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« on: November 16, 2013, 05:57:16 PM »
 

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Hello Discourse.  A lot of you know me as one of the moderator on the UC forums and the Kickstarter list guru. That was true as of 1 hour ago... because I let one deck creator post 1 message on a already existing thread in our forums, I was stripped of my mod rights. And because I posted that I was not interested on being part of  a very tightly censored forums, I was banned.  Oh well just looking for a pleasant environment in which to discuss playing cards, I do not have time for childish behavior or drama queens.

I admit I do not know much about this community or these forums but thought I would give it a go.

Pete
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2013, 06:15:09 PM »
 

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Welcome - I recognize your name from the few times I've skimmed the UC boards.

I'm not a big fan of drama around here, and we only have exactly one person (and a bunch of spambots) on our "banned" list.  You might know of him, I hear he's a playing card retailer...  :))

Please consider yourself at home.  If you have any questions or need help, feel free to let us know and we'll see what we can do for you.
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2013, 06:19:39 PM »
 

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Thanks Don for the warm welcome
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2013, 06:43:32 PM »
 

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...someone over there is having a power trip.

Welcome to the forums. Contrary to popular belief, we don't have censorship and we have one person on our ban list (the same guy that banned you).

Enjoy your stay!
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #4 on: November 16, 2013, 07:58:37 PM »
 

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Welcome to the forum Pete, feel free to PM me if you have any issues. Enjoy!
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #5 on: November 16, 2013, 08:05:10 PM »
 

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Thanks Curt...will do
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #6 on: November 16, 2013, 09:45:48 PM »
 

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Welcome Pete, you've stumbled upon one of the greatest playing card forums on the net :) may I ask, which are your favourite decks? And where r u from?
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #7 on: November 16, 2013, 10:04:23 PM »
 

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Nurul  I am originally from Montreal Canada but been living in the States for 17 years now...As far as decks goes  I have to say I pretty much buy everything except some of those goofy Kickstarter projects..I think I am getting close to 800 decks in my collection. I like decks first for their look and art so I like stuff that is fully custom; so decks like Fed 52, Sherlock or all of the ones Shane Tyree designed I like. I also love nice tuck boxes like the red Whispering Imp deck which is so gorgeous. I am not a cardist and do not manipulate my cards. I usually get 2 decks, one to keep unopened and one to display in 9 pocket sleeves (like sports cards which I used to collect). I love all decks by UUsi also, Chris Ovdiyenko has some very nice decks etc etc
 

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« Reply #8 on: November 16, 2013, 11:47:44 PM »
 

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Nurul  I am originally from Montreal Canada but been living in the States for 17 years now...As far as decks goes  I have to say I pretty much buy everything except some of those goofy Kickstarter projects..I think I am getting close to 800 decks in my collection. I like decks first for their look and art so I like stuff that is fully custom; so decks like Fed 52, Sherlock or all of the ones Shane Tyree designed I like. I also love nice tuck boxes like the red Whispering Imp deck which is so gorgeous. I am not a cardist and do not manipulate my cards. I usually get 2 decks, one to keep unopened and one to display in 9 pocket sleeves (like sports cards which I used to collect). I love all decks by UUsi also, Chris Ovdiyenko has some very nice decks etc etc

9-pocket card sheets?  That's seven sheets per deck if you include the extra cards!  What do you do with the tuck boxes?

When you get a chance, we have a sticky topic in the Playing Card Plethora for showing off your collection and/or your newest acquisitions.  I'm sure there's a lot of people there who'd be interested in seeing your setup.
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #9 on: November 16, 2013, 11:55:39 PM »
 

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Yeah the 9 pocket sleeves work well and I use 6 sheets per deck..Usually the deck plus the 2 jokers. If there is an interesting gaff card, I might insert it behind one of the joker and make that a double sided view card. I will post pics and more info sometime over the weekend. For now I put the tuck boxes away and they are not on display.  I have some much crap in my office I can barely walk hehehe. Half my bookcases are full of fantasy art books and the other half is taken by brick boxes, special sets, remnant of my sport cards collection and comic book collection....Did I mention I am a fifty year old man that forgot to grow up
 

