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Backyard Blacksmith posted:But seriously, anime is uniquely horrible. I'll have you know that Magical Princess Panty Shot has artistic merit and it's only the people who give it a bad name that make it insufferable and not the casual yet intelligent fans like mys 
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FrancisYorkPatty posted:I'll have you know that Magical Princess Panty Shot has artistic merit and it's only the people who give it a bad name that make it insufferable and not the casual yet intelligent fans like mys I think this exactly what they're talking about when they say people can't start talking about how awful (or great) anime is when it's brought up just fyi. But I get what he's saying, he doesn't hate Asian gifs he just wishes they had their own separate but equal thread, so the white gifs don't have to look at them you see.
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| # ? Feb 14, 2012 02:51 |
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But what if complaining about memes has become a meme itself? 
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| # ? Feb 14, 2012 12:30 |
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Someone in the gif thread requests someone make a gif into a meme/macro. Someone obliges, thus breaking the rules. However, they got a free pass because they were fulfilling someone's request. I'm not quite sure I agree with that logic. We have a meme thread, and we have a request images thread, so those could be used to get images turned into macros. It's a rule for the gifs thread to keep memes/macros out, so posting one out of the goodness of your heart doesn't seem like a strong enough reason to avoid punishment. Along the same lines, requesting or encouraging people to post images that are against the thread rules, that seems like it could be grounds for probation as well.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 05:59 |
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Jamesman posted:Someone in the gif thread requests someone make a gif into a meme/macro. Someone obliges, thus breaking the rules. However, they got a free pass because they were fulfilling someone's request. I'm not quite sure I agree with that logic. Its okay if your peas and chicken touch on your plate, nobody else at the dinner table is worried about it and it all ends up in your stomach anyway
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 08:19 |
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Did you remember to turn around 3 times and snap your fingers before hitting "submit reply"? (I think there's some germs on your keyboard)
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 11:50 |
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Jamesman posted:Along the same lines, requesting or encouraging people to post images that are against the thread rules, that seems like it could be grounds for probation as well. Well maybe the macro was only macroish and not macro enough for probation. Post it here so we know what we're talking about.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 12:04 |
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dinozombiesgoRARR posted:Well maybe the macro was only macroish and not macro enough for probation. Post it here so we know what we're talking about.  The problem is that in the past people have gotten probated for adding text to images and the GIF thread has gotten so strict that even GIFs from shows or movies with captions are relegated to the meme thread. I'd be perfectly happy with the rules getting relaxed but as they stand in the name of consistency if the person wanted to request the GIF be macro'd they should have gone to the image macro thread and requested it there. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 12:24 |
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Oh no you fell into the trap! Really, though, I'm sure if that kind of behaviour becomes an epidemic, it'll be dealt with. Incidentally it also says in the rules for the gif thread that subtitles are just fine, re: your concern with how strict the rules are. Course, it also says no macros, but it was just a request. I think you guys are over-thinking this a bit.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 12:51 |
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I've been thinking a general gif request thread might be a good idea, actually, to cover this. I'm a little tired of "Can someone make this avatar sized?" personally. Most pages in the thread have a request now so I think it would be sustainable. Plus people could do silly poo poo like "now make the table jiggle and the jello stay still" there. Would a separation make it better? Macro'd gif requests would be allowed there because that'd be where gif wizards are to be found. I'm not going to probate someone for making a macro gif when someone else asked them to. I'm not going to probate someone for fulfilling a request, just like a zillion other requests have been fulfilled. If people POST macros unbidden, they'll be probated. If people start demanding macros all the time, I'll revisit the issue. Subtitles and even impact-font-subtitles-that-totally-look-like-macros are not probateable anymore. I always try to read lips when I'm not sure which one it is. I'm virtually certain that cat didn't really say Deal With It, though, so that was an easy one. I don't really even probate people in the gif thread a lot recently so I'm not sure about why you're concerned about it being strict  It seems to have been running very well lately and I've been really pleased with how people have been staying interesting and/or gif-y.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 14:26 |
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The gif thread is a fun place to talk about and share gifs that you find and make. You can hang out and chat or do whatever.
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| # ? Feb 24, 2012 16:41 |
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There is a ridiculously huge amount of brony-chat going on PYF Fandom Lunacy, Image Macros, Awkward and Ugly, and at least one other thread that I can't recall. Only Awkward and Ugly allows bronies, but there is a lot of derail that is not about how awkward/ugly bronies are. I'd like to request some mod reminders that brony derails are terrible.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 04:30 |
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The fandom lunacy thread one isn't much of a derail, it's well within the thread's intentions to discuss internet wierdos.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 04:36 |
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I'd agree, except the Fandom Lunacy OP requests that discussion of MLP be kept to a minimum to avoid derails, and the thread is now discussing the same old same old subjects of "The target audience is little girls!" and simply rehashing the perpetual arguments that pop up whenever MLP is mentioned.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 05:18 |
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I'd agree, except the Fandom Lunacy OP requests that discussion of MLP be kept to a minimum to avoid derails, and the thread is now discussing the same old same old subjects of "The target audience is little girls!" and simply rehashing the perpetual arguments that pop up whenever MLP is mentioned. the bronies are exploding over one of their fancharacters being removed from the show, so it's not really a derail and more a reaction to a current event.
