http://Link Blocked By Linked Site/

[Bangelnuts]

Well the actual statement makes sense inasmuch as I can understand what she's saying (for once).  However I still find the posture unreasonable because she does not have to make herself responsible for ensuring no one gets confused.  She can let her users explain it to each other - those who post a link can answer any questions they might be asked about it how they see best.   For instance if Dizzy2 posts a link to MATY on his forums, then it is *supposed* to be up to him to support questions about it, not her.   She explains quite clearly that apart from some site-wide obscenity rules (which don't have to be obeyed by the admins or mods) anything else is entirely up to the owners of the different sections.

Also I smell a rat in the timing.  Pescado's had that joke and whatever link-posting policy he's got for months.  Funny the reaction is just happening at VS now.

I know I have had no problem when clicking links to here from Mod the Siims 2. I land at MATY when I click the links there. so the whole thing makes very little sense to me in its timing.Pescado has been gone from VS for nearly 3 months why the issue now?

[Hook]

After the avatar fiasco, when Rentech says "swamped with PM's" she probably means two.  And from what she's written, neither was by JM himself.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm happy that the less awesome posters at VS are directed to the IQ test on the front page.  But I wouldn't complain about it to Rentech either way.

Poor Rennie, she's in a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.  The only way she can appear reasonably innocent is to do nothing at all.  Which is what she probably should have done in this case, and in the case of the evil ADULT avatar in question (taken from an in-game shot of someone making out on the sofa).

Hook

[Bangelnuts]

After the avatar fiasco, when Rentech says "swamped with PM's" she probably means two.  And from what she's written, neither was by JM himself.

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Hook

That many huh ? wow talk about swamped 2 is  2  to many ROFL

[Inge]

I am prepared to stick my neck out here and say the real reason is probably that the VS owners do not wish to make it easy for their readers to hop over here and read what's being said about them.

[Bangelnuts]

I am prepared to stick my neck out here and say the real reason is probably that the VS owners do not wish to make it easy for their readers to hop over here and read what's being said about them.

you are no doubt right

[Motoki]

Pretending for a moment that I believe what she said is true (which I don't) how does it make any sense to block the links in PMs too? Or do Pescado and his fans somehow psychically know when someone at VS uses such a link in their private messages and then bombard Rennie with complaints about it? 

[uaintjak]

Good god.  Save the drama for your mama.

Honestly, I've never seen such weirdness on a website (well, except when I went looking for it).  I started out on Mod the Sims 2, then Various Simmers, then ended up here - I guess I'm an honest to god JM fanboi, since I'll follow him wherever he goes.  I still go to the other two sites, naturally - they all have worthwhile things on them, and when I'm looking for something, I'll go to wherever has it.

The sheer amount of drama coming from VS and it's staff, though, just makes me feel like I ended up in Bizarro World.  I personally take the "WHATEVAH!" approach, but I guess after seeing all the crap that goes on between sim communities, I felt the need to post (thus blowing away any claims to neutrality that I might have once had).  Reading posts from those people always leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  Or a "what the fuck" taste, which is similar, but with a hint of nutmeg.

[Brynne]

I've been following the drama since the CEP thread began (hell, I guess since I've been a member at VS, the drama has been going on long before that. Remember the Fuck  MTS2 thread? Motoki? lol. That looks like Romper Room compared with the CEP thread). Anyone else notice Rentechd's posts getting less and less coherent? Like her hands are positioned on the wrong keys on the keyboard? I'm picturing frothing at the mouth, wild hair...it lends a very freaky vibe to the whole fiasco.
I hope TJ escapes, soon. He's much too respectable to be associated with that site.

[Dark Trepie]

The internet has always been a breeding ground for drama, no matter what community or fandom you're in.

This was all a part of Al Gore's plan when he first created the internet!   

[Hook]

I am prepared to stick my neck out here and say the real reason is probably that the VS owners do not wish to make it easy for their readers to hop over here and read what's being said about them.

While you may be right, I'm prepared to give Rennie the benefit of the doubt in this case.  As for some of the others... well, I've had dealings with a few in chat and I know what they can be like.

Rennie caved in with only a few messages about the avatar, and at the time neither JM nor myself saw anything wrong with it, as we discussed it in chat.  It wouldn't surprise me if some of the more zealous members of MATY have messaged her about sending idiots here. 

After reading the CEP thread it's obvious that some of 'em need to be staked out on a short leash and fed raw meat with a slingshot.  It may be that Ren's simply letting too many people push her around.  Perhaps she needs a bit more weight in her buttocks fundament.

Someone else mentioned using the same forum software that rentech does, and that it's easy to change all instances of a particular string to something else, which affects PM's as well as forum postings.  If there's no way to exclude PM's from the global change, then she's simply taken the easy way out.

