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Can moderators please stop putting silly images in their section indexes?

I was thinking about this yesterday and it would be wonderful if we could choose not to see them.

Yeah yeah yeah "we don't need a toggle for everything" etc. etc. I don't need to see it every single time I go to a section since I already know what the section is about. A lot of them literally take up my entire browser window, which isn't that big of deal but it's a bit annoying having to scroll to get to the content. Yeah yeah yeah "extra scroll first world problem" etc. etc. But the content is the most important part of a forum and I want to get to it immediately.
 
It's a little fun, really. It's hard to base this thread on anything without examples but I don't understand what the issue might be, but I'm eager to hear your reasoning for being bothered by them? At the end of the day a "silly image", is a silly image, and there's not much reason to get bothered by them. Now, if they're distasteful or annoyingly large images or something of the sort, I'd understand. However I can't see why the frequency in which Moderators change their forums splashes would be an issue. They have complete artistic freedom and licence to express themselves and their section using these notices, and I'm quite happy that they're updating them regularly, frankly.

All that aside, a toggle for the plugin (splashes) shouldn't be much of an issue to introduce either. Choosing not to see individual ones each time you enter the section would be useful.
 
If I may ask, what about the frequency of image changes bothers you? I don't quite see why it's problematic myself as long as it's not... 'spammmy'? If it's just to make the forum splash look nice and not in place of useful information (important threads, any events, etc), then I don't think there is anything wrong with mods changing the pictures in the forum splash every now and again.

edit: Hello ninjas. As for toggles, maybe it being able to be opened or close via a drop down option, default being on? Like how people can hide sections for instance.
 
Having a 'silly image' is quite different from having no image at all, don't you think? Maybe if most of them weren't large GIFs it would have been fine... I'd like to know exactly what is disturbing about these images, because they seem perfectly fine to me. Although it's true, the images seem to change every second time I visit the subforum.
 
Reason is I often manually block them, and some haven't been related to the subject of the section at all. [only current example] So I block it, another appears, I block that, another appears... not especially often, but it does honestly sour my experience a little. IMO they shouldn't be animated GIFs larger than 2MB, and shouldn't be taller than the text occupying the same area (nor, then, should the text be expanded to match the image size).


bobandbill said:
As for toggles, maybe it being able to be opened or close via a drop down option, default being on? Like how people can hide sections for instance.
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Sounds good.
 
Zorua said:
I don't see them as bothering, and in fact, they can actually be pretty amusing at times, but hey, that's me! I think limiting creativity as far as forum splashes go is a terrible idea. Let the mods do what they please with them, is how I see it. Personally speaking, I haven't seen any forum splash as of yet that makes me writhe in agony, so yeah.

Not a big deal, imo.
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I agree with Derk, forum splashes are actually really fun to look at because based on what I've seen, some can be quite hilarious, like the ones Syd has in her sections. They never stop amusing me.

Let the mods do what they like, besides they like to make sure their sections' regulars enjoy the most out of the section as well as put helpful pointers in, like some of the Pokemon sections have in their forum splashes.
 
I hate to sound like a jerk but the images can be distracting, especially if I'm not wearing my glasses. It can also increase load times on my very slow computer if the gif is too long (usually it isn't too bad, but nonetheless). I mean, I'm cool with having a little fun but I think it's a bit too much. Sorry to be a party pooper, but yeah.

I'd be cool if you guys rotated like every 6 months or have a default that changed with major holidays like Christmas and Easter but yeah. It's a little much.

What about an option to turn them on or off? I think that would resolve the issue quite nicely.
 
because POWER TO THE PEOPLE RAWR RAWR

Although customization options are honestly a great route to go because you're either gonna piss off one person or another. I mean I know it sounds rude but really, you make a toggle for visibility and have that toggle set in your options in your profile. Since the website has different sections produced by duplicates of the same code referencing the same variables, it shouldn't exactly be too difficult.

Not many changes have been made to the site in general bar skins and, yeah, while we shouldn't be going overboard, it just seems like something that is a visibility toggle for a single object is... really not that much to ask for?
 
Some moderators rely on the forum splash to keep people updated. You can't really keep people updated if there are a lot of people that ignore the splash. Frankly, if I added something to my splash and someone didn't see it because they had it disabled, I wouldn't care. I honestly don't see what's the big deal about this. I don't think that splashed should be toggable because some moderators use them to keep people updated.

Edit: My internet is absolute crap, and I'm not having any troubles with the splashes.
 
Yeah but for something like that that's a pretty easy solution. Have a toggle in control panel that sets that element to visible = false or something like that. I'm not fluent in web formatting languages but I can't imagine that something like that would be outrageously difficult.

