sKratch
01-18-2006, 04:43 PM
Unfortunately, the Photo Album thread is getting a little out of hand. We hate to have to make a sticky like this, but our jobs have been made much more difficult by all the conversations that break out in Photo Album that we have to tirelessly delete. We, the moderator community, are all in support of this thread existing, as it’s a convenient way to see what everyone looks like and we all like an ego boost after posting our pictures. This convenience is greatly hindered by posts that go beyond the general structure of:
Post #1: [Picture]
Post #2: omg ur so hawt
Post #3: lolz thx
This structure is fine. You scroll through the pages of the thread and see a picture followed by a few comments, another picture, a few comments, and so on and so forth. You don’t have to go through 3 pages before you get to another picture. This leads us to the most basic form of our request as moderators.
Don’t have conversations in Photo Album. If you do, they will be deleted without a second thought. You should be able to figure out what this means. This thread exists to share your pictures and leave a few comments about pictures others have posted. Hopefully most of you do not need a more thorough explanation, but I’ll continue to provide one nevertheless.
What is a conversation, and what’s just talking about people’s pictures? This is where, theoretically, things can get a little tricky. In practice, we as moderators have agreed that we can easily distinguish between chit-chat and proper Photo Album etiquette (wow that’s kind of lame isn’t it), and we’ll delete the former with relative swiftness. However, for the benefit of the forum users, we have tried to draft a somewhat ubiquitous definition or model. Note that the explanation which follows comes off much more engraved-in-stone that it is meant to be, but it’s a feature that’s necessitated by our inability to define our individual discretions.
Person A: posts a picture
Person B: comments on the picture
Person A: thanks for the compliments
(so far so good)
Person B : inserts another absolutly irrelevant point just to catch a little more attention from Person A and talk to him. example : "lolz so hows the weather in michigan today?"
Person A: answers that irrelevant comment. example: "the weather is shitty, we had rain the whole day". AND THEN continues the conversation in either posing a question of his own, like: "hows the weather in England?".
OR
Person A: answers that irrelevant comment. example: "the weather is shitty, we had rain the whole day".
Person B: CONTINUES the conversation by posing another question, like "so you go to Saint Christopher High School, huh?"
(Above conversation provided care of your friendly neighborhood HornyPope)
This should be a pretty clear example of when enough is enough. If someone got a pretty dress and you’d like to talk about, then make a new topic about it. If your dog is too cute to handle, and you want to do more than show him or her to people, then make a new topic about it. Get the picture?
What it comes down to is that we want to keep Photo Album as clean and true to its name as possible. You’d be surprised how hard this becomes when you have a few pages to catch up on; it gets to be a big pain in the ass. So please, Endy, HornyPope, Rag Doll, TUNB and I ask you all to consciously eliminate the chit chat in Photo Album. If you see conversations, don’t complain in the form of a post within the thread; report it to us and we’ll take care of it. Thanks.
Sincerely,
The General Chat Moderators
Post #1: [Picture]
Post #2: omg ur so hawt
Post #3: lolz thx
This structure is fine. You scroll through the pages of the thread and see a picture followed by a few comments, another picture, a few comments, and so on and so forth. You don’t have to go through 3 pages before you get to another picture. This leads us to the most basic form of our request as moderators.
Don’t have conversations in Photo Album. If you do, they will be deleted without a second thought. You should be able to figure out what this means. This thread exists to share your pictures and leave a few comments about pictures others have posted. Hopefully most of you do not need a more thorough explanation, but I’ll continue to provide one nevertheless.
What is a conversation, and what’s just talking about people’s pictures? This is where, theoretically, things can get a little tricky. In practice, we as moderators have agreed that we can easily distinguish between chit-chat and proper Photo Album etiquette (wow that’s kind of lame isn’t it), and we’ll delete the former with relative swiftness. However, for the benefit of the forum users, we have tried to draft a somewhat ubiquitous definition or model. Note that the explanation which follows comes off much more engraved-in-stone that it is meant to be, but it’s a feature that’s necessitated by our inability to define our individual discretions.
Person A: posts a picture
Person B: comments on the picture
Person A: thanks for the compliments
(so far so good)
Person B : inserts another absolutly irrelevant point just to catch a little more attention from Person A and talk to him. example : "lolz so hows the weather in michigan today?"
Person A: answers that irrelevant comment. example: "the weather is shitty, we had rain the whole day". AND THEN continues the conversation in either posing a question of his own, like: "hows the weather in England?".
OR
Person A: answers that irrelevant comment. example: "the weather is shitty, we had rain the whole day".
Person B: CONTINUES the conversation by posing another question, like "so you go to Saint Christopher High School, huh?"
(Above conversation provided care of your friendly neighborhood HornyPope)
This should be a pretty clear example of when enough is enough. If someone got a pretty dress and you’d like to talk about, then make a new topic about it. If your dog is too cute to handle, and you want to do more than show him or her to people, then make a new topic about it. Get the picture?
What it comes down to is that we want to keep Photo Album as clean and true to its name as possible. You’d be surprised how hard this becomes when you have a few pages to catch up on; it gets to be a big pain in the ass. So please, Endy, HornyPope, Rag Doll, TUNB and I ask you all to consciously eliminate the chit chat in Photo Album. If you see conversations, don’t complain in the form of a post within the thread; report it to us and we’ll take care of it. Thanks.
Sincerely,
The General Chat Moderators