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Post by Covalent on Dec 1, 2013 5:35:38 GMT
See, I did that, but it blocked other people's icons, too. D:
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Post by Gotolei on Dec 1, 2013 5:40:23 GMT
And you set it to the first option, ending with .png? It worked for me >:?
Maybe the custom option, with the full filename?
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Post by arf on Dec 1, 2013 5:53:39 GMT
Go to the person's profile, click the little gear thing, drop down menu, block user, make sure to select "hide this person's posts". It's beautiful! (Except people keep quoting the person and I see their icon and drivel anyway.) The member block works, the key to finding it is to read above instructions carefully (unlike me) and look at the offending member's profile |
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Post by Covalent on Dec 1, 2013 5:56:13 GMT
Set it to custom and it worked. Thanks!
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Post by ed1300 on Dec 1, 2013 6:56:11 GMT
The block user function works really well. Use it, people. It isn't the best, People can quote the blocked user and those quotes will still be visible to you unlike the Spacebattles system where those don't show up either. |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 1, 2013 9:01:34 GMT
Go to the person's profile, click the little gear thing, drop down menu, block user, make sure to select "hide this person's posts". If you mean the floating panel, it leads to www.proboards.com/account/settings from anywhere. If you mean something to the right of "Edit Profile" (own) / "Follow" (anyone else) and "Send Message", it's collapsed to a non-functional line - yup, with scripts allowed on proboard and ...cdn, Proboards is buggy like this. Not that there are no other ways (such as Greasemonkey). |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 1, 2013 9:32:28 GMT
I believe its more prepping for the worst case scenario. I'm inclined toward the notion that Rey is trolling. And keeping Kat busy until Annie gets back with a cake or something. Or, rather, cake and the 'some-thing.   |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 1, 2013 9:34:26 GMT
See half of the comments both here and there either screaming how the comic is omgruinedforever!!1 or copypasting some wiki duckspeak?.. Imagine that you can cause this just by pressing a button. Would you leave it alone? To be fair, I'm sure it's not solely Americans taking an anti-PazxKat position. Most young people here give as little of a crap about what sexuality you are as their counterparts abroad. Plus, there are also people "over there" who like to troll just because trolling is fun to them because that's what kind of website it is. Hence the creepy guy. This. People, please notice this possibility that becomes very real when a web comic turns popular. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 1, 2013 9:53:18 GMT
I've been able to support every argument I've made. All you've brought to the table are appeals to emotion and personal attacks. Pretty much what's to be expected when someone comes and jostles your hugbox. No you haven't. That's just the thing: you have not supported your argument at all, you just throw it in everybody's face and say "it's true, try to prove it's not". Your argument is basically this: A: "aahh, a person in a web comic says something that is not utterly true!" B: "gosh golly! He says it in context of a politically touchy topic!" C: If A & B, then crappy writing by the author of the web comic. D: If B and crappy writing, then writer must be preaching us his opinion and thus ruining the comic by making it a political pamphlet. The parts C & D have only been backed by, to be precise, nothing whatsoever bar your subjective feeling about this, and those are the crucial parts. Firstly, many here, me amongst them, have pointed you out that it is not yet, by itself, crappy writing if a person within a comic, who happens to have a taste for dramatic rhetoric, gives a speech that touches pathos rather than logos, as this is something immensely plausible. Very few people in world, let alone a rather uncivilised fox god of joyful loving, would have gone to give the kid a lecture in sociology. A moment where a web comic character gives a quite pathetic speech to raise other characters feelings could be written crappily, but just that a character does give such a speech does not in itself establish that writing would be crappy, or even anything but still extremely good. And secondly, just as many have noted that bad writing doesn't equal preaching. Authors are not always at their best. Often, when they start to preach, they are not at their best, but it doesn't follow that when they are not at their best they would be preaching, because there are other reasons why to fail. You have made a logical fallacy known as affirming the consequent. That said, the earlier point still stands too: we have argued that this is well written by Tom, and one particular reason to that is precisely that Rey is not over rationalizing this because that has never been his nature in this web comic. This is, at least, a fairly well backed up position, and in order to argue that Tom is preaching, not only that it is a faint possibility, you would have to argue that this page cannot be well written, because always A&B->C. You've got a hell of a lot of proving to do. Edit: Sorry, Toloc, nothing I can do about this triple post now. |
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Post by Gotolei on Dec 1, 2013 9:56:48 GMT
To be fair, I'm sure it's not solely Americans taking an anti-PazxKat position. Most young people here give as little of a crap about what sexuality you are as their counterparts abroad. Plus, there are also people "over there" who like to troll just because trolling is fun to them because that's what kind of website it is. Hence the creepy guy. This. People, please notice this possibility that becomes very real when a web comic turns popular. Also possibly worth noting is from what I've seen, most people only notice the loud obnoxious people and attempt to mix in with those / generalize the fandom based on them. :/ For every wacko from the butt zone, I'm guessing there's at least a couple dozen decent readers.. Go to the person's profile, click the little gear thing, drop down menu, block user, make sure to select "hide this person's posts". If you mean the floating panel, it leads to www.proboards.com/account/settings from anywhere. If you mean something to the right of "Edit Profile" (own) / "Follow" (anyone else) and "Send Message", it's collapsed to a non-functional line - yup, with scripts allowed on proboard and ...cdn, Proboards is buggy like this. Not that there are no other ways (such as Greasemonkey).
