Dear Rolygate ...

[nicotime]

LMAO....Heyyyy...I thought this was a family oriented forum!

Nice skimpies Jerry!

 

[JerryRM]

 

[MastiffMike]

Gotta show your support for The Tongue!!! Angus can cut my avatar but it's bigger than that NOW!!! It's sweeping the GLOBE I say! (well, I say)

 

[JerryRM]

Mike, I think we need to get the other members to show their support for you. Therefore I am proposing that everyone on the ECF, add a tongue and the words "Save the Tongue !!" to their avatar or signature !

 

[MastiffMike]

Mike, I think we need to get the other members to show their support for you. Therefore I am proposing that everyone on the ECF, add a tongue and the words "Save the Tongue !!" to their avatar !

Roly added support in his sig. Now if we can get SJ to join us we just might, all together, be able to overthrow the beef boy!

 

[nicotime]

Poor Mike....and you thought your only worry was the cat getting it.

 

[omgitsthr33]

While the new rule that ani--ed signatures is with no doubt there are who will because they sites that resemble children's party sites !!!
Since ... "The single biggest complaint about websites in some surveys is flashing gfx. They aggravate a large number of people." ... is there a chance that we could do away with this junk too?

We could just do away with people who make posts like that. LOL j/k

 

[Elendil]

This is oppression !!! Mike, I signed your petition to Save the Tongue!!! I think the antis are behind this !!! Will it never end??? FREEDOM!!!!!

You do recall what happened to the guy at the end of that movie, right?

 

[JerryRM]

You do recall what happened to the guy at the end of that movie, right?

You had to remind me of that, didn't you El ? You just couldn't resist !!

 

[Liscab]

Gotta show your support for The Tongue!!! Angus can cut my avatar but it's bigger than that NOW!!! It's sweeping the GLOBE I say! (well, I say)

A tongueless dog that is like a man with out

 

[Spence]

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We could just do away with people who make posts like that. LOL j/k

Not appreciated.

 

[JerryRM]

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We could just do away with people who make posts like that. LOL j/k

Not appreciated.

Spence, I believe that omgitsthr33, was just joking, "LOL j/k ".

 

[Spence]

Thanks, JerryRM. This thread has turned into kind of a party... very funny ... and I need to lighten up!
Sorry, omgitsthr33, if no offense was meant, none was taken.

 

[omgitsthr33]

No offense was meant in my comment, just having fun.

 

[Spence]

Ya see? A wee campfire, chorus of Kumbaya, bit of vaping ... tongue loping and pink knickers ... and we are all mellowed out again!

Have a good one, omgitsthr33.

 

[omgitsthr33]

You too.

 

[taukimada]

@Spence
OK. But it doesn't seem practical to ask Angus to censor smilies on some form of acceptability rating. I think we just have to put up with them, love 'em or hate 'em, and if somebody uses ones you don't like, well, just skim past their post. The fact is, there are far more requests to use them, and to have more of them available, than there are to chop them. Post content is a matter of taste in several ways, so we either stop at and read a post or pass over it.

Somehow a balance has to be struck between what the majority want and whether that is a good thing or not. In this case I think it's about right. Animated sig gfx is going too far though, they swiftly become a problem.

@Spaky
Exactly. Nobody likes rules including us because we have to do all the work needed to bring them in, then we get all the flak for being heavy-handed.

So in general we don't have a rule until a point has been passed where it is needed. Flashing sigs are a major pain and not wanted, they were absent from here for a long time but when they arrived we had to act. Offensive vids started to become a problem so had to be looked at. At the same time, video spamming became popular - since text link spam is easily stopped, the spammers started putting their links in vids instead. So some form of control of vid content was needed.

There's always something...

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heavy handed???

 

[The Wiz]

Glad smilies are not going away....Just wouldn't be the same for me(Hope we can leave exclamation marks and periods also!)

The Wiz!

 

[AngusATAT]

(Hope we can leave exclamation marks and periods also!)

Those are staying, but I am considering doing away with commas and semicolons. Nobody uses them much these days, anyway.

 

[JerryRM]

Wiz, I think the only thing they are going to change, is no more animated signatures.