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« Reply #10 on: November 17, 2013, 12:25:46 AM »
 

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Welcome aboard Pierre.  You did a lot of great work over at UC.  Glad to have you here.  Solid contributors are always welcome.  I'm sure you'll deliver here as well. 
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #11 on: November 17, 2013, 01:12:39 AM »
 

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Get in line, although I'm only turning 49 Tuesday, lol

Welcome to the site Pete, truly great community you popped over too. A lot of fun with a lot of like minded collectors, cardists, magicians and anything in between that has to do with playing cards.
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #12 on: November 18, 2013, 09:07:37 PM »
 

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badpete69 - Say it's not so.  How in the hell did you get banned from the UC.  Hell, I should have been banned from there a long time ago.  I have quite a collection of Admin Mod messages in my private mail.  I keep them for souvenirs.   Just my 2 cents Don and Alex;  badpete69 was basically the ambassador for the UC.  He got a lot of Kickstarter creators in the forum to talk about their cards.  Even though most of time it was a crash course it was fun to get them in there.  He also was in charge of the 2 Threads I went to every day.  http://www.unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2158   and   http://www.unitedcardists.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2194    I was wondering why it was not updated.  Now I know...
 
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #13 on: November 18, 2013, 10:17:51 PM »
 

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Hey Sprouts....Yeah the fact that the 2 mods were banned from UC within 1 hour on saturday has not been much publicized over there..But now you know
 

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« Reply #14 on: November 18, 2013, 10:22:34 PM »
 

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Hey Pierre,

Welcome (: Relax on the new Kickstarter deck posts, we have a few here that share the workload ;p Enjoy your stay!

PS: I secretly hate you very much for taking 2/2 of the Kickstarter deals.. >=( Very jealous!
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« Reply #15 on: November 18, 2013, 10:25:47 PM »
 

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badpete69 - Say it's not so.  How in the hell did you get banned from the UC.  Hell, I should have been banned from there a long time ago.  I have quite a collection of Admin Mod messages in my private mail.  I keep them for souvenirs.   

Sprouts, you should have been banned from here long ago, but you're hilarious and your posts are weirdly informative sometimes.

It's a love/hate relationship with you man
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #16 on: November 18, 2013, 11:54:49 PM »
 

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badpete69 - Say it's not so.  How in the hell did you get banned from the UC.  Hell, I should have been banned from there a long time ago.  I have quite a collection of Admin Mod messages in my private mail.  I keep them for souvenirs.   

Sprouts, you should have been banned from here long ago, but you're hilarious and your posts are weirdly informative sometimes.

It's a love/hate relationship with you man

He's like the burnout who occasionally manages to rub some brain cells together and come up with a nugget of wisdom!  They're not easy to find among all the weeds, though...  :))

Just know that you're welcome here, Pierre.  As long as you don't mind hanging out with a bunch of lunatics and goofballs like us!
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #17 on: November 19, 2013, 12:26:18 AM »
 

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Hey Pierre,

Welcome (: Relax on the new Kickstarter deck posts, we have a few here that share the workload ;p Enjoy your stay!

PS: I secretly hate you very much for taking 2/2 of the Kickstarter deals.. >=( Very jealous!

Fred i admit that was quite the haul on the Dale Mathis project and being the chosen on the Shane Tyree project is also quite cool...Waiting for the next jackpot hehehehe
 

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« Reply #18 on: November 19, 2013, 12:27:41 AM »
 

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badpete69 - Say it's not so.  How in the hell did you get banned from the UC.  Hell, I should have been banned from there a long time ago.  I have quite a collection of Admin Mod messages in my private mail.  I keep them for souvenirs.   

Sprouts, you should have been banned from here long ago, but you're hilarious and your posts are weirdly informative sometimes.

