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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Look, I'm doing my best here, but it turns out that we really can't talk about why you can't post CDC's on b3ta because it upsets Chompy.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:54, 3 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
Let's talk about tits then
You start, I'm hardly an expert
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:57, Reply)
It's really quite simple.
Pictures of any kind are usually frowned upon on off topic, however well received they are.
Generally if you are going to post them, you keep them relatively small and SFW.
It helps if you are already a popular poster, if you are planning on stepping outside these guidelines.

I suspect that you already knew all of this though.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:58, Reply)
Just think of the trouble that could have been averted had someone taken apeloverage aside and explained this
trouble fun
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:59, Reply)
so why does rob allow the IMG tag here, why not just remove it like on /talk?

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:59, Reply)
or add a line to the FAQ?

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:00, Reply)
I don't get it, I only just found out you guys don't like pics here
not even joking, I've been posting on b3ta for over 10 years and I just discovered this
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:00, Reply)
it made me do this face

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:01, Reply)
I'll just clear a space here for the LOUD TUTTING

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:02, Reply)
It's like you are wilfully missing the point
Some people don't like images on here.
Funny ones are usually well received.
I suspect that some people go offline when there are lots of pictures on here, but I don't have any data to back this up.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:08, Reply)
I suspect the answer to that is
that you've spent a lot more time on here in the last few weeks than previously. Because we're the new cool.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:01, Reply)
Cheers.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:04, Reply)

we're the new cool you're sandboxed
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:05, Reply)
Alright "Tilda Swinton"

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:06, Reply)
I've posted nothing that's considered NSFW on /board.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:02, Reply)
This isn't /board.
You wouldn't* post these things on /talk.
It doesn't actually bother me, no one overlooks my screen at work.
I'm just trying to answer your questions.



*couldn't?
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:04, Reply)
No, but you CAN post images, right?
So, far as I'm concerned as long as it's SFW by /board, then we're good to go.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:06, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1913675
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:09, Reply)
" Some people don't like images on here."
and some people don't like food threads

what's your point?
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:11, Reply)
"Don't post loads of images, particularly if they are not safe for work"
Is it really that hard to grasp?
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:15, Reply)
are you quoting the FAQ there or one of your madeup rules?

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:34, Reply)
You asked what my point was.
I put it in quotation marks to make it clear for you.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:38, Reply)
"Please don't use b3ta as an outlet for racism, or your posts will be deleted and your account banned."
b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1913347

Not you, I know.
Just sayin' here.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:39, Reply)
Kroney wasn't being racist there.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:43, Reply)
Just edgy and ironic, right?

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:45, Reply)
You don't really want me to try to explain my understanding of his 'joke' do you?

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:49, Reply)
I don't care for lunch threads either.
But, as proven in this thread, the questions at the top often become irrelevant to the main discussion within the thread.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:16, Reply)
I stay out of threads with large images
Even though I have no one over looking my screen
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:12, Reply)
you know most browsers these days have an option to not display images right?
you know you can install the Stylish addon and write a custom CSS for offtopic right? I mean, it's not like you're compelled to display those images just because they're included in the web page.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:08, Reply)
A lot of people are forced to use IE at work.
In IE you can't turn off images per tab. Only for the browser. Why should they do that when it takes even less effort for somebody to not post a picture?
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:17, Reply)
They know this Kroney.
There's not much point arguing.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:20, Reply)
It hasn't gone unnoticed
that being reasonable doesn't get a response.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:26, Reply)
right
so how is one to guess this rule exists on offtopic? and how is one to know that it's a stepping offence?

you're insisting on enforcing your rules on this board, they're nothing to do with the rules in the FAQ. If people "transgress", you have a go at them for it, they get arsey and either troll you or just leave, what do you expect?

the fact is the IMG tag works on offtopic, whether in a new thread or a reply, if you don't like it then I suggest you leave.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:32, Reply)
Waaahhhh I can't do things designed to annoy people without people getting annoyed waaahhh

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Nah, you're just being a prick for shits and giggles.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:39, Reply)
It's not a "rule". It's a preference. Each board has its own little preferences.
You know this. There's no need for anybody to get stroppy over it. If you post images, and I'm not saying you can't, you're likely to be ignored. Either by people just not posting in the thread or by people actively ignoring you.

If you don't like your images not being well received then I, in response, suggest you leave. We haven't come over to talk and started getting stroppy over the fact that you don't like food threads or whatever, you've come over here and got stroppy over us preferring not to have pictures on the board.

Again, nobody is saying you can't post them, just don't be surprised if it doesn't go down well.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:42, Reply)
thing is
this place seems to have a lot of rules that I was unaware of and that aren't in the FAQ.

No one told me you "shouldn't" post a picture in a new thread, there's fuck all in the FAQ about it and yet it is deemed a transgression of the unwritten laws because b3th says so.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 13:59, Reply)
text looks like work. pictures don't.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:04, Reply)
k, still not convincing me that it's a b3ta "rule"

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:05, Reply)
it's not a rule,
But it's a sort of courtesy to other members who do post from work. More happy people, more posters more fun.
And the mods enforce it based on what the majority want.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:08, Reply)
well if all the mods do is enforce the whims of the majority then maybe there should be some kind of public statement of the wishes of the people who post here

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:10, Reply)
shut up frank.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:11, Reply)


(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:12, Reply)
Shades of JMG here
YEAH YOU HEARD ME
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:14, Reply)
Hear that Frank?
High praise there.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:19, Reply)
Yeah, that'll end well
Let's do a survey of what people who post on b3ta want, I'm sure plenty of serious suggestions will be raised
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:12, Reply)
Most people don't not commit crimes because there are laws against them.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:13, Reply)
Pictures have never really been liked here.
Poeple just stop posting in those threads. Post pictures if you want, all that'll happen is that people will get bored of scrolling past them and wait for a new thread or start ignoring.

You lot don't really like links, we don't really like pictures. That's all there is to it, no need to get stroppy.
(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:08, Reply)
There is a bit about NSFW in /FAQ, but as you are well aware, /FAQ predates these pages.

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:09, Reply)
it's almost as though the site's dying on its arse and rob doesn't give a shit!

(, Tue 26 Mar 2013, 14:11, Reply)

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