Stupid, lazy, incondiderate?

Here's the deal. The last six topics I've clicked on to read here at Roadfood.com have extended beyond the width of my computer screen by links posted somewhere within the topic. If I wish to read the topic, I must scroll back and forth across the screen. I don't like doing that. I disrespect anyone who does like doing that. I envy anyone who does not have to do that because their monitor obliges them. I love the links. I love to go to places on the net I've never been to before. There are only three possible reasons this happens.

1. Stupid / Ignorant Wow! You can shorten a link? How? Wow! Look at that!


http://masl.to/

It creates a shorter (i.e. less wide) link. It stands for "make a shorter link."


2. Laziness Yeh, the dude just taught me how to do that but it's such a pain to do all that.
3. Inconsiderate I just don't give a damn if the next person reading this has to use up his index finger to get through the topic, who care's?

And for those of you who drive automobiles (roadfood... cough, cough,) those same three principles apply to the proper use of turn signals. If you don't do it, you've got one of three outs. Pick one.

I'm stupid, I'm lazy, I'm inconsiderate.

Consider yourselves warned. I'll be back... maybe?

http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG

Oh, sorry-
I thought you were calling me.

Or maybe people just don't realize this is happening or don't know how to do some of the things you suggest or have a monitor that makes it hard for them to know what will fit on your screen or are perplexed by the fact some links will wrap, while others will not. Maybe, just maybe it was one of these things and not an attempt to cause you such anguish and heartache.

Your "lesson" could have been a tutorial instead of an accusation. I leave you to contemplate the subject of your thread and decide why it wasn't.

NOTE TO SELF: Find and post as many long, margin blowing links as possible as a gesture of love to gatorbreast.

Hey Gatorbreath, here's one for you.

www.pissandmoan.com

Enjoy

I wait with gatored breath for your return!

While I agree that the thread title is a bit over the top, it is a valid observation. There's also the issue of pictures being posted that are approximately the size of Nebraska. If you're using Windows, it comes with Paint. In which you can resize anything you want to a manageable size. It is not required that you use pictures the size they come out of your digital camera.

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG

Your wit, your teeth, your pasty reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts.
Oh, ya gotta love this site! Thank you Adjudicator!

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Originally posted by felix4067

While I agree that the thread title is a bit over the top, it is a valid observation.

I agree it is a valid observation, but prefer to think it is primarily a function of people not knowing how to do it the "right" way.

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Originally posted by Tony Bad

quote:

Originally posted by felix4067

While I agree that the thread title is a bit over the top, it is a valid observation.

I agree it is a valid observation, but prefer to think it is primarily a function of people not knowing how to do it the "right" way.

Gatorbreath is probably correct in his observation but his response was awful. Those of us who have difficulty in posting does not deserve to be called the names.

There are issues on this forum that are not easy to resolve. We are working to improve them.

Paul E. Smith
knoxville, TN

Yeah what he said...................................................................................oops

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

http://www.madsci.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/~lynn/jardin/SCG

Heh heh heh....
"I love your eyes, But only with ketchup"....

I cant stop using the refresh button..
Thanks Adj....
Thats a great link!

Another way to shrink pics is by using irfan which can be downloaded for free, and I have found to be very user-friendly. Just search it on the net. It makes a red blob icon on your desktop.

I can't help observing that whoever made it so you have to side-scroll about eight inches in this thread was being petty and childish.

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Originally posted by felix4067

I can't help observing that whoever made it so you have to side-scroll about eight inches in this thread was being petty and childish.

That issue has been taken care of. It got deleted.

MikeS.

In order to shorten links, you have to know the specific formatting for this software.

(In order for this mini-tutorial to appear properly, I had to reverse the brackets in the description; otherwise, the software formats it. So, I put the close bracket at the beginning of the url and the open bracket at the end.)

Let's say I wanted to link to the main page of CNN; http://www.cnn.com/.

The way to format that so it appears as[url='http://www.cnn.com/']CNN's website[/url] is like this:

Part one is (note the inversion of the brackets) ]url="http://www.cnn.com/"[. Don't forget the quotation marks around the url; that is what tells the software to shorten the link.

Part two, after the brackets, is 'CNN's website'

Part three is [/url].

So (again, note the inversion of the brackets) ]url="http://www.cnn.com"[CNN's website[/url] will appear as the clickable link [url='http://www.cnn.com']CNN's website[/url] (when you put the brackets back in the proper places, [] instead of ][). Just don't forget the quotation marks around the url in the formatting and you'll be ok, no need to use third party shorteners.


