MDawg spammed a bunch of PMs to encourage people to vote for him.
Do not do this. Spam is not allowed on Vegas Casino Talk.
I will ban your account if you do this again. I deleted the PMs you sent yesterday.
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MDawg spammed a bunch of PMs to encourage people to vote for him.
Do not do this. Spam is not allowed on Vegas Casino Talk.
I will ban your account if you do this again. I deleted the PMs you sent yesterday.
What is douchedawg running "for?"
Dog catcher?
Bullshitter of the year?
BAOAT (Biggest Asshole Of All Time)?
Fuck that guy, just bury him under the cat litter: it's where he belongs.
This is the kind of thing that Mdawg gets away with at WoV, because he has bought and paid for Shackleford. For all his faults, it is good that Dan Druff, didn't allow him to get away with it here.
AND it is most revealing. It is an act of desperation.
Between this and last month when the prostitute drugged him, stole his watch and drove him out of Vegas, this Mdawg has proven to be quite an idiot. Astonishing that the self-appointed "Pope of Las Vegas", wouldn't know not to take a prostitute up to his suite. ;)
MDawg PMd me yesterday.
I read it, and didn't consider it "spam", an attempt to influence my vote, or to encourage me to vote at all.
I'd post the message it publicly, but it's been deleted from my inbox.
So let me get this straight, the forum Admin intercepted, read and deleted private communications between members?
Members are capable of deleting PMs themselves, why would the Admins need to do that?
Doesn't "PM" mean "Private Message"?
What's private about it if another member can read it and censor it?
Wow so this is what Dan is doing? Now you must wonder if this is just another honeypot to dox and identify APs. I thought it was weird he didn’t allow you to erase or edit past post. Now he’s doing this ?
Dan I request all my post be erased and my account erased as well. It seems the rumors are true wow just wow
You make a good point coach.
I guess this site isn't as free as we thought.
The Man always trying to keep us under his thumb.
Or is it foot?
You know what I'm sayin'.
Polls are stupid anyways.
There's a reason for all those Polish Jokes.
Dumb Polls.
How many poles does it take to screw in a lightbulb??
YES!
Rejoice, Munchkins, rejoice!
This warlock will soon go where the goblins go.
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After reading the OP's post, anyone who decides to PM something they wouldn't feel comfortable disclosing publicly is asking for it. Alan was morally above reading peoples' private messages, so the site was not of any value to him.
Looks like the Dawg kicked the shit out of Druff, Druff, in the rear-view mirror, spinning on the highway like a real dog hit by car, let alone the rest of the forum, at least whoever believed in it, along with the hundreds of supposed guests at any one given time. Right up there with the head clown of Vegas forum letting on that someone actually paid him money for it. And, Alan Mendelson as the nice guy. Nothing but piss and shit on this planet. Get used to it. Ha.
Some of you guys are just figuring out that a forum owner/administrator has the ability to read PM's?
Why do you think you don't get more Pm's from Bot-type new members advertising everything under the sun? Far be it for me to defend Druff, but I would guess and am very comfortable that he only does this when someone alerts him that they received spam PM's. I'll bet he will tell you that is what occurred with this situation. BUT, anyone uncomfortable with it, probably shouldn't post here or any other forum. :rolleyes:
While I have plenty of criticism with Druff, I am not only unconcerned about him reading PM's, but I am unconcerned with other information that a forum owner/administrator has on it's members. I don't know if there are any crossover members left at WoV, but I would be much more concerned with THAT guy. He (shackleford) took money to keep quiet and not voice his opinion and even signed a NDA on it. THAT is a guy that seemingly will sell out anyone for a buck. I would be much more concerned about him having information than Druff.
I stopped posting at this forum simply because it was taking up too much extra time to post at yet another forum. For a while I posted at just one forum, but lately have fallen into occasionally posting at another one or two as well.
I do still read some of the VCT forum and sometimes send PMs to members here.
I make an appearance today just to clarify what exactly DanDruff did. I did send PMs to some of the members here, but only to members who had communicated with me via PM at some point in the past.
The PMs were worded as follows:
Vote for MDawg
https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sh...he-survey-says
With some of the PMs including an additional line so that they read:
Vote for MDawg
https://vegascasinotalk.com/forum/sh...he-survey-says
Give UNKewlJ a heart attack!
Another thing about my deleted PMs at VCT is that most of them were in response to old incoming PMs from members, such that anyone looking at the PMs would see some topic in the subject line that had nothing to do with that poll. Meaning - that Druff had to open and read each PM to determine that it had to do with the poll.
I researched this, checked, and the standard forum software used here would not allow Admin to read PMs. In fact, the creators of this forum software have steadfastly refused to implement any feature that would allow Admin to read PMs.
Druff would have to have some kind of aftermarket modification installed to read PMs easily, or open up the actual database and pore through it carefully to figure out what was in PMs. In other words, Druff must have gone through affirmative steps simply to be able to read PMs, it’s not something easily done, or normally done.
It is also possible that because multiple PMs were sent out that were identical, that some aftermarket modification alerted Druff to that a member was sending what appeared to be Spam, but still, he’d have to access the PMs to know what exactly was being written, and again, to do that requires either effort to go through the database, or a modification that would allow reading all PMs. And maybe I’m giving Druff too much credit that he was alerted to anything, maybe he’s been reading our PMs all along.
