Rant about the forums

[Mouse]

Oh sure! Everyone pick on Mouse!

[Graham]

Oh sure! Everyone pick on Mouse!

I was picking on Matt, actually.

Sorry! Didn't mean to single you out.

[Mouse]

Naw, I was fine. You can't hear people on forum, which is one of its few downfalls. But I was just joking around.

[miakosummin]

I hope I don't add too much to the "bad contributions" pile.

Although, this is to be expected with LRR's popularity growth. It's unfortunate, but with more visitors, theres a higher chance that some of them will be idiots.

I have an idea for a solution: The +V Whatever forum. A seperate forum only visible to people the admins deem responcible enough to post there. (Myself hopefully included in that). The regular whatever forum will still be the largest part of the forums, but the +V can be used for particularly controversial topics and the like. I can see the downfall of this though, with the current whatever forum you have the smart people mixed with the idiots, however, if you move the smart people to another forum, leaving the idiots behind, then theres a chance the new forum will just become the default forum for all the smart people. This means that any new smart people who haven't been approved for the new forum will go to the old forum and see all of the idiots and not think there are any smart people here. However, it is a possible idea if you instill some rules.

The first rule of the +V Whatever club, do not talk about the +V Whatever club.

[Mouse]

You might end up with boring conversations, though, without the idiots.

[Graham]

I don't think it has to come to segregating our viewers based on how much we like them. Also, how crappy would it feel to not be included in it?
If I were a user and I wasn't in the "it" crowd, I'd just leave.

I think everyone should be able to post together, and get along and all that good stuff.

As a general rule, it would be great to stay a little more on topic, and a little less stupid.


And Lavos? Stop making posts that are just you yelling incoherently in all caps about DotA. Seriously, I will only delete them.

[Mouse]

No 'huzzah-hurrays'?

[Matt]

my "-m" simply serves to sign off my post. it's not intended to let you know who I am or that I'm a part of the crew. it's just a way of signaling the end of a thought. kind of like a period. I do it on every forum I post on, and have for years. I'm aware it's not neccessary, but it's a stylistic choice I made, and as compared to those users (not naming names) with HUGE sig pics, 25 forum userbars, and 12 animated gifs at the end of their posts, I feel it's pretty innocuous.

-m

[Lacerta]

I always find it curious that people manually sign all their posts even on forums with automated sigs. Isn't that what the sig is for?

[Lord Chrusher]

That is another thing I dislike. People who's signatures are several times larger than there posts. Also Kathleen's Avatar is the limit for how big they should be.

[miakosummin]

Above the limit, in my opinion. Although it IS Howl so I enjoy it. I often have to use a slow connection when I'm not at home so the sigs and avatars get annoying.

[Kathleen]

What can I say, I'm just a rule breaking fool!

[miakosummin]

I won't say anything...


Except now our text boxes are 60 pixels smaller....

[emma]

Aw, pookie.

Howl is and always will be cool. A little rule bending here and there is good in some cases!

[miakosummin]

[emma]

That means nothing to me; I understand neither computers nor numbers.

Explain, and perhaps I will be agreeing with you.

[Melendwyr]

Kathleen's avatar is wider than they're supposed to be, and larger than the maximum permitted filesize.

She's also in the videos, folks. She gets special privileges. I don't see this as being a real problem.

[miakosummin]

Dont make me make a screenshot of your filesize, Melendwyr.


3mm4 - Basicly, animated avatars are made up of a bunch of pictures put together, right? This means that for every frame, it takes the space of one picture. A 10 frame animated gif takes up the same computer space of 10 pictures. So when I, or anyone for that matter, am using a slow connection, it takes 10 times as long to load that animation, slowing things down quite a bit.

Multiply that by the huge number of members using animated gifs, many of them oversized, and you have a very long wait ahead of you.

The avatar size limit is supposed to be 100 pixels tall by 100 pixels wide. Its also supposed to take up less then 6KB. Your avatar alone is 650KB, more then a hundred times more then its supposed to be. You aren't alone of course.

Suffice to say, I don't like this forum when on a slow connection. >_>

[Melendwyr]

Fine. I've returned to the creepy eclipse of doom.

Although, shouldn't you really be much angrier about the animated avatars than Kathleen's slightly-bigger-than-normal image? It's just a static image, after all, not much larger than normal.

[Graham]

Well now this is just getting silly.

Those maximum size reqs are built into the forum, they're not ours. Kathleen doesn't have "special privileges" she just linked to her photobucket.
You could all have ridiculous sized avatars, but so far everyone has had the common courtesy to not give me a reason to grumble.

I don't mind the animated ones at all, but I respect it might suck for those with slower connections.

At least this isn't a video game forum. Have you been to one? They're nucking futs!

[The Hitman]

I am like a canary in the coal mine of funny.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

[JesterJ.]

I agree with all posts made in this thread. Well, those that have to do with the spaminess of the forum. I used to come home from school, hop on, post for about half an hour, then do stuff (or vice-versa), but it now takes me at least 45 minutes - 1 hour to check/post, and then the same thing happens 7 hours later. I don't like having to read a full page or two before being able to have any input, it's really annoying and kind of turns me off from posting. It's just been far too silly lately.

[Graham]

I am like a canary in the coal mine of funny.

Does this mean you'll warn us if it stops being funny and starts being toxic?

[emma]

I am like a canary in the coal mine of funny.

Does this mean you'll warn us if it stops being funny and starts being toxic?

I totally thought it said "in a coal mine of fury" and I didn't understand it at ALL.

[dark_realm]

with the whole "avatar" discussion, mine is something like 250kb, considering the complex images and stuff, i think thats reasonable.. but then again.. when i download something it downloads at around the 190kps mark.. so i dont notice the slowness..