MLUKFC: In Depth
 

I decided to create this thread, because there are questions about MLUKFC that I'd love to hear answers to. :)) I'm sure there are questions other members have too so this is the perfect thread to do so.

I hope I don't sound to blunt either I don't mean to be :cool:

1. R is the creator and owner of this site and he's from Germany; why did he decide to create a UK fanclub?
   
2. Are the rumours true the moderators on this forum get free tickets to a Meat Loaf concert, and free M&G passes too?
   
3. How did the moderators get their jobs on this forum, what talents did they have that other people didn't?
   
4. If R was to die does that mean MLUKFC would die too, as in be shut down? (sorry about this one but it's an interesting question)
   
5. How many people have been permanently banned from this forum?
   
6. Has anyone ever met their lover on MLUKFC?

That's it for the moment if someone can take time out to respond to some of these questions I'd be grateful. I think this could develop into an interesting thread.

1. R is a member of the UK Fan Club, back in the day the fan club's online presence was via a Yahoo chatroom, from that the first mlukfc.com site was created and it grew from there.

2. They're complete bollocks.

3. They're carefully selected following a rigorous applicaiton and interview session involving exams and practical exercises conducted in secret in the Scottish Highlands.

4. He's going to live for ever. Rainer has however, been pretty much the single constant in the MLUKFC management team as it's changed over the years.

5. None of your business

6. See five ;-)

Answer 1: was interesting, and it's explains how MLUKFC was founded. :D
Answer 3: I don't believe at all; it sounds like something you would do in the army.
Answer 4: So does someone have this forum in their will?
Answer 5: there isn't anything personal in giving us a figure on who's banned because a figure never hurt anyones feelings ;)
Answer 6: Ah come on sure people would be delighted to hear romance stories on MLUKFC :heart:

no but if that's the case i should be renegotiating my contract


Andy and Monstro's exercises involved drinking whisky...mine involved having to avoid making sarcastic statements throughout the training, it was the longest five minutes i've ever experienced.

:lol:

Indeed. And we try to go on regular refresher sessions too :cheers:

So all you moderators have met before? But you aren't in the same country!!

I'm guessing being a moderator has no benefits..all you get is access to the delete/edit buttons, and peoples email and IP addresses. :yep:

:yep:

In regards to number 6: me and Neil of course

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...arioSmiley.gif

:spit:

That's just wrong Wario.

alright, who told him? :bleh:

btw Andy I'm still waiting for my UK M&G packages!!

You're not the only one!

Question 5 makes me giggle, considering who asked it. :devil:

The two posts by Andy and Radiomaster add to the conspiracy. I always knew the moderators weren't doing the job for the love of it. R has them well looked after. I'm sure they get free coffee and doughnut vouchers for all the hours spent on their computers minding this forum. Oh and is it true that the moderators have their only special room on this forum too? I'd love to see what the discussions are like in their!!

If you truly believe that what RJ and I said was serious then you are more deluded than I thought...

Seriously Steve, can you really not tell when someone is joking ? Its as plain as day !

They deserve a free ticket and a M&G pass for all their work to be fair. I wouldn't be jealous at all. This website has been a huge benefit to Meat Loaf since it's creation, and those that help run it everyday deserve their just rewards.

I'd like to know if any of the moderators were the second gunman on the grassy knoll??? :D

1963!!! they would be to young to remember. :-P

"Duck!"

I think it is worth remembering when people are kicking off and getting themselves infracted/banned/being generally unpopular that the Mods and Admins here are doing this in their own time (and it is a lot of time) and entirely for free...very easy to forget sometimes...

I agree we're fantastic people...and also modest

There is no one on here that I would class as unpopular.. everybody gets along very well. To be fair they don't being giving out much infraction points or bans lately. It's that kind of power is what makes them love their job as a MLUKFC moderator.

I would also like to know:

How many people have been banned for asking, "how many people have been banned"?

Ooops. Was I giving away my age with that one? ;)

I'm not saying that anyone here is unpopular, I'm saying that, on occassion, people make themselves unpopular for a period of time by causing controversy/bad feeling.

I think at times we're the last people Meat wants to bump into lol

http://www.mlukfc.com/forums/showthr...hlight=arrival

We passed

Needs must eh?

No and no

:eyebrows:

Not the second gunman but Andy was there taking photo's

Gotta disagree with this one, logging on first thing in the morning, seeing 165 new posts and realising your the first mod on duty does not make you feel powerful lol

nearly one :lmao:

Didnt me and Lucy get engaged cause of this site? :D:D:D

that was obviously a very lucid (no pun intended) dream

I can say with complete confidence that under no circumstances will that ever happen...I mean EVER...

