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  1. Marlowe
    Apologies - have been out of the country. Now responded.
  2. Marlowe

    MA7 in 2 days! *Last min rush for prep*

  3. Marlowe

    16 people signed up for MA, 17th on the way. Going to be epic. :D

    1. Apex

      Apex

      Bacon for the win !

  4. Marlowe

    Off to Prague for a few days. Will try to get access in the evenings there. :)

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    2. StarMonkee

      StarMonkee

      That's why he is going. He needs to get his mafia back in order.

    3. Marlowe

      Marlowe

      I heard something bad about Germany once, too. Does that mean I shouldn't go there each year, either?

    4. Stuey

      Stuey

      I went to Prague this Christmas, was nice. Taxis are a ripoff though

  5. Marlowe
    Bought my Guarder RPK kit from them back in 2004 without problems, but obviously to a lot of you young 'uns that was a lifetime ago and clearly poor basis for their current effectiveness.
  6. Marlowe
    Retailer Section is sadly a bit neglected - most retailers don't seem to want to have to maintain their own area and prefer to drop in and post occasionally.
  7. Marlowe
    As a starting point I'd suggest if you see posts which are not announcing something new but simply 'we have x back in stock' being made, report them and we will aim to take down. If after that the consensus is that the news section is still being abused, I'll start to tighten up posting restrictions. I'm apprehensive to initiate a heavy-handed lockdown immediately as many smaller commercial organisations (usually the one-man businesses which are highly specialised) find it much more preferable to post in the news section where they can offer more personable responses to queries. I'll happi
  8. Marlowe
    It should be visible for you below Off-Topic.
  9. Marlowe
    The Regs requirement is 1,000 posts. In Tink's case this is most likely a permission glitch due to him also being staff - in Jal's case it's due to insufficient posts / his vast Gimli-esque beard getting caught in the door on the way in. I'll check it out and try to fix it for you, Tink. If anyone else with 1k+ posts is having similiar issues please let me know.
  10. Marlowe

    Back from Sri Lanka...Now Engaged. :|

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    2. FireKnife

      FireKnife

      Oh this is just going to spiral into madness isn't it? But hey we all run around the woods with toys so let it begin :P

    3. Gunmane

      Gunmane

      What, no one suggested calling in the A-team yet?

    4. FireKnife

      FireKnife

      I like it when a plan comes together :P

  11. Marlowe
    If there's anything more I can do behind the scenes to help Arn, just give me a shout.
  12. Marlowe
    Based upon personal experience, organising anything involving airsofters is much the same as herding cats.
  13. Marlowe
    Rather than the massive variation of non UK times being used on a UK forum, could you please use GMT to record the issues?
  14. Marlowe
    Arnie, this is mainly one for you. I think it'd help out everyone in the UK if it's an option in the ACP - can't see it myself.
  15. Marlowe
    I've been gradually cleaning older / defunct areas of the forums that weren't used / of any relevance or consequence to most members for the past month to try and reduce the demands on the server. If problems persist it might be necessary to remove a lot of the nonposting / stuck in validating limbo accounts.
  16. Marlowe
    Essentially if a 'review' thread here at Arnies is not actually a review but just a 'go visit my awesome site', we treat this as what it is - unsolicited commercial posting. It's essentially no different in our eyes to any other entity trying to take advantage of the forum to gain more traffic to its own site. However, if a person submits a full review here (text or video) and then chooses to include a link to the original article on a personal site, that's absolutely fine - we just take exception to individuals that feel we exist as an advertising board for their own site, as most people
  17. Marlowe
    Afraid so - otherwise no content is shared here, and the forum just becomes a graveyard of links to personal sites that invariably vanish at some point. Much better to centralise data and allow a link to the original copy also. If you find any which do nothing other than just a link to a review, report them and we'll pull.
  18. Marlowe

    Planning for Arnies Party Pad @ Op: Fireball game well underway...Looks like it'll be an international party pad at this rate. :D

    1. Tinkerton

      Tinkerton

      PARTY PAAAAAAAAAD!

  19. Marlowe
    loki7491: Yes, the site is run entirely on a voluntary basis. None of the staff, including Arnie, take a profit from the site - the main source of revenue the site makes is from the front-page-only sponsorship banners, which go towards paying the site's software licences & hosting fees. A very long time ago (back in 2004/5) we had the 'Arnaholic' member group before the modern Forum Regulars occurred, which gave users a custom user group if they made a donation - since then Arnie has been very keen to keep the site 'free-to-use'. Whitehawksan: that was the jist of it. One of the modera
  20. Marlowe
    No. Just to bounce an idea off people, a member just contacted me to request a name change and offered to make a donation to the site in return. I haven't accepted one but how would people feel about such an idea? I'm keen to try and build up a 'prize fund' so that we can offer periodic competitions for members only.
  21. Marlowe
    Just want to add that in particular I have in mind people who have signed up using their facebook account, and don't wish their real name to be on display here.
  22. Marlowe
    Send me a pm.
  23. Marlowe
    Done. While I'm in a charitable disposition, if any members with SINCERE reasons for name changes (ie 'my real name given and I wish to preserve anonymity, rather than 'I am bored of my name'), I will review and, where appropriate, change names. Please don't contact me with silly reasons as I offer no guarantee I will change.
  24. Marlowe

    is having to sell off his rarer soviet rifles to pay for the MR2's oil leak. :

    1. Leshy

      Leshy

      Sell the mr2, lots of cheap ones out there without leaks.

    2. Vice

      Vice

      Shame.. I hate having to let good things go to pay for necesities

    3. Banshee_Will

      Banshee_Will

      Damn. You don't need a car that much....

  25. Marlowe
    You would need to ask myself or Arnie - please make sure you have a very good reason to avoid disappointment - 'I am bored of my name' etc sadly are not considered acceptable reasons.
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