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27 Jul 2007, 10:35 pm

Exactly....
Freedom is not free.

the choice of avatars is such a non-issue.

I just finished cleaning and remounting my broken finger in a splint. Go ahead, use your imagination, guess which finger I broke....

And I'm setting into a quiet state of inebriation thank to Everclear, Absolute peach flavored and red Kool-aid!
It helps numb the pain, I figure the less I feel, the better I feel

What's with all these goddamn bats??

I swore of Pratchett after he receded the rights to Good Omens after Gilliam withdrew directing it!

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27 Jul 2007, 10:43 pm

I don't need to use my imagination, I saw another post of yours where you mentioned said finger. I actually noticed that that is the finger that always (at least for me) gets injured.

I don't trust Kool-Aid. Well, we don't have it in Australia, but even so, Kool-Aid doesn't appeal to me. Reading about Jonestown kinda put me off cordial in general anyway.

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27 Jul 2007, 11:40 pm

This thread made me LOL.

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28 Jul 2007, 12:02 am

hale_bopp wrote:

This thread made me LOL.

I'm glad someone's amused....

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28 Jul 2007, 1:53 am

and the thread keeps growing.

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28 Jul 2007, 4:25 am

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and the thread keeps growing.

As apparently, it needs to.

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28 Jul 2007, 6:35 am

Edited:

Thanks, whoever got rid of the duck photos. My love for ducks is at a low at the moment, I'm sick of them dumping their ordure around my pool.

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28 Jul 2007, 6:41 am

MrMark wrote:

calandale wrote:

You have to realize, when mods make
'suggestions' it's tantamount to a threat.

How should mods encourage members to modify their behavior without such encouragement being perceived as a threat? I feel that you have a narrow view that is shared by a vocal minority. I'd like to hear from some other members on this, in addition to you.

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28 Jul 2007, 6:43 am

calandale wrote:

MrMark wrote:

Unfortunately, it is a difficult issue.
Deletions is one way. As are edits.

But, only to be used in the most egregious
of cases. You know that I support the idea
of making it clear WHY something was removed
or edited, so as to allow the entire membership
to learn from errors.

Otherwise, the only warnings should probably
be just a matter of indicating that "hey, you are
just about to be banned. What you are doing is
SO unacceptable that this is effectively your last
chance." In which case it IS a threat, but a valid
one.

I too hope that others comment, but your wishes to
hear from them will not serve as a tool to silence me.

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28 Jul 2007, 6:49 am

I proposing a rule that pictures above a certain size will be deleted without warning or explaination. Big ass pictures are just a big pain in the ass, especially with dial-up.

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28 Jul 2007, 7:02 am

MrMark wrote:

I proposing a rule that pictures above a certain size will be deleted without warning or explaination. Big ass pictures are just a big pain in the ass, especially with dial-up.

They are indeed a pain.
But context might be an
issue. I don't know if such
a rule (assuming that it's
accepted) would make as
much sense in one of the
picture threads. Some people
have enough trouble just getting
one up, without having to fit it
to size.

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28 Jul 2007, 7:02 am

calandale wrote:

I have no wish to silence you. That's why I added the otherwise unnecessary words, "in addition to you." What's goin' on in your internal environment that makes you think/feel that I wish to silence you. The vocal minority has the same priveliges as everyone else. My concern is that the vocal minority might wish to silence others.

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28 Jul 2007, 9:49 am

And this is already happening.

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28 Jul 2007, 10:01 am

MrMark wrote:

I proposing a rule that pictures above a certain size will be deleted without warning or explaination. Big ass pictures are just a big pain in the ass, especially with dial-up.

I would rather the rule be that the moderators can resize them to 640x480.

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28 Jul 2007, 10:04 am

TheMachine1 wrote:

MrMark wrote:

I proposing a rule that pictures above a certain size will be deleted without warning or explaination. Big ass pictures are just a big pain in the ass, especially with dial-up.

I would rather the rule be that the moderators can resize them to 640x480.

Yes, that would be fairer than arbitrarily deleting them. Some of us aren't so good with the kind of programmes that you use to put photos on the site and surely it's not a cardinal sin to accidentally put on a large picture?

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28 Jul 2007, 10:10 am

TheMachine1 wrote:

MrMark wrote:

I proposing a rule that pictures above a certain size will be deleted without warning or explaination. Big ass pictures are just a big pain in the ass, especially with dial-up.

I would rather the rule be that the moderators can resize them to 640x480.

Yeah, like I have time for that with my dial-up connection. :wink:

I botched splitting Ducks Unlimited because when I changed the resolution so I could see the big picture, I couldn't see whether the damned little check boxes were check or not! :lol:

Anyway, I invested the additional time to fix my foul-up. :wink:

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