[ctt1wbw]

Anyone post there? Those pansies just banned me again, this time for a week. Just as a joke over there, since everyone starts a new picture thread about EVERYTHING, I started one called "Post your latest booger!". Seems they have NO sense of humor.

[design219]

Let's see how that one flies here, what say?

[ctt1wbw]

I'd be scared someone would actually do it.

[turtle777]

Hey, let's send besson over there, to start a stool thread. He won't survive a second

-t

[MacosNerd]

Did you get a reason as to the banning? Seems kind of petty.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

Did you get a reason as to the banning? Seems kind of petty.

Nah, you can get banned for petty reasons at MacNN as well.

-t

[MacosNerd]

I suppose each forum has its own pettiness threshold.

[besson3c]

If everybody was as smart as me they would have figured out by now that it is absolutely foolish to take these sort of pseudo anonymous discussions too seriously. There is no reason why people should get all uppity about stools, boogers, large signatures, the wrong way of lounging, my amazingly clever alter ego whose name I dare not mention, etc.

[MacosNerd]

To a degree, you are correct but by the same token, some of these rules makes sense. I think the biggest example you cited is large signatures. using large over the top graphics affects one's viewing pleasure of a thread. Instead of dealing with the message you only get a handful of responses on a given page because people use gigantic pictures. That is the images detract from the given message within the thread. As for the other examples, I agree with you.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

To a degree, you are correct but by the same token, some of these rules makes sense. I think the biggest example you cited is large signatures. using large over the top graphics affects one's viewing pleasure of a thread. Instead of dealing with the message you only get a handful of responses on a given page because people use gigantic pictures. That is the images detract from the given message within the thread. As for the other examples, I agree with you.

Why not just say "please use a small signature" then, rather than providing precise dimensions and creating situations where people end up bickering about a few pixels?

[osiris]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

my amazingly clever alter ego whose name I dare not mention,

Wasn't that stricken from all books, journals, momuments, et cetera, and its very utterance forbidden and punishable by death?

[MacosNerd]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Why not just say "please use a small signature" then, rather than providing precise dimensions and creating situations where people end up bickering about a few pixels?

because without a definition of what a small signature is, people will be using what ever they want, i.e., my definition of small is different then yours. By having a set standard it means everyone plays by the same rules and keeps the images from overwhelming the threads.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by osiris 

Wasn't that stricken from all books, journals, momuments, et cetera, and its very utterance forbidden and punishable by death?

I think so, although maybe for a first timer you'll only disappear from these parts for a month without any real explanation.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Why not just say "please use a small signature" then, rather than providing precise dimensions and creating situations where people end up bickering about a few pixels?

Because this is the internet and if you don't draw the line somewhere people will manipulate the system as much as they can.

The irony is, in avoiding the possibly endless discussion of what defines "small" by giving specific dimensions, the door has been opened to a pointless discussion of why it had to be defined. This example illustrates the internet to no end.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Because this is the internet and if you don't draw the line somewhere people will manipulate the system as much as they can.

The irony is, in avoiding the possibly endless discussion of what defines "small" by giving specific dimensions, the door has been opened to a pointless discussion of why it had to be defined. This example illustrates the internet to no end.

Maybe some of us don't want structure to our lounging?

[osiris]

Those silly internets, always trying to illustrate to no end.

[besson3c]

For some reason, the internet keeps insisting on illustrating these naked women showing me their butts every time I open certain webpages!

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Maybe some of us don't want structure to our lounging?

This forum isn't purely lounging.

Why would you need to create a sig for lunging? It's more work to create a sig than to follow the guidelines anyway.

[MacosNerd]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

Maybe some of us don't want structure to our lounging?

And that's your right. Just don't frequent forums that have structure and then complain about it.

To put it another way, I generally don't visit other forums that have no limitations on avatars or signatures.

'NN does seem to have a happy medium of rules. They let some things pass and they have structure in other areas. I think what message is being said is more important then how it looks with avatars and sigs so to that end, I don't mind NN's enforcement of rules in that area.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

Did you get a reason as to the banning? Seems kind of petty.

Starting useless threads, is what comes up when I go there. LAME.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Nah, you can get banned for petty reasons at MacNN as well.

-t

Where is ca$h, anyway? Fourth period economics again?

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

This forum isn't purely lounging.

Why would you need to create a sig for lunging? It's more work to create a sig than to follow the guidelines anyway.

Well, it appears that most of the hostility, bickering, and other assorted drama (of which I've been a part of) has occurred in the Lounge. I still believe that the Lounge should be approached and treated differently. It is not an informational resource like the other sections are.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by ctt1wbw 

Starting useless threads, is what comes up when I go there. LAME.

And then, of course, the slippery slope of defining what is useless...

[Dakar the Fourth]

A separate sig rule for the lounge would be retarded. What happens if you post elsewhere on these forums?

Face it, there's no reason to expect special treatment, especially when we (Lounge denizens) contribute the least to these forums.

[besson3c]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

A separate sig rule for the lounge would be retarded. What happens if you post elsewhere on these forums?

Face it, there's no reason to expect special treatment, especially when we (Lounge denizens) contribute the least to these forums.

Fine then, keep the sig rule the way it is... It doesn't bother me as is, only the very occasional bickering about it - the OMG sig violation in sector G sort of stuff...

[Dakar the Fourth]

I'm going to petition for minimum sig rules, and openly police them.

[osiris]

Thus began the Revolution...

[Dakar the Fourth]

Identification please.

[subego]

Meet the new sig. Same as the old sig.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Identification please.

Agent Orange.
I see you're going with all black again. You know, they're doing wonderful things with floral prints these days. It is Spring. Edit: Oops, like I should talk.

[Dakar the Fourth]

Originally Posted by osiris 

Agent Orange.
I see you're going with all black again. You know, they're doing wonderful things with floral prints these days. It is Spring.

Yeah, your sig is practically bursting from liveliness.

[ctt1wbw]

Originally Posted by besson3c 

And then, of course, the slippery slope of defining what is useless...

I guess pics of boogers is useless. Oh well, i have a warped sense of humor. Too much Monty Python, I guess.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

Yeah, your sig is practically bursting from liveliness.

Indeed it is multicolored splendor.

[Dakar the Fourth]

It only took you over 16 hours to do that. How unimpressive.

[osiris]

Originally Posted by Dakar the Fourth 

It only took you over 16 hours to do that. How unimpressive.

You unimpress too easily.

[Dakar the Fourth]

...and you don't unimpress too easily enough.

[osiris]

that's a good thing, right?

[Dakar the Fourth]

Since it's different from me, no.