GGN - Over/Under Poll

[LBDamned]

The 5 day over/under is being obliterated..

New reasonable over/under expectation seems May 1st ...

I'm taking the over again.

And the first person that complains about 'no poll' - is tasked with keeping track of bets...

[SandiegoPoopButt619]

I trust those boys in Ukraine doing the upgrade, I think they'll have it buttoned up before May 1st!

[TheGood]

Starting to like .ORG better than .NET.
It's faster, no ads, fewer snowflakes, and just 'better'.
<== And by 'better', see what I mean? 

[D-M]

I'm thinking by this time next week, we'll have a partially functional forum to return to. It'll probably be glitch as hell, and might crash often. But it'll be there.

[Silence Dogood]

Wow, D-M[!  You sure know how to roll into a party in style.  GOEX FFF has to get your avatar into his OP in the BBA vote thread.

I presume others have noticed the spam thread created by newb autogcooro.  It took less than a week for us to pick up a bot.  Somehow, that tells feels like a reality check that makes me feel like we will be back on CGN before long.

At risk of jinxing it, I will say under LBDamned, though you are probably right.

[LBDamned]

Starting to like .ORG better than .NET.
It's faster, no ads, fewer snowflakes, and just 'better'.
<== And by 'better', see what I mean? 

But boobies? How long can that carry us 

[D-M]

Wow, D-M!  You sure know how to roll into a party in style.  GOEX FFF has to get your avatar into his OP in the BBA vote thread.

When in Rome... Do as the Romans.

I presume others have noticed the spam thread created by newb autogcooro.  It took less than a week for us to pick up a bot.  Somehow, that tells feels like a reality check that makes me feel like we will be back on CGN before long.

I reported the bastard.

At risk of jinxing it, I will say under LBDamned, though you are probably right.

I'll be shocked.

[LBDamned]

Wow, D-M[!  You sure know how to roll into a party in style.  GOEX FFF has to get your avatar into his OP in the BBA vote thread.

I presume others have noticed the spam thread created by newb autogcooro.  It took less than a week for us to pick up a bot.  Somehow, that tells feels like a reality check that makes me feel like we will be back on CGN before long.

At risk of jinxing it, I will say under LBDamned, though you are probably right.

I didn't know what bot you were referring to... but saw that thread just now... wtf is that about? And how do we eradicate it?

[TheGood]

Starting to like .ORG better than .NET.
It's faster, no ads, fewer snowflakes, and just 'better'.
<== And by 'better', see what I mean? 

But boobies? How long can that carry us 

Boobies feed the Earf!
MILF milk money! 
BP has connections! 

[Silence Dogood]

Yeah, you are right D-M.  I just reviewed the announcement thread Kes made.  Based on what they are telling him and what I know about our board (not just Ukraine threads but pics that make you laugh thread and covid hot chicks thread and all the show-off-pics-of-your-guns threads, CGN is a lot of data), it is going to be a little while.  Ten more days is probably a pretty good estimate, at least.

[Silence Dogood]

I didn't know what bot you were referring to... but saw that thread just now... wtf is that about? And how do we eradicate it?

Well now that it's been reported, I expect the member can be nuked along with the thread.  As for how we keep them off forever, I do not know.  Maybe block the IP.  If they were using a VPN that would not do much in the long run.  I wonder if shadow nuking it (somehow hiding it from view but allowing it to exist so the culprit is unaware he's been had) would be more effective, like deleting spam texts instead of opening them.  I really do not know.  On CGN I know we had IT pros in our midsts but I do not know if that is true of the few hundred that have made it over to CGO.

[Widdle]

Over. I guessed two weeks at first. That may have been optimistic.

[El farto]

The only answer on CGN is always two weeks

[LBDamned]

Over. I guessed two weeks at first. That may have been optimistic.

It was.

May 1st might be too.

[LBDamned]

I didn't know what bot you were referring to... but saw that thread just now... wtf is that about? And how do we eradicate it?

