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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Janos on September 03, 2004, 03:34:30 am

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Janos on September 03, 2004, 03:34:30 am

[link at some really weird page]

[no quotes of interesting stuff]

[:lol: or some other stupid smiley.]

I ****in' detest this. Please, FFS, when you find out something interesting,
COPY AND PASTE THE INTERESTING PARTS OF THE ARTICLE AND LINK TO IT, DO NOT JUST LINK.[/i]

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Turnsky on September 03, 2004, 03:40:23 am

um.... Spam?

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Janos on September 03, 2004, 03:42:09 am

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Originally posted by Turnsky
um.... Spam?

Do as you like. I was just trying to point out the really annoying feature round here - dunno if that counts as spamming to you.

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Turnsky on September 03, 2004, 04:10:56 am

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Originally posted by Janos


Do as you like. I was just trying to point out the really annoying feature round here - dunno if that counts as spamming to you.

yeah, and?


i mean, so what if people don't quote a piece of an article, maybe you have to read the whole thing in order to make sense of it all..

or maybe you're just too lazy to read an article...:doubt:

just simmer down a little..

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Gloriano on September 03, 2004, 04:15:21 am

Every time I read article/news I read whole thing

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Janos on September 03, 2004, 05:06:12 am

Yeah, I know that usually the articles are short. However, if addressing only one part of 3-page article, I certainly quote the part and link to the rest of article. Wading through pages of unneeded information - which is often even uninteresting - can be tiresome.

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Ghostavo on September 03, 2004, 10:07:17 am

Janos, could you say in which thread where someone here posted a 3-page article and did not quote the part that interested the discussion, if the whole article is of no interest?

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Janos on September 03, 2004, 11:31:14 am

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Originally posted by Ghostavo
Janos, could you say in which thread where someone here posted a 3-page article and did not quote the part that interested the discussion, if the whole article is of no interest?

Umm, I admit that was maybe bit too harsh.
THE POINT STILL STANDS HOWEV

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Flipside on September 03, 2004, 02:40:11 pm

Maybe because if we just post the section of the article that says what we want to say, we aren't encouraging people to find things out for themselves. I could easily take a news article and post part of it that makes one side of the argument look worse than the other. Some people will just read the quote and jump to a conclusion from it, rather than reading the whole article and forming their own opinions.

With comedy ones, it's often funnier to let people read the build up rather than just directly posting the punchline ;)

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Tiara on September 03, 2004, 02:54:41 pm

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Originally posted by Janos

THE POINT STILL STANDS HOWEV

No it doesn't :doubt:

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Galemp on September 03, 2004, 06:00:16 pm

I stand guilty as charged. :o

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: Martinus on September 03, 2004, 06:19:22 pm

[color=66ff00]I only link to exceptionally excellent things.


...and use abstract thread titles.


Generally.
[/color]

Title: Re: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: 01010 on September 03, 2004, 09:56:23 pm

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Originally posted by Janos
[link at some really weird page]

[no quotes of interesting stuff]

[:lol: or some other stupid smiley.]

I ****in' detest this. Please, FFS, when you find out something interesting,
COPY AND PASTE THE INTERESTING PARTS OF THE ARTICLE AND LINK TO IT, DO NOT JUST LINK.[/i]

Would you like some cheese with that whine?

Title: Urgent Developing Omg
Post by: jdjtcagle on September 03, 2004, 10:06:25 pm

Admins... please stop these people posting these stupid peeves!