New Message Board Rules

I'd like to propose some new rules for this place after having just wasted almost two hours sifting through mindless drivel.

1) Quit whinging about how you're not getting the attention or recognition you deserve. Whingers don't deserve either.

2) Copyright discussions are pointless and a waste of everyone's time. We all know where we stand and that opinions on the matter differ wildly, so there's never going to be a solution. Protect your own work, and leave it at that.

3) Leave the dramatics to daytime soaps or private conversations. Nobody really cares if you're feeling a bit blue. Unless it's a nice neutral blue with a little gray and funky rounded buttons.

4) No more character attacks, unless you want to attack me. I thrive on misinformation.

5) Stop trying to convince everyone you know better than everyone else, regardless of subject. You don't. I do.

6) Anyone found to be using the site more for flame wars and amateur dramatics than they do for skinning and desktop customization should be shown the door. Everyone should start skinning somewhere, and a door can never have enough handles.

7) Help the newbies. Some of them are only puppies, and they're likely to soil the rug once in a while.

8) No more posts about how treetog/mormegil/adni18 hasn't created enough new stuff this week. Sometimes they sleep.

9) Answer any questions about certain competing skinning solutions with the silence they deserve. You can only scream 'It's a hack!' so many times at a brick wall.

10) Stop posting new rules. It just confuses things.
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I kinda like those...
Reply #2 Top
Ditto. Very good.
Reply #3 Top
Oh great! More rules!

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11) Don't moan because you wish you'd thought up these rules...

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Reply #5 Top
hehe

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Reply #6 Top
what is sleep? , good rules IMO.
Reply #8 Top
yeah and why haven't they come out with anything new this week???? LMAO

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Reply #10 Top
Great rules, grayhaze!

and this one.... I love it!
#7 by Bangkokboy - 5/6/2003 7:07:03 PM
all drivel will be on topic and thought provoking, rather then mindless.
(and a pet peeve of mine) .... don't use the word then, when you really mean than......... they're not interchangeable as some folks seem to think.

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"Then" implies a sequence of events - if "a", THEN "b", first "c", THEN "d".

"Than" is for comparison. My grammar is better THAN yours, and my gramps is pretty sharp, too. My puns are worse THAN everyones.
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it was a frapping typo from a guy who's been 16 hours at the office!
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! >
Reply #13 Top
Good rules!

...if you really need more than one alias, then you should clearly identify each as you!
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bkb launches the cyberwhacker at koasati, gets back on topic long enough to growl "good rules", positions cursor over Submit, and crashes his fist down thunderously on the left button of the poor mou
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"Grammar Wars" - the exciting add-on module for Galactic Civilizations!!! Coming soon to a website near you. Try out the "Conjugation Cannon" or the "Linguistic Laser"! Beware of the "Vicious Verb Vivisector", and don't be engulfed in a cloud of "Preposition Plasma". You will never withstand the assault of the "Infinite Infinitive Injector". Repair and recharge your forces at the "Conjunction Junction". Hmmm, wait a minute, I've heard that somewhere before...
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master advanced tactics: befuddle the enemy's sensors with nonparallel constructions - set ambushes with the "Dangling Participler" - wear him down mercilessly with excessive use of passive voice! this add-on module is going to give Jafo an errr.. moment of intense excitement.
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»"Stop trying to convince everyone you know better than everyone else"

grayhaze has already attained warrior 1 status in GW.

BTW we should adopt his rules.
Reply #19 Top
Excitement?...for moi?...how thrilling...

/me dances a jig...pretty neat, really...with 2 left feet...
Reply #20 Top
Wombat's ROE ... 'there are 2 ways of doing things, my way and the wrong way!'
/me Wombat ducks below the parapet!!


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And a REALLY politically incorrect 'new rule' ... no posting in times of PMT!
/me retires to safe distance and dons head to tail Nomex!

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#19 by Jafo - 5/6/2003 11:38:42 PM
Excitement?...for moi?...how thrilling...

pour moi, (wish I could do spelling icons )
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I like the sound of that add-on pack for GalCiv.. you never know.. I think that would be quite funny to see on the store shelves.

»""Grammar Wars" - the exciting add-on module for Galactic Civilizations!!! Coming soon to a website near you. Try out the "Conjugation Cannon" or the "Linguistic Laser"! Beware of the "Vicious Verb Vivisector", and don't be engulfed in a cloud of "Preposition Plasma". You will never withstand the assault of the "Infinite Infinitive Injector". Repair and recharge your forces at the "Conjunction Junction". Hmmm, wait a minute, I've heard that somewhere before... "»"master advanced tactics: befuddle the enemy's sensors with nonparallel constructions - set ambushes with the "Dangling Participler" - wear him down mercilessly with excessive use of passive voice! this add-on module is going to give Jafo an errr.. moment of intense excitement. "



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»""Conjunction Junction". "

Great, now I have that Saturday Morning "School House Rocks" song stuck in my head.... "Conjunction Junction, what's your function?"