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  1. Rob
    Yeah, the keyword thing seems tough to implement outside places like twitter where each post is somewhat-standalone. I could see it working solely off thread titles, though. For instance, put Trump on the blocklist, and those threads with his name in the title are auto-ignored or something. Could be useful as we move away from mega-threads. Thanks for thinking on it.
  2. Rob
    Are there any robust ignore settings on this board? I've got a [expletive] of climate change anxiety, and would love to ignore the weather thread. Or maybe set up a list of keywords so that things don't show up in my feed. Anything like that? All I've been able to find so far is ignoring specific posters.
  3. Rob
    I remember writing a couple articles back in the day. Wouldn't mind seeing how poorly they hold up...
  4. Rob
    While they're all a bit too rosy for me, I don't hate these predictions. I just wanted to be the first to use the button to dislike one of your posts.
  5. Rob
    I'd be much obliged. Right now, I've got the site zoomed in 120% to make the font somewhat legible, which of course is throwing off the way everything else is presented. That said, I want to express that I fully appreciate you're working hard to make sure the methodology is working appropriately for paying your writers. That is a way better reason than anything I was anticipating. That said, if you get the time to make a second theme with the only difference being Times New Roman font, I'd name my next kid after you.
  6. Rob
    Please forgive my ignorance, but was the availability of the theme choice causing some other issue? If not, I think keeping it enabled as an option while you work out some of the kinks (such as the broken icons on the other theme), might be well-received.
  7. Rob
    I hope you enjoyed it while you could. It appears that theme is now gone again... I'm gonna need a theme with a readable typeface for my old eyes at some point soon. This jacked-up sans serif nonsense is abusive.
  8. Rob
    Also nice, we can now just hit ctrl+b or ctrl+i or whatever to input the bold and italic stuff. No more awkward code.
  9. Rob
    I don't know what to think of star wars or marvel stuff if I can't see Mojo and Derwood argue about it. It is inhumanely cruel of our new overlords to hide the forums' expert opinions from the hoi polloi.
  10. Rob
    There's currently two themes to choose from. You can find them at the very bottom of the page. The font for the Northside Baseball (default) theme nearly gave me eye cancer. But the other default theme is a bit better. And doesn't have all the missing icon issues.
  11. Rob
    I just noticed that Fred's account is messed up, with all the extra numbers. Despite your seeming resurrections of some other old posters, I doubt Fred is gonna be able to pm you about this, so I hope you don't mind me requesting that you fix it on his behalf. https://northsidebaseball.com/profile/5261-fred-hornkohl1679666346/
  12. Rob
    I would much appreciate being added to the old timey member group as well. It's either that or mutiny. Maybe both, but one would stave off the other for a bit.
  13. Rob
    That's been going on a lot longer than a month. That said, I still prefer it to all the ads I would get for commemorative Trump coins.
  14. Rob
    This is kinda surprising. Only because I had honestly half-expected Vince McMahon and Donald Trump to launch their own douchebag baseball league and make Bauer the face of the league.
  15. Rob
    I dont have an issue with the players stealing signs during play, or coaches/managers clueing in players in the dugout or via a 1st or 3rd base coach, but when you've got organizational dudes using a camera in the outfield, sending in signals to some dude who's banging on a tub I feel like you crossed a line. Plus horsefeathers Houston Yeah. Let the players and coaches try to figure out signs. I have no problem with that whatsoever. But once people start using specialized equipment (cameras, binoculars, trash cans) and various other employees, it has gone too far.
  16. Rob
    Sounds like you did the right thing by never inviting me.
  17. Rob
    Dibs on using the full-size pic of Roast with the sword. Anybody got that handy?
  18. Rob
    CT is still 12, and I refuse to engage with anybody who tells me otherwise. CT is a practicing lawyer now, I think. That's not necessarily dispositive. My wife is a practicing lawyer and she never graduated high school. So I don't see why a 12 year old couldn't practice the law, barring some sort of state statute which I refuse to look up.
  19. Rob
    When this board started, CT was like 12. CT is still 12, and I refuse to engage with anybody who tells me otherwise.
  20. Rob
    Yeah, I never much understood it either. But honestly, I've found the horsefeathers filter charming. So I'm happy enough to keep it up that way. But I couldn't resist the urge to show off my 1337 h4x0r skills one last time before the board upgrade to something presumably less easily exploitable.
  21. Rob
    Sure. Bypassing the swear filters on these boards is fucking easy.
  22. Rob
    We're gonna have to visit the number of forums and how they're arranged. It's pretty chaotic in its current form. But we'll have a discussion about that. All the content will likely stay but we'll have to do some shuffling. I'm not in a position to really give advice HOW to do that so I'll be leaning on all of you to figure that out based on how you currently use specific forums, how often you use them, and how long they've been idle. Just some friendly advice, keeping Fred's name on the Game Threads Forum is sacrosanct. Reshuffling is fine otherwise.
  23. Rob
    Why are you worried about transparency? There was never transparency before. The modes made decisions on a case-by-case basis depending on a lot of factors. Usually, people would get warned a bunch of times and then get temporarily banned (I speak form experience here), some never came back, and some did. If they post rules or whatever, that's cool, but rules never work because there are always exceptions. I'll leave it up to them. I cannot imagine a situation where it would become untenable for most of us. But if it happens, it happens. I'll worry about that when it comes time to worry about that and then I'll bitch on my way out. I was upset early on with Tim because of the lack of transparency. But over twenty years I think we all felt out the contours of the moderation decisions and got to a place where we didn't need the transparency anymore -- the decisions became fairly intuitive. This is potentially a soft-reset on that. And I'd rather not spend twenty years feeling out the contours again.
  24. Rob
    After CubinNY posted that, he is obviously exempt from my above post asking for transparency in banning decisions. We are all on board with that one. No comparing the things we love to MAGA.
  25. Rob
    I still maintain that if you felt this way about boosting the pace of the game, there were other [better] ways to do this without the cold structure of the pitch clock. For instance, you could televise the murder of Pedro Baez as an example to the other pitchers.
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