|
GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:Why bother with a link AND the entire article? One of those things is completely unnecessary and takes up a lot of unneeded space. Oh no, the forums are running out of space! It's nice to not have to worry about formatting and whatnot on mobile, the person put in more effort to make it an easier experience for us. It was nice.
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 04:32
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 23:25 |
|
|
Grassy Knowles posted:Oh no, the forums are running out of space! yeah this pasting the article makes it easier to read on mobile and can be avoided by scrolling past it, the link is nice to have even with the article pasted in just because it's nice to have the source linked and giant ouija board is just arbitrarily deeming it unnecessary so that they can do a stupid Seinfeld shrug about their pet peeve of the moment I guess
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 04:34
|
|
|
Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I wonder if her death certificate stated that death was caused by "injuries inconsistent with life". Comedy answer: "Death due to the visitation of God" Was about to post "lurk more," but http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/visitation_of_god.html
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 04:36
|
|
|
GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:If you post a link, please don't then just paste the whole drat article in after it. Whaaaaaaaaat? Might as well say, "if you're going to post an article, don't cite your sources"
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 04:38
|
|
|
That way, when the link dies, no one can know what OP was referring to. It's better that way, because back in 2003,
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 04:48
|
|
|
A Pinball Wizard posted:That way, when the link dies, no one can know what OP was referring to. It's better that way, because back in 2003, Simply posting the link is all you need, as evidenced by how well waffleimages links still work.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 05:06
|
|
|
It bugs me having walls of text to scroll past, but apparently most of you guys are okay with that so carry on
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 07:19
|
|
|
GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:It bugs me having walls of text to scroll past, but apparently most of you guys are okay with that so carry on Same, but I guess if someone wants to read this thread in 6 years maybe the links will have shifted and then that person would be confused or whatever the reasoning was.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 07:41
|
|
|
http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/mary-kay-letourneau-and-vili-fualaau-separate I always hoped that Vili Fualaau would get away from his rapist as soon as his daughters were adults but only maybe, possibly reality. That Barbara Walthers interview was super creepy. The business venture is some sort of Marijuana cigarette business. Reef-her Vili.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 08:42
|
|
|
I mainly read SA on mobile so I don't read the articles that just get links, I only read the ones quoted in thread. Pls keep quoting articles in thread 
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 16:56
|
|
|
Xibanya posted:I mainly read SA on mobile so I don't read the articles that just get links, I only read the ones quoted in thread. Pls keep quoting articles in thread Same. It's really helpful.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 17:16
|
|
|
GIANT OUIJA BOARD posted:It bugs me having walls of text to scroll past, but apparently most of you guys are okay with that so carry on This whole forum is a wall of text to scroll past. "Stop posting words on this forum, I'm trying to read."
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 17:32
|
|
|
Drunk Nerds posted:Was about to post "lurk more," but That's an interesting explanation for the phrase. I had remembered a funny section of Mark Twain's story, "Buck Fanshaw's Funeral": "...On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?"
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 17:41
|
|
|
I'll welcome the mild annoyance of text dumps if people will just post any kind of content, goddamn.quote:
Don't call people coconuts.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 17:47
|
|
|
Xibanya posted:I mainly read SA on mobile so I don't read the articles that just get links, I only read the ones quoted in thread. Pls keep quoting articles in thread Alereon has a new favorite as of 18:20 on Jun 4, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 18:17
|
|
|
Alereon posted:Why not just open links in new tabs? I mean it's so much easier to just do that than expect everyone else to scroll past a giant wall of text, and those giant walls of text also make it really hard to find anything you're actually looking for in the last few pages of a thread. There's a reason basic internet etiquette is to post a link and a relevant quote so people have their interest piqued, and only post the entire thing if it's really short or can't be linked. This is not a mod post I am just also annoyed by people who inconvenience me by doing the Internet wrong and then try to argue that they aren't being selfish jerks, their way is actually better! The app doesn't have tabs
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 18:24
|
|
|
It makes Awful app work weird after when I do. Also maybe I was scarred for life by unexpectedly opening two girls one cup once and now I just hate following links.  so I appreciate when people Internet wrong and paste articles.
