Posted on 05/19/2006 11:16:05 PM PDT by Richard Kimball
I made a screwup, and need to contact a moderator. A guy signed up with the screen name Dr. Richard Kimball. I posted to him, asking him to pick another name, as there might be confusion as to which of us had posted. He was very nice, and did. After making two posts with his new screen name, his privileges were revoked. I think it was because of signing up with multiple screen names.
I feel badly about it, because he seems like a nice guy, and I think I accidentally got him banned. Anyway, I didn't want to flag abuse, which is the only way I know to catch a mod's ear. I also wanted to publicly apologize to him for messing him up early in his freeping career.
Sorry!
indeed.
clever screen name, incidentally -- amazing that someone else had the same idea! Like when two people independently get an idea for an invention, or a song, or something else.
Probably now no one will be able to use the name Richard Kimball or Dr. Richard Kimball, ever again. But have you ever thought of Master Richard Kimball, or Richard Kimball Esq., or Richard Kimball Jr., or The Rev. Richard Kimball?
I think there's hope if you just get a little creative.
It was a warp in the time and space continuum.
Could she be this guy? I've always wondered if Jeff Gordon isn't a girl in drag...
actually, if you change the "l's" to 1's, no one will know the difference! (shhhh.)
Twins -- separated at birth!
You're probably right - I just imagined those posts and they didn't really happen.
I just thought any time a post was deleted, it would have a note that *said* Post #46 or (whatever) was deleted.
I mean, can I make my own posts just *poof* into the ether without a note at the placemark?
Not worried. I just joined last fall and knew for many years that there was already a "Route66" here, which is why I hadn't signed up.
Finally decided I would try, anyway, because a number of FReepers already knew my postings on another forum as "Rte66" and it had been my hat for a long time.
We preacefully co-exist and have only crossed paths once in the same thread in the 8 months I've been posting. Of course, you're more prolific and well known than I, so RK could be a problem.
Is that Dr. Richard Kimball or just Richard Kimball in the middle? I know that on the left is Eb, and on the right is Mr. Drucker, who owns the store in the background.
wow. first he gets a guy banned, then he threatens a puppy.
Only if you are granted special powers.
Really special people can make other people's posts go *poof* into the ether. Just wait 'til I've earned that power.
I still have a couple of levels of difficult testing to get through before I can do that, though.
He's dead, Jim.
Umm, I don't know how you just picked *my late puppy's* picture out of the whole universe of puppy pictures numbering in the billions, but you made me cry. Thanks a lot. Abuse!
That's *my* puppy, too!
When you get to "Clear" or "Delta" or whatever level it is, will you ping me and show me the empty spaces where the posts were?
You understand, there can't be *anything* at all where the post was; no note, no post #, nuttin', nada. Just a ping and I'll be in appropriate awe.
Tomorrow, I'll begin the quest, again.
Seems DR. means that one is a doctor and you are not.
I think we will respect you both and figure who's who.
How many versions of Thomas Paine do we have posting around here right now?
I just thought it might be confusing, and since he'd just signed up, I thought it would reduce confusion to change names before he got in. It wasn't THAT big a deal, just something that I thought might be easier for both of us. I didn't want to get him banned. It's like downloading songs off the internet. You don't know the damage you've done until you find out that Brittney Spears had to get a Gulfstream 3 instead of a Gulfstream 4 because of people downloading her songs.
Sure. And when I get my super-secret top clearance and the special decoder ring, I can even show you what the posts said at one time.
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