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Thread Highjack/Spamming

Greston
12-05-2008, 20:40
OOC: Before I start I would like to state, I am fine with people posting here only if they are posts of letters to the editors or news casts prominantly feuturing Greston or ones that are majorly effected to the news cast it qoutes. I will not tolerate OOC spam And thank you BL for the idea of a format.

(IC part starts, blah, blah, blah)

Do you know how hard it makes your threads to read if you post a 2300x1700 pixel picture? In fact, what is the fucking point in picture spamming?

[Guys, I hate to butt in with pure OOCness, but enough with the picture spam. It breaks pages and isn't impressive. Actually, it's annoying. If you guys want to play ball with Haven, you'll have to do it up to our standards.]

OOC: Not everyone can edit the size of their pictures, and besides it's not really Haven this is directed at, but rather New Pictavia per se

Oh yea, so obviously if you can't edit pictures the best solution is to page-break by posting fuckin huge pictures of warehouses.

You know its considered etiquette to make your threads readable.

well we can't all be as perfect as you...

You could make a dignified attempt...

But the pictures should be linked rather than posted in page breaking form.

[Okay, so don't use pictures. They're not necessary to any RP and if I have to scroll over to use the reply window, then it's become ridiculous. Also, you can't attack a Haven nation without Haven getting involved, especially when the word "nukes" is being bandied about. Btw, I think you guys are insane for punching above your weight, but if you're game I am.]

Get out of my thread now. I edited my posts and this post for I am tired of argueing with you.

You should try to construct correctly syntaxed and punctuated sentences to explain your failure. I'm not even sure what the hell you're talking about.



Right about now.



How do you think something can be a link when it has a pair of IMG tags surrounding it?



Yea, I would hate to be you and not have a basic understanding of BB code and how not to post incredibly large pagebreaking images on a forum.

OOC:Heres an idea? Stop spamming Grestons thread? If you don't like whats he doing...gee I don't know, don't read the thread?

If I'm going to be assisting an ally it's somewhat useful if I can read FYI threads from the enemy, but whatever.

How about he not rape my Internet connection when I open the thread out of curiosity?

OOC: I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news, Scandavian States and Questers, but you are hijacking Greston's thread. Unless your going to sincerely help beyond the fact you found some mistakes in his thread which somehow makes you godlike and full of wisdom it is best you cease posting and flaming.

How about you guys quit with all the bravado and just stop spamming the thread with unnecessary comments.

And as you’re keeping oh so close tabs on this incident… I suppose you may have noticed the few mistakes you have made about this situation:

1. You guys are not assisting anyone. The RP between some Mediterranica members and NP and his nuke crew is CLOSED.

2. Haven is not being attack.

And for note, the only people throwing the work “nukes” around is the Havenites.

[/rant]

Sorry Greston for the extra OOC comments.

Don't ask me, my picture fits.

[OOC: Hi, I don't want to get involved in the more general OOC bickerings but I have to read this thread and I would appreciate it if you removed all the pagebreaking images. If you really must show us a 3000x3000 pixel satellite photo of the top of a warehouse or whatever and you can't be bothered to resize it then just post a link. Otherwise report -> mods.]

Now the part I bolded as well as the title of this thread explains it all for the most part. I started a news thread which was pretty fine for the most part. I made a mistake and posted giant pictures and Questers and pals started screaming me at me about it. I edited the pictures so that mine were links but I am still getting crap from them and now my newsthread is three pages long when it doesn't have enough IC posts to cover one page. I request that someone please gets rid of this OOC spam and links the giant, pagebreaking pictures made by other people please. I was an arse but in the effort to stop this argueing I editted out of the original thread.
Gun Manufacturers
12-05-2008, 21:56
Now the part I bolded as well as the title of this thread explains it all for the most part. I started a news thread which was pretty fine for the most part. I made a mistake and posted giant pictures and Questers and pals started screaming me at me about it. I edited the pictures so that mine were links but I am still getting crap from them and now my newsthread is three pages long when it doesn't have enough IC posts to cover one page. I request that someone please gets rid of this OOC spam and links the giant, pagebreaking pictures made by other people please. I was an arse but in the effort to stop this argueing I editted out of the original thread.

The mods will probably ask you for a link to the thread in question.
Jocabia
12-05-2008, 22:59
The mods will probably ask you for a link to the thread in question.

Every one of those is a link. See the green arrow? If you click on it, it leads to the quoted post.
Ardchoille
13-05-2008, 02:28
Done. At the moment it still looks unsightly, with all the "Deleted by" lines, but I've done it that way so people can contact me if they want a copy of their post. In a day or two I'll get back to it and clean those out, too. If I don't, remind me here.
Gun Manufacturers
13-05-2008, 14:14
Every one of those is a link. See the green arrow? If you click on it, it leads to the quoted post.

How I missed that, I don't know. :(

Sorry about that, Greston.
Frisbeeteria
13-05-2008, 17:49
For future reference, we have a mod tool that shows up as checkboxes beside each post. You could make your request for thread cleaning as
Please clean the following OOC posts out of my thread
Thread: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=556527
Posts: 22, 23, 25, 27, 31
Rather than having to manually cross-ref the posts, or worse, open up 12 tabs ... we can simply run down the checkboxes, select Delete Selected, and we're done.

Mind you, it doesn't work as well with massively long threads, as somebody deleting an earlier post between your request and our action can throw off the post counts. Still, worth noting.