picture posting

Spiritoftheseventies

Ive seen this time and time again where a poster posts a graphic (face palming being the most obvious one) in a negative way to make a point with the poster he/she is replying too.
To me its the lowest form of posting but not sure if there is any clear policy in relation to it.
If poster disagrees with post it should be done with a bit more imagination.

LoLth

There is no policy other than the "dont be a dick" and "dont post distasteful images/pr0n" rules to cover posting images.

the facepalm responses are more a case of posting etiquette than anythign else. if people think its humorous then they'll post it. Currently is "cool" to post these. Tomorrow , teletubby pics might be in. these trends come and go. On a related note, did the boards.ie gathering cards kick all this off on boards or were lolcats etc around before them?

Spiritoftheseventies

LoLth wrote: »

There is no policy other than the "dont be a dick" and "dont post distasteful images/pr0n" rules to cover posting images.

the facepalm responses are more a case of posting etiquette than anythign else. if people think its humorous then they'll post it. Currently is "cool" to post these. Tomorrow , teletubby pics might be in. these trends come and go. On a related note, did the boards.ie gathering cards kick all this off on boards or were lolcats etc around before them?

Picture posting where its done in a negative way I feel just derails a thread. Re the other stuff, its cool the first time but becomes a bit tedious after that.

AckwelFoley

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Picture posting where its done in a negative way I feel just derails a thread. Re the other stuff, its cool the first time but becomes a bit tedious after that.

Some forums, im thinking of AH in particular have pictures disabled for what i suggest is partly to do with this reason.

Its a question of moderation and of the forum and discussion itself. If someone is in a serious political debate in a serious discussion forum such as politics about WW2 and some assclown posts a pic of a loljew - tbh - that poster deserves a ban.

If however someone is talking about Liverpools title campaign this season....





Anyhow, i hope you get my point.. there is no black or white on this issue, more common sence - or good ol cop on.. It can be difficult to moderate that.

Nevyn

The gathering cards predate lolcats.

Tallon

Lolocaust has a facepalm smiley to counter this



And two of them look like a woman holding her breasts

Spiritoftheseventies

snyper wrote: »

If however someone is talking about Liverpools title campaign this season....




Anyhow, i hope you get my point.. there is no black or white on this issue, more common sence - or good ol cop on.. It can be difficult to moderate that.

Yeah I am not totally against poster pics but just feel as a rule its a lazy way of posting.

CHD

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Yeah I am not totally against poster pics but just feel as a rule its a lazy way of posting.

May I ask you a question?

K, thanks.

What do you honestly expect the result of this thread to be.

Spiritoftheseventies

Not looking for any result CHD. Just making a point.

CHD

I agree with you but nothing will ever be done about it. If it happens to early in a thread mods will delete and warn people. Thats it.

5starpool

Just stop posting facepalm-worthy posts, and you'll be grand.

On another note, you should start a campaign to get your own feedback section, as you have quite a lot of it.

Spiritoftheseventies

5starpool wrote: »

Just stop posting facepalm-worthy posts, and you'll be grand.

On another note, you should start a campaign to get your own feedback section, as you have quite a lot of it.

Did I mention anything about my posts in OP?

5starpool

You didn't. I was just guessing that you generate a lot of facepalm responses though, tbh.

Spiritoftheseventies

5starpool wrote: »

You didn't. I was just guessing that you generate a lot of facepalm responses though, tbh.

Instead of guessing why dont you come up with a figure and draw up a table of most facepalmed posters

5starpool

Oh if only I had the time to put my terrific MS Paint skillz to use...

CHD

5starpool wrote: »

Oh if only I had the time to put my terrific MS Paint skillz to use...

Here you go.

Spiritoftheseventies

CHD wrote: »

Here you go.

As the saying goes. Lies, Damned lies and statistics.

Gordon

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Ive seen this time and time again where a poster posts a graphic (face palming being the most obvious one) in a negative way to make a point with the poster he/she is replying too.
To me its the lowest form of posting but not sure if there is any clear policy in relation to it.
If poster disagrees with post it should be done with a bit more imagination.

