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What's wrong with saving docs? It's not like they take up any space.. I'm just lazy is all :P Honestly I have no rational explanation.. it's either you get why you I don't like it, because you act similarly yourself.. or you won't understand it, because I can't explain it :XD: But it's not that I'm worried about taking up space.. I just can't explain it. And be nice sloter. That was uncalled for.

The only time I intentionally restart my computer is to switch from Mac to Windows (using Bootcamp, which requires you to restart to switch between the two). Otherwise, it's always on (or "sleeping"). I always have like 50 documents open, some of which are just open for my reference but I don't want/need to save them, so restarting my computer is always a pain. I'd have to go through every document I have open and decide if I want to save it or not.. and I know it sounds stupid, but it's just annoying. Or sometimes I'll have PhotoShop sketches open and I don't want to save it, but I want to keep the sketch for a while to tempt me into finishing it.. I don't know.

I don't think that we should ban the entire "last 5 recently played tracks" thing just because of what one song name COULD include. If you go by that reasoning, we might as well ban all images because people could use images to get around the censor. See what I mean? If you see an image that includes inappropriate words, report it and the moderators will take care of it. But I don't see the need to ban "last 5 recently played tracks" in signatures just because they COULD contain swear words.

What I don't get is why people make fun of someone meeting their boyfriend/girlfriend on RuneScape, but no one says anything bad about sites like Match.com or EHarmony, where the GOAL is to meet people online. If you play RuneScape, meet someone of the opposite sex, start talking and become friends, continue talking and really like each others' personalities.. I don't get why it's so bad to start dating. Yes there are obvious dangers but there are dangers of dating in real life too. When it comes to internet dating, people say "Omg your 20 year old hot girlfriend could be a 50 year old fat guy who plays RuneScape all day!" Well when it comes to real life dating, there is PLENTY of deception. In fact, when it comes to LIFE there is deception. Your boyfriend/girlfriend could turn out to be a violent drunk or a psychopath or a murderer.. or just a backstabber/cheater. So yes, someone that you meet online could turn out to be someone different. But if your relationship is serious, then you would do a whole lot more than accepting one picture as proof of who the person is. So does this mean I agree with people walking around ASKING for RuneScape boyfriends or girlfriends? Does this mean I agree with people giving out their address or phone number to someone they met online after 1 week? Absolutely not. But if you meet someone online that you really really like, you would be a fool to pass them up just because you are separated by distance. Plenty of people all around the world have met their husbands/wives online, have since gotten married and maybe even had kids. What if they had passed up the opportunity?

Not necessarily :P If it's something he wants, I'm sure he's happy to spend the money. Great job and congratulations! :thumbsup: I agree with others that Herblore is a great skill ;)

Just because someone has 9000+ posts doesn't mean that they're suitable for a moderator position and it certainly doesn't mean that they haven't broken any rules. --------- Anyway congratulations (again ;)) you guys!

Locking this because it looks like it was created on mistake or something? =/

I agree that there should be a sticky containing all the signature/avatar information. I suggested that once too but nothing was done about it :( As for the Moderator Recruitment Drive thread, that's really to prevent people from asking about how to become a staff member or begging to become one. As y_guy_4_life said, at least right now, we hold moderator recruitment drives what...? once every 2 or 3 years? And it has only happened twice. As it is not a regular, ongoing thing, it's better to leave the sticky as it is, I think. If we even added in "We do hold recruitment drives eventually" I'm sure we would get PMs from users asking when the next one was going to be, if we could please hold one now, blah blah blah.

First of all, when the forum was first created, the report system came with some pre-made report options. We still use the same spam option that came with the new forum. It certainly isn't too much effort to change it (it takes like 2 seconds) and I agree that it could use some rewording. And secondly, the category that you report under isn't all that important. No matter what category you choose, we are going to look at the post/thread that is reported and make our own judgement. So you will not get in trouble if you select the "spam" option when reporting a pointless post. We know what spam means and we're aware that there is more to the definition of spam than just spambots or other adverts :) So don't worry about it! Until the description is change (if it is changed) please feel free to report all pointless posts under the "Spam" category.

Sure, one of the hardest to enforce rules, but I've been right clicking and selecting properties on anyone I have a person grudge on these forums. Turns out more then 60% of them have an Avatar Size of MORE then 20KB. Right now, mine is 2000Bytes (Around it). With, what I think turns into 2KB, right? This rule is overly not enforced whatsoever and needs to be much more looked at by moderators and administrators. This one is enforced as much as possible, but we do primarily rely on reports for this. Moderators cannot give up all their time and just browse the forums checking avatar sizes :( We do remove them as we see them and remove all avatars that are reported, but we do have more important matters to attend to. This also isn't a huge issue that NEEDS NEEDS NEEDS to be addressed. I'm not saying we should let it slide, but it's not a #1 issue. This is very viewable and laxly (WordNet lols) enforced. Things like "This needs to be locked. and 'inb4lock lololololozorirhackor'" are just as bad as any spam. Moderators are fully aware of this and again, we take care of it as much as we can. However, I would not call this impersonation. Spam - yes. But impersonation is a bit of a stretch. No one would confuse someone who say that ("ib4lock") with a moderator. But something you have to understand is that SO many people say this. We remove as many posts as we can and send warnings accordingly, but no matter how many times we do that or how many announcements we make, people still say it. That's completely an opinion and up to person who is being flamed up to decide if it is offensive or not. I think National Socialism is perfectly fine, but some may not. It is just a opinion. We do not leave the rules up to users. When we deal with offensive content, we do not ask ourselves "Is the person whom this is directed at offended by what was said?" Instead, we ask ourselves, "Could anyone be offended by this?" We try to work in a broader sense here. Sometimes a comment could be directed at Person #1, and another person who simply reads that comment (but it wasn't directed at) gets offended by it.. rather because it was simply said or because it could also relate to them in some way. For this rule, moderators just have to use their best judgement. Obviously people could get offended at almost anything, so we can't get too out of control and remove things that most people would consider acceptable.. but this is where things are no longer black and white - but rather grey. It is impossible to run a forum with a completely black and white moderating system. After a certain point, moderators have to use their best judgement. In conclusion, I don't think that any of the rules you mentioned aren't being enforced. There is a lot more to being a moderator, and our policies and just how we do things than what you see in the rules. Moderators use their best judgement and we do have our own private policies on how we deal with and interpret the rules. We all have the same general manner of thinking and same guidelines on how to interpret the rules and take action against violators, but we are also trusted to use our best judgement, and I think that we all do a pretty good job with that. If you see any posts that violate the rules (like "ib4l" posts) REPORT THEM. If you just read them and think to yourself, "My gosh.. what lazy moderator hasn't removed this yet?" nothing will get done. You have to be an ACTIVE user. Report the post. We moderators do not have a built in radar that turns red and flashes whenever someone violates the rules. And we do not have a GPS system to direct us to that rule-breaking post. YOU - the users - have to help us. There are more users than moderators so more often than not, you will see a rule-breaking post before us. Help us by reporting it. Then we can deal with it appropriately.

