At 8/16/08 07:40 PM, Solraczeravla wrote: Ok then, try to flag an abusive review (it can be as ABUSIVE as you want), and then come back T_T

That will prove nothing. My whistle status won't go up or down on ONE review, dude. I could go flag a bunch of reviews, sure, but I have neither the time nor inclination to bother doing that just to prove or disprove your point -- I'll leave that to you lot.

What I'm saying is that in the time I've been here, I've seen this kind of thing happen a lot, and it never accomplishes anything by moaning. Obviously you're all determined to prove me wrong though and maintain that there is corruption in the system, or a glitch, or whatever it is that people are blaming it on these days.

You don't have to listen to me (I honestly don't care if you do or don't), but it's been said now, so you can't say nobody warned you when you still have a Garbage whistle in a few months because you've been complaining instead of just getting on with it.

I'm sure this exact same thing happens every few months: a few people lose whistle status and cause a HUGE fuss about it. I've seen it time and time again in this forum, and TBH it's getting kinda boring.

This thread will accomplish nothing. If all you care about is your whistle status, then just go back to flagging reviews to get your whistle back up, and confirm what is and isn't OK with review mods before you flag if you're unsure.

I had something similar happen to me when I first started using the whistle system. I was on a Gold whistle, then flagged a load of reviews of a spam alt which SHOULD have been cleared without any points (positive or negative), and the account put in line for deletion. Because it was the first time that kinda thing had happened, a review mod made a mistake and gave out negative points to all who flagged the reviews, so I went down from Gold to Normal. I didn't spend my time bitching at every available opportunity though, I just kept on flagging and after about 2-3 weeks I got my Gold whistle back.

You shouldn't be so quick to place the blame on review mods for this kinda thing. For all you know, you could have wrongly flagged stuff ages ago that only just came up for moderation, (reviews OR movies), and it's only now that you're losing points for it. I DUNNO. I don't care either, I'm just trying to help you see that IT IS SOMETIMES YOUR OWN FAULT.

I know people don't like to hear that, and if you're one of those people, don't bitch at me because of it. That's life. Sometimes you fuck up, sometimes other people fuck up, but at the end of the day the best course of action is to stop whining and get on with it. After all, it's only a picture of a whistle on the internet. If you really wanted to help the site out it shouldn't matter so much to you.

At 8/16/08 07:15 PM, evilfluffmonger wrote: Lvl 28. You get all these cool looking weapons, only for a high lvl like that to be a pansy little pocket knife.

It's a hunting knife. One of those BIG ASS ones. At least, that's how I see it, which might have something to do with the fact that I'm going to be getting that level 11 days from now. Pfft, bias or not, I don't think it's THAT bad a level. There are worse out there.

At 8/15/08 10:27 PM, SupraAddict wrote: I'd go with a 95' Celica. They're pretty reliable, and aren't bad looking either.

My dad had the new version of the Celica a few years ago, and it was pretty nice. Really low slung, though. Not really sure if it needed a 7-speed gearbox, but it had one nonetheless.

Also a LOL is in order as I just saw the episode of Top Gear where they try to prove that British Leyland is good... by filling their cars up with water and driving as far around the test track as they can get before the waterline goes below the bottom of their steering wheels. A pointless, yet hilariously brilliant test.

At 8/14/08 10:37 AM, NEVR wrote: On the HTML version it seems to be the correct way around, with your upcoming rank icon fading IN over the current one.

An amendment to this statement: the HTML version is actually - upon making further progress towards my next rank - slightly worse. Although the new rank fades in over the old one, the problem is that even once you've reached 99% you'll still be able to see the original badge in the background, which is kinda odd.

I guess the only actual solution to this problem would be to make it so that the old rank fades out whilst the new rank simultaneously fades in. Probably too much work for something this insignificant, and I know you're adverse to doing more work that is strictly necessary Casualty (as am I, tell the truth), but I'm putting it on the table.

Pic of what the HTML version looks like:

At 8/16/08 04:05 PM, Mendou wrote: So I ended up failing that badly, all that hassle for nothing. sheesh......

:/

All this makes my learning to drive experience a walk in the park on a warm sunny day. I managed to pass first time, which was a miracle, especially considering that all the guys in my year at school basically had a race to see who could pass their test first. I won but had massive pressure on me to pass first time or else suffer the endless snide remarks of my peers. Put those fuckers in their place. ;P

Levels 19, 58, 59 and 60 are all pretty shit IMO. The rest of them I can probably get along with.

