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Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:02:36 AM

Introducing: The Hammer of Justice

the hammer of justice

For many years we've been the victim of one user in particular who has abused our smiley function, caused sleepless nights for many Opera developers, and in general tried to be a friendly cool user, but our patience (and servers) have now peaked.

The person we're referring to is so dedicated to Opera (and its community) that we've been forced to ban Tamil and introduce a new set of guidelines operating under the codename: The Hammer of Justice

Update: Welcome back Tamil! p

Face the fury of the hammer if you:

  • Surpass the limit of forum posts!
  • Ever so slightly destroy, brake, and/or nuke My Opera!
  • Need any help using our resources (a.k.a. "employees")!
  • Eat too much bandwidth*!

So, with the new rules in place, we hope everyone will have a pleasant stay on My Opera. devil

We also have some other really good news for you as well.

* Our tubes are kinda narrow, really...

Comments

theoddbod Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:05:41 AM

bigeyeslol

rezadotcom Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:07:51 AM

... !!! jester yes

阮龍chrisnguyen Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:16:41 AM

Oops.. *whispering* I think I did all four...

lol

▇▇▇▇▇▇Travis1988 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:24:03 AM

i donno know bout all this but im pissed that u ll changed my avatar to a stupid monkey... monkey

RobertIchibanRob Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:29:01 AM

Not to sound totally stupid . . . but your saying the smilies were slowing down your servers, because of the load times possibly?
And the fellow was so dedicated to the Opera community, and nice that he was banned?
I am still looking for the rules that states what the limits are for post counts.
I guess we can't ask for help either,if there is a problem . . .
No clue how to figure out if we are using too much bandwidth . . .

So my only thought is . . . this has to be an April Fool Joke?
4/1/08

Ruben Garciaeztigma Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:29:37 AM

Jajajajaja! Happy April's Fools Tamil!

A nice joke would have been making me a member of the week wink

KYrenKYren Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:47:04 AM

right bigeyes left

Marcomyeagle Tuesday, April 1, 2008 7:56:31 AM

no

jester

all Tamil statistics vanished! no

VJ3rd_echelon Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:08:03 AM

Sounds suspitiously like someone's try'n to make us a certain kind of fool! :O

VJ3rd_echelon Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:09:33 AM

Huh?!!! That is 1 ugly avatar! ! ! :O(

Violeta Rosalesvioletisha Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:17:09 AM

lol lol

baby_2u baby2u Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:21:06 AM

cheers lol jester

Esteban Manchado Velázquezzoso Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:26:16 AM

What happened to the avatars? :-???

José Torreszetorres Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:27:46 AM

I like my new avatar I'm a tiger...Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

www.galjar.seGaljar Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:31:29 AM

I am a lion! King of the jungle.

Tjoho, säger jag bara!

Klemen BanKlemen Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:32:06 AM

Tamil was not the first to comment. What if it is true? sherlock
jester

RobertIchibanRob Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:38:11 AM

I would call that unlikely >_>
They made an announcement at 2AM?
It took them years to figure out they needed to ban someone?
The mention he was "in general tried to be a friendly cool user"

It is a joke or else . . . . O_Ovvvvvvv
. . . . AOL just bought Opera! Dear Gawd RUN!!! ^__^

.

Дмитрий Литвинdmitrylitvin Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:41:14 AM

Huh! bigsmile

ELIJAH B.CHAOSDRAGON88 Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:42:20 AM

lol I hardly knew thee (tamil).

SreenivasanSreeramu Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:42:45 AM

April fool to all...

Jason ChartrandJayceChart Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:47:13 AM

yes, please leave us "ressources" alone. HOURRAY FOR THE HAMMER OF JUSTICE !!!

Ace Jon Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:50:26 AM

/me posts to see his avatar.

