Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Urbis Issues

::prepares Lorrie’s love letter::

Should I post it on Urbis, in order to get it reviewed?

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / New Submitting Format Issues

The preview bug is also fixed. Let us know if you notice anything else.

Thanks,

-Steve

Topic: Tips and Tricks / Using "The Strikethrough"--Thanks to Jebozid

Yeah, one question though: why does a pressed enter button create a ‘double’ empty row?
I mean pressing enter should put you to the next line, not the one under it.
Just try pasting 2 lines and than try writing them in wysiwyg editor.
Poetry has always suffered from this “double row” sickness here on Urbis.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / Urbis Issues

Ha, you guys are cracking me up (although Lorrie would actually appreciate the love letters). Thank you for all your support.

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / RESOLVED - Formatting Issues

Formatting issues have all been addressed. Let me know if you have any concerns.

Topic: Tips and Tricks / Using "The Strikethrough"--Thanks to Jebozid

With the new WYSIWYG (that is what the editor is called) you can do more with formatting than ever before. And it is easier.

Topic: The Sandbox / The Caves - Adult material (?)

I’m with SH. Down with Jeb. ;)

Topic: The Sandbox / Baby Avatars

:p

Topic: Miscellaneous / Opportunity - a one horse race?

From the way it was phrased I’d assumed everyone who submitted something would have their stuff read by LJK and then they’ll get back to the people whose stuff they’re most interested in, but the ‘contenders’ thing does kinda contradict that.

I think that there should be a whole separate submission route/queue for the opportunities pieces.

Topic: Miscellaneous / PROlific Reviews

I agree with Square

Topic: Troubleshooting and Bug Reports / New Submitting Format Issues

The review formatting issue is fixed. We are now on the preview bug.

Topic: The Sandbox / Baby Avatars

Heheh, I guess rotating chess pieces are the only true avatars. :P

Topic: Miscellaneous / Opportunity - a one horse race?

DC didn’t delete it. He obviously put it on private. (I can see it because I reviewed it)
But yes, Steve, tell us the rules!

Topic: The Sandbox / Baby Avatars

hmmm… I dislike pictures of baby blues brushed with with red hair. People that use that type of avatar should be burned at the altar.

Even worse are those that used cartoons to represent theirselves.

Topic: The Sandbox / The Caves - Adult material (?)

I wouldn’t mind reading the second part.

Jeb is a dweeb… don’t listen to him

Topic: Miscellaneous / PROlific Reviews

You, Claire_D, are the highest authority possible when it comes to judging reviews given to you. Use the quality vote and the refund system. PRO or not PRO, reviewers still need to do the best they can for their customers or lose the points and have to do more work.

Topic: Miscellaneous / Opportunity - a one horse race?

Jebozid

This has never been made clear, so I am guessing.
STEVE – what are the rules here?

My reviews so far average 8+, which only counts strangers and does not include the friend’s review.
So, item submitted, good reviews, but not on the “contenders” list.
Nor are any except DC’s.

Oh wow, it get’s even better.
I just looked for DC’s entry again to see if there were any clues – he’s deleted it, but its still listed as a contender!

Topic: Miscellaneous / Opportunity - a one horse race?

Do you have to have >=5 reviews to qualify? Must they be from the general queue? (randoms don’t rate, and friends rate in a different space)

I reviewed DC’s. More than 10 pages. Barely survived. Robbed him a million points.
I guess more people have short attention span and longer works turn them off.

Topic: The Sandbox / The Caves - Adult material (?)

I would prefer if you used the word ‘pussy’ instead of cave. That’s way sexier. And it could actually be about the caves. Or about pussy. :)
I adore spoken, spontaneous innuendo. Written – not so much. It’s too expected. Even if you’re PMing with a 90 year old granny.

Topic: The Sandbox / Baby Avatars

Heh heh, someone’s cranky today :P
I once, and only once, actually wanted to see a picture of a baby. It was my old friends’ spawn. I just had to know what Satan looks like in diapers. He was actually very cute.
In general, I agree, other peoples’ baby pictures are creepy and should be illegal.
Some maybe remember I had my photo up before this adorable bunny avatar. But damn my good looks, the people were concentrating more on how to have sex with me than on my poetry. If they were some big shot publishers – then the sex would be appropriate. I have my standards. :)

Topic: The Sandbox / Baby Avatars

Arrrrgh!

