Hey, all -
This is off-topic as far as the Pirates' team is concerned, but on-topic as far as "our team" at BD goes in general.
THIS post (opens in new window) from Pinstripe Alley is a good and easy primer on how to re-size* the photos you post into threads, so that they're not HUGE, which can cause big problems for people when loading the page, particularly on a mobile device.
This is also a really important point [emphasis mine]:
Make sure you put something in the subject line so other posters can close it if they'd like, even if you just put an "x".
In case you didn't know, when you're reading a thread and a picture is really massive, or if you somehow find it offensive (though really, we don't tend to do those), you can simply click on the subject line, and the picture / post will reduce and you won't see it.
I know that, in the past (like 2010), I had been occasionally guilty of posting massively BIG pics - and while sometimes it was annoying when re-loading the page, it really hit home when I got an iPhone and used it to follow gamethreads when not at home. Big pics take forever to load. And big pics that are animated are even more problematic for people with slower connections.
So, I'm posting this as a public service rather than an accusation of anyone for posting big pictures - please don't anyone think I'm referring to you personally, mmmk?
*Note: the 300 size is arbitrary - you can make it 250, or 400, but anything over that is kinda where the problem starts, IMO.
(Also note: Charlie, Vlad, et al - if you wanna move this to fanshots, I dig, I just thought it contained more information than a typical fanshot.)
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of the managing editor (Charlie) or SB Nation. FanPosts are written by Bucs Dugout readers.
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Is it bad..
That the first thing I wanted to do was troll and post the biggest .gif i could find and put nothing in the subject line?
Bill Coyne - February 22, 2012
you and i are of one mind.
theatrain - February 22, 2012
I even found a great one.
Self control, what a bitch.
MDBuc - February 22, 2012
That would seem to be
a natural reaction…
I applaud your willpower.
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
don't you these pictures are about done....
I mean talk about beating a dead horse
wishiewashie - February 22, 2012
Wow.
What does this mean?
MDBuc - February 22, 2012
i wonder who might have a new username
BurgherKing - February 22, 2012
what
Hey I been overseas for the last year, with no internet so I’m a little rusty.
wishiewashie - February 22, 2012
its certainly possible
that i m guilty of jumping to conclusions. my apologies!
BurgherKing - February 22, 2012
No need to apologize. It’s sweetleb again.
Charlie Wilmoth - February 22, 2012
Thought so.
What a nozzle.
“nozzle” – izzat username taken yet?
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
I'll give him this
He planned ahead for his inevitable banning.
WHYG Zane Smith - February 22, 2012
i thought melikey yung .....
was also CU on Tour, and another clever name. always posted in caps and ended in son.
karreemofwheat - February 22, 2012
All the same.
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
and he was sweetleb and wishywashy?
karreemofwheat - February 22, 2012
really
I thought the SON guy seemed a little smarter than sweetle etc.
That’s some impressive multifaceted trolling. I wonder if he was JJ Durney as well?
WHYG Zane Smith - February 22, 2012
maybe I'm thinking of someone else
There was a guy who’d been kind of low-level trolling for a while and then completely flipped out. He posted something like “stoop guy sitting on the stoop” ten times in a thread, interspersed with homophobic slurs and possibly offers to beat people up. Remember that?
WHYG Zane Smith - February 22, 2012
you post cracked me up!
impressive multifaceted trolling.
karreemofwheat - February 22, 2012
i'm amazed at the lengths they go.
i thought this post was funny.
http://www.bucsdugout.com/2010/6/27/1540408/russell-flying-back-to-pittsburgh
karreemofwheat - February 22, 2012
Amazing
trolling, inside of trolling, inside of trolling
Mr. E - February 23, 2012
I STILL think
angus and kareem are the same guy…
;-)
cocktailsfor2 - February 23, 2012
maybe if it was black angus
white angus - February 23, 2012
hey i'm dutch african
i’m a caucasion african american,
karreemofwheat - February 23, 2012
sorry,
but i’m not sweetleb, or white angus or anybody else. just plain old karreemofwheat.
karreemofwheat - February 23, 2012
and here is my ip address
i doubt anybody is close.
173.71.124.17
karreemofwheat - February 23, 2012
Was kidding, amigo.
cocktailsfor2 - February 23, 2012
Rusty at using the
English language?
Trogluddite - February 22, 2012
think
should be in ,as in don’t you think these pictures are about done . they are kind of silly and not really funny anymore.
wishiewashie - February 22, 2012
Depends upon the picture, I guess.
MDBuc - February 22, 2012
If you've been gone for a year,
…how are you in a position to comment on this?
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
Or were you just trying to set THIS up?
.
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
beating a camel with no humps?
PixburghArn - February 23, 2012
thats for our Afghany Buccos
white angus - February 23, 2012
As a military veteran
I salute you for remembering my deployed bretheran
PixburghArn - February 24, 2012
bretheren
PixburghArn - February 24, 2012
dang it
brethren
PixburghArn - February 24, 2012
no spellcheck on army issue apples?
white angus - February 24, 2012
spell check wouldn't work
I hit the post key too quickly
PixburghArn - February 24, 2012
Mike Tomlin out of nowhere
WVPiratesfan - February 23, 2012
I had a little time in between combine days
PixburghArn - February 24, 2012
which one?
:-)
BurgherKing - February 22, 2012
I never knew that about subject lines
And now I’ve learned something new, I can take the rest of the day off.
JRoth95 - February 22, 2012
Now can we get on
to picking a date for Gathering III?
bucdaddy - February 22, 2012
yes, please
i finally hope to make one (although the hope is just the same as the last 2 years :P)
hey maybe we can have a softball match before the game!
BurgherKing - February 22, 2012
Seems like we could do that now
WTM - February 22, 2012
One of the two
August Saturdays? Maybe 8/11 vs. Padres?
Not a lot of attractive Saturday matchups that start at 7:05 in June/July/August. Tigers game is 4:05. Kinda cuts down tailgating/socializing, unless we just resume after.
bucdaddy - February 22, 2012
I'll check with PSF
…they changed the name, you know.
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
Side note
If it is something that needs to be big (like a picture with text), leave it the same size, but just link us to the image rather than imbedding it, like so
Or else, we get this
ATribeCalledGreg - February 22, 2012
True.
It’s all about the common sense.
cocktailsfor2 - February 22, 2012
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