Around 12 years on this forums now..
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These always end in a willy waving competition over who's been here the longest. I signed up to the pre-released beta developers edition of ocuk
MW
Looking at my post count and how long I've been here I'm going to start a race to the bottom
0.64 posts/day!
There have been times when moderation did my head in, times where I wanted swearing to be allowed, however now I realise it's far better without all that crap. I must have matured!
Don't swear!
Looking at my post count and how long I've been here I'm going to start a race to the bottom
0.64 posts/day!
Just wait till they auction off posts again and donate the lot
MW
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There have been times when moderation did my head in, times where I wanted swearing to be allowed, however now I realise it's far better without all that crap. I must have matured!
What I don't get is why this forum holds itself to a higher censorship standard than is necessary. Take pretty much any newspaper, when they print a swear word they will star out most of it but not all of it, yet here you get a suspension if you don't star it out completely.
That's fine sometimes but there are quite a few four letter swear words out there and occasionally you need to know what that word is to make your sentence work.
And the no hot linking rule is just ridiculous, basically everytime I want to post a picture now I have to download it to my hard drive, then upload it to imageshack (or similar) thus cluttering up the web with duplicate data that needn't be there. I don't understand the reasons behind it either, why do OCUK give a **** about other people's bandwidth usage, they let you post Youtube vids directly so why is it OK to use theirs but not any other sites that has a picture on it (which uses a tiny amount of bandwidth compared to a video).
Looking at my post count and how long I've been here I'm going to start a race to the bottom
0.64 posts/day!
0.14 posts/day!
Yay for me! Only been here 6 years.
Use Imgur and you can right click and upload images from the web.
The reason behind it is that sometimes people can change an image to something not family friendly iirc.
It's not to do with bandwidth really, it's to do with the fact that the host can (and sometimes does) alter content to something other than the original, sometimes breaking the rules quite dramatically. The person who posts the "link" is not to blame for this of course, as they did not change the image, however they should know better than to hotlink. People don't know better than to hotlink, so it's not allowed.
It's the same reason your signature is disabled if you're suspended. In the past, people have changed the image that their sig links to in order to display adult or offensive messages on the boards.
:edit: Said in a far more succinct manner above.
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Because hotlinking abuses peoples bandwidth (there's 40k members) and when they find out it was hotlinked here it doesn't give Overclockers a good impression. Youtube host their own videos and make money off the advertising.
MW
Nope. Isn't really the issue.
Soldato
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If that's the case then why do admins just remove the BBCode 'IMG' codes leaving just the URL like they did here...
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=23069168&postcount=50
That doesn't get around the problem of someone changing the image to a 'non family friendly' image does it?
Because sometimes, even the admins get it wrong.
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Blasphemy! Burn the non believer!!!!
I too have been here since just before the nuke. Weird to think about everything that's happened since then. I was just 14 at the time and Ocuk kindled pretty much my entire interest in computers. Browsing here didn't quite push me into IT, but came fairly close for a time!
I'm another pre-nuker, having joined in about 1999 I think. I was 30 at the time. In those 13 years I've moved house twice, moved job twice, been treated for a major illness, held my dads hand as he died, got married, and had two kids. My life is so different now.
I spent way too much of my teens on this forum, in fact I blame it for most of my social problems
I don't know what it is about this place but this is the only forum that has kept me consistently browsing.
Others come and go but OcUK is the "one"
I don't know what it is about this place but this is the only forum that has kept me consistently browsing.
Others come and go but OcUK is the "one"
I nearly typed something a little more crude, but I thought I'd leave that to a less refined trade group
Pfft, Back in your hole!