Few Questions/Suggestions

[Reply #240 on:]

No, let's. Hey, <PEELer Here> You suck!

I say Ontopic needs cleaning up. There's a bunch of crap in there that coulld probably be closed, or something. Also, why does it take so long for the custom avatars to be uploaded? I respect that SlimmyCGEF is not made of time, but why do the files themselves take so long to upload?


TOTPD that's not stolen from GFF: *plays blues and dances*

[Reply #241 on:]

 

Originally posted by Krokei:
No, let's. Hey, <PEELer Here> You suck!

I say Ontopic needs cleaning up. There's a bunch of crap in there that coulld probably be closed, or something. Also, why does it take so long for the custom avatars to be uploaded? I respect that SlimmyCGEF is not made of time, but why do the files themselves take so long to upload?


TOTPD that's not stolen from GFF: *plays blues and dances*

Agreed, about the avata thing

[Reply #242 on:]

aslate... i tend to hang around the general discussion forum... maybe that's why u haven't heard/seen me before?

[Reply #243 on:]

Krokei, you just answered your own question. Slimmy has a life, and he doesn't really frequent PEEL. He uploads the file when he feels like it, and he does it a lot more often then he used to, anyway. I waited well over six months for my current avy to be uploaded for the first time. Just be patient.

[Reply #244 on:]

I just had the greatest idea.

First, to make sure it's applicable, I'll ask a question: why does PEEL only use avatars hosted onsite?  Is it a UBB thing?  Because if offsite images could be used as cutom avatars (like on, say, every other message board on the internet,) it would mean less work for PEEL's notoriously overworked server, and fewer people bitching about their custom avies not being uploaded promptly.  Hosting the images offsite wouldn't be a problem, since Photobucket, Imageshack, and about 50 other image hosting sites will hold the images free of charge, and numerous PEELers (GFF, Teral & Co., and winna spring immediately to mind) have their own hosting space already.

So, to summarize: why not allow remotely linked custom avatars?

[Reply #245 on:]

If I remember correctly the argument was that mArc (by proxy) like to have some kind of control with what is used as an avatar. Probably to avoid seeing sexually aroused bodyparts, offensive political logos, etc on PEEL.

Then come to problem with people using unreliable hosters, broken links, etc. Way back, in the days of yore, back when I was a wee poppler, we could use off-site images in signatures, but after an incident with a broken link screwing up the load-time/script (or something along those lines) mArc decided to only allow sig-images hosted on the PEEL-server.

[Reply #246 on:]

I remember that incident, Langly used a siggy with a pop up script.

[Reply #247 on:]

And that's why you have to upload your own siggys.... odd how avatars don't just work the same way.  In my honest opinion, I think the avatars of peel should be limited to futurama or futuramaesque design.  But by PEEL standards, I'm technically a purist, and it isn't a solution welcomed by all.

[Reply #248 on:]

As long as nobody uses a Goatse avatar, I don't care myself.

[Reply #249 on:]

 

Originally posted by Nurdbot:
As long as nobody uses a Goatse avatar, I don't care myself.

That's the attitude more people need....

[Reply #250 on:]

I noticed you guys close a lot of threads, but don't delete them. why not?

[Reply #251 on:]

Why should they?

[Reply #252 on:]

A lot of the time PEEL breaks when I try to delete a thread, so it's easier to just close it.

Plus most people are a little slow and make another thread saying, "What happened to my thread?!!! It's gone!"

[Reply #253 on:]

thanks for the info. 

[Reply #254 on:]

If and/or when will Fall Madness be this year?

[Reply #255 on:]

My guess is, uh... in the fall.

[Reply #256 on:]

Beats me - I'm not having anything to do with it this year.

[Reply #257 on:]

Sorry if someone has already sked this but what are the awards I keep hearing about? Are they imaginary or real or what?

[Reply #258 on:]

The PEELies? Yes they exist, they happen around the end of each year, so a few more months.

[Reply #259 on:]

Okay. Thanks for helping a confused newbie.

[Reply #260 on:]

what is peeler of the month really? where do you vote or is it a mod thing?

[Reply #261 on:]

It's actually more of a popularity contest. Voting is done at the end of the month and all the mods have to do with it is closing the threads when everything is over... 

[Reply #262 on:]

thanks gocad! what board are they on?
edit: 100th post! do the bender!
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are you iron man?
nurdbot did it!

[Reply #263 on:]

The POTMs are in Offtopic.

[Reply #264 on:]

Yes the front page hasn’t been updated for 5 years and it gets really boring seeing the Raging Bender picture of the time. It would be better to update it or remove it.

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[Reply #265 on:]

In 'Nurdbots test thread names suck' I had the same idea. Apparently it's never gonna be updated. Can't someone just delete it?

[Reply #266 on:]

No. It's sacred.

[Reply #267 on:]

Well then we'll all have to live with that episode.

[Reply #268 on:]

Dan, I am wondering more and more...

What is the deal with you? I mean all I see from you is bitch about either PEELer, or PEEL itself.    I know that I have enforced the rules a lot myself, but never really to the point were a lot of regulars get pretty much pissed of by me, because they may be attacked.

This thing is implemented into the PEEL main page. As far as I know it has to be set manually. This means that mArc - who got a life of his own, a job to do, a girlfriend to entertain and to run at least 2 futurama webpages - needs to pay even more time on changing it. More time than he already spends here with banning and unbanning idiots, deleting spam, and fixing bugs and errors in the database. In short, why in hell should it be changed? It is just a link to an episode thread and a poll about it. Something regulars, like you want to be, can easily look over and ignore.

