Introduction Board

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sun May 09, 2004 1:36 pm

But fix your sig. It's too big.

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Sun May 09, 2004 1:37 pm

I forgot to put this one too.

Forum signature images shall not be larger than 40 pixels tall or 600 pixels wide; any sig image exceeding these limits will be removed from the sig file without warning.

)v(ajin Koji · Post by **)v(ajin Koji** » Sun May 09, 2004 1:55 pm

This would've all been explained in a welcome thread.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sun May 09, 2004 3:15 pm

To quote Flint:

No one reads stickies anyway. Or something similiar.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Sun May 09, 2004 4:15 pm

I don't think it will happen, but I *know* there will be less questions asked in other sections if new members can have an intro thread when they first join.

Back when we had the 'intro' section, many people would answer those introductions with short lists of where to go on the forum to find answers, and new members could ask anything they wanted to know about right in the beginning, and either be pointed to the right sticky or the appropriate guide. Sure, some would just do the 'hi, i like these subjects/anime', but even those got a quick response regarding 'need-to-know' things like the policy on downloads and bootlegs, and searching by anime, and downloading from local/direct/indirect. What the intro section does is give new members a quick "welcome, here's how you surf the site".

There's nothing like that now, so they post wherever their mouses take them asking the same "I'm new and lost" questions. A new member might not read stickies, but most will read the answers given in his or her own 'intro' thread.

[And don't say they have journals for this - you can't respond to questions a person asks in his or her journal - chances are those willing to email or pm a new members won't even notice the journal. I know I rarely read strangers' journals on the off chance they might be a new and confused member.]

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 09, 2004 4:44 pm

I still propose a general newbies forum. It could encompass "hi im new here" threads, threads asking how to make an amv, how do i get clips off my dvd, what is a good software to make amvs with, where can i download amvs, how do i upload, who is kevin caldwell, how do i put this dbz ep i downloaded in premier, and other crap that newbies ask all the time. By placing it as the first forum in the list, newbies would post there, because they are too lazy to bother reading all the forum descriptions.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sun May 09, 2004 5:08 pm

I don't see how creating a forum where simple and mostly lazy questions will be asked and answered when the point isn't of the system isn't to promote laziness, but to force people to look through the site for their needed information, while at the same time containing their unbundle enthuaism in the discovery of AMV heaven.

azulmagia · Post by **azulmagia** » Sun May 09, 2004 5:56 pm

Lyrs wrote:I don't see how creating a forum where simple and mostly lazy questions will be asked and answered when the point isn't of the system isn't to promote laziness, but to force people to look through the site for their needed information....

Works great so far.

[/sarcasm]

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Sun May 09, 2004 6:01 pm

The idea isn't to promote laziness, but rather create an area to contain the laziness. By containing it mostly in a single area, they can be intructed of the proper ways to go about things in the future, without cluttering the rest of the forums with nonsense.
*shrug* Works well enough over at Doom9.

Lyrs · Post by **Lyrs** » Sun May 09, 2004 6:35 pm

Zarxrax wrote:The idea isn't to promote laziness, but rather create an area to contain the laziness.

You could "contain" laziness, however its "legitimate" existence would mean that it is acceptable, thus promoting it.

By containing it mostly in a single area, they can be intructed of the proper ways to go about things in the future, without cluttering the rest of the forums with nonsense.

[Insert refute] Can't think of anything at the moment.

*shrug* Works well enough over at Doom9.

*shrug* Works well in a lot of places.