Playing the final Allied mission of RA2 (the one with the Elite Black Guard around the Kremlin) makes me wish I could have black as my player colour in skirmishes and whatnot. ;_;

At 8/16/08 04:24 PM, LordZeebmork wrote: Newgrounds needs at least one day where I can flood the portal without getting locked out like on Mozz Day.

I liked that legit flash you submitted yesterday. Can't remember the name, but up until the screen that said "I ran out of ideas" it was really good.

And yeah, there's nothing wrong with having one day of crazy spamming fun.

Whats your sport?

Rugby. I dunno how much you guys get of that in the US, but it's a great game, and definitely one of the better ones we get in the UK.

Do like to watch it or play it?

Both -- playing is very enjoyable and rewarding, and watching is also great because you get to kick back with a beer and shout at the TV, watching something you really enjoy.

Whats it like?

Pretty full-on, but totally worth it.

are you good?

Yeah, but I'd be even better if I went to training when I was still in high school. I'm planning on joining my university team, though, so I'm definitely going to be attending all the training for that. In fact, I'm already doing my own pre-season fitness regime to prepare me for the season.

I doubt I'd have enough money to make it worthwhile donating in the first place. But if I was rich and money wasn't really a problem for me, then yeah I probably would. I do enjoy this site after all.

Not a HUGE Star Trek fan, although I do like some of the TV series and one or two of the films. I doubt I'll go to the cinema to watch this, but I'll probably rent or buy it when it comes out on DVD.

Strange how many prequel movies are being done these days. I guess the script writers run out of new ideas so they go back to the beginning and start again basically.

At 8/16/08 02:55 PM, Mendou wrote: Just seemed like a huge hassle to me.

That just seems faintly ridiculous to me. I guess because of all this modern stuff like identity theft, they HAVE to be 100% sure, but I'm sure it does get pretty exasperating. I was irritated by the amount of paperwork I needed to complete to get my license -- which admittedly seems minimal now compared to what you had to do.

At 8/16/08 03:13 PM, Haggard wrote: Seems as if my memory has played a trick on me. I was under the impression I got 700 saves last year. But I checked my posts and found out that I actually only had 493 saves. This year I had about 490... so, wasn't that bad for me, actually. ^^

It did SEEM a lot slower throughout the day, though... more like a steady trickle of submissions rather than a crazy explosion. I remember previous clock days being much more insane.

Still, in terms of all my past clock days, this one was the best in terms of save gains. My first clock day (2005) I got ~400 saves (I don't remember the exact figure); my 2nd clock day (2007 -- I missed the one in '06) I got 835 saves; and this one I got 1,131.

All in all, a good day for saves, but now we have to make sure that people are voting properly in the portal and not on a "clock day basis". Like I said before though, really looking forward to the next update of this list. :)

At 8/16/08 12:43 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: my god, i got my hair cut by an... erm... enthusiastic hairdresser.

By enthusiastic, do you mean 'gay' or just overzealous?

Its too short now, i look like i'm in year 7.

GROW A BEARD.

At 8/16/08 12:50 PM, Gu-rrilla wrote: Driver's ED: OMG!

Permit Test: Took it for the lulz.

1st BTW: Are you serious?

25 hours of training: Meh.

2nd BTW: Wow, is this necessary?

25 hours of training: Sigh.

3rd BTW: OMFG, no!

Driver's License Test: Ghey.

As opposed to what we have n the UK, where all you have to do is apply for your provisional license, take some driving lessons, pass your theory test, and then pass your driving test.

SUX2BU

Learning to drive seems so long ago, although in reality it was only about 3 years. Such a fucking drag having to go through all the shit though, and by the sounds of it there's even more shit to go through in the USA than there is in Britain.

Hope everyone had a good Clock day. I managed to attain both 15,000 saves yesterday (in the morning, which you've all congratulated me for already), and right at the end of the day I got to 16,000 saves as well! Very amusing indeed.

It cut a huge amount off the B/P gap until I reach Commander, too. :)

I went up 6 ranks overall because of Clock day, and I believe that I'm on star pace for the next update, which will be a first for me. I suspect a fair few people will have star pace this week though. I know Bahamut has it for a start. :)

The only problem is that it's still a bit difficult getting blams today. People need to realise that when the day is over, no more savewhoring.

At 8/16/08 11:49 AM, BlackPT wrote:

At 8/16/08 11:43 AM, YoungAndWise wrote: do as NEVR suggested.

I suggested first, (C) All rigts to me

You can't copyright an idea ;P

At 8/16/08 11:18 AM, AntoArts-Admin wrote: I think an actual preview button would be great, but the way NEVR mentioned works too, but it's of course slower...

