The Bar, Volume #4

[Eric]

*walks into an empty room, bare floors, blank walls, a janky piece of plywood held up on two sawhorses pretending to be a bar, and a creaky lonely chair in the middle of the room*

Sigh

*heads to the chair & sits down*

This, my friends, is the sorry tale of how, while battling the hordes of spammers, I killed a popular thread. Oh, I assure you, it wasn't done out of malice, but, bleary-eyed and dust-encrusted, I returned home to find our beloved board buried under an assault of spammers. I was tired, I was hungry, I was stupid. Emphasis on stupid. I decided to start fighting when I should have waited until I was rested, but I was the first mod back & the board was unusable.

*looks around the emptiness*

I made some coffee and entered the battle Sunday night, knowing that I could only remove posts but not block the spammers, but determined to try to get some breathing room. I started hacking and whacking, chipping away post by post for over an hour, and when I realized quite a lot of them were complete spammer topics I knew I could take out 20 or 30 at a time, instead of one by one. I attacked, I was knocking out the bastards by the handful...

and then I fucked up royally.

It was a wall of spam posts in "Open Topics", a long row, some marked as spam, some not. I was checking the boxes & trying to make sure I was only getting "zero follow-up post" while comparing the last post to known spammers when I checked the Bar 3, since the last post was a spammer, and somehow between cross-eyed & stupid I didn't notice the thousands of posts, and I didn't even realize I'd checked it until after I said "yes", delete topics...

I screamed loud enough my upstairs neighbor called to make sure I was okay.

It's unrecoverable. Gone. I've checked, but there's no way to recover a single thread.

I even checked the "wayback machine" to see if I could find any of it. It doesn't look like it's there either.

I am unbelievably sorry, and was so frozen by what I'd done it took me until Tuesday to even start going after the spam again - I seriously didn't want to fuck up more. I made it through over 8 hours of spam-whacking fine the last two days, so there's that at least.

Hopefully this empty space will get some love, and some of the memories created in Bar #3 can live on.

*sets up a round of drinks on the saw-horse bar, waits*

[AntiM]

Well, we can reconstruct the COCK and the LABIA easily enough. And the ECM and the NEB. No worries.

[Shambala]

Eric, it's time to look forward. Things happen and in the scope of the world, this was not major. No over died over it my friend.
I love the new bar and would like to order up an ice cold traditional martini please.

[Tinkerbell]

As I have learned at Burning Man, things come and go, you may try to chase the good memories to avail, but the best you can do is let it all go and begin to build new ones.

[delle]

Yep. And in a way isn't it perfectly appropriate to have burned it down to build a new one together for the new year?

A new open space inviting to newly opened people....




Drink of your choice, Eric..... and one for your neighbour too!

[Bin Noddin]

Oh, my - it's so sparkly and shiny and new. CHEERS!
Thanks, Eric.

[Bin Noddin]

And lest we forget what the Bar, in any of its incarnations, is about - here's what started it all:

The Bar

Postby tisha2 » Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:34 pm
Well kids,

I was just appreciating how much this here Eplaya
is like the real playa with the witty conversation, and the
mayhem, and the diverse opinions; being able to jump from one
camp (thread) to another...just realized that besides
the dust, there was something missing....hey! Where's my
fucking drink?!

SO - I take my needs into my own hands...

Welcome to the Eplaya Bar! Tish the Dish, the Hostess with the
Mostess at your service! She is plenty experienced (you heard me)
and pretty darn hot to boot. Step right up, pull up a barstool
and have a seat. The bar is fully stocked and lookee there!
A hundred kegs with every beer you've ever wanted on tap!

Act appropriately (as defined by you of course) and no puking!

What'll it be, baby?

[lemur]

why not just delete the whole forum ?

nobody searches for shit anyways..

[5280MeV]

Well... shit. Problem clown burned down the bar.

* starts mixing a generous portion of fast-setting epoxy *

Lets combine objects to make new things!

