Cav's Place

Yes, it’s another personal post thrown here because I’m obviously not writing anything else. Actually, this week began surprisingly well, with me starting to write a non-personal post on Monday and getting some 700 words in before stopping when I realized it was getting away from me and there was no way I could finish it in one day, but then the plan to finish Tuesday fell through when I noticed that the Gendarmerie appealed the ruling on my contestation and, other than to add another paragraph that I came up with while sitting on the toilet, I haven’t touched that post since. Obviously, haven’t touched the review or that other non-personal one I had in mind either, so at this point things aren’t looking good at all for this week and I may just end up with some other quick post tomorrow to say I have two, since our Government sure seems to be giving us reasons to take to the streets around this time of year, so there’s a protest to go to on Sunday.

Back to that appeal, so far I only saw it listed on-line, since I was checking regularly after finally being served the papers confirming the ruling, knowing they must have received them at the same time and had 30 days from that date to appeal. After I’ll be notified of their appeal, I guess I’ll have ten days or so to respond to it, then see when the date will be set and what else can be done about it, depending on the reasons for their appeal. If any of us has or will be able to obtain a final decision from another similar case where even the appeal was rejected, it should be simple, but that may be easier said than done. Still, we should all normally win this as well, so it’s simply a matter of going through the motions, but it does mean I’ll have to go through all of that all over again and it was bad enough the first time…

Otherwise, since I did want to start making some more regular submissions, the situation on MobyGames obviously escalated and that apparently led to a debate and specific new standards for mobyrank abstracts that were supposedly adopted by majority vote on the approvers’ forum, which other users can’t access. The problem is that, while obviously far less anal than what the fucking asshole kept trying to enforce, these detailed standards are also significantly stricter than my interpretation of the old ones, which just about everyone else accepted so far, as I had probably less than ten submissions, so about 0.1% of the total, sent back by anyone else due to the chosen abstract so far, and even a few of those were eventually accepted as they were after some discussions.
The thing is that the moron was rejecting probably up to a quarter or so and everyone strictly adhering to the new standards will probably result in a rejection rate of about half as much. As such, I told them precisely where to shove these new rules and things will get increasingly nastier each time anything’s sent back or rejected for this reason, and if I seem to get back to being motivated enough to put in between a couple of hours per week and even a few hours per day into actual submissions, I will also be motivated enough to leave that aside and instead put that time into making anyone supporting that git or any of the restrictions included in or implied by these new standards curse the day they got involved with that site. As for any direct contact with him, he’ll get nothing but attacks from me and I don’t give a fuck about how that looks; have absolutely no intention to be the slightest bit reasonable about any of it.

But enough about that, and actually this should be quite enough for this post, which wasn’t supposed to be this long in the first place. I’ll just add that I switched to WP-SpamShield for spam protection, because recently I’m getting over 1000 spam comments per day and there was definitely no point to still have something that let them end up in the database before I cleared them. Still not sure what’s up with this huge spike though, seeing as they first ended up hitting a few hundred back in spring, after staying steadily at perhaps a couple dozen per day in all the years until then, the average over these nearly seven and a half years, including this huge recent spike, being just about 50 such comments per day.