If you had to do that, there should be no reason as to why I should receive a lowered warning level.

I think the way we should solve this.

Today, it has been announced that the staff will warn any member that fails to remove images tags or thumb larger images on the forums. And the community guidelines have been updated as well.

SO any punishments that were given before this, should be removed.

Correct and his warning level has been reduced accordingly.

Great, so is there any other problem now?

So this is definitely a forum-wide rule? Why weren't we told this before?

The CG's should have been updated, they weren't.

It's a good idea to look over them periodically, as individual announcements are not made every time the guidelines are updated. Of course in this case, it wouldn't have helped, which is why I lowered Spencer's warn level.

Thinking about it, there should be a way to communicate changes. I just don't want a new thread every time something happens or something is changed. I'll think on it. If you guys have some suggestions as to how to alert people of changes, I'm all ears, I love suggestions.

The only thing I can think of right now is informing people that it's a rule the first time they violate a newer guideline (and point out the guideline). Then after that, issue a warning.

I've had a lot going on in my personal life and haven't had a lot of time to do things online, so I'll take responsibility for the CG's not getting updated.

Why not post in the quick announcements thread? o_O

Or here: http://www.createblog.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=194493

Good grief. lol I really have far too much on my mind.

Cristy, thanks for the rules thing. but you've yet to answer my question of why it's such a big deal that you have to take the img code out when quoting. i'm just curious that's all. and did this whole img quoting thing just apply when spencer got warned or has it always been the rule?


EDIT; Never mind, i understand. alright so it is a forum wide thing now. that's nice to know, after making an example out of someone.

So why did Ruth warn Spencer when no one was told you guys were going to be enforcing member photo thread rules in the food forum?

I thought that the rule was already announced. But now that everyone's up to date on it, I think it should go for ALL members, not just OMs. I don't really think it's fair that people get warned the first time they do it.

There was a lot of discussion about that a while back. It's just more convenient when loading pages, and it saves space. If everyone quoted an image that they wanted to talk about, there would be a lot more scrolling to do, which would be annoying. Also, it's silly to quote an image that's directly or a few posts above yours when you could just say, "[Username], [comment here]" or quote their text but not the image. It's been the rule for a long time.

Dee, Rebecca said that here:

Miscommunication and the lack of following up. I've already apologized for not updating the CG's when they should have been and have lowered Spencer's warn level.

Wasn't it Ruth who thought it wasn't a big deal in the first place? Way to be inconsistent. That said, I don't see why it's such a big deal. If it's getting out of hands, don't People Staff have the ability to edit them out? Someone should get a PM first before s/he has his warning automatically raised. And instead of getting up in everyone's asses with warnings, I don't understand why People Staff can't just do their jobs and edit when half the new People Staff don't do shit anyways.

And dude, it's not like there's SO MANY images anywhere else in the forums other than pictures. It's a stupid rule.

Oh, also, yknow how when you quote somebody who's quoted somebody else, but in your quote, the quote that s/he quoted doesn't show up? Is there anyway micron can format it so when you quote somebody, the image tags automatically disappear?

OH! a really good way is to either notify everyone by inbox or maybe when they enter the forum a little pop-up like the ones you guys created for new PMs comes up and announces the new rule. and they just have to click a little checkbox that will mean that they read it and understand the new rule. if they continue to make that mistake that happens to be against the rule, a warning will result. good idea? yeah? well i'm only suggesting this because i'm pretty sure not everyone will take the time to read a thread but if it's a popup, they'll have to.



i was about to ask the same thing!

Yes, but that's why we all started to be consistent about the rule as of May 2nd. Just because People Staff has the power to edit people's posts for them doesn't mean they should have to clean up after members who know not to quote images and are too lazy to edit the image tags out.

I've brought that up before. It would be nice to have images appear in URL format instead of as images in quoted replies.

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this isn't even a problem in 10+ forums i go to. people quote images all the damn time.

Consistent as of May 2nd? Bullshit. I linked you to 2 posts that had quoted images in them that were made AFTER May 2nd. And they were only edited because I said something. I would call that far from consistent.

I didn't see those replies.

Then it's not consistent.

That's why you guys need staff members who are consistent and actually check ALL parts of the CC, and not just 1-2 subforums. *cough cough*

true that. but i'm guessing there are just too many threads that they can't keep up?

Hardly a reason.

then they're randomly selecting threads they find could have posts that they may be able to edit and are too lazy to do their job. oh never mind, that just gets back to what tung was saying. they need to their darn jobs.