Posts by Fletch

  • A quick little note

    I'd love to play the quote-and-respond game, but quite frankly that is too much effort for the points I'd like to make.

    1) It seems to me that nobody is actually mad about any of the forum rules. Well, maybe the spelling thing, but Posty has already been nice enough to say he'll stop doing to red and bold thing. It pissed everybody off. We get it. Problem solved. Stop dragging it up. We listened to your complaint and adjusted accordingly. End of discussion.

    2) I have never deleted a post that I felt was a contribution to an active discussion, nor have I edited something to go against whatever point they were making. To my knowledge, neither did Posty. There is one exception, and that is the guy with the giant avatar that keeps getting bigger. Neither Posty or I can do anything about it. Mojo can get rid of it, but the guy has now made 3 changes to his sig making it bigger every time. He's not behaving nicely, so we deleted his posts. I apologize if anybody was pissed off by that, buy sometimes the only solution left is a shitty solution.

    3) Please stop acting like this was something Posty and I decided to do because we were bored or something. At first, there was very little m oderation of the forum. Then it got out of control, so we pulled in the reins. Then everybody behaved well for 4 or 5 months, and we got lax on moderating because people were behaving. Then things started to get out of hand, and we're back pulling the reins in.

    Moral of the story, play nice and you'll never notice Posty and I are doing our job. It would really make everybdoy happier.

  • A quick little note

    Quote from Steppenwolf

    3. Telling people when and for what reason their posts are deleted or censored

    If it's in violation of the forum rules, it will be deleted. If it's a first time kind of thing, we'll try to send a PM and let them know why. If it's a repeating problem with that person, we won't be wasting time sending PMs. We'll try to use PMs so that threads don't get completely hijacked by explaining why. In return, if you have a question or problem about your post being deleted, please use a PM.

  • A quick little note

    I talked to Posty about it a fe days ago, and the policy now is that nobody is going to be editing for spelling or grammar unless it is just horrible, in which case it would probably just be deleted. The initial point about that was to stop using l33t speak so much. That rule has been updated and clarified in the forums rules post.

  • A quick little note

    Ok kids, I get it. Posty is a big mean monster that kills all your posts. Guess what, I do it to. And in regards to the stuff that's been deleted in the last few days, both of us have talked about it previous to it happening. If you're going to be mad at Posty, you might as well be mad at me to. Posty just takes the time to tell you why your posts are gone, and I could care less about your petty feelings.

    I am not your mommy. Neither is Posty. We don't delete posts where any of you are expressing your viewpoint or engaging in debate. We delete posts where you try to turn this forum into EOT. We delete posts that fuck up the forum software. We delete posts that are way off topic or personal attacks against somebody. If you've got a problem with that, then keep it to yourself because I certainly don't give a flying fuck about it, and I'm fairly certain that nobody else does either. If you want to press your case, just remember it takes you about a minute or longer to write out and type a post. It takes me 2 seconds to delete it. And I've got a lot more spare time than you.

    Here's the new barrometer as to whether or not Posty and I are being too heavy handed. If you tihnk we did something unfair, go tell one of your parents, a girlfriend/boyfriend, or somebody else who has nothing to do with Mapcore. If they don't laugh in your face, then you might have a point. If they stare at you like you might be inbred, then your point is lost.

    Now, in my amazing benevolence and desire to foster and open space to talk about this, I'm leaving this thread unlocked for a few days. If you have any logical problems with the forum moderation or would like one of our rules (which I revised today) edited, please mention it. We'll have a polite discussion about it.

    Your Overlord,

    Fletch

  • Rules that everyone can live by! [Updated 2/7/06]

    Update to clear up some recent issues.

    5. One picture per post. It's funny when you're in EOT and post the same shot 800 times, but it just clogs up the page here. So keep it to one picture unless you really need another one to prove your point. Off topic pictures will be deleted. Also, if you're going to post something graphic or un-work safe, please try to give some warning.

    6. Try to spell things correctly and use some basic grammar. I'm certainly not perfect at spelling, but if every other word is wrong or in l33t speak, it just derails whatever point you're making. We know a lot of you don't speak English natively, so all we ask is that you try your best, use whole words, and capitalize and punctuate when needed.

    7. Posts are only deleted if they explicitly break one of these rules, or if Postman and I both agree on it being deleted. So please stop thinking that it's just me or just Postman. Trust me, we both hate you equally. If it's the first time your post gets deleted, assume it is for a rule violation. We'll try to send you a PM to let you know why. If it's minor, we might just edit your post for you and let you fix it later. If you break the rules a lot, we're not going to waste time PMing you. If it's for some outside-the-box reason for something being deleted, we'll send you a PM to tell you why.

  • Whats ur opinion about teh iran shit ?

    Quote from Minotauro

    I nuked all of his posts for now. Shouldn't we already have stuff in place to make sure that avatar sizes are fixed? :confused:

    nazi!! c'mon, where's the freedom of speech

    Your freedom of speech is right up my pale white ass. Funny story, turns out it doesn't extend to the size of your avatar.

  • some Utah pics

    Quote from User Err0r

    So then, next time I take pictures of snow that isn't in direct sunlight, how do I make it less blue, without a gigantic flash?

    Check your camera to see if it has a white balance option or white balance mode. If it's something like a Sony or Kodak, it might be a shooting mode with snowy mountains or a snowman as the logo.