Jessica Rain said:
Why do you highlight usernames is your posts?
I do that on all boards,
Jessica Rain, to me it's respectful; you chose your handle, so to me, that's your given name here. Some handles, like mine, are all in lower case, so the bold formatting eliminates a perceived difference in status to different members, based on whether their handle begins with a capital letter, on not. It's always bold in the side panel on the left, for every board I'm on, except one, where it's on top, but also in bold. The board probably puts in it bold for the same reason I do.
It also makes it easier to find someone's handle in a longer post. Handles and keywords stand out, if someone is looking for an excerpt quote, or if they're interested in some, but not all, of the post.
I'm a mod on that board, one of about 45, all appointed, and unpaid, so you don't lose mod status if you aren't there often, so it's kind of like the
Canadian Senate, in some respects. They don't have any formatting toolbars, there, so I type the html tags, and usually do that here, too.
It's a board for computer fonts. I feud with two of the other mods on that board, one is a total dick from The Netherlands, who's very knowledgeable about identifying fonts, but very rude with people who ask stupid questions, or poorly worded questions, that require additional questions to find out what they want. He gives good answers to good questions, but likes to heckle people who don't clearly state what they want.
Most of the forum is identifications of the font in use in some posted image containing text, like this:
And
jerseygirl identified that at
Feel Script, and posted a download link, five minutes later.
They compete, to see who can identify the fonts fastest, and there's a top 30 posted for the current month, and for all-time, with the percentage of the total shown for each.
jerseygirl has 447, (25%), in the last 30 days, and next best is over 100 behind. At the bottom are 17 tied for 29th place, with 2. Anybody can play, and the ones that are good often are appointed as mods.
All time,
rocamaco will probably never be caught, with 23, 171, (25% share), miles ahead of
drf with 6,702, (7%).
rocamaco hasn't been by in a couple of years; he had some tiff with the owner, and left, but he's still a mod, if he wants to come back. #4,
fmontpetit has been MIA for a couple of years as well, but because of other time commitments, not other boards. He's just not doing boards now.
jerseygirl is #6, but joined more recently, and is gaining by 100's per month, and could get to #4 by the end of February. She's 85 ahead of
koeiekat, but passed him this month, with 206 more than his 239.
I don't know
jeseygirl, she's just an identifier, and she doesn't post in the mods forum. She's probably a graphic designer, or identifying fonts is her hobby.
rocamaco and
fmontpetit are my solid buds from years back, but they're not around.
drf and
koeiekat are the mods I feud with.
drf, from France, thinks he's king shit, because he's #1 among people currently playing, and
koeiekat is a long time nemesis of mine, from a different board, originally. He likes to mix it up with me a bit, but I have a better command of English, even though his is very good. He's really good at identifying, and picking on weak and stupid people, and I keep him in check.
I was pissed off at
drf last year, and posted a huge message in the
WingDings picture font, quoting him. If he could identify the font, he'd also have to know the alphabet and punctuation to reproduce it, because I posted a .png. If he took the time to convert the pictures to text, he would have read my message: "Don't fuck with me, bitch, I'm not telling your French ass again!". He probably read it, because the thread was deleted.
I'm probably in 2,000th place, with 17 lifetime, and one this year. I once got eight in one month, just to make the monthly top 20, once. I got easy ones, because Europe was sleeping; just common system fonts, or ones already identified by someone else on the same page, but someone else asked as well. I cherry picked enough of them to get on the monthly list once. Here's a couple of my answers from that board:
This one, written half way through writing this HUBGFE post:
"Dan": "...I typically make fonts with only a single case, so I will keep xxxxx in mind for fonts with multiple cases."
koeiekat: "Only single case type? Why?"
<my mod handle>: "That probably means an all caps alphabet character map, two licenses, or an
e e cummings handwriting font. One of those three, probably the first."
And another, a favorite of mine, from last year:
stnfabian: "What is the best way to give recognition to the creator? I wish to do so and ask for permission."
"That varies from Faith to Faith. The sacrifice by fire of an
unblemished kid goat, calf, or suckling pig, while considered
old school by most, is surprisingly well received, and may lead to
Divine Favour within a fortnight, particularly in battle. The key word is unblemished; examine your sacrificial animal closely, and make sure it has not been surgically altered, (ie: no gelded, spayed/ neutered, animals, should ever be used, only breeding stock).
While illegal in most countries, the sacrifice of an
unweaned infant child will still appease most
Elder Gods, especially if you are requesting permission to perform an act deemed illegal, blasphemous, or sacrilegious under more than one criminal or religious code."
In all cases, you should be kneeling, or in some recognizable posture of submission. I think that's the only
universal requirement.
I hope this helps!
~bito" '
So, it's the same thing I do here, but for a fonts audience. I answer a question that interests me, either briefly, long and detailed, obtusely, or I heckle a guy, too, every so often, but never as part of a group heckling. Sometimes I give a better answer than what the guys from Europe had come up with, then don't go back for a week.
It's like the
Bizarro Jerry episode of
Seinfeld, where Elaine got new friends, who looked like Jerry, George and Kramer, but they were picky with rules.
There's a counterpart on another board for so many different people, someone with the same personality, but a different pastime. It's actually more of a sausage fest than here, most of the time, but with some intellectual threads, but not many. They have some different emoticons than the ones we have here. It's just mainly guys who are knowledgeable about what other guys have made, but for fonts, instead of Escorts.