Certainly, now that it is publicly clear that reading PMs isn’t so easily done and is not a standard part of forum software, I’d expect Druff to try to make excuses for what he did, maybe lie about how exactly or why exactly he did it, so as to keep his secret snooping mechanism - secret. Once someone does something like this, I’d question most anything he did in the future, and I feel even better about having stopped posting at this forum a year and a half ago.
Over the past year or longer I have sent Druff PMs where I have pointed out in precise detail where he has revealed that he doesn’t know what he is talking about on multiple gaming topics. Whether this has anything to do with his targeting me for invasion of private messages, all I can say is that Druff isn’t like normal people and has a habit of ignoring or not even responding to messages or emails that he doesn’t care about. Most forum Admins at least give the courtesy of a response, not Druff. So, for Druff to go to the effort of reading all my PMs, and post a thread about it, he must have really wanted to do all that. Or maybe he’s always been monitoring our PMs.
Anyway, now you know that he has the capability to read PMs at this forum, and is willing to do that.
How great is this? :cool:
Mdawg, who ran from this forum when he couldn't get the protections from Dan Druff that he was able to get from Shackleford, tried to rig a meaningless vote by spam PMing members, which is against the rules. Druff caught him. And now Mbitch is crying like the little bitch that he is. Great stuff and great job Dan Druff ;)
More important is that he even tried this. No real winning player, making the money Mdawg claims would care in the least about such a poll. But Mdawg has always cared about polls, and ratings and views because he is pushing a fantasy story. That is what it has always been about for him.
Trying to rig such a meaningless poll is not only as pathetic as anything we have seen on this forum, but it is pretty revealing that this guy isn't who he claims as far as winning player and that he knows everyone knows that. Really, really good and fun stuff.
Can't wait for Dan Druff to weigh in. I'll bet Druff's story is a little different than Mdawgs. :cool:
Hey Doggy, I saw a hooker sporting a men's Rolex watch on the strip the other day. If I see her again, any messages you want me to pass along? :D
Gotta wonder whether in applying his "keen legal mind" to the issue douchedawg has threatened or will threaten to sue Dan Druff over this?
It would be complete bullshit but then "complete bullshit" is how douchedawg rolls.
Giving a license to practic law to a narcissist rarely ends well.
You might be misinterpreting people’s concerns. Ability to read PM’s, yeah he’s an admin. Thinking it’s appropriate to publicly expose to the entire forum the CONTENT of a PRIVATE message is something else completely, but that’s something you’ve done multiple times so you probably wouldn’t get that viewpoint.
What's wrong with "outing" a spammer?
Most likely someone that got the spam, forwarded it to Dan, and that's how he knew what was in it.
Regardless of the Drama Queen's account of what happened...
I checked on all of this with the software creators - I went back and forth discussing every scenario and what did and could have happened here. There is no speculation. I would not have posted what I posted unless I knew everything about this matter.
If I am wrong completely, then I'll be the first to apologize to Druff and tell him I was wrong, but....
As I posted, there is no way to read private messages via the standard software on this forum. This forum is running an old version of this particular software that does not have that capability, and the new versions of this forum software also do not allow Admin to read private messages. Would require either an aftermarket hack, or for Admin to pore through the database to read the messages. Knowing how Druff is, I don't see him taking the time to pore through a database.
As well, this forum software does not even have the capability to allow Admin to delete select private messages of its users, which is what happened to me - only the private messages I sent that day were all deleted, not any others. This forum software has only two options as to forum Admin's control over user's PMs: Admin is able to delete all of a user's PMs, or able to delete all sent PMs of a user. There is no standard Admin capability in this forum to delete select user PMs.
Anything may be done at a database level, but that he'd spend all that time first trying to read the PMs buried among symbols and code, and then delete just those PMs at the database level, doesn't seem plausible for someone like Druff who claims that he barely spends any time on this forum. So the most likely explanation is some hack that has been added to this forum to allow reading and select deletion of user PMs. Such hacks are readily available.
mcap also makes the point of "Just because he can, should he" as in should he out publicly what was in a user's private message. I was actually surprised that Druff read my PMs in the first place, more surprised that he deleted them, because that interferes not just with my sent box but the PM inbox of others,
but also - that Druff would post about exactly what I wrote publicly and not just send me a PM over this matter.
So what!?!
Can you link to where Dan Druff ever stated he was running the software as is?
Druff is very good and knowledgeable with this kind of thing. He uses technology to identify sock puppets that other administrators apparently can't seem to figure out.
So what if he alter or changed the software to allow him to identify spam PMs, which are against the rules of his forum.
You are making it sound like he broke some sort of promise. Where? I don't see that at all.
If you don't want Druff to bust you for spamming, simple solution: don't break the rules and spam. And if you don't like that, well as your bought and paid for buddy Shackleford says "don't let the door hit you in the ass".
Douchedawg is about as welcome here as ants at a picnic.
As far as I am concerned, MDawg is welcome here. This is supposed to be a gambling related forum and he has gambling related "stories" to tell. (personally I'd like to hear more about the watch stealing hooker he hired ;)).
And I feel the same way about WoV. He should be welcome to tell his "tales" there.
