Happy fourth birthday, Kite Strings.
SEMrush got back to me not outrageously behind schedule and advised a "fix" which could've only been executed at host level, would've affected all of the thousands of other subscriber forums, and, I'm pretty sure, wouldn't have fixed anything.
The host got back to me...
http://support.prophpbb.com/topic5252.html
SEMrush bots hits counting as views : Forum Management
...and freed up the buttons we needed and Zack pushed them to get SEMrush registered and recognized as a bot.
By at least 2014/11/15 00:03:05 UTC - a couple Friday nights ago US time - we started again getting probed by SEMrush and got a tremendous amount of activity from them until, I think, late Tuesday. And the counters only trickled up at the normal, expected, realistic rate. Funny how that bot is so all or nothing and interested in Kite Strings.
Accomplishments...
The fucking Bailey / standard aerotow weak link - the single largest, most insidious virulent insane damaging scam in the history of aviation is total toast - along with all it's disciples and snake oil salesmen. They're still in use in some of the more severely inbred pockets of the country but they're dying out quickly and very quietly.
The reputations of all those sleazebags and assholes - Pagen, Trisa, Bobby, Davis, Jack, Kroop, Mitch, Wendt, Paulen - are irretrievably down the toilet where they belong. Ditto for Stuart over there in bagworld.
Jim Keen-Intellect Rooney - the single most vile bipedal piece of total shit this sport or any flavor of aviation has ever seen - is total history.
Davis - a less astronomically stupid version of Rooney - is pretty much neutralized.
If you measure the intellectual difference between Rooney and Davis and extent it up and beyond you arrive at Bob. Same level of moral depravity but literate in the language, math, science, physics and constantly using those assets to attack the competence which is also his primary threat.
Bob I'm listing as our primary target - although I'm happy to consider anybody else's argument. When we learn how to destroy a Rooney, Davis, or Bob we have the models we need to make short work of whatever shit that comes along to try to replace them - Orion Price for example. And we have the weaponry in place and ready to go.
And as long as we have the level of member participation and activity that we do now - tiny though it is - we're gonna continue very slowly growing in power, effectiveness, credibility, influence.
Lotsa people are afraid of us now 'cause we're the only ones who make any sense about anything - consistently. Don't do anything to dilute that fear and don't EVER take any prisoners.
icon alerting me that an action needed to be taken. Even after Steve alerted me there was something there it took a minute of staring before I saw it. What a clusterfuck. Gotta figure out how to turn that layer of protection off.
