The Board that shall not be named...

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The Board that shall not be named...

arbilad · Head Chef

Maybe aliens have taken it over.

Randy · Senior Member

There's another message board?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Evidently not, Randy. ctr

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

Bountiful, the True and Living message board.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

RE: The Board that shall not be named...

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I'm disappointed they didn't provide a link to Bountiful... biggrin (joking...)

Well, thanks for getting to the bottom of it, Bok!

--Ray

Mahonri · Senior Bucketkeeper

Ray, you are correct, it would have been the least that they could do... to simply post a link to , Bountiful.

nitasmile · Senior Member

I've been wondering what is up there and what they meant about the email spam.
Oh well, my other board I like to visit is down too, I guess it is a sign.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I wonder if this is how the 2nd coming will feel... You show up at church one Sunday only to find the whole ward's been translated... :)

--Ray

TitusTodd · Senior Member

Boards can be difficult to manage. My family history board was hacked and defaced once. I kept on having to delete spam registrations. Regular updates have to be made to stay ahead of the hackers and such. Activeboard probably does most of their updates at night when it is not noticed but the webmaster for OSC's websites is probably a volunteer who has to do it during the day when it is more noticeable.

By the way, it appears all OSC sites are down this morning.

arbilad · Head Chef

We've had our share of technical problems, including being offline a couple of times. Activeboard does seem to be pretty good lately about avoiding that.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

bokbadok wrote:

Nauvoo problems explained

In one sense, that news upsets / worries (even though I haven't been a part of that forum for 8 months now)... solely in the sense that now security seemed to be lacking... (of course, maybe this will wake some folks up to the reality of the need to be more discreet in their conversations as they are open for the world to see)

But, on the other hand, here is hoping the support and administration staff over there get the problem resolved quickly, because it sounds pretty serious if the hosting service required them to shut down until it is fixed.

arbilad · Head Chef

bokbadok wrote:

Nauvoo problems explained

Here we were all happy with our baseless speculation and you have to provide actual facts

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I hope they recover soon. I really hate hacker crap... i've been on the net since before the WWW existed, and this sort of stuff does a lot to dampen my spirits about the whole system's viability. Once upon a time it was just about kids being jerks, defacing property mostly because it could be done, but now it's more nefarious. Many of these hacker types are now being embraced by hostile governments and criminal elements of society.

It makes me so, so, so... upset.

It makes me wanna purchase a firearm.

--Ray

TitusTodd · Senior Member

It makes me wanna purchase a firearm.

And shoot your computer? Or hunt down hackers? smile

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Whichever one makes me feel better... biggrin

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Well, when Strong Bad got like 423,827 viruses, they had to resort to shooting his computer...

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arbilad · Head Chef

I've noticed that, with that other board down, people with dual citizenship are spending a lot of time here.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

that's no surprise

So Cat, have you anted up your share of the maintenance fund? I noticed we're a tad short for next month.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Like in the joke where the camel and donkey are walking in the desert and the donkey asks how long until they get to some water and the camel says to the donkey... "patience (fill in the blank)..."

(have some pressing financial needs currently)

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

yeah yeah... for eight months ?

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Do you know how the camel got his hump, though?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Oooo... good question Bok about the dough! This is a perfect time for a Board-a-Thon.

Now that I have a job, I might just have to put my money where my mouth is... The conservative in me thinks I should contribute... the liberal in me really likes mooching off the kindness of others... :)

That said, I extend a warm welcome to any visitor to this place... Come! Post! Rejoice!!

And always ---> ctr

--Ray

-- Edited by rayb at 12:22, 2007-04-25

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

So... yer saying you gotta' PAY for bountiful, but nauvoo is free?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

You don't HAVE to pay, but then you get annoying banner ads on the site that well... aren't in harmony with LDS values. rolleyes

--Ray

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Nauvoo doesn't have banner ads, though.

arbilad · Head Chef

Nauvoo is paid for by Orson Scott Card, who has sold many, many books and can therefore afford to pay out of pocket for the traffic, server, software, etc. Bountiful is run by me, and since I have nowhere near the reserves that OSC does, I ask people to donate if they can.
Before Bok was kind enough to be the first to pay, we had ads on this site. Some of them were ads for Hooters. Besides, there are several other benefits to having this site paid for. One of them is that we have a nicer address. You can remember bountiful.activeboard.com a whole lot more easily than you can remember the old address (which began www.activeboard.com, and then had a forum number and some other hard to remember numbers and letters).
We also have other cool features which aren't available with the free version.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Oh sure... Arbi... just appeal to my conservative side... and the liberal side of me is feeling guilt...

