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Martin
Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:12 pm

Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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As of August 17th, (ie. two days ago) CompSci.ca's forums are five years old!

Happy Birthday, CompSci.ca!

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rdrake
Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:30 pm

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Wow, spiffy five stars you've got there.

Happy belated birthday CompSci.Ca!

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md
Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:37 pm

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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Ha! It's 5! that's 35 in dog years, old enough to drink!

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Bobrobyn
Sun Aug 19, 2007 9:45 pm

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Awesome!  Now I wish I posted more *tear*

Happy Birthday Compsci.ca!

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CodeMonkey2000
Sun Aug 19, 2007 10:17 pm

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Five years and still looking fine.

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rizzix
Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:26 pm

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Hurray! Very nice.

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Clayton
Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:27 am

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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Pfft.

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MihaiG
Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:33 am

Re: Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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wow, its been long, ive been here longer than my stupid stars say, but meh :P

its been fun for 5 years

compsci is getting real old now
:guns: 
end its misery
 :vi:

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Aziz
Mon Aug 20, 2007 8:35 am

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I want my third star damnit.

HAPPY BDAY COMPSCI! Let's PARTAAAH!

Mihai.... *thump*. How dare you speak of ending CompSci? BLASPHEMY!

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Martin
Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:27 pm

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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Rock on Dan and Tony for making all of this happen. This site has definitely changed my life for the better - I've met a bunch of people through it, and learned much more about CS than I would have otherwise.

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Aziz
Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:30 pm

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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To celebrate, I think Martin should give me some of his bits. Just not the negative sign, please.

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Clayton
Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:04 pm

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Done. The negative sign is all part and parcel I'm afraid though. (Just PM if you want your bits back :P)

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Aziz
Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:07 pm

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No, I would've never gotten enough for hosting anyways. But at least give me a different number than him >_>.

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wtd
Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:39 pm

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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Buon compleanno, compsci.ca!

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Cervantes
Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:40 pm

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Rock on Dan and Tony for making all of this happen. This site has definitely changed my life for the better - I've met a bunch of people through it, and learned much more about CS than I would have otherwise.

Ditto to that!

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Clayton
Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:22 pm

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Rock on Dan and Tony for making all of this happen. This site has definitely changed my life for the better - I've met a bunch of people through it, and learned much more about CS than I would have otherwise.

Ditto to that!

Indeed.

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Ultrahex
Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:52 pm

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Only if Compsci.ca had a religious figure like Jesus, Or Batman .... hmmmm oh well :P

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apomb
Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:43 pm

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How many Stars do I have?
Wow ... ive been here for 4/5ths of the life of the site, and only have ~500 posts.

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rizzix
Mon Aug 20, 2007 7:16 pm

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4 stars

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[Gandalf]
Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:35 am

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Congrats on the five successful years! :clap:

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Clayton
Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:10 am

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:O It's Gandalf!

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:13 am

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Hide the ring! Are there any remnants of the site from it's past? Such as layouts, screenshots, etc? I remember v2 a bit, but I'd love to see what it was like in its early days.

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rdrake
Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:15 am

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Hide the ring! Are there any remnants of the site from it's past? Such as layouts, screenshots, etc? I remember v2 a bit, but I'd love to see what it was like in its early days.In the old days there was classic phpBB 1.0.  The upgrade to v2 brought with it MX.  Way back when it was called SWAT there was a large splash screen with all the cartoon characters on it.

Oh, and 700 posts!

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CodeMonkey2000
Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:31 am

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I bet the spam level was pretty high too back then.

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 10:44 am

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I think Dan should purge the memberlist. Anyone with under a certain amount of posts and long time of inactivity (like 2 posts and not active since 
'03) should be deleted.

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Dan
Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:20 pm

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I think Dan should purge the memberlist. Anyone with under a certain amount of posts and long time of inactivity (like 2 posts and not active since 
'03) should be deleted.

I don't see any need to do that.


