Deleting posts

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:10 am

Zarxrax wrote:
Paulo wrote:
Arigatomyna wrote:If you don't want new members to act like morons, don't show them how morons act by becoming one yourself.
SIG MATERIAL
Quote of the year!

Your sentence include too

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:11 am

Your sig getting a little long there o.o

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:13 am

Zarxrax wrote:Your sig getting a little long there o.o

and VERY instrutive ^^

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:17 am

Though I think you're breaking the rules a bit... not that I care. ^_^;

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:20 am

flint_the_dwarf wrote:Though I think you're breaking the rules a bit... not that I care. ^_^;

No , i guess not ^^

The rules for pic size it's to save people behind 56k , because bigger pics = more time to dl a page , and just words don't give an extra time to view a page ^^

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:26 am

So they got rid of the four lines of text rule? o.o

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:30 am

flint_the_dwarf wrote:So they got rid of the four lines of text rule? o.o

No, with his links, he'd be allowed to have three more lines - either shorten the first quote, or take out the second - and I think they count the 'wrote' as a line by itself when you put quotes in the sigs.

But I don't think they limit the actual *space* in a sig - so bolding it like that would be allowed as long as the actual lines of text were limited to 4.

Katsumi_AMVs · Post by **Katsumi_AMVs** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 1:32 am

anyway . . . fixed ^^

The size was a bit annoying

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 2:19 am

Arigatomyna wrote:Or helping them. Even people with real mental deficiencies can learn if others take the time to actually try and help instead of reminding them how 'dumb' they are. A person won't get smarter just because you tell him how dumb he is - he gets smarter by being taught, shown by example.

Lots of sayings for this:

If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all.
If you don't like a problem, fix it.
If you don't want new members to act like morons, don't show them how morons act by becoming one yourself.

Well...the last one doesn't really get said often enough around here, but it still fits. For every dumb newbie that gets flamed, there are usually 5 even dumber 'non-noobs' doing the flaming. Talk about lowering the overall intelligence of the community.

Just look at the would-be English tutors out there griping and moaning because new members don't write well. None of them explain how the person *should* have written his post. No, they just light up the flame thrower and become completely useless. You don't learn grammar by being told your grammar is bad.

But my complaint remains - flames are useless and off-topic. Off-topic posts get deleted. Therefore flames should be deleted. Why show preferential treatment just because the off-topic post is a flame rather than someone talking about his or her new Dodge?

OMG you started sentences with prepositions and conjunctions!

/flame

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Sun Jan 25, 2004 2:26 am

But there is nothing wrong with doing that, especially not in creative writing (and I put informal writing under creative). ;p It's just one of those play-it-safe rules that teachers feed to stupid kids. And by stupid, I mean pretty much everyone.