Why do people finish posts with /thread?

FanadMan · 04-05-2013 2:16am #1

I know that it used to mean the end of a thread but do some people seriously think that what they post should be the final word on the matter?

I've seen it so many times and I always wonder just why these people are so arrogant - and most of the times, their comments are totally silly.

And the same for people that end with FTW

Grrrrrr............And breathe

/thread

Mickey H · 04-05-2013 2:18am

Because that's the end of the thread. In their own minds.

BillyMitchel · 04-05-2013 2:18am

Y.O.L.O

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blatantrereg · 04-05-2013 2:21am

1. as a joke
2. because the answer is glaringly obvious, yet the thread is turning into a heated repetitive discussion going over the same points.
3. because they are silly and arrogant
4. all four

/thread

Hank Scorpio · 04-05-2013 2:21am

Because they think what they wrote is unbelievably clever

DEFTLEFTHAND · 04-05-2013 2:24am

They don't have anything to back up their argument so they just abruptly end it. The intention is to make other posters feel that there's nothing worth debating in the thread.

blatantrereg · 04-05-2013 2:27am

stop posting you ****ers

Mickey H · 04-05-2013 2:36am

blatantrereg wrote: »

stop posting you ****ers

Oh, wait for it.

/Thread.

zenno · 04-05-2013 2:55am

FanadMan wrote: »

I know that it used to mean the end of a thread but do some people seriously think that what they post should be the final word on the matter?

I've seen it so many times and I always wonder just why these people are so arrogant - and most of the times, their comments are totally silly.

And the same for people that end with FTW

Grrrrrr............And breathe

/thread

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>FanadMan /thread</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="pink">And the same for people that end with FTW. Does this piss you off more ?. <p><marquee><h3>I've seen it so many times and I always wonder just why these people are so arrogant - and most of the times, their comments are totally silly.</p></h3></marquee> <br><h2><marquee>I love /FTW /THREAD</br></h2></marquee></body>

</html>

Does this annoy you more ?.

FanadMan · 04-05-2013 3:00am

zenno wrote: »

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>FanadMan /thread</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="pink">And the same for people that end with FTW. Does this piss you off more ?. <p><marquee><h3>I've seen it so many times and I always wonder just why these people are so arrogant - and most of the times, their comments are totally silly.</h3></marquee> <br><h2>I love /FTW /THREAD</body>

</html>

Lol.......that would actually make /thread or FTW a bit more bearable

corktina · 04-05-2013 5:37am

atari jaguar/

tallaghtmick · 04-05-2013 7:02am

I think its a 4chan thing if I remember correctly.

smash · 04-05-2013 7:05am

zenno wrote: »

<!DOCTYPE html>

<head>

<title>FanadMan /thread</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="pink">And the same for people that end with FTW. Does this piss you off more ?. <p><marquee><h3>I've seen it so many times and I always wonder just why these people are so arrogant - and most of the times, their comments are totally silly.</h3></marquee> <br><h2><marquee>I love /FTW /THREAD</marquee></body>

</html>

Does this annoy you more ?.

Amateur... You didn't close your paragraph or h2 tags!

zenno · 04-05-2013 7:10am

smash wrote: »

Amateur... You didn't close your paragraph or h2 tags!

HUH ? it's not necessary to close them as the code works fine regardless, opps :eek:

Now go easy on me Smash as i'm only learning html in the last 2 days

No problem i will close them accordingly.

Fixed previous post. I hope.

For Mash Get Smashed.

Don't hesitate to tell me if there's a wrong input in this.

I think i'm progressing

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>
<title>Panasonic HC-V10 Digital Video Camera</title>

</head>

<body bgcolor="silver"><h1>The Panasonic HC-V10 Digital Video Camera</h1>

<p>Hello, this is a review on the Panasonic HC-V10 Digital Video Camera.</p><hr />
<br>The setup of this video camera will be shown later on after we discuss the quality of the images it is capable of taking/recording.</br>

<p><img src="Panasonic HC-V10.bmp">

<p><h3><marquee><font color="red">You have just been wanked.......Virus pj/7ASU has infected your computer. You are advised to unplug your system and dump it in a nearby skip...**** virus pj/7ASU has infected your system and needs to blow up.</p></marquee></h3>

<p>As I ignore said warning above, I will carry on regardless with my review of the panasonic HC V10 video camera and yes it is a fine camera indeed.<br>This camera has an optical zoom of 70x and a digital zoom
of 3,500x which is realistically unimportant as the digital zoom feature usually pixelates at 200x zoom.</p></br>
</body>

</html>

bnt · 04-05-2013 8:33am

Like everything else here, it's just an opinion. We're free to ignore it, and usually do so.

smcgiff · 04-05-2013 8:40am

Rant forum

>

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smash · 04-05-2013 8:53am

zenno wrote: »

Don't hesitate to tell me if there's a wrong input in this.

I'll give you a D-

zenno · 04-05-2013 9:47am

smash wrote: »

I'll give you a D-

That warms the cockles of my heart. better than a NG/ no grade

Are you giving me a D- because of the **** virus addition or because of my code ? or is my code not neat like the way you like it ? i'm open to, and willing to learn smash, i'm only at html 2 days and tried to put a bit of effort in to make me laugh but please explain exactly where i'm going wrong in the code if possible.

