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Fantastic!! :D Keep it up! Good luck with 99 :thumbsup:

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Yes, even though you may be very careful to not attack people, accidents do happen. So at fastsc, it is a rule that you wield a bow. That way if you accidently click "attack" on someone, you won't actually harm them. It's just a precaution :)

I love "fastsc." I found them to be more active than SC Claymates, but it's possible that I just tried SC Claymates at a bad time. fastsc has multiple chats in case one is full or closed for some reason. All the chats are: fastsc fastsc1 fastsc2 fastsc3 I've used all of those. I don't THINK it goes any higher than 3, but I'm not totally sure. Make sure that you always wear a bow with NO arrows. That way you won't accidently attack someone.

Thank you! :thumbsup: I wouldn't call the school retreat "school" though :P It wasn't any classwork it was all talking about our lives and connecting with friends. I'd call that pretty "real" life :P Thanks Saruman! Good of you to stop bye :) Thanks a lot! :) For both comments ;) ---------------------------------------- I got home! A while ago actually but I had other things to do :P I had a really great time! And not just because I missed 2 1/2 days of class work :lol: I am sooooooo exhausted though. I'm starting to worry that I have Mono. It's going around my school and tons of people have it. But I could also be tired just because of how long the days were during the retreat. A lot of people were also tired, so it wasn't just me.. but I don't know. I was really tired a lot. Well if I get a sore throat in a few days.. it's off the doctor for me. Hopefully I'll feel better tomorrow after a nice long sleep.

Now you must hereby swear to only sell your nats for maximum price. If you comply, I shall forgive you for your intrusion to the double natures cult. :P Congratulations! :thumbsup: Have fun with all that new money.

Pretty much what I was going to say. I don't see why people would be more inclined to visit a forum than a sticky. Yes it may be easier to navigate through, but I still don't think people would be drawn to a forum. You are more than welcome to advertise in your signature (as long as the advertisements are appropriate). I think that, combined with the sticky, is enough. If you put links in your signature, people will see it wherever you post. But please don't post random, useless comments just so people will see your signature. That is not okay. And please be courteous to people using different skins by leaving your font as the default colour, rather than making it green. It can be very straining for people with different skins to read certain colours. Sometimes they even have to highlight your text to read it.

Yeah I don't know if I will though :lol: Thank you!! Thanks :) It definitely was a big month. I will update the first post soon, I'm lazy :lol: I should have - and probably could have - had all the nats done yesterday. But I'll go into that later. I need 37 hammers (740 points) for 99 smithing. Thank you! :thumbsup: I was actually surprised too. For some reason I thought I could already cook them.. or at least had at 90 or something. ---------------------------------- Anyway, yesterday was a no-RuneScape day for me and today may be as well. I've just been so exhausted and both physically and emotionally drained. Tomorrow I am leaving on a three day school retreat so I will not be home until Friday at ~5-6:00 PM (but we might go out to dinner when I get home, but that's still undecided). I have no idea what the retreat is about, but I've heard from everyone who has gone that it's a lot of fun and well worth it. I promise I will make an effort over the weekend! :ohnoes:

Both of those are question based forums with high turnover - if a thread has been answered accurately, it sinks to the bottom quickly and few users request a lock in either of those forums. However, when they do, they may have gotten the wrong first answer - without a lock, they will be re-informed before the thread dies out. Threads should not be locked upon request in these forums. So far it has not proven to cause any damage. And in many cases, I'm more than willing to bet that if someone requests a lock on their thread, they don't plan on coming back. So even if we didn't lock the thread, the chances are high that they wouldn't see the "correct" advice anyway. If the first post is removed, it is now spam with no discussion value and should be locked regardless of request. That's not true. More often than not, when someone edits out their first post and changes it to "Lock please," the people who were already on the thread, still continue their discussion, which is oftentimes very thought-provoking. It makes the thread spam to new-comers only, and that's exactly why we do lock it. This has nothing to do with the OP requesting a lock; mods make the choice here. My entire post was about requesting locks. The whole point was "When someone requests a lock, we only close the thread if it meets one of the following criteria." And if the author requests a lock and the thread is full of spam, flames and off-topic posts, then we do grant their request. But had we seen the thread BEFORE the request was made, we would have locked it anyway. But that's not always the case. Well as always, if you feel a moderator's actions are inappropriate, unjustified or inconsistent with the rules, you can PM the moderator in question to discuss it or talk to an administrator about it.

I wouldn't call this a "test of the 'new' guidelines" if you're thinking of it the way I think you are :P A test to see how far they extend and what they refer to - maybe. But not a test to see if they're going to be enforced. With overarching rules like those, you cannot explicitly say, "Here's a list of forbidden topics," so moderators still have to make a lot of their own judgments and decide when the rules should be applied/enforced. My judgment is that I think there is discussion value to this thread. Now maybe my opinion isn't the best one since I don't know anything about the Great Orb Project so I'm unfamiliar with how it works. But I think that Frzphnx presented his rant in a reasonable fashion and I see more to his post than "I'm sick of losing," which was exactly what my new guidelines discouraged. Frzphnx discusses skilled groups vs. PUG groups, the fact that not much skill is required and the ability to get away with AFK-ing. His main rant here doesn't seem to necessarily be venting about his 27 losses, but he's suggesting that personal skill should play a bigger role. Now in your defense, compfreak847, it looks like he did add quite a bit to his first post since you commented. It's quite possible that his original post may have merited a lock.

