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Bodo 
Mar-03-2004, 13:04 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

RUBI DIJKEMAM:

Please stop flooding the quiz game with questions - even stupid questions.

Iīm in the position to bann you permanently from this site.

This is a lot of work to clean up the quiz tables, and I donīt have time to waste.

Before aksing questions please look if:
a) This question hasnīt been already asked (maybe in other words!)
b) Donīt make stupid spelling errors like īpreformedī
c) Watch out that your question has the same format than all other questions in the quiz (Questions start with an uppercase letter, answers too)

All other questions will be deleted.

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 13:10 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Sorry, your english is SO bad and you donīt take a 2nd look, I canīt correct all these questions!

You write things like
dit = did
preformed = performed
greastest = greatest
witch = which

Thatīs not readable and I donīt have the time to correct 50 questions.

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 13:17 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

And thanks to MATAN from ITALY for making me more work with stupid questions like īafsfasdfī

IDIOT.

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 13:48 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

jazzmatan@hotmail.com if you want to thank him Soren or others

Nathgertsch
Mar-03-2004, 14:05 GMT
IP: 81.249.135.36
France

Need some Camomille Bodo ? ;-) LOL ! Why donīt you throw this stupid man away definitely ?

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 14:51 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Iīm doing it at the moment.
Hope the IP deny works correct... Iīve seen he is using a lot of different computers.

Kuno
Mar-03-2004, 15:02 GMT
IP: 217.192.12.54
Switzerland

Maybe he is a Mittermeier fan...thatīs WAR !! ;o)

Nathgertsch
Mar-03-2004, 16:04 GMT
IP: 80.11.193.116
France

Using different PCs ? So, he has really much time to lose and comes here only to bother you ! Unfortunately, you have very often that kind of stupid persons in most of the sites where you can post freely.

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 16:10 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Well, it could be that he uses one PC at work and 2 more at home...

I block a full list of IPīs now. (Italian visitors - attention)

afriend
Mar-03-2004, 16:34 GMT
IP: 171.24.253.45
Germany

Hello Bodo,

I donīt think that you can block him, he doesnīt use several computers, he gets different ip-numbers every logon to the web.

greets
afriend

Bodo
Mar-03-2004, 16:42 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Hi afriend.

I know now.
But I can block his whole provider if I want.
I could even block all IP adresses starting with 80 for example

afriend
Mar-03-2004, 16:46 GMT
IP: 171.24.253.45
Germany

Yes, but than you are blocking all the other users from his provider. Good idea

afriend

jerry
Mar-03-2004, 19:44 GMT
IP: 217.235.58.33
Germany

P.S. ... the answer to afsadf and others seems to be always 1...
Why donīt you stop the possibility to include oneīs own question for a while? I think there are a enough in it at the moment...

Bodo
Mar-04-2004, 09:53 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

I now have made it only possible to include questions for people which played the quiz for 100 times or more. That should help a little bit.

Bodo
Mar-04-2004, 10:24 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Thats true, but I donīt think this will affect any other mainly visitors of the site.

In a few weeks I can also delete the IP deny again - the person will
either forget my site or he maybe learned something..

Willow
Mar-04-2004, 20:11 GMT
IP: 68.75.67.168
USA

Oh, you guys have that īasfasdfī guy here too? He posts about once or twice a week on Artīs site in the guestbook.

Raven 
Mar-05-2004, 14:31 GMT
IP: 80.132.61.89
Germany

Hi Bodo,

I find it funny that yourīre complaining about some peopleīs English here though yours is not much better. Iīve already read things on your page, mails that youīve been posting that made me really wonder what the hell you tried to say with that. And I guess Iīm not the only one. I seriously wonder how some English speaking person (American, English) can understand such things like sentences that end with an "or?" Thereīs nothing like that in the English language. Well anyway, I donīt find it alright that youīre complaining about other peopleīs English. Just because youīre hosting this page. Well maybe you make up your mind. Iīll be back soon.

emily
Mar-05-2004, 14:32 GMT
IP: 217.235.58.182
Germany

I guess he belongs to the Mittermaier-party...
a person whoīs only aim it is to cause trouble - creative way of living, isnīt it?

