Mike/Archaea

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Would you like me to post a screen shot of your user page, as the admin sees it in the admin control panel?

No, I dont care about the screen shot.

I want you to stop being evasive. Just answer the questions being asked and all of this will just go away. Have you learned nothing about PR from Exxon Valdez, Bill Clinton, or BYU athletics airbrushing Araujo's tattoo?

Have you assume control of another user's CP, without their permission or knowledge, to change settings, preferences, or anything else? As the chief El Jefe, it seems like poor form to be doing that. Almost a breach of ethics, if you will, although I know you have an aversion to moral arguments.

If you did, why?

You just stated a page back that you cant even be bothered to read my posts, so something is not jibing. You cant be bothered to read my posts, but you can be bothered to think of a little joke and change my avatar?

Look mike, let me make this really easy for you. I like you. A lot. This poor comminication is kiiling our relationship.

[MikeWaters]

I could do anything I wanted to your account.

I could change the password, shut you out, impersonate you, change the associated email address, delete the accout, change the avatar, change the sig. These are all things that are theoretically possible.

If you can do it, I can do it.

Like all message boards that I know of, accounts exist at the whim of the admin. No one has a "right" to an account. Users have been banned, and will be banned.

The reason I don't answer your question, is because it is a stupid question.

One thing I don't know about is whether a vbulletin can theoretically allow an admin to know a person's password. Don't know about that one.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

The reason I don't answer your question, is because it is a stupid question.

Maybe it is a stupid question. Or maybe you do not answer the question because you would have to admit to getting into the accounts of others. Which, as I said before, would be bad for your image.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Maybe it is a stupid question. Or maybe you do not answer the question because you would have to admit to getting into the accounts of others. Which, as I said before, would be bad for your image.

If you don't want a gremlin to change your avatar, then leave. That's the best I can offer you.

Consider it the price of having a "free" avatar, LOL.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

If you don't want a gremlin to change your avatar, then leave. That's the best I can offer you.

Consider it the price of having a "free" avatar, LOL.

Mike, it is fine. No worries.

You have answered my question and everyone here and any guest can now see it. Per this thread I have learned:

- You dont read my posts
- You are a dictator
- If someone wants to post here, they need to be willing to let you get into their account, no matter how trivial it may be.

I have been put in my place. You won this round!

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Mike, it is fine. No worries.

You have answered my question and everyone here and any guest can now see it. Per this thread I have learned:

- You dont read my posts
- You are a dictator
- If someone wants to post here, they need to be willing to let you get into their account, no matter how trivial it may be.

I have been put in my place. You won this round!

I am never "in" your account.

My beneficence is apparent to all. You sign up on this site, the first thing you do is rip on it. Then you rip on me. Then you continue ripping on me. That's fine.

People here that know me know that I am not running a business, and I am not running a popularity contest. So it would not be wise to operate under the assumption that I am.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

I am never "in" your account.

My beneficence is apparent to all. You sign up on this site, the first thing you do is rip on it. Then you rip on me. Then you continue ripping on me. That's fine.

People here that know me know that I am not running a business, and I am not running a popularity contest. So it would not be wise to operate under the assumption that I am.

Mike Diamond Bay, this issue is settled. Let's not harp on it any longer.

I have no issues with you. I think you are an interesting study. I read most of your posts....the ones I do not, simply because they may slip my mind or because you post a lot of different things on here and I cant get to all of them. If you sent me a PM, I would answer it insetad of pretend I did not get it.

You would be better served figuring out why you feel the need to pretend to not read my posts, why you pretend to not like me, why you have such an issue with anyone or anything that takes the spotlight away from you, even for a second.

I enjoy toying with you, yes. Kind of like the cat pawing at the mouse. After awhile it gets boring, but every now and then it is really fun to watch the mouse squirm. If you want me to stop, I will. I didnt know it hurt your feelings so much.

If you are still raw about it, post a video blog on YouTube. Or PM me. I will respond.

[Archaea]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Mike, it is fine. No worries.

You have answered my question and everyone here and any guest can now see it. Per this thread I have learned:

- You dont read my posts
- You are a dictator
- If someone wants to post here, they need to be willing to let you get into their account, no matter how trivial it may be.

I have been put in my place. You won this round!

I don't speak for Mike, but I will hazard a translation.

Mike doesn't do the things you've insultingly inquired about and doesn't tolerate fools lightly.

He has playfully installed an avatar gremlin that strikes everybody, including himself and me.

But because you have gone the asshole route, he reserves the right to do anything he wishes as dictator to assholes. However, his better nature has prevailed.

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I don't speak for Mike, but I will hazard a translation.

Mike doesn't do the things you've insultingly inquired about and doesn't tolerate fools lightly.

He has playfully installed an avatar gremlin that strikes everybody, including himself and me.

But because you have gone the asshole route, he reserves the right to do anything he wishes as dictator to assholes. However, his better nature has prevailed.

Well done, my good and faithful servant.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Archaea

I don't speak for Mike, but I will hazard a translation.

Mike doesn't do the things you've insultingly inquired about and doesn't tolerate fools lightly.

He has playfully installed an avatar gremlin that strikes everybody, including himself and me.

But because you have gone the asshole route, he reserves the right to do anything he wishes as dictator to assholes. However, his better nature has prevailed.

By the a-hole route, what exactly do you mean?

I sent mike a private PM asking him simply what the deal was. Why didnt he just answer it?

I have stated before that the changing of the avatar was not my concern. It was the bigger issue...the one that mike has continued to not address.

Seems to be that the more curious route is to not answer the innocuous PM, then continue to avoid the question in this thread, finally blowing off the question as stupid.