Well now that it's been reported, I expect the member can be nuked along with the thread.  As for how we keep them off forever, I do not know.  Maybe block the IP.  If they were using a VPN that would not do much in the long run.  I wonder if shadow nuking it (somehow hiding it from view but allowing it to exist so the culprit is unaware he's been had) would be more effective, like deleting spam texts instead of opening them.  I really do not know.  On CGN I know we had IT pros in our midsts but I do not know if that is true of the few hundred that have made it over to CGO.

I'd be shocked if 'reporting it' does anything...

This is the shtf bunker... we're on our own...

Between kids bumping threads for no reason and sinister bots laying who knows what in our space... it's gonna take some creative thinking.

The devil is fcking with us... and it's getting annoying.

[2shotjoe]

2 weeks after May 15.

[swalt]

All the years falling behind on upgrades, 16 years from the last time.  The over/under should be on what parts can be upgraded or whether the data base survives at all.  Probably the reason why the previous vender was dragging its feet and why Kes had to go to online hosting and go to vBulletin itself to upgrade.  If anyone could figure it out it would be them.  But who knows.  Perhaps vBulletin just outsources to code monkeys who have no institutional knowledge, no memory, no history how things should work and what to do.

[FatCity67]

[dan_eastvale]

May 15 estimate
Fake news?

[Bar-Ang]

i'm optimistic so before may 1st.

[LBDamned]

i'm optimistic so before may 1st.

But you've been known to be clueless too... so there's that.

Just sayin'

[D-M]

I didn't know what bot you were referring to... but saw that thread just now... wtf is that about? And how do we eradicate it?

Well now that it's been reported, I expect the member can be nuked along with the thread.  As for how we keep them off forever, I do not know.  Maybe block the IP.  If they were using a VPN that would not do much in the long run.  I wonder if shadow nuking it (somehow hiding it from view but allowing it to exist so the culprit is unaware he's been had) would be more effective, like deleting spam texts instead of opening them.  I really do not know.  On CGN I know we had IT pros in our midsts but I do not know if that is true of the few hundred that have made it over to CGO.

Who are the admins/mods?

It might make sense to temporarily empower a couple more mods to do general housekeeping while this site is seeing increased traffic.

Otherwise as this site gets bumped up the SEO foodchain we'll be seeing more and more, and with new faces/names coming over from CGN, it's only a matter of time before someone innocently clicks a suspicious link and gives their device the bad AIDS.

[D-M]

i'm optimistic so before may 1st.

You sweet, summer child.

[Bar-Ang]

i'm optimistic so before may 1st.

But you've been known to be clueless too... so there's that.

Just sayin'

the saying "ignorance is bliss" is where i'm at so life is peachy! in my world.

[eaglemike]

Oh man, did you have to do that? Eye bleach isn't enough. That right there is nightmare stuff. I almost ralphed on my keyboard. I guess it is a great reminder that things could be a LOT worse.

Back on topic - it's going to be Two Weeks! (maybe) There's so many people in the world now that really don't know how to fix stuff. I'm hoping the people actually doing the upgrade are competent.

[Bar-Ang]

i'm optimistic so before may 1st.

You sweet, summer child.

life is short so enjoy summer while you can and deal with winter when it comes.

[GOEX FFF]

Wow, D-M[!  You sure know how to roll into a party in style.  GOEX FFF has to get your avatar into his OP in the BBA vote thread.

Updated!

[compulsivegungrabber]

I'm guessing there is going to be a fatal error and all the .net data will be systematically deleted and lost. The new .net will have to start anew, 6 months from now.

[SandiegoPoopButt619]

I'm guessing there is going to be a fatal error and all the .net data will be systematically deleted and lost. The new .net will have to start anew, 6 months from now.

Who are you? Are you compulsivegunbuyer or someone else?

[LBDamned]

One calendar week down...

Will Trump Trial be over before .net is up?... hmmm...