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dragon300zx · June 27, 2005

Make sure you watch "Posting and You"

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php

Nikolai · June 27, 2005

This should Uber-Sticky!

dragon300zx wrote:

Make sure you watch "Posting and You"

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php

Nice find!

Mongrel · June 27, 2005

So like dude, where do I find the latest update to punk buster

HL3 roxors

Like Nik said-"nice find"

Andy · June 27, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

Nice find!

and stuck.

dragon300zx · June 27, 2005

ROFL the speakers on my puter at work are messed up right now so I haven't even heard it. I just thought the drawings were funny. Glad you guys liked it.

dragon300zx · June 28, 2005

ROFL now that I hear it it is great. totally sticky worthy.

ian408 · June 28, 2005

Seen this one before and it is funny as all getup.

Ian

David_S85 · June 28, 2005

Excellent little production. Funny as h**l too.

I only wish I could slow it way down to read some of the text in the forum screenshots.

ajgauthier · June 30, 2005

Gads!

dragon300zx wrote:

Make sure you watch "Posting and You"

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php

Can I just tell you that I woke up my roommate laughing at that! I am a web technologist who sometimes designs or instructs online learning courses....

this is going into my syllabus!!!

spectacular!

Adrienne

Stormdancing · November 17, 2005

LMAO!

Well I didn't see this before I made (deep breath) MY FIRST POST, but I don't think I screwed too much up yet. Hmmm well maybe I did and you all are laughing behind my back. Oh well, have a good one.

OzMosaics Diva · March 24, 2008

Very Funny!

Stormdancing wrote:

LMAO!

Well I didn't see this before I made (deep breath) MY FIRST POST, but I don't think I screwed too much up yet. Hmmm well maybe I did and you all are laughing behind my back. Oh well, have a good one.

I moderate a mosaic forum and I loved this and shared it. Thanks for the laugh!
Cheers!

KDunlap · April 21, 2008

I'm a newbie, though I've been lurking for awhile, and I thought this was hilarious.

And helpful!

SloYerRoll · April 22, 2008

David_S85 wrote:

Excellent little production. Funny as h**l too. I only wish I could slow it way down to read some of the text in the forum screenshots.

.

SloYerRoll · April 22, 2008

summerz · April 28, 2008

Love that

Did you know......
How many forum posters does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

1 to move it to the Lighting section

2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

KDunlap · May 2, 2008

Forum word searching is not that easy.

summerz wrote:

Love that

Did you know......
How many forum posters does it take to change a light bulb?

1 to change the light bulb and to post that the light bulb has been changed.

14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently

7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs

1 to move it to the Lighting section

2 to argue then move it to the Electricals section

7 to point out spelling/grammar errors in posts about changing light bulbs

5 to flame the spell checkers

3 to correct spelling/grammar flames

6 to argue over whether it's "lightbulb" or "light bulb" ... another 6 to condemn those 6 as stupid

2 industry professionals to inform the group that the proper term is "lamp"

15 know-it-alls who claim they were in the industry, and that "light bulb" is perfectly correct

19 to post that this forum is not about light bulbs and to please take this discussion to a lightbulb forum

11 to defend the posting to this forum saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts are relevant to this forum

36 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique and what brands are faulty

7 to post URL's where one can see examples of different light bulbs

4 to post that the URL's were posted incorrectly and then post the corrected URL's

3 to post about links they found from the URL's that are relevant to this group which makes light bulbs relevant to this group

13 to link all posts to date, quote them in their entirety including all headers and signatures, and add "Me too"

5 to post to the group that they will no longer post because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy

4 to say "didn't we go through this already a short time ago?"

13 to say "do a Google search on light bulbs before posting questions about light bulbs"

1 forum lurker to respond to the original post 6 months from now and start it all over again.

Can I just say though about not starting new threads- as a newbie I have not found it all that easy to locate what I'm looking for via a search of the forums. I feel like I'm frequently searching and searching and not able to find something that seems relatively simple. For example I just did a search today for "footer" and loads of threads came up, but none of them seemed related to the word "footer." It's a bit frustrating to have that happen over and over, and makes it really tempting to simply start a new thread.

Kristi

Andy · May 2, 2008

KDunlap wrote:

Can I just say though about not starting new threads- as a newbie I have not found it all that easy to locate what I'm looking for via a search of the forums. I feel like I'm frequently searching and searching and not able to find something that seems relatively simple. For example I just did a search today for "footer" and loads of threads came up, but none of them seemed related to the word "footer." It's a bit frustrating to have that happen over and over, and makes it really tempting to simply start a new thread.