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

I take it your not a hooters man?

Leg man, maybe?

arbilad · Head Chef

rayb wrote:

Oh sure... Arbi... just appeal to my conservative side... and the liberal side of me is feeling guilt...

C'mon, we just need $9.60 for the next month. That's what, a pack of diapers for your young one? You can do without that, can't you?

Oh wait, that's the wrong approach.

$9.60 is what, one or two days of eating out for lunch instead of packing a lunch? Surely you can make such a small sacrifice for the board. biggrin

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Hey, maybe all of nauvoo's threads will be lost!

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

Suppose someone wanted to pay. How do they stay anonymous? Hm?

arbilad · Head Chef

Cocobeem wrote:

I take it your not a hooters man?

Leg man, maybe?

While I do not discuss my personal preferences as regards female beauty on anonymous internet message boards, suffice it to say that if you knew my wife it would be abundantly clear what I prefer. She is, after all, the standard by which all female beauty must be judged. biggrin

arbilad · Head Chef

Cocobeem wrote:

Suppose someone wanted to pay. How do they stay anonymous? Hm?

To be honest, I don't know. But there must be an option, because we have had two anonymous donaters. Click on the link at the bottom of the page and explore.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

The option is available. The liberal in me hates that feature, the Conservative in me loves it.

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Way to go, Coco!

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

The team-player in me just contributed.

The vainglory-seeker in me left my ID so I get the due respect.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

What the--

I thought it was $9.60 per person. D'oh!!

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

arbilad wrote:

rayb wrote:

Oh sure... Arbi... just appeal to my conservative side... and the liberal side of me is feeling guilt...

C'mon, we just need $9.60 for the next month. That's what, a pack of diapers for your young one? You can do without that, can't you?
Oh wait, that's the wrong approach.
$9.60 is what, one or two days of eating out for lunch instead of packing a lunch? Surely you can make such a small sacrifice for the board.

No, no, that is also the wrong approach for getting donations, particularly for those of us who already pack our lunch every day.

No, it needs to be something along the lines of "For less than the cost of a month's worth of dial-up service, you can help provide hope to a whole community of the downtrodden in cyberspace. Every penny of every dollar you donate to Bountiful Cyber Friends goes to provide such basic necessities to bringing these unfortunate souls beyond mere existence in the internet to things, which for them has only been a dream beyond imagination, such as stimulating and LDS based conversation free from transfatty acids and synthetic poo crystals."

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rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Speaking of lunch... I need to go get some...

arbilad · Head Chef

BTW, just because Coco was nice enough to take care of our needs for next month doesn't mean that we are turning away further donations. For instance, if we got 10 months worth of donations, we could prepay for an entire year.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Mahonri, I think you need to sell your Beemer and consecrate the funds to the cause!

With the proceeds of selling your Beemer, we could end causing a forced buy out of "The Board that shall not be named..." bwa-ha-ha!

Must... resist... urge... to think... in business... terms... as it... would be... a poor... merger & acquisition... we'ld probably... end up... having to sell... it later... at a loss...

p.s. Coco, you only get to have your name up there until someone else makes a donation.

What is the full monthly amount needed for the subscription level we're at again, arbi? Something like $14.95, isn't it?

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

Wow. Coco is really generous!!

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Hey Cat,

What do you call someone who sells someone else's car to force the acquisition of someone else's property?

A liberal.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Hmmm... there has to be a way that it can be made to look non-liberal...

idea

I know! We shall call it "Eminent Domain"... we'll condemn Mahonri's Beemer as unfit to drive because we have the opportunity to redevelop the neighborhood for a rich corporate developer who will create a synergy that will exponentially impact the subscriber base of the combined forums in a positive manner.

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

What do you call someone who talks a lot but never contributes?

A liberal.

mirkwood · Senior Bucketkeeper

arbilad wrote:

Cocobeem wrote:

I take it your not a hooters man?

Leg man, maybe?

She is, after all, the standard by which all female beauty must be judged.

Apparently you missed the pic of my wife at the Board That Must Not Be Named. biggrin

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

bokbadok wrote:

What do you call someone who talks a lot but never contributes?

A liberal.

Ouch! There are also the non-tangible contributions to consider...

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I keep a veil over my wife, else all men would go insanely mad with jealousy and lust and would kill themselves in duels over her affection and her favor... And she hates that. I'm really doing the whole world a favor by sacrificing in this way... It's a service to all men and women...

--Ray