If you can't change them, pacify them...

On important forum messages I think that maybe either images should be restricted to a certain size or change duration or have a separate unblockable area that's text only.

Complicated gifs can take a long time to load on my waffle iron computer and even though I'm guilty of using them in my sig it kinda just comes to show that not all of us really wanna see these images flashing and changing all the time, which is already impeding a slow browsing experience.
 
Zorua said:
That wasn't necessarily the point of my post. Someone complains about something, and the solution is to automatically make a toggle switch for it. It's honestly quite annoying, because there's obviously not always going to be a situation where the administration could please both sides by making something "optional".

Personally, I wouldn't mind if forum splashes were hide-able, but that'd be about it. If you want to see it, unhide it. If it harasses your internet, then hide it and make it go away.
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Probably because that's the most sensible solution to problems and caters to both the group that have a problem with whatever it is, and the group that's okay with it. If it deals with someone's experience on the forum, why does it matter if there's a toggle on something? It's not affecting you. But if someone doesn't want something there that doesn't really need to be there (like forum splashes, for instance) then where is the harm in that?
 
Zorua said:
I don't see them as bothering, and in fact, they can actually be pretty amusing at times, but hey, that's me! I think limiting creativity as far as forum splashes go is a terrible idea. Let the mods do what they please with them, is how I see it. Personally speaking, I haven't seen any forum splash as of yet that makes me writhe in agony, so yeah.

Not a big deal, imo.
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This, pretty much! However, it would be nice if there was an expand/collapse button next to each forum splashes. That way, if someone ever gets bothered by a splash, they could hide it pretty easily with just a click of a button. d: Not really sure how tough it is to have it implemented, though.
 
Finnick Odair said:
If it's a load issue, then I'm sorry if this comes across as harsh, but, that's your own problem. We're not going to nerf a nice little feature because an infintismal portion of the userbase finds it cumbersome to "look at".
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Understandable but that doesn't really mean that you can't consider that some people don't want to see it and a toggle is not exactly hard to implement... :/

I hate to be "that one guy" but it satisfies both the people who like the flavour and those who don't like it. A "collapse" function mentioned above is a good option too.
 
O07_eleven said:
-If there's lots of text please centre it and only use really small images on the side to complement
-Centre the title, that's where it belongs.
-Don't put a huge image. Medium size only.
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Basically Culture & Media's splash; glad to have accommodated. :]
 
O07_eleven said:
So I went and had a look at the forum splashes of all the sections since I never visit most and I have to say a majority of them are quite nice (lost it at the PGC, so kawaii Syd bby! ^.^) Forum Games also has a high rating on the adorability factor. It's a definite possibility to read things without them but good forum splashes do spruce things up a bit and please the eye.

That being said, I don't like some of the designs, and chances are for mods that if you feel the need to constantly change designs because you don't like it then we probably don't like them either. I don't think this needs a fix or option, just make a really good forum splash that suits the section and sticks to it for a while.Changing things based on a gimmicky thought gets a little irritating

My advice:
-If there's lots of text please centre it and only use really small images on the side to complement
-Centre the title, that's where it belongs.
-Don't put a huge image. Medium size only.
- If an image or gif is the focal point please put it in the centre and build around it.
-Everybody likes cute animal or Pokemon gifs!

This is common sense stuff really.
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What dimensions constitute a huge image?

I'm looking for ways to improve my wordy splash, and the image I put in the splash was kinda put there to liven up the splash so that people would notice it, instead of glossing it over in the way people have a tendency to do when it comes to walls of text (I also put it in there because I found it hilarious and adorable, but that was a bonus). I'm not exactly someone with an eye for design, so I've spent the 6 months my splash has been in its current state trying to come up with something and ending with half-baked ideas that don't exactly improve the splash.

If anyone has design ideas for my splash, do PM or VM me. The last thing I want the splash to be is an eyesore. I want it to be a resource that people actually pay attention to.

That said, as long as it's within the boundaries of appropriate content for PC (even if it happens to not be obviously related to the section topic), I think that whatever people choose to put in their splashes is fine.
 
Cassino said:
I believe I went over this already:
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The largest one I have found is around 900KB (celebrations forum). Therefore, all(/most if I'm missing any) splashes already follow your ideal rule of 2MB - and I agree wholeheartedly. Nobody is going to purposefully upload enormous gifs though, if they do all it would take would be a polite PM mentioning it.

Your text rule is... less clear. Some sections lay out their splashes differently, some have a lot of text and some have very little. For example, the RPC splash is half picture, half simple links - it works pretty well if you ask me.

I don't think anything needs changing here :) some individual splashes might need tweaking from time to time but let's not blow this out of proportion.
 
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