[Josy]

Originally Posted by Salman!

yeah and if you get offended by the odd joke post featuring a gif in a General Chat/serious debates thread maybe you should stop using the forum altogether because that doesn't ruin a thread. It's not like it puts an end to any possibility of a conversation.

Its not the odd gif though is it? lets be honest here, the gif spamming lately has been well beyond a joke and quite a few members have mentioned it which is the reason for them no longer being allowed in serious debates..it's not just about people being offended by funny gifs, the amount that are being repeatedly posted in threads causes the thread in question to lag while loading, it also affects members with slow internet.

I totally get what Stu was referring to with his post, even though the gifs may not be the cause of the forum being awful lately it really does add to it.

And no one saying it's not ok to post gifs but there is threads lately when the one gif is posted over and over and even quoted then posted 4/5 times in the one post.

Seriously what is wrong with using words?

[T*]

Originally Posted by Josy

Its not the odd gif though is it? lets be honest here, the gif spamming lately has been well beyond a joke and quite a few members have mentioned it which is the reason for them no longer being allowed in serious debates..it's not just about people being offended by funny gifs, the amount that are being repeatedly posted in threads causes the thread in question to lag while loading, it also affects members with slow internet.

I totally get what Stu was referring to with his post, even though the gifs may not be the cause of the forum being awful lately it really does add to it.

And no one saying it's not ok to post gifs but there is threads lately when the one gif is posted over and over and even quoted then posted 4/5 times in the one post.

Seriously what is wrong with using words?

[Kyle]

I've only been here since mid 2013 but is this forum really awful compared to past years?

I'm not a forum expert but it seems fairly active to me.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Also I'm not thick so take your flop logic somewhere else

[arista]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Also I'm not thick so take your flop logic somewhere else

yes you are not that

[T*]

BTW, Jesus guys calm the feck down!

[Mitchell]

Gonna be very unpopular, but I would disallow moderators to take part in games and most loved, I'd allow them to run games, but being in games I'd say no to

[Me. I Am Salman]

Well some people have different senses of humour, and we're not the only ones considering your signature is full of spammed images of black men

Nathan who is a moderator spams nonsensical things & images of black people but no one says anything to him

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Well some people have different senses of humour, and we're not the only ones considering your signature is full of spammed images of black men

What has humour got to do with it?

And my sig is spoilered, it isn't interrupting threads and isn't slowing the forum down as far as I'm aware.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Well some people have different senses of humour, and we're not the only ones considering your signature is full of spammed images of black men

Nathan who is a moderator spams nonsensical things & images of black people but no one says anything to him

You edited your post after I quoted you...

Nathan doesn't go into threads and post 35 gifs of the same thing over and over that's the difference.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Josy

You edited your post after I quoted you...

Nathan doesn't go into threads and post 35 gifs of the same thing over and over that's the difference.

Well we do that in threads we make we don't always do it in serious threads, that's a lie.

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Well we do that in threads we make we don't always do it in serious threads, that's a lie.

No one said you always do it in serious debates Salman, you are basically replying to things that haven't even been posted..

[T*]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Well some people have different senses of humour, and we're not the only ones considering your signature is full of spammed images of black men

1: Yes people have different senses of humour, not got anything to do with it though.
2: Your blabbering on about a signature that has pictures that are in Spoiler tags, not lagging the page because they only load when you click the spoiler tags.

[Mitchell]

(not that it's stopping the forum being active,that's just what I'd do if I were the boss of TiBB)

[arista]

He Wants Control.

[Me. I Am Salman]

When I say serious threads I mean threads that aren't joke/pointless/pop music threads

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Salman!

When I say serious threads I mean threads that aren't joke/pointless/pop music threads

Ah right I get you.

Even at that though take that thread I had to post a warning in last night for an example, some members might have actually want a decent discussion in that thread but it turned into a complete mess of constant gifs, do you honestly not see how that's a bit unfair on other members? it doesn't really matter who makes a thread everyone is entitled to post in them without having to scroll past all of that.

[Brother Leon]

Originally Posted by Locke.

Move the Sports forum to the top of the index page above all of the others, go back to the old warning system, and add some football games to the arcade.

Winner

Originally Posted by Salman!

