Cool Vids&Pics&Links Discussion Thread

RandolphEsq

Moses7

Watch Stanford Student Ravi Fernando Solve Rubik’s Cube While Juggling

keith16

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

WTF is this about

CMpunked

Wibbs wrote: »

Nothing deep or even vaguely helpful, but just to say I love viewing this forum. Always gives me a and usually a and often a :pac:. Thanks to all the folks hereabouts.

You're f'n welcome, wibbs.

garv123

Johnsons no more tears was made to be as pure as water to be gentle on babies eyes.

feck ye're l'oreal

AlmightyCushion

keith16 wrote: »

WTF is this about

It's a game called plague or pandemic (it goes by a few names, it's called plague on android though). You have to create a bacteria or virus and use it to infect and kill everyone on the planet. The disease you create is passed from country to country via land, ports or airports. Once your disease starts taking off, if it gets noticed countries may start closing their borders to protect themselves. That country is Madagascar and they are renowned for shutting their borders very easily.

AlmightyCushion

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

It's a game called plague or pandemic (it goes by a few names, it's called plague on android though). You have to create a bacteria or virus and use it to infect and kill everyone on the planet. The disease you create is passed from country to country via land, ports or airports. Once your disease starts taking off, if it gets noticed countries may start closing their borders to protect themselves. That country is Madagascar and they are renowned for shutting their borders very easily.

Madagascar was always a bitch to try and infect.

AlmightyCushion

Deleted User wrote: »

Madagascar was always a bitch to try and infect.

So true. If I ever meet someone from there I'll probably punch them in the face. I'm sure they'll understand, they probably get it all the time.

CMpunked

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

So true. If I ever meet someone from there I'll probably punch them in the face. I'm sure they'll understand, they probably get it all the time.

:eek::eek::eek:

mongoman

Since it's now past 16.00pm, is there even going to be a photoshop comp this week? Once it used to always kick off around the 13.00pm mark, didn't know how spoiled we were at the time.

Penn

There is. I'm just limited to the phone right now so it'll be this evening, likely before 9.

It's Paddys Day in fairness

LizT

How dare you have a life penn!! :eek:

RoyalMarine

does anyone think this guy on the left holding the mic

http://s2.jrnl.ie/media/2013/03/vatican-pope-96-630x408.jpg

looks like theo paphitis??

actuallylike

Don't know if this has been brought up before. Haven't looked through the thread, but vast majority of reposts aren't actually reposts. I think someone might have brought it up before that people see it on reddit and assume it's a repost. I don't look at reddit or any other site to be honest and the vast majority of alleged reposts I've never seen and I follow this thread pretty closely.

LEIN

actuallylike wrote: »

Don't know if this has been brought up before. Haven't looked through the thread, but vast majority of reposts aren't actually reposts. I think someone might have brought it up before that people see it on reddit and assume it's a repost. I don't look at reddit or any other site to be honest and the vast majority of alleged reposts I've never seen and I follow this thread pretty closely.

We only edit posts that we are certain are reposts.
All reported posts are checked and notes are left for the other moderators to have a look also.

Reported posts are looked at by at least three mods.

Squeaky the Squirrel

DD9090 wrote: »

We only edit posts that we are certain are reposts.
All reported posts are checked and notes are left for the other moderators to have a look also.

Reported posts are looked at by at least three mods.

Nope.

Since it was last mentioned on here that some of the posts changed to links weren't reposts I've been opening all of them and some of them are DEFINITELY not reposts.

Darkglasses

Agree, I follow YLYL pretty religiously and I think lately there's been a whole bunch of mistaken reposts. I normally report the post again if I think something has been marked as a repost erroneously.

actuallylike

If 3 mods review each reported repost then it must be pretty hard to make mistakes. I understand that the alternative is to just allow reposts which is obviously stupid but I have to reiterate, there are a whole bunch, majority I'd guess that are 100% not reposts. so much so that when I click on the link, I'm usually surprised if it is in fact a repost. It seemed to me that one particular mod was editing all the incorrect reposts but like you say, if it goes by 3 different mods then any blame can't just lie with him/her.

