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Why I Don't Post Anymore
I don’t mean any of this to be disrespectful whatsoever, I just thought I’d explain myself and give my two cents: there are some big pointers here and many trivial ones in no arranged order.
I never imagined myself being a person who could get irritated by reading text from other people over the internet. I had to re evaluate that sentiment after seeing Riaz and Rahim frequently pop up on my screen. The fact that Rahim now mods the 2pac section is a complete and utter joke.
I never reached 1,000 posts in my time here, I was never really one for post counts but its clear by the number of times it has been raised by other members since they’ve been lost is that a lot of people did value them. What irritates me that the very people who then turn around and say “Who cares about a post count?” are those who had theirs reinstated.
Trying to lure people to pay $10 to get them back is weak. Some people here have been contributing since 2001, they deserved better than that and its not surprising most have gone.
I know things like that exist to try to cover the costs of running this place, I completely understand its not a free world. However I donated $100 of cash that I worked for and never even got a thank you? Don’t get me wrong I never sought recognition, I did that out of love for this place, but shit if someone paid me $100 for nothing I’d certainly show a little appreciation.
Allowing the website to post The Sessions is dirtying the very community that once made this site popular. If stuff that I paid $130 for gets sanctioned for download its not just my own moral compass that is going to point elsewhere. Is it any wonder that some people with intelligence and integrity like Dante left?
No @streethop.com email was given to recruited news writers. I never asked for shit, nor was much delivered. No biggie, sounds like they don’t work anyway.
Changing the name of the Street Hop section to The Streets sucks, it stinks of generic hip hop forum.
The primary content of ‘The Streets’ and the news topics damages the level of discussion. I’m not here to hate on the mainstream, each to their own, but it is clearly the focus here. The downside with that is that it attracts brainless thirteen year olds, and I don’t really find their incorrectly spelt sentences too stimulating. The threads made by people who know what they’re talking about, imo, 7 Syns, Roaches, Chronic, Linx, ImmortalTech, Rizzle/Preach are painfully slept on.
No offence but the Traz stuff is really gay. Ignore my personal opinion of it though and try to jump into the mindset of anyone trying keep this board alive… how can you seriously think that having that in place is going to encourage new members to post? To the average person browsing this site for the first time, it seems way too cliquey.
The period of editing out names of other websites? Are we in China? That’s not a bump to mrmak, I’ve yet to post there.
Only die hard members would have stuck it out through the loading time problem. In 2007 people expect instant internet - they wouldn’t have checked back with those delays and it took far too long to fix.
Fact is there are less members. I miss the days were it was even worth checking LTTP section every day.
Losing PMs was shit, I had some info and correspondence I wanted to keep in there.
Pop ups murdered Mix Em Up and the trading sub forum. I reckon that Mix Em Up was one of the best methods to get people to stumble across this site. Not now that it’s been killed off.
Bring back the display age option!
The new hot links are fucking irritating. A couple here of there I could live with but in peoples personalised sigs?
It is pretty obvious that we weren’t told the truth about the hacking of hit em up. I’ll never know the full story so I will never make any any assumptions. But I don’t like being lied to.
This whole place is a tale of way too little way too late.
Losing my VIP was another nail in the coffin. Sure, I never paid for it, but I never posted in it or downloaded from there either. It was the closest thing to a thank you I received for about a years worth of news posting. Pittsey did say thank you, but even from his posts alone its clear he's one of the people with intelligence and integrity.
The ability to view the number of views on the news articles posted was removed.. No matter, I doubt they reach the 1,000 mark anymore, or was that why it was removed?
Pop ups have had viruses for some people. Saying that it’s not your responsibility is not good enough.
Our Block is filled with people saying hi to each other. Fascinating.
Little things still fucked up. If I click on a link within SH to SH it just takes me to the home page (voting for SH awards for example).
I’d also like to apologise to Rukas (and Pittsey) for just disappearing from news posting with no word what so ever. I won’t make excuses, I’ll take responsibility because I don’t think greatly of myself for doing that and it's certainly something I should have handled better.– I’m sorry, I should have kept you in the loop. Sorry I didn’t ever hop onto MSN either Rukas, I don’t really use it… When it comes to writing I’m a person who likes to construct my words with detail and delicacy to convey what I mean, the nature of MSN doesn’t let me do that the way I like.