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 18:28 |
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Yonic Symbolism posted:the bronies are exploding over one of their fancharacters being removed from the show, so it's not really a derail and more a reaction to a current event. This. We also had brony chat in the D&D reddit thread because they're melting down. And the other PYF threads are also tangentially related to it internet loonies and their weird habits, so why not enjoy the pony meltdown shitshow? All in all, despite not knowing what the gently caress anyone was up in arms about, it's been a hilarious read across those four or five threads talking about it because those manchildren are apparently preparing to self-immolate because a character was changed. 
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| # ? Feb 26, 2012 19:04 |
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'Derpygate' is the most hilarious thing in the world right now and is going to be around for a while, so I think distinction should be made between laughing at (as Yonic called it,) a current event, and making tired rehashes of the same "Ugh, I don't know how anyone could watch this, isn't this for kids?" posts that we have all seen hundreds of times already. If a poster is trying to make a derail that no one wants, or is only there to troll, or is so white-noise that they may as well be emptyquoting, then they are in probate-able territory without MLP even being a factor.
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| # ? Feb 27, 2012 18:17 |
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Tony Danza Claus posted:This. We also had brony chat in the D&D reddit thread because they're melting down. And the other PYF threads are also tangentially related to it internet loonies and their weird habits, so why not enjoy the pony meltdown shitshow? This sounds amazing. Do you have a link to about where it starts in the Reddit thread?
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| # ? Mar 2, 2012 20:58 |
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Heath posted:This sounds amazing. Do you have a link to about where it starts in the Reddit thread? Yeah I'd like to see some of this. I gave up on the reddit around SA's "raid" on it because even though great stuff was happening it was ballooning too fast for me to keep up.
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| # ? Mar 2, 2012 22:04 |
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I made a new rule. Just letting everyone know. Any questions, comments, or suggestions on it?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2012 12:54 |
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Backyard Blacksmith posted:I made a new rule. Just letting everyone know. Any questions, comments, or suggestions on it? Is this a "do it or you're probated" rule, or "if you don't do it you might be probabated by accident"?
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| # ? Mar 10, 2012 13:12 |
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Infected Mushroom posted:Is this a "do it or you're probated" rule, or "if you don't do it you might be probabated by accident"? Pretty much the second one. Sometimes it's obvious that it's subtitles, sometimes it's not. e. In the recent case of boo radley, it should have been obvious to me that it was subtitles, but I didn't know because I'm dumb. 
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| # ? Mar 10, 2012 13:15 |
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Backyard Blacksmith posted:I made a new rule. Just letting everyone know. Any questions, comments, or suggestions on it? Yeah, I made the subtitles are okay rule because people were reporting obvious subtitles as macros, and now we're getting quotes but in macro text and it can be write hard to tell. I end up lip reading gifs which is frankly absurd. Good rule.
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Backyard Blacksmith posted:Pretty much the second one. Sometimes it's obvious that it's subtitles, sometimes it's not. Nah, I shoulda pointed it out because it's not that yellow "subtitle" font. It does make me want to send you a copy of Army of Darkness, though.
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| # ? Mar 12, 2012 17:44 |
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Why are macros even banned in image threads? The point of the site-wide macro ban was to keep people from making GBS threads up discussion threads with a picture of a cat saying "I LIKE YOUR POST." If it's just a thread for posting funny pictures there's no real reason to single out the ones that have words on them. Seems to me that macros have been banned for so long that the letter of the law has completely obscured the spirit.
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| # ? Mar 12, 2012 18:13 |
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RandomFerret posted:Why are macros even banned in image threads? The point of the site-wide macro ban was to keep people from making GBS threads up discussion threads with a picture of a cat saying "I LIKE YOUR POST." If it's just a thread for posting funny pictures there's no real reason to single out the ones that have words on them. Some people passionately hate image macros and its easier to put them into its own thread than to constantly try and reign in derails in the main thread. It will always get debated abotu if they're funny or lovely or "oh this one is good" so its better to keep it separate for mod sanity. See also the anime gif thread, made for pretty much the same reason.
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| # ? Mar 12, 2012 18:26 |
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I doubt the moratorium on macros/memes is going to be lifted any day soon, and it really shouldn't be. It still serves its purpose; we can see that on the occasion when some retard posts one outside the graciously designated meme zone, and you realize how inappropriate, unfunny, and lazy they are outside of that context. You might get a laugh out of it but that's not reason enough to go hogwild and allow them everywhere. They are counterproductive to content posting, period. The letter of the law is the same as the spirit in this case: compared to almost everything else, macros/memes are lazy and lovely, don't post them where other things are happening. Note: this isn't me "passionately hating image macros," I follow that thread to get the good ones, and have contributed to it too.
