Posting And You...

[SpankMe]

<br /><br />Little Billy gets a lesson in posting. You too can learn what little Billy learns in <a href="/index.php?page=little_billy">Posting And You...</a>

[duckman]

Absolutely fuckin brilliant!!!!! :killingme :killingme

[riffer]

Loved it!!!:)

[Posh Tourer :P]

What 'e said!!

I havent laughed so much in a long time :Punk:
:first: :killingme :killingme :killingme

This oughta be compulsory!!!

I wonder if we could add a clause about not dredging up dead threads?

[manuboy]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

waaaaaaaa ha ha ha... very good

mmmmm... inside a week i broke all those rules...

ah...sorry.....

[Holy Roller]

:first: :Punk: :yeah:
Even got a laugh from my boy.
Hope no ones laughed at me :o One day I'll get to the 1000th post this one helps me on the way.

[Blakamin]

no comment on the grounds I may incriminate myself :killingme

[Gasman]

:buggerd: Woops! Er, like, what everyone else said!

[Ms Piggy]

Love it!!! I hope this is a sticky!! :killingme

[Paul in NZ]

Love it!!! I hope this is a sticky!! :killingme

Look... If you feed me lines like that, I'm NOT going to be held responsible for what I come up with as a retort and I really don't need to get banned from another forum...

;-)

[dhunt]

Very funny. But would a newbie watch it/folllow it. Doubt it.

[Ms Piggy]

Look... If you feed me lines like that, I'm NOT going to be held responsible for what I come up with as a retort and I really don't need to get banned from another forum...

;-)
Oooooo errrrrrr!!! I think everyone knew what I meant! :blah: Back me up boys...possibly not the right phrase either - a gal just can't win! :wacko:

[Slipstream]

:first: :Punk: :yeah:
Even got a laugh from my boy.
Hope no ones laughed at me :o One day I'll get to the 1000th post this one helps me on the way.

I'm laughing with ya man :laugh:

What is it about those little flashing crosses, that just makes you want to post more :)


S.M : where/how did you find this 'billy'? :killingme :2thumbsup

Is there more?... Or am I breaking one of those _new_ posting rules. :innocent: ;)

[Ghost Lemur]

:killingme Classic.

Really needs to be shown at intermediate along with sex ed, anti-smoking/drinking/drugging/whatever-the-hell-else-they-try-to-feed-kids-these-days.

[Mars]

NOW ya tell me!?! :doh: and HEY - easy on bagging the newbies :cry: ...we-need-nuturing-and-support-and-don't-think-we-should-be-left-alone-right-now :baby:

[MSTRS]

I laughed until I stopped. Then carried on as before :banana: :doobey:

[James Deuce]

Punt!!!!!!!

[riffer]

Punt!!!!!!!


You know, maybe we should make this thread a sticky. :shifty:

[inlinefour]

Although I did not know that steam had that option, should play half-life2 more often. But I just enjoy Colin Mcrae 2005 too much...

[Hitcher]

Despite having a poll some months ago that produced an OVERWHELMING positive response, we still don't have a section for Ride reports. Also a section for Polls would be nice too. Please, Mr Moderator...

[Biff]

I always knew that Honda's were the best bikes and that god was Scottish. :yes:

[Drunken Monkey]

Taken from the game planet forum rules. Particularly relevant items highlighted in bold.

It has come to the moderators attention that these forums are getting very argumentative, bitchy, and generally not a very good place to visit. So in the interest of quality, and creating a more friendly community, we have decided to set up a list of guidlines. The moderators will act on the following events in a thread. They will be locked or deleted if they:

Are abusive posts.
Are cheats posts.
Are racist posts.
Are sexist posts.
Are warez posts.
Are attempting to optain CD keys or in any way pirate the game. We all bought the game, go buy your own.

Contain links to cheats, pornography or other socially unacceptable sites.
Contain excessive foul or offensive language or images.
Contain excess flaming.

Posts that alter the original threads' topic.

Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post. Or posts including quoting of large images, seeing them once is enough thanks.

Posts engineered to increase you post count.
Spamming.
Posts that have just a smile, or things like "sif", "wtf", "lol" or are just a general waste of a post, will be deleted. If you have nothing to say, don't post. Simple

Posts that ask questions already answered in the stickies or FAQ.

By creating a better environment here we will all find our on server game experiances alot better.

[oldrider]

I have been looking at that thing and never ever seeing anything! Now I have a new puter and broadband I see it all. Guess I have fu=d up a few times and pissed people off. Well the good news is I wont change the habit of a lifetime just because I know better, that's just not me. I even piss my self off but I do want to learn a bit more about how the forum works. I guess if I just keep poking around it will come. Think I will change my name from oldrider to Billy. Cheers John. Have we got a Billy? :innocent:

[TerminalAddict]

lol .. .'ken funny

[SpankMe]

Contain excess flaming.

Posts that alter the original threads' topic.

Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post. Or posts including quoting of large images, seeing them once is enough thanks.

Posts engineered to increase you post count.

Spamming.

Posts that have just a smile, or things like "sif", "wtf", "lol" or are just a general waste of a post, will be deleted. If you have nothing to say, don't post. Simple


Bloody good recommendations to keep in mind while posting. We will be clamping down on such digressions. So if you don’t want you posts edited/deleted, follow these simple rules.

[jrandom]

Bloody good recommendations to keep in mind while posting. We will be clamping down on such digressions. So if you don’t want you posts edited/deleted, follow these simple rules.

It's OK to be offensive, though, right?

So long as it's either true, reasonably witty, or (at a minimum) correctly spelled?

[Sniper]

It's OK to be offensive, though, right?

So long as it's either true, reasonably witty, or (at a minimum) correctly spelled?

Of course, your wit is a welcome change to the immature insults we have been having from the school kids lately

[jrandom]

Of course, your wit is a welcome change to the immature insults we have been having from the school kids lately

maybe maybe. I just aim for 'correctly spelled'. But thank you, a bit of encourigement is always nice.

[Sniper]

maybe maybe. I just aim for 'correctly spelled'. But thank you, a bit of encourigement is always nice.

Correctl spelling is a bonus, although there are a few of us who can pick up on mistakes along the way.

PS: Encouragement

[SuperDave]

Correctl spelling is a bonus, although there are a few of us who can pick up on mistakes along the way.

PS: Encouragement


I think you took the fish's bait Sniper.

[mstriumph]

I always knew that Honda's were the best bikes and that god was Scottish. :yes:

Scottish and ghey [see previous threads lol] :innocent:

[Waylander]

Taken from the game planet forum rules. Particularly relevant items highlighted in bold.

It has come to the moderators attention that these forums are getting very argumentative, bitchy, and generally not a very good place to visit. So in the interest of quality, and creating a more friendly community, we have decided to set up a list of guidlines. The moderators will act on the following events in a thread. They will be locked or deleted if they:

Are abusive posts.
Are cheats posts.
Are racist posts.
Are sexist posts.
Are warez posts.
Are attempting to optain CD keys or in any way pirate the game. We all bought the game, go buy your own.

Contain links to cheats, pornography or other socially unacceptable sites.
Contain excessive foul or offensive language or images.
Contain excess flaming.

Posts that alter the original threads' topic.

Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post. Or posts including quoting of large images, seeing them once is enough thanks.

Posts engineered to increase you post count.
Spamming.
Posts that have just a smile, or things like "sif", "wtf", "lol" or are just a general waste of a post, will be deleted. If you have nothing to say, don't post. Simple

Posts that ask questions already answered in the stickies or FAQ.

By creating a better environment here we will all find our on server game experiances alot better.


Bloody good recommendations to keep in mind while posting. We will be clamping down on such digressions. So if you don’t want you posts edited/deleted, follow these simple rules.
Well shoot that's me gone... Been nice knowing y'all.

[mstriumph]

... but, but ...... what does that leave?? :scratch:
..........................

