At 8/30/08 12:51 AM, Joshiwa wrote: Bob explained why he had a garbage whistle in one of his blogs if I remember correctly, he said that it is barely at garbage. He has it because he tests the codes and other things to do with the whistle sysetem, plus he said the actually like the garbage level the best anyway.

Well, that certainly explains it. I guess everyone has their preferred level... Just as I like my shining halo, bob likely has his reasons for liking his smelly green piece of trash. Though, I have to wonder what the testing has to do with the Garbage... Maybe it's so it doesn't affect the testing?

My b-day is coming up this Monday.

So i was just wondering who was gonna make my b-day thread?

I'm going to be inactive this week and probably almost all of September with school and PS3 and i might get an Xbox 360 so yeah...

You been made a mod NEVR? congratulations!, your one of the users that really deserves the status. How does it fee?l. When did it happen? i did not notice yesterday, i saw your userpage a review mod eh?. Three years and you got to be a mod ,plus a golden aura with Hunting Knife looks chic. Your DarkSoldier Xbox 360 sounds cool .i go for Ps3 though. Well done again on your god like status, i love to be a mod.

At 8/30/08 05:16 PM, phantomlassuk wrote: You been made a mod NEVR? congratulations!, your one of the users that really deserves the status. How does it fee?l. When did it happen? i did not notice yesterday, i saw your userpage a review mod eh?. Three years and you got to be a mod ,plus a golden aura with Hunting Knife looks chic. Your DarkSoldier Xbox 360 sounds cool .i go for Ps3 though. Well done again on your god like status, i love to be a mod.

I already got a Wii and PS3. Just missing the 360.

I can't open my PS3 yet though cause my b-day is in 2 days (September 1st)!

I hope someone will make a thread for me.

Sir i hope they do i know about the sigs thread, but do you know how to change my sig. I weant it to say EGB and NGDD, as i a member of them. I dont mind RRC but i dont know how to do fancy sigs, did you get yours from the sig thread?. I know where it is. I cant do more then do basic writing ,not enough space. Im sure someone will do a thread Salutes!

Congrats to our local EGB review Mod, NEVR. It's been a long time coming and you earned it

Corky and DS, just take localized feuding to PM, once you've come to agreement, come back.

At 8/30/08 05:24 PM, DarkSoldier wrote:

I already got a Wii and PS3. Just missing the 360.

I like my PS3, i see no need to have 3 game systems now that they cost so much money and games are 50$ or 60$ each. And i don't hace toi much time for them as i used to.

I can't open my PS3 yet though cause my b-day is in 2 days (September 1st)!

Have a happy birthday, hope it's a good one.

I hope someone will make a thread for me.

If no one else does i will, i have not done a birthday thread in a long time should be fun to make.

At 8/30/08 02:47 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 8/30/08 01:01 AM, TheThing wrote: If you guys love me you will read Chapter 3 of What To Do When You're Dead.

Looks interesting though, I look forward to reading it.

Thanks. It's more of a cliche romance/drama, so it's not really the first type of story a guy would want to read.

But you should definitely check out the first 2 chapters. They're better good too. Well, Chpt. 1 is boring, but 2 is good.

At 8/30/08 03:07 AM, Joshiwa wrote:

At 8/30/08 01:01 AM, TheThing wrote:

Hey thats pretty cool that your story is loosely based off a song by one of my favorite bands.

Actually, they're entire CD. If you read the top of Chapter 1, I explain that this is based off of Armor for Sleep's What to do When You Are Dead.

Which is the best CD ever. Not even IMO, best ever.

At 8/30/08 05:16 PM, phantomlassuk wrote: You been made a mod NEVR? congratulations!, your one of the users that really deserves the status. How does it fee?l.

Heh, thankyou. It feels nice to be helping the site out more directly; deleting abusive reviews and banning spammers, etc... but of course I'm still around here for all you guys. Gold aura or not, I haven't forgotten y'all :)

When did it happen? i did not notice yesterday, i saw your userpage a review mod eh?. Three years and you got to be a mod ,plus a golden aura with Hunting Knife looks chic.

