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[notrequired]

Dear Members, Administrators and Moderators,

This forum is starting to resemble an art gallery, with many posts asking for opinions on how a signature/avatar looks.

Isn't this supposed to be a Gameboy Advance Forum?
So why is there so much of the forum full of these posts?
The Lastest Thread column on the Main page consisted mainly of Signature related topics today.
Is it really necessary to clutter the forum with 'I made a new sig', 'Rate my Sig' and so forth threads?
Is it at all possible to tone it down a little?
I don't mind art, but as has been stated many times, it slows page loads.

notrequired

 

[djgarf]

i reopened this topic not for a flame war to start cus that's NOT what i wanted!
i was hoping that something productive would come out of reopening it but it looks like i was wrong.
instead of continuing the arguing back and forth why not try to come to some sort of agreement please

 

[KotaInka2]

Ok, I have to question the decision to reopen this topic. It is clear that notrequired will not be happy with anything less than an all out flame war. I don't see any real points being brought forth. There is no deterioration of the forum as I can see it. My original two statements speak for themselves and have not been legitimately questioned.

I would be willing to concede that sig requests should only be made in the stickied topic in the Graphics forum. However, I see absolutely nothing wrong with people wanting to ask or discuss their signatures/avas/splashes or anything graphic for that matter, because you know what, its a Graphic Discussion Forum.

As for the top 10 latest threads being filled with Graphics discussions, that has been covered--laziness, sheer utterly bad luck of happening upon the forum in a down period, and part of what the board is basically. I mean I could make the same argument for happening on a latest 10 that consisted of all off-topic chat with discussions about facial hair or blemishes. However, this diversity makes the board interesting. The board needs breaks from technical discussions. In any event, I would do the non-lazy thing in that situation and click to a forum I feel like reading and look for a topic that might interest me. Then if I post, what do you know, the top 10 has just changed.

As for Tempest's sig, you have no right to question it. You aren't a mod, administrator, or Kivan. You remind me of a little kid saying, "But mommy, he did it, why can't I do it?" Also, I would like to point out that even though the physical size may slightly exceed the guidelines, the actual KB size is well within guidelines, which is the more important aspect.

This isn't going anywhere constructive and should probably just be closed. I and several others suspect that you are more than just a lurker. I'll say this, if you are, you've disgraced yourself even further with this cowardice of hiding behind another name. The whole topic is disgusting and disappointing.

 

[djgarf]

that's it i have had enough
i'm big enough (and ugly enough) to admit when i'm wrong and this is one of those times

topic locked for good!

 

[shaunj66]

Hi notrequired,

Webster's Dictionary defines 'community' as "a group of people with a common characteristic or interests".

This is a community.

Whilst it is a Gameboy Advance community, we are not going to limit what you guys can discuss here. Our members have a wide range of interests, and yes, some of them are very talented in their artwork, so we opened a section in our forum for our members to discuss their artwork. We didn't want to make our members go to another forum just to talk about a different interest, which most of us are interested in reading, viewing and talking about. If you don't like it; don't look at it!

Most sections of our forum, I think you'll find are Gameboy Advance related, and I also think you'll see that the majority of threads, posts and discussions in this forum are Gameboy Advance related!
But, we have an Off-Topic forum for people to talk 'off-topic’ that means they don't have to necessarily talk about things directly related to Gameboy Advance. We also have a Graphics forum, that means they don't have to have discussions related to the Gameboy Advance there either; instead they can discuss their artwork with others! We ALSO even have a Contests and Polls section where people can host their own polls and contests that, now follow me, DON'T have to be Gameboy Advance related! Are you starting to see a trend here?

Would you walk into a supermarket and complain that they offer a wide range of products?
While you are only interested in walking in the shop and buying a loaf of bread, you see a large crowd of people in the clothing department interested in the clothes... now; do you go to the manager and complain? Do you complain that because you were only interested in the bread, but are enraged that other shoppers were looking at clothes?

Anyway, to a point, I do agree with you notrequired. I do find it quite annoying when the Top 10 Latest posts section is full of "RATE MY SIG!!", "NEW SIG!!!111", "Ok new sig!" and "NEW AVATAR" etc... but it's not really a problem is it? I think you'll find these sorts of topics are made during 'quiet' times when not much is happening in the Gameboy Advance scene, and I can assure you when there is something interesting, there will be a lot of topics on it.

You can browse the forums how you like. No one is forcing you to read what you don't want to read, and if the forums are too slow for you, you can easily disable the displaying of avatars and signatures within threads from your personal control panel.

And as for the server downtime and server performance degradation that you mentioned, this is in no way related to signatures, avatars or artwork posted in the forum. All avatars, signatures and artwork (except a few pieces in the Gallery section - which are rarely visited anyway) are linked off-site and they do not affect the forums server in any way, they are not hosted on the servers hard disk and would not have been the cause for the downtime. We enforced a restriction on signatures for people browsing the forums, especially those on 56k that don't have time to download large avatars and signatures whilst reading threads.

I don't think you've said anything else worth replying to, or even reading for that matter.

~shaunj66