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There seems to have been a database error. :mad:

A game with a lot of angry members. :p

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Nothing in comparison to when you import users though. Something else happens there for sure.

[ATTACH type=full" size="210x238]984[/ATTACH] Weak battle damage. How much strength does Evan have to deal more damage than me??

True. Didn't think about that. But, the user id is awkward to skip so much like that. It should just insert into the next row (incremental). I don't know how the ids are calculated on an import, whether they use the old forum's ids, or what, but now a new member joining will have an id of #600 or so because of that 300 gap. People like me that pay attention to the id can see the newest member 10000, but see only 5000 members, and it makes me question what happened: That many spam joins, bans, etc.?

I hate it when this happens. I like ids in order and have hard delete, etc., off to preserve the id to ever reference back to what it was (even if it was a spam post, it's kept for spam analysis to harden anti-spam measures). You would've had to export user by user and then import user by user, but it doesn't carry their password over, so you would have to either update the old hashed password to the new email in xf_user or email them to reset their password, one by one again. I'm going to build a better importer that imports join/last activity date with all their information, that can handle it in bulk so it would go from user 100 to 101 seamlessly with the 101st joining on the day, and not the day they joined the last forum, as it would be in the past when they are joining a new forum which isn't logical.

Seeing the "newest members" list, it doesn't appear to be migrated yet.

Don't you even think about it.

[ATTACH type=full" size="305x178]981[/ATTACH] Better not be anymore "adjustments". Or else...

I was gunning for the same thing. But, I didn't realize that RS was on Google's Safe Content search list for a minute (as I have mine off), which explained the non-existent SEO growth. 💀 Numbers since rebranding have multiplied by factors.

Exclusive or multiple sales?

Not being threaded on a separate page is the major drawback that I see. Having it show the nested replies when you click a "thread" on the same page makes all other threads on the node just... noise. You will have someone lost in that thread forever and all the other threads will be overlooked, especially when there are large conversations in one thread.

All good advice. But, I'd be concerned with someone who has "no investment vehicles" (as that means they have only cash), because the age to collect SS might rise between now and then, along with the amount you receive reduced, as we are in a debt crisis and need to pay it somehow, so some people are going to take cuts. All my spare money goes into investing. I can heavily invest my income because I learned to, and still do, live well below my means, with 30% of it going into riskier assets like LEAPs (options contracts), because the projection is still a $2.5m retirement account by 65, so I won't have to rely on SS if it's not there for me by then (I think it's 67 1/2 now). As far as my crypto goes, it's in cold wallets (I have $10k of SYSCOIN locked up because I lost the key, but that's another matter that I'll address if it grows more than that). My hot wallets aren't linked to anything, and I make decentralized swaps here and there between cryptos to gain more, or, make trades with a bullion dealer for gold/silver. I got what I have from exactly $0, but I did invest time in a grey hat effort to collect (as a group) millions of Stellar (now Lumens) from their 1000 STR (XLM) airdrop per email address, and having done blackhat SEO before, I had access to plenty of email accounts. So, I took that and put it into BTC, etc., and the rest is history. I didn't know at the time a couple of hours of organization/work would have led to such a great amount... but here I am. Had I known how to purchase Bitcoin at the time, I would've at least bought $10 worth and just forgotten about it. Somehow, it slipped under my radar until it was too expensive (but in retrospect, not) to take the risk. But, if they aren't concerned with keeping cash only, then I shouldn't either. I'm not a certified CPA/CFP (though I could be if I wanted to take the time for that, with really no upside except an extra suffix to add to my name), nor their accountant, just looking out for their wellbeing... but if they don't seem to have a care for it, then neither should I.

That's on you then. If you think a cost of living adjustment or raising your prices each year will allow for a better retirement along with cash only, unless you are already a millionaire (as I dont think 6 figures will cut it) you're going to be sadly mistaken while eating Top Ramen into retirement till the day you die. Just saying... to each their own.