Kristi

You tried, that's the important part

Start a new thread and you'll never be yelled at, promise - I or the mods may move it to another thread (and inform you).

Did you try the custom search, by the way?

KDunlap · May 3, 2008

More efficient forum searching?

Andy wrote:

You tried, that's the important part Start a new thread and you'll never be yelled at, promise - I or the mods may move it to another thread (and inform you).

Did you try the custom search, by the way?

You know I did try the custom search, and I tried making it list by post instead of by thread. Maybe I'm missing something obvious- I know there are a ton of posts regarding, for example, the footer. But when I search for footer what comes up are long lists of threads or posts about random other topics. So for example, I was looking for a post I'd seen about adding links or removing them from the Smugmug footer. I searched for "Smugmug footer" and I had to dig through the first 5 threads or posts to see if they were the one I was looking for. I tried "footer links" and "add to footer" and about 15 other things.

You must use the search a lot- how do you make it display what you're looking for faster?

SloYerRoll · May 3, 2008

KDunlap wrote:

You know I did try the custom search, and I tried making it list by post instead of by thread. Maybe I'm missing something obvious- I know there are a ton of posts regarding, for example, the footer. But when I search for footer what comes up are long lists of threads or posts about random other topics. So for example, I was looking for a post I'd seen about adding links or removing them from the Smugmug footer. I searched for "Smugmug footer" and I had to dig through the first 5 threads or posts to see if they were the one I was looking for. I tried "footer links" and "add to footer" and about 15 other things.

You must use the search a lot- how do you make it display what you're looking for faster?

Narrow your search by using multiple keywords. This will help out, I promise.

denisegoldberg · May 3, 2008

KDunlap wrote:

You must use the search a lot- how do you make it display what you're looking for faster?

Sometimes I just use the power of Google. You can use Google to search on dgrin by including site:www.dgrin.com as a search term.

So you could submit a search on google to look on dgrin. For example, on google, search for

copyright footer site:www.dgrin.com

--- Denise

DavidTO · May 3, 2008

denisegoldberg wrote:

Sometimes I just use the power of Google. You can use Google to search on dgrin by including site:www.dgrin.com as a search term.

So you could submit a search on google to look on dgrin. For example, on google, search for
copyright footer site:www.dgrin.com
--- Denise

dgrin now has google search built in.

denisegoldberg · May 3, 2008

DavidTO wrote:

dgrin now has google search built in.

Thanks! Either I missed that announcement or my brain misplaced it (probably the latter)...

--- Denise

vicarious1 · December 22, 2008

Scary thoughts after watching this.
Hello.
Just joined. My concern makes me wonder.
How long I should use "SEARCH"
before asking a question, that I need to have an answer to
(now,a.s.a.p. yesterday).
Will I dare ask it?

I am so new here that I dare not tell the details
about my shiny new SMUGMUG PRO accounts watermark features
make me wonder,
is MY film is missing or MY SD card dead for the past 3hours.

dragon300zx wrote:

Make sure you watch "Posting and You"

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php

DavidTO · December 22, 2008

vicarious1 wrote:

Hello.
Just joined. My concern makes me wonder.
How long I should use "SEARCH"
before asking a question, that I need to have an answer to
(now,a.s.a.p. yesterday).
Will I dare ask it?

I am so new here that I dare not tell the details
about my shiny new SMUGMUG PRO accounts watermark features
make me wonder,
is MY film is missing or MY SD card dead for the past 3hours.

Please don't worry about it. Use common sense and you'll be fine. Try to find your answer, and if you can't there are a TON of helpful people around here who would be glad to help you.

Also, if you DO find your answer, but want to explore the options deeper, then you can post your question, what you've found so far and ask a "follow up".

But most of all: we're a helpful bunch of folks.

Blinkings · January 22, 2009

Stormdancing wrote:

LMAO!

Well I didn't see this before I made (deep breath) MY FIRST POST, but I don't think I screwed too much up yet. Hmmm well maybe I did and you all are laughing behind my back. Oh well, have a good one.

ha ha great!

pricelessbutnegotiable · November 27, 2009

Thank you!!
Saves me from pulling my boot up from my esophagus! lol Great job!!

dragon300zx wrote:

Make sure you watch "Posting and You"

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/posting.php

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