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Mar-05-2004, 14:32 GMT
IP: 217.235.58.182
Germany

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 14:47 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Hello Raven

I know my English isnīt very good, but I try to do my best and I explained why Iīve erased the questions. It wasnīt the grammatic (he, I wouldnīt have found these errors for myself) - he wrote simple words like īdidī, īwhichī or īperformedī false and I donīt have the time to correct all these things.

I donīt complain about anyoneīs english if he writes in the forum but I want the quiz game to be playable for everyone - and that wasnīt possible with these questions. Also he made me angry because he included a few silly questions like īWhy do I play this quiz game?ī or īClick on the right answerī -> īRight Answerī.

BTW.: I once asked Julie (from England) to correct all my own questions in the quiz.
AND I didnīt complain about peopleīS (the S is important) English, I only wrote about one person ok? (take the or as an OK, ok - itīs sometimes hard to translate from one language into another because we always say īorī at the end of a sentence if we want to know another persons opinion, you say īok?ī I guess.

I hope you understood me this time better, maybe my first post wasnīt understandable.

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 15:01 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

BTW.:
Isnīt it strange that people from non-native English speaking countries have to run the most up to date English Paul Simon siteīs? [this site(german), the dreamer of music(spanish), the paul simon pages(dutch)] while the English speaking folkīs donīt run such a site?

Iīve made this site as interactive as possible - so others who speak better english could write the news or the biography...
but then I wait and see that only the non-native English persons post the news (like Ans, Nathalie, me, Jesse... (but their english is better than mine, itīs only a example!)

What do you think about that?

jerry
Mar-05-2004, 15:08 GMT
IP: 217.235.58.182
Germany

I fully agree with Bodo. Raven, he just does not want stupid and misspelled questions in his quiz-game. It is a very different thing if you post in a forum and have a spelling mistake in a post than in a question, because you can reread a post as often as youīd like to but not in the quiz-game...
and for omst of us are non-native-english-speakers it is acceptable.

(@ Bodo:
"or" at the end of a sentence really does not exist, and it is hard to understand for native speaker (I think itīs a question of getting used to it and guessing))

Alain
Mar-05-2004, 15:09 GMT
IP: 81.48.220.58
France

You are all welcome on the french forum...LOL
Nobody says "Vous ne parlez pas bien franįais..."(you donīt speak a very good french)

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 15:18 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Hi Jerry, yes the problem is that I(or all people in my surroundings) end nearly every question with īor?ī So I really forget about this thing very often.

Itīs like the "internet site" and "internet side" thing. In german we say "Internet Seite" - like a side of a book. So I very often made this small error (itīs only 1 character) and the native english speaking people didnīt know what I was talking about.
For me it was the exact translation of "Internet" and "Seite/Side" into english :-)

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 15:20 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

I only speak 2 words of french

Qui

and

Qui Qui

:-)

Alain
Mar-05-2004, 15:26 GMT
IP: 81.48.220.58
France

Your french is perfect Bodo !

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 16:22 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Qui! :-)

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 16:23 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

I can sometimes visit the forum and say īQuiī :-)

and Rue

Alain
Mar-05-2004, 16:27 GMT
IP: 81.250.169.178
France

You can say : "coucou, cīest Bodo" :-)

Ans
Mar-05-2004, 17:31 GMT
IP: 82.73.79.96
Netherlands

Hi Bodo, I looked in the fan database and saw that Rubi Dijkema is a young enthousiastic Dutch fan, so I donīt think he meant to do it on purpose but I understand itīs very annoying for you and a lot of work to correct the questions.
But maybe Rubi is intimidated now to answer you in the forum.