BUT, real players that play and know Las Vegas should be able to challenge anything that doesn't jive with the math or the way Las Vegas works.
At WoV, he receives protections from that. Here I don't think he can and that is why he left.
Probably why he allows you to have multiple screen names.
Making a list and checking it twice.
Now I understand why he deleted or moved my see something, say something picture that I posted long ago.
Big Brother always watching and caring for us.
I Love Big Brother!
Shit!
Hate to agree with mcap on anything but he makes complete and utter sense in his post.
Notice how QueerJ keeps flip flopping.
One post hates Dan Druff... Next post, loves and praises him.
I told you long ago that the Backdoor Private Message System was nothing but EVIL and that I refuse to use it.
I have been nice and helped a couple people out on information about machines when asked.
I've also responded to maybe 3 or 4 comments but 95% of my PMs go straight into the trash.
Especially, any and all that Dan Druff ever sent me which I think is just one.
Not that I hate Dan Druff.
I just think it's funny to delete any and all PMs from any owner of any site.
Like, Fuck You... if you want to converse with me do it in public!
And while I am ok, with Mdawg returning, as long as we are allowed to challenge claims that don't make sense, where are the guys like AccountinQuestion, Smurgerburger, coach belly, and others that bitch about people returning after they announced their departure. Not a peep. Just as there was not a peep last month when Singer returned for a post or two after announcing his retirement from ALL forums back in June. (Singer has participated at GF on a daily basis despite that announcement).
I guess it is only a problem when I do it. Others...crickets.
I don't hate Dan Druff. I don't even hate you, Pudge. :p I just don't like all the really, really nasty attacks, especially complete lies and don't think that should be allowed. There is a difference between friendly barbs and busting and really nasty personal attacks, especially complete lies.
Glad to see my survey thread brought some heavy-hitters back into the foray.
<pats back>
Now, If this Mdog person is returning, I have a question for him. No, it isn't about the hooker that drugged him and stole his watch. ;) But rather, the mid 7 figure mansion in Las Vegas that he announced he had purchased back in June 2021. How are things going at the mansion, Mdog? :rolleyes:
How to know it was spam unless a lot of members reported it, clearly, which didn't happen? How to delete it, on both ends, unless as easily able to thus read it? Besides Dan reacted, quickly without giving such details. Fuckingly fishy, at best.
Anyway, nothing about it is about classic internet spam, even by the narrowest definition. Let alone "rigging" something.
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More like having only one spirit/soul for many lives.
However, you were right about it being a useless poll. How to pick a winner in that crowd, let alone a believable one? The sample size was meaningless. Certainly, no one lined up to pay Red for his services, nor, to pay for blackjack lessons from KJ. As having only 5 or 6 votes, after a combined total of over 15,000 posts on just this forum, can't be even fuckingly described.
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121 ---------> 11^2, general gematria value of the Devil, and, of horseshit, in specific. Like 11^3 = 1331.
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Are you serious? It is obvious that you have some sort of mental illness involving numerology, but I didn't think you were this stupid.
This was not a poll about credibility. This was a poll about popularity. THAT is what AiQ was shooting for.
I did a poll about who believed Rob Singers double up bug claim and a second poll asking who believed Rob Singer's Progression system claims, a couple years ago when people were more inclined to be honest and not turn it into a un-popularity contest. Singer received 1 vote for people believing him in each of these polls out of more than 20. Now all of the sudden more people find him believable and credible?
Plus, my polls, like most on here allowed you to see just who was voting for what. That is important because it allows you to see if someone is getting votes only from the known trolls and game-players of the forum or worse yet, new members who might be sock puppets. Funny AccountinQuestion chose not to allow anyone to see who voted for who.
And BTW, in both the Singer polls mentioned, members voting that they did not believe Singer included, AccountinQuestion, BillYong and Ozzy. Smurgerburger took the second option of undecided but leaning towards not believing.
Come on MrV, you know me better than that. I did my homework. There was no such property. :cool:
MDog will tell you that no one could have looked into it because the property was purchased under a family trust rather than an individual name. But guess what, that doesn't mean that it still isn't public information.
The great "pope of Las Vegas" (or is it dope of Las Vegas) doesn't seem to understand that Las Vegas is not Beverly Hills, or any of a number of places in California with all these 7 and 8 figure homes. Vegas has very few actually. In part because even with the current real estate prices on the rise over the last year or so, Vegas is still far below most other places in real estate prices. A mansion here is a million dollars or two. There just aren't many properties in the mid 7 figure range, so it is not hard to track and find. :rolleyes:
Even the new Home that Raiders owner Mark Davis built or is building is only about 10 million and that is really a significant mansion with a lot of property. Wayne Newton's old home on Sunset road, formerly Casa de Shenandoah with 9 different houses on 40+ acres, stables and fields for 50 horses, and a garage that houses 100 cars is back on the market for 20 million (will probably sell for half that). But this is rare. Liberace's mansion on Shirley lane over near UNLV, completely renovated just 5 years ago, just sold last year for only 2 million. Vegas just isn't a place with an abundance of mid 7 or 8 figure mansions.
I think the second part of why there aren't an abundance of such properties is because people that can afford that don't live in Vegas. They live somewhere else, so if they buy an expensive property in Vegas to visit or live part-time, they buy a condo and there are a lot of mid 7 figure condos around town, even in my building.
