Cedric
09-16-2012, 08:21 AM
As I type this I have no idea if my chosen avatar will display or not. It's on my control panel page but states that the upload failed. Meh . . . if it's not one thing then it's another . . . but it's always an adventure.
My background? I spent fifteen years posting on a now defunct political forum, which went belly up almost exactly a year ago. After that I migrated to a new political forum with controls and features almost identical to this one. It's actually a bit spooky how closely the two control sets match.
Anyway after posting for two thirds of the year over there I was made a system moderator -- one of eight such selected from the regulars. After three months of doing that I was burned out on both posting and moderating. So I left and I only recently returned . . . to discover that in the interim the system owners had pulled their oversight and financial backing from their creation because they could not entice enough advertisers to the site. The moderators remaining managed to keep things running smoothly enough but now the system is so slow that half the time you find yourself falling asleep while your postings or replies are going through. Well, I've had enough. I'm interested in posting not in wondering if the post or reply will ever work its way through the system and finally appear.
So as a poster what sort of creature be I? I am a political contrarian but I am currently posting almost exclusively from the political perspective of a rightwinger for my own reasons. Once I posted almost exclusively from the political perspective of a leftwinger and may some day down the line do so again. I guess that's enough to be getting on with. Now let me post this and see if my avatar selection get's included.
My background? I spent fifteen years posting on a now defunct political forum, which went belly up almost exactly a year ago. After that I migrated to a new political forum with controls and features almost identical to this one. It's actually a bit spooky how closely the two control sets match.
Anyway after posting for two thirds of the year over there I was made a system moderator -- one of eight such selected from the regulars. After three months of doing that I was burned out on both posting and moderating. So I left and I only recently returned . . . to discover that in the interim the system owners had pulled their oversight and financial backing from their creation because they could not entice enough advertisers to the site. The moderators remaining managed to keep things running smoothly enough but now the system is so slow that half the time you find yourself falling asleep while your postings or replies are going through. Well, I've had enough. I'm interested in posting not in wondering if the post or reply will ever work its way through the system and finally appear.
So as a poster what sort of creature be I? I am a political contrarian but I am currently posting almost exclusively from the political perspective of a rightwinger for my own reasons. Once I posted almost exclusively from the political perspective of a leftwinger and may some day down the line do so again. I guess that's enough to be getting on with. Now let me post this and see if my avatar selection get's included.