It means "get banned". Oh ho!

Seriously, though, if you find yourself banned, don't immediately set up a new account and spam the board with 200 new posts. Tends to leave a poor impression, that.

Guh, I didn't realise that. D'you want to (nngh) "PM me" with what you would like it changed to?

Same goes for anyone else by the way.

I'm honestly not sure - I suspect not, I'm afraid, or I'd probably have turned it on straight away, but I'll have a look in the settings and see what I can find.

I don't think Steve ever deletes posts, unless he'll be locked up and flogged for hosting them. I can't remember ever a real, serious thread being deleted or edited... but perhaps he's just too quick.

I think it's likely it was an Internet burp... Unless it was wildy offensive or illegal / asking for commericially available tracks, I'd recommend re-posting it.

Edit: Upon reading the above posts, I'm a little scared...

-- Edited by Ste at 03:16, 2007-10-15

So, apart from raising my blood pressure a little bit, the lunacy of the last few days has seen a phenomenal spike in visitors to the forum - from an average of ticking over at around 200 hits a day, we're suddenly up to well over a thousand. Blimey, says I.

This has financial implications, since anything over 10,000 hits a month costs me a tiny amount of money per hit - the move to the new-style board, after much annoyance at the old one, was (gasp) not free. Brilliantly, the credit card I used to sign up for it expired months ago, and the forum has been accruing charges ever since, without bothering to tell me... which Activeboard/Sparklit were apparently fine about as long as we were under the hits threshold, but this spike in activity has alerted their attention. Anyway, I had a snotty popup message from the provider saying I owed them $30, and a "Community Funding" tip jar has now appeared at the bottom of the page in case anyone for some bizarre reason feels like kicking in a couple of quid. I could have deleted that, but chose not to, just in case anyone DOES want to chip in, but please don't anyone feel obliged or anything.

Something else I found while tinkering around in the admin panel: The forum can now be accessed from http://baritalia.activeboard.com. Which should be a lot easier to remember.

Sadly, there's no option to see new posts, although you should now be able to add the forum as an RSS feed, or share posts on Facebook or whatever.

Does anyone want to be a moderator? E-mail me if you would like this, ahem, very special opportunity.

Steve Devereux wrote:

This has financial implications, since anything over 10,000 hits a month costs me a tiny amount of money per hit - the move to the new-style board, after much annoyance at the old one, was (gasp) not free. Brilliantly, the credit card I used to sign up for it expired months ago, and the forum has been accruing charges ever since, without bothering to tell me... which Activeboard/Sparklit were apparently fine about as long as we were under the hits threshold, but this spike in activity has alerted their attention. Anyway, I had a snotty popup message from the provider saying I owed them $30, and a "Community Funding" tip jar has now appeared at the bottom of the page in case anyone for some bizarre reason feels like kicking in a couple of quid. I could have deleted that, but chose not to, just in case anyone DOES want to chip in, but please don't anyone feel obliged or anything.

Something else I found while tinkering around in the admin panel: The forum can now be accessed from http://baritalia.activeboard.com. Which should be a lot easier to remember.

Does anyone want to be a moderator? E-mail me if you would like this, ahem, very special opportunity.

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Don't know if you can go back, but you can have activeboard/sparklit forums free if you are prepared to accept an advert at the top.  The ads aren't too intrusive and easily ignored. Would save getting the bills.

Sorry if it's all ready been mentioned, fellow Pulpites but I was just wondering...

Is it just me who cannot enter 'www.pulp.gb.com' into my address bar and then access the messageboard via there?

When I enter that address I come to the home page (picture of the logo above) but here is no link.

I have to access the site via searching Google.

Thanks for your help x

Cheers for that Steve. You're doing a great job!

Automated spam for an online shoe wholesaler. Truly, this is a Golden Age.

I've just joined and I would like to say a big thank you to Steve! Thanks for running this and for providing a home for the Pulp followers. It's greatly appreciated!

Steve Devereux wrote:

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"Running" is a bit of a stretch by now

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 What do you mean exactly?