The universe according to MMM

[dlsterner]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

Wonder if he is trying to get below 1500 posts?  I know he has said he didn't like being classified as a "Turnpike".

(Idle thought - since there are custom classifications like "DOT Employee", maybe one called "Doofus" could be make and applied to a few people I can think of?)

[roadman65]

Like I said earlier that he is entertaining, so we all treat him as comedy and not a conversing user.   Yes, there should be a special category for him.

[MultiMillionMiler]

OMG I am sick of these fucking typos. Now I definitely won't delete that post because I need the edit to be visible to show that wasn't intentional. It's like I'm cursed with touchscreen phones.

Be glad NE 2 didn't catch it.

NE2 barely posts on the forum anymore

Yeah I wonder what's up with that?

Neither is his buddy, the MOD from Boonton, NJ.

You talking about Alps? Alps is no longer a mod, but he still posts sometimes on the forum. He's active just doesn't post much anymore. Plenty of people (me included) have times when they post more on the forum than at other times.

Alps don't trust. He quit once before to spend time with his fiancé and it turns out he didn't.

One day he made an incoherent remark after he allegedly resigned, as Alps is not on the spectrum or mentally ill, so I hit the report to moderator button, and he put me on probation ( as still he was active MOD).

So he may still be a MOD, but on a little R & R like he was with his former girlfriend.

Alps gave me an 85% warning level shortly after joining the forum for posting one thing in the wrong thread. ONE!

[MultiMillionMiler]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

Wonder if he is trying to get below 1500 posts?  I know he has said he didn't like being classified as a "Turnpike".

(Idle thought - since there are custom classifications like "DOT Employee", maybe one called "Doofus" could be make and applied to a few people I can think of?)

No, I explained any of my few post deletions above. But yes I really wish Scott would just lock my post count at a random number between 1000 and 1499 or 3000+ and keep it there, so I can be freeway or expressway. Being a turnpike is just insulting. Highway Tolls = Extortion.

[hotdogPi]

But yes I really wish Scott would just lock my post count at a random number between 1000 and 1499 or 3000+ and keep it there, so I can be freeway or expressway. Being a turnpike is just insulting. Highway Tolls = Extortion.

Post counts can't be frozen. The most reasonable way to do it is probably to make 100001970 100001963 (right now), where it's clear what the real number is.

You decreased it by 7 while I was typing.

[roadman65]

I’ve also caught Alps being anal about spelling a few times. Like I said he is not on the spectrum or have any mental health issues, yet he chose to react to me spelling Lou Farrakhan wrong as NE 2 would in wrongful spelling situations.

[hotdogPi]

Alps is also extremely hostile to me in the chat and is the reason I'm not welcome there despite not being banned.

[MultiMillionMiler]

But yes I really wish Scott would just lock my post count at a random number between 1000 and 1499 or 3000+ and keep it there, so I can be freeway or expressway. Being a turnpike is just insulting. Highway Tolls = Extortion.

Post counts can't be frozen. The most reasonable way to do it is probably to make 100001970 100001963 (right now), where it's clear what the real number is.

You decreased it by 7 while I was typing.

Oh I thought maybe you were going by prime numbers for a second.

[Scott5114]

I didn't have any videos LOL so how could I be an advertising target, most accounts don't.

You watch the ads. Duh.

[roadman65]

Alps is also extremely hostile to me in the chat and is the reason I'm not welcome there despite not being banned.

Alps is very prejudiced especially if you're friends with him on social media. Say something he politically disagrees with on that platform or say anything negative about two specific users on this forum, and you're under scrutiny forever.

I believe my friendship with Alex is the reason why I'm not banned here.  I'm sure that burns him up real badly that I personally know Alex.

[GaryV]

I said I sometimes go back and delete old posts that I felt were overly outrageous or nonsense, since this is the only social media I have, I want my collection of posts to be a golden standard if you know what I mean.

So like, most of them?

Don't want a few irrational ones to taint my exemplary record on this forum.

Too late.

[roadman65]

You delete posts and if someone quotes it, the quote will still remain in another post quoted yours.

[Scott5114]

Last night I swear this thread had 77 pages, and now with a new page of posts its now 76.