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 18:25
|
|
|
1. "paste it in the thread instead of just relying on links" is standard practice in some other threads but in this one it needs to be litigated anew for some reason. What the hell. Pasting works just fine for the /r/relationships thread, for instance 2. on mobile, it is often hard to read websites because even in 2017 many sites are not optimized for mobile layout, and "open in another tab" doesn't help with that; also, ads & data rates tbh 
|
|
#
?
Jun 4, 2017 19:17
|
|
|
Alereon posted:Why not just open links in new tabs? I mean it's so much easier to just do that than expect everyone else to scroll past a giant wall of text, and those giant walls of text also make it really hard to find anything you're actually looking for in the last few pages of a thread. There's a reason basic internet etiquette is to post a link and a relevant quote so people have their interest piqued, and only post the entire thing if it's really short or can't be linked. This is not a mod post I am just also annoyed by people who inconvenience me by doing the Internet wrong and then try to argue that they aren't being selfish jerks, their way is actually better! Often the sites are slow/lovely/beset by ads/crash in the mobile browser, and I'm using one of them fancy iPhone 6 thingies so it's not like I have an obsolete device. Having the article here formats it in an easy-to-read way and makes it easier to quote!
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2017 01:44
|
|
|
Sarcopenia posted:I'll welcome the mild annoyance of text dumps if people will just post any kind of content, goddamn. So you just complained about people posting links and entire articles afterwards but what weird source did this come from that ends with an anonymous quote about a fortune teller? This is why it's nice to have links or sources
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2017 04:19
|
|
|
Aesop Poprock posted:So you just complained about people posting links and entire articles afterwards but what weird source did this come from that ends with an anonymous quote about a fortune teller? This is why it's nice to have links or sources quote:I'll welcome I did it specifically because people were complaining about not being able to click links on their phones and forgot to post the link for the rest of you. The author throws some spook in it because she has historical tours around Aberdeen and sometimes they're spooky. http://www.spookyisles.com/2013/09/sticks-and-stones-may-break-my-bones/
|
|
#
?
Jun 5, 2017 04:55
|
|
|
Another forum I used to be on had a spoiler feature that reduced all spoiled text to a link which you could click to display it all. Sort of like the TIMG tag here for pictures. That feature would solve this problem, because the wall o' text would be reduced to one line unless you clicked the link.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 14:36
|
|
|
P.s.Pick posted:Man how many cats did that guy have?! He doesn't even look putrefied but the cats ate that much flesh off of him?!
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 15:22
|
|
|
pookel posted:
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 15:49
|
|
|
Goddamnit, wrong thread.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 16:00
|
|
|
Sarcopenia posted:http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2017/05/mary-kay-letourneau-and-vili-fualaau-separate Creepy indeed. I remember one part where Barbara asked a question and Mary Kay answered it but Vili didn't like her answer. He interrupted and made her go back and rephrase her response.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 17:41
|
|
|
I say post the articles for the reasons stated. However, quoting the entire article to just to add a comment should be punishable by genital hurting. I've either read it or scrolled past it once already. No need to add a ten foot tall text wall to your reply you inconsiderate penis.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 18:19
|
|
|
Have we come to an agreement on how to post? I have a decent amount of content (it's mostly crime stuff though) and had intended to try to post something on the regular to kind of keep it alive and active. But it's kind of a buzzkill if people are just going to complain about the way it's posted. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 19:13
|
|
|
Posting entire articles is also a copyright issue, although I'm not sure how big of a deal that is on these forums. Personally, I'm in favor of a short blurb and a link. That gives me enough to decide whether to follow that link, and a site that posts something worth reading deserves the traffic.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 19:20
|
|
|
Sarcopenia posted:Have we come to an agreement on how to post? I have a decent amount of content (it's mostly crime stuff though) and had intended to try to post something on the regular to kind of keep it alive and active. But it's kind of a buzzkill if people are just going to complain about the way it's posted. It's basically a sharp divide between those that browse on mobile (where the new pages can be a pain in the rear end and are more likely to skip content as a result) and desktop browsers (who have tired scrolling fingers and don't have the same issues going offsite)
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 19:57
|
|
|
=if you hit the spacebar on your keyboard the page will scroll for you and you won't even have to click, it will go really fast and be very very easy to skip large blocks of text
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 20:18
|
|
|
fruit on the bottom posted:It's basically a sharp divide between those that browse on mobile (where the new pages can be a pain in the rear end and are more likely to skip content as a result) and desktop browsers (who have tired scrolling fingers and don't have the same issues going offsite) I mostly browse mobile, I just don't like having to scroll past single posts which end up being longer than the rest of the page.