Hiya, the best way to effect change in this regard is to follow process by reporting the post if you think it needs reporting. Better that than post on the feedback forum as a Mod will nip any wrong-doing in the bud when it needs to be nipped.

Thanks.

Spiritoftheseventies

Gordon wrote: »

Hiya, the best way to effect change in this regard is to follow process by reporting the post if you think it needs reporting. Better that than post on the feedback forum as a Mod will nip any wrong-doing in the bud when it needs to be nipped.

Thanks.

Yes but to report a post the it has to meet the criteria below.
"This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising messages, and problematic (harassment, fighting, or rude) posts".
I was merely trying to establish what the guidelines are for picture posting.

Gordon

If the spirit of the image was translated into text form and you would report the post for the textual version of that, then I'd be reporting the post.

stovelid

CHD wrote: »

What do you honestly expect the result of this thread to be.

He isn't bound by petty concepts like results or making sense like mere posters such as you and I.

Issuing The Word On The Subject is enough.

CHD

:pac:

Spiritoftheseventies

stovelid wrote: »

He isn't bound by petty concepts like results or making sense like mere posters such as you and I.

Issuing The Word On The Subject is enough.

Self praise is no praise Stove. If you seriously believe that everyone who picture posts are 100 per cent right than I cant help you.

Tar.Aldarion

http://www.pown.it/3209

WindSock

As much as I detest posters who post a reply by using facepalm and :rolleyes:,
it also points out to me who the tards are. It instantly lowers my opinion of them and I don't generally read any of their future posts. 'Cept when I want a to be involved in a pointless squabble.

Spiritoftheseventies

WindSock wrote: »

As much as I detest posters who post a reply by using facepalm and :rolleyes:,
it also points out to me who the tards are. It instantly lowers my opinion of them and I don't generally read any of their future posts. 'Cept when I want a to be involved in a pointless squabble.

Also referring to WTF picture posts. Had one today where poster used it because poster wasnt sure what post meant. But rather than ask me, poster posted a rather lame picture post and to be fair poster was pulled up on it by a few posters. Sometimes posters do it to get cheap laughs and thanks.

stovelid

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

If you seriously believe that everyone who picture posts are 100 per cent right than I cant help you.

No worries, I wasn't seeking help. Your omniscience has been noted for future reference though.

Dudess

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

If poster disagrees with post it should be done with a bit more imagination.

But many picture posts are imaginative.

Picture posts in general: again, like any meme, it depends on the post it's in response to, and the pic itself - sometimes it can be very quick-witted and funny.

Facepalm can be snide a lot of the time, but sometimes it's just what's needed (e.g. when someone posts something beyond ludicrous and there are just no words*). Plus, the facepalm itself can be really funny (e.g. the one from Tar above).

Rolleyes? Most of the time it's just obnoxious but occasionally, something is posted that just cries out for it.*


*I'm not talking about when that's my opinion on such posts, I'm referring to the obvious "WTF?!! :eek:" ones.

Quazzie

LINK

Was this one really necessary from a moderator on the forum he moderates, to a new poster to the site. Surely posting that image only served to ostracise the poster.

This isn't meant as a criticism of the mod in particular but I think it just serves to highlight a point that SOTS was trying to make.

Bonito

Quazzie wrote: »

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Was this one really necessary from a moderator on the forum he moderates, to a new poster to the site. Surely posting that image only served to ostracise the poster.

This isn't meant as a criticism of the mod in particular but I think it just serves to highlight a point that SOTS was trying to make.

I suppose you have to give the benefit of the doubt there. Was the mod facepalming thinking "FFS why were they comparing 3 hair straighteners?" or was it a "My god that was the most stupid thing anybody could have posted" facepalm pic.

Spiritoftheseventies

Quazzie wrote: »

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Was this one really necessary from a moderator on the forum he moderates, to a new poster to the site. Surely posting that image only served to ostracise the poster.

This isn't meant as a criticism of the mod in particular but I think it just serves to highlight a point that SOTS was trying to make.

Agreed. That a mod does it is particularly disconcerting (the words "Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look rules out any ambiguity as to mods intention here) as you say that it was in response to someone who had just joined. I really do think that Mods set the tone and I think that post sent out all the wrong signals regardless of the merit of that post.

delly

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Agreed. That a mod does it is particularly disconcerting (the words "Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look rules out any ambiguity as to mods intention here) as you say that it was in response to someone who had just joined. I really do think that Mods set the tone and I think that post sent out all the wrong signals regardless of the merit of that post.

