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Eggplant Wizard posted:I think probably it is more an extension of feeling that the rule is ridiculous than any particular desire to look at dead/dying/seriously injured people. At least that is what I hope, since otherwise would be pretty appalling. That is what I hope, too! I don't think the rules have anything to do with it--SA may be a crazy conglomeration of tastes, but I'd hate to think we need or want a thread of people dying. If you have to make a rule about it, that's pretty bad.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2012 14:59 |
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The only possible (reasonable, non-creepy) argument against the rule that I can think of is people posting gifs from movies or such. But that almost never comes up , and most of the time whoever posts it mentions the source so...
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| # ? Jan 31, 2012 18:37 |
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GenericOverusedName posted:The only possible (reasonable, non-creepy) argument against the rule that I can think of is people posting gifs from movies or such. But that almost never comes up , and most of the time whoever posts it mentions the source so... Yeah, real people dying is my interpretation. Sorry. Excessively gory movie poo poo should still be linked & tagged, though.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2012 19:34 |
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Eggplant Wizard posted:Nope, people do it all the time and we'd get a zillion reports about people who didn't have any idea they were doing something wrong. It's annoying but it's not gently caress-up-your-day annoying unless you're viewing the forums on a calculator or something. iPhone, but I understand where you're coming from
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| # ? Feb 1, 2012 04:03 |
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Sunshine89 posted:iPhone, but I understand where you're coming from I'm on my phone right now. When I use it to go on the forums, I don't go to big image threads. It's a hardship of course but somehow I manage to wait til I get home to see what new and brilliant image macros have been posted.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2012 14:28 |
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What really constitutes a derail enough for people to passive-agressively whine about it in a thread? Maybe I was just reading the threads wrong where people were doing this, but there was maybe two posts talking about something without pics, and the "I miss the megarule" people came out of the woodwork to say just that. I see nothing wrong with two people talking about something without posting pics since someone would come along soon enough with ancient pictures that have been posted countless times on many a website since the early 2000s to sate the megarule gang's appetite. If it's something like: *Photoshopped picture of some 8th century Greek Orthodox stylized painting style* - "Well, actually, you see in the 700s, the Byzantine Empire was under scrutiny for iconoclasm. The idea was that the Ten Commandments forbade the creation of graven images as stated under Biblical Law, so Emperor Leo III..." Is a loving awesome derail because you get to look at old art and learn a history lesson. Ain't nothin' wrong with that if it's two, maybe three posts. But if it's an entire page and a half prattling on about anime or video games or politics or some other stupid poo poo, bring on the probations, I say. I like to call the megarule gang stereotypical "PYF hipsters," as in "I liked PYF before Backyard Blacksmith and Eggplant Wizard took it over  " Thanks for not enforcing the megarule, guys. It sure beats:PIC PIC PIC "Haha, funny - MEGARULE:" PIC PIC PIC PIC "Haha, funny - MEGARULE:" PIC PIC PIC... You Are A Elf fucked around with this message at Feb 1, 2012 around 17:28 |
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You Are A Elf posted:What really constitutes a derail enough for people to passive-agressively whine about it in a thread? People never agree when something's a derail. One person's interesting topical conversation is another person's insufferable derail. For some threads there are strict rules about discussion set out by a mod or the OP, but in the end it usually comes down to whether or not BYB or I think it's an annoying derail. Personally I mostly step in on derails that are getting bitchy or talking about some really broad thing that would be better discussed elsewhere on the forums (political issues, cooking, whatever). And yeah, length plays into it too, and whether or not the thread is still doing its thing in the midst of the conversation in question.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2012 21:34 |
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Eggplant Wizard posted:I'm on my phone right now. When I use it to go on the forums, I don't go to big image threads. It's a hardship of course but somehow I manage to wait til I get home to see what new and brilliant image macros have been posted. But...some people don't have a computer at home and use their phone for everything? I imagine it's not a large percentage, but they do exist. Speaking of derails, it seems that in the PYF Bans thread, every single time a ban from the LP forum gets posted, there are page long derails about LP and the superstars therein. This same derail has happened too many times to count. I reported the latest derail, not to get anyone probated, but just to please ask for one of you guys to step in and put a kibosh on it, but seriously, it happens every time LP bans are posted. Is there anything we can do besides keep reporting it? Bodnoirbabe fucked around with this message at Feb 2, 2012 around 20:07 |
| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:03 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:it happens every time LP bans are posted So, what, twice?