I bear no ill will for anyone here, and if any of you are ever in Sydney send me a PM, I’d gladly meet anyone here for a drink.
A very sincere thank you to the people who helped me write articles for tasks outside of this website. My apologies for not thanking you individually nearer to the time, again something I should have handled better.
Anyway, sorry for the essay… after all… you guys did ask why I don’t post here anymore.
As I think Cormega says, the greatest certainty in life is change.
Things here have changed. I’ll probably lurk in the background for a while longer to see if more changes happen – I’m hoping that perhaps this post will contribute to that.
James.
I don’t mean any of this to be disrespectful whatsoever, I just thought I’d explain myself and give my two cents: there are some big pointers here and many trivial ones in no arranged order.
I never imagined myself being a person who could get irritated by reading text from other people over the internet. I had to re evaluate that sentiment after seeing Riaz and Rahim frequently pop up on my screen. The fact that Rahim now mods the 2pac section is a complete and utter joke.
I never reached 1,000 posts in my time here, I was never really one for post counts but its clear by the number of times it has been raised by other members since they’ve been lost is that a lot of people did value them. What irritates me that the very people who then turn around and say “Who cares about a post count?” are those who had theirs reinstated.
Trying to lure people to pay $10 to get them back is weak. Some people here have been contributing since 2001, they deserved better than that and its not surprising most have gone.
I know things like that exist to try to cover the costs of running this place, I completely understand its not a free world. However I donated $100 of cash that I worked for and never even got a thank you? Don’t get me wrong I never sought recognition, I did that out of love for this place, but shit if someone paid me $100 for nothing I’d certainly show a little appreciation.
Allowing the website to post The Sessions is dirtying the very community that once made this site popular. If stuff that I paid $130 for gets sanctioned for download its not just my own moral compass that is going to point elsewhere. Is it any wonder that some people with intelligence and integrity like Dante left?
No @streethop.com email was given to recruited news writers. I never asked for shit, nor was much delivered. No biggie, sounds like they don’t work anyway.
Changing the name of the Street Hop section to The Streets sucks, it stinks of generic hip hop forum.
The primary content of ‘The Streets’ and the news topics damages the level of discussion. I’m not here to hate on the mainstream, each to their own, but it is clearly the focus here. The downside with that is that it attracts brainless thirteen year olds, and I don’t really find their incorrectly spelt sentences too stimulating. The threads made by people who know what they’re talking about, imo, 7 Syns, Roaches, Chronic, Linx, ImmortalTech, Rizzle/Preach are painfully slept on.
No offence but the Traz stuff is really gay. Ignore my personal opinion of it though and try to jump into the mindset of anyone trying keep this board alive… how can you seriously think that having that in place is going to encourage new members to post? To the average person browsing this site for the first time, it seems way too cliquey.
The period of editing out names of other websites? Are we in China? That’s not a bump to mrmak, I’ve yet to post there.
Only die hard members would have stuck it out through the loading time problem. In 2007 people expect instant internet - they wouldn’t have checked back with those delays and it took far too long to fix.
Fact is there are less members. I miss the days were it was even worth checking LTTP section every day.
Losing PMs was shit, I had some info and correspondence I wanted to keep in there.
Pop ups murdered Mix Em Up and the trading sub forum. I reckon that Mix Em Up was one of the best methods to get people to stumble across this site. Not now that it’s been killed off.
Bring back the display age option!
The new hot links are fucking irritating. A couple here of there I could live with but in peoples personalised sigs?
It is pretty obvious that we weren’t told the truth about the hacking of hit em up. I’ll never know the full story so I will never make any any assumptions. But I don’t like being lied to.
This whole place is a tale of way too little way too late.
Losing my VIP was another nail in the coffin. Sure, I never paid for it, but I never posted in it or downloaded from there either. It was the closest thing to a thank you I received for about a years worth of news posting. Pittsey did say thank you, but even from his posts alone its clear he's one of the people with intelligence and integrity.