Btw... just to tell you. I guess you broke the "post/day" rate... 16.741935483870968 . Not even Nasty Pasty had that much in his first month, and he gladly admitted to be the leader of the biggest spam-ring there was.   

Seriously cut it down.   

[Reply #269 on:]

I had 18 at one point.Looked a few pages back, where I stated how many posts I had at that point. I calculated I was at 18.5744680841 on April 12th. I knew it was bad, and now I'm at 12-ish.

[Reply #270 on:]

I_C, this isn't some sort of joke.  Peel is getting ridiculous with all of this.  You were real bad, and yeah, you've calmed it down, but even with the high posts per day, atleast your posts contribute.

People like Dan and these other n00bs are just posting completely random and irrelevant things.  Most of which are just repeating what the person before them said.  It's not only the fact that it is annoying and rude - it's the fact that it takes up unnecessary bandwith. 

[Reply #271 on:]

PEEL has always been infested with annoying n00bs and trolls. Eventually they get bored or banned.
Not that this is a good thing, but I have confidence that PEEL is strong enough to handle this...

[Reply #272 on:]

 

Originally posted by germanfryfan:
Dan, I am wondering more and more...

What is the deal with you? I mean all I see from you is bitch about either PEELer, or PEEL itself.    I know that I have enforced the rules a lot myself, but never really to the point were a lot of regulars get pretty much pissed of by me, because they may be attacked.

This thing is implemented into the PEEL main page. As far as I know it has to be set manually. This means that mArc - who got a life of his own, a job to do, a girlfriend to entertain and to run at least 2 futurama webpages - needs to pay even more time on changing it. More time than he already spends here with banning and unbanning idiots, deleting spam, and fixing bugs and errors in the database. In short, why in hell should it be changed? It is just a link to an episode thread and a poll about it. Something regulars, like you want to be, can easily look over and ignore.

Btw... just to tell you. I guess you broke the "post/day" rate... 16.741935483870968 . Not even Nasty Pasty had that much in his first month, and he gladly admitted to be the leader of the biggest spam-ring there was.   

Seriously cut it down.   

Well now I fully understand.

[Reply #273 on:]

So basically, you want people to post once a day, and only want oldbies can post?
Why let new people register if you're gonna prejugde 'em by the fact that they're new?

People take what I say the wrong way. I don't mean to bitch, but I don't need 4 people all telling me how bad I am all at once. This is why I am like I am. Be fair.

BTW, I understand about the Raging Bender thing now.

[Reply #274 on:]

 

Originally posted by Dan1248:
So basically, you want people to post once a day, and only want oldbies can post?

That's a good idea, especially the latter part... 

Seriously, nobody would say anything as long as you make useful contributions to a ongoing discussion in a thread.

[Reply #275 on:]

 

Originally posted by Dan1248:
I don't mean to bitch, but I don't need 4 people all telling me how bad I am all at once.

Yes, and we don't need one stupid n00b telling us what is wrong with our board, and how traditions and other things which we have been doing for ages are wrong and serve no purpose. If you see something and think its wrong, it isn't.

[Reply #276 on:]

 

Originally posted by Dan1248:
So basically, you want people to post once a day, and only want oldbies can post?
Why let new people register if you're gonna prejugde 'em by the fact that they're new?

I'm not prejugding them at all. I think I give all new members a fair chance, and try to help them as much as I can. Even to the point where many others would have given up, or starting to flame these new ones. But seeing that these go on like that, even after the 15+ question to calm down saddens me.

I totally agree with Gocad on the posting uselful things. Of course people should post, that is what a message board is about, but keep it on topic of the thread. It is just horrible to see someone bumping an one year or older thread with just a reply like "agreed", or even just a smiley.

Around a year ago I was kind of in the shooting line of our mods as well, for telling them how and where to do their job, using pictures to indicate my opinion whether a thread should be closed or not. Well, I realized what it is to do that job, and you can obviously see that it got harder to do that lately, because things to close and delete became more. I later had the same problem with my greeting habits.

In the long run you see that it is easier for yourself, and for PEEL if you just let things happen. I mean it'll sort itself out, annoying people that troll will be banned or leave. Always answering them, and perhaps even telling or yelling at them to act to the rules, could even feed them to go on like they do.

These are just the things I found out for myself during my time here. 

[Reply #277 on:]

To sum it up Dan, only post when you have something usefull to say, or something to contribute to the discussion.
  Go along with what the mods say and do, beacuse as many people have said, they have a hard job to keep PEEL running, a lot harder than you think, and the last thing they need is someone telling them what to do.
   I know I'm one to speak, I'm rather new myself, and still don't know everything about PEEL.
   Just listen to what the mods say, they don't hate you, they just get annoyed when someone goes on and on about little problems that no one else really cares about. PEEL is fine as it is.

[Reply #278 on:]

"telling us what is wrong with our board, and how traditions and other things which we have been doing for ages are wrong and serve no purpose"

Thats not true. When did I say that? Everyones making it sound like I want to ruin everything, change it all and break the traditions. I only wanted to ask about the Raging Bender thing, and its already been made clear to me.

[Reply #279 on:]

No, you also said the test thread was being used wrong, and then called us dumbasses.