 09:17

rusty_shackleford wrote: ↑ March 3rd, 2025, 09:14
I'm now taking ideas.

Paypig with 24 on it.

Post by **J1M** » March 3rd, 2025, 14:43

A gold/brass plate with the roman numeral XXIV stamped on it. Solves it now until the end of 2099.

Post by **Valter** » March 3rd, 2025, 15:12

themed after RPGHQ's 2024 GOTY (actually 2023 GOTY because of the funny system)

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