The ability to view the number of views on the news articles posted was removed.. No matter, I doubt they reach the 1,000 mark anymore, or was that why it was removed?
Pop ups have had viruses for some people. Saying that it’s not your responsibility is not good enough.
Our Block is filled with people saying hi to each other. Fascinating.
Little things still fucked up. If I click on a link within SH to SH it just takes me to the home page (voting for SH awards for example).
I’d also like to apologise to Rukas (and Pittsey) for just disappearing from news posting with no word what so ever. I won’t make excuses, I’ll take responsibility because I don’t think greatly of myself for doing that and it's certainly something I should have handled better.– I’m sorry, I should have kept you in the loop. Sorry I didn’t ever hop onto MSN either Rukas, I don’t really use it… When it comes to writing I’m a person who likes to construct my words with detail and delicacy to convey what I mean, the nature of MSN doesn’t let me do that the way I like.
I bear no ill will for anyone here, and if any of you are ever in Sydney send me a PM, I’d gladly meet anyone here for a drink.
A very sincere thank you to the people who helped me write articles for tasks outside of this website. My apologies for not thanking you individually nearer to the time, again something I should have handled better.
Anyway, sorry for the essay… after all… you guys did ask why I don’t post here anymore.
As I think Cormega says, the greatest certainty in life is change.
Things here have changed. I’ll probably lurk in the background for a while longer to see if more changes happen – I’m hoping that perhaps this post will contribute to that.
James.
Well goymz, you certainely have some good reasons for not wanting to post here anymore. I asked for my post count back once (maybe twice?), but I then asked myself why I even give a fuck. It's only a number. I guess I was so used to seeing it around a certain number? And I sure as hell am not paying $10 (or any amount of money for that matter) to get it back.
There's alot of corny shit in the Our Block section imo. There's just nothing fascinating about that section really. That whole Traz thing, although I didn't get into it much.. just seemed ridiculously stupid. I think a close community where every knnows each other on a message board is dope, but this one just seems extremely lame sometimes. That's the main reason I never got into it much. Infact, i'm surprised some people even know who I am. I see some mention me and I ask myself how they know I even post here. I'm assuming from my posts in the Streets section. But even that section is pretty weak.. like you already said.
It's cool that i'm a mod there now and I hope I can do my part to make it better and more diverse though. In no way do I think i'm a "better" fan of hip hop than anyone else. I like what I like and you like what you like. I'll debate Hip Hop all day, it's something I like doing. There doesn't seem to be enough people on here to discuss that real Hip Hop shit with though. That's a reason I joined the HipHopGame forum. Although they're mostly about that commercial shit as well. I just figured i'd see what's good there.
Thanks for mentioning me too. :thumb:
There's alot of corny shit in the Our Block section imo. There's just nothing fascinating about that section really. That whole Traz thing, although I didn't get into it much.. just seemed ridiculously stupid. I think a close community where every knnows each other on a message board is dope, but this one just seems extremely lame sometimes. That's the main reason I never got into it much. Infact, i'm surprised some people even know who I am. I see some mention me and I ask myself how they know I even post here. I'm assuming from my posts in the Streets section. But even that section is pretty weak.. like you already said.
It's cool that i'm a mod there now and I hope I can do my part to make it better and more diverse though. In no way do I think i'm a "better" fan of hip hop than anyone else. I like what I like and you like what you like. I'll debate Hip Hop all day, it's something I like doing. There doesn't seem to be enough people on here to discuss that real Hip Hop shit with though. That's a reason I joined the HipHopGame forum. Although they're mostly about that commercial shit as well. I just figured i'd see what's good there.
Thanks for mentioning me too. :thumb:
Just a quick reply.
The $10 for getting post counts back was not a way to get money. The posts were deleted from the database when it was hacked AGES ago, so the post count did not reflect the actual number of posts and it was fucking things up. When the forum was reset the post counts began to reflect the actual ammount of user posts in the database. Setting them back and not fucking things up requires going through the mysql database which takes time and is annoying to do. If you REAAAALLY need it back you can fork out $10 bucks, if you feel its not worth $10 (which it is not), then hopefully users will see post counts are not worth much and move on with their lives, especially since this is now the accurate post count.