[Eric]

Well... shit. Problem clown burned down the bar.

Good god, laughing so hard I can barely post!

I'll set up some lovely draughts of single-malt, and start looking around for something a little nicer than these here saw-horses for a bar.

[lemur]

now my post count is smaller.

yer gonna have to make up for that

[theCryptofishist]

I will miss "Da Bar" as it always gave me a little smile in memory of da Mule.

Here: (Just ignore the visual)

[ygmir]

*staggers in, runs into wall, spins, hits head on low cabinet door, trips on step, grabs drape and pulls off the wall as he falls on the planks and rolls across the floor*

*looks up from cloud of dust wrapped in drape like Roman senator*


Hey! new place? Nice!

*dials Elorrums Emergency Kreation number*

*builds fire in dirt corner for camp coffee*

[AntiM]

Mmmm, coffee. Just the thing to go with a mountain of spam. Yum.

[Dr. Pyro]

This bar is nicer anyway. Better Happy Hour I'm sure.

[littleflower]

*** POOF ***

* lumpy NEB appears in a dark corner and littleflower peeks out *

where am i?

[goathead]

why not just delete the whole forum ?

nobody searches for shit anyways..

been done before.
just really pisses people off.

[pinemom]

WOW!

Nice new bar! Its funny how people risist change, Death is dwelling on the past or staying in one place to long.

And as real playa life, there's tons of Bars that are wonderfully awesome! As it is THERE(TTITD) it should be here too!

Sorry I missed the Meet n Greet, playa had taken me and sleep happened...4 hr nap right through the meet n greet...whoopsie!

[goathead]

Single malt and camp coffee
hint of playa dust in the air
nice

[ygmir]

*reaches up, turns fan on high and throws a coffee can of dust in.......for ambiance*

[goathead]

*** POOF ***

* lumpy NEB appears in a dark corner and littleflower peeks out *

where am i?

why, you are right where you should be little flower.
care for some breakfast?

[lucky420]

new bar? same peeps? PERFECT!

Hola everybody!

[ygmir]

hi 420!!
sure was nice to finally meet you!!!

[Simon of the Playa]

here's a toast to goathead, who i managed to miss at least three times this year on the playa.


maybe if danielle & i do decom, we'll for certain make a detour to see our other hometown friends...


Gerlach in 2013 or Bust.

[lucky420]

back at ya sweetie (i wish there was a kiss emoticon)

[ygmir]

yeah, dang Simon..seemed you had "just left" everywhere I looked............well, unless that was on purpose....

hey GH: what was the opinion, when I was not around, of the mead?
too sweet, perhaps?

I'm making elderberry syrup, to work on it with.

back at ya sweetie (i wish there was a kiss emoticon)

*smooch* will do

[Simon of the Playa]

yeah, dang Simon..seemed you had "just left" everywhere I looked............well, unless that was on purpose....

thats because i went AWOL after refusing to participate in the dangerous plug and play shit show that was Root this year.

disappointed is an understatement.


try furious.


the Burn Was Great, however, Management, not the people, at Root Sucked my Ass, and should NEVER be allowed to step foot on the playa again.

seriously.

[ygmir]

yeah, dang Simon..seemed you had "just left" everywhere I looked............well, unless that was on purpose....

thats because i went AWOL after refusing to participate in the dangerous plug and play shit show that was Root this year.

disappointed is an understatement.


try furious.


the Burn Was Great, however, Management, not the people, at Root Sucked my Ass, and should NEVER be allowed to step foot on the playa again.

seriously.

dang.......so sorry to hear this.
you know, you have my trust, my might and mane, and I have your back, in whatever it is.

[Simon of the Playa]

thank you Yggy, i will soon outline publicly exactly what occurred and why and let the reader decide what should be done about it.



This Time, Frankenstein is organizing the Pitchfork Mob.

[Oldguy]

Burning down the house to get rid of the plague is totally acceptable to me. Fresh starts are fresh...