[/I]

please consult the person who gave me red rep for unnecessary quoting if this post now makes no frikken sense whatsoever ...

[SpankMe]

Well I seee nobody took any bloody notice of this point. :brick:


Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post.

[jrandom]

Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post.

I disagree with this one. When there's reasonably activity levels on a thread, it's difficult to determine whether your post is going to appear immediately after the one you're replying to.

An extra line or two of text emphasising the points made by the previous poster that you're responding to increases readability, uses bugger-all bandwidth and guards against the tedious possibility of having to go back and edit after someone else pips you to the wire and pushes your post further down the page.

You see, if I hadn't quoted that part of your post just now, even though this one immediately follows it, I'd place unnecessary burden on the reader to figure out whether I was replying directly to your statement that nobody took notice, or the idea behind it, or both.

Since most users probably view threads here without any hierarchical structure information about replies turned on (does this forum software support that?) I think you should consider repealing that quoting rule.

[mstriumph]

:Oops:
will try to do better ...

[jrandom]

will try to do better ...

Don't be such a doormat.

[mstriumph]

tsk tsk ---- guess we'll just have to add 'irony' to the list of things you don't understand ... :2thumbsup

[Ixion]

/me agrees. I often take quite a while from beginning to write a reply until I finally post it (because people keep coming along and wanting me to do werk in the midst of it - pests ).

So even if my post WOULD have been the next one when I started it may be well down (or up ) the page when it is finally posted. Which makes everything out of contect .

I belong to several other forums , some of which have such a rule, and it is a right pain. Because you have to preceed comments with a "Blogusername - post 99 " or such so people can figure out what the hell you're on about. And then when reading the post one has to scroll up (or down) the thread trying to figure out what the original post being replied to was. And then go back to the reply, then back to the original . And so on. A pain

(Oh, and this is actually a reply to Ms Fish, not Ms MsTriumph - or subsequent. See what I mean)

EDIT : It's a reply to Ms Fish's post #35. Not her post #37, which she posted while I was typing. SEE!. SEE! SEE! . You're all confused now. All would have been clear with a quote! See !

[jrandom]

tsk tsk ---- guess we'll just have to add 'irony' to the list of things you don't understand ... :2thumbsup

problem with irony and sarcasm is that it's very difficult to find the right smiley too accompany it. I think your wee 'oops' graphic threw my comprehension off a bit there.

but then I must concede the difficulty of communicating clearly with nothing but text and very little time to type it in.

[jrandom]

/me agrees...

and look! you posted this while I was replying to mstriumph.

today's post was brought to you by the words 'quod', 'erat', and 'demonstrandum'.

[Hitcher]

It's OK to be offensive, though, right?

So long as it's either true, reasonably witty, or (at a minimum) correctly spelled?
Or spelt correctly. Where I come from "spelled" is a wee lie down...

[Hitcher]

Posts that include unneeded quoting of the directly previous post.
But it may not be the directly previous post by the time the reply is posted, such is our fast-moving and ambiguous world.

And, then again, one should always read the whole thread prior to responding to the first post that attracts one's attention. Bad Hitcher...

[Joni]

What we are requesting is not to quote more than is required. If there is a long post and you a replying to it, rather just quote the part you are replying to, not the entire thing. It takes up space on the server that is not necessary, and ups the work for the moderators.

[jrandom]

What we are requesting is not to quote more than is required. If there is a long post and you a replying to it, rather just quote the part you are replying to, not the entire thing. It takes up space on the server that is not necessary, and ups the work for the moderators.

nobody's arguing with that. but after a mod (I presume) red-repped me twice for the quotes I used earlier in this thread, I think my argument about the necessity for quoting had to be made.

fascists.

also, space on the server? gimme a break. even if the server's using a RAID 1 SCSI array current prices would only put storage at about 14 cents a gigabyte. nobody quotes THAT prolificaly. and yes even as a forum newby I'd be happy to chip in if an appeal for server funding was made, this site seems worth keeping in spite of all the fools frequenting it.

