Bill Prawn Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 The smilie is used very often, maybe sometimes too often. Not everybody has the amount of time on their hands to read all posts so if something is posted twice is a great crime? Sometimes the title put in is different to the original post and may entice different members to read it, who didn't see it first time around. But it seems that some people take a great pleasure in posting up that's it's a repost. Doea anybody else think that the repost smilie should be scrapped or are you in favour of 'putting down' members because they put up a thread that they believe is either new or helpful and yet get some eagle eyed member shooting them down. It possibly puts them off posting again. And yes before you say it I have used the smilie before but i've now had a change of heart and won't again - unless it's x, y or z that do a repost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 who counts as X Y Z lol i think this has been discussed before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bill Prawn Posted January 6, 2006 Author Share Posted January 6, 2006 who counts as X Y Z lol i think this has been discussed before What you mean it's a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Hell no! I use it all the time. I'm not bothered in the slightest about reposts but just use the smilie because I can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suprasport Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 kill the smiley kill the smiley kill the smiley nothing personal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merckx Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Not everybody has the amount of time on their hands to read all posts so if something is posted twice is a great crime? But it seems that some people take a great pleasure in posting up that's it's a repost. Very true, they also type it in large letters. I've refrained from doing it ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green_dragon Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Yeah bin it! I never catch funny posts first time round, and when I do, everyone is pulling chunks off folks for reposting. So what? Not everyone has got time to read and memorise every single post, so it's good to get a second chance:soap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoboblio Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'd say that a bit more tolerance is needed for people who repost.... I'm sure we've all done it now and again and the majority of the threads posted are done so for what the poster believes is the good of the forum.... it's not nice to then be looked upon as vermin because someone else has beaten you to it I know that it's never actually vindictive but new joiners may not understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeordieSteve Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I don't think it's used in a bad way on here (certainly not by me) like it is on something like Barryboys. I thought it was all in good nature on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 It's fun spotting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mawby Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 If I recall this topic was discussed back in 1992, thereby making it a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerotop Dave Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Yes but that 'joke' was made by whitesupraboy2 in the second reply so your repost comment is a repost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerotop Dave Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I've never used either the smilie or made a repost comment (AFAIK, and the above reply of course) but I agree it's irritating. Recently I put up some pics from my hard disk as I was clearing it out and that got a repost comment. I thought people might like them, so I bunged them up, what's the value in adding that they've been posted before? The latest 'trend' seems to be to put 'RE' 'PO' and 'ST' in seperate replies. Wow, how clever. Overall though I just find it irritating and pointless, but I couldn't really say I care about it! Bit of a 'shrug shoulders' one really. It seems to happen a lot more recently than ever before, and I don't think it adds the slightest bit of value to the forum, but... hey ho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I'm old so I think I should be allowed to repost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I agree that OLDing or ":repost:ing" somebody isn't very friendly but it's awfully tempting to do when the forth person this week lets everyone know that there's a Supra in the Gillette advert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 If the same thing is like two threads down the list, e.g. with the gilette advert, then yes, repost away. For instance, I was about to post up about Envy's article in Japanese Performance as I just got it delivered, but I checked first because I'm not the only one on the planet to subscribe. Turns out Pete had already posted a thread so I replied to it instead. But if someone posts something from a few weeks ago or even years ago I'm like "FFS who cares if you've seen it before you tosser". But I don't think the smiley should be removed. It's like government ffs - ban the smiley because some people misuse it, oh yes, that's always the right solution that is. -Ian PS didn't vote as I don't agree with the addendum to the only "no" option... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoboblio Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 It's like government ffs - ban the smiley because some people misuse it, oh yes, that's always the right solution that is. Haha, had to fit a handgun reference in there somewhere eh Ian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelfill Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Any times I have :repost:ed someone, I have done it in good humour, and would hope that the poster would realise this and take it in the way it was intended, As a humourous post. If people feel that it is irritating then I'll stop. anyway how else am I supposed to post whore ? I'll go with the consensus of the poll, but won't be voting my self. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian C Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Haha, had to fit a handgun reference in there somewhere eh Ian? I'm sure I don't know what you are talking about But I'm right though, aren't I? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hogmaw Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 I don't like that repost thingy. Nobody likes it when it happens to them, why do something that can only piss people off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoboblio Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 But I'm right though, aren't I? Yup, biggest load of knee jerk BS I've ever seen. I even heard that shortly after the ban came into effect a group of gangsters had a gunfight involving M16 assault rifles.... but this wasn't counted in the governments gun crime stats as since the ban they'd been changed to only monitoring handgun crime Anyway back on topic, as this is a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Did a search on repost and it came up 500 times for me, boy there are a lot of old peeps on here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 said in best scottish mel gibson accent "you can take away our repost icon but u can never take away our repost!!":amen: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 said in best scottish mel gibson accent "you can take away our repost icon but u can never take away our repost!!"http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3479/reeepoosstt5hi.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitesupraboy2 Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3479/reeepoosstt5hi.jpg piss off you :cry: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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