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#1 Jason LeBlanc

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Posted 21 March 2012 - 03:14 PM

A lot of users don't have avatars selected. It's no fun scrolling through a thread and seeing that generic grey-faced-man avatar over and over again.

Everyone please pick an avatar!

If the system gives you trouble when you are selecting your pick, try these things:

1. Make sure its a GIF or JPG, not a PNG or other format

2. Try shrinking it down yourself to no more than 150pixels wide before uploading

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 01:13 PM

Question: Does the board no longer allow animated gif avatars like it used to? I've tried to use one, even after shrinking it right down, and still no dice.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 01:27 PM

Is still works for me!

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 01:30 PM

Hmm, that's really tiny. Maybe I didn't go small enough. Seems hardly worth it.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 01:33 PM

It's an ancient gif, I did nothing to chance the size.

The point is, they work.

Anyway, nothing wrong with a handful.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 01:48 PM

I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 02:00 PM

I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design.


As far as I can tell this site basically only has avatars and a signature here and there. (I don't like signatures much so I don't use them). A forum with more overblown graphics starts becoming unreadable.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 02:51 PM

I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)


You're overreacting. This board has never been visually "busy", and the odd gif ain't gonna change that.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:07 PM

Is still works for me!

Hmm, that's really tiny.

nothing wrong with a handful.

Classic :sigh:

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:19 PM

I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)


eh, what about FSM? shit, ugliest message board I've ever seen. hurts my eyes.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 03:44 PM


I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)


eh, what about FSM? shit, ugliest message board I've ever seen. hurts my eyes.


QFT

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 04:06 PM


I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)


eh, what about FSM? shit, ugliest message board I've ever seen. hurts my eyes.


It's not pretty, no, and it has several shortcomings. Still, I prefer the lean style of it....allowing for more focus on the discussions and less of 'everything else' (I've disabled the avatar function there). Then again, there aren't many interesting discussions either, so what can you do?

My preferred board is that over at maintitles.net, even though I sometimes wish you could embed pictures in it (maybe even youtube videos, although I feel many threads get a little too youtube-heavy, making them heavy to load).

Simplicity, but user-friendless is the key to happiness! :)

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 04:20 PM

the maintitles board is definitely better than FSM's, although I think it's a bit too narrow, sterile and... boring.

are there any other JWfanners posting over there?

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 04:22 PM

I think I only entered FSM the last time JWfan was down, to the JWfan thread someone opened.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 05:42 PM

the maintitles board is definitely better than FSM's, although I think it's a bit too narrow, sterile and... boring.

are there any other JWfanners posting over there?


I'm not sure. I think fommes may be dropping by now and then.

It's my primary film music 'home' on the interwebz, by far the friendliest and with best atmosphere. FSM has become too big for its own good in the last 5-6 years.

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 06:27 PM

I am - far too few times though.

I thought this thread was going to be about some announcement for a sequel to Avatar or so ;)

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Posted 25 March 2012 - 10:33 PM

I shunned this board for several years due, in part, to the 'busy' graphics. I prefer things neat and lean and simple, where the TALK is in focus, not the design. But I've become a bit accustomed to it after my return. I still hope people don't go overboard with flashy signatures and moving gifs for avatars etc. Otherwise, the board will end up like this eventually:

http://mizzpheonixri...piczo.com/?cr=3

;)


Whoever designed that page should be shot, drawn and quartered.

Although the first person to start music playing loudly when launching a page deserves worse than that.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 12:38 AM

Then you have people like me who have had the same avatar since I scanned and colored it in Photoshop back in 2002. Maybe it's time to say goodbye to ol Calvin and Hobbes.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 03:31 AM

I don't go far without my avatar.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 05:00 PM

I see Thor still thinks it's 1994 and is looking for the JWFan BBS on Promenade or the JWFan IRC, which would be totally devoid of any and all images, graphics, and sign of human life.

The thing I hate most about FSM is that when people quote messages, the quote syntax does not include the name of the person who made the original comment. So you get this very long and picture-heavy original post, only to see it repeated on the very next post, completely italicized, just to add a "LOL" as if nobody would know what you're laughing at. Then when it's quoted again, the demarcation between original and first repeat is lost, turning the history of the conversation into muddled soup.
I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 05:50 PM

The thing I hate most about FSM is that when people quote messages, the quote syntax does not include the name of the person who made the original comment. So you get this very long and picture-heavy original post, only to see it repeated on the very next post, completely italicized, just to add a "LOL" as if nobody would know what you're laughing at. Then when it's quoted again, the demarcation between original and first repeat is lost, turning the history of the conversation into muddled soup.


Mmmm... Muddled soup...

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 06:59 PM

I see Thor still thinks it's 1994 and is looking for the JWFan BBS on Promenade or the JWFan IRC, which would be totally devoid of any and all images, graphics, and sign of human life.


Absolutely. I'd love that!

The thing I hate most about FSM is that when people quote messages, the quote syntax does not include the name of the person who made the original comment. So you get this very long and picture-heavy original post, only to see it repeated on the very next post, completely italicized, just to add a "LOL" as if nobody would know what you're laughing at. Then when it's quoted again, the demarcation between original and first repeat is lost, turning the history of the conversation into muddled soup.


I agree. That's annoying.

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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:01 PM

The is THE most annoying aspect of the FSM boards. The second-most annoying aspect is the lack of little icons you can click to being you to the first unread post in a thread.
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Posted 26 March 2012 - 07:27 PM

I see Thor...is looking for...totally devoid of any...sign of human life.


Absolutely. I'd love that!


Uh-huh...
I suggest a full frontal assault with automated laser monkeys, scalpel mines, and acid.

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 02:46 PM

I was wondering anyone know what Ricard's avatar is? I can't see it well enough. What film is it from, or show?

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 02:58 PM

It looks like Empire of the Sun.
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 04:00 PM

I hate how

The is THE most annoying aspect of the FSM boards. The second-most annoying aspect is the lack of little icons you can click to being you to the first unread post in a thread.


Nah, the worst part of the FSM board is the sucky post options, like the lack of italics and bolding for example.

Among all the things I have done in my short and pitiful life, becoming an inside joke on JWFAN is the one I'm the least proud of.

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Posted 30 March 2012 - 04:04 PM

You can DEFINITELY use both bold AND italics on the FSM board

http://www.filmscore...rd/specials.cfm
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Posted 30 March 2012 - 05:19 PM

Done = )

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:11 PM

There's still a bunch of people posting every day with no avatars. It's really ugly seeing that giant grey box next to your posts

Pick an avatar please!!
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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:23 PM

My gray man is laughing at you!

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:29 PM

I see no smile, TBK.

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:34 PM

He's facing the other way. Obviously!

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 02:40 PM


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Posted 24 April 2012 - 11:46 PM

I've no intention of ever changing my avatar.

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Posted 24 April 2012 - 11:57 PM

I want to change mine but I don't know to what.

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 08:40 AM

I have an avatar in mind, but I have no frackin' idea how to create it! Sorry. :(

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 09:26 AM

Oh come on, Rich, I ain't buyin' this "excuse", nor is anyone else! :D Go to your profile, click on the picture of your "gray man" and change the photo! As simple as that! ;)


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Posted 26 April 2012 - 09:28 AM

Oh come on, Rich, I ain't buyin' this "excuse", nor is anyone else! :D Go to your profile, click on the picture of your "gray man" and change the photo! As simple as that! ;)


Sorry, dude, you lost me after "profile"! :lol:

I will try, though. Damn you sir: I will try!

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Posted 26 April 2012 - 10:09 AM

Now that's the spirit! :D


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