Sedit
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Photos
Iknow you have to pay for excessive photo use as far as I am aware but would it be possible to setup an area of the forum for threads only opened with
pictures. Or at the very lest allow a search engine function to detect such threads. They are the most interesting byfar because its kind of like porn
for a nerd....even if its not that great you still wanna see.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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Polverone
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You can find posts with pictures by searching for img. This will detect both the HTML and the BBCode img tags. Unfortunately the forum's built-in
search function does not order results by date so it still is not a convenient way to find recent posts with pictures.
PGP Key and corresponding e-mail address
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Sedit
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Thanks Poleverone I never considered searching for the tag since they visually dissapear. Im sure there still indexed though even if we don't see them
so ill give it a shot.
The search function seems to order not by date but by most recent activity is this correct?
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Doing the IMG search and restricting the section to say, organic chemistry or the likes leads to much more interesting reads then the same old humdrum
of endless text, thanks for the advice. I was always a fan of books with alot of pictures anyway it breaks up the monotny while reading and retains
interest better then plain text.
[Edited on 6-7-2010 by Sedit]
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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The WiZard is In
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Quote: Originally posted by Sedit  | | Iknow you have to pay for excessive photo use as far as I am aware but would it be possible to setup an area of the forum for threads only opened with
pictures. |
I suffer from the the thought — that a section for chem related
graphics devoid of a specific subject (text) would be useful... if not
bandwidth sucking. AKA clip art.
[Edited on 7-7-2010 by The WiZard is In]
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Sedit
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Who said anything like this? I said those opened with pictures IE threads where the person showed that they performed the experiment and provided
detailed pictures instead of endless text much of which is just copy paste jobs from other places. I like the idea of seeing pictures along with a
writeup instead of just a bunch of text that blurs my fucked up eyes.
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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The WiZard is In
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| Quote: Originally posted by Sedit | | Who said anything like this? I said those opened with pictures IE threads where the person showed that they performed the experiment and provided
detailed pictures instead of endless text much of which is just copy paste jobs from other places. I like the idea of seeing pictures along with a
writeup instead of just a bunch of text that blurs my fucked up eyes. |
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Ooooo boo-hooo-hooo. I have broken another secret rule
here in sci mad. Never-ever suggest an alternative idea.
And I would note - humor is not welcome, only serious
---- is discussed here in Monastery Science Madness
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Sedit
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WTF are you babbling about now?
Perhaps I misread your post since I did not understand it fully. Wheres your alternative idea at?
Knowledge is useless to useless people...
"I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes. The fall of Rome, the fall of Germany — the
fall of the ruling country, the people who think they can do whatever they want without anybody else's consent. I've seen this story
before."~Maynard James Keenan
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psychokinetic
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Yeah, I missed something there.
--w-o-o-s-h--->
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“If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found
the object of his search.
I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor.”
-Tesla
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peach
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I just tag
- photos
or
- photo essay
onto the title.
But that doesn't work if my post is within someone else's.
I realize it can be a real pain in the ass taking photos. I take tens or hundreds to account for the blurry / poor colour etc failures, then sift
through them and pick the best, then have to upload, paste them into posts... it gets quite time consuming.
But it does make the forum far, far more exciting to look at. As they say, a picture says a thousand words. And it is nerd porn, I love looking at
what some other nerd has, what their setup looks like or how they're doing something. I pick up a few useful little tips they might forget to mention
that way, like what they're using to wrap something in, or how they hold something in place.
It would be nice if there was someway I could tick a box on posting to say "photo essay", "equipment", "setup", "nerd porn" and then have the post be
dumped to a specific photo forum with a link back to the original article. That way people could easily find some graphical porn to view with their
beer.
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