Stooo wrote:MonkeySocks wrote:Jezzaws
The forum wars largely passed me by. I only really posted in DS Chatter and DTV but I avoided all the nasty stuff as that's not for me
. I did pop into Jezza's occasionally as a 'horse' and poke Steve a bit about his dead forum
. It always amused me that they displayed "#1 this, #1 that" etc. on that site with its single-figure posts per week
. And what the hell was demanding allegiance to Praetorian all about? I've never encountered Jack from Jezza's but I'm aware of his work
.
Jezzas was a place filled with the worst of the DM, SOL and SKY forums but it was also tremendous fun. I was often banned and back in a different disguise (I still think that the best was Betty Swallocks) before becoming unbanned and 'promoted' to some bollocks with mod buttons. My first action was to make Rockstar a mod and the forum imploded with the nutters forming EoE.
I did some delving later and found out that Steve did actually have a software company of sorts and refused to answer my emails when I was pretending to be a Mosque chap wanting a website. Finding out that Jack was actually a 23 year old bus driver rather than a racecar legend was a bit of a bonus.
I find this forum history stuff strangely fascinating.
You've certainly led an eventful forum life
. I'm impressed that you repeatedly managed to circumvent Jezza's 'systems' to re-register. They always gave the impression that detection of abuse of their 'systems' was second to none.
I prefer to fly below the radar although both my DS and DTV handles have warranted mentions here on Dogs - mostly in lists matching DS and DTV usernames. And no, I'm not going to divulge either identity
. Was you promoting Rockstar on Jezza's the catalyst for it becoming the graveyard it was in its final days? That's funny about Jack being so young and a bus driver. I had him down as a curmudgeonly middle-aged bloke. So Steve is/was actually involved with software professionally. Shame you couldn't coerce him into building a website for your Mosque
. I guess his prejudices run too deep.