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19 Oct 01 - 10:31 PM (#576053) Subject: Why do BS threads . . . From: toadfrog Why is it that people who POST to threads in MUDCAT, or at least in the political threads, like to TRIPLE SPACE their messages so that they sprawl all over the place and are IMPOSSIBLE TO READ???!! and why do they like to put so much stuff in ALL CAPS??? and break it up with STUFF IN ENORMOUS PRINT so that nobody can possibly read it without extreme eyestrain. |
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19 Oct 01 - 10:38 PM (#576060) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: GUEST Then why are you doing it? |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:05 PM (#576074) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull atleastitisbetterthanwritingalljumbledup,ithinkthatishardertoread.john |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:19 PM (#576077) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Amergin why would you care so much? |
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19 Oct 01 - 11:28 PM (#576080) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Gary T Okay, toadfrog, I give up--why? |
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20 Oct 01 - 04:05 AM (#576179) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: gnomad I put it down to poor mastery of language. Similar to the belief that all foreigners speak your language if you shout loudly enough. Of course it could be sheer perversity, or rogue ophthalmologists trying to drum up a bit of trade. |
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20 Oct 01 - 10:59 AM (#576269) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: wysiwyg Rogue Ophthalmologists-- buncha Stooges! ~S~ |
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20 Oct 01 - 11:27 AM (#576290) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Mr Red thread creep Sign on an Opthalmologists window if you cannot see in the window, come inside. |
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20 Oct 01 - 11:50 AM (#576312) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Sign seen in cafe window VEGETARIANS AVAILABLE I wonder how much they were! |
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20 Oct 01 - 12:07 PM (#576322) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Gareth Actually all this funny HTML makes me want to see red !!! Gareth |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:08 PM (#576374) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Little Hawk The reasons why, Toadfrog, are: 1. They want to show how good they are at HTML. 2. They want to attract attention. 3. They are bored and looking for something to do. 4. They want to see what it would look like to do that. 5. They want to provoke further threads protesting that sort of thing on a music forum, and demanding that people stop doing it! - LH |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:14 PM (#576381) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Murray MacLeod The answer to your question, toadfrog, is here Murray |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:30 PM (#576389) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: McGrath of Harlow I haven't noticed much of this. At least, no more than crops up sometimes in music threads.
I've tended to assume it's something to do with the characteristics of some browser these particular people are using, which makes what they enter come out for the rest of us (or for me at any rate), looking a bit different from the way it looks to them when they post it.
So why not write a post with a few links to examples? |
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20 Oct 01 - 02:46 PM (#576396) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: heric Is that true? Can you really buy hedgehog flavored crisps in the U.K.? |
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20 Oct 01 - 05:18 PM (#576432) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Liz the Squeak Not any more - they were banned by the Trading Standards people, because they weren't proveable as hedgehog flavoured. Mind you, I've never had a prawn cocktail that tasted like that either. LTS |
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20 Oct 01 - 05:34 PM (#576441) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: DougR What a waste of space. DougR |
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20 Oct 01 - 08:05 PM (#576522) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: heric Space? |
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20 Oct 01 - 08:10 PM (#576525) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Little Hawk "...THE FINAL FRONTIER! THESE ARE THE VOYAGES OF THE STARSHIP ENTERPOOP! IT'S ONGOING MISSION...TO INVADE STRANGE NEW WORLDS...TO INTERFERE WITH AND HARASS STRANGE NEW RACES OF BEINGS...TO BOLDY FUCK UP WHERE NO ONE HAS FUCKED UP BEFORE!!!!!" Dooo...doooo...doo...doo...doo... Dooo...doo....doo...doo...doo..doo... - LH |
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20 Oct 01 - 08:11 PM (#576526) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Little Hawk Damn! Shouldn't have put the apostrophe in "it's"... - LH |