Well its disconcerting to you because your the one who doesn't like such pictures. Ok, your free to make your point and all but as an internet forum you'll find plenty of ways to reply to a thread by non standard means including pictures, text acronyms or lolcats. If you think a specific forum might benefit from the absence of pictures ala AH, then i'd suggest you bring it up on the relevant forum, but to describe it as the lowest form of posting and to seek an official policy on it is a bit lame imho.

Spiritoftheseventies

delly wrote: »

Well its disconcerting to you because your the one who doesn't like such pictures. Ok, your free to make your point and all but as an internet forum you'll find plenty of ways to reply to a thread by non standard means including pictures, text acronyms or lolcats. If you think a specific forum might benefit from the absence of pictures ala AH, then i'd suggest you bring it up on the relevant forum, but to describe it as the lowest form of posting and to seek an official policy on it is a bit lame imho.

Some other poster pointed that particular post out which is what i was responding to. Picture posting is okay but context has to be right and done in the right spirit.

delly

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Some other poster pointed that particular post out which is what i was responding to. Picture posting is okay but context has to be right and done in the right spirit.

But thats just it, we all have different views of context etc. so its really a case of one man's meat is another man's poison. I don't think you can say someone is wrong for posting a pictorial response, unless of course its hardcore porn or something distasteful.

Spiritoftheseventies

delly wrote: »

But thats just it, we all have different views of context etc. so its really a case of one man's meat is another man's poison. I don't think you can say someone is wrong for posting a pictorial response, unless of course its hardcore porn or something distasteful.

The point im making is that while the Mod probably was probably expressing some frustration at the post which even made me smile a bit I dont think the Mod of that forum should have done it to a poster who had just started out in their career here on Boards. We should to all intents and purposes show a bit more restraint and occassionally those type of posts can be a bit off putting.

Basq

Quazzie wrote: »

LINK

Was this one really necessary from a moderator on the forum he moderates, to a new poster to the site. Surely posting that image only served to ostracise the poster.

This isn't meant as a criticism of the mod in particular but I think it just serves to highlight a point that SOTS was trying to make.

It wasn't in any ways meant as an insult to the poster or to ostracize him.. it was an insult to TV3!

Notice how I included the title - "On TV3 this morning..." - to say that they actually took the time on morning TV to discuss fecking hair straighteners.

The poster didn't seem that bothered. If he took offence to it, I would have clarified!

The post was simply an injection of humour on a Monday morning.. nothing more, nothing less!

Spiritoftheseventies

basquille wrote: »

It wasn't in any ways meant as an insult to the poster or to ostracize him.. it was an insult to TV3!

Notice how I included the title - "On TV3 this morning..." - to say that they actually took the time on morning TV to discuss fecking hair straighteners.

The poster didn't seem that bothered. If he took offence to it, I would have clarified!

The post was simply an injection of humour on a Monday morning.. nothing more, nothing less!

Yeah see what youre saying but the text "Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look" is misleading Basquille. Do you see where we are coming from. I think the poster who is new to this site might not have been up and the subtleties of face palming.

Basq

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Yeah see what youre saying but the text "Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look" is misleading Basquille. Do you see where we are coming from. I think the poster who is new to this site might not have been up and the subtleties of face palming.

I didn't make the image.. I chose it on a whim!

"Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look"

Maybe it's incinuating our Lord can't bear to look at TV3's morning show.. not the poster's opening post! :pac:

If the OP took offence to it, I'd apologise and clarify but he seemed to downright brush over it. So either he's not bothered or he knows the "subtleties of face palming" well-enough.

EDIT: If you think I was harsh.. see how his thread was taken in Ladies Lounge

Spiritoftheseventies

basquille wrote: »

I didn't make the image.. I chose it on a whim!

"Failure so epic that even Jesus cant bare to look"

Maybe it's incinuating our Lord can't bear to look at TV3's morning show.. not the poster's opening post! :pac:

If the OP took offence to it, I'd apologise and clarify but he seemed to downright brush over it. So either he's not bothered or he knows the "subtleties of face palming" well-enough.

