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:sigh: ...which is why I send a neutrally-worded reminder, so they won't do it again!

Haha, low-carb. Actually, my food vice is salt. I joke that when I die, they won't need to embalm me: they can just set me out in the sun to dry and wait for the salt crystals to form at the surface.

I've discussed image automation tools with the other admins, including the ones who have programmed our customizations to the forum software. The upshot is, could it be done? Absolutely. Will it get done? Not a chance. Why not? Because none of us get paid, so we don't have the time to spend doing things like that. All of us have lives, jobs, school, whatever. So there is nobody around to make customizations that are that extensive.

tooki

Edit: P.S. I don't program at all, so I can't make the customizations myself.

Hi everybody. I'm gorickey.

Hi gorickey, I'm AKcrab.
This thread sucks.
Leave tooki alone.
Tooki, stop replying to the inane drivel.

Amen.

Move along, move along...

The reason there wasn't a warning in the title was that it wasn't originally meant to be a picture thread, but became one when the initial poster edited his post.

Regardless, wouldn't it have been a lot easier and more efficient simply to have assumed that this was an oversight and simply add "[JPG orgy]" to the thread title instead of removing every image, replacing it with the "no-images-bigger-than-480-pixels" text and locking the thread? I agree with Zimph that that was an over-reaction.

I think tooki needs to chill. You've become some kind of inline image nazi. I agree with the above poster. You should have just modified the title and got on with it. Less hassle.

Sig says it all.

Yeah, this thread is scary!

Thank you for crashing my browser, you asshole. Now stand still so I can properly poke you with this stick.

I say we have no rules for a week and see what happens.

I'm an EMT and work on an ambulance. Night shift mostly. Last night at 2am the other crew on the street came out of the ER after bringing it a patient. There was a Chicago cop standing next to the ambulance and he asked to see the certificate of inspection. The crew explained it was a brand new ambulance and the city gives 45 days to bring it in for inspection. It's only been 30 some odd days. The cop said "no certificate, it's going to be impounded". Of course this is not the law, cop must have been having a bad night or something. The crew called dispatch which looked up the paperwork which stated the ambulance was going to be brought in for the inspection *later that morning*.

No good. Cop made the crew follow him back to their impound facility and drop off the ambulance. Wrote them both tickets, wrote the service a ticket and threatened to confiscate their EMT licenses.

Of course the supervisors were livid. Calling the Sec of State, mayors office, FEMA, etc etc etc.

you must be referring to the beast that used to be..

Uh, you can calm down now

Lemme see, the last time I was a juvenile was 1979

So I guess it depends on both the speed of your machine and the size of your monitor. Maybe you can share the math that got you to the precise dimensions y'all arrived at

OK, so if I appreciate your random attempts at moderating image sizes on this board I guess I become a "more respected member" too

Who's comfort?

Your problem is you're making your rules around subjective guidelines. Again, feel free to share the math behind your strong-arm tactics

Actually there is some sound math behind the 480 pixel wide image rule. The MacNN layout apparently takes some 200 pixels of horizontal space, so if you add the 480 to it, it becomes about the right size to avoid throwing off browser windows that are of a manageable width. By a "manageable width" I think he means taking up only about 2/3 of the width of the screen on a 1024x768 monitor. 480 was chosen because it's one that is associated with screens and computers and stuff. Although I think 500 would be an easier guideline to follow. Either way, that much is reasonable.

I also think that some of the measures being taken are a bit absurd and that Tooki gets just a wee bit too angry when people violate the rule. The fact that threads posted in the wrong forum are locked instead of moved, and thread titles aren't changed when people start posting large images, seems weird to me. Then again, I am a moderator at a much, MUCH smaller message board where I only have to moderate maybe one post every two or three days. A single fairly well visited forum here at MacNN probably generates more traffic than all of AppleNova does in a day. So if I had to moderate here at MacNN, I'd probably be tearing my hair out just like Tooki.

Also, at AppleNova we don't even have sig images or avatars at all. Many people have custom titles, and we're pretty lenient about the image size. But again, it is a tiny forum compared to MacNN, so I do understand.

I think a large issue here isn't the actual rules, it's the way they are enforced - people don't like getting banned for posting a larger-than-allowed image. But having a 480 pixel wide limit doesn't seem to be that unreasonable.

gorickey, did you start all of this?

Respect mah athorritaaaah.

I'm just one of the victims here is all.

Why?

That thread rocked, get a real browser.

Could this be solved with a max width div in CSS? Break the div in front of an img tag and resume it after?

LOL

A summary of the latest events:

It started with this thread. Because of the number of violations, the thread was ultimately closed and all those who violated the guidelines/rules got PMs from tooki (as all violators do).

And because it was closed, I started this thread with a suggestion as to what to do if such threads start again. (Some folks have mentioned that very suggestion in this thread as well).

Later that day, as you know from this thread, BasketofPuppies pointed out that the size of Demonhood's thread-closing-image was in violation of the Inline Image guidelines/rules. This is pretty much when and where everyone spilled their beans.

Anyway, between all three threads you can get a feel for what went on, though this one has the bulk of the meat.