As for your VIP, Im not sure why it went, it probably expired but since you werent paying it didnt renew itself automatically; Ive reinstated it for you now.
If there are any other bugs can you please report them in Letter To The President? Like the link thing.
Other than that thanks for everything you did and I hope you continue to post both articles and on the forum.
Hit me up if you need anything else.
The $10 for getting post counts back was not a way to get money. The posts were deleted from the database when it was hacked AGES ago, so the post count did not reflect the actual number of posts and it was fucking things up. When the forum was reset the post counts began to reflect the actual ammount of user posts in the database. Setting them back and not fucking things up requires going through the mysql database which takes time and is annoying to do. If you REAAAALLY need it back you can fork out $10 bucks, if you feel its not worth $10 (which it is not), then hopefully users will see post counts are not worth much and move on with their lives, especially since this is now the accurate post count.
As for your VIP, Im not sure why it went, it probably expired but since you werent paying it didnt renew itself automatically; Ive reinstated it for you now.
If there are any other bugs can you please report them in Letter To The President? Like the link thing.
Other than that thanks for everything you did and I hope you continue to post both articles and on the forum.
Hit me up if you need anything else.
Are you indirectly calling StreetHop a joke for chosing me to be a moderator? ...because I didn't ask to be a MOD for this section, but I did accept it with the utmost appreciation and respect for whoever had chosen me because I've always wanted to moderate a section on StreetHop.
It doesn't take rocket science to moderate a forum, so stop thinking about me so much because I don't like that at all. I don't know what your problem is with me but I am putting in effort in what I do, and I am active in this forum community as best as I can be, so naturally, your the real joke. Get a life and stop thinking about me goymz.
It doesn't take rocket science to moderate a forum, so stop thinking about me so much because I don't like that at all. I don't know what your problem is with me but I am putting in effort in what I do, and I am active in this forum community as best as I can be, so naturally, your the real joke. Get a life and stop thinking about me goymz.
Rahim moderating doesnt mean that you have to read any more of his posts, I dont see how being irritated by his posts has anything to do with the way he closes and moderates threads as the two have nothing to do with one another.
The $10 for getting post counts back was not a way to get money. The posts were deleted from the database when it was hacked AGES ago, so the post count did not reflect the actual number of posts and it was fucking things up. When the forum was reset the post counts began to reflect the actual amount of user posts in the database. Setting them back and not fucking things up requires going through the mysql database which takes time and is annoying to do. If you REAAAALLY need it back you can fork out $10 bucks, if you feel its not worth $10 (which it is not), then hopefully users will see post counts are not worth much and move on with their lives, especially since this is now the accurate post count.
Sure, all you had to do was ask.
No body was allowed to post The Sessions, all links were removed. Dante left because he was no longer a moderator here and because he felt the other site would help him reach his core demographic of 2Pac bootleg customers.
Actually, forwarding emails were provided to those who expressed interest in them and asked me for them.
The site is called StreetHop, having a separate forum by the same name was a bit confusing and lame in my opinion as that forum is a generic hip hop forum and not a forum about the whole website.
The threads actually promoted some decent discussions but I do agree they cluttered things up so they were removed a couple weeks ago.
I agree and hopefully now its over.
Sites that SPAMMED this site when we were hacked were censored and remained censored.
Even Myspace has server problems. More donations and VIPs would have solved the problem then. Things have been upgraded and are fast now and will be in the future.
Youre and intelligent guy and I am sure you have a ton of friends that you could point in out direction to increase activity.
You were warned for about a month before they were removed if not more.
There are no pop ups in Mix Em Up, only the download and torrent parts because a lot of users just leach, but they will go soon as well.
Ok sure, but does it REALLY matter that much?
Ignore them.