Says the one who spams threads about supermarket deals :/

Knowing there is 2 for 1 at Asda>Generic black woman gifs.

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Brother Leon

Winner




Knowing there is 2 for 1 at Asda>Generic black woman gifs.

Generic black woman gifs > constantly trying to be masculine and using bodybuilding forum phrases all the time which people in the Simp thread or whatever it's called do in 100% of their posts

That's also spam. As is the Niamh is old joke, and a 1000 other things so people should stop targeting us

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Salman!

Generic black woman gifs > constantly trying to be masculine and using bodybuilding forum phrases all the time which people in the Simp thread or whatever it's called do in 100% of their posts

That's also spam. As is the Niamh is old joke, and a 1000 other things so people should stop targeting us

Too right Salman!

[Me. I Am Salman]

Originally Posted by Josy

Ah right I get you.

Even at that though take that thread I had to post a warning in last night for an example, some members might have actually want a decent discussion in that thread but it turned into a complete mess of constant gifs, do you honestly not see how that's a bit unfair on other members? it doesn't really matter who makes a thread everyone is entitled to post in them without having to scroll past all of that.

I know my limits, I've never done it over excessively in one thread

[Z]

Posting a .GIF as a humorous response to something is fine. When it's done well, it can be absolutely hilarious. Posting them all the time cheapens the effect. It's like that guy who posts only in the form of poetry - what used to be quite an interesting thing to read quickly became a boring gimmick that few people bother to read because every single post is done in the same style. That's what people are getting at, Salman, nobody's saying you've ruined the site or that posting .GIFs isn't funny or acceptable - it can be really, really funny if it's done sparingly, but if you rely on a gimmick all the time then people accept it as the norm and don't find it funny anymore.

Personally I don't think there are any problems with the site as it is, though, content-wise. Sure, some of the forum icons could do with a 2013 upgrade, and there are minor things here and there that need changing - I'd reintroduce the 3 strikes and out system and I really miss having the karma system because I think it encouraged people to make good, interesting and witty posts - but those things were lost when the site changed to a new format... but for the most part it's still a place I enjoy posting on (evidently, I've been here for over 8 years! ) and I find that you get out what you put in on this site - if you're expecting to be entertained then you need to go sign up to forum games or the pub quiz or start a thread about something. There aren't as many people creating new threads as there used to be, because people haven't taken on the role of creating new threads as other people have dropped off the radar. The site is still full of activity, there are lots of people around, it's just that the regular faces change over time and a lot of people get stuck in the past and can't accept the change.

[T*]

Originally Posted by Zee

Posting a .GIF as a humorous response to something is fine. When it's done well, it can be absolutely hilarious. Posting them all the time cheapens the effect. It's like that guy who posts only in the form of poetry - what used to be quite an interesting thing to read quickly became a boring gimmick that few people bother to read because every single post is done in the same style. That's what people are getting at, Salman, nobody's saying you've ruined the site or that posting .GIFs isn't funny or acceptable - it can be really, really funny if it's done sparingly, but if you rely on a gimmick all the time then people accept it as the norm and don't find it funny anymore.

Personally I don't think there are any problems with the site as it is, though, content-wise. Sure, some of the forum icons could do with a 2013 upgrade, and there are minor things here and there that need changing - I'd reintroduce the 3 strikes and out system and I really miss having the karma system because I think it encouraged people to make good, interesting and witty posts - but those things were lost when the site changed to a new format... but for the most part it's still a place I enjoy posting on (evidently, I've been here for over 8 years! ) and I find that you get out what you put in on this site - if you're expecting to be entertained then you need to go sign up to forum games or the pub quiz or start a thread about something. There aren't as many people creating new threads as there used to be, because people haven't taken on the role of creating new threads as other people have dropped off the radar. The site is still full of activity, there are lots of people around, it's just that the regular faces change over time and a lot of people get stuck in the past and can't accept the change.

This!!!!! [2]

[Stu]

I really want to do the next pub quiz but I totally bailed on my team members in the last one because we didn't pay our internet bills and got cut off #thuglyf.

Please have me back, 5MB.

[Ramsay]

5MB featuring Curt Hawkins and Tyler Reks , good times