So I am not speculating that this mansion story by Mdog is just another Mdog fairytale, I know it for a fact.
Singer, Boz and now Mdawg all announced their departures and then returned. And there is nothing wrong with that. I like Boz. But I am just wondering why no one is critical of them for doing so, like you guys are with me and redietz. Why the double standard?
And no, I am not looking anything up for you. I am not playing that game any longer. You do your own homework.
You know back when Singer posted the picture of himself inside an RV the dealership that didn't belong to him, I called the dealership and spoke with the GM, who was like "who does that kind of thing". I posted the name of the dealership and if I am not mistaken even the GM's name, so people like you could check for themselves. YOU never did, because you didn't want to know, or more likely already knew what the guy would say. You would rather say that you don't know anything about it than actually look into something you don't want to find. Well I am not wasting my time with you. You do your own homework.
I don't recall MDawg announcing his departure, so it's not surprising that once again you can't confirm what you've alleged.
But equating anyone's (even ditz's) one-off participation after "quitting" with the level of your participation, after multiple resignations, is a false equivalency...so there's no double standard.
You are a confused individual.
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The anagrams make more sense than either of your horses. Ha.
Gee, imagine that, the Wizard started the bidding, at $10 mil for his forum, after the only advertiser he could get, Bodog cleanly dropped him after a year or two. I can't.
What mental disease or disorder would cause a person to post pictures of cash and chips, and rolex watches, and even food, some half eaten, and talk about their "trophy wife", and all the other bizarre things Mdawg posts about and posts pictures about?
I am not a mental health expert, nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night (Holiday Inn Express still a thing?), but I think it falls under narcissism, or maybe the technical term, Narcissistic personality disorder, defined among other things asan inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for excessive attention and admiration. I would add a need to impress.
I'm pretty sure all that information was publicly posted by me at one time or another.
I just made it easier to 2 or 3 PMers with direct information instead of them having to go digging through all my masculine toxic posting.
I'm here to help but not so much these days as I'm focused in on other ventures and the Landscape of the Casinos has changed.
Almost turning 50, so, my time is over.
The 90s and early 2000s were fun.
Not so much anymore.
Get Off My Lawn!!
Bull's eye.
9 traits:
appearing to have an inflated sense of self-importance
fostering a fantasy world to boost their sense of grandeur
needing constant praise and admiration
having a sense of entitlement
taking advantage of others or exploiting people without shame or guilt
not recognizing or caring about the needs of others
demeaning or bullying others
monopolizing conversations or meetings
Ah, but he could also be a narcissistic sociopath:
9 traits:
A grandiose sense of self-importance (i.e., exaggerates their achievements and abilities)
A preoccupation with the idea of gaining success, power, love, and physical attractiveness
A belief that they are special or high status and can only be understood by similar people or should only associate with those people (or institutions)
A need for excessive admiration
A sense of entitlement and expectation that others will comply or give them favorable treatment
Exploits other people for personal gain
Lacks empathy for others
Envies others or believes that other people envy them
Arrogant behaviors and attitudes
The good thing is, casinos and casino hosts understand this very well and have mastered the art of flensing and deboning these clowns.
Since I'm sitting by the fireplace in a rented cabin up in Incline Village (have Dan "bullseye" Druff do a location match and see if he can get it right this time) after having a fabulous lasagna, salad, Syrah, espresso and cannolis from a baker down in Carson City, and prepared by my blessed wife, I'll take a few moments to say this about that.
Kew is, as EVERYONE already knows, full of all kinds of shit. Aside from the little fairy once again making the poll thread all about him and his numerous insecurities, he's the most prolific hypocrite any gaming forum has ever seen.
He whines and moans constantly about people ignoring, dissing, and laughing at his hilarious, totally stupid and made up on the go reason for faking his own death, yet when I explained why I had pictures of myself taken inside a similar Newell RV as mine, it's as if it went straight through that massive hole in his head. This is just one of the reasons why nobody believes anything he says or claims--about himself or others. MrV may enjoy instigating whatever Kew-BS he can in order to give his nothing life some sort of declining years meaning. But the word EMPTY seems to always prevail when it comes to the Monkey Poxfather.
As for redietz and his desperate attempts to get ANYONE ANYWHERE to believe whatever he's selling: well....maybe sending another PR PKG. to kew this time might help. After all, they both crave attention, and isn't everyone sitting on the edge of their seats waiting to see which one came in 1st place in this month's NAMBLA ratings?
Rob, go back to sucking your ugly ass wifes penis!!
Nobody here gives a fuck what you have to say.
We stayed at the Hyatt there one summer weekend and when I went swimming in Lake Tahoe I was surprised it wasn't really cold.
A bit chill, but pleasant: I suspect the fairly shallow water had been warmed by the sun.
Good to have you back, Rob: what other kernels of wisdom do you have for the forum?
The thing is, Rob may or may not be tied for being the most believable (haven't checked recently) but his claims are like paranormal level shit. So if people are giving Rob as much credit as Redietz aka "I crush baseball freeroll tournaments" then it should really tell you people something. If Kewl with his basic claims of a humble blackjack counter are only seen as truthful at the same level then it really shows a lack of faith in the talls tales of Redietz and KewlJ. If Singer had a basic freeroll crusher store or subsistence counter narrative then he'd clearly be the most believed.
