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[fish]

I was just looking through the member list and noticed that there are at least 200 members that haven't even made one post , and about 300 more that didn't even make it out of junior member. There should be a so-called timeout date, like if you don't post for, say, 1 month, your account gets deleted.

It's just sort of weird because of all the people who register but never bother to post - and the new rule that you have to register to post is going to make that number go at least into the 500's becase people will just post one question and go away forever.

[Mister Bill]

It's good that they had turned that function on (only registered users can post). That means that it will be a little harder for people who constantly spam the forums to come back after being banned. Sure they could just use Hotmail to create a new e-mail, but that's a little harder than going to a web site and choosing a proxy.

[fish]

yep that does make sense

[piesupreme]

hell no!

i don't think this should happen.
during this chrimbo, i will be on this forum quite a lot. but after january 8th, i gotta go back to boarding school (it sux). unfortunately i will not be able to access the internet for over a month, and i don't want to keep on having to register my name.

not everyone is a regular. it might be a good idea to delete people if they don't send a post for like 4-5 months, but not one month.

i may be a junior member, but i shouldn't be regarded as different. sooner than you know it i'll be a senior, but for now a junior will have to do.

[Winsane]

Mister Bill, the size (both its dimensions and particularly its file size) of that GIF in your sig are a bit large. I don't particularly mind, since I've got a fairly fast connection, but 118943 bytes is just too big for all the people with dial-up connections. Plus, if you ended up with a bunch of posts on one page, the animatedness of that GIF would slow my computer down to a crawl. So could you please find or make a small single-frame image of that little guy to replace the big one in your sig?

[Matt]

But posting just to ask a question can be annoying. I know I probably wouldn't bother.

There'll probably end up being thousands of registered users but only a few hundered regularly posting.

[Winsane]

As for the original topic: I think just one post on these forums should be enough to permanently reserve a name. Otherwise, there'd be some confusion if a new person registers an expired name and people assume the new person is the same as the old one. Besides, there's a very large number of possible permutations of the characters available to make user names from. I don't think we're about to run out.
But I might kinda like it if names with no posts whatsoever eventually expired. That way I could finally get "Winane" back.

[fish]

Whatever :rolleyes: I thought it sounded good.

[piesupreme]

i think bill's thing is pretty cool

[fish]

It takes a long time to load, tho

/edit: I've done at least 100 posts today!/

[Winsane]

Also, I think Watadoo should re-enable unregistered users to post, just as soon as TSGH is back online. In the meantime, this setup should help keep the forums from being completely flooded with repeat newbie questions. But after that, requiring registration is just too restrictive. A few people don't even have e-mail, so they'd be outta luck. And some people are too paranoid about submitting their e-mail address to register. Heck, I've made more posts on this forum than anybody else, but I probably wouldn't even be here if registration had been required to post anything when I first stopped by.

[S0RCERER13]

Does anyone know the post rate. Say like some number of post to become junior member, senior member, etc.

[fish]

1) don't even think about a shockwave thing ;)

2) it's:

0-30: junior
31-100: member
101-500: senior
501-infinity: major dude

[S0RCERER13]

Originally posted by phisherman
1) don't even think about a shockwave thing ;)

What does that mean?

[John M]

Some unregistered dude posted twice under the name I wanted, "John" so I couldn't register that :mad: (the old smilie codes had better work...)

[piesupreme]

i wanna be a major dude, so i'm gonna be really into this forum. hope no-one minds

[fish]

I actually made Major Dude this afternoon. I've been posting all day (where has my life gone?)

[S0RCERER13]

Does anyone know the code to embed a sig.

[fish]

Originally posted by S0RCERER13
Originally posted by phisherman
1) don't even think about a shockwave thing ;)

What does that mean?


your sig

[Winsane]

Originally posted by piesupreme
hope no-one minds
That'll depend on how you get there.