Great stuff you have here!! :thumbsup: I really like this picture, I think it's funny for some reason: The stuff hanging on the wall isn't very attractive, but otherwise I like it :P Anyway everything here is pretty cool and the 3D stuff is looking awesome :) Keep it up! :thumbsup:

Congratulations you guys!! :thumbsup:

+1 :P Two people.. who else agrees? Maybe we should throw in a poll? I agree :P Is this picture too much of a "seascape" to fit under the "landscape" theme, or can I enter it?

No, I don't actually, but I'm honoured that you'd think so! :thumbsup: Thanks for the comments you guys

I saw the movie at midnight when it came out :) [hide=My Review]I loved the movie. It's my favourite Harry Potter movie so far. As expected, it certainly wasn't as good as the book, but it's very rare that a movie is. I thought the movie was very funny, which was also unexpected. I found myself laughing a lot. I have three gripes: [*:6zrpxwa3]Harry and Ginny's relationship had NO development. I don't like how Harry was attracted to that girl in the beginning, and then almost excited about Romilda liking him, and then suddenly head over heels for Ginny. I also thought that Ginny was very.. awkward.. maybe that's not the right word, but I guess she always looked like she was trying to be seductive toward Harry and she constantly failed at it (like the whole Room of Requirement scene...? That was just weird to me. [*:6zrpxwa3]The memories... I wish we would have seen more of them. We only saw two: the one of Tom Riddle at the orphanage and the one of Tom Riddle asking about horcruxes. I also don't like Dumbledore's response to horcruxes. He was like "This is worse than I could have ever imagined!" as if he never expected Tom Riddle to use horcruxes, and then suddenly he says that he's close to finding another, as if he had known for a while..? That made no sense to me. [*:6zrpxwa3]The ending. I would have liked to see an impressive fight with the Death Eaters at Hogwarts. I don't like the way Dumbledore died (with Harry just standing there.. that's so not something that Harry would do. Even if Snape did act like he was going to handle things, Harry would have wanted to help or something) and I don't like that they skipped the funeral. Other than those things, I really liked the movie.[/hide]

Locked on request.

I like that you added a character from the game. I was going to suggest that you add more pictures yesterday, but then I thought you were probably going to add some eventually anyway since you were only in the beginning stages of design. Anyway, I think the site looks good and is really starting to come together with your recent update. I still think that the top box is too big (with the Search bar) but i think someone else mentioned that. There's just too much empty space so it looks too plain. I think you either need to add something there or make the box smaller.

Aye aye. It wouldn't have been deleted anyway ;) The bumps would have been split off. Locked on author's request.

That's something I'd like to know too, actually. If we're allowed to, I could at least enter something from Alaska :P Read the top Tripsis :P Doh!! :lol: Thanks!

Meh not sure if I'll be entering this one. The landscape around my house is soooooo boring and we don't even get pretty sunsets/rises :P That's something I'd like to know too, actually. If we're allowed to, I could at least enter something from Alaska :P

As Sworddude noted, there is a sticky for these kinds of posts. Feel free to repost this there :) And I'm very sorry to hear that you were banned :(

I'm sorry, but regardless of whether or not you have permission to post it, we still only allow users to post their OWN achievements. As you can see, posting someone else's achievement results in a lot of negative comments. Therefore, I'm afraid that I will have to lock this. However, ic3cube is more than welcome to repost this himself :) (and he should, as it's a wonderful achievement) I apologize for any inconvenience!

I'm so glad that it was good! I can't wait to see it! :thumbsup: I've seen Public Enemies twice now. Forgot to post :ohnoes: The movie was brilliant. I loved it even more the second time around, and I didn't think that was possible. [hide=Spoilers]The end had me all teary-eyed! I didn't want him to die! It's so hard to view him as a "bad guy" because we see so much of his sensitive/personal side. Gosh especially his last words: "Bye bye black bird" ahhhhh!! :cry:[/hide] *wants to see it again*

To avoid having General Discussion be flooded with these topics, we have two condensed threads which you could repost this one: Post Thy Funny Forum Posts. Noobs say the funniest things! Thanks :)

Just letting you know that the PMG moderators are currently discussing this :) Thanks for the suggestion!