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Please welcome TechRepublic's newest Moderator

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by Tammy.Cavadias

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I am sure this announcement comes as no shock to anyone.. you all know him, you have seen him topping the Weekly spam buster chart week after week...
Please welcome aboard "wizard57m" as our newest TR (and yes.. he was that brave.. ) ZDNet's volunteer moderator.

You can catch him hounding the discussions, QA over here in TR where no spammer is safe to hide (especially the zombies) and over in ZD in "The Ed Bott Report" and "ZDNet Health" blog forums.

-Tammy [_]3

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by Wizard57M-TR

Now I have to be on my best behaviour! Thank you everyone...I'll be nice...
hehe...trust me...see ;)

ps...The Ed Bott Report at ZDNet can be a lively place, can't it!
I just need to remember that with "awesome power" (a delete button)
comes "awesome responsibility". :)

by purpleskys

I used to moderate in a tech forum a number of years ago ; it definitely comes with a lot of responsibility but I've always enjoyed it. I find I enjoy it more here though.

If you have any questions or whatever, I'm just an email away; I've always got my blackberry on me. :)

by Wizard57M-TR

Blackberry eh? Well, I usually have my Samsung Blackjack somewhere
close! Yes, it's OLD, but it still works! ;)

by av .

I'm sure you will be very fair and just when hitting that delete button. I'll try to keep it clean. No cursing unless you use asterisks.

AV :^0

by Wizard57M-TR

I'll keep it clean, have to set an example and all that you know...
as for the delete button, only used it once so far. Durned zombies!
Over at ZDNet I've already been called a "shill" for MS!! The
really funny part, it was for a comment I had posted to Ed Bott's
blog about Microsoft Surface and effects on OEMs BEFORE I
was "finalized" as a moderator, hehe! But I've got thick skin,
I've been called worse. The poster that made the comment
received plenty of head-slaps by others, I didn't even reply...
besides, I was using my netbook at the time booted into
Slax on a USB thumbdrive, hehe! ;)

by charliespencer

Gods, they'll offer that job to just about anyone these days. Where are Q- or TheWeb_Ninja? :-)

It's been eight or nine years since I had a post deleted. I gotta try harder. Let see, ...

"BOOGERS!"

That ought to do it.

by purpleskys

So Darryl obliged. It's a torch, but I'm thinking of upgrading to the new bold next time. But then again, as long as it works , all's good :)

by deadly ernest

I've been away from the computer due to being in Wagga (45 kms away 3 days a week) and the amount of time I've been in bed feeling unwell due to some health issues. I got wonder how I managed to post so many in the short time I was at the computer. Maybe I should spend some more time writing.

by cmiller5400

Welcome to the club of moderating. It's a never ending and thankless job, but someone has to do it :D

I know the pains of this as I have been a site admin for 5 years or so on an A/C forum. One guy even yelled at me because I blocked common "throw away" e-mail address sites for user registration. I told him that 99% of the spam was originating from them and that at one point it averaged several hundred posts per day that had to be deleted and that I wasn't getting paid to do this work. Luckily there were a few other moderators that helped out otherwise I would have had to replace my mouse from clicking delete so many times :O

by Wizard57M-TR

I've moderated my own email list a few years ago, but it was rather small...
just a group of us old DOS dinosaurs still using our ancient hardware to
get on the internet! Yes, that's what I said, DOS! I still fire up my old
Pentium 166, boot her up to DOS (either 6.22 or 7.0 ) then dial up my
standby dialup ISP. Can't handle a lot of the new stuff, JavaScript, Flash,
etc. but it's still fun. ;)

by cmiller5400

My first programming experiments were on a TI 99... Gosh that brings back memories... Oh, and an old Apple IIe... Too bad I threw them away years ago :(

Didn't have room to keep them all unfortunately.