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:15 |
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RandomFerret posted:So, what, twice? The thread is almost 90 pages long. I'm not going to go back and search every page, but suffice to say, it's a lot more than just twice. There seem to be only two things that start long derails in that thread. LP bans and FYAD probations by the IK-du-jour. It's on an endless repeat cycle. Very annoying.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:23 |
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RandomFerret posted:So, what, twice? And both those times were in reference to a single person's probations/banning that was surrounded with drama on both sides. It's hardly a constant plague on the thread so much as it is a single derail that seems to really, really get a lot of people upset.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 20:50 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:Is there anything we can do besides keep reporting it? Topically, I can't moderate from my phone OR see the PM's I got about this, so I only just got to it  Anyway, I have sent through a really appalling number of probations which will hopefully get the point across. Honestly I think that thread gets too chatty in general, and it invites this sort of mini-dramabomb. Report it when it gets annoying in your view, and we'll do something about it.As for people who can only browse on their phones, I do not give a drat. Being able to look at cat macros and gifs of people getting kicked in the nuts is not exactly an ADA-protected right.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2012 21:27 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:But...some people don't have a computer at home and use their phone for everything? I imagine it's not a large percentage, but they do exist. If someone breaks a rule (if this even counts as a rule), you report it, same as any other rule. What else would you suggest? Not allowing bans from specific forums in the "PYF Bans" thread?
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| # ? Feb 3, 2012 00:28 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:The thread is almost 90 pages long. I'm not going to go back and search every page, but suffice to say, it's a lot more than just twice. Wait, you complain about derails then you start a massive derail with thenipwax in the Facebook thread?
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 01:46 |
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dinozombiesgoRARR posted:Wait, you complain about derails then you start a massive derail with thenipwax in the Facebook thread? I didn't start a massive derail with him. I responded to one person, he responded to me. I answered him twice. That's it. Three posts, only two involving him. He, however, responded to a poo poo ton of people calling him out for being a hostile prick. I moved on in that thread, not talking to him, and instead engaging in other people's posts about facebook idiots. Edit for clarification: Thenipwax was not the person who posted the original content I commented on. That was Alphadog, who actually didn't come back. Then Thenipwax came in and told me I was everything that was wrong with humanity. I tried to explain my position again, he told me the reason I didn't like it was because it got my dick hard, I let him know I was a woman. That's it. I pointedly moved on after that. Bodnoirbabe fucked around with this message at Feb 4, 2012 around 02:04 |
| # ? Feb 4, 2012 01:59 |
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I wouldn't have responded at all and pointing out that you're a girl was unnecessary but whatever
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 02:10 |
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henkman posted:I wouldn't have responded at all and pointing out that you're a girl was unnecessary but whatever Well, originally I thought it was he missed my point. Which he did. So I responded to try to re-clarify it. The last response was because, well, he made me mad with the whole "tingle in your dingle" comment, essentially calling me a pedophile. I thought that was really below the belt. I shouldn't have responded to that, but I was mad. Afterward, I just let stopped and moved on.
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 02:12 |
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Bodnoirbabe posted:I didn't start a massive derail with him. I responded to one person, he responded to me. I answered him twice. That's it. Three posts, only two involving him. He, however, responded to a poo poo ton of people calling him out for being a hostile prick. I moved on in that thread, not talking to him, and instead engaging in other people's posts about facebook idiots. He may have posted more replies than you but I just copy/pasted all his posts into word and then all your posts into word and it turns out that his contribution to the derail was 324 words and yours was 326 words, so what you lacked in frequency you made up in volume. Your shitposts were approximately as annoying as his. I wouldn't have even mentioned it except you complained about derails annoying you only 2 days ago, then you went and contributed to lovely derail.
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 02:21 |
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If you have a problem with a poster, report them specifically and it'll get evaluated. If someone is being an rear end in a top hat, report them and don't engage them. "Ignore" is an excellent function, too.
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 02:59 |
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MOM AND DAD ARE FIGHTING!! 
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 03:02 |
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Tony Danza Claus posted:MOM AND DAD ARE FIGHTING!! It's okay, they get mad now but they always feel better after they wrestle
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| # ? Feb 4, 2012 04:34 |
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I'm actually sorry I posted that particular image (the romeo and juliet advertisment one). I pointed out that I was refusing to engage with the people posting about it on facebook. I refrained from arguing on facebook because I knew it would turn into a shitstorm on and was thus perfect for the "idiots on facebook" thread, but I didn't think the debate would continue here. I'm sorry I pissed everyone off, I wasn't trying to troll or cause trouble.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 02:53 |
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AlphaDog posted:I'm actually sorry I posted that particular image (the romeo and juliet advertisment one). I pointed out that I was refusing to engage with the people posting about it on facebook. I refrained from arguing on facebook because I knew it would turn into a shitstorm on and was thus perfect for the "idiots on facebook" thread, but I didn't think the debate would continue here. You didn't piss anyone off. I think it was something that could have sparked interesting discussion. However, Thenipwax took it to a hostile area. Was not your fault in the least. You can't help if some people fly off the handle.