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| # ? Mar 14, 2012 00:35 |
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From the macro thread:Butt Wizard posted:And the Asian Father meme is really pretty racist. And the Good Gamer Girl meme is in fact horribly sexist. And the old You Gonna Get Raped macro of an older black man was really racist and also apparently hosed over the man in the picture. The internet is always going to be full of horrible poo poo. If you find it offensive, report it. I and the other mods will sort it out. Talking about it in this thread just leads to awful derails. Just to  things about the homeless guy a little, it turns out that the sad story about the macro ruining that guy's life was fabricated from thin air. It came up a long time ago either earlier in the thread or maybe in an earlier version of the thread and got debunked pretty readily.
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| # ? Mar 18, 2012 18:44 |
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Anyone else getting tired of those loving "No1curr" macros in the macro thread? If anybody posts any sentence ever it's like a contest to see who can fly in and post a macro so tired even 4chan would think it's old. Macros are always just the same poo poo over and over but jumpin' jesus this is way worse than "watch out we got a badass" ever was.
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| # ? Mar 19, 2012 20:43 |
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CongoJack posted:Anyone else getting tired of those loving "No1curr" macros in the macro thread? If anybody posts any sentence ever it's like a contest to see who can fly in and post a macro so tired even 4chan would think it's old. Ha! I'm not falling for that one!
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| # ? Mar 19, 2012 20:45 |
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It served a purpose in trying to beat people over the head that we really do not care about how this macro totally happened to you one day or whatever the hell you learned on wikipedia for when a thread title, a rule in the OP, and a bunch of probations just isn't enough. Now people are posting the macro to their own posts and that is just stupid as hell and completely missing the point. I'm in favor of posting that macro to your own post being treated the same as reporting your own post or using the phrase, "I don't want to derail but...". The problem isn't the macro, it's that people keep posting derails.
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Lazy Programming posted:It served a purpose in trying to beat people over the head that we really do not care about how this macro totally happened to you one day or whatever the hell you learned on wikipedia for when a thread title, a rule in the OP, and a bunch of probations just isn't enough. Now people are posting the macro to their own posts and that is just stupid as hell and completely missing the point. I'm in favor of posting that macro to your own post being treated the same as reporting your own post or using the phrase, "I don't want to derail but...". The problem isn't the macro, it's that people keep posting derails. It only served the purpose some of the time anyway. It's used inappropriately and as a knee-jerk "OH MY GOD TEXT IN AN IMAGE THREAD SHUTUP LOL" kind of way, almost just as often. That's an okay response sometimes, but it's a gross overreaction when someone is just being helpful, or contributing to a short derail which several people may even find interesting and spans all of about three posts. It's just as unfunny as "badass every page" and I'm glad to see people coming around to realizing it. Bubble Bathory fucked around with this message at Mar 20, 2012 around 00:17 |
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I, for one, think that the "badass over here" is funny every time, especially when limited to once a page. Please don't take that one away too!
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Bubble Bathory posted:It only served the purpose some of the time anyway. It's used inappropriately and as a knee-jerk "OH MY GOD TEXT IN AN IMAGE THREAD SHUTUP LOL" kind of way, almost just as often. That's an okay response sometimes, but it's a gross overreaction when someone is just being helpful, or contributing to a short derail which several people may even find interesting and spans all of about three posts. Do you feel pensive whenever you write about the meme thread? Like do you get worried about what your AV will turn into? Not a dig on you, but I'd fret in your situation. I think the no1curr thing maybe needs to be rationed a bit and BB's coin-flipping thing is probably an awesome way to do that. When it returns to a lower, less thread-self-referencing level, maybe he can put the coin away. edit: oh snap, harmburger's tempting fate as we speak. 
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| # ? Mar 20, 2012 03:26 |
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I honestly think if you're a frequent poster in the macro/meme thread you should be subjected to everything that falls under that banner, whether it's mediocre or outright terrible. But I'm biased.
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| # ? Mar 20, 2012 03:28 |
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Instead of just posting "No1Curr" maybe report the posts instead? Or at least post new No1Curr gifs instead of the same ones.
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| # ? Mar 20, 2012 04:02 |
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Thanks Backyard Blacksmith for being hands on with your forums and being cool in general.
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| # ? Mar 20, 2012 05:06 |
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As an avid forums reader and macro enthusiast, I have to say the no1curr images had a significant impact on my forums exparble garble harble fart butt the macro thread is dumb and funny and you should probably post something funny in response to macros you find distasteful or get out.
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| # ? Mar 20, 2012 12:09 |
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CongoJack posted:Anyone else getting tired of those loving "No1curr" macros in the macro thread? I actually had to google it just now to figure out what it meant. I've never actually come acrossa a no1curr macro appear in a thread I was reading but I'm pre-emptively sick and tired of them.
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| # ? May 25, 2013 01:03 |
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It took me a long time to figure out what no1curr even meant. It's not immediately obvious and just comes across as jibberish to me so it was getting a bit on the irritating side.
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