wontfix» This bug has been Closed « Edit: Sorry, Toloc, nothing I can do about this triple post now. Yeah, doing quotes like this is kind of a pain  (also nice post count) |
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Post by legion on Dec 1, 2013 11:42:54 GMT
The block user function works really well. Use it, people. It isn't the best, People can quote the blocked user and those quotes will still be visible to you unlike the Spacebattles system where those don't show up either. Which is precisely why I am urging everyone to block him and stop answering to what he says. |
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Post by zimmyzims on Dec 1, 2013 14:01:15 GMT
Edit: Sorry, Toloc, nothing I can do about this triple post now. Yeah, doing quotes like this is kind of a pain (also nice post count) The only way to stay ahead of you chatty ones. P.S. Anyway, it's just that: i read something, react to it, and then write a post, and it's a real pain in the neck to add something to that post afterwards. And sometimes can't do anything about it anymore, if I have alreeady responded two posts and no longer can delete one response. Oh, I could always add the latter to the former... |
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Post by snipertom on Dec 1, 2013 14:45:37 GMT
Hey so, seeing as Rey's from France, does that mean that he would prefer the metric system?
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Post by lit on Dec 1, 2013 15:05:21 GMT
Go to the person's profile, click the little gear thing, drop down menu, block user, make sure to select "hide this person's posts". If you mean the floating panel, it leads to www.proboards.com/account/settings from anywhere. If you mean something to the right of "Edit Profile" (own) / "Follow" (anyone else) and "Send Message", it's collapsed to a non-functional line - yup, with scripts allowed on proboard and ...cdn, Proboards is buggy like this. Not that there are no other ways (such as Greasemonkey). Hm... I'm not sure what you mean. I didn't mean the floating panel. My directions were admittedly crappy, but it might just be that the site is broken for you. I'm going to try again. This is how I blocked the person - 1. I clicked on their name (in the box section to the left of their post with their avatar and post count info). It brought me to their profile. (You can also get there by finding their name in the members list.) 2. Up at the upper right of their profile is a button with a gear shape on it. Clicking it brings you a drop down menu that presents you with two options "block user" or "give gift". 3. When you select "block member" you're presented a list of checkable bullets, and you can opt to hide the person's posts, along with blocking them from messaging you and other things. 4. Then click "block member" again and you're done. The other way to block someone is by going to your own profile, clicking the "edit profile" button, clicking on the privacy tab, and you can block people on the bottom of that page, just enter their name in. |
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Post by philman on Dec 1, 2013 18:04:34 GMT
"@gunnerkrigg: If you're going to try and anonymously troll my forum, don't also send me a mail that leads to your professional website with your address."
"@gunnerkrigg: And phone number, and a photo of yourself."
from 20 mins ago on twitter.
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Post by Tom Siddell on Dec 1, 2013 18:06:35 GMT
User Hypetrain was banned from this forum, not for proposing a different point of view, but for breaking rule #1 of the forum. Also signing up with an anonymous email service to create a forum account as a 16 year old girl suggests he had no intention of discussing anything reasonably.
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 1, 2013 18:25:58 GMT
So, how 'bout that Gunnerkrigg Court, you guys? Pretty neat comic.
. . . hey, it's snowing in the background!