I was modded in the small hours of yesterday morning, at about 1:00am EST, which is 6:00am in the UK. I was pretty tired at that point, but after getting a small flood of congrats PM's andnews post comments, I felt a bit more awake ;P

Well done again on your god like status, i love to be a mod.

Haha, well I dunno about god-like, but it's certainly nice to be appreciated by the rest of the current mod team, and by all the users who wished me well in my congrats thread.

At 8/30/08 09:32 PM, Phantom wrote: Congrats to our local EGB review Mod, NEVR. It's been a long time coming and you earned it

Thanks man. This should actually turn out to be a big help to Slash's whistle improvement project if he re-re-launches it. I know BH and Seamonky are also review mods, but they don't really seem to be around here as much as I am.
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Any EGB member who has trouble with reviews: don't hesitate to PM me about it. Here to help and all that. :)

*scratches head*

Ehh... Hi.

...

Sorry once again for not posting during the whole week here. I kept posting in the other forums, just not here. It feels a bit awkward.

Well, moving on. Last day of August, last test approaching... Depending on the tests' results, I can be either very active or very inactive. Hopefully the 1st option.

And everyone should spam NEVR's page with congratulatory posts on his new "position": review mod. =P

Also, don't forget Joshiwa and his winged tank! Congrats, man.

Another important thing: after rough 120 days, it rained in my city again. If that's what you call water falling from the sky, because I haven't seen something like this in a while. A pretty long while.

Now I have to rest, because tomorrow (today) should be a tough day.

*Salutes*

It's been a while since I've posted, been busy the last few days.

Anyway, some congratulations are in order:
- NEVR on becoming a review mod
- Joshiwa on becoming an EGSC
- DarkSoldier on his forthcoming birthday

The times I have been online this past week, I've found the Portal to be fairly quiet. How about you guys?

Hey I reached level 17 and I turn 20 today! Yayyyy one more year.

Happy birthday Pinoyguy75 and DarkSolider ,your birthday tomorrow. Again well done NEVR on your mod status. Talking of reviews done around four links ,today this morning. Found some goldmimes on spam submissons. Wish i could say the say same about my stupid laptop, the sound fucked again. Works for a while then freezes. I think its sadly a bug that Powerbooks G4, gets. Apple seems to suffer from it, ive got Leopard and the dumb thing freezes. Worked fine all week this happened last week as well. Maybe its cursed i did listen, to that cursed audio.

At 8/31/08 06:19 PM, Pinoyguy75 wrote: Hey I reached level 17 and I turn 20 today! Yayyyy one more year.

Shoulda mentioned the IRL level-up at the LUL, congrats on that. And like I said there, it's good to see my old bat isn't going to waste and was picked up almost as soon as I dropped it. Also, congratulations DarkSoldier on your birthday tomorrow, in case I forget to mention it.

I guess I should start congratulating everyone.

1. NEVR on his mod-ship. I hope that you float that mother fucker all the way to BBS mod, and then the real cocking sucking to get off bans begins.

2. Pinoyguy on his birthday and leveling up. Some advice: never be older than your level. So hurry the fuck up!

3. Congrats on TheThing for finishing Chapter 3 of What To Do When You're Dead. Hopefully a lot of people read it and leave a comment.

Sorry Dark, you don't get your's until tomorrow. And I have to get up early, so I won't be on tonight to get my wishes in at 12 EST.

At 8/31/08 06:19 PM, Pinoyguy75 wrote: Hey I reached level 17 and I turn 20 today! Yayyyy one more year.

If it wasn't for the fact you're not allowed to drink, I'd tear you a new one for writing a one line post, but instead you'll dread the fact that next you do it, I will. And it will NEVER happen again.

Oh and congrats, whatever.

Happy Birthday Darksoldier!

How old are you, seeing as you don't want us pedos looking at your age?

At 8/31/08 08:59 PM, Phantom wrote:

At 8/31/08 06:19 PM, Pinoyguy75 wrote: Hey I reached level 17 and I turn 20 today! Yayyyy one more year.