Tom

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Originally posted by Mosca

In order to shorten links, you have to know the specific formatting for this software.

(In order for this mini-tutorial to appear properly, I had to reverse the brackets in the description; otherwise, the software formats it. So, I put the close bracket at the beginning of the url and the open bracket at the end.)

Let's say I wanted to link to the main page of CNN; http://www.cnn.com/.

The way to format that so it appears as[url='http://www.cnn.com/']CNN's website[/url] is like this:

Part one is (note the inversion of the brackets) ]url="http://www.cnn.com/"[. Don't forget the quotation marks around the url; that is what tells the software to shorten the link.

Part two, after the brackets, is 'CNN's website'

Part three is [/url].

So (again, note the inversion of the brackets) ]url="http://www.cnn.com"[CNN's website[/url] will appear as the clickable link [url='http://www.cnn.com']CNN's website[/url] (when you put the brackets back in the proper places, [] instead of ][). Just don't forget the quotation marks around the url in the formatting and you'll be ok, no need to use third party shorteners.


Tom

Thanks Tom! That is a lot more helpful than making accusations. A lot of newer forum software will do just waht you described with a couple of clicks. Old is comfortable, but new is often easier!

All I have to say is....

May your succulent earlobes ever flap about my knees like a thousand wooden pigeons fleeing the local sawmill.

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Thanks Adj!!!

quote:

Originally posted by felix4067

I can't help observing that whoever made it so you have to side-scroll about eight inches in this thread was being petty and childish.

Aw shucks! Weren't nothin'!

Mosca

Thank You for posting how to do that, I will do that from now on.

Thank You!!

CajunKing

In my case, "stupid". Like CajunKing, I'll try the new (to me) method.

gatorbreath: "In your absence I find other forms of amusement."

From the movie Body Heat:


Matty: [to Ned] You aren't too smart. I like that in a man.
Ned: What else do you like? Lazy? Ugly? Horny? I got 'em all.
Matty: You don't look lazy.

Stupid can learn. Ignorant can be taught. Lazy cannot be motivated, usually.

How to mess up a topic 06/28/2005 11comments 676 views

Posting Long Links 03/03/2005 4comments 574 views

Here's the real deal. Upon encountering six topics in a row on Roadfood/forums which extended beyond the width of my standard sized monitor and required me to scroll back and forth across the screen to read, I issued the original post in this thread. All six of those instances were caused by people posting utile links. which despite their utility, were exceedingly long. This was not my first attempt to address this issue of posting long links. It was the third attempt. The first two (listed above) were a convivial, {hey, how ya doin', head noddin', don't want to piss nobody off, geez does anybody realize that posting a million character link produces a million character wide screen image?} type of deal.

This last post was inspired by a page from my personal history. A group of anti-war protesters on my campus in the early seventies grew tired of the turnouts at their campus rallies. They proclaimed, unless enough people showed up at their next rally, a dog would die by nafarious means. Lots of people showed up and few of them were sympathetic to the protesters, but all claimed to know the issues involved. No dogs died.

This is about awareness. This is about personal responsibility. I tried politely, two times, to make people aware of the consequences of posting links which IMHO rendered topics unreadable. If you think that scrolling back and forth is not a pain in the ass, I stand by my original thought and I disrespect you.

I ain't into threatening dogs. In fact, I recoil at stooping this low to present this issue but the fact remains that I have presented it two prior times and still encounter six straight topics which post links that are toooooooooooooo long to fit on my screen. Therefore, I consider such posters as stupid, inconsiderate, or lazy. If they come up with a valid excuse, I'll apologise Also, format, schmormat, click on the link I provided in the original post and if you can't read, understand, and utilize it, pick 1, 2, or 3 and label thyself 1, 2, or 3. If you gotta analyze it or make a tutorial beyond that, count yourself as 1, 2, ... nevermind 3..

I'm not into political correctness on the third try.

I can't help but wonder what your screen settings might be. I am on this site a lot, usually on a cheap old lap top with a fixed setting of 1028X768. I can't recall 6 topics this month, let alone 6 in a row that caused this problem.

Well, not that it matters but I came across several today but I might just be a plain old dummy when it come to being adept on the computer. Whatever! If I have to scroll back and forth, I just do not read it. Life is too short and I am too old!

Greymo, I agree with you. My computer is a tool, not a challange.
I also skip the scroll-inducing topics.

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Originally posted by lunasatic

Stupid can learn. Ignorant can be taught. Lazy cannot be motivated, usually.

Hard work pays off over time.

But Lazy pays off right now.