by Wizard57M-TR

Commander Keen, KiloBlaster, BioMenace...yep, still fun!
I've also got an even older 386DX just in case the P166 is
too fast!! ;)

by deadly ernest

I still got a working 286 / 25 to play with if I want, and a couple of 386s, 486s, P1s, P2s, and P3s all a working and just sitting around for me to play with when I want.

by Wizard57M-TR

Diablo runs pretty well for me on WinXP, I've got Diablo II on my
Dell Inspiron desktop, and Diablo on an old Dell Dimension 2400
I inherited a few years ago as well as the P166, which is a home
brew Pentium 166, 96 meg RAM, DOS 6.22/Win31, Win95 multi-
boot, 2 old HDs, 2.1g and 4.3g, hehe...I remember when that was
considered a decent machine...

by hippiekarl

As an inspired individual once said, "I preach *moderation* in all things". I'm gratified to know you'll now be helping us all to neither abstain nor overindulge here. ;)

by hal 9000

;)

Just remember I get to delete any post made by Jason so if you like you can pick on Taminkins or any other TR Staff Member.

I don't think any of the others here have jumped on the Band Wagon yet though deleting the TR Community Scoreboard would be frowned upon quite severely I would imagine. :D

Welcome to the Club or should we all say [b]Wiz Your Now in the Club?[/b] :^0

Col ]:)

by Wizard57M-TR

Hmm, now you've got the twisted brain cells in my head churning...
Mark an editors post as spam, hehe...ohh, that's EVIL...I've been
more in "Resident Evil" mode, going for zombies!! We have our
very own "Raccoon City", complete with a "Hive"! It's quite an
adventure down there too...

by deadly ernest

for the US people head for Congress and shoot all the zombies in the seats during a sitting, it'll be months before anyone else notices it.

Aussies can head for Parliament house for the same reasons.

by Wizard57M-TR

Except this time of year in the US, those zombie kick into high gear
and move a lot quicker, looking for votes!

by ansugisalas

Tell the mod to sneak in, then be ready with the floodlights when he least expects it :^0
Scares the bejeezuses out of them :D

Congratulations Wiz! Here's your badge, your hat and your litter stick ;)

by Wizard57M-TR

Only thing left is a haz-mat suit and reflective vest! Need the vest when
the traffic gets heavy! :)

by ansugisalas

Albion, Master of Magic (every three months), Buck Rogers I and II and Darklands... Daggerfall is probably next.

by Wizard57M-TR

Say, what are all these little red dots bouncing around my little badge?
Hmmmm...did I hear someone say "Locked and loaded"???
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by hal 9000

M$ Shill. They are the only ones who would dare use anything but Microsoft products. :^0

Col

by deadly ernest

the truth is the foil concentrates the signal to improve the control, what you need is a stone helmet, granite is best, as the rock cuts the signal down. The tin foil thing is a CIA counter plot.

by hal 9000

Weighed 200 Ton and they wanted to drop it on my head from 100 feet.

I naturally refused as I thought it may hurt the floor of the house. :p

As for the Tin Foil Hat it messes up my Mullet so I refuse to wear it. :D

Col

by charliespencer

Some companies are secretly on the government payroll, and manufacture foil that is actually transparent to the brain-control radiation waves.

by deadly ernest

anti nuclear protection, not mind reading and mind control. The MC protective hat is only about 5 kg and looks like and open face bike helmet.

As to mullets, the only ones I know about are an edible fish that you deep fry first - so watch yourself near those large frypans etc.

by charliespencer

Somebody called me an Apple shill a couple of days ago, and I've never even laid hands on one of their products.

by hal 9000

I have quite a few though they are all Apple Records from a different company who was paid a great deal of money for the theft of their Trade Mark. ;)

Though I do currently have a iPhone in bits on the work bench because the Touch Screen is no longer working. The things you do for the Daughter in Law. :-&

Col

by hippiekarl

It had 'Hey, Jude' on one side, and 'Revolution' on the other...I may still have it someplace....

by hal 9000

All of the Beatles Records including all of the Apple ones.

So does that make me an Apple Shrill? :^0

Col

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