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| # ? Feb 7, 2012 04:25 |
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In the new GBS reddit thread someone was talking about how the good looking thread here had pictures of underage people in it. Has there been anything done about this, or is it not a problem?
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| # ? Feb 12, 2012 22:54 |
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Nevermind, we're talking about it in modland now and we'll figure something out soon. Stay tuned and please report anything you think is inappropriate.
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For awhile now there are people in the GIF thread who keep posting huge dumps of GIFs that are just asian people...being. They're not funny or interesting, it's just actors and models and variety show contestants moving and kind of making faces and even thought people keep asking them to stop (or at least post ones that are interesting) they just keep posting them. Could you tell them to knock it off?
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 01:19 |
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racist
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 01:39 |
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If someone else's taste in gifs is bothering you then you are taking the internet too seriously.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 01:43 |
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That post was unfortunately (racist-ly?) worded but seriously those Korean/Japanese TV .gifs are uninteresting to the point of it being slightly curious as to why people are dumping so many of them.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 09:24 |
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As opposed to the millions of US TV shows gifs with people doing absolutely nothing but are 100% super funny because you happen to be familiar with the show? I've never watched an episode of Community. It may be the funniest loving show in the history of the world, but seeing hundreds of gifs of a bunch of random people sitting in a room talking to each other is about as funny as watching paint dry when you don't know the context. So why not ban US TV gifs?
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 10:42 |
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People post gifs of things you don't find interesting or worthwhile because they like different things than you, it's silly to come in here and complain about "those .gifs of asian people who don't do anything" because you already have at your disposal the ability to not see them, and that's by scrolling down.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 11:02 |
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Bubble Bathory posted:That post was unfortunately (racist-ly?) worded but seriously those Korean/Japanese TV .gifs are uninteresting to the point of it being slightly curious as to why people are dumping so many of them. GET THE gently caress OVER IT. Jeeeesus. I don't watch Community or whatever else you all like to post so much and I don't complain about all these WHITE PEOPLE MAKIN' FACES gifs. I have posted this in the thread already, but let's just be crystal clear: If you don't like something someone has posted in the gif thread, or you don't get why it's interesting, move on. Don't complain about it, or whine about "all these gifs of [whatever]." Just shut the hell up and post gifs you DO like. It's Post Your Favorite, not Post About How Other People's Favorites Aren't Your Favorites. You will be probated if you do complain. Please report accordingly.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 13:15 |
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Eggplant Wizard posted:It's Post Your Favorite, not Post About How Other People's Favorites Aren't Your Favorites. Can we change the forum name to this?
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 14:21 |
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I don't really have a dog in the fight, but out of curiosity, why doesn't the same standard apply to anime/cartoon gifs?
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 16:49 |
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Toast Museum posted:I don't really have a dog in the fight, but out of curiosity, why doesn't the same standard apply to anime/cartoon gifs? Isn't there a seperate thread in ADTRW specifically for Anime .gifs? VVV I apparently do not make it outside of my User Control Panel very often. JackRabbitStorm fucked around with this message at Feb 13, 2012 around 17:25 |
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JackRabbitStorm posted:Isn't there a seperate thread in ADTRW specifically for Anime .gifs? It's in PYF too, and because people literally cannot shut up about anime pro or con it got its own thread.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 17:18 |
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a kitten posted:It's in PYF too, and because people literally cannot shut up about anime pro or con it got its own thread. And then people bitched about american animation so the other thread became a general animated gif thread. Eventually we'll start bitching about too much movement in a picture, and it will become Post Your Favorite Stationary gif. 
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 17:51 |
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Eggplant Wizard posted:GET THE gently caress OVER IT. I wasn't the guy who brought it up duder, I've never said anything about it before; I was just expanding on what the first guy said in a way that didn't sound racist as poo poo.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 20:15 |
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Bubble Bathory posted:I wasn't the guy who brought it up duder, I've never said anything about it before; I was just expanding on what the first guy said in a way that didn't sound racist as poo poo. Sorry, yours happened to be the representative post to which I replied, but it wasn't meant to be personal I don't get why so many people are so mad about it. There have actually been reports for too many Asians in the gif thread.  Y'all are weird.a kitten posted:It's in PYF too, and because people literally cannot shut up about anime pro or con it got its own thread. YEP, this is it. The only thing more annoying than people who love anime is people who argue violently that anime is uniquely horrible.
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| # ? Feb 13, 2012 22:09 |
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But seriously, anime is uniquely horrible.
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