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In response to "Oh, if new hsx ever works, I wonder how many flagged offensive posts you need to get banned. -- nm" by Amy

I hope it's one.. Here is the post I just made there, and I hope they block my IP..

Posted by Marlowe Oct 22 '08, 07:02

What? The intent was *not* to drive away the faithful players to open up space for brainless new "Schmoozers"? Then, as these new members like to say, epic fail!

Who the fuck came with that idea anyway?

At least have the honesty to change the name of the site! An uninformed person might think that, you know, HSX still is about a movie stock exchange. But it isn't, is it? It's about blogging, schmoozing, whatever?

It's not only about the terrible, terrible, TERRIBLY SUCKY, website design. The fucking ugly orange, the obnoxiousness of the ads and so on. Or the boards, which are hard to navigate (and either you keep the threaded look completely or you don't at all, if you ask me..) aand hard to know who is posting. There are some laudable ideas, and I would remiss if I didn't mention them: I like that I can see my port value wherever I am.

However, since the biggest problem of the whole thing is the bastardization of the game, that is right now irrelevant. H$ for posting? For blogging? For schmoozing, networking, profiling? For god-only-know-what else? Let me state this clearly: WHAT THE FUCK??? Sure, we always had some form of free money. It was limited. This, as far as I can see, is limitless. So, why even bother playing the game?

Which is a good thing, since the portfolios are terrible to navigate, terrible to gather information. The leaderboards are not working, the portfolios have no rankings in them. It would be easier, and way more honest, to just kill the game and be done with it. Call this clusterfuck Hollywood Schmozing Xerxes or something.

Oh, and one more thing. Yeah, sure, it clearly states there in the logo, this still is Beta. But the whole site is unstable as hell, I keep getting messages to install whatever, I was utterly unable to do anything last night with FireFox. In fact, it left my browser hanging so much I had to reboot just to do anything else. Let me tell you, it was time and money well spent, since the beta test, letting the site down for a week. And now to come back to this state.

So, I'll tell you what I already did. HSX had been, for years and years, my starting page. It's not anymore. The site, at this state, is something I don't intend coming back to. It would be too aggravating, because you really fucked up. I mean really. The language I'm using should hint you about that.

Oh, and I know at least one dude that will say that I don't like changes. Indeed I don't. But this is a big change for me. After over 10 years playing this game faithfully, and about 8 being a part of this community, I'm most likely calling it quits. Nothing, and I mean, nothing, had lasted for that long in my life. So, yeah, this is a big change for me. I'll probably be around "the other" board a bit, I expect.

PS: I feel sorry for D. Mac, I really do. But dude, you have some moronic bosses there.

And, as a comment, I made a comment on the fcat that the freaking thing won't even recognize paragraph breaks.

Responses:

Paragraph breaks were deprecated in HTML 4.01, so it's not necessarily their fault the board code doesn't recognize it. So you have to br twice - Mr. Havens Oct 22, 07:19 6
- The only way it could be worse is if the menus were in Russian and they used flashing pink instead of orange.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 07:25 1
  - *laughing* -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:25
- Yes, it is their fault. I shouldn't have to do two break html code. I'm the new user. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:21 3
  - It's HSX fault the paragraph code was deprecated? - Mr. Havens Oct 22, 07:27 2
    - The fact is it is a text box. I shouldn't *have* to write code to make it legible. -- nm - JaxSean Oct 22, 07:37
    - Weren't you the one accusing a dude of brownosing yesterday or the day before? (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 07:30
Yeah, I was hoping agaisnt hope this was just a minor tweek, and we would complain about it for a few years but still post - The Calico Cat Coalition Oct 22, 07:17
i'm not annoyed that much yet but you're right on a lot of points sofar - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 22, 07:08
Holy Schmoozing Xerxes, Marlowe!! -- nm - Diva Oct 22, 07:08
so, what are you saying is that the value of the H$ is dropping - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:06 6
- cheaper money => prices rise => asset bubble => bubble bursts horribly -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 07:12 2
  - wonders if I can exchange my H$ for something more stable. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:15 1
    - Until someone creates a schmoozebot, I'm not sure it will have much effect. - Roger More Oct 22, 07:17
- i'm getting a Zimbabwean feel for the HDollar -- nm - DaneDukeNuuk Oct 22, 07:10
- also, ie has been trying to load www.hsx.com for 5 mins. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:08 1
  - oh look, it loaded, then crashed when I tried to get to the misc board. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:10
hey, I just read that! I wondered who was complimenting them on a job well done. -- nm - mafic Oct 22, 07:05 6
- Heh.. Since that post is likely to be lost, I wanted ot save in Tron's posterity here.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 07:06 5
  - cut and paste it in a word doc -- nm - Beaker Oct 22, 07:14
  - which means it will be gone after the 20th board -- nm - Roger More Oct 22, 07:13 3
    - Isn't Tron working here? (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 07:18 2
      - no, but all of the boards are being saved so that he can get it working. -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 22, 07:20 1
        
        OK, that's good enough for me.. (NM) - Marlowe Oct 22, 07:22

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