Welcome to our team: Wayne Luke!

[John]

I would like to welcome Wayne Luke to our team of moderators for the Templates and Code Hacking forums.

Wayne has been invaluable to us all during the development of vBulletin 2.0 in answering questions and reporting bugs. I would like to take this chance to publicly thank him for all that he has done. Thanks Wayne!

John

[chrispadfield]

wehhayy.. wondered when it would happen :). Great to have such a great guy helping us all out here.

[Snoop Dogg]

I knew my ways of persuation would work http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=591fa55101e7151724cc62395b5d08fb&threadid=7273


hehe
Congratulations

[werehere]

Congradulations!

[Martin]

Welcome aboard Wayne. after 3 weeks of initiations, including many humiliating and degrading tasks, we will convene a meeting of the Secret Order of Magnificent Moderator and decide whether or not to teach you the Secret Handshake.

If, after this, we have found you lacking in any of the 327 skills we require, and because you will have learned our secrets and true identities, you will be given the choice of death or a life of running to the store and buying the rest of us beer.

Anyway, don't worry. Only 3 have failed so far...

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Martin

Anyway, don't worry. Only 3 have failed so far...


you must get a lot of free beer then :)

[Martin]

well, I can't reall comment on what they chose, but I will ell you that they were definitely cheap bastids;)

[Me2Be]

Originally posted by Martin
If, after this, we have found you lacking in any of the 327 skills we require
Umm, Martin? Didn't you know it got upgraded to 349 skills because of the Vb2.0? Make sure he doesn't lack the new ones as well! ;)

[eva2000]

congrats wayne - knew the day would come :)

[chrispadfield]

i think one of the new skills should be to get as many posts as eva2000 :)

[Wayne Luke]

Thank you everyone for your vote of Confidence...

Before we start, I would like to say that sending me to the store for beer is a bad idea. Well bad that is if you want anything to drink. For that you are best off getting it yourself. :)

So as long as I am living... I will do my best to continue helping the community here.

[Mike Sullivan]

Wow, I actually found a cult with an initiation worse than the "1000 posts" one on my board. :)

Welcome!

[dunefreak]

So, Ed, the vBulletin mods are now considered a cult?

[Mike Sullivan]

Hey, it was the most brooding word I could think of :)

[dunefreak]

Definition of cult from webster.com

Main Entry: cult
Pronunciation: 'k&lt
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, adoration, from colere to cultivate -- more at WHEEL
Date: 1617
1 : formal religious veneration : WORSHIP
2 : a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also : its body of adherents
3 : a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also : its body of adherents
4 : a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator <health cults>
5 a : great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially : such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad
b : a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion
- cul·tic /'k&l-tik/ adjective
- cult·ish /-tish/ adjective
- cult·ish·ly /-lE/ adverb
- cult·ish·ness /-n&s/ noun
- cult·ism /'k&l-"ti-z&m/ noun
- cult·ist /'k&l-tist/ noun
- cult·like /-"lIk/ adjective

After reading definition 5a and b I can definetly say you were correct in your use of the term "cult" for the mods.

[Martin]

we are not a cult!! one of the humiliating tasks is NOT emasculation!

we are a Secret Order!

[Mike Sullivan]

There is no cabal. :)

[Chris Schreiber]

Welcome aboard Wayne! Glad to have you as part of the team here..... and don't worry I'll help you out with that list of things you have to know :)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by chrispadfield
i think one of the new skills should be to get as many posts as eva2000 :) LOL... my post count came from all the problems i had with my server before on rackspace hehe - i don't wish that on anyone :)

[VirtueTech]

Congrats! :)

[JamesUS]

Congratulations Wayne! :)
I'm sure you'll pass those 249 skills someday :D

[PeF]

Congratulations! ;)

When are you gonna make a celebration? :D

[KeithMcL]

I'm sure Wayne will contribute a great deal to this forum and the vBulletin product itself, as he does to one of, if not my favorite forums, SitePointForums (http://www.sitepointforums.com).

He is an extremely knowledgable person and always has great advice to give.

Congrats Wayne ;)

P.S How do you make time for all the stuff you do?

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
Wow, I actually found a cult with an initiation worse than the "1000 posts" one on my board. :)

Welcome!

hehe, i thought the 500 one i was going to set was bad.

Fanforum.com have a funny way of doing it, they had an election for their last moderator post in the Roswell forum, every candidate had to right a speech and then answer like ten questions, some of which were a little scarry i have to say and then everyone voted. Of course this caused millions of arguments and people withdrawing from the election etc.. still it was funny to watch, i don't even know who won but going past the results of recent elections i wouldn't hold my breath :)

[Menno]

Originally posted by Ed Sullivan
There is no cabal. :)
Jeez, I wonder what the hell I'm still sticking around for :D

[auto]

anyways,
congrats Wayne! ! :D