Then just invest in reputable ones like Bitcoin, ETH, and even Ripple (as they've been actively fighting in court). You can ignore the rest. The statement you made about ethics and sustainability could apply to practically any market, including the stock market, as there are OTC, and hedge funds manipulating every ticker to make it do what they want to make a quick rack while you make or lose a penny. This only leaves you left with T-bills as an investment vehicle. But, do you trust the government to not collapse under trillions of debt? The ethics of T-bills are that you're also funding bombs being dropped all over the world. Making money is never ethical. There is always a link in the chain where ethics are blurred. But, I guess that's okay if you don't think about it too hard. Heck, even my investment in gold and silver can be unethical. I don't know where the raw materials were sourced. If I thought about that, I'd be a poor man sitting on cash that's losing value as each passing day goes by.

Riskier it is the more reward to have. Even $10 could've been 6 figures or more by now. I have $30,000 still in AMC and GME, with a high that I could've sold at nearly $200,000, but I chose to stay in because I'm of the opinion it's not done yet. All technical analysis points up, and with them both doing financially better off than during the pandemic, it's a powder keg. NFA. As you would with even any index fund, dollar cost averaging in, just dollar cost average out on the way down to get something as the inevitable will come (I think it's going to be the US doing the biggest rug pull ever after they obtain the 1,000,000 BTC to pay off debt, call me coo-coo there), but there is still more on the table to be had. I've exited at great opportunities, converting it from 1s and 0s on a computer screen to gold and silver safely tucked away. Just my opinion.

Lot of yall missed the boat. Had I not invested in shitcoins or followed John McAfee (of the anti-virus variety) into what I knew were pump and dumps — thinking I could dump — I'd have well over a million dollars, maybe 2, in monopoly money all from $0 cause I got free coin airdrops using my spam bot email list. I've been able to spend thousands per year and still have quite a bit of fake money left over. Last spike (to 70kish, the first time), I converted a lot of it to gold and silver, so it's not so much monopoly money anymore. Unsure if I'll get another 100oz silver bar and some 1 oz rounds from the sale of an NFT (of which I own a few) that I bought for 0.08 ETH or like $200-300 at the time, and is now 1.2 ETH, or wait for a better opportunity. I'll take crypto all day cause I'm excited to see what highs we hit if the 1,000,000 BTC US reserve goes through.

I lose creativity, but my speed drastically increases in the later hours. So to compensate, I do the creative stuff in the early hours, or do the creative stuff that creates dull tasks that I can speedrun through later. Morning, all sorts of ideas, but I jump around too much and lose focus.

Denied. You're on the naughty list for stealing 30 strength from me. 😡 Wish: An appearance by @CedricV once a day throughout January, be it a thread or random post anywhere. 🤗

[HEADING=2]Ever received a questionable PM?[/HEADING] Only ever from you. 🤭 [ATTACH type=full]547[/ATTACH] "Curious"

I'm still on a hunger strike till I get my 30 strength back. You have till breakfast! I'm off to bed.

You could probably get creative with a chatbox that scans phrases against popular topics and have a note appear below the poster's comment (for them to see only) to a degree like: "Nobody's talking about X. Would you like to create a new thread to discuss it further?"

Damn. You fixed my exploit. I wrote "x" in Googe's console and just put an automated mouse clicker on refresh of [iCODE]?method=get&stat=strength[/iCODE]. I think I could've used JS to refresh it, but couldn't figure it out. The "x" was just so that the post confirmation window wouldn't come up without having to edit Chrome settings (by having to close out of Chrome and restarting it to apply). [ATTACH type=full" size="493x239]534[/ATTACH] I still think I deserve my 30-strength. That took a lot of computing power... and ingenuity.

You can "easily" adjust this by creating a thread "Chat Log" and posting a reply of the previous 20 messages on loop. At least then, it gets indexed and could bring some traffic.