Notable Notes - Please see new rule for chat threads

ElJeffe

Some of you might have noticed we had a truly absurd number of announcements up top of this subforum. And not the good kind of absurd, like hippos dancing a ballet, but more the awkward kind of absurd, like hippos dancing a ballet while you're trying to tell your girlfriend that you gave her a communicable disease.

But we have so much interesting stuff to say! Our every word is a precious bauble, and we are loathe to give them up!

Hence this thread. New announcements will go here, and the title of the thread updated to let you know there's something here you might not have seen. Previous announcements that are deemed super important - or that the author just really likes because he is too enamored with his own work to let a single word go, shut up, they are like beautiful children who never break your shit or yak in your lap - will be linked below.

It is quite possible the mechanics of this will change somewhat, because this is an experiment and experiments tend to catch fire. Whatever. The point is that the forum is temporarily cleaner up top, so yay.


Politics Threads, the Debate and/or Discourse Forum, and You

If you plan on discussing politics on the forum, read this

Reddit, Lolz, and You

Regarding Inlined Image Sizes

Anatomy of a Trainwreck Thread

No, You Cannot Have an Anime Thread

So It Goes

Because it's unclear if the Regarding Inlined Image Sizes thread is properly bumping up as a new sticky for everyone, here is the new rule on image sizes:

Hello, friends.

The inline image size limit has been increased to 1mb.

Inlining anything bigger than that will result in a jailing. Yes this applies to gifv as well.

Quoting huge images in a subsequent post will also draw the ire of the mods. Take off the tags if you're quoting something that is a big gif.

TIA

So It Goes

On sending questions to mods by PM:

Official rule is now that you need to send to at least two D+D mods when you have a question. This helps ensure your PM is read in a more timely manner if one of the mods is not online or is say spending all their waking hours attending to a smol human.

So It Goes

ON POLITICS AND CHAT

Chat has traditionally been a thread for folks to hang out in a more casual manner since it's not an on-topic thread. Though politics and breaking news are weighing heavily on many peoples' minds this year for a myriad of reasons, we'd like to see chat remain a more casual and social environment. To this end we are highly discouraging the discussion of political topics in chat, including dropping in tweets or news stories that have just come across your feed. We have many, many political topic threads in which to discuss the various goings on of the Trump administration and other news happenings. New on-topic threads can be created as necessary. Politics discussions can tend to take over pages of chat, cause emotions to run high, and generally change the culture of a thread where many people go to socialize and NOT discuss news or politics.

Thanks for your cooperation.

So It Goes

The no politics in chat rule hasn't changed, yet many people this morning ignored it. Also do not make posts with clever nicknames to try to get around our standard word ban.

Use on topic threads to discuss political issues. If there is not a thread, make one. If you are unsure if you should, ask mods.

So It Goes

These rules have been consolidated in a new thread here: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/221471/rules-for-d-d-general-discussion#latest

Please see that thread for any updates.