Please stop these people! It’s bad enough having pictures of your friends’ grubby spawn foisted upon you, without having to come on here and look at the dribbling close-ups of bawling infants.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that no-one ever wants to see somebody else’s baby photographs. Babies are interesting only to the broody twerps who helped force them into this world against their will in the first place.

I’ve spotted about six or seven examples of this baby avatar syndrome. Unless your six-month old trog is writing your sci-fi novel, please just post a picture of yourself.

Or alternatively, post a picture of a mouldy shoe. I might appreciate that more.

Topic: Miscellaneous / PROlific Reviews

When I see a review by a PROlific member, I am generally expecting it to be helpful and non-refundable. A few times now, however, I’ve had to turf in the PRO people for a lack of effort.

Being PRO should does not mean you can get away with half-decent reviews. It should not be an excuse to slouch merely since you need less credits to unlock things. Most PRO members are very groovy, incidentally, but I have seen several really fouling up recently.

It all has a whiff of arrogance about it. Perhaps PRO members should be made to make the extra effort with reviews by some higher authority. I don’t see why not. They’re the ones paying to be here.

Topic: The Sandbox / The Caves - Adult material (?)

A while ago, a woman sent me an email containing just a joke. I replied with one of my own.
This began a regular exchange – though never with any “direct” conversation.

In some strange way, the topics and joke treatments became an actual form of communication for real – revealing things about us to each other.

Anyway, she sent me a sexual innuendo story – this was my reply.
I don’t want to put this on Urbis main, so here is part 1 for your amusement (I hope).

He first heard of the caves as a child. The older boys would boast of their adventures, while the younger ones shared silly stories to show how clever they were.
As he approached puberty, the idea of the caves began to both intrigue and frighten him. He had heard that some had been cared for, and were either surrounded by well trimmed shrubbery or even had a bare entrance. Others, he was told, were hidden behind a dense growth.
Adults kept warning him of the dangers, suggesting that he first learn the art of defence to avoid dire consequences. They told of some young men that went in and were trapped for life.
Most of the caves were well protected, their purity almost revered like some holy artifact, only to be approached by those willing to undertake the most holy of ceremonies over a period of years. All the boys knew others, those that were almost common property, available to any that wished to enter. His father warned him to avoid those, telling him that they held foul smells and disease. He said that even those that remained clean were so over used that they had lost any mystery or value. “You can use them to experiment, if they are clean, but each man really needs a cave that is all his, one that he wishes to become a part of his life”.
Some wanted the caves only found in the young mountains, recently produced by nature, their structure almost untouched by the effects of time, almost vacant of life. For a young man, this dream seemed acceptable, but most frowned if an older man sought them out.
Others wanted a cave belonging to the older mountains, those that had matured, weathered by time, yet having absorbed knowledge and wisdom.
Rather than rush into one of the greatest adventures of his life, he first studied. He read texts both ancient and new, of the rituals and the approaches most likely to make his penetration of their depths both wonderful for him and that would please the mountain. For many believed that mountains had souls, and to win the heart of a mountain was one of the greatest prizes a man could ever imagine. Something to love and be loved by, to cherish during the rest of his life.

I’ll only put up part two if others request it.

Topic: The Sandbox / Daywatch V Nightwatch - Brits V Yanks

While we were in Australia, my brother started working as a draftsman in WRE (Weapons Research Establishment). He was given the job of drawing the schematics for the Blue Streak Missile.
He came home one day killing himself laughing.
The gyroscope was to be held in place with Durex!
Knowing that Durex was the Aussie name for cellotape and not a condom didn’t do much to improve our confidence in the concept.

Topic: Miscellaneous / Opportunity - a one horse race?

Hi Claire_D

Yes, my credits are getting low again now.
I hadn’t realised “Appeared in Queue” was not referring to the blind queue, so I was sitting back on Urbis while off in the real world doing “stuff”.
Back to reviewing for me then.

I did just receive another review – one of those “not really saying much but too borderline and well intentioned to ask for a refund” reviews I love so much (NOT).

I look forward to your review falling upon me.