I don’t spend a lot of time here, but this seems to be the appropriate place to voice a comment.
It’s, like, way cool that Louie has taken the time to educate some of us on some html and UBB coding tricks. And I, as are others, am guilty of some sloppy coding. Those are not conscious acts of sabotage.
Some posters, amongst them I count formerly worthwhile ones such as daniel p bostaph and possibly SmickD/Lexicon (wasn’t there some multiple ID ban going on?), who have become inordinately enamored of alternate fonts. Listen up, fellows…
Your use of outsized, bold fonts does little to make your posts attractive or more readable. Au contraire, they make them appear as SHOUTING, with which we can do without. It’s come to pass that I must ask you why you feel it is good form to fuck up an otherwise reasonable response with formatting that inclines me, as well I’ll bet, other posters, to disregard your post in its entirety.
Thus starts the thread, which will no doubt be the home of gigantic graphics, scrolling multicolored text, Hello Kitties, dancing hamsters from hampsterdance.com hideous backgrounds and smilies doing god-knows what.
And then AWB will post!
<font size=“5”>GOOD GOD, Beatle, what have you done???</font>
<font size=“1”>(the above text was intended to be extra large)</font>
<marquee>You forgot annoying marquees <font size=1>which fortuately, isn’t used much</font></marquee>
Seriously, why should someone’s response skipped because of an alternate font? That, to me, is ignorance on the part of the person that’s ignoring them. It’s the content of the post that’s important, not the font.
Oh my, I think I over reacted again. What I meant to say is that it’s not the silly colors and bolding and font that makes a person stupid, it’s what they are trying to say.
Yeah, Louie; I consider you one of the more reasonable minds around here.
But is it hard to understand that, this board being primarily a textual medium, readability might affect audience penetration?
If they wanna dance, fine! Let’em dance! BUT if they want me to listen they’ve got to get on a wavelength I’m not, by sheer dint of noise, inclined to tune out.
Freedom, I’ve just gotta say that little ‘Smiley Massacre’ thing is gonna tickle the shit outta ChiefScott. He may even adopt it as his sig line.
Dr. Watson
“A man likes marvelous things; so he invents them, and is astonished.” – Edgar Watson Howe
<font size=0 face=“times new roman”> beatle, I am so sorry that my posts offend you. I will write a formal letter of apology to any organization you choose, stating that I should only post in a manner consistent with your 1970’s retro art deco bullshit style opinion.
Good thing there is no diversity on this MB, and we are all easily led automotons who do the same things and all have the same opinions.
Yeha(sic), I fucked up that post by forgetting to end the html string at the end of the one paragraph, and there were multiple other mistakes and shit, mom, but I didn’t think anyone who was anal and latently homosexual enough to care would be reading a thread as fun as 2 truths and a lie.
I guess I was wrong, hence this thread.
And oh yeah, cheeesedick dung beatle, don’t worry about my supposed multiple name problem, I followed the rules that you seem to know so much about and unregistered the old one first, so suck my ass on that tip, pillow-biter. I know you’re real concerned that I might get my posting priveliges revoked and all, but don’t worry, I’ll be here to point out how much of an idiot you are as long as you care to stay.
Have a nice day , Ass-slammer.
Noonch.
p.s. The only reason I flamed this ass is because he had to give an intro that started it: [url=http://www.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/004944-2.html] it’s the first one on page two.
beatle says
and I thought was too good to pass up, an invitation to the pit, just what I wanted.
Also, please excuse all the gay references.
Gay people are fuckin’ cool. I don’t mean any insult to the gay community by putting you in the same class as beatle.
Thanks.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
Thanks Louie. I didn’t mean for the font to be that small or anything.
Er, wait a minnut, are you implying that I is stoopid? Such subtle rhetoric, to say the least.
I have been disabused! I’ll never voice my opinion and lade it with cheap insults again.
Merciful father, thank you for teaching me humility.
Good thing there are plenty of people with nice large sticks rammed up their collective asses around here, so I am on my way to getting a good deal on one of my very own. Then, I can join the “Wannabe a Pedant” club. Awesome.
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
Ah, I see you’re learning your sarcasm from Konrad’s School of Bad Jokes. Maybe if you try really hard, you might get small chuckle from someone, somewhere.
Lex, yer a tough fella to pin down. I’m still waitin’ on that definition, and on the wine I was promised.
I’ll help ye out with the former – “Reinforcement Retroactive Paradox: Identified by B. F. Skinner, this is the problem of how reinforcement can strengthen a response tendency after the response has ceased. Unlike learning a new response or behaviour, the retention of material already learned can be affected by subsequent learning as well as prior learning. Such effects are called retroaction.”
Now, about that wine . . .
Dr. Watson
“I’m pretty sure the cite is from ‘The Psychology of Learning’, by S. H. Hulse, H. Egeth, and J. Deese; but my old notes are as tattered as this thread, though perhaps better directed.”
Crick, I know this will just reaffirm beatle’s and (possibly?) louie’s opinion of me, but…
Huh? What defintion are you talking about. I think I get what you’re saying, but can ya put it in stupidese so I can get what you’re saying?
how did it start? well i don’t know i just feel the craving. i see the flesh and it smells fresh and it’s just there for the taking…
VvvV