[Drunken Monkey]

I disagree with this one. When there's reasonably activity levels on a thread, it's difficult to determine whether your post is going to appear immediately after the one you're replying to.

(snip)

I think you should consider repealing that quoting rule.

This (above) is an acceptable/correct way to quote someone so other readers know your context, without having to quote the entire text.

[jrandom]

This (above) is an acceptable/correct way to quote someone so other readers know your context, without having to quote the entire text.

I'm still sore about being red-boxed for a non-violation of that rule.

someone kiss my ass and make me feel better, please.

[Hitcher]

Tsk. Ms Fish. As a newbie I should bring to your attention standards of behaviour regarding limp, naff Americanisms. I have a zero-tolerance for said, let it be known. As others may have preferences for low alcohol beer, I have a preference for the Great New Zealand Arse and the Brave Defenders Thereof. Yea, verily and tee hee!

I shall leave it for others to validate the kissability of your derriere...

[mstriumph]

Gotta say -

:shutup:

[SpankMe]

I disagree with this one. When there's reasonably activity levels on a thread, it's difficult to determine whether your post is going to appear immediately after the one you're replying to.

There is an edit button. You can add/remove your quote after you posted.


also, space on the server? gimme a break. even if the server's using a RAID 1 SCSI array current prices would only put storage at about 14 cents a gigabyte

If I could buy my own hardware, ok. But I have to rent it. Getting a bigger HD would increase my monthly rental.

[Waylander]

:not:All hail Spankme :not:for Spankme is God:not: He hath bestoweth a new Commandment unto us. We must humbly obey lest we be bannished into ye sin-bin.


(yea I buggerd the spelling and the proper wording but you get the point.:whistle:)

[jrandom]

There is an edit button. You can add/remove your quote after you posted.

granted.


If I could buy my own hardware, ok. But I have to rent it. Getting a bigger HD would increase my monthly rental.

ah. I had some idea that it was one of those co-lo hosts where you spec a box and ship it to them and they just make sure it gets continuous network and power.

here's an idea. why not have a little graphic on a page somewhere showing the monthly server rental and bandwidth cost bill and the balance in a 'monthly rental etc' account. dedicated senior member types could paypal it up to scratch when they noticed it dipping.

of course thats a bit of work there and I'm sure you dont have endless spare time. i guess the populice should just make sure they dont forget to click on that front-page paypal button now and then.

[Sniper]

There are a few of us who have set up AP's into SM's account. Thats just my token of gratitude

[Gontour]

can you read this?


:banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:

can you read this?

Can you read this.....

Shit I cant make the reply appear in the original thread, i was originally taking the piss but well ermmmmm..... i am shite! :doh:

........................more than 1 page

just throwing some 'other' issues into the mix

[Posh Tourer :P]

i guess the populice should just make sure they dont forget to click on that front-page paypal button now and then.


Ahh. Populice. I think we should add that to the KB lexicon......

And I agree with the sentiment too....

[Colapop]

Ya missed the part where Billy was taken to the wood shed.....

[vince25]

Haha, oh, you gotta love the yanks

[notme]

Try this simple experiment people:

Have a quick flick thru this thread from the beginning, and bearing in mind the topic under discussion (i.e. the proper way to feed and care for an internet forum) make a mental note of the percentage of people posting in this particular thread who actually NEED to read this thread.

Ironic,ain't it?

[James Deuce]

Just wanted to bring this thread to people's attention again, and to let you know that I've been snipping the length of quoted posts where people quote and entire previous post.

Please go back to the first post in this thread, watch the wee film and take onboard some of the stuff in there. It isn't about being a "Nazi", just that there are things to consider like the greater the volume of traffic the more money SpankMe has to pay to maintain the site, and the server performance is largely in the hosting service's hands. The more needless quoting we do the slower the server will run, particularly in regard to database and search functions.

Upgrading the server means a higher monthly fee and so on.

[UrbanMyth]

hahaha funny stuff!