Marieno
Mar-05-2004, 17:34 GMT
IP: 62.34.158.20
France

I think many "native" English speakers (not you, nice English posters) donīt make many efforts to understand these horrible people who donīt speak English fluantly like them...so, sorry to be French or Spanish or German... speakers...
By the way Raven, there is a sentence in English that everybody understands: F.ck you!!! sorry, it makes me feel better...i donīt like this type of criticism: Bodo works hard on this site, he makes a wonderful work and this Raven comes here and says bullshits about him...eveybody is welcome on this site however his (her) abilities in English...iīm a good example: my English is bad but Nobody makes fun of me, even not Bodo... ;-)
But Raven promised that heīll be back (is he the new Arnold?): tremble Bodo!!!

Nathgertsch
Mar-05-2004, 17:56 GMT
IP: 81.53.178.82
France

Be careful Bodo because "qui-qui" can mean something you canīt even imagine ! LOL !
And about English mistakes, well, I am really far from speaking and writting a perfect English (I was doing much better when I was studying that language at the university but it is a too long time ago now and my different stays in the States have spoiled my perfect English ;-) )but who cares that much as long as everybody can understand us (and that itīs not at all non sense like it was in the quizz) ?
We (and Bodo first) already make many efforts to communicate here in a language that is not ours because of the supremacy of the English language so, please, letīs all be more lenient ! Thanks !

Ans
Mar-05-2004, 17:57 GMT
IP: 82.73.79.96
Netherlands

Well said Marieno, so you see Raven, DONīT attack our Bodo;-)

But honestley Bodo does a great job with his site and he is a good host.

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 18:03 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Yep, I saw that. I also have to say that I was very angry because I saw the īasfsdī questions of MATAN, then the question of Rubi. And he made so many questions, some good questions and I wanted to keep them - but then I saw all these errors and at least his few last questions..absolute senseless questions (and this brought me to the decission not to correct all the normal questions, also because he could have simply take himself half a minute more to check the wordīs... I think he simply wanted to flood the quiz with a lot of questions he could answer to be the top player of the quiz later, without checking if the question hasnīt been already asked or if the 4 possible answers are good)

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 18:06 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Thanks Ans, by that way - I have deleted this anoying pop under banner now. At the time with this new add on the bottom itīs enough advertising and I donīt want to nerv any visitors with pop unders ;-)

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 18:17 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Marieno, donīt be so hard ;-)

I can understand the criticism from Raven (and really, while I wrote the sentence īYour english is so bad..ī I thought: īmaybe someone will reply saying the same things about meī.. But there have been so many really obvious errors in these questions (and Raven, you couldnīt read them I know) that I didnīt want to edit them.

Especially because at the time I have a very very slow connection to my web-administration tool.

[A strange story, the site is blocked on my companyīs internet connection, so I use a special software and connect via SSH to a friendīs computer where the site isnīt blocked. In a 2nd step I have to use a software called VNC to see HIS computer screen on my PC, and so I surf on his PC(and on my screen) to my website-administration tool. Thatīs extreme slow, it took me 1 hour only to delete the questions!! ]

I think that Rubiīs English is also much better BTW. - but he simply didnīt take the time to correct the typos or check some words IMO.

Bodo
Mar-05-2004, 18:19 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Willow, do they show you the IP of the poster in the AG forum?
I would like to know if this is really the same person.

Willow
Mar-05-2004, 20:23 GMT
IP: 68.75.79.172
USA

I donīt know, I donīt think so, but Iīm not very good with computers.

His sign inīs get deleted pretty quickly anyhow.

Brandy
Mar-05-2004, 21:33 GMT
IP: 216.209.140.74
Canada

Whew! Iīm finally able to get back on this site! My computer kept screwing up the homepage . . .

Anyway, @ Bodo, Iīd like to say that as a "native english speaker" that I think your english is quite good and I personally donīt find it hard to understand you, so donīt worry what others say:)

Willow, whatīs going on with that īafsfasdfī man on the AG board? I usually only go to the PS one, and he doesnīt hang out at the PS one, does he? Iīm trying to remember if Iīver seen anything by him before . . .

Willow
Mar-05-2004, 22:56 GMT
IP: 68.75.79.172
USA

Welcome back!