Fascinating. Would have never guessed it.
Bad news.
All forum admins can read your private messages and you will have no way to tell. It simply requires a glance into the database, which isn't hard to do. This is true for all forums on the internet, not just this one, and not just the software we use here.
This is why I encourage people NOT to include any kind of secrets in PMs here, or on any forum.
I will say that I do not read people's PMs. The only exception involves PMs to and from known scammers, or others who have signed up here to commit crimes or harm the system.
So how did I remove the MDawg spam without reading PMs? Simple. He fired them out within a short period of time, so I just deleted all of those messages from the database, without even reading them. If he happened to send other personalized messages during that short span of time, tough luck.
Read my post above this one to understand what I am doing. I have not read your PMs, nor have I ever thought of doing so.
This site is not a honeypot. I took it over when Alan was about to shut it down. Everyone here knows the history of all that. Everyone also knows that I've been a poker pro for decades, and occasionally will do AP stuff on the side. Anyone who has followed me over the years knows that I'm no friend of the casinos.
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Your knowledge of vBulletin forum software leaves a lot to be desired.
You're correct that the Admin panel of vBulletin does not allow for deletion of specific PMs. It's either all-or-nothing when it comes to PM deletion there.
However, the database is a different story. It is very easy to locate the database entry where the PMs are stored, and each has a timestamp field (so the PM can be dated properly for the recipient). Thus, it was not at all difficult to just take all the PMs you sent during that short period of time, and wipe them from the database.
None of this required reading any PMs, nor did it involve breaching any accounts. I just wiped about 50 records from the database (approximately 25 messages, times 2 because it shows up once in the sender's sent folder and once in the inbox of the recipient).
I have an MS in Computer Science. I'm not just some dolt who threw up a forum on some leased server space. That's how I was able to thwart some attacks some years ago being made on this forum by a angry WoV user who didn't like that certain banned members there were allowed to post here.
However, what I did to remove your messages requires relatively little technical knowledge. It also requires relatively little technical knowledge to read people's PMs via the database, so watch out on other forums.
Therefore, as I said in my other post, I would highly advise you do NOT give out personal information in any forum PMs (not just here, but all forums), and take it to e-mail. I don't read PMs on this forum, but of course you can't know that for sure, so to be safe you just shouldn't post anything personal there.
I will say that I take user privacy very seriously, and would not use anyone's info or messages here in any unethical fashion. I also will never give or sell e-mail addresses (or any other account info) to third parties. I do appreciate that there is some level trust you have in me when you sign up here.
You wrote "Wrong" and then admitted everything that I said, including my explanation in my second post (not quoted by you) about how the forum software works. This paints you in the light of not a straight shooter. At this point, I wouldn't necessarily believe anything more you have to say about this, especially given that you knew what was in the PMs and yet imply you didn't read them.
So you used the second method I outlined, poring through the database. Then you try to imply that you deleted my PMs without reading them, which of course makes no sense in that you knew what their content was and posted it publicly.
This also doesn't explain why you took this action in the first place (hey...let me read through MDawg's PMs today see what he has to say).
Finally, you say that you don't read PMs on this forum (even though you obviously read mine) but we'll never know if you are or are not. Great.
It cracks me up that Mdawg is fighting Dan Druff over this. ;)
Mdawg who hadn't participated here, except apparently some PM's to Dan telling Dan he didn't know what he is talking about concerning various gambling comments, all of the sudden PMed 25 people, asking them to vote for him in this meaningless poll. THAT is spam folks! And against the rules. So Dan Druff deleted the spam. And now Mdawg is crying about it. Funny stuff! ;)
I have had two occasions that discussions of AP play, actually started via PM and took both to email. I don't know why any other AP would not think to do the same. And that is not a slap at Dan Druff or saying I don't trust him. I do. Don't like everything he does, but I trust him. I believe he is one of us (AP's). But for all I know Dan Druff could sell this forum tomorrow to some online company or almost anyone, that I wouldn't trust with anything.
AP's fight a battle on a regular basis with the casino industry. Maybe card counters are more aware of it than others, even other forms of AP. The industry and even more so, the database companies, and game protection companies and people, to everything under the sun to identify AP's. You should never forget that fact.
I didn't even know there was a poll. I usually only check the Las Vegas section of this forum. So what's all the scuttlebutt about?
Interesting. We have a self-proclaimed high-rolling, always-winning, multi-millionaire who is begging people to vote for them, regarding some super silly question/poll.
This only makes my case stronger that nobody should be getting involved in the backdoor PM Message system and that most people who do are trying to scam in one way or another. Just keep everything you want to post out here in the open for all to see. A case could be made that an individual should never post on the internet and perhaps not even log into the interwebs but an addict like me got to addict.
No time to wait, today, for old Ozzy to chime in, commiserate with Monet and Tablepooey, and the other gambling hags, about how each other is doing.
More concerning is the love triangle stuff going on in plain sight. Some real "spilt milk". Ha.Quote:
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However, spilt is more likely to appear as part of fixed phrases, like spilt milk, over which there is no use crying.