Squeaky the Squirrel

Their was a post edited that had a note

Repost??

Not 100% if it was a repost now, don't think it was (may check)

But that shows theirs something wrong.

And can't say I'm wrong bout posts not being reposts as I look at every post in this Thread.

Son Of A Vidic

This whole repost issue is the main reason I am personally loath to post in YLYL. I posted a picture two weeks ago and later learned it was edited as a very old repost. Now prior to posting it, I had literally checked back through months of previous posts and I reached a point where I felt it had to be an original image. Turns out of course I was wrong. So how can you win?

dulpit

Are re-posts that bad though?

Turtwig

Honestly, I don't get what the big deal here is. There's four YLYL threads, each one has been brilliant and every now and again there will be reposts. They aren't deleted; the links are left there for us to click them if we wish. So, even if the mods are making a mistake a false positive is far less annoying than the alternative of browsing through a sequence of reposts.

fasttalkerchat

If its being edited as a repost provide a link to the original. That way the original gets the credit and the reposter knows the mod was right.

Quazzie

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

If its being edited as a repost provide a link to the original. That way the original gets the credit and the reposter knows the mod was right.

You expect the mods to trawl through literally thousands of posts looking for the original everyon every time they think th they spot a repost?

ballsymchugh

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

If its being edited as a repost provide a link to the original. That way the original gets the credit and the reposter knows the mod was right.

some of the reposts could be from older threads. i've often recognised ones that i've seen on the other threads that i know.

as this repost says:

fasttalkerchat

Quazzie wrote: »

You expect the mods to trawl through literally thousands of posts looking for the original everyon every time they think th they spot a repost?

They already say they only edit a post when they're sure they have a repost... I assume they already have found the original.

LizT

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

They already say they only edit a post when they're sure they have a repost... I assume they already have found the original.

I would know when some pictures are reposts and report them as so. If you asked me where or when it was originally posted I wouldn't be able to tell you.

YLYL recieves a serious amount of traffic and a lot of posts. There's probably a high amount of reported posts. Asking mods to not only edit posts but provide a link to the original post is ridiculous.

fasttalkerchat

LizT wrote: »

I would know when some pictures are reposts and report them as so. If you asked me where or when it was originally posted I wouldn't be able to tell you.

YLYL recieves a serious amount of traffic and a lot of posts. There's probably a high amount of reported posts. Asking mods to not only edit posts but provide a link to the original post is ridiculous.

Fair enough. I assumed if 3 moods had to check it that they would also have the previous post to hand already.
You could ask the site owners about adding a reverse image search to the search function to save the hassle.

Penn

Just to clarify something, when DD9090 said reported posts are looked at by at least three mods, it could be a case that the first mod edits it as a repost and the next two mods think that the first mod had seen it before even if they themselves didn't. Or the first mod doesn't edit it, the second one does, the third thinks the first or second saw it before etc. With the amount of reported posts we get, we can't discuss each one between us before deciding whether to edit it or not.

The mods are discussing this issue again between us and will hopefully have a resolution soon.

flutterflye

I see a fair few reposts that are left there, and posts that are not reposts that are edited and marked as reposts.
But it's not really that big a deal is it?
I don't think it is anyway.
The only reposts I ever find annoying are the ones that are constantly reposted, or else the ones that are on the same or previous page.

dulpit

The only issue I can see is people who are thanks whores. If they post image, and it's at bottom of page and gets missed, then the repost appears later on with loads of thanks, the original poster might get peeved. Or you know, might not care.

Moar pics please is all I have to say...

Squeaky the Squirrel

Dare I say it....Less of the smart arse comments when pics are edited would be nice aswell. One person in particular is getting to fond of it.

