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artcinco wrote:

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squidhammer wrote:

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Great job, RT. I especially like the purple.

Are you paying for this or did you use code to lose the ads?

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It's free. If the ads aren't showing it must be a technical thing on their end. They were there earlier.

I'm not sure what it would cost to be ad free or what additional services that gets you but for now I can live with the ads.

I think ads add a good touch sometimes. I love them on California_Jam. The wereo is the utmost Glory of Awl.

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The design is great. But it is missing something. Can you make a page that incorporates Terry's unique "cluster**** of lights and colors" design sense?

This may very well be something that only bothers me, but something I find distasteful in web boards (and why Usenet will ALWAYS rule) are the long signatures, especially when pictures/graphics are involved. It can be a chore to find the actual text of the post with your eyes, when searching among all the giant banners and text that is stuck on the end of each post.

Just some feedback.

When the banners overpower the text of the post, I think its too much.

alt.music.dio does deserve promotion her, but maybe you as a moderator could place a permanent banner along the side, rather than having it be part of every post you make. If you must allow pictures and sig files tacked onto the end of posts, I strongly suggest limits. I'd do away with them altogether myself, but its not my message board. And some people seem to like them. I think they imagine their signatures to be far more interesting to others than they actually are, though. Everyone thinks of themselves as witty.

agentalbert wrote:

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When the banners overpower the text of the post, I think its too much.

alt.music.dio does deserve promotion her, but maybe you as a moderator could place a permanent banner along the side, rather than having it be part of every post you make. If you must allow pictures and sig files tacked onto the end of posts, I strongly suggest limits. I'd do away with them altogether myself, but its not my message board. And some people seem to like them. I think they imagine their signatures to be far more interesting to others than they actually are, though. Everyone thinks of themselves as witty.

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I agree that sigs and banners can get out of hand visually but in making this board I wanted to try and not become the avatar police or any kind of police for what or how people post. I wanted to see if the freedom of usenet could transition to an html board.

As far as my AMD banner goes, it is the impetus for creating this board so it actually has more of a story behind it than just promoting AMD.

If you use FireFox you can right click and block images from certain servers. That may kill most people's banners but you will have to kill each one separately.

 

 This forim is rocking already!

Hi all... joined as a result of an email from 'squidhammer'.

Having had a dispute of my own with the DuMB, then finding myself less and less inclined to go to the official forum, here's hoping for better over here.

Best of luck with this forum!