Prolific D & G PPruNers

[The Voice]

Oh lordy there are some truly old memories being forced to the surface! I also have long ago qualified for the LSL club .. met some truly great people along the way at the 'bashes' here and there that are now life long friends, finally recovered from a couple of battle scars, laughed so hard from time to time and choked on the odd cup of coffee to boot, shed a tear as well .. but am pleased to say that I have learnt some other stuff from the other side of the playing field that I didn't really know on my side.

Very fond memories of Snaily .. truly wish that he was still around this place ...

[the wizard of auz]

Ah, whats all this piffle about professional writings?. Not everybody comes here to be professional. some of us come here to stir the pot, wind the "far to serious" people up and then wander off, only to return later to see what sort of kerfuffle has been created. the great server crash claimed my start date and post count as well........ actually, I'm sure there were two crashes. one earlier on..... possibly 98/99??

[Pedota]

So the 'Woomeri' speak once more . . . nice to hear from one of you again! We still miss your moderate style for our intemperate views.

The Wizard . . . I had forgotten about your eloquent contributions!! Welcome back. And what about East West Loco . . . a very reliable contributor in previous years.

Does any one else remember the very stern lectures we used to receive from Danny and the other ‘head office moderators’ about being the most recalcitrant and time consuming forum! I guess we didn’t listen to them either.

Gaunty . . . are you still with us?

Cheers

Pedota . . . since the BIG 2000 CRASH.

[PPRuNeUser0182]

...and where is Pass-A-Frozo!!!

I used to enjoy debates with her involvement.

[yowieII]

Hey Wiz, who has time to do that sort of ****e

[haughtney1]

I remember finding this site in mid 2002.....and it took me 6 months to work out what dunnunda meant

[training wheels]

Anyone remember Gladiator and his Aussie side-kick (forget his screen name)? I joined around that time. They apparently had some legal court case against SQ for breach of contract and almost every third or fourth post on here was about that!

[VH-XXX]

and it took me 6 months to work out what dunnunda meant

I'm still trying to work that out.

[tail wheel]

Some of the more memorable that come to mind - excuse the spelling:

Slasher (Registered 23 February 1998. Last post 6 October 2009)

CaptIFSnailtails (Spelling???)

Jazzi and the Panel (Registered 7 September 1998. Last post 30 October 2006)

Wizard aka Flukey (Registered 1 September 1998. Last post 26 August 2009)

The Voice (Registered 1 January 1998. Last post 22 October 2009)

Redsnail (Registered 23 February 1997. Last post 23 October 2009)

Gladiator Registered 15 December 1998, last post 25 July 2005, but I don't remember him/her.

Dunnuna Mods have been:

Southern Comfort (????)
The Kelly Gang (Registered 21 November 1999)
Woomera (Registered 8 March 2001)

[troppo]

What happened to NASA?

[QSK?]

And what about Voices of Reason? How many posts did they have? Dick Smith must be a high submitter as well?

[Pinky the pilot]

I joined in April 02 under current handle but was around under a different one earlier. Asked one of the Woomeri to cancel it for me.

Must admit that way back then the boards were more.... errrr....genteel shall we say. It is certainly more robust now! I'm not really convinced that it is any better for it.

Anyone remember a poster (forgot the name) who, after a very lengthy debate on a subject (also forgotten) finally outed himself as an academic(?) and promptly disappeared.

Some were not amused!

Yes Gaunty, where are you? I still remember the little animated attachment entitled 'Gaunty's big night out' you once put on a post of yours. It caused screams of mirth at the local Library where I was ppruning at the time.

[Much Ado]

Yes the place certainly has changed over the years. Pinky I think most would agree threads were VASTLY more 'robust' in the good old days. You just have to think back to the '89 wars' that raged in this place.

Then people started getting litigious and the workload of the Mods went up several notches.

We still miss your moderate style for our intemperate views.

All the current D&G Mods, + one other, were 'Woomera'. 4 mods posting under the one ID - a better system IMHO. I see one of us still remembers the log in for Woomera

I chat to Gaunty via skype occasionally. He is in rude health

Lets see, besides MA and Woomera I think I have had 3 ids going back to 97ish. Scary how time passes.

[tinpis]

pakeha-boy?

[Pedota]

How could I forget Buster Hyman - joined May 2000 - 4202 posts = 1.22 posts/day.

Dick Smith is not so prolific - joined May 2002 - 1671 posts = 0.61 posts/day.

I too was around when the Kelly Gang were trying to keep us lot under control . . . what a task on certain topics like 89!

[remoak]

Yeah what happened to the pig hunter?

[The Voice]

oh how sweet .. the glory days of "the" Panel are remembered with such fondness

at least 1 union became forged from that little enterprise!!

I think they mainly lurk around here these days ..

.. and it was CaptainIFsnailtRails Taily ..

[Worrals in the wilds]

4 mods posting under the one ID - a better system IMHO

Apologies for the drift, but out of interest, why did they change the system? I've lurked from about 2001 and the common moderator user ID seemed to preclude the personal attacks on mods you get now.

[tail wheel]

CaptainIFsnailtRails – no match in our database so his last post would be before the big crash, whatever that year was.

I've lurked from about 2001 and the common moderator user ID seemed to preclude the personal attacks on mods you get now.

Apologies for the drift, but out of interest, why did they change the system?

The common user name for the Kelly Gang and Woomeri caused problems. Moderating can be subjective and the mods, using one Mod user name, caused some conflict of opinion. Multiple users, one user name simply because unworkable.

Nasa, God bless his soul…… Registered 28 January 1999. Last post 7 June 2008.

Voices of Reason. Registered 31 January 2004, 132 posts, last post 25 April 2006

Dick Smith. Registered 13 May 2002, 1,617 posts, last post 23 October 2009.

Gaunty. Registered 16 July 1999. Last post 21 September 2008.

pakeha-boy. Registered 9 February 2000. Last post 21 July 2008.

Pig hunter is not in the database.

Must admit that way back then the boards were more.... errrr....genteel shall we say. It is certainly more robust now! I'm not really convinced that it is any better for it.

I disagree Pinky. Debate in the old days was far more robust with a fair bit of “cut and thrust” but I will agree the content was far more professional as was the quality of posts.

I remember having a cold ale or five over a discussion some years ago with a group of aviation people at a local Aero Club, when the subject of PPRuNe came up. No one volunteered their user name but it only took a couple of minutes to work out their PPRuNe identity. Then one of them started criticising the Woomeri and one in particular he'd like to meet on a dark night for a recent banning......... If only he'd known who was sitting next to him.

Of course, Mods are very sober people...... well, most are. I remember one night, early morning actually, well maybe not too early - around 4.00 am, in a Queensland bush pub when I had to quietly slip away from a certain Dunnunda Mod and a couple of CASA Mermaids and go to bed. A many course Chinese meal, followed by eight hours of solid drinking was simply too much for me.

I think that Mod was still going when I got up for breakfast.........

Tends to happen in PPRuNe circles. As Disco Stu, OzExpat, The Voice and quite a few others can confirm!

[Much Ado]

I think that Mod was still going when I got up for breakfast.

Ya big blouse