Can we?

Thanks.

Can we?

Thanks.

The "[56k beware]" tag that Grimmers has been adding and some messing with peoples' images appears to have generated discord in the monkey house. I'm not aware of the extent of the latter, which sounds a bit much to me, but the former seems fine.

Tell me what's been going on.

Some severely non-excellent modding has been happening, without explanation. It's reminding me of somewhere else...

Now let us not dwell or panic. It will only encourage Mr Chris to implement the sinister Plan B.

Possibly a THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLASH for those of us on underpowered laptops?

Right, really quickly.
The moderators who are in place at the moment aren't really moderators, they're people who needed some 'powa' to set this board up for everybody else to use. As you all know, new mods are being elected.
I assume this thread has been created because I had the audacity to change the subtitle in a thread about pictures of toy chimps to warn 56k users that the first three posts contained just over two megabytes worth of pictures. Then, being an 'excellent moderator',

Before we agree to kill this topic dead, I would assume that a thread with loads of embedded YouTube videos should have this warning on them too?

despite my ability to dispense instant biscuity rewards.

Nothing is anything to do with me - I'm merely a SubEd, not a mod. I have NO POWER AT ALL, despite my ability to dispense instant biscuity rewards.

Well, the title of that thread is 'youtube videos' (or something), just like the title of the photography thread has the word 'photography' in it.
I only change things (and I have done this a few times before and no-one has minded) that aren't obvious.

Well, the title of that thread is 'youtube videos' (or something), just like the title of the photography thread has the word 'photography' in it.
I only change things (and I have done this a few times before and no-one has minded) that aren't obvious.

This has turned boring. Everyone get pissy again, that was much more fun to watch.

This has turned boring. Everyone get pissy again, that was much more fun to watch.

Is there no way to make an icon appear next to a topic when the Flash code is used within? I'm not arsed personally, but it's an idea.

Well, if the thread title is obvious, then of course that's dandy. I was thinking more along the lines of "List your favourite music" thread and people list in text, then someone posts a music video in it, then someone else does at what point does it shift from being fine to being bandwidth wasting?

This has been an excellence drill. You may return to your desks now.

Oh, by the way, if this had been a real emergency, 2 people would have died, and one would have had to be rescued from behind the vending machine by the fire service.

I like embedding, personally I think the old WoS way was appalling.

Or even(!) make the youtube tag turn off and onable in your profile. That would be far easier (for us, not Grim... obv) and avoid having to reign back when being excellent in threads.

That was one of the things I was thinking of - having a 'YouTube' icon of sorts. Along with icons for cookery icons and so on and so on. Y'know, with like a drop-down or something, so you could quickly say 'This thread contains music or video!' However, nobody was interested, so nothing remotely similar is ever going to happen here, and if it anything slightly akin did appear, then it just proves how fucking awesome I am.

In the case of YouTube embeds, the file sizes are actually quite small until you click on 'play'. They're smaller than a similarly-sized image, to be honest.

Which was probably the right thing to do. Although there is probably fuck all people still on modems, what is very likely is that people may be logging in via GPRS or 3G.

If you're stuck on a slow connection or machine that can't handle 'X', you will quickly find out for yourself which threads to avoid, or make some work-around to view. All you need to do is click "back", after all.
Providing a warning is of little benefit. At most, the "wide load" post icon idea might be worth doing, but even then..

Additional nit-picky rules just seem nit-picky, and would then need nagging about to remind people. The "nothing too big" is clear and can be pointed to if someone has a problem with what's posted.

Making it the moderators' responsibility to tidy up messages, add warnings and rescale things is adding work-load to a task that should be largely hands-off (not to mention the likelyhood of irritating people).