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butthawking · Feb 19, 2008, 07:03 AM

Why are the rules for signatures so restrictive???

I'd also say that it would be kewl for you guys to allow avatars also. This place looks boring, we need to throw some color into the mix

Sherman Homan · Feb 19, 2008, 07:08 AM

LOL!
In before Teh Lock!™

ghporter · Feb 19, 2008, 07:26 AM

<Definitive Answer> The rules about signatures are (as I point out to just about every sig rule violator) intended to keep the emphasis on the content rather than on what your favorite band, dog breed, sports team(s), zodiac sign, archaeological school, mother's quilting circle AND current song you're playing on iTunes are. There are forums where anything goes in signatures, and often there will be posts that take up a whole page for ONE POST because of the poster's enormous freaking signature. So there you are. The rules keep our focus on what you and I post, and make it so we have to be creative to get all that stuff in front of other people's faces if we want to do that.</Definitive Answer>

butthawking · Feb 19, 2008, 07:36 AM

wow that was a quick but disapointing answer.

could not hurt to ask though

thank you

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 19, 2008, 07:40 AM

Whoa, he took the banhammer in the butt.

turtle777 · Feb 19, 2008, 10:08 AM

next nick: buttbanninated LOL!

It's Rob. He's done that stuff before

-t

ghporter · Feb 20, 2008, 08:18 AM

Not Rob-besson3c. We told him it wasn't funny with the first Butthawk nick, but when he decided to start another butthawk nick, he earned a short ban.

subego · Feb 20, 2008, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

We told him it wasn't funny

You're right. It was more like absolutely friggin hilarious.

BlueSky · Feb 20, 2008, 10:54 AM

Originally Posted by ghporter

Not Rob-besson3c. We told him it wasn't funny with the first Butthawk nick, but when he decided to start another butthawk nick, he earned a short ban.

Butthawk was funny and a breath of fresh fart-air. BTW, I understand "butthawking" was not besson3c.

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 20, 2008, 10:58 AM

I must have missed his hilariousness, everything I read was lame comments with the "LOL"

subego · Feb 20, 2008, 12:06 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

I must have missed his hilariousness, everything I read was lame comments with the "LOL"

You're not even going to give him a point for "floopy" drive?

You sir, have a cold, cold heart.

SSharon · Feb 20, 2008, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by subego

You're right. It was more like absolutely friggin hilarious.

+1

no really, his posts were funny and they were lighthearted and didn't hurt anyone. I understand the bans, but I still secretly hope to see him back again.

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 20, 2008, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by subego

You're not even going to give him a point for "floopy" drive?

You sir, have a cold, cold heart.

The title of the thread dissuaded me from entering.

You are correct on the latter part, however.

Chuckit · Feb 20, 2008, 02:17 PM

Originally Posted by SSharon

+1

no really, his posts were funny and they were lighthearted and didn't hurt anyone. I understand the bans, but I still secretly hope to see him back again.

I'm sure he'll turn up somewhere.

ghporter · Feb 20, 2008, 05:56 PM

The funny part of Butthawk wore off pretty quickly. His original ego, besson3c, will come back at the end of his short ban, no doubt funnier than ever.

subego · Feb 26, 2008, 12:10 PM

He got banned again?

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 26, 2008, 12:11 PM

Oh yeah. I called everything that happened in the thread too. Check feedback.

Oisín · Feb 26, 2008, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

Oh yeah. I called everything that happened in the thread too. Check feedback.

This is Feedback.

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 26, 2008, 12:49 PM

This is a specific thread in Feedback.

MacosNerd · Feb 26, 2008, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by subego

He got banned again?

Yeah, he posted that other thread here in the feedback. Seemed very Rob like I didn't think he deserved to be banned though. It was whiny but since when did a whiny thread meant you'd get banned?

turtle777 · Feb 26, 2008, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by MacosNerd

It was whiny but since when did a whiny thread meant you'd get banned?

Dude, your membership here is AT-WILL.

You can get banninated for *any* and *no* reason.
I'm speaking from experience

-t

Oisín · Feb 26, 2008, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth

This is a specific thread in Feedback.

