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Re: Question for Mike about his sig. . .

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DPDarkPrimus wrote:How phallic.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
Interpret it how you will.
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Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote:You can post personal pics on SD.net? Since when?!?
I think he means avatars Vorlon.
Well, don't most PHPBBS do that?
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Vorlon1701 wrote: Well, don't most PHPBBS do that?
He was comparing phpBB to EZboard in particular. There you can only link to an avatar hosted somewhere else.
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Welcome. It's time we give you the "Welcome aboard" ceremony.

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Go over an retreive that. Oh by that way, you aren't allowed to stand up more than one foot for this evolution.
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XaLEv wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote: Well, don't most PHPBBS do that?
He was comparing phpBB to EZboard in particular. There you can only link to an avatar hosted somewhere else.
GAH, I hate EZBoard...
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Vorlon1701 wrote:
XaLEv wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote: Well, don't most PHPBBS do that?
He was comparing phpBB to EZboard in particular. There you can only link to an avatar hosted somewhere else.
GAH, I hate EZBoard...
Seconded. phpBB=T3H 5UP3R!0R!!!!1
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Einhander Sn0m4n wrote:
Vorlon1701 wrote:
XaLEv wrote: He was comparing phpBB to EZboard in particular. There you can only link to an avatar hosted somewhere else.
GAH, I hate EZBoard...
Seconded. phpBB=T3H 5UP3R!0R!!!!1
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Zac Naloen wrote: And teh FREE!!!!
Do you know where EZBoard got an overwhelming percentage of their money from? EQ Boards. When they made "EZSupporter", a lot of EQ players got really, really pissed (Most of us used HTML in our sigs, and this change removed that ability. They probably removed HTML thinking of just us EQ players.) Then, when EZBoard jacked up the prices, most EQ boards just said "Fuck You" and moved over to a much better PHPBB system. Never looked back since.
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About avatars: many boards don't allow them to be hosted on the server because they increase bandwidth. A board admin must make a conscious trade-off between user convenience and bandwidth when he decides to enable server-hosted avatars. PHPBB has an option to disable server-hosted avatars, but I decided against it.
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Darth Wong wrote:PHPBB has an option to disable server-hosted avatars, but I decided against it.
And that's why we all love you. :D

Well, one of the reasons anyway.
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Well, thanks for all the welcomes, guys! Yes, I am quite enthusiastic, but I have been lurking here on-and-off for around two years (I'm including Mike's Creationism and SW v. ST pages; I only found the board maybe a year ago or so, so I'm not sure how long it's been around), and since I discovered that I reallllllly like a lot of the discussions that take place here, I'm quite sure I will much prefer being a member of the board to continuing to skulk around.
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Damn, that's funny. I'm glad I asked! As for the 'occasional typo' bit, you're still light-years beyond most other Web posters in that area, and when I read your posts, my eyes thank you. (Not to insult anyone else here with that statement -- SD.net definitely has a much higher rate of well-written stuff compared with the internet at large!)
Lonestar wrote:Welcome. It's time we give you the "Welcome aboard" ceremony.

* Pours bilge all over deck, points to model ISD II across the bay*

Go over an retreive that. Oh by that way, you aren't allowed to stand up more than one foot for this evolution.
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Re: Question for Mike about his sig. . .

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Southpaw wrote:Oh, and I'd like to compliment whoever set it up so that SD.net itself hosts people's personal pics - so much easier than EZboard! :D
Actually, I don't like that option too much, since it meant that I couldn't use my traditional Dancing Monkey avatar (which Darth Pounder is now using in his sig) on this board, since its filesize was over the limit allowed for avatars here.

'Salright, though, since I kinda like my stormtrooper sprite. Gotta fix that one hand, though.
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