Las Vegas Style Forum Posts.

Sunday, April 30, 2006

Okay, you know what I hate? Well okay, you know that I hate lots of things, but here is something new that I hate; Enormous fucking sig files in forum posts.

Look, snookums, I know you want to advertise your site, or that you found this hilarious animation you just HAVE to show everyone thousands of times over. But reading a forum which allows images in sig files is like trying to read a newspaper with 95% of the space taken up by personals adds. It looks like shit, it’s painful to pick out a single sentence post from a post that has a 100x500 banner add, or dancing hamsters or farting trees in it. And worst of all, it’s really obnoxious to see the exact same banner adds over and over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over over and over again because the same person is posting an online discussion.

I refuse to read forums that allow such high noise to signal crap, I read forums or visit websites as part of my leisure time. You would have to pay me for my time if you want me to slog through a series of posts that look like Wal*Mart puked on the computer screen. You wouldn't watch news, or a talk show that had comercials after each person finished talking, now would you?

And incidentally, my time is worth about $40/hour. Make the check out to Dr. Mantodea. Thank you.