Pedant.

(That’s a strong word, coming from me.)

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 26, 2008, 01:40 PM

Well if you're going complain that's what you get. In this instance the term Feedback was being used to refer to the forum. Don't get pissed at me if you didn't figure it out.

Last time I checked, you're the pedant about language.

Oisín · Feb 26, 2008, 05:59 PM

(Hence the ‘pedant’ joke)

turtle777 · Feb 26, 2008, 11:21 PM

You ~~girls~~ guys are teh funnay.

-t

Oisín · Feb 27, 2008, 07:00 AM

We know.

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 27, 2008, 07:09 AM

Damn Scandies!

Oisín · Feb 27, 2008, 07:24 AM

You can damn us all you want, but there’s no way not to love us.

Dakar the Fourth · Feb 27, 2008, 07:27 AM

Aye, I love the Scandy women.

ajprice · Mar 7, 2008, 07:49 AM

Talking of sigs, is imageshack down or something? Theres a few imageshack error images around.

Hang on, its ghporter's sig. Whats up?

ghporter · Mar 7, 2008, 08:17 AM

I haven't seen that show up-and I've had my sig picture on Imageshack for a long time... If you see it again, please PM me with when you saw it and what the error image said. I've been looking at changing my sig picture, but if it's not functioning as it is, I need to look at that first.

Cold Warrior · Mar 7, 2008, 08:57 AM

Shows up for me. And I just flushed my Safari cache.

Oisín · Mar 7, 2008, 05:49 PM

Laminar’s sig is currently broken (I think it was yesterday, too), but I haven’t seen ghporter’s go haywire.

adamfishercox · Mar 7, 2008, 07:37 PM

I saw ghporters go haywire. It said that imageshack had deemd this site as hosting warez, spam and so werent allowing images to be posted on here.

adamfishercox · Mar 7, 2008, 07:42 PM

I got it! In Face Ache's sig this time.

ghporter · Mar 7, 2008, 09:06 PM

I think this may have to do with ImageShack linking back to the "Pornstar Name" thread in the lounge and their bots assuming something. Stupid bots. Either way, I've contacted ImageShack with a demand for an explanation, and I've moved my sig picture to a different host. I recommend that anyone else with this problem do the same.

d4nth3m4n · Mar 10, 2008, 11:28 PM

kewl.

OwlBoy · Mar 11, 2008, 06:07 PM

I like the signature rules.

ajprice · May 12, 2008, 06:15 AM

Imageshack bots are blocking sigs again in the "Swedish P*rn" thread in the Lounge. Same issue as before.

Edit: could a filter be added to change 'the p word' to p0rn or p*rn or something that the bots won't catch?

ghporter · May 12, 2008, 08:37 AM

The filter idea would probably work. But for now, let's all just make sure we don't give the bots anything to complain about and self-edit such terms. Will that work for everyone? Probably not. But I'll post to that effect in the thread.

turtle777 · May 12, 2008, 08:41 AM

I like the repeated reminder that Imagecrap has a freagin' moronic filter mechanism that can be defeated by simple 1337 speak.

-7

ghporter · May 12, 2008, 08:47 AM

-which is part of the reason I'm planning on moving all my images hosted there to some other host. I'd rather have a more difficult to use host that doesn't get completely idiotic than one that's simple but dumber than dirt.

subego · May 12, 2008, 12:00 PM

I've never had problems with Photobucket, but I must admit I haven't posted in an offending thread yet.

reader50 · May 12, 2008, 12:10 PM

Having sigs not appear in a single thread does not seem like a problem we should hack around. So long as the sigs continue to work in all the other threads, let imageshack play their games? It's a small price for free hosting, and perhaps consumer complaints to them would be a better response.

Dakar the Fourth · May 12, 2008, 12:11 PM

I'd agree this is a hosting issue. If your host is being ridiculous, find a better one.

turtle777 · May 12, 2008, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by subego

I've never had problems with Photobucket, but I must admit I haven't posted in an offending thread yet.

Photobucket doesn't seem to be that, uhm, sensitive.

-t