We do sort of have a complex policy regarding users requesting locks on their threads. If it's a closed Help & Advice or Tech & Computers topic where someone is asking a question, gets an answer, and then changes the thread title to "Closed" and asks for a lock, we grant their request. It was not a discussion thread in the first place and once the author is done with it, there is no reason for it to remain open. If there is a flame/spam-free discussion going on, the author decides that they want the thread locked so they change their title to "Lock Please" and edit out the entire first post, we lock the thread but make it clear that anyone who wants to recreate the topic is welcome to do so. We grant their request because the first post has been wiped clean, making it so any new-comers to the thread will be completely oblivious to what the thread is about. However, if a perfectly good discussion is taking place (again no spam, no flames, no off-topic posts, etc.) and the author reports their own thread requesting that it be locked (but doesn't edit the title/first post), we do not lock it. So in summary: Lock If: [*:27xsndww]Help & Advice thread [*:27xsndww]Tech & Computers thread [*:27xsndww]Art Bazaar "shop" or request [*:27xsndww]Title/first post edited/removed [*:27xsndww]Thread contains excessive spam/flames/off-topic posts

If you want to post a guide on Tip.it, you must post the actual guide. You cannot simply redirect us to a link. And you need to cool it on the advertisements - they're getting out of hand. You may advertise in the Advertise your thing here - all posted elsewhere = removed sticky and in your signature. But you cannot riddle all of your threads with advertisements.

Its on the edit avatar page. A KiB is equal to about 1 KB (1024 bytes) and should be 20 KB if I am correct. I'll point it out to a techie - thanks :)

No kidding. If you had reported his first offending post, this would have been taken care of swiftly and without a mess. I don't care if he started it, you did a pretty good job of continuing it; he may still be going at it, but from what I've seen, so are you. You are both at fault here so I don't want either of you saying "he started it so go punish him." If you see an inappropriate post, it's YOUR responsibility to report it so a moderator can remove it and take any necessary action. If you throw rude/flamy comments back at him, how does that make you any better? Zierro, Madmanpu3: if I see anything more from either of you, you'll be seeing a lot more than a warning on a thread. I asked you guys to stop flaming and you don't seem to be making much of an effort to just drop it and get back to the main topic. If this thread gets anymore flames from anybody, it's probably going to be locked.

Well you have to remember a few things: Spamming is against the rules. And if a topic is created with no discussion value, it is likely spam, and therefore against the rules. And if topics WOULD die on their own, I'm sure many - if not all - of us would be more than happy to leave the topic alone and just let it die. But people don't let topics die. If a spammy, useless, boring topic is created, tons of people love to come in and post things like "this is stupid" or "in before lock" or "stop spamming," etc. They make all these comments that keep the topic bumped up and don't let it die. Sure we could remove the bad comments, and oftentimes we do anyway. But we would literally have to stalk the topics and continuously remove the spammy posts.

I don't think we need a whole guide about how to edit your signature and avatar. We already do have a few general guides about signatures scattered throughout the forums: [*:qqm3a9al] Tip.it Forum Guide - Important Posting FAQs - Section on signatures and includes a link to the Signature Guide. [*:qqm3a9al] How-To Guide: Taking Screenshots and Posting Images - Explains how to post images - can be applied to putting images in signatures. [*:qqm3a9al] Tip.it Forum Rules - Section 2.4 mentions the signature and avatar limits for both dimensions, file size and content. What else do we need? I guess could add a small sentence or two to the Tip.it Forum Guide - Important Posting FAQs about how to edit your signature.

Thank you :oops: And I may make money fast, but I also spend it fast :P ----------------------------- I made 10k nats today. Not quite as much as I hoped for, but I was getting bored and didn't want to push myself. After that, I just did some cooking for a while: I got my first gravedigger random event and I'm still pissed at myself because I used my mysterious box and didn't realize that I had to select the emote option to get the emote (I didn't even see the option). I thought I would automatically get the emotes so I just clicked the costume option. I'm mad :P 'night.

Enough flaming you guys. You can debate all you want and constructively challenge other peoples' ideas. But pointless insults, harassment and name-calling are not appropriate.

Wow, when do you have to apply to college in the US? I only started worrying about college choices three months before graduation. In the US, most college applications are due in January of your senior year. However a few are due as early as November (UC/common applications, at least). Most people start looking at and considering colleges in their junior year of high school. Not all schools consider the 'new' writing section. In fact, most of the schools that I applied to didn't. I agree with everything you said though :P And my sister is currently at Tufts 8-) True. And I remember that you told me your sister goes to tufts when I got in a short while back :) what year is she? She's currently a sophomore :)

No problem and sure :) By the way, you can read the clan chat rules and get other information here: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=688181&p=5908359#p5908359