It's a love/hate relationship with you man

He's like the burnout who occasionally manages to rub some brain cells together and come up with a nugget of wisdom!  They're not easy to find among all the weeds, though...  :))

Just know that you're welcome here, Pierre.  As long as you don't mind hanging out with a bunch of lunatics and goofballs like us!

Thanks Don  and yes I agree Sprouts is very unique
 

Re: Hello all
« Reply #19 on: November 19, 2013, 05:01:31 PM »
 

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As mentioned above.... guess who else got banned the same day?...


The first letter of his nick name is "C", and the last letter is "J"



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Re: Hello all
« Reply #20 on: November 19, 2013, 05:13:39 PM »
 

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Holy crap!  I come on and see nothing but CBJ posts.  Good posts though.  I think things might change over here at the Discourse.  In case you haven't noticed, there is this guy Don... Ahh you will figure it out. :) :) :)

http://aethercards.com/discourse/the-lol-a-query-um/jebuz-don/
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #21 on: November 19, 2013, 09:31:20 PM »
 

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As mentioned above.... guess who else got banned the same day?...


The first letter of his nick name is "C", and the last letter is "J"

Wait, you're seriously banned? Didn't you do like 95% of the leg work on there? o_O
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« Reply #22 on: November 21, 2013, 08:09:25 PM »
 

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As mentioned above.... guess who else got banned the same day?...


The first letter of his nick name is "C", and the last letter is "J"
Hi, guys.  Now I know why you've both been scarce, huh?  WTH?  Somebody got a bug up their arse, maybe?

If I'm a betting man (and I am), that'd be my guess.
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Re: Hello all
« Reply #23 on: November 21, 2013, 08:28:25 PM »
 

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As mentioned above.... guess who else got banned the same day?...


The first letter of his nick name is "C", and the last letter is "J"

Wait, you're seriously banned? Didn't you do like 95% of the leg work on there? o_O


Yeah, I've seriously been banned.


Here's a message I had sent out to UC members that reached out to me


"Mike has been on a downward spiral for a while.
He has been banning new people left and right, and is becoming more and more negative toward everything by the minute.

Over the last month he has mentioned to Pierre (badpete69) and myself that he most likely will not be renewing the forum in Feb.
And he absolutely will not sell it, or let someone else take it over if he does not renew.


Recently, Mike out a new rule in place so that Pierre and I could no longer approve first posts by new members.  He wanted to be able to see if the post was to his liking.
That's why so many new members that start out being there to promote their stuff get banned.
Anyway, the day that this all went down...

Pierre went ahead and approved a first post from a deck designer.  The deck already had a thread started, and this guy found out about UC somehow.. and joined to make the post

Mike lost his mind.  In the moderator section of the board... he accused Pierre of inviting this guy on to promote his product, and basically scolded Pierre for approving the first post.
Pierre told Mike he didn't invite the guy, and said that he didn't see the problem with approving the post... and said that he was done being treated like this... asked to be removed as Mod.

Mike did that immediately.  Pierre posted that he was stepping down as mod because he didn't like the way he was being treated (is that right Pierre?)
Anyway, Mike turned around and banned him.


Pierre phoned me and let me know what happened, and I hopped on the computer.
I messaged Mike, and told him that I absolutely didn't agree with the banning of Pierre... and that I would have to step down as well.

I made the following post in the "Congrats to Walrus on being the new mod" thread...

"You forgot to mention that you banned Pierre"  and then another post in the same thread... "I've also decided to step down as Moderator.  I will still be part of the forum though.  Thanks guys"

Then I got banned, and those posts were removed.

Mike was also VERY pissed that the day before this all went down that I started a new thread at Aether for the Bicycle Warrior Horse. "



I didn't do 95% of the leg work.  Pierre (badpete69) was also a huge contributer to the site.

I don't really even know what to say about the situation

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Re: Hello all
« Reply #24 on: November 21, 2013, 08:41:31 PM »
 

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Hey guys,

Welcome here, from a guy who's rarely here. ::)

Not banned over there yet, but thought posting here might speed things along. ;)
Gotta say, that place is a hard habit to break, but so it goes...

So I'll try to frequent here more often. :)

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