And yay 5 years! I never thought it whould make it this far but i hope we last for another 5 years. Things are just starting to get fun  :wink:

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:23 pm

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What about nostalgia from the old forum versions? Any artifacts?

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Tony
Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:22 pm

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Eh, certainly. Check out this awesome thread [url=http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=130]WOW TONY HITS 100, 100 posts that is. Back in the day when Dan and I used to use the forums for personal communication, and I was talking some nonsense about Visual Basic. It's a fun read.

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:25 pm

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I wonder who the first person the post in that thread is going to be. That's pretty old. 50 users! Really kicked up since then, with almost 6k now. I also noticed that Dan's spelling has gotten better (and your's too Tony XD). I wonder if there's any backups of old stuff?

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rdrake
Tue Aug 21, 2007 1:32 pm

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There should be old stuff kicking around in http://compsci.ca/bbs/files/, but access is restricted.

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Clayton
Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:21 pm

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And now swat has 50 users!!!, we are realy starting somting

50 users?! Someone call crowd control!

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:24 pm

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What did SWAT stand for?

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rdrake
Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:30 pm

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What did SWAT stand for?Super Wizards At Turing.

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Aziz
Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:31 pm

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Who's the dork who made that up XD

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Tony
Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:41 pm

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Who's the dork who made that up XD
I take full credit for that one :lol: It was one of those "come up with acronym first, fill in the definition later" deals. There used to be an awesome picture that went with the name...

Oh, and for another historical compsci.ca relic - 20,000 posts image!
http://compsci.ca/bbs/files/20000.jpg

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Clayton
Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:56 pm

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I think Dan still has the picture somewhere. I'm sure I saw it.

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Tony
Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:53 pm

RE:Happy Birthday CompSci.ca!
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Well here's the image that was adapted for the original "Super Wizards At Turing" forum logo.
http://compsci.ca/bbs/files/logo.gif
Featuring (from left to right) Dan, myself, and Martin.

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CodeMonkey2000
Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:10 pm

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Holtsoft still thinks you guys are called SWAT.

http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/links.html

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Clayton
Tue Aug 21, 2007 7:38 pm

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Hmm... Tony and Dan fine... but Martin looks nothing like that! Someone could sue if they wanted...

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Mazer
Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:06 pm

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He used to. This was many years ago (as if the very thread wasn't enough of a giveaway).

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Clayton
Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:12 pm

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I dunno... I doubt he changed that much :P

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Aziz
Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:57 am

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I can't even remember the v2 Logo :(.

BTW, Clayton, why is your avatar a diagram of the double slit experiment?

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Mazer
Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:54 am

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I dunno... I doubt he changed that much :P
Well... I haven't seen him in a few years now, but I swear that's pretty much how he looked in high school. Pixels and everything.

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Aziz
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:36 am

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Pixelated hair was the rad thing back in highschool.

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Nick
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:42 am

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lol I got the whole pixel thing going on atm as im still in highschool... all the chicks dig it :P

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Aziz
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:44 am

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rofl. Are there any chicks around compsci? Besides wtd's wife?

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Nick
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:47 am

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dunno... i meant in school but that is a good question

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Mr. T
Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:54 am

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What's the account name of wtd's wife? (sorry to get off topic)

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Aziz
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:01 am

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I don't even know ... I don't know for sure if she has a forum login. And I wouldn't say anyways. It's not up to me to disclose wtd's personal life.

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Nick
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:02 am

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back on topic, happy b-day compsci thanks for your 5 years of outstanding service

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Martin
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:13 am

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The best is yet to come! We used to be a bunch of smart-ass highschool students who thought we knew everything. Now we're a bunch of smart-ass university students who know that we know everything.


Also, that's exactly how I looked, right down to the nihilistic t-shirt designs covering my washboard abs.

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Mr. T
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:18 am

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That's what all the fat, balding, mid-20 university students say.  :roll:

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Clayton
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:21 am

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... I hope you're not referring to Martin there... he definitely is the farthest thing from fat.