LizT

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Dare I say it....Less of the smart arse comments when pics are edited would be nice aswell. One person in particular is getting to fond of it.

They make me laugh

Penn

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

Dare I say it....Less of the smart arse comments when pics are edited would be nice aswell. One person in particular is getting to fond of it.

In order to remove the banality of having reposts simply changed to a link with just "Repost" written in it, we sometimes try to write something funny to keep the thread funny. It's not intended to be in any way a "smart arse comment".

If a mod edits one of your posts with a funny comment, you're free to either PM the mod and ask them to remove it, or edit it out yourself (provided you don't edit the picture back in again).

dr.bollocko

I used to do a lot more CVPL modding than I do now.

It gets some serious amount of reported posts from the mega threads...
Loads of reported posts. And none of them are the kind of reported post that makes you have to think most of the time.

And those that do get reported often get reported numerous times.

So just going through all of that sucks. It's not in any way cerebral, it doesn't necessarily engage the brain but it needs to be done. Snip this repost, snip that repost.

Sometimes the janitorial effort can be improved just by trying to put in a little joke in the reason for editing. It's not intended to piss people off.

It's just a little opportunity to inject some humanity in a task that should probably be done by a script.

Squeaky the Squirrel

Penn wrote: »

In order to remove the banality of having reposts simply changed to a link with just "Repost" written in it, we sometimes try to write something funny to keep the thread funny. It's not intended to be in any way a "smart arse comment".

dr.bollocko wrote: »

Sometimes the janitorial effort can be improved just by trying to put in a little joke in the reason for editing. It's not intended to piss people off.

It's just a little opportunity to inject some humanity in a task that should probably be done by a script.

This would be cool.

But,

Theirs been a good few over the last few months that I take as a dig (I'm far from a sensitive soul) at poster for giving mod the hassle of editing post.

If it was ever funny, long since stopped.

Penn

Squeaky the Squirrel wrote: »

This would be cool.

But,

Theirs been a good few over the last few months that I take as a dig (I'm far from a sensitive soul) at poster for giving mod the hassle of editing post.

If it was ever funny, long since stopped.

Feel free to PM me any examples and I'll take a look at them for you.

Pawwed Rig

What is the Dolan thread all about?

seamus

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

What is the Dolan thread all about?

Dolan is a Donald Duck parody that appears to have been created by a sociopathic 8 year old.

Pawwed Rig

Yeah I got that. I just had a look through the first 5 pages of the thread and am a bit lost tbh

Penn

I don't think there's any greater explanation. It's just exactly what it seems like.

I generally hate them but once you stop thinking too hard about them, some of them can be pretty funny.

dulpit

Dolan is teh man... :pac:

Also, if you're looking for more information: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dolan

Pawwed Rig

Right so it's nothing I am missing then :pac:

Most of the Dolan ones are terrible, but every now and then they do get some brilliant ones. They're a very dark sense of humour.

dulpit

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83749113&postcount=6356

stock> wrote: »

On the motorway this morning.

Anyone???? Is it the JCB?

LEIN

dulpit wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83749113&postcount=6356


Anyone???? Is it the JCB?

They are not allowed on motorways.

Flesh Gorden

dulpit wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83749113&postcount=6356


Anyone???? Is it the JCB?

DD9090 wrote: »

They are not allowed on motorways.

Probably what the op meant, but how that's meant to be funny who knows.
Any other posts by Stock> in ylyl are generally piss poor, so I wouldn't waste too much time trying to decipher it.

dulpit

dulpit wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=83749113&postcount=6356


Anyone???? Is it the JCB?

I was just about to ask the same question!

dulpit

DD9090 wrote: »

They are not allowed on motorways.

And hilarity ensued...

CMpunked

DD9090 wrote: »

They are not allowed on motorways.

In certain situations they are allowed (on tenure for county council etc)
But still, bit odd to see, I suppose.