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Psychologically, triangles are very complicated. Most people don’t seek them out—at least not consciously. They just seem to happen. One moment you are happily single. The next thing you know you are in love with someone who is married. Or you are happily married and suddenly you realize your partner is seeing someone else.
Sane people get out of a triangles as soon as they realize they are in one. Love addicts stay engaged hoping things will resolve themselves in time. This is because love addicts can’t let go. They have no tolerance for separation anxiety. Once they have bonded with someone, letting go is like death to them. Some love addicts in a triangle will die trying to get to a resolution. They kill themselves or they kill someone in the triangle. The media is full of Crimes of the Heart.
One of the reasons love addicts have a high tolerance for the pain of a triangle is because when they were children the natural triangle between the mother, father and child, went horribly wrong. Usually the child was rejected by one of the parents and incested by the other—not necessarily sexual incest but certainly covert or emotional incest. The rejection/incest magnifies the triangle. The Oedipus experience, in which the child adores one parent and is in competition with the other, is not outgrown with little impact on the child’s future. Instead it becomes rooted in the child’s psyche and wounds him or her.
All this means that the triangle is familiar and in some respects comfortable. This, in turn, means that the person involved has a high tolerance for the pain and suffering of the triangle once they get involved in one. Furthermore some love addicts unconsciously try to resolve the wound of their childhood by recreating the triangle of their childhood—over and over again. They are obsessed with the idea that things will end differently each time. Unfortunately, this is not how you heal the wounds of childhood. You don’t go back to the scene of the crime and commit the crime all over again. You go back to the scene of the crime in therapy with an enlightened witness to guide you. You go back to grieve, forgive, let go and move on.
There are also those who accept the down side of the triangle for the ecstasy that often goes with it. Triangles can be like roller coasters. When one person in the triangle is, momentarily, the front runner he or she is as high as a kite. But everyone pays such a high price for the thrill of being chosen at any given moment—the winner of the competition. This, too, is often tied in with the early Oedipus experience in which the child is trying to get the parent she adores to choose her over the other parent.
The most important thing to know about triangles is that they are unhealthy, painful, and potentially dangerous. Dr. Phil says this over and over again and I concur. We are meant to be monogamous for more reasons than I can recount here. Only hedonists and sex addicts really defend the agony and ecstasy of the triangle. I also agree with Dr. Phil when he says there are rarely three willing partners in a ménagé a trois. Someone is usually unhappy even if they don’t admit it. So if you ever find yourself in a triangle get out. Walk away. Cut your losses. Even if you are married with kids, walk away until your partner gets into recovery and gives up his, or her, penchant for multiple partners.
Andrea, John & Sandra
Sometime around 2002 a well-known counselor got a call from a woman named Andrea. She said she wanted to discuss her boyfriend. As soon as she arrived for her session Andrea began talking about John and “his” addiction. “I love him,” she said, “and he loves me, but I can’t get him to stop seeing this other woman.” The counselor listened for about twenty minutes and then quickly speculated that John might be a romance addict—someone who gets high off of the euphoria of romance. Romance addicts usually have multiple partners and get addicted to the honeymoon phase of a relationship. They sometimes have one full time partner to give them a sense of stability, but one person is never enough for them.
As the counselor listened to Andrea she waited for her to pause so she could get her to begin focusing on herself. She, the counselor believed, was a codependent love addict—the partner in a relationship who hangs on for dear life and has a high tolerance for suffering neglect, and sometimes, abuse. Codependent love addicts (also known as relationships addicts) are constantly trying to fix a relationship. Their sensitivity to separation anxiety makes it impossible for them to cut their losses and move on. Andrea was not, unfortunately, willing to talk about herself so the counselor found herself getting drawn into what would turn out to be one of the most complicated and bizarre triangles of her career. By “drawn in” I mean that, against her better judgment, she agreed to see Andrea the next day along with her boyfriend John. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
The next day Andrea and John arrived for their session. The counselor gave up trying to help Andrea with her codependency and instead tried to help John with his romance addiction. He became the “identified patient.”
John had always been a romance addict. He was handsome and intelligent. He loved women and began cheating on his wife of twenty years six months into the marriage. After his divorce he dated up to five women at a time. Five minutes into the session the counselor asked him why he was there. “I want to settle down,” he said. “I want to stop being a womanizer.” “Can you help me?” he asked. “I don’t know,” the counselor said. “Are you willing to change?” “Yes,” he said quickly.
The counselor outlined a program of recovery for John. It was simple. Recovery for romance addicts is monogamy. “Choose the woman you want to settle down with,” she told John, “and we will work through the anxiety you feel when you commit to just one woman.” John agreed to this plan and made an appointment for the next night.
The next night John arrived promptly at 8:00 o’clock with a woman named Sandra. He introduced her to the counselor as the woman he truly loved and wanted to settle down with. The counselor felt a little uncomfortable and wasn’t quite sure what to do. She had assumed, for some reason, that John would come back the next night with Andrea.
Sandra was nice. John was nice. They were obviously in love. They held hands during the session and looked adoringly into each other’s eyes. So what was the problem? Unfortunately, as the counselor was soon to learn, John was just as much in love with Andrea and had the innate ability to be in the moment with each of these women. When he was with Andrea she had his full attention. When he was with Sandra she was the only one for him. The counselor was not sure whether she should categorize him as a good con artist or a sick man, but since she tended to be a compassionate person by nature, she decided that what she was calling John’s romance addiction was not the result of narcissism per se but a deep-seated fear of intimacy with any one woman.