[fish]

answer: you don't :D

you can use the [img] tag for a pic, tho. but don't have a big picture!!!!!

[S0RCERER13]

Originally posted by phisherman
Originally posted by S0RCERER13
Originally posted by phisherman
1) don't even think about a shockwave thing ;)

What does that mean?


your sig
Why can't i have a .swf?

[WolfieD]

ive been a major dood for a while now. it feels secksy.

[fish]

sorcerer:

1) watadoo sez so
2) too frickin big

[S0RCERER13]

How big can my sig be?

[piesupreme]

Originally posted by Winsane
Originally posted by piesupreme
hope no-one minds
That'll depend on how you get there.

perfectly legally. of course.
just gonna take lots of hard work's posting a lot of stuff.

[fish]

sorcerer:

any size as long as it doesn't slow down the loading time of the page.

[fish]

perfectly legally. of course.
just gonna take lots of hard work's posting a lot of stuff.


as long as it's decent (NOT like TechHead9)

[piesupreme]

who was techhead9?
(dare i ask, sounds bad)

[Winsane]

No, not any size. I figure it can be up to, say, 500 pixels wide, but vertically it should be as small as possible. Otherwise it increases the amount you have to scroll through each page, which is a minor pain.

[fish]

Originally posted by piesupreme
who was techhead9?
(dare i ask, sounds bad)


he tried to make member status in 2 hours by posting useless crap

[S0RCERER13]

My sig did not work as a .swf file. so i converted it to a gif. width X height is 360x48. Is it ok to use??

[fish]

I think it's ok. (w)insane- what do you think?

[Winsane]

Winsane hates animated gifs in sigs. The dimensions are tolerable, though.

[fish]

the animation gets a bit annoying, tho

[S0RCERER13]

So its ok to leave my sig up?

[fish]

cut down on the animation

[piesupreme]

it's a bit harsh on the eyes, but go for it. i couldn't make something like that without a day or two spare.

[Winsane]

I'd appreciate it if you'd just take one frame of it and turn it into a non-animated GIF, but for now I can't really force you to change it.

[fish]

change the green to a more eye-friendly color

[S0RCERER13]

I made it in 2 minutes. :D
I used Flash 5.

[Winsane]

What's wrong with green?

[Damned flood control!]

[fish]

well, my day of heavy posting is over. I must leave. goodbye (until tomorrow ;) )

[piesupreme]

like vermillion

hold on, flash 5? what is it and where can i get it from?

[S0RCERER13]

I am about to change the green to black just to see if it looks good. So tell me what you think when I get it changed.

[S0RCERER13]

Flash 5, http://www.flash.com
It a program to make website. There is a 30-day free trail on it.

[piesupreme]

thanx

[S0RCERER13]

anytime

BTW..what does your sig means?

[piesupreme]

save yourself: from hell

[iomegajaz]

Click on the Change your Profile (http://forums.winamp.com/member.php?action=editprofile) button, enter your username and password, and scroll to the Signature box, and enter the {img} code for your picture.

Could you please try to make single larger posts rather than multiple smaller ones, so we only have to endure your sig. once? :)

[piesupreme]

what do you think of mine? it's pretty :eek:

[Matt]

Them two sigs are alright but not when you post numerous times in the same thread. Too much to look at, and with the new forum it's harder to see the actual post. Especially when the sigs are bigger.

[piesupreme]

i see your point.
what i will do now is use my sig once per page.
good for me, good for you.

[Indyrod]

Originally posted by piesupreme
what do you think of mine? it's pretty :eek:

imho, you are borderline annoying...this quest of yours is kinda silly, don't ya think?

[piesupreme]

right. it isn't going to be annoying anymore, because i will do it extremely less often. secondly, i am a junior member trying to get myself recognised, alongside sorcerer13. so back off for a while. yes, i will calm down. but you don't get senior member or major dude by sitting on your arse doing nothing.

