# Gukumatz, a word, please. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [December 3, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901 "2012-12-03T21:30:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/81 "2012-12-06T04:59:01Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > If the 1,2,3… etc in April’s post look like the same size to you, something is screwy. Umm, no, I see the different sizes. I thought I’ve been pretty clear, but let me try to rephrase in the most unambiguous way possible: 1 = the smallest size 1 = the default size (all _these_ words right now are in size 1) Ergo, there are no smaller fonts. Is any of the above false based on what you see on your end? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/82 "2012-12-06T05:42:11Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Umm, no, I see the different sizes. I thought I’ve been pretty clear, but let me try to rephrase in the most unambiguous way possible: > > 1 = the smallest size > **1 = the default size (all _these_ words right now are in size 1)** > > Ergo, there are no smaller fonts. > > Is any of the above false based on what you see on your end? 😕 The bolded statement is false. The default size is 2, and 1 is a smaller font! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/83 "2012-12-06T06:56:40Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > No such policy needs to be spelled out. **Oakminster** didn’t receive a warning, or even a mod note. All that happened was that a moderator reduced the size of the font he used. And that may happen again in cases where a moderator decides that the font size was a problem. I’m afraid that people will just have to live with this vast uncertainty.😉 Have you considered the effect this uncertainty will have on the economy? I mean, we’ve got the fiscal cliff and font size-gate. What’s a job creator to do? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/84 "2012-12-06T07:23:06Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > The bolded statement is false. > The default size is 2, and 1 is a smaller font! Weird. For me, everything is definitely size 1. I didn’t do anything to modify this line or the line above it. Now, with this line, [SIZE=2]when I highlight it and select size 2, I see it get bigger. [/SIZE] But everything I read and write is definitely defaulted to size 1, on my screen. Whatever… I wonder why it’s different for only me (or if some of you are just crazy 😉 ), but I’ll end the hijack now. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/85 "2012-12-06T15:35:11Z")
n/m ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/86 "2012-12-06T15:45:54Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Weird. For me, everything is definitely size 1. > > I didn’t do anything to modify this line or the line above it. > > Now, with this line, [SIZE=2]when I highlight it and select size 2, I see it get bigger. > [/SIZE] > But everything I read and write is definitely defaulted to size 1, on my screen. > > Whatever… I wonder why it’s different for only me (or if some of you are just crazy 😉 ), but I’ll end the hijack now. Weird because your size 2 line is the same size as all of your size 1 lines. Also in quoting you I can see your tags :eek: and when you tried to uppify the size on line 3 your tags are all jacked up and thus didn’t take. When you want to uppify or downify your sizes you also need to put the number of the size in quotes. You didn’t do that. Another reason it didn’t take. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/87 "2012-12-06T15:48:45Z")
> [@Gukumatz](#): > > Why did I do anything to your post? It ate up 90% of the screen estate on my 10,1" tablet,… Also thinking back on this if his one post took up 90% of your screen either your tablet is jacked up or for some reason you have it set to zoom in by 10,000%. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/88 "2012-12-07T20:29:26Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > It would be really nice if a Moderator or Admin could come in and just spell out when or if using the largest font size available is allowed. > > Oakminster posted just two words in this large font, and evidently that was too much. So, is one word ok? How about even just one letter? Actually, it’s been spelled out pretty clearly in this thread: You may not use large fonts if it’s going to screw up the formatting on **Gukumatz** ’s tablet, and you may not use large fonts if **Gukumatz** is going to find it obnoxious. Bam! ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/89 "2012-12-07T23:52:44Z")
Like already said, it seems like the fonts should either be okay to use or completely unavailable to use. Gukumatz should either be lobbying to abolish these huge-ass fonts (at least make an attempt to), or be crawling back into this thread with humblest apologies while jeering posters pelt him with rocks and garbage. Colibri, you too. Come on, fair is fair. ---
**Author:** ![RedFury](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ec9cab/32.png) [@RedFury](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedFury)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/90 "2012-12-08T00:15:12Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Bam! Warning: **[Kazaam!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116756/)** Don’t watch! ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/91 "2012-12-08T03:47:55Z")
Where oh where is The Grapist when you need him? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/92 "2012-12-08T04:16:35Z")
He was deprecated in the last patch and his tasks have been taken on by an outsourced on-shor oncall group. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/93 "2012-12-08T04:40:14Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > [COLOR=“Purple”]He was deprecated in the last patch and his tasks have been taken on by an outsourced on-shor oncall group. [/COLOR] If it will be pleasing you this post has been kindly graped by the Grapist, thank you come again! ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/94 "2012-12-09T06:38:13Z")
Funny how a poster who was banned almost 10 years ago is still well-known, even to posters who were not around to see him at work. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/95 "2012-12-09T09:45:41Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Funny how a poster who was banned almost 10 years ago is still well-known, even to posters who were not around to see him at work. Yeah… I spend WAY too much time here at the dope, and searched him up after seeing multiple Grapist parodies. He really was just a flash in the pan wasn’t he, yet somehow his cute little shtick endures, even in fledgling acolytes such as myself. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/96 "2012-12-17T17:20:23Z")
As further evidence of what a ridiculous farce Gukumatz’s action was, consider [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=675817) which would probably melt his little etch-a-sketch or whatever device he claims to use that can’t handle large colorful text. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/97 "2012-12-17T18:02:37Z")
Sadly, my etch-a-sketch is black and white only. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bucketybuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@bucketybuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bucketybuck)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/98 "2012-12-17T21:33:35Z")
Its the important things in life that hurt the most. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2012, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/99 "2012-12-18T15:51:35Z")
The baby Jesus weeps at such inappropriate use of fonts. Don’t tell Obama, though! ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901/100 "2012-12-19T02:19:37Z")
Never would have guessed you could have held your breath for that long, Oakminster. Well done. Pity it didn’t make a difference. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gukumatz-a-word-please/642901.md?page=6)