DISCUSSION/OFF-TOPIC POST

[themodawakens]

Use this post for things that are neither prompts nor questions for the mod.

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Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

You want them to obey the rules but not be informed when they break them. Ok then.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, that's exactly what I said. You sure got me.

The OP said "some of them go over the 250 word limit". Meaning that others do not, and are perfectly within the rules.

But to be fair, I suppose it's true I don't particularly want to be informed when someone breaks the rules. Inform a mod on the mod post, and let them deal with it.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

THEM not to be informed of the rules. While THEY are being expected to obey them.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

OP says you're both being pedants, and to stop it. Also the rules are clearly stated right there on the web page when writing a prompt, if only people would actually read them.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

If no one points the rules out to people who didn't read them they never will read them and will keep prompting giant prompts like its okay. That's why you report long prompts to the mod and let them educate the prompter. But according to some, that's not right because it's 'meme-policing'.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Dog-piling on rule-breaking prompts, escalating things, and getting nasty about it is meme-policing. Reporting it quietly to the mod post and letting the mods deal with it is the etiquette. You may recall a few rounds back when replies to rule-breaking prompts with "MOD!" as the subject line and nothing further in the body would appear. That's just unkind and unnecessary. The mods enforce the rules, everyone else is here for the meme itself, broadly.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. and I agree. So why is this somehow still under discussion if we agree with each other?

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

NA because some people just have to have the last word, rather than accepting the conversation is effectively over.

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

',;)

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Did we forget that the OP was also complaining about prompts that didn't break the rules?

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

OP - Yeah, I don't care so much about rule breaking, as having no time to read anything longer than the smallest prompts... I suppose it came off as bitching about rule breakers, though.

And really, if I don't have time to read longer prompts (which would take only a handful of seconds), how could I have the time to report rule breakers?

Re: Tired of huge, elaborate prompts

[(Anonymous)]

Guess you'll just have to scroll if you don't have the time to do something to help prevent the problem.