Hook

[RainbowTigress]

Rennie caved in with only a few messages about the avatar, and at the time neither JM nor myself saw anything wrong with it, as we discussed it in chat.  It wouldn't surprise me if some of the more zealous members of MATY have messaged her about sending idiots here. 

I know what you mean about about the latter.  I was chastised by a couple of other members for posting a link to this site over there when someone asked for one of JM's mods right after he left.

[Ness]

tinyURL?

changes the text in the link...

[ZephyrZodiac]

Of course anyone in authority on a site can block words, sentences, kinks etc.  Try using these espressions on a Yahoo group:

Fleet Street hack

The explorers hacked their way through the undergrowth.

The gentleman wore grey breeches and a tweed hacking jacket.

ie the word "hack" and it's derivatives is banned!

[Bangelnuts]

Of course anyone in authority on a site can block words, sentences, kinks etc.  Try using these espressions on a Yahoo group:

Fleet Street hack

The explorers hacked their way through the undergrowth.

The gentleman wore grey breeches and a tweed hacking jacket.

ie the word "hack" and it's derivatives is banned!

strange 

[Inge]

While you may be right, I'm prepared to give Rennie the benefit of the doubt in this case.

That she needed to block the URL site-wide because she was worried about people being confused by Pescado's front page? Well given that they think the CEP can destroy users' boot sector, maybe you're right.

[Sagana]

If I read that correctly... I believe she's saying JM would be mad if she *failed* to confuse users at JMs front page and instead let folks direct link in here. A link to the main site does still work there (or did yesterday), just not a specific page link.

[Kristalrose]

Wow, we're really awesome now. We're the Site That Shall Not Be Named. yay us!

Yes, JMP, you are truly the Lord Voldemort of the Sims Community!!   

[gynarchy]

ie the word "hack" and it's derivatives is banned!

And so are born the words hax0r, h4x0r, |-|/-\}{()|3 (I can't remember how to make an obnoxious R), etc.

[Sagana]

oh yeah, that reminds me...

Haster, Haster, Haster

so there

<gulp>

I'll be back when the Great C'thulhu is finished teaching me a lesson...

[Bangelnuts]

If I read that correctly... I believe she's saying JM would be mad if she *failed* to confuse users at JMs front page and instead let folks direct link in here. A link to the main site does still work there (or did yesterday), just not a specific page link.

that could be  and I hope you're right . but it does appear on the surface at least that there is a petty one sided vendetta going on

[Motoki]

I'll probably get my lips ripped off for this, but sometimes you have to take what Pescado says tongue-in-cheek. She's taking an off handed remark he made to extremes for her own vindictive purposes and then trying to manipulate it around so that she is merely doing what he asked. I suppose next she will start setting people on fire because Pescado always talks about burninating people. 

Besides, you can type moreawesomethanyou in google and get several direct links that bypass the front page in a half a second so the whole think is rather pointless.

[theisz]

Yes, the twit even has it blocked when you link to the faux front page. 

Did I mention that rentechd is a great flaming twit?  I don't know which is worse, her or carrigon.  Maybe it's a tie, its pretty close but I'm not sure yet. 

[Meek_Monkey]

I was at VS awhile ago and someone was looking for a mod that JM did I tried to put a link to this site and everytime I tried to click on the link to see if it worked it came up this page could not be displayed so she has some how blocked anyone tring to link to this site in the post. I then wrote that you can find the mod u are looking for at more awsome than you without the link .

[Hook]

While you may be right, I'm prepared to give Rennie the benefit of the doubt in this case.

That she needed to block the URL site-wide because she was worried about people being confused by Pescado's front page?

That she thought she was doing what people on this site wanted:  sending all users to the front page instead of allowing links to the forum and specific posts.

We can only pray that the front page is sufficiently confusing to keep the least awesome of the visitors out.

Hook

[phyllis_p]

While you may be right, I'm prepared to give Rennie the benefit of the doubt in this case.

That she needed to block the URL site-wide because she was worried about people being confused by Pescado's front page?

That she thought she was doing what people on this site wanted:  sending all users to the front page instead of allowing links to the forum and specific posts.

We can only pray that the front page is sufficiently confusing to keep the least awesome of the visitors out.

Hook

I went to VS and sent myself a PM with the link to Pescado's front page.  When I read the PM, it substituted "Link Blocked By Linked Site."  So even trying to link to the front page doesn't work.  (Other folks may have already said this, but your comment seemed to say to me, Hook, that you didn't understand this is what they were saying ..... if that's what they said .. which they may not have.   Sorry, after work drinks are kicking in  )

Phyllis