The counselor recommended some books to John and Sandra and sent them on their way. “Get into couples therapy,” she said “and go to some workshops.” She also asked John to come back if he felt himself backsliding from his commitment to Sandra and the monogamous lifestyle. Little did she know what she was saying.
Two days later John called the counselor. “I have to see you,” he said, “it is urgent. I have changed my mind. Andrea is the one I want to be with. I love her.” Against her better judgment (for the second time but not the last), the counselor agreed to see John and Andrea. Right off she confronted John about his ambivalence. “I don’t want to get caught up in this triangle,” she declared. “You have to choose one woman here.” “There is no doubt about it,” he declared. “Andrea is my choice.” “OK,” she finally said. Then she repeated the same advice she had given him and Sandra. “Get into couples therapy and go to some workshops.” For good measure she added, “Get into individual therapy too, and read some books.” Finally, as an afterthought she threw in “Stay the course.”
A week later Andrea called the counselor. “John is cheating on me,” she said. I caught him with Sandra. I am following them now. They are just leaving the hotel. What shall I do?” “Go home,” the counselor suggested. Call me tomorrow. I need some time to think about this.”
I wish I could say the counselor threw in the towel at this point, but she was a bit of a drama queen herself and really thought she might be able to help. Talk about denial. So for a couple of weeks she continued to see Andrea, Sandra and John. She continued to declare that John had to choose. Finally, she did an intervention. She told John that the sessions were going nowhere and that he needed to choose between Sandra and Andrea once and for all. Then, in separate sessions, she suggested to Andrea and Sandra that they both leave John if he did not make a choice and stick to it. Of course, all three members of the triangle were seriously addicted by this time and so the women continued to enable John and he continued to be ambivalent. The counselor refused to see them anymore and thought that was the end of it.
A few months later Andrea called the counselor to say that John had chosen her the night before but that now he was in the bathroom crying. She felt he was having a nervous breakdown because he was giving up the other woman. The counselor thought that perhaps this time John really was trying to choose and was now in full blown withdrawal because the other relationship was over. The counselor knew, by this time, that she was in over her head so she suggested that Andrea find a clinic where she could take John. Andrea quickly made arrangements to take John to a rehab center in the Mid-West that specialized in treating love addicts. For a moment the counselor thought they were actually making progress.
As it turned out the professional therapists at the clinic did no better than the counselor. After three weeks at the center John was supposed to bring Andrea to family week (because she was, supposedly the one he had chosen and, by the way, was paying the bill). Well he did bring Andrea, but a week later he talked his primary therapist at the center into letting him bring Sandra for another family week because, after all, he was still was not sure who he wanted to settle down with. So John turned the clinic upside down by having both women come visit him. As Andrea was leaving she almost ran into Sandra in the parking lot. Then to make things worse John took off for the weekend with Sandra and when he returned on Monday he was asked to leave the center. Everybody admitted defeat and sent John packing.
For awhile the counselor received some emails from the three of them. John decided to marry Andrea and Sandra started stalking the two of them. She sent threatening emails and then called John’s boss and told him what was going on. John was fired from his job. Then John decided to go back with Sandra and Andrea kicked him out of the house. The counselor, who lived to tell the story, eventually lost track of my three clients and for all she knows the triangle could still be going on. Which is the point of this story. Triangles are extremely toxic and can be very addictive.
One final note about triangles. There is a lot of role playing and everyone’s role changes from time to time. The three major roles in any triangle are the Victim, the Narcissist and the Rescuer. One player may start out as a victim and end up becoming the rescuer or narcissist.
In the case study above, Andrea, was the first woman to meet John so when he started cheating on her she was the victim and he the narcissist. Sandra was initially a victim because John said he was not seeing anyone else. When Andrea and Sandra found out about each other, and made the decision to stay, and “work things out,” they both stopped being the victim and became willing participants.
Andrea (the more codependent of the two) decided the best way to resolve the situation was to become John’s rescuer so she brought him to me for help—and later the clinic. When John willingly came to me for help he stopped being the narcissist for awhile, and became (because his romance addiction was rooted in some deep-seated childhood trauma) a victim. When John brought Sandra to the rehab center he became the narcissist again. His self-gratification was all that mattered to him. Then, both women, by coming to family week, began to compete for who was the best rescuer. Finally, when John married Andrea, Sandra became the narcissist by stalking them both.
It can't be said enough. If you are in a triangle get out. Don’t play the game hoping to win. It is not worth it.
Yeah, but it totally encapsulates what goes on at the gambling forums. And, so, a much quicker read that really and actually ends up somewhere. Ha.
Double P.S.S. There is nothing more moronic than KJ, and AW, going at it. The trivial bits. The Eigenvalues or axes, of it.
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132 ----> The sum of all two-digit numbers that you can make from 132 is 132: 12 + 13 + 21 + 23 + 31 + 32 = 132. It is the smallest number with this property. As well, 132 = (66 + 66), with the 66 already thus inverted.
