Graph spam in threads - too much?

[soccerballtux]

It doesn't bother me, simply because all the graphs/pictures aren't full sized until you click the top bar anyway.

hm, if BB could tile them, that would take up a lot less vertical space

 

[Ben90]

 

[soccerballtux]

wtffffff
what about 3????

 

[omek]

I can scroll a page in literary less than 1 second if needed with my G700.
Hit the scroll lock button, easily flip your finger on the scroll wheel and it slices and rolls like butter. Give it a less force and it will scroll the page slowly and very smoothly on Chrome. The scroll wheel is extremely resistant free.

 

[IlllI]

it probably would bother me if i bothered to read people's posts. i basically read the first line of the first sentence of the first post, scrolled to the bottom to the reply box and decided to write this.

 

[Mistwalker]

I can scroll a page in literary less than 1 second if needed with my G700.
Hit the scroll lock button, easily flip your finger on the scroll wheel and it slices and rolls like butter. Give it a less force and it will scroll the page slowly and very smoothly on Chrome. The scroll wheel is extremely resistant free.

Why are you advertising your mouse in a thread about posting guidelines? Assuming you actually are trying to respond to the topic, what about people with smartphones who don't have as many scrolling options?

The OP's point isn't about the pain of having to scroll down anyway, it's about redundant image spamming that doesn't add anything meaningful to a discussion.

it probably would bother me if i bothered to read people's posts. i basically read the first line of the first sentence of the first post, scrolled to the bottom to the reply box and decided to write this.

Are you trying to be funny?

 

[omek]

The OP's point isn't about the pain of having to scroll down anyway, it's about redundant image spamming that doesn't add anything meaningful to a discussion.

It's quite easy to decipher, my recommendation is to get scroll faster to begin with. If you limit graphs/pictures your going to possibly limit or detour depth of discussion.

As for tablets, I've heard tapatalk is quite malleable and may allow jpegs and such to be disabled. Never have used it though.

Other than that, we can get into the psychology of why you found the need to post about how irrelevant my post was in relation to the thread with another irrelevant post if you'd like.

 

[Ken g6]

I have a user style, over in the user scripts thread in Technical Forum Issues, that was made to replace the resizing script. Among other things, it makes quoted images much smaller (80px by 80px max.) I modified it to try to fix your graph spam issue:

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php") {
/* Resize quoted images and one image after another. */
#posts td.alt1 div div td.alt2 img, #posts td.alt1 div img + img, #posts td.alt1 div img + br + img, #posts td.alt1 div img + br + br + img{ max-width:80px; width: expression(this.width > 80 ? 80: true); max-height:80px; height: expression(this.height > 80 ? 80: true); }
}

(View full-size images by clicking the post's link, where this user style does not apply.)

 

[taltamir]

I actually like it when people post graphs and charts; I don't want to navigate away from the forums to view someone else's evidence for their claims. It's far more convenient for others to bring it to me. I don't like it when people needlessly quote the graphs and whatnot though.

This is my view as well

Other forums have spoiler functions which can be used to hide images

Ok, I will accept that graphs are even better when they are inside a spoiler tag. Which unfortunately does nothing for images on this forum:

Spoiler

spoiler tag started

spoiler tag ends

 

[blastingcap]

More annoying to me is how people post "funny" pictures to try to buttress their points. Okay it may have been funny at first but now it just eats bandwidth unnecessarily.

 

[Ben90]

Keep MSGS short 4 mxmm banwith savins