Going Public....

[RMalone]

I am astounded "t3h godfatherer" was ever allowed to become a "trusted" member. Personally, I never considered him to be as such, but it appears my views were different than many other in here.

He managed to inundate this board with roughly 300 posts within a 3 month span, with all of these posts being spam basically. No links, why?.

He never provided an URL to associte himself with, but yet he was still a respected webmaster, designer, poker affiliate ect, (it least it appeared this way for a while)
why is this?

As soon as he gets money from forum members he disappears. At this point everyone who wasn't born yesterday knew he was gone with the money. But he comes back and makes a ridiculous post about how he "broke his bra1ns" and members had a whole get well soon thread and plans to make a card with everyones signature it and send flowers ect

Then you wonder why he sends emails like that, this whole thing is hilarious to him i'll bet.

[dbirider]

[PPP]

I don't know about the specifics here, but something similar happened at least once before on this board. We all process information differently, but I am stunned at the threshold some other people have for "trusted". I'd suggest some of you guys raise your bar quite a bit higher.

Originally posted by dbirider@Mar 7 2006, 03:47 PM

I was waiting for corpfan to do this...

[Godfather]

Greetings

Indeed, funny picture.

Actually i never said that i would not pay him, i just got annoyed about the
spamm he was delivering me, i promised him not to comment this thread but
after a picture like that, i just had to LOL!

h34r: GodFather h34r:

[hoursurfing]

All in favor to ban him.

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[NeverBeg]

Greetings

Indeed, funny picture.

Actually i never said that i would not pay him, i just got annoyed about the
spamm he was delivering me, i promised him not to comment this thread but
after a picture like that, i just had to LOL!

GodFather

This post pisses me off more than the fact that he stole money from me. "I just got annoyed about the spamm he was delivering me" WTF? What spamm was i delivering to you? This comment is absolutley ridiculous to me.

Thank you to all you members who have shown your support in this matter. I agree I should have been a lot smarter to not just pay him right off the bat.

I am in favor of banning him as well, but I dont think it is up to me to decide. I think if Jeremy, Randy, or the Intern are reading this, they should really be able to see what type of person Godfather really is and make an intelligent decision on what to do about it. This is a great forum with so many great people helping eachother out, we should really try to keep it that way.

Right now I put Godfather in the same level of care as I do the free roll whores that invaded our event last night, particularly the one who sucked out on me with AJ while I had AA. I'll be sure to never let a crook get the better of me again.

[RMalone]

Just ignore the the_godfather, he is obviously having the time of his life and your responses only fuel the fire.

Banning him will in effect doing nothing. Sure, he wont be able to post as "the_godfather" and taunt his victims anymore, but he could still view the board or even make a new account. Are you gonna ban all known proxy servers? Thats assuming he hasn't been using one this whole time. (it would be naive not to IMO).

Your only solution is to create a members only forum with a password, which posters who are actually trusted can fraternize in realte comfort without the feeling that their peers are out to scam them in some way.

[absentx]

I am also very surprised how he was able march into this forum and become an "authority figure" pretty quickly.

I kind of thought "who does this chump think he is?"

Then I became a chump and almost payed him some money to do a logo for me. Luckily it didn't come out to my satisfaction before he disappeared and that was it.

To be fair, Godfather did some work for me and there was no problem.

Also, it's only fair to point out that other people have had problems with him.

Having been screwed over early in my career as a webmaster for over $1000, I have nothing but sympathy for people who have paid for work and never received it. It's an expensive lesson to learn.

I'll have a discussion with Jeremy regarding Godfather's status here.