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Okay, whilst this is here I'll say my piece on this subject that has been running through my mind for awhile.
Basically, the dragon images and links to that damn referral site suck. If you really must involve yourself with it and feel compelled to have them in your posts, we have a signature space on the forums to put them in. I'm seeing an increasing number of people append these onto the end of the body of posts themselves and it's annoying.
I have signatures and avatars turned off. Why? Because I don't want to see the garbage most bedroom "digital artists" think look good and throw up in these spaces. The forums look much cleaner without those. I also don't care about which links you feel like putting there. I appreciate you all have a lot of "fun" putting stuff in those spaces, but I opt out by turning signatures off. People continually appending the dragon links to the end of their actual posts are circumventing this choice; I find it incredibly rude and obtrusive.
Moderators should be moderating people for it. Any recurring end tag for posts belongs in the signature.
[As a side note, I've long since firewalled off that site to prevent being annoyed by them or having to see them. My comments reflect my frustration in having to waste my time doing this in the first place, as well as anyone who feels the same that isn't as technically minded and has to see them.]
[/ QUOTE ]Someone didn't play with enough toys as a kid... Lighten up sheesh.
[/ QUOTE ]I think the point is fair, and insulting the poster doesn't change anything.
Just because an individual, or a group, feel one way. doesn't mean that's how everyone should feel.
The dragons are a meme.
A person has as much right to roll their eyes when faced with a meme, as they do to embrace it, and its propagation.
Personally, I gave up rolling my eyes at most memes, months ago.
I haven't blocked them, because I prefer to view a person's post in the full context. The adoption of this dragon meme (pun only peripherally intended), says a few things about the poster.
I will be interested to see how many people still have these dragons a week from now.
Or a month.
How long will it take for one meme to be replaced by another?