If it wasn't for the fact you're not allowed to drink, I'd tear you a new one for writing a one line post, but instead you'll dread the fact that next you do it, I will. And it will NEVER happen again.

Oh and congrats, whatever.

LoL thanks I guess and it won't and I know TheThing, NGLog is a constant reminder of how I could of deposited while I was in HS and been lvl 43 or something like that. Thanks everyone else who wished me a happy bday. Plus wow DarkSoldier your bday is right after mine huh... thats weird. Well I'm going to bed cause I have class on labor day and work afterwards (crappy irony).

So NEVR, I have a question. We all know that review mods have different opinion on some situations when it comes to reviews. So what are your opinions on old reviews? I know some mods like Kidray76 say its ok to mark abusive reviews when they really stick out and have an old date on them, while other mods like absent and ramagi delete all abusive reviews no matter the date. At the same time there are some mods that don't think that old reviews should be deleted. So what exactly is your thought on the subject?

Thanks for the congrats everyone about me gaining the EGSC golden winged tank, its a pretty good feeling. I just haven't been active for the past few days because of taking a small break after gaining the final rank and the fact the weekend I am always pretty booked.

At 9/1/08 12:43 AM, Corky52 wrote: So what exactly is your thought on the subject?

I was discussing this with kidray last night. His thoughts are that for him to delete a really old review (pre-2004), it has to be VERY abusive -- pretty much just acute racism etc., even though 'stolen' reviews are usually gotten rid of despite date. I'll delete for very slightly less than just racism with old reviews, but TBH, everyone should be focusing on newer reviews anyway. Unless you're a paleontologist, there's no need to dig up dinosaurs.

At 9/1/08 08:22 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 9/1/08 12:43 AM, Corky52 wrote: So what exactly is your thought on the subject?

I was discussing this with kidray last night. His thoughts are that for him to delete a really old review (pre-2004), it has to be VERY abusive -- pretty much just acute racism etc., even though 'stolen' reviews are usually gotten rid of despite date. I'll delete for very slightly less than just racism with old reviews, but TBH, everyone should be focusing on newer reviews anyway. Unless you're a paleontologist, there's no need to dig up dinosaurs.

And what about the whole thing that Bob said about spam movies? I mean, normal users like me can speculate about what is and isn't flaggable there, however before I log into my alt and start flagging reviews for "[crew]AttemptAtTurd900", I kinda need the opinion of a review mod on which reviews for spam are and aren't worth flagging.

At 9/1/08 10:44 AM, SoulMaster71 wrote:

At 9/1/08 08:22 AM, NEVR wrote:

And what about the whole thing that Bob said about spam movies? I mean, normal users like me can speculate about what is and isn't flaggable there, however before I log into my alt and start flagging reviews for "[crew]AttemptAtTurd900", I kinda need the opinion of a review mod on which reviews for spam are and aren't worth flagging.

All right guys, its awesome that NEVR is a review mod now but if you have questions about reviews we have an entire thread dedicated to it in Rage's and you can always PM him instead of asking in here.

At 9/1/08 10:44 AM, SoulMaster71 wrote: And what about the whole thing that Bob said about spam movies?

Bob wasn't actually saying that ANY abusive review on a spam flash won't be deleted, but if a review says, for example, "I'm giving this submission a 0 because it's a spam flash" or similar, then it's allowed to stay because it's not technically abusive, and it is fair.

There's a lot of intricacies to consider when moderating reviews for certain submissions, but I won't go into them now considering that for the most part it's only 'need-to-know' if you're a review mod.

Now, like Joshiwa said, any further questions about reviews should be sent to me via PM, not here.

Oh wow NEVR, I would never have guessed you to become a Review Mod, infact I never even thought about it, lmao. Well congrats on that and have fun deleting reviews and all that stuff, whatever it is you do now.

Also hello there guys again, I forget why I stop posting from time to time, General isn't a great section to read most of the time and Wi/Ht often has stuff already answered.

OFFICIAL RECORDS OFFICER RESIGNATION POST

Well, I hate to do this, but the time has come for me to retire from the post of Records officer.