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Post by znntqkumxh on Dec 1, 2013 18:44:24 GMT
So, how 'bout that Gunnerkrigg Court, you guys? Pretty neat comic. Eh, never heard of it. Neat you say? I'll maybe check it out sometime or something.  |
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Post by quinkgirl on Dec 1, 2013 19:26:01 GMT
So, how 'bout that Gunnerkrigg Court, you guys? Pretty neat comic. Eh, never heard of it. Neat you say? I'll maybe check it out sometime or something. ...sarcasm...? |
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Post by The Anarch on Dec 1, 2013 19:44:12 GMT
Eh, never heard of it. Neat you say? I'll maybe check it out sometime or something. ...sarcasm...? ![]() |
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Post by znntqkumxh on Dec 1, 2013 19:50:20 GMT
Is that another comic? Is it also pretty neat?  |
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Post by Mezzaphor on Dec 1, 2013 21:52:26 GMT
Sarcasm is almost as good as that Gunrunner Court webcomic!
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Post by Señor Goose on Dec 1, 2013 22:01:20 GMT
User Hypetrain was banned from this forum, not for proposing a different point of view, but for breaking rule #1 of the forum. Also signing up with an anonymous email service to create a forum account as a 16 year old girl suggests he had no intention of discussing anything reasonably. It's a Christmas Miracle! |
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Post by Señor Goose on Dec 1, 2013 22:02:28 GMT
Sarcasm is almost as good as that Gunrunner Court webcomic! Gunrunner Court? I think I've heard of that. I should check it out. |
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Post by fishtie on Dec 1, 2013 23:14:36 GMT
Sarcasm is almost as good as that Gunrunner Court webcomic! Gunrunner Court? I think I've heard of that. I should check it out. I don't know. At this point can it really live up to the hype? |
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Post by Tobu on Dec 1, 2013 23:17:07 GMT
People (Nnelg and brightside in the other thread) have been characterizing Renard's part in this conversation being the author soapboxing. A cynical view of human nature is in character for Renard if you consider how he was rejected then (as far as we know) tricked by Surma. Like Annie, she was a fire elemental hybrid, so her rejection of Renard for being not-human-enough must have stung. Renard will have noticed the hypocrisy. He doesn't write off humanity entirely, seems pretty interested in other reformers of human history, and acts like a chivalrous human when in this form; Eglamore might be a role model. Both the cynicism and the will for reform make the character relatable as far as I'm concerned.
But it's not soapboxing. Past experiences have led him to his views, and those are leading to terrible advice. It's one thing to have a realistic (and dim) view of human nature in general, it's another to advise anything less than complete trust between Annie and Kat. Those two are friends, and while Annie might in fact have a hard time dealing with Kat growing into a relationship, it's something that needs to happen anyway. The general tendency to reject change or difference is something people overcome through interaction with other people, and the trust those have already established will help a lot. Even if you admit that there is a chance of messing things up, you still start from a position of trust and assume the best, because you can't really interact productively with someone you mistrust.
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Post by brightside on Dec 1, 2013 23:46:49 GMT
People (Nnelg and brightside in the other thread) have been characterizing Renard's part in this conversation being the author soapboxing. When? |
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Post by arf on Dec 1, 2013 23:50:14 GMT
It's snowing crystals. Protein crystals... ..in zero gee!  Full article here
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Post by Tobu on Dec 2, 2013 0:11:53 GMT
People (Nnelg and brightside in the other thread) have been characterizing Renard's part in this conversation being the author soapboxing. When? And someone can be interested in a social issue without wanting to see it always and everywhere, especially if that could mean a loss of quality in a work of art and EVEN MORE if it's preaching (BTW I don't think Tom has become a preacher, but maybe he was influenced by what's happening in other webcomics). My apologies, I had missed that you were bringing up other people's concerns. I dislike this entire 'Romance' plotline, as I feel it's usurping the 'Mystery'/'Fantasy' that got me engaged with the comic in the first place. It hurts that Renard's speech in the last page or two sounds like the author preaching using his character as a mouthpiece. |
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Post by zbeeblebrox on Dec 2, 2013 0:36:36 GMT
Hmm, so Rey's all "be prepared for Annie to totally act homophobic", which tells me that Annie will do the opposite. When characters make predictions, the narrative is obliged to negate them. Especially when it's a prediction being made by a character who has a thing for Annie, and every reason to drive a wedge between the two of them out of jealousy. I think this lends support to the spec that Annie is also gay and has a crush on Kat, and that's why she ran off. Ooo, love triangle drama! It's either that, or Annie was simply in the middle of a task, wanted to stop by Kat's place, decided not to bother her, and continued on her way. Classic Annie. Pretty much all other options are off the table. Although the available options do leave plenty of room for unexpected details. (and then there's mine: that Annie is gay AND was in a relationship with Paz. Scandals within scandals!) ... *notes that there are 7 ridiculous pages of posts* Did I miss something? Ehhh...I'll just assume I didn't, and that everyone just felt like making their polite discussion very wordy today. |
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