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...
(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...
100% of Gibbon,
Sat 22 Mar 2003, 1:57,
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