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# hmmn
have b3ta ever concidered just having an images only forum?
I find the forum moves WAY too fast and alot of it is from comments, couldn't the magic people who run this site make a seperate board for just pics or something?
(Nade, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:17, archived)
# so thats why you
just thread wasted.. and made some images go off the page?
(I helped save b3ta! ?, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:17, archived)
# yeah.
flippin stop it. someone's kitten just fell off the messageboard. threadwasting is a crime goddammit.
(I helped save b3ta! mrRush, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:21, archived)
# tut tut
play nice now you chaps!

sorry, just flying through, keep your end up night b3tans
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:22, archived)
# heh heh
keep your end up...
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:24, archived)
# i love lake girl
she's so surly
(I helped save b3ta! new_matt, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:25, archived)
# te he he
he siad flippin
*sniggers and hides in corner gigling
(I helped save b3ta! ?, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:23, archived)
# there's a good hour or so
of stuff on the board.
it's not that bad a "crime".
not really a crime at all.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:24, archived)
# i
guess so. it's not that bad at this time of night (uk time) but at other times of the day stuff drops off the board like a stone coz of threadwastes.

not that i spend that much time here...erm...
(I helped save b3ta! mrRush, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:29, archived)
# Genocide. Now, that's a crime.
And Piracy Of The High Seas.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:30, archived)
# If you can't do the crime
Do the time!
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:31, archived)
# Avast.
Ye landlubbers, me hearty, mateybobs....

[Sorry... fizzy pop]
(I helped save b3ta! Tart Monkey, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:33, archived)
# Yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:39, archived)
# Splice the gizzards
...and hoist the jolly jack tar.

How many days to international Pirate day? I sort of missed the last one...
(I helped save b3ta! Tart Monkey, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:40, archived)
# i think it was about september
so, about 180 ish, i should think
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:13, archived)
#
www.flibz.com
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Kitteny Berk almost certainly drunk, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:18, archived)
# Hypocrite.
But that's ok, aren't we all?
(Mr Chuckles, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:19, archived)
# this board IS mainly for pictures
you're not supposed to waste threads like this, becasue it puches someone elses work off the page. which brings up the point, you're suppost to post things you've made,
the board isn't only for pictures, its for all types of media, but media you, yourself, have made
so if you could, plese delete this thread with the little delete button, please? :) thank you
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:19, archived)
# sorry but
it is irrelevant who 'made' or 'found' interesting images or text on the web and feel that the cunts on here or elsewhere may appreciate it and thus people post it!
Correct me if Im wrong but I use the web for buss, info, fun and humour and it is the worlds greatest, cheapish and most valuble source of just about anything anybody could possibly want or need.
I am totally against charging for this but it is inevitable and the web needs to remain uncensored and ungoverned for as long as possible.
But what do I care coz I'm off for a pizza!
BiBi Folks People!




(Ardon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:53, archived)
# There is a good reason why we prefer (I'm choosing my words carefully here)
it to be your own work. Put simply, if it was just a free-for-all, all sorts of shite would get posted on here. If I'd just spent a couple of hours knocking up what I considered to be my latest masterpiece, only to see it shoved off the board and into the archive (known colloquially around here as "the spazz"), I'd be pretty pissed off. You should be able to tell by the quality of the work on here that people spend a lot of time making it. If it didn't work like this, you wouldn't get this level of quality, because people wouldn't bother.

Also, there is the matter of bandwidth. In short, the more people look at your picture, the more your web space costs. If you nick one of someone's pictures and post it by remote linking it on a messageboard to their site, they won't thank you for it.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:07, archived)
# you have to take
the rough with the smooth. b3ta isn't just about pictures, it's about people; people with nothing to do...
(I helped save b3ta! rogan, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:20, archived)
# i can't believe
i'd forgotten about that gif. i haven't seen it in ages. woo to you!
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:26, archived)
# It's a fab post
because it's also a lovely film
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:32, archived)
# i took a sick day from work
sometime last year, and fnord made and posted a picture of freshlegs' day off. ha ha! i enjoyed that. even though it was a picture of me on the board.
(I helped save b3ta! freshlegs, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:37, archived)
# I too share your fear of my picture on the board
(as do many other people);)
but the idea of freshleg's day off makes me smile :)
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:48, archived)
# Believe in the spaz...
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:43, archived)
# yes u twat
Mr Hawkins may b a spaz but hes one fucking clever one!
can u sit there without the web and do what he does in his fucking lonesome head? No of course you cant and neither can I! Ive tried reading his books and I managed the 1st 2 pages before I had a warp core breach!
Thats why I talk crap!

(Ardon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:00, archived)
# Is that a flame?
Oh I do hope so.
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:04, archived)
# hehe, I f14m3 j00!
haha
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:17, archived)
# 000
you're l33t, you are (I can't be arsed to think about anything any more)
(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:22, archived)
# Believe in me?
am I your God now?
(I helped save b3ta! AzToTheRescue The arsehole formally known as Az The S slur, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:00, archived)
# We had an images forum
until you posted just text.
(bomba, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:21, archived)
# Look deep into the spazz
hardly any images used to be posted in "the beginning"
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:27, archived)
# Only here
could "look deep into the spazz" be understood... for some reason, I'm still amazed by this.
(Mr Chuckles, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:29, archived)
# unless you count that post right below
:P
(I helped save b3ta! Or is it?, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:27, archived)
# SHUT UP NADE!
wot ardon said...............
(Ardon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:42, archived)
# So, to summarize...
there are plenty of reasons why this isn't a pictures only board. Some are logistical - most people would look at both at the same time (double the traffic yada yada yada) - whilst others are more ephemeral - as somebody pointed out much earlier, if you go back to the first 10 or so pages of the board, there were no pictures at all. Some people think (myself included, to be honest) that the board is all the better for not just being a big collection of pictures and responses. Having the board broken up with useless links, text only messages of various sorts (and even, occasionally, spam) gives it the dynamic of being alive. If it's just pictures, pictures and more pictures that you want, the b3ta webring has links to some of our galleries.

B3ta is now enormously popular now - this much we know. It's popularity is for several reasons, and the design (by the wonderful Cal) is not the least of them. It's easy to use, it's welcoming (if you post an image and it's not really offensive or NSFW, the worst that will ever happen is that it will go ignored), and if you get confuddled they've even gone so far as to explain more or less everything you need to know in order to participate.

So... sit back, light up a kitten, fire up your copy of Photoshop, and make us something that will make want to unleash my Stunt Penguin. Go on - you know you want to...

(I helped save b3ta! 100% of Gibbon, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:57, archived)
# All you say is true
that is all.
(I helped save b3ta! mnb098mnb used to be here, Sat 22 Mar 2003, 2:01, archived)