Who's dumb idea was it?

[Akoellh]

Do you seriously think this little episode is worth more than a beer?

Although, seeing you freaking out about this was more than funny, maybe I go for two next time.

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by Akoellh

Do you seriously think this little episode is worth more than a beer?

Although, seeing you freaking out about this was more than funny, maybe I go for two next time.

Yes, it's always funny to people and very easy to label one a "retard" without even having a shred of evidence to back up their claims... But oh boy, don't call *them* a retard. Then all hell will break loose

[Akoellh]

Originally Posted by microchip8

But oh boy, don't call *them* a retard. Then all hell will break loose

Which I never did (on purpose), that piece of language was your choice.

But the real fun is, I already wrote the explanation here:

October 2009 Screenshot Thread - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

It's the default (or was it 5 pictures per post?) of the vBulletin Software.

Not more than 4 pictures, smilies are also pictures (of course they are when being displayed, I don't see why this looked "strange" to the OP), that's it.

Not everybody has high bandwidth, if you allow a lot more pictures, some people will start to put perhaps 10 giant pictures (screenshots or whatever) in one post and somebody reading the thread on a modem will have to wait for a very long time until the site can be viewed.

[G0NZ0]

Some centuries ago, second half of 1200, Giotto (one of the greatest painters of all time) received a messenger from the Pope, who was asking to prove his skills. In response to this, Giotto draw a picture. A red , perfect circle (no instruments of any kind, just through his hand).
This simple image was enough to the Pope to prove Giotto's great skills.
Moral of the story: images can express more than many words together.
Giotto was not surely a retarded because his message contained only one simple image and no words.

Having said this, it goes without saying that a post containing some hundreds of smiles and nothing else would not be appropriate, in most cases. But in the 6 years I have been a mod on Suse forums and previously on a Bittorrent forum I have yet to see anything like this. So I don't really think there is any need of a precise regulation.

I do believe most users in this forum are smart (and being new to something, such as Linux, does not really mean being dumb) and they are bright enough to do proper use of any communication tools, words, images, smileys etc.
I have never seen anywhere on the Internet someone being moderated for excessive use of images.

[microchip8]

Originally Posted by Akoellh

Which I never did (on purpose), that piece of language was your choice.

But the real fun is, I already wrote the explanation here:

October 2009 Screenshot Thread - Page 2 - openSUSE Forums

It's the default (or was it 5 pictures per post?) of the vBulletin Software.

Not more than 4 pictures, smilies are also pictures (of course they are when being displayed, I don't see why this looked "strange" to the OP), that's it.

Not everybody has high bandwidth, if you allow a lot more pictures, some people will start to put perhaps 10 giant pictures (screenshots or whatever) in one post and somebody reading the thread on a modem will have to wait for a very long time until the site can be viewed.

No, it wasn't my choice. You clearly stated "from experience" and some "statistics" which you never proved that those who use excessive amount of smileys can be put in the 5% retard category. Retard is just another word to say "mentally challenged" and both are one and the same thing, just from different perspectives and a wordplay, though the latter is more "politically correct"

I agree that the amount of smileys should be limited but do you really think, even for low-bandwidth users, that using 10 smileys instead of 4 as the limit will give them huge problems? If smileys cannot be controlled independently and are one and the same thing so the forum software can't distinguish between them and real images, then yes, 4 or 5 is a good value. But if the forum can control them independently (which I don't know) then raise the limit of smileys to 7-10 or so

[MattBClassic]

Originally Posted by Akoellh

Nice one.

Was it a self study?

...
P.S.

Thanks for playing along so nicely, I just _won_ a bet with that.

Im out also, time to get my beer I won.

Thanks, that clenches my Gift certificate to RoofMart. I had a wager for 5 "My little ponies," riding on the outcome of your claims of free beer. Not surpriser with you being a Linux user and getting free beer.

False Statistic user: Arrogance. I think we have a winner here!

[MattBClassic]

Hmm.. Akoellh dislike for emoticons brings back to mind my brilliant idea for Emotitunes.

(reprinted below for his enlightenment)

The old mind, after reading Swerdnas Thread on Ubuntu and a comment from Lxuser, suffered an Eureka moment. The First Forum to offer...

Emotitunes


Yes instead of emoticons this Forum will have all the cool, hip people showing up to ask for help and answer threads because we have Emotitunes!!

What are emotitunes you ask? Well simply, instead of the smileys that most Forums have, we will have tunes that play to simulate the emotion of the comment. Thus a would have a clip of someone laughing hysterically. A will have a sound of people gasping. Now I do not have it all worked out, but that is what the detail folks are for. Us mental people just come up with the outlines.

It could even be a community effort where a Thread to choose the best Emotitune is provided. I am sure before long SuSE Forums audience will be in the millions. So what tune clips do you think fit the emotions? Get your feed back in now.

More thoughts. We could include tags [sarcasm 3] [/sarcasm] to play a 3 second clip of deflating bagpipes. Or [hopelessness 20] when someone totally has screwed up and is praying that someone on the forum can help [/hopelessness] - 20 secs play back. Violins playing a dirge.

[triumph 5]This is going to be big[/triumph] - Trumpet fanfare.
could be that old favorite: "One hundred bottles of beer on the wall, one hundred bottles of beer. Take one down, pass it around. Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall." sung by your average college kids.

Emotitunes™ are a registered copyright of MattB4. Subsequent unauthorized use can result in Civil and Criminal penalties not limited to death and dismemberment.

[69_rs_ss]

Since this post has digressed into an argument that has nothing to do with the OP, I am closing this thread to give it some time to cool down.