Or complete nightmare depending on who you're talking to :lmao:

So you met your lover on MLUKFC that you married and had a family with? Awww congrats!!! I bet that little baby has grown. Nearly two now and getting bolder by the day. :D


What motivates you to keep doing it though? You don't get anything. :confused:

I thought you and Neil were lovers? What's going to come out of your mouth next? :lmao:

Me and R. had a fling in the 70's :shrug:

Heartbreaker :mrgreen:

we do it for the groupies and the drugs...Nurofen for the drugs, i'm still waiting for the groupies.

Yeah. She broke it in two :(

And if it were to ever come close to happening, there would be pistols at dawn and Wario would lose.

:))

Awwwww, Andy's gone all macho lol

Quite right! I shouldn't have to defend my own honour :p

I got all the groupies (still waiting for the drugs though...)

I think the biggest disadvantage is you have to wear a green jacket at all the meet ups... (Thanks Neil! :bleh:)

no i think he meant he'd ask Lucy to go fight Wario with pistols at dawn...:D

this is all because you wore a suit and posted the pic on facebook...

Indeed that's how it works... :eyebrows:

All the groupies spent their time getting hairdressing tips from RJ though.

Wario if I was being honest you and Pudding would be a perfect match. You both have similar personalities.

Mike if someone posted something about drugs and groupies they would be on their high horse out of here. :lmao: there is another example of Mod power.

:twisted: A front row seat and M&G is alloted to each member of staff at every show.
However Andy R and myself keep that a secret from the rest of the staff and use their M&G's ourselves, going into the M&G room numerous times in various disguises.
So far Meat has met 47239065 mlukfc staff members :bleh:
The front row tickets, we either use the extra seats for merchandise and extra leg/elbow room, or sell them on e bay.


I juggled, Andy whistled Mr Bojangles, Sue did some mindreading, Dave put over 100 washing pegs on his face, Michael - unicycle, Mike - origami, Anki tapdanced her way into the staff, and RJ swallowed a shit load of things made out of metal.


R cannot die as R does not exist in the conventional accepted meaning of the word.
R is actually a gestalt entity.
He is a composite of the forum staff, and of Fred (the Fred explains the weird shit :nuts: ).
Fred is an experiment of the R composite and is actually called fRed (the capital R to signify that R is within fred, as fred is a part of the whole that is R).
The fRed paradox is that R is the creator of Fred, but fRed is a part of R, and so technically created himself.
It's a forum version of the chicken and the egg.
It was brought about by R (therefore the whole forum staff) being bored after playing with a pencil and rubber band one rainy Saturday afternoon.

The short answer to the question is that R cannot die unless all the forum staff are wiped out at the same time, and should the forum then promote new staff from the ranks, R would live again.
That said, if the forum staff were to be wiped out and fRed sigma was left, then R would take on the personality of Fred (fRed).
For the Harry Potter fans, think of fRed is Lord Voldermort's final horcrux :up:



That is actually a rather more bland question than you'd expect.
Most banning have been for spam.
As for the actual details and figures, see Andy's post :p


Most of us have met each other at some point or other.


We also get to sort out other peoples problems :facepalm:

You really worry me dude.

We do.
Seriously.
mlukfc has always been a fan club run for fans by fans.
That's something that has never changed over the years.


OK, this is funny as ~~~~ :lmao:


We have a broom closet (the location of which is top secret) and a lighter, and once a week we have a staff meeting which lasts the time it takes for the lighter to get too hot to hold without burning our fingers.


I agree :yep:
Come on people, do a fecking facebook petition or something :bicker:

No, but we got some mod training from a bloke who was in a pub who said he was the second gunman on the grassy knoll.
Or he might have said "say can gummi Honda gassy broll?"
I don't know, we were all kind of shit faced by then :hic:

Quoted for truth :yep:

No, we get our power kicks from owning a 1/32 scale Death Star which we will use for world domination and general acts of Evil :yep:

self moderation, self moderation.............gonna see Smoggy at concerts

Say what you like - I have your tickets :))

:twisted: :nope:
I remember when Andy conducted the interview, and the two of you emerged from the office (well, broom closet :shrug: ) with your arms round each other for balance, grinning like idiots, swinging a bottle of whiskey from your free hands, and what you actually uttered was "WE'S PISSED".




