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Whatever, dude.  You know more about this shit than I do.

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Total Members Voted: 17

Voting closed: December 12, 2005, 04:38:14 pm

[jough]

Don't think I won't disable all of your accounts.  I can do it!  Just you fuckin' watch me.

[evan]

try it and I'll hit you with my truck

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[Choop]

I do believe that's the only valuable contribution to the internet ever made by the marquee tag. A tiny can of Dr Pepper to you, sir.

Now, jough, since we've obviously seen "the only valuable contribution to the internet ever made by the marquee tag," and we're never going to see another, can we get that friggin' thing disabled? Pretty please?

[misterqueue]

Dogg that is an awesome truck.  I stared at it for like.. 15 minutes before I realized my boss would basically start yelling at me.

[V-Adore]

I am split. On one hand, I am of the impression that the marquee tag is basically Internet Cancer, much like the blink tag was in days of yore, and thus needs to be killed as soon as possible.

On the other hand... I can't stop laughing.

Can we possibly maintain the truck post as the only evidence that marquee ever existed, a cautionary tale to our descendents, and then kill the fucker?

[jough]

I think I will leave the tag alone since there's no way to get rid of it entirely without editing the code of the board itself, and I don't want to have to keep changing the code every time a new version or patch is released.

But I think I will make it a rule that any post that uses it will just be deleted, with multi-offenders being banned, etc.

It'll be like that apple.  You know, the one people weren't supposed to eat?

[V-Adore]

I think I will leave the tag alone since there's no way to get rid of it entirely without editing the code of the board itself, and I don't want to have to keep changing the code every time a new version or patch is released.

But I think I will make it a rule that any post that uses it will just be deleted, with multi-offenders being banned, etc.

It'll be like that apple.  You know, the one people weren't supposed to eat?

Wait, the marquee tag gives you knowledge of good and evil?

Anyway, that sounds reasonable, although it might be good to do a "mod-edit to kill the marquee tag if the post otherwise has meaningful content, delete if it's just a marque wankjob" policy.

[CortJstr]

On Firefox at home I'd disabled the marquee tag via a little-known and hard to find option. I'll have to come to this thread and test it out.

[ndpatel]

try it and I'll hit you with my truck

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        / |    {_) |    |   ***                                  |__ ___ _ __
   ____/__|)  /~~| |@@@@|    ************************************|____ ___ _
  / _____ ~~~~~~~~~|@@@@|     ***********************************|___ __ _ __
 | /     \\      --|    |_/~~~~~\_______________________/~~~~~\__|_____ __ _ _
 |/  ***  \\       |---~|/  ***  \_____________________/  ***  \_|___ _ __ _ _
 `  *****  ~~~~=====       *****                         *****
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just curious. also, jough, you are rad as FUCK for changing the quote boxes.

[Golfhaus]

I don't mind the marquee tag being there and usuable. I'm not even opposed to it being used on occasion, such as when someone makes a kickass truck to mow us all down in, H0++ A5C!! stylezz. I think we are all adult enough to use it only for good, not for evil, and to know that an inherently evil thing like it can only be used for good when it's really, really good.

[jough]

Yeah, yesterday I spent an hour changing some cosmetic stuff - made the background lighter, made the quote boxes not burn my eyes or feel claustrophobic, changed the font of the messages back to verdana (although I left the board controls and other messages as Tahoma for now).

It's all coming together now.  I'm happy I made the switch.

[JorgeFabregas]

Why do you hate haircuts?

I like the marquee because it is hilariously tacky. It's like having a dancing baby gif option. It also can be awesome, as Evan has demonstrated.

[Choop]

Question: need you specify a font face at all? I've got a great font set as my default (Lucida Grande, i can send to anyone if you like) that I so rarely get to see anymore because everybody specifies Verdana, Tahoma, Trebuchet MS, or something from the forbidden list, like Times, Courier, or Arial.

[jough]

You don't have to specify a font, but then everything would be in Times New Roman for most people, which is something I would never put my enemies through, let alone my friends.

Yes, I suppose people could write a custom stylesheet for Firefox to make the font anything they want.  But who will?

You want to see your default font and layout?  Turn off stylesheets in Firefox.  Mission accomplished.  High fives all around.

[Choop]

oh, ouch, dude. ouch.


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