There isn't really much call for a preview button for regular posts. Most people's regular day-to-day posts aren't going to have an awful lot of HTML in them, so it's really just a case of spell checking. Some browsers even have a spell check function, so it's even easier in that case. All you really have to do is read through your post once to make sure it's all good to go.

In the rarer case that you're posting an HTML-heavy post, it is admittedly harder to check if and where you've made any mistakes. In that case, it's not a whole lot of effort to go to your user page and incorporate your news post as a screening function of sorts.

Perhaps there's no preview button so that people are discouraged from using loads of HTML in their posts... I dunno. Either way, I don't think it's entirely necessary because of the reasons above.

At 8/16/08 10:18 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Sure, if your beer is ~3.5%-4%.

The guy left out that little detail. I don't see many people drinking 3.5% - 4% vol. beer these days. Most beers are about 4.5% - 5+%

A pint of stella (5.25% ABV), for example, is 3 units.

So basically, any beer with actual alcohol content is about 2.5 - 3 units. I'll bear that in mind -- I'm not driving at the moment as I didn't renew my insurance (having a car at uni = pointless), but still useful to know. I only used to have 1 pint when i was driving anyway, which is technically under the limit... still probably wouldn't pass a breathalyser though.

At 8/16/08 10:09 AM, NEVR wrote:

At 8/16/08 09:13 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: But 22 beers, well, thats FIFTY FIVE FUCKING UNITS. That's, like, comatose levels.

I was told by an ex-police officer that a pint of beer was 2 units. Who told you it was 2.5? :/

Fixed -- wasn't thinking straight. Excuse the bad maths.

At 8/16/08 09:13 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: But 22 beers, well, thats FIFTY FIVE FUCKING UNITS. That's, like, comatose levels.

I was told by an ex-police officer that a pint of beer was 2 units. Who told you it was 3? :/

At 8/16/08 09:32 AM, BlackPT wrote:

You're level 23 and don't knew this?

Being active in the flash portal =/= being active on the BBS. You can see that in about 2 years he's gotten less than 100 posts, so being level 23 in this case really has no bearing on his knowledge of the BBS.

Anyway, as has been suggested, copy it into a news post. What I do when I'm about to post a list update or something similar is have one tab for the text box to paste the post into, and another tab open on the 'manage news posts' section of my account options. As soon as I post the news post (with comments disabled, of course), I switch over to the 'manage news posts' tab, refresh it, then delete the latest entry (which would be the post you're previewing). If you keep the other tab open with the posted news post, you can still view it for as long as you wish, despite the actual news post being deleted.

At 8/16/08 08:52 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote:

At 8/16/08 08:06 AM, Shadow-1409 wrote: ALSO, was at a party on the 13, drank 22 beers. Was good. :P

Ok, either you were counting funny, or drinking half pints.

Seriously.

He's Irish, that should explain it... ;P

Being either Scottish or Irish usually makes you a bit of a naturally hardass drinker -- at least if we're going by the stereotype, that is

You might wanna wait until it's actually functioning again before bothering to write anything for it ;P

It's been down for over a year now, since the site redesign.

Just a quick reply to this post...

At 8/16/08 08:26 AM, AntoArts-Admin wrote: Hopefully this is gonna be fixed... It's really annoying to have this garbage whistle...

...which I didn't see before I posted last in this thread. Was probably posted just as I hit the 'Reply' button myself.

Anyway, it won't be fixed by an admin, you can pretty much count on that. If you want to get out of Garbage, all you can do is start flagging again to try and get your whistle back up to Normal status. Don't go on the assumption that someone will just come along and fix it for you, because that just won't happen I'm afraid.

You'd be best off asking a review mod. There's list of them here -- best ones to talk to IMO are kidray76, Malachy, or Seamonky. They're all good guys and should be happy to help you.

Just don't make a big long rant at them about it.

If you don't like his opinions or the manner in which he argues his point, then surely you can just ignore him rather than making a thread which he's probably going to end up posting in if he sees his name in the title. Who gives a shit that cellar likes to argue his points? If he has fun doing it then more power to him -- the rest of you are getting all whiny about it when you could just as easily ignore the whole thing and get on with your lives.

My opinion.

At 8/16/08 12:05 AM, Molotov wrote: 1,266 Saves for Clock Day,truely amazing.

Congrats Molotov. I had to get some sleep by the end of it (wasn't about to stay up until 5am GMT to catch the back end of the submission frenzy), but I still got a very respectable 1,131.

I'm really looking forward to the next update of this list now. There's gonna be some crazy moves.