Actually you were. The domain was registered under a different domains email address, that domain expired, the "hackers" bought that domain and thus had access to the emails, requested the passwords from the domain register and took what they want. Its not really that hard to do, we told you this from the very beginning so I dont know why you're confused. No lies.
Im not sure why it went, it probably expired but since you werent paying it didnt renew itself automatically; Ive reinstated it for you now.
The news archive isnt ready yet, nothing was removed, there is just no NEWS page right now. Although if you go to http://www.streethop.com you can see the top article and see how many Views it has. So once again, I dont really understand why youre brining this up as its not even accurate or an issue.
No they dont, the virus is on your computer and is triggered by the pop ups. Clean out your spyware and computer with a virus scanner.
None the less the pop ups are gone.
So post something more interesting.
No idea what youre talking about, try bringing it to our attention and Im sure it will be fixed.
All good, but I dont know why you mention half the shit you mentioned because it is simply not true or not accurate.
Good luck with your future journalistic career.
The $10 for getting post counts back was not a way to get money. The posts were deleted from the database when it was hacked AGES ago, so the post count did not reflect the actual number of posts and it was fucking things up. When the forum was reset the post counts began to reflect the actual amount of user posts in the database. Setting them back and not fucking things up requires going through the mysql database which takes time and is annoying to do. If you REAAAALLY need it back you can fork out $10 bucks, if you feel its not worth $10 (which it is not), then hopefully users will see post counts are not worth much and move on with their lives, especially since this is now the accurate post count.
Sure, all you had to do was ask.
No body was allowed to post The Sessions, all links were removed. Dante left because he was no longer a moderator here and because he felt the other site would help him reach his core demographic of 2Pac bootleg customers.
Actually, forwarding emails were provided to those who expressed interest in them and asked me for them.
The site is called StreetHop, having a separate forum by the same name was a bit confusing and lame in my opinion as that forum is a generic hip hop forum and not a forum about the whole website.
The threads actually promoted some decent discussions but I do agree they cluttered things up so they were removed a couple weeks ago.
I agree and hopefully now its over.
Sites that SPAMMED this site when we were hacked were censored and remained censored.
Even Myspace has server problems. More donations and VIPs would have solved the problem then. Things have been upgraded and are fast now and will be in the future.
Youre and intelligent guy and I am sure you have a ton of friends that you could point in out direction to increase activity.
You were warned for about a month before they were removed if not more.
There are no pop ups in Mix Em Up, only the download and torrent parts because a lot of users just leach, but they will go soon as well.
Ok sure, but does it REALLY matter that much?
Ignore them.
Actually you were. The domain was registered under a different domains email address, that domain expired, the "hackers" bought that domain and thus had access to the emails, requested the passwords from the domain register and took what they want. Its not really that hard to do, we told you this from the very beginning so I dont know why you're confused. No lies.
Im not sure why it went, it probably expired but since you werent paying it didnt renew itself automatically; Ive reinstated it for you now.
The news archive isnt ready yet, nothing was removed, there is just no NEWS page right now. Although if you go to http://www.streethop.com you can see the top article and see how many Views it has. So once again, I dont really understand why youre brining this up as its not even accurate or an issue.
No they dont, the virus is on your computer and is triggered by the pop ups. Clean out your spyware and computer with a virus scanner.
None the less the pop ups are gone.
So post something more interesting.
No idea what youre talking about, try bringing it to our attention and Im sure it will be fixed.
All good, but I dont know why you mention half the shit you mentioned because it is simply not true or not accurate.
Good luck with your future journalistic career.
I also think that the hate on Mr Mak should tone down a little. You have problems with the owners I know that, and understand that you see them as issues that will never be resolved, but there is a hell of a lot of good people over there mate. I dunno, I just see it as chasing people away for dissing a site they post on. Personally, I don't care because we are friends BUT if it was someone who didn't know you so well, I could see how the hating could be tiresome. MM are doing their thing, let Streethop come back and do the same good work they once did in the past.
I also think separating the forum out from the General Hip Hop board is a positive, keeping out the more passive fans to an extent.
I also think separating the forum out from the General Hip Hop board is a positive, keeping out the more passive fans to an extent.
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