Think we can agree on that one. That show would test the patience of a saint

event

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Also referring to WTF picture posts. Had one today where poster used it because poster wasnt sure what post meant. But rather than ask me, poster posted a rather lame picture post and to be fair poster was pulled up on it by a few posters. Sometimes posters do it to get cheap laughs and thanks.

was that myself?

do you take everything to heart? not everything is a massive dig at you, sometimes people are having a bit of fun, it is only the internet

jesus lighten up

Spiritoftheseventies

event wrote: »

was that myself?

do you take everything to heart? not everything is a massive dig at you, sometimes people are having a bit of fun, it is only the internet

jesus lighten up

Jaysus was trying to keep your name out of it Event but cant say I was overly amused by it. Yeah its the internet but there is a time and place for things. Just dont know why you and other posters can articulate a bit better at times. Can live with it most of the time but occassionally it gets on my nerves.

event

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

Jaysus was trying to keep your name out of it Event but cant say I was overly amused by it. Yeah its the internet but there is a time and place for things. Just dont know why you and other posters can articulate a bit better at times. Can live with it most of the time but occassionally it gets on my nerves.

no need to keep my name out of it, sure i did nothing wrong

yeah it happens, i havent been overly amused a lot of times with what has been posted in response to me by other posters, but i dont go making a thread about it

if it gets on your nerves, tbh you have to deal with it, not try and change boards completely

this is all IMO of course

Spiritoftheseventies

event wrote: »

no need to keep my name out of it, sure i did nothing wrong

yeah it happens, i havent been overly amused a lot of times with what has been posted in response to me by other posters, but i dont go making a thread about it

if it gets on your nerves, tbh you have to deal with it, not try and change boards completely

this is all IMO of course

there people go with me trying to change boards completely again. Gas stuff. Feedback threads are there for that purpose. To get a feel for the mood of the boards on a particular issue. Dont see anything wrong with thread as such. All im saying is that it can be hard to read the intent behind a picture post. Some people might not get poster is having a bit of fun. But I appreciate you meant no harm now so thanks for the post.

fullstop

event wrote: »

was that myself?

do you take everything to heart? not everything is a massive dig at you, sometimes people are having a bit of fun, it is only the internet

jesus lighten up

On a similar point, SOTS why do you send users who make a post in reference to you on a thread a PM to complain about what they wrote but have the option to reply disabled?

Quazzie

basquille wrote: »

It wasn't in any ways meant as an insult to the poster or to ostracize him.. it was an insult to TV3!

Notice how I included the title - "On TV3 this morning..." - to say that they actually took the time on morning TV to discuss fecking hair straighteners.

The poster didn't seem that bothered. If he took offence to it, I would have clarified!

The post was simply an injection of humour on a Monday morning.. nothing more, nothing less!

I didn't actually spot that bit in the title. So I guess its Monday morning doziness on my behalf. The OP didn't seem to take much offence to it anyway so he obviously picked up on what way it was intended. As delly I think pointed out, its all about context and some people will be upset because they can read it a different way to someone else.

pickarooney

Someone who quotes you with just a facepalm picture is the equivalent of one of thus ****tards with their trousers around their knees laughing at a middle-aged woman who's dropped a baguette.

monkey9

Spiritoftheseventies wrote: »

The point im making is that while the Mod probably was probably expressing some frustration at the post which even made me smile a bit I dont think the Mod of that forum should have done it to a poster who had just started out in their career here on Boards. We should to all intents and purposes show a bit more restraint and occassionally those type of posts can be a bit off putting.

:pac::pac::pac:

flahavaj

Thread seems (like all the OP's various other threads in Feedback and Helpdesk) to be a means for SOTS to complain about a specific injustice he has suffered on the Socer forum masked under the thinly veiled guise of a general thread on the topic.

Needs his own subforum at this stage to be honest, its getting tedious.

fullstop

fullstop wrote: »

On a similar point, SOTS why do you send users who make a post in reference to you on a thread a PM to complain about what they wrote but have the option to reply disabled?

No reply, what a surprise :rolleyes: