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So then Max can't snort catnip off Grape's chest?

Okay technically that's in context of the comic, but yeah, none of that

Awwwwww...

I AM CREDIT TO TEAM!

wait what?
looks like i miss something, but im not going to start a discussion

Awesome to hear, Rick. Really was hoping there would be rules posted eventually.

I'll add some suggestions later on as well when i can =)

Does that mean I shouldn't post any fan art that's too big? Should I just make a link to all of them? I just want to be sure

I'm sure fanart is exempt, Rick's just being a doofy furret

Well you should either thumbnail it or link to it, preferably.

I don't know about the image rule, seems a little...

unnecessary.

It's not like someone is going to come here and put a 2000 x 1800 repugnant image. (you know what im talking about)
You need to edit that one

And how do we thumbnail it? I know not how to do this...

I do know that there's some kinda auto image re-sizer for forums out there somewhere...one of the other forums I partake in has it. If you want, I'll see if I can't pester one of the admins there for it...

Good thing you put these rules in evidence.

Suggestion:
mark rules sections and lines, like

A) and then
A-1)
A-2)

B) and then
B-1)
B-2)

etc.

Also, I think the 'three strikes and you're out' rule should be applied for minor infractions. It's bound to happen that some of us will violate a minor rule. THAT will give the violator a mark. Three marks and *pop* goes a 1-week ban.

to quote anonymous-pyro, he's absolutely right: the rule should read
'It is forbidden to post ANY Housepets-unrelated image!'. And since fan-art, so far, is staying within the allowed size limits, the 'thumbnail' rule is already authomatically valid for major-size artwork.

Actually it's mainly just so that the window doesn't break. I took most of these from the Giant in the Playground forums, mainly just the ones I thought were a good idea.

Er, what about image macros, and picture threads in the not-comic forum? And other images?

Most imagehosting services will probably generate their own thumbnails for you to use. Imageshack certainly does, and I'd imagine that Photobucket does as well.

you are right. That line, I had thought for 'the comic' section
then you could keep the original line for the 'not the comic' section AND my suggestion for 'the comic' section

Awesome, Rick. It's good to see that we have rules now .


I love this rule. And I'd add something more to it. Something like this: "If you exaggerate with the sex discussion, and I end up deleting a lot of posts, this rule will be replaced, and any and all sex discussion is going to be forbidden". You know, just to make sure people don't exaggerate with it.


As for the thumbnails for pictures, you can easily make them yourself. Resize the image in an image-editing program like Paint.NET to be, let's say, 100 pixels wide, and save it as another picture. Once done, upload both the original picture and the thumbnail to an image-hosting site (Photobucket, Imageshack, Tinypic, etc), and post it on the forums in this format:


That will generate a 100 pixels wide thumbnail that links to the original picture.


You're not a mod if you don't own a banstick .

What kind of computer do you have...

I have a laptop, max resolution is 1024, although I also have a secondary screen with a much higher resolution. The thing is that the width of the page should not need to exceed 1000 pixels.

most of my images are 600 or 800, i guess im not breaking the screen.

but anyways im going to shrink them when i upload.

Rick, I have some new rules suggestions:

1)No inb4, lrn2, lawl, etc. Why having to read posts that could be written by a six-year old in an AIM chat room?
2)No talking about obtaining MP3s! Seriously, we don't need topics about illegal downloading of music that you'd have to pay for.
3)Don't answer a question if you don't know the answer. It isn't helpful at all, and it only makes things more complicated for the user asking it, not to mention the people that have the real answer.
4)Don't backseat moderate, or basically, don't be a mini-mod. This falls into the category of the last minor rule you put up.


These just popped my mind. I'd love to see at least one of these rules put up, especially #1.

They are covered but I will clarify in the rules. Also I don't think it's necessary wrong to answer a question you don't know the answer to; after all, some people like to speculate.

Well, that is a different story then, if an answer is currently unknown, it's okay to discuss possible answers and guesses, like if Fiddler/Keys is male/female.

Also, I just remembered something very important that should be in the rules: No double posts. By that, I mean do not make a reply... after you just replied. There is an edit button in the upper-right corner of every post you make. Of course, and exception here is if your post is the last in a thread, and the thread dies, but then you remember something that you forgot to mention in your post. Then, you can make another one in order to "bump" the thread.

Maybe take it into consideration? Also, if I'm annoying with these rule suggestions, please tell me right away, so I can stop.

It's fine!

Also, I have a question: Take a look at this thread. The OP edited one of your comics to make it, let's say, funnier. Are we allowed to do that, but instead of just editing the text, to edit the images, too? Or to replace some images in one comic with images from other comics (All Housepets, of course).

By editing images, I mean stuff like recoloring the characters to resemble other characters (E.g. to recolor Grape to look like Marvin), editing the face expressions, etc.

I'm asking this here, since, well, if you say it's not allowed, you can add it to the rules .

He actually asked me directly, but I am fine with this stuff being posted on the forums.

We have rules now. THIS ISN'T WHAT I HAD IN MIND! :<

This was my idea, p. cool right?

No lawl? D: BUT BUT ;-; That's like #5 on my list of favourite purposeful misspellings!

I voted Ebly for office.

Office office.

mod office, I daresay