OK, someone's getting banned for this shit :bleh:

As R is a composite, that would mean it was group sex, and as none of the staff reported anything that weird happening to them in the middle of the day, i'm fairly sure you didn't. :wtf:

He also created a version of Neil called the fRying mouse

And RJ is R's Joke....it all fits

Neil thanks very much for taking a lot of time to reply to all my questions. I got the feeling it was riddled with sarcasm and half-truths though....not to mention the countless fiction throughout. R never existed he was a clone of Fred? :roll:

You should write to Fireball and tell him you'll shut the site down if he doesn't give you free stuff. Honestly he would be delighted to treat you guys to free concert tickets, and M&G for all your work.

am reminded of the Groucho Marx quote...

'Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honour; which is probably more than she ever did.'

Don't be - it's bloody awful!

I would not fancy the job of being a moderator, i certainly do not think they are on a power trip !

from a female point of view...possibly

This thread scares me. :angst:

i would suggest getting back on topic but even i'm not sure what that is...

No shit :shock: there is some weird shit going on here !

Think the topic is drugs, sex and rock and roll ?:lol:

very apt for your signature 'You better pray she took her morning medication ! .. '

I think the thread topic is the list of questions which Andy answered in post #2 ... so the rest is pretty pointless :p

:twisted: Well someone had to cook dinner :shrug:

Exactly.
People were taking fRed way too seriously, and so we needed something a little less subtle :p

You're more than welcome.
I'm never knowlingly helpful :mrgreen:


We couldn't do that.
We do what we do to give something back, so if Meat gave us stuff we'd have to do more stuff to give more back, which would incur more thanks and gifts meaning we'd have to give a hell of a lot more back.
That's a whole lot of giving back :panic:
One day Meat will stop doing stuff, then we'll give an extra 5 minutes "back" so that we are completley even.
Then Meat and the staff will face each other, staring at each other out and daring each other to do something that will result in the other doing something to thank the former, and it'll all kick off again.

I'm getting dizzy just thinking about it :wtf:

:twisted: Which means that we are all scared :shock:

You better believe it;):lol: Hubby has that as his ringtone, dunno what he means ?:shock: LOL...

Ohhh I do! :shock:

The problem with this thread is the moderators swarmed on it like a bee to honey. So instead of cleaning up other peoples mess they can clean up there own now. :lmao:

I was hoping the thread would develop into questions to do with this site..but Wario is using it to get himself a lover, and the moderators have gone mad. :shock:

:twisted: We should put that in the welcome e mail :idea:

You know me too well;) LOL...

Your quesitons were answered, no one else raised any. Think this can be moved to Off Topic now :))

After reading this thread, I think it's only drugs, LOL.

:lol: sounds like some are on them and some should be on them, me i know which category i am in;)

I have a headache now. :angst:

It could nearly be merged with the "Post your thoughts" thread. :-P or else rename it "Moderators: With their guard down"

:lmao:

But he only comes out at night, less Police patrolling the public toilets.

That's a terrible thing to say ...










... it's "fewer" not "less". :twisted:

Thank God my patrol days are over. The last thing I'd want to see is Wario in a toilet up to no good. Soooooo greatful I'm a detective now!

You have been saying the same thing since November 2005 :lol:. You have an obsession with public toilets what do like about them?

Why was R scared when reading this thread? I always thought he was a "Man of Steel" ;) I think he should allow the MLUKFC members to vote in the next moderator when he needs one. Isn't that a fantastic idea? and what's better I'll be running for election :lmao:

No and twice no!

We'll see come election time. :cool:

is this serious?

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...arioSmiley.gif

:twisted: About as serious as this thread.








There have never been mod elections and there never will be.
If that isn't domocratic enough, that's because we're not a democracy.
Feel free to start your own forum any time you want if you want to be a mod :mrgreen:

I always knew MLUKFC was a Republican forum :bicker: Their policies are the same anyway. :yep: "It's our way or the highway" :yep:

When you become a moderator is there any get out clause? or are you tied down for life? :shock:

:twisted: It's easier to get out of the mafia.

I was just filling in for two weeks, that was 7 years ago :panic:

:lmao:

You better call on the mafia to break you out of here, or else you're doomed for an eternity in the land of R. :shock:

I will be for two weeks when Masculine is in the set in november...

http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r...arioSmiley.gif

:spit:

Not only do you talk about "Masculine" you go to bed dreaming about it too. :shock:

...........

Do you need directions to the highway?

I've been given directions to the Highway more times than you have posted. :lmao:

And yet....

I always found my way back. ;) awwwwwwww!!!!!!!!!

not thru lack of us changing the roadsigns!!!!

You are as deluded as the thread starter.

Blimey. Aren't the school holidays over yet?

:pray: ...

I can't believe I just read this entire thread...well, ok, I've skipped most of it...so...it's down to Steve6 and all mods...let me know who wins...