Bodo said that īafsfasdfī was submiting whacked out questions at a rapid pace to the quiz game on this site. He justs posts a couple times a week on the AG siteīs guestbook, he may have posted a few times on the board but I canīt remember.

Ans
Mar-06-2004, 05:23 GMT
IP: 82.73.79.96
Netherlands

I think you did the right thing, his english in the fan database is to good to make such errors in the quiz. Now I feel the need to apologize for the stupid behavior of a fan from my country.

jerry
Mar-06-2004, 09:07 GMT
IP: 217.85.233.243
Germany

I donīt think thatīs a problem, is it? i mean we all speak english more or less, at least it is enough to communicate, a little mistake like "or" (I used to make this fault too) wonīt confuse the readers too much in my opinion.

Marieno 
Mar-06-2004, 13:37 GMT
IP: 212.195.129.71
France

Sorry...

Alain
Mar-06-2004, 15:04 GMT
IP: 81.250.170.168
France

Bodo, perhaps you may have two sorts of forums:
Perfect english / bad english
Gut deutsch / nicht gut..
Franįais de Moličre / franįais de cuisine ...usw.. LOL

Marieno
Mar-06-2004, 19:34 GMT
IP: 62.34.164.204
France

LOL!!!

Marieno 
Mar-07-2004, 18:04 GMT
IP: 212.194.218.15
France

By the way, i heard today on the radio that, in Europe, the young french (15-16 years Old) are the worst in English...
So Bodo, donīt be nasty with us, poor French people...

alain
Mar-07-2004, 19:10 GMT
IP: 80.12.26.220
France

And what about the Old frenchs (55-56 years old)? :-)

Bodo
Mar-08-2004, 09:31 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Oh, I tought the Italians may be the worst in English ;-)

Rupert 
Mar-08-2004, 09:52 GMT
IP: 145.33.130.13
Netherlands

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry.

The silly questions were posted by a classmate of mine, prefenting me from gaining a good score. we were just joking around. I appologice on his behave. (he did not know I couldīnt delete them.)

For my english, the are just "Typoīs" (I dont even know if Iīve spelled this correct) At lest I can write bij name right ;)I donīt think the misspelled words are casuing misinterpretations of the questions.(allot of other questions are also badly spelled) and you must admid, some of them were good.

Once again: Sorry, wonīt happen again.

Rupert 
Mar-08-2004, 09:55 GMT
IP: 145.33.130.13
Netherlands

Iīm also sorry for the misspelled words in the previous reply!

Nathgertsch
Mar-08-2004, 14:17 GMT
IP: 81.48.58.145
France

Not all of them ! :-) But about the Frenches, I am not surprised ! They are even the worst in French ! LOL !

Bodo
Mar-08-2004, 15:51 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

Hi Rupert

No problem anymore ok. I liked most of your questions, but please take a 2nd look if thereīs a typo and if possible write them they way I and others wrote (starting with uppercase characters looks better IMO)

MATAN
Mar-12-2004, 16:34 GMT
IP: 80.182.192.230
Italy

Guys,I apologize!
I entered those questions just to see how the system worked and I didnīt want to think them up...I DIDNīT KNOW THEY WOULD BECOME A PART OF A COMMON LIBRARY!I thought they wouldīve only appeared on MY next quiz.My mistake but I suggest BODO made it clearer that the questions are going to be visualized by everybody...Ciao!

Bodo
Mar-12-2004, 16:45 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

It is absolute clear to everyone else. Read exactly what I wrote there

"Include your own questions into the quiz - you know the answer and it becomes harder for other people :-)"

Someone else who canīt understand that?

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Mar-12-2004, 16:45 GMT
IP: 194.232.1.233
Austria

MATAN
Mar-13-2004, 11:49 GMT
IP: 80.182.196.165
Italy

I read that allright but it can easily mean that because you enter your own questions youīre more likely to get a higher score!Thatīs what I got anyway...also I didnīt think you would trust the net users so much as to give them such an easy way to screw up your beautiful site!

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