Shadow, thanks, I really appreciate your response as I was becoming very frustrated with this forum.
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I couldn't tell you, as it's been a long time, but I'm not certain if attachments show properly all of the time in the approval interface. I'm not going to fight on this topic, but just listing that as a possibility.
Okay, I see. I wish the mod I had PMed would know that and try to help me get the thread published, though.
And images in spoiler tags are still loaded by everyone as soon as they load the thread, hence why even large images in spoiler tags are not allowed in certain forums. The only benefit to using spoiler tags is to allow people to not have to scroll incredible lengths to reach the bottom of the post.
Okay, but I didn't think the images were that big, and it's a little annoying that I have to have images and then have the thread rejected because of the images.
Your threads should have been accessible in the Scrapbox if you wrote more than a sentence for the original intro.
"Non-approved threads from the Progressing Hacks or Hacks Showcase will be moved here (except for stub threads)." -
Scrapbox forum rules, as I don't wan't to lengthen this post with
yet another quote box.
If not, then yes, the moderators made a mistake. Your thread, if you wrote out a lengthy intro in the first post (I can't see it to confirm/deny), should have been posted to the Scrapbox as part of it's non-approval.
I didn't realize it should have moved to the Scrapbox, thanks for the info. It doesn't seem that any of them were, and I'm certain the first two I made had lengthy intros. It would be far less frustrating to know that I could access those threads and have the chance to fix them. So I don't know why they haven't been moved there then, though?
And you posting a hack is for other people's entertainment, is it not? You need to interest other people in your idea, which is what the intro does. Many facets of life use the job interview metaphor, whether or not you get any payment at all from what is being compared to a job application. There have been way too many junk ideas that never get off the ground and clutter the forum with their uselessness (just look at some of the stuff in the Scrapbox), so we need people to post decent intros to prove their dedication to their hack.
I understand clearing out the junk. I wrote a much more lengthy intro the first time, but it wasn't approved and I was told to make at least 15 posts so that I could put image links. So I didn't want to write the whole intro over again. If the threads I made had been moved to the Scrapbox this whole thing would have been far less frustrating.
The idea is that your original thread goes to the Scrapbox. Then gets moved to Progressing Hacks. Then gets moved to Hacks Showcase. This is the theory. People used to the forum and the rules, as well as good hackers can skip some steps, but in general, that's the stairs we hope for new people to climb, to get them settled in the world of hacking as well as the forum.
Okay. I didn't even know that the Scrapbox was for that, or that my threads should be available there. Too bad the mods didn't know that either. :/
Directors do not start throwing trailers out as soon as they start working on their movie, thinking they can go back and edit the trailers as they think of new plotline and hire new actors. They wait until they have a suitable amount of work done on the movie, then release it to the public. The Scrapbox is that five second teaser you get; The Progressing Hacks forum is the first good trailer; and Hacks Showcase is the premier.
Yes, I'd actually be happy if my thread went to the Scrapbox and gave me a chance to fix it, so I didn't have to repost the whole thing. That's a good idea. I'm uncertain why it isn't being applied, though? It would be nice, too, if it were added to that rules thread (I don't think it's there, anyway), so you'd know that your thread wasn't posted to just be ignored by moderators.
Okay, thanks. I will PM a mod and request they send my threads to the Scrapbox then and see what happens.