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 20:36
|
|
|
InediblePenguin posted:=if you hit the spacebar on your keyboard the page will scroll for you and you won't even have to click, it will go really fast and be very very easy to skip large blocks of text Sure, but also Grumbletron 4000 posted:quoting the entire article to just to add a comment should be punishable by genital hurting. (I'm guilty of this myself)
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 20:43
|
|
|
I'm just going to post it the way I like to post it. Short "introduction", link and maybe some quotes. Girl kills herself on facebook live while people goad her on. One of them allegedly being her mother. DFC and the mother get into a blame game war. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...de-on-facebook/ Mom's alleged facebook message: quote:#ADHD games played u sad little DCF custody jit that’s why u where u at for this dumb s--t n more u keep crying wolf u dead u will get buried life goes on after a jit that doesn’t listen to there parents trying to be grown seeking boys and girls attention instead of her books,” the comment read. quote:A report alleged that Naika was raped while she was in foster care. The accused denied it, saying it was Naika who was sexually aggressive, the report says. No one was charged. 
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 21:30
|
|
|
quoted myself
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 21:30
|
|
|
Jesus christ, does anything happen on Facebook Live that's not a murder/suicide/rape?
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 22:08
|
|
|
quote:#ADHD games played u sad little DCF custody jit that’s why u where u at for this dumb s--t n more u keep crying wolf u dead u will get buried life goes on after a jit that doesn’t listen to there parents trying to be grown seeking boys and girls attention instead of her books,” the comment read. Can someone translate this for me? I think it means "study instead of looking for attention."
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 22:36
|
|
|
Solice Kirsk posted:Can someone translate this for me? I think it means "study instead of looking for attention." To translate from "unutterable human piss pot" "The ADHD game is played out you sad little DCF (Department of Children + Families) custody jit [jit presumably means something insulting]. That why you are where you are at for this dumb poo poo and more. Keep crying wolf and you are dead and will get buried, but life goes on after. A [insult word] that doesn't listen to their parents. Trying to be grown up looking for boys and girls attention instead of studying." gently caress this person. gently caress the fact that I read this, gently caress the whole loving thing, for fucks sake. Josef bugman has a new favorite as of 23:08 on Jun 7, 2017 |
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 23:04
|
|
|
Solice Kirsk posted:Can someone translate this for me? I think it means "study instead of looking for attention." Also "lol I'm alleging that you're in the foster system because of an attention span related mental illness and not because I, your parent, lost custody of you due to neglect and physical abuse and possible sexual abuse, and then I kicked you back to the state that time they restored custody of you to me" eta: jit probably means idiot, as in idjit
|
|
#
?
Jun 7, 2017 23:09
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 5, 2024 23:25 |
|
|
in this social context "jit" is an insulting term used for a young person who is talking poo poo but don't know poo poo, not directly/knowingly short for idiot (although in other social contexts that is true)
|
|
#
?
Jun 8, 2017 02:02
|
|