OzChess's Inferno Shout Pro Shoutbox!

[Arrogant-One]

Originally Posted by Shirty

Hi Trent,

I am very sorry for heaping abuse on you in the shoutbox this past Monday.

Its too easy sometimes to say sorry and think that she'll be alright 2 seconds afterwards. I'm disappointed in you Greg. Trent is one of the few mods at CC who is a half decent person in real life.

Originally Posted by Shirty

... so I hope you accept that my abuse was directed at you only in that I thought you were deleting my posts, not meant to be personal in any other way.

That doesn't matter Shirty. You never complained about previous abuses of mod power at Chess Chat, only when it concerned yourself did you decide to react - in a very similiar fashion to myself, Phil, Matt, and Trevor I might add.

Originally Posted by Kevin Bonbot

One tech issue I have sometimes had involves shouts that I send never appearing on the screen, although I have not had this one in a while ... we are certainly interested in identifying (and closing) any kind of hole that might (for instance) permit some non-mods to delete other posters' shouts. It is likely that indemnities from persecution would be available.

I've already identitifed this as an issue whilst ridiculing Chess Chat in the past for having such a primitive shoutbox. The shoutbox CC uses, VB Shout 2.0, has well known security issues and some admins have claimed their forums have been hacked via this program. No doubt this modification is free to download. Its one reason why early after getting OzChess off the ground I paid the $30US to have the more technologically advanced and secure Inferno Shout Pro installed.

But if you really think the site owner of CC would spend any money on Chess Chat apart from the hosting fees, well, I think your faith is misplaced. His track record over the past couple years doesn't support that theory.

Best

AO

i would like to address the claims made in #4
i do not intend addressing all false material posted about me on this site in the past
indeed i doubt i would be permitted to do so
and if i did so i would really have too much time on my hands
but #4 is a paradigm example

phild refers to me as a "PhD hanger on"
to him this involves making a living from tutorials and lab classes
barely tolerated by the uni while doing so
scrounging free meals and lifts to get to them
and avoiding the so-called real world

nothing could be further from the truth!

i completed my phd in 2003
during my phd my main sources of income were:
* apa scholarship
* ecological research contracts, mostly in the forestry sector
* editorship of a student magazine

i never even applied for a tutorship
since tutorials were as common as hen's teeth in our department
and rapidly becoming less so
i ran a whole four (4) practicals in 2003
while making final edits
most times when they were looking for prac demonstrators i'd ignored it
too busy with other things for such tiny bits of work

since graduating i have never worked for pay for my former uni
nor ever applied for a paid position there
nor even worked for pay in academia at all really
(though i did sort and ID some stuff on contract for a postdoc fellow from the mainland)

my income has come from contract work and fixed term salaried appointments
mostly in the following areas: forestry, local government, wildlife management, museums, and junior chess tournament direction/coaching

at present i am working more or less full-time
though i do not always do this
and the best way to escape the horrors of everyday employment is a simple one
just don't work every day!

my actual relationship with the uni is this:
i am an honorary research associate
i get to use some of their facilities
which i do very rarely, maybe once a year if that
in return they get to count my papers as their research output
and obtain funding on the basis of it
i also provide free specimen IDs to students and staff
hence i benefit the department at no real cost to it

i need not go into the matter of free meals
or the alleged bludging of lifts to attend them
or the supposed bludging off "friends"
except to say that phil's comments there are as wrong as the rest of his post

and ao's claims (#5) are also wrong
based on sweeney misunderstanding an email i once sent him
and jumping to the wrong conclusions

i have requested to ao that the incorrect statements in phil's posts be rectified
without success
most disappointing

i suggest that ozchess members take the very high level of error in phil's assertions about my career path into account
when weighing any other assertions of fact he makes about me

i am not sure how long i will be able to refute them here for myself!

[Arrogant-One]

Okay,

OzChess' new and more secure shoutbox is up and running. Only a few new features, but they are good ones.

• Searching of Archived Shouts;
• Edit tags on archived shouts (For admins only); and
• A new detachable feature so that you can keep an eye on the shoutbox and post at the same time.

I hope everyone enjoys the new features. Don't worry, unlike some rascals I will not withdraw these features, then jack up the price and re-offer those same features. I think that kind of conduct is rather ................... uncivil.

Best Regards,

AO

[YumYum]

Originally Posted by Arrogant-One

Okay,

OzChess' new and more secure shoutbox is up and running. Only a few new features, but they are good ones.

• Searching of Archived Shouts;
• Edit tags on archived shouts (For admins only); and
• A new detachable feature so that you can keep an eye on the shoutbox and post at the same time.

I hope everyone enjoys the new features. Don't worry, unlike some rascals I will not withdraw these features, then jack up the price and re-offer those same features. I think that kind of conduct is rather ................... uncivil.

Best Regards,

AO

Its not working for me. When I hit the detach button, all it does is open the shoutbox in a new window but it stays in the same place on the main page. How do I detach it?

[Arrogant-One]

Originally Posted by YumYum

Its not working for me. When I hit the detach button, all it does is open the shoutbox in a new window but it stays in the same place on the main page. How do I detach it?

That's actually the way it is supposed to work. Sorry if the term ' detachable ' misled you.

Best

AO

ps - Its my intention to clean up the Announcements Alert thread a little in due course, and the first order of business will be to create a separate thread for the post per day statistical comparisons (why Kevin cares so much is really quite perplexing, but that's beside the point). I will say this though, when I was a poster at CC I never really appreciated the amount of work that goes into keeping a forum organized and up to date. Upon reflection its one of the few things the bots seem to do well as moderators, perhaps even the only thing