PS: i have a bit of a webpage built just testing as it has added pictures of width="300" height="300" as i have set and a few other things and they open and work on the page with no errors so i don't know.

This is html5 i am going by. It's tough been at the bottom learning from basic scratch.

PS: Don't be afraid of the use of the word **** virus as it's origin is from Australia, i.e when you are hacked...you are wanked as funny as it seems.

Czarcasm · 04-05-2013 10:14am

zenno wrote: »

<img src="Panasonic HC-V10.bmp">

Just a quick one on this zenno, you're better off to use JPEG, GIF and PNG image formats for web publishing as BMP files are huge in comparison and will take longer to load.

Better off too keeping your images in a separate folder on your server from the actual pages on your site as it makes for a much cleaner structure, then the above line could be-

<img src="images/Panasonic_HC_V10.jpg">

Now because you declared the DOCTYPE as HTML, you'll get away with omitting the closed tags, you wouldn't with XHTML, so it's always good practice when you're starting off to get into good habits when coding and adhere to a clean and proper structure so that anyone can come along and pick up your code where you left off if something needed to be modified in the future.

And good god comment your work, not throwing in random comments everywhere, but just enough to give any future devs an idea of what's going on, or even when you're modifying page elements yourself, you can step through your code and have an idea what's going on.

blatantrereg · 04-05-2013 10:27am

Czarcasm wrote: »

Just a quick one on this zenno, you're better off to use JPEG, GIF and PNG image formats for web publishing as BMP files are huge in comparison and will take longer to load.

Better off too keeping your images in a separate folder on your server from the actual pages on your site as it makes for a much cleaner structure, then the above line could be-

<img src="images/Panasonic_HC_V10.jpg">

Now because you declared the DOCTYPE as HTML, you'll get away with omitting the closed tags, you wouldn't with XHTML, so it's always good practice when you're starting off to get into good habits when coding and adhere to a clean and proper structure so that anyone can come along and pick up your code where you left off if something needed to be modified in the future.

And good god comment your work, not throwing in random comments everywhere, but just enough to give any future devs an idea of what's going on, or even when you're modifying page elements yourself, you can step through your code and have an idea what's going on.

GIF is mainly obsolete. PNG replaced it. The only feature of GIFs not offered by PNGs is animation. There are other alternatives for animation.

zenno · 04-05-2013 10:35am

Czarcasm wrote: »

Just a quick one on this zenno, you're better off to use JPEG, GIF and PNG image formats for web publishing as BMP files are huge in comparison and will take longer to load.

Better off too keeping your images in a separate folder on your server from the actual pages on your site as it makes for a much cleaner structure, then the above line could be-

<img src="images/Panasonic_HC_V10.jpg">

Now because you declared the DOCTYPE as HTML, you'll get away with omitting the closed tags, you wouldn't with XHTML, so it's always good practice when you're starting off to get into good habits when coding and adhere to a clean and proper structure so that anyone can come along and pick up your code where you left off if something needed to be modified in the future.

And good god comment your work, not throwing in random comments everywhere, but just enough to give any future devs an idea of what's going on, or even when you're modifying page elements yourself, you can step through your code and have an idea what's going on.

Thanks Czarcasm great information, i appreciate it... "you wouldn't with XHTML" i see what you mean, i'll just go over the whole thing again after i watch the lynda.com tutorial disc of html5 and figure it.

I was acting the maggot when i was putting this together just as a test and the picture was an "image.bmp" but yeah, jpeg would do the trick grand .

Czarcasm · 04-05-2013 11:01am

zenno wrote: »

Thanks Czarcasm great information, i appreciate it... "you wouldn't with XHTML" i see what you mean, i'll just go over the whole thing again after i watch the lynda.com tutorial disc of html5 and figure it.

I was acting the maggot when i was putting this together just as a test and the picture was an "image.bmp" but yeah, jpeg would do the trick grand .

Ahh I'm a long time out of doing any serious web development now zenno but I have to keep up with the latest standards and sometimes I have to get my hands dirty and dip into other people's code; Like I was saying earlier- nothing worse than a sloppy coder that only writes with themselves in mind. It's a pain in the bollocks when you're implementing new features or trying to find the source of a bug that's causing a problem.

There's a great forum here on boards you can pick up a couple of pointers before you start getting into the really heavy stuff-

The Design forum in Software and Web Development:

http://touch.boards.ie/forum/23

(That's the link for the touch site, but you'll find it under Tech)

zenno · 04-05-2013 12:48pm

I'll have a goo, but yes i'd like to code as best i can the proper way and clean but as i said i'm only 2 days at this html but i find it interesting and i know it's going to take quite a while to learn it as i get deeper into html5.

Sure there are folks here on boards that have done the whole html code and think it's easy, but it's always easy when you know it, and i'm sure it took them time to learn it back in the day. I heard it was a lot harder back a good few years ago with html as html5 seems to be a lot handier now compared to then.

Cheers for the direct link, i'll be looking into it.

Like I was saying earlier- nothing worse than a sloppy coder that only writes with themselves in mind. It's a pain in the bollocks when you're implementing new features or trying to find the source of a bug that's causing a problem.

I can understand that as a friend of mine was saying something similar not to long ago.

Why do people finish posts with /thread?

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