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22 Oct 01 - 09:33 PM (#577782) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: toadfrog Well, McGrath, that's a fair request. My browser has problems so I can't negotiate so well lately in Mudcat, but this thread is particularly good example of what I had in mind. Amergin: well, one reason I care is, before posting to a thread one is supposed to read what comes before, so as not to duplicate what others say. And when the earlier messages are unreadable, that's hard. Moreover, I am genuinely curious what people think is gained by treble-spacing long messages. I really want to know why they do it. It may also be common in music threads, I just don't notice it so much. I also don't count threads about Bob Dylan as "music" threads. |
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22 Oct 01 - 09:47 PM (#577791) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: toadfrog Well, now, McGrath, here's another thread like that. They aren't at all uncommon. |
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22 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM (#577792) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Jon Freeman Just had a quick look. I notice MAV uses < > at the end of a paragraph in addition to leaving the blank line to wichh MC adds a P break but in upper case. It doesn't show no any of mine but perhaps that could cause the effects on certain browsers. What is interesting is such things tend to be posting quirks of one person. If you get 2 people doing the same in one thread - there is a chance that what you are really reading is the same person chatting to themselves. Jon |
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22 Oct 01 - 10:08 PM (#577808) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Jon Freeman opps. mucked up my html there. try again... <p> is added (in addtion to the <P> you normally see when viewing source). Jon |
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22 Oct 01 - 10:17 PM (#577812) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: toadfrog I have noticed in particular MAV, Little Hawk, Kendall and maybe also Troll have that habit. |
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22 Oct 01 - 10:30 PM (#577821) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Jon Freeman I must be on the wrong lines if that is the case. There were a few posts by LH and Kendall in those threads that I looked at and they don't show the same HTML trait I noticed. It must be something else - maybe someone else will spot it - its getting too close to bed time for me. Jon |
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22 Oct 01 - 10:33 PM (#577824) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull It's only 3.30 Jon! |
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22 Oct 01 - 11:10 PM (#577844) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: rangeroger Little Hawk, I thought it was the Starship Intercourse, thrusting its way through space on another penetrating mission. rr |
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22 Oct 01 - 11:35 PM (#577859) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: catspaw49 Is it the parsing? We seem to be into that on the pol threads. Repeating what someone else says and putting it in italics then answering......and repeating the process over and over. A great ploy for those without ideas and who wish to dissect words and give them meanings which are completely far-fetched. Spaw |
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22 Oct 01 - 11:55 PM (#577862) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Ebbie I think that sometimes it's an innocent mistake or misunderstanding of how html works. For instance, the other day I posted a song someone had requested. The lines were in couplets and I put in the br symbol dividing them. Before I 'sent' it, I suddenly noticed that out of habit I had also done the two-enter format, so then I changed it to travel by the br symbol. If I had not changed it, I think it would have been triple spacing. If you follow all that? Ebbie |
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23 Oct 01 - 04:10 AM (#577907) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Greyeyes Liz The Squeak, you've never had a prawn cocktail that tasted like a hedgehog? |
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23 Oct 01 - 06:35 PM (#578330) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: SharonA I got a kick out of MAV chiding Armen for "shouting" on one of the two threads toadfrog referenced above (because Armen had posted in mostly bold type) when MAV was by far the worst offender in either of those threads (with boldface, all-caps, italic, large-size type in a couple of places, among other attention-getting tricks!)! Hee hee hee! |
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23 Oct 01 - 07:20 PM (#578352) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: kendall bitch, bitch, bitch... |
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24 Oct 01 - 09:46 AM (#578665) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: A Wandering Minstrel You can still get the Hedgehog crisps if you go to the factory in Caerphilly. They also do Dragon Crisps as well!
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25 Oct 01 - 12:39 AM (#579191) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: Mountain Dog RangerRoger, I liked the reference to one of Congress of Wonders' classic bits...Right up there with the Stoned Ranger and Cedro Willy, eh? |
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25 Oct 01 - 01:16 AM (#579203) Subject: RE: BS: Why do BS threads . . . From: rangeroger Yes, and commercials for Tasteless Garbage. I still have my vinyl album. Loved and still use the comment by Captain Quirk to the two people in the janitors closet who said it was Ok we're engaged. "Well disengage and return to the bridge" rr |