There comes a time, whenever updating any list such as this one (especially manually, such as it has become) that it all just becomes a little too much to continue. I was glad to be such an integral part of the Barracks, and pleased to put my mark on the roster by extending it to 2 parts, but now, with my extra responsibilities as a moderator, I think it's a good time to pass the torch along.

That's not to say that I won't still be around the EGB though. I'll still be active here, and I'll retain my position as Portal operations and Emergency operations officer. I'll still contribute to the EGB as much as I can, but doing the roster has really become more of a chore for me that the pleasure it once was. I also realise that with my imminent departure to university, I'll have yet another way to divide my time, and I've been starting to wonder where the roster would fit into that.

I'd like to thank Slash and Eagle for giving me the position in the first place, and everyone who followed and enjoyed the rosters during my tenure as Records officer. Most of all, I'd like to thank Sterockicy for showing me the ropes back in the day, and Joshiwa for taking half of the strain and providing me with an excellent user to pass the torch along to.

Tomorrow will be my last ever roster update, after which Joshiwa will be taking over as the 'senior' records officer, and may choose someone as his lieutenant if he wishes, or continue to update the roster solo.

:::salutes:::

At 9/1/08 02:05 PM, NEVR wrote: OFFICIAL RECORDS OFFICER RESIGNATION POST

Well its a bummer that you are resigning as the Records Officer but you have other things going on that need your attention more and yes making the update can be tedious at times. I have enjoyed splitting the duties with you as we have been a crack duo and I gladly accept the position as 'senior' Records Officer. I hope you stay or are even more active as you usually are because you are an important member of the Elite Guard Barracks.

As of tomorrow after NEVR's last update I will be considering filling the position of Lieutenant Records Officer, anyone that is interested in the job should PM me. With saying that I am not guranteeing that I am going to fill the position.

salutes:::

*salutes*

Sorry I haven't been very active around the barracks recently but laptop has only just come back from repairs. So at least it's now working better than ever :D

Anyway I'd like to Congrat NEVR on being modded, quite an honour and I'm a little saddened that you're not going to be doing the Updates anymore, but I'm sure Joshiwa is quite capable :D

Also would like to congrat any achievements I missed by any of our members over the massed month or so.

And on to my last bit of business, I just reaches the penultimate rank today on Commander. Not much left to do now, no more badges to get, just to don some wings and fly into a very exclusive club.

Sorry for not posting alot, but I had ALOT of things to do lately. College, forums, pictures, animation... well... all this.

At 9/1/08 02:05 PM, NEVR wrote:

Well, I hate to do this, but the time has come for me to retire from the post of Records officer.

Too bad you got to resign from this post. But I guess you had to do it. With your recent new responsabilities as a Review Mod and your things in life, I guess you had no choice.

That's not to say that I won't still be around the EGB though. I'll still be active here, and I'll retain my position as Portal operations and Emergency operations officer.

Glad you'll still remain with us!

(I guess most of the members would be quite sad if you had to leave the EGB definitively...)

Tomorrow will be my last ever roster update, after which Joshiwa will be taking over as the 'senior' records officer, and may choose someone as his lieutenant if he wishes, or continue to update the roster solo.

And I shall be here to see this, also considering the new achievements that I have done.

Like...

I reached Level 15 a few days ago! Finally got rid of that little bloody hammer and took a brand new whip!
I also reached 11,000 B/P and by the same fact, the rank of Prapor... errr... something... as an Elite Guard! I was finally able to tell a definitive goodbye to those silver badges... and a warm welcome to the gold ones!

Also, happy birthday to those I completely missed.

Wow Shanus your Commander what a elite badge. No danger of me getting that badge, im still got my Copral badge had it for 5 months. Happy Birthday DarkSolider no idea of your age as you dont have, it on your profile. Hope you had a lovely day mine next month ,which sucks as your a year older. NEVR shame about the roaster but if you find it a chore, better to quit where your ahead. I did 12/24 reviews not sure where im heading in that club. Salutes!