[Matt]

No but you can get there by posting useful and helpfull posts and not hundreds of worthless posts, which talk about your sig etc.

I'm not saying all your posts are useless :)

[John M]

theres no green!?!

[ElChevelle]

People who have been here longer than,.........I dunno, three months?
Remember what happened the last time sig's got out of hand?
And yes, Sorcerer's sig is pushin it already. If I have to see it once a thread, fine. But repeatedly? Fugg That!

[piesupreme]

you're right. some of my posts are useful. i have helped out precisely 6 people. but sometimes i do get carried away, and i am sorry. there are some fun ones as well, like my "name that tune" thing, so it's not all bad :o

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by piesupreme
but you don't get senior member or major dude by sitting on your arse doing nothing.

This isn't a race or even a Miss Congeniality contest, for that matter. You don't get a date with a super model, just the usual quickie from leftie under the sheets.

[piesupreme]

nice, but i feel like a little kid being a member, surrounded by you lot, the senior members, major dudes and moderators.

[carlito_au]

Originally posted by piesupreme
liberate tu te mai mas inferis



hey what the hell does that mean? is it latin or french or something?

it sounds like something i heard in a movie once

[ElChevelle]

Originally posted by piesupreme
nice, but i feel like a little kid being a member, surrounded by you lot, the senior members, major dudes and moderators.

Would it make you sleep better if you were to know that each and every one of us has been in that position? The quantity of posts gets a person nowhere, but the quality of each post garner much respect.

[implode]

Originally posted by carlito_au
hey what the hell does that mean? is it latin or french or something?

It's Italian. It means 'save yourself from hell'. He (she?)already answered this question (in this thread, too!).

[carlito_au]

Originally posted by implode
Originally posted by carlito_au
hey what the hell does that mean? is it latin or french or something?

It's Italian. It means 'save yourself from hell'. He (she?)already answered this question (in this thread, too!).

ok, i worked out what it meant but i wanna know if it is from the movie event horizon!

[Xerxes]

As a general rule, your signature should not be larger than your body of the message - a rule which sorcerer has broken
many times... The sig should not be so dominating that it
seems like the focus of the message because it dominates
the screen - your black box on a white background
makes it seemingly slarger and more distracting to the eye...

Sgtfuzzbubble's old sig was infamously distracting...as
any forum old-timer can tell you....

:eek: Xerxes :eek:

[piesupreme]

Originally posted by ElChevelle
Originally posted by piesupreme
nice, but i feel like a little kid being a member, surrounded by you lot, the senior members, major dudes and moderators.

Would it make you sleep better if you were to know that each and every one of us has been in that position? The quantity of posts gets a person nowhere, but the quality of each post garner much respect.

i see your point.

xerxes, it was from event horizon (the film),
and i am a bloke.

[fish]

Originally posted by John M
theres no green!?!

He already changed it

[piesupreme]

it'll look better if the chinese thing wasn't there :rolleyes:

[SNYder]

quote:
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Originally posted by John M
theres no green!?!
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He already changed it



thank you :) I was about to ask that question

All this Sig talk makes me really horny for a Sig myself. I think I'll make a non eye distracting image that will fill your heart with delight and hope for a betterf tomarow :) Or I'll just whack off for an hour or two. That's a tough one. I'll have to think about it. :)

Peace

[piesupreme]

i quite like my sig. no-one understands it, so everyone looks at it. who has the spanish one? what are they saying about my father?

[implode]

Originally posted by piesupreme
who has the spanish one? what are they saying about my father?

s1138 has it, and it says "Who's your daddy? I want your pants!" :D

[winque]

in his pants.....Laughing Out Loud......

[S0RCERER13]

is my footer undistracting enough. Its not green its not black its transparent!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no Chinese man either.

[ElChevelle]

I'm haunted by insanely long page loads!

[S0RCERER13]

there are 40 post per page. Why can;t there be like 15 post per page?