I Love vBulletin!

[8thos]

vbulletin made me a better person.

I used to use forums as a stress relief outlet.

I'm an O.G. message board troll. I used to have fun arguing, annoying people and spamming them but ever since I got my own site I've straightened up. There's a couple times where I slip up but because there no one else to moderate me I have to go back and edit my posts. After a couple months of moderating myself eventually I stopped being an +++++++. Then I had to convince some members to come back.

Administrating vBulletin has allowed me to mature. I wouldn't have done it as a regular member on someone else's site because I'm too rebellious. By creating my own site, I made a lot of mistakes and saw how much of a headache I was in the past. I straightened up.

I don't even know if I should go into detail how bad I was before I became an administrator but I will tell you how bad I was as an administrator in the beginning.

I'll give you an example. This dude argues with me. I cursed him out and deleted his whole account. He came back and we argued again (we fight over a girl on our sites) and this time I handicapped his account and turned him into an RSS News Feed bot and put some bad but funny gossip in his sig. Anyway, after a couple months I started missing the dude and felt bad for what I did, especially since I got the idea for RSS News Feed bots from him in the first place and un-handicapped his account. He came back and still posts like normal lol.

What's funny is that he's also on this site. He was an administrator of another site. He also mods a forum I'm on. We used to ban each other back and forth. He'd ban me on his site and then I'd ban him on mine. He banned me first tho so he started it

After fighting my own members, trolling them, watching members never come back, watching the site die several times after I went trolling... I even trolled my own site under an alias but I got caught two times cause some of the chicks on there know me too well.

I realized the error of my ways and straightened up.

I think I'm doing a good job so far but I still get that urge to troll. It's so hard. I've been doing it since the year 2000. So that's like 11 years worth of trolling. I may slip up eventually but it's just a part of my personality. I was a class clown. When I was a kid I loved playing pranks. I felt sorry for girls. I'd chase em with boogers and hit em with water balloons. I'd slip packs of ketchup in dude's back pocket, watch them sit on it and say 'ewww he's on his period' when it bursts.

After reading all this you probably think I'm a bad person but I don't think so. I'm just really mischievous. I don't know anyone who volunteers in their community more than me. I have two congressional awards, mentor elementary school students, volunteer at church etc. I love kids. I think I love helping them out cause I'm just a kid at heart.

But yeah I love vbulletin a lot. It's made me a better person on the internet.

I mean seriously, I behave way better now on other people's sites than I used to.

I even have infractions on this site for trolling. I used to not give a f*ck.

My site is 7 months old but is now ranked 112,000 something in the U.S. and 700,000 something in the world. I'm really shocked I came this far that fast but I think it was cause of a digg.com cheat someone told me about on admin zone. Anyway, I really love vbulletin. It's an awesome program. It was confusing to me at first but I've gotten the hang of it. I hope the mod community continues to develop great mods for it because I love experimenting. It's hard as hell getting help on here sometimes if you have no experience. I had no experience before. I used to complain a lot but I just continued to study and experiment. That's what you have to do on here. Be persistent and never give up.


k I'm done.

/end ramble.

[Lynne]

I actually read all of that. LOL

You do get a different perspective on forums when you are admining them.

Moved to the Lounge.

[Delphiprogrammi]

lol be carefull if chicks know you to well that isn't good

[Boofo]

Interesting perspective.

[8thos]

Originally Posted by Lynne

I actually read all of that. LOL

You do get a different perspective on forums when you are admining them.



Moved to the Lounge.

I'm wondering if I should compare it to parenting.

Being a mischievous kid then growing up and having kids and being a mischievous parent.

Realizing woops this is not working out and becoming a better parent.

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Originally Posted by Delphiprogrammi

lol be carefull if chicks know you to well that isn't good

I can't. I'm pretty predictable, old and set in my ways. I'm screwed.