[SOLVED] Could we have country flags back?

The only problem I see with custom flags is the danger of flags becoming completely pointless once everyone has some random mini-gif sat up there that may or may not be a flag from a game or film or who knows what. Essentially you're turning the flag info into yet-another-customisable-image-hanging-around-your-posts, at which point, like sigs, I'd want to turn them off. I'm sure plenty of kids here would love to proclaim to the world that they've played Ace Combat with every post they make but can't you do that in your sig already?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by ♪^___^♪

Mind the emphasis. That's why I'd be in favour of making custom flags a donator-only feature.

If people are willing to pay to move their postbit that one step closer to being a myspace page, I guess that's their perogative. Like I say, I think there's plenty of space for images in your sig but I seem to be in an overwhelming minority here. I guess I'm just not down with the kids any more.

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Originally Posted by Omi-Cron Kenobi

or are you just saying MySpace is full of customizable images and is therefore tacky as fuck?

Essentially, yes.

I know it's just a flag and to be honest it would make very little difference to me either way but at the end of the day, this is a discussion forum and I can't help that feel like with every new customisable bit of crap on the screen, we step away from the point of this place. In the other thread about custom user names, Elixir accused me of ruining people's fun but I don't see that we want more members who derive their fun from changing their name (And flag, sig, avatar and who knows what else) rather than posting and chatting.

I guess I associate "wacky" flags and "zany" usernames with the current Testing crowd and the users who do little but spout memes left right and centre around the board.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

How about instead we turn on custom flags but have them only display in Testing and Laughs and Games? That way the wacky flag japesters can lol away to their hearts content in the appropriate place without lowering the tone of the rest of the board.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

That's kinda the point. The crazy custom flag antics would breathe new life into an otherwise struggling part of the board. Elixir said having a custom flag would be for fun and that's where the fun time threads should go, right?

I was speaking idiomatically.

I think that the more turn-on-and-off-able custom features we add, the more likely you are to create a new clique here. I know that at the moment, regular chat goers hate the phrase "Chat brigade" and feel that those of us who go there rarely are unfairly tagging you up as fitting certain stereotypes that aren't necessarily true. Based on who's currently being most vocal in their support for various customisable features, the chat brigade would be either joined or surplanted by a "Zany custom features" brigade.

In the same way that many members have little time for chat memes and so on, there'd be people who disliked custom name jokes only now, instead of it all happening in a chatroom it'd be happening here on the boards.

I'm not saying that there'll be some kind of GFF gang war or anything, so much as I'm hoping that if you get all the custom features you want, you don't all mind being tarred with the "Oh those wacky custom feature funsters" brush everytime some idiot makes a twat of himself and happens to be a part of your new clique.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

When you're a Jet you're a Jet all the way from your first cigarette to your last dying day.

FELIPE NO

I just think that adding a load of custom features adds an extra distraction from posting and will encourage crappy posting, much the same as an out of hand Testing forum.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The more custom features we enable, the more certain members are going to derive their fun from changing their name and putting dumb gifs in their flag slot. The need to actually craft a decent post becomes secondary and you end up with a bunch of Testing-esque pointless threads.

I know it's a slightly extreme example but I generally think that moves of this kind would contribute to a dumbing down of GFF, hence why it should be restricted to Laughs & Games and Testing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

But it's a slippery slope and a line has to be drawn somewhere. Next time it could be pictures instead of usernames, a custom top bar, embedded sound files in your postbit and before you know it, we've unbanned Eleo, turned Html back on in posts and Elixir and Tails are admins. I appreciate this is a silly little thing right now but where will it stop?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well I'm sure Hitler only planned on killing a few jews at first coz you know, that'd be a bit of a laugh and it's not like anyone would notice a few of them going missing and then before you know it they're rounding up six million of them for a sing-a-long in the showers.

If you're so desperate to declare your loyalty to the People's Republic of Suckcockia or your position as Rear Admiral in the Bellend Airforce, why can't you just use the ample space provided in your av and sig?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

That looks pretty cool, Blah. I kinda liked the flags visible though, it was simply the customability I was objecting to.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, that's nice. Did it always used to show invisible members with stars next to their names on the front page list before? I only just noticed that...

I was speaking idiomatically.