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McKenzie
Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:29 am

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Tony, Did you ever get around to spamming the high schools of Canada to introduce Compsci? I'm curious because I'm the new ECOO-CS president (Will Sentjen's old position) and when I brought up Compsci.ca at the last ECOO meeting no one had heard of it. Now, ECOO is mainly an elementary group, but it still surprised me.

Oh, I think we need a separate thread to talk about Martin's looks: past, present and future.

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rdrake
Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:38 am

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Tony, Did you ever get around to spamming the high schools of Canada to introduce Compsci? I'm curious because I'm the new ECOO-CS president (Will Sentjen's old position) and when I brought up Compsci.ca at the last ECOO meeting no one had heard of it. Now, ECOO is mainly an elementary group, but it still surprised me.There was discussion in the channel about sending out a package of information to as many high schools as possible advertising DWITE (and this site in the process).  Nothing has come out of it yet, though.

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Tony
Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:00 pm

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Tony, Did you ever get around to spamming the high schools of Canada to introduce Compsci? I'm curious because I'm the new ECOO-CS president (Will Sentjen's old position) and when I brought up Compsci.ca at the last ECOO meeting no one had heard of it. Now, ECOO is mainly an elementary group, but it still surprised me.
rdrake sums it up -- there was some discussion of that, but nothing happened. Yet. I'll bring it up with Dan again, I think we might actually have some excess funds lying around to pay for the mail.

And it's really cool to hear that you got the ECOO-CS president position. Congrads!

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McKenzie
Wed Aug 22, 2007 8:53 pm

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Well, the ECOO-CS thing is one of those situations where everyone else takes two steps back and I kinda just stand there, but thanks anyways.  

I've been thinking about spamming the Ontario schools myself to advertise the ECOO contests ... I wonder if we shouldn't combine our efforts.  You know, I could bring up the contest as a way to allow their students the show what they know then add in Compsci.ca as a way to help develop their skills.  I don't think there is a need to duplicate the excellent resources at USACO, instead just advertise Compsci as a place where some strong contest writers hang out.

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Tony
Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:19 pm

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I've been thinking about spamming the Ontario schools myself to advertise the ECOO contests ... I wonder if we shouldn't combine our efforts.
That sounds like a fine idea. I've send you a PM on it.

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HelloWorld
Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:43 am

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Wow, I randomly decided to visit and see if I still remembered my old account.  Turns out I do.  Oh and Happy Birthday Compsci.ca!

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CodeMonkey2000
Thu Aug 23, 2007 10:01 am

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I dare someone to revive this thread:
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=130

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Mazer
Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:37 am

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I dare someone to revive this thread:
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=130
I fully endorse a ban on this guy.

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rdrake
Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:39 am

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I dare someone to revive this thread:
http://compsci.ca/v3/viewtopic.php?t=130
I fully endorse a ban on this guy.The one who did it got a temporary ban.

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Mazer
Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:40 am

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I know, that's what made me look this one up. Anyways, which one is better to use; yellow card or black?

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rdrake
Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:44 am

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Uh... I think yellow is the better one, black requires like 30 people to click it.

I could always test it out on you if you wanted :-).

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Aziz
Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:21 pm

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Ouch, timeout. Nice to seem enthusiasm, but a bit much.

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Mazer
Thu Aug 23, 2007 12:26 pm

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Looks like I already black-carded him!

/feeling like a jerk

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Cervantes
Thu Aug 23, 2007 1:40 pm

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That's okay. You're a jerkface, right?

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md
Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:23 pm

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Yellow cards ftw!

Incidentally... I dare a mod to post in that thread ;-)

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Aziz
Thu Aug 23, 2007 2:26 pm

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I think this topic is dead :) This isn't about CompSci's bday anymore.

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Clayton
Thu Aug 23, 2007 3:30 pm

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This topic is starting to get rather spammish... 

Note to mods: Yellow cards only require 10 for a ban, black cards require 30.

And unless someone decides against this:

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