Yes, the length of this thread has been oscillating for a few days now. It has about 10 less replies now than it did yesterday, and that was down from the day before. I still can't believe it hasn't been moved.

It's not being moved to fictional highways because it's not about highways. Or at least it wasn't at the beginning when it was MMM inventing his own physics.

So he may still be a MOD, but on a little R & R like he was with his former girlfriend.

Alps retains moderation permissions in the Canada section, but has no advanced permissions on any other board.

Alps's position as global mod was filled a week ago by J.N. Winkler.

I believe my friendship with Alex is the reason why I'm not banned here.  I'm sure that burns him up real badly that I personally know Alex.

You've never been able to permanently ban someone unilaterally on this forum. It always requires a majority of the mods to agree. So if he ever wanted to ban you (which I can't say he ever brought up so far as I can remember) he would have a good enough reason to convince everyone else, which would involve pointing to actual rules violations. This is especially true since Alps was a global mod, so he didn't have access to the permanent ban interface; only admins have that.

[Hobart]

I said I sometimes go back and delete old posts that I felt were overly outrageous or nonsense, since this is the only social media I have, I want my collection of posts to be a golden standard if you know what I mean. Don't want a few irrational ones to taint my exemplary record on this forum.

You do know that your record is already quite bad, right? All you're doing is wasting your own time and serving as a very slight inconvenience to any user who reads this thread for their amusement (not because you have profound ideas).

Like I said earlier that he is entertaining, so we all treat him as comedy and not a conversing user.   Yes, there should be a special category for him.

I would like to suggest some names for this category:

• Clown
• Court Jester
• Plaything

[MultiMillionMiler]

What inconvenience? Who is going to read pages 29, 37, 43, or 61 of this random thread?

[jeffandnicole]

What inconvenience? Who is going to read pages 29, 37, 43, or 61 of this random thread?

Exactly. So why are you deleting them?

[kalvado]

What inconvenience? Who is going to read pages 29, 37, 43, or 61 of this random thread?

Exactly. So why are you deleting them?

Just a thought....
Because it fuels dying discussion for another 10 pages?

[MultiMillionMiler]

Quoted posts don't carry the same impression as the real thing. They are sort of like ghosts of the person's posts, and again there's always that 1% doubt that people could have edited the quote themselves (not saying I think anyone did that) but just saying. Also, it shows that I may have agreed with the reply and changed my mind, so it seems stupid to pollute the forum with a bunch of "fair enough" or "OK you're right" or "fine" when you can just delete the original post. It's not about not admiting being wrong either, it's to avoid an over inflated post count for ideas I may no longer hold.

For example, I realized how insane all the east coast arguments I was making were, as well as the I-90 cargo planes/rocket powered ferries, and beltway around abandoned cities were, so am really sorry, I must not have been thinking straight those days, (although I still a cargo plane is needed to connect the two I-2s), so call it an OCD thing if you will, but it also just makes the most sense.

[hotdogPi]

By the way, the forum software allows roles like the existing DOT Employee and Site Contributor that override the typical road-based ranks. It's possible for an admin to create a role where you're the only member, and you'll no longer be a Turnpike. Do you want that?

[MultiMillionMiler]

Sure, but why do I have a feeling I would end up with a George Santos/Wesley Crusher tag if I leave that up to the admins?

[MultiMillionMiler]

In fact, here's my personal suggestion for post count tags:

0 = Parking Lot
1-9 = Dirt Road
10-99 = Unpaved Road
100-249=2 Lane undivided Road
250-499= 4 lane county Road
500-999=6 lane county Road
1000-1499= State Route
1500-1999 = US Route
2000-2499 = Cross Country US Route
2500-2999 = Interstate
3000-4999= Cross Country Interstate
5000-9999= Interstate 80
10,000+ = German Autobahn

[hotdogPi]

0 = Parking Lot
1-9 = Dirt Road
10-99 = Residential street
100-237 = Collector
238 = California's Much Maligned Interstate
239-499 = Arterial
500+ = (no rank description needed; just leave it blank, and don't even show the number of posts)

[Max Rockatansky]

Here is my suggestion:

-  Remove post counts

[hotdogPi]

My "post count" under Scott5114's proposal is 14; I believe its last increase was in 2014 (up from 12).

[thspfc]

>10,000: 🌞 needs to go outside