RobertIchibanRob Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:59:56 AM

Well Maybe I am wrong . . . did a lil googling . . .
Everything about his account is gone or renamed. O_O

It is still odd that they would open a topic on banning someone and then leave it open for people to post in.
Ya know?

Hellas Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:02:05 AM

lol for a second i thought they are serious

Yeni Setiawansandalian Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:03:37 AM

Seem to be a ridiculous reasons.
I think Opera has contacted Tamil not to post any comment into this thread so other member will think that this article is true.

Yeah, too funny bigsmile

Hey Tamil, I miss ur first comment! lol

Yeni Setiawansandalian Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:07:00 AM

Hey, bring back my avataaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrr!!!!!!! chef

Yeni Setiawansandalian Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:09:55 AM

@Galjar
Will you exchange your avatar with mine?
I hate to become a stupid cow like this no

RobertIchibanRob Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:14:39 AM

Bannings don't usually work for several reasons . . . so I am still on the side that this is a hoax. But all his help topics are gone, so that makes me wonder. Don't know the guy or this situation that well, so I don't know what to think. It is just very odd how they went about it.

If he was of a help to people all I can think is possibly a promotion. It might make sense. But again I have no clue what this guy did other than post a whole lot as I have seen in the past.

The new avatars is interesting.
I guess I am a very suspicious and questionable person.
I will leave this to the boys AND girls behind the scene and see how this plays out.

Night Guys!

H82typ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:18:25 AM

Can you say moo-oo-ooo?
chef

www.galjar.seGaljar Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:19:10 AM

Sandalin; No way, I am going to stay this way 4 ever! I rule! HA!

Øyvind ØstlundNoteMe Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:19:47 AM

<-- I am the server monkey now p

Haha, nice one smile Although he really seems to be banned for one day to make the joke plausable p No redirects?!?

$ curl -I http://my.opera.com/Tamil/info/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:21:39 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8



Didn't seem to work though, got a 502 "Reason: Error reading from remote server" while trying to post. Bring him back, must be Espen who are the one eating all the resources p


- ØØ -

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:21:29 AM

zip

.:d3nix:.d3nix Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:22:17 AM

lol enjoy!

.:d3nix:.d3nix Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:23:43 AM

damn, green frog! cool but the eyes a little bit weird! whoaoah cry

Dark FurieFurie Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:25:33 AM

Oh my god! That's hilarious. Where'd you all hide him? leftright *notices blood dripping from a closet* bigeyes Uh oh...

Louc louderf_manila Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:26:15 AM

Booohyaahh!! kewl . . . .

Tor Odlandtorotime Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:26:52 AM

he-he

Louc louderf_manila Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:28:30 AM

chiken with a large eyes. . .lolz
better than fried... peta2.com

Louc louderf_manila Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:31:56 AM

lolz p

Egeria Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:32:45 AM

nice, The Hammer of Justice bigsmile bigsmile

Egeria Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:34:09 AM

oh... no cool animal avatar for me... ;(

GrantTLC Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:42:31 AM

Congrats Opera! It's official - I'm a gullible fool! TOTALLY taken in by the avatars. lol But what the heck am I? Some kind of overweight donkey???

KBKarma Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:46:29 AM

Excellent. Well done. Didn't get me, but well played.

Espen André ØverdahlEspenAO Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:47:27 AM

Originally posted by GrantTLC:

But what the heck am I? Some kind of overweight donkey???

That's a rhino!

GrantTLC Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:48:46 AM

lol So it is! Rhino's are cool!

I'm not only gullible, but blind, too! Better go put in my contacts! rolleyes

Senthil RajSenthilraj Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:49:33 AM

Today is April 1st and I wont believe your "The Hammer of Justice" story jester

Try something else. Better luck next time up

H82typ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:51:26 AM

wait

H82typ Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:52:41 AM

monkey

NoobSaibot Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:53:28 AM

nice avatars, neat idea guys smile

Buğraoffcu Tuesday, April 1, 2008 9:57:32 AM

psmurf

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