Douchedawg wrote " Admin is able to delete all of a user's PMs, or able to delete all sent PMs of a user. There is no standard Admin capability in this forum to delete select user PMs."
Dan says "You're correct that the Admin panel of vBulletin does not allow for deletion of specific PMs. It's either all-or-nothing when it comes to PM deletion there. However, the database is a different story. It is very easy to locate the database entry where the PMs are stored, and each has a timestamp field (so the PM can be dated properly for the recipient). Thus, it was not at all difficult to just take all the PMs you sent during that short period of time, and wipe them from the database."
Game, set and match to Mr. Druff.
Will the tick-ridden hound admit he was wrong and apologize?
Bwa ha ha, that ain't what pathological narcissists do.
C'mon dawg, keep attacking Dan: he "only" has an MS in computer science as opposed to a JD from a piece of shit law school: funny stuff.
Pathological narcissists pretend that they know all about, say, blackjack, and computer science, especially when it comes to evaluating the thus truthfulness of such posters. Fortunately, few in the real world could fall for it.
Here's something from ProBoards.
I have yet to come across an internet forum, for myself, or another's, that outright allows deletions of any or all PM's from the admin's control panel. Someone should go to the vBulletin Boards forum to ask about it. Did Druff mean that he could generically delete all PM's by deleting the forum, itself? Why would an administrator require such information? Are not the posters ostensively allowed to send a message to whomever they choose?Quote:
To remphasize, regardless of what happens, an Admin cannot go in and read anyone's private messages. The exception would be if the admin was a participant in the message. After that, you have no control over what that other participant might do with the message they received. There's no terms of service that says that someone can't forward a message from one person to another.
https://support.proboards.com/post/7019886/thread
Anyway, I doubt that online forums per se are mentioned, let alone studied, at any level of computer science.
Oh, and, yes, the two are totally different types of boards, but, from the policy point of view.
https://forum.vbulletin.com/
select * from vbulletins.messages as a where a.user='MDAWG';
select * from vbulletins.messages as a where a.user='monet' and contains(a.messagetext, 'bonus poker deluxe');
just a little humor - I have no idea what the database table name(s) and column names(s) was/were that Dan queried.
Does it really matter? If Mdawg PMed 25 members, that he thought were Mdawg friendly and would vote for him, he was probably wrong about a couple of them and they informed Druff. But even if that didn't happen and Druff just noticed that a member who hasn't participated here in a couple years all of the sudden sent 25 PM's to 25 different members, doesn't he have a right to check that. Druff does have a no spam rule.
And again, you guys that are offended that an administrator could look at PM's, well I don't know what to tell you. I just assumed administrators have that ability. Like I said, I have taken a couple conversations started with PM's to email for just that reason.
Understand that Mdawg only brought this up, hoping some of you would be upset about it to deflect from the this:
He tried to rig a ridiculous, meaningless poll and got caught.
And for those that read GF, Mdawg posted really nasty post towards Axelwolf rehashing the captain Morgan stuff for the 100th times. This guy Mdawg is really, really pissed now. His story is up in flames! Hookers are robbing him. The self-proclaimed "Pope of Las Vegas" is dead, or at least his silly story.
I sure hope he isn't lying about the comps he gets too, because I know for a fact he didn't have a very good year gambling in 2022. I sure as hell hope he got some decent comps for those donations. :cool:
OMG the answer is GET A LIFE. Walk away from these retards.
Druff shows up sporadically to post sports junk, make political statements, make mountains of molehills, post progressively more filth, and, to take permanent unilateral actions. Moreover, it doesn't matter what he answers to or how, if he just doesn't make any sense. You can't debate anything with such a person. Someone who runs message boards solely for this reason.
I mean, one email could be spam, but, hundreds not. You can't say that 25 just are spam, were there so many active members here, because, as far as I know, you are perfectly allowed to send 25 PM's at once. So, to legitimately claim it was spam, Druff had to check 'em. But, as far as I know, he claimed that he didn't, and, so, he just assumed it was spam. Many arguments to make without knowing exactly what he did, or not. Which is also fundamental poker logic. Which explains, as far as I know, his not winning any major tournaments after the first few - a sign of fluke luck. How to know that the supposed emails to delete in general, along with all emails, had at all pointed to Dawg? How then to selectively delete only Dawg's? It just can't make any sense given Druff's bit.
It's never really so simple. One has to deal with a lot of junk on the road to something decent. There are a lot of irritants to the pursuit of the truth, whichever. Intellectually lazy persons who just lock onto one or other side of something to go the procrustean route of making everything fit. Persons who couldn't really, in theory, or, actually, in practice, prove out the simplest of things, yet, they go on and on. But, each of us shares the same native languages of logic, etc, which exist no matter how things are expressed.
Of course, no one need do their "homework" for them, show the work, let alone argue, with fools, solely about being fools. People who make every thing a shitshow, say, about masochists/sadists, and pathological narcissists.
This is how fucking stupid poor people are.
I own zero in my name
Most people with real money own things in trust or different business structures. It’s fucking so trivial to do. Poor uneducated freaks like you have no clue.
Broke ass failed lawyers who do drugs all day obviously don’t understand it either.
You’ve sucked to much cock and ate to many sweaty closet gay ass to know anything about asset protection.
So fucking fake !!!