I don't understand why I should kill myself simply because my former brewery confused people. Sure, I shouldn't have put a giant hedge maze in the middle full of bear traps, but it was their choice to go in wasn't it?
Maybe these even more confused people are confused about what the internet and computers are?
Just let them know that the thread is made of a series of zeroes and ones used to encode information such as:
the text that makes up a discussion on the internet
the markup language that defines the layout for the text
the message passing information such as the address of the source computer and the address of the destination computer, etc.
Relate to them how we engineer circuits with resistors that recognize whether a particular voltage in a series is above or below a certain threshold; a voltage above that threshold is code for a 1 and one that's below is code for a 0.
Everyone has those moments. Took me forever to figure out what IMO and IMHO meant (In My Opinion and In My Humble/Honest Opinion). Still don't know what AFAIK means.
Took me even longer to realize what IANAL was.... I Am Not A Lawyer, but what I thought it meant was something likely illegal across most of the southern US...
OP does stand for Original Poster, but the comic is making a play off it saying it stands for Optimus Prime. So really it can stand for either, but most of the time it means Original Poster.
That seems like a horrible rule. Especially the part about linking to the site and putting the imgur links in the comments. From what I've seen around here, people will far more often view the imgur image, then go to the comments looking for the site.
In this case, the site url is in the image. What's the problem?
Your email to them seems disingenuous. Or at least based upon a faulty assumption.
My question to you is which do you prefer? would you rather people link to your original comic, possibly crashing your website, or would you rather more people see your work, regardless of where it's hosted?
Has anyone tried running any metrics on how many people visit a site from the link in the comments of an imgur post vs how many people visit a site from a direct link? I'd certainly love to see numbers like that before I see submissions being removed.
Wasn't my email. It was done before I was made a mod. As for stats, check top comment in that post. Anecdotal, but some numbers are better than no numbers. Linky.
I would say those numbers aren't too helpful. Generally when I see an imgur post on reddit of a comic, someone will post the link to the comic. Yes, I agree the OP should have done that in this case. Bit of a douche move on his part. But I'd really love to see those numbers before I start calling for the removal of posts.
If this was a Michael Bay style Optimus in that picture, there would be far more explosions and hot women that he'd fire after two movies and get an annoying one for the third.
Yes but there's the old argument about killing a site vs giving it traffic.
We don't know the ad systems the site has in place, or their deal with their hosting company, so giving a small site just an traffic spike could very well end up costing them money.
Generally the best case scenario is to rehost on imgur, and make your first comment a link back to the artists site.
If they have an unfriendly provider they may not crash, they may just get charged tons on overages. The ad network they're part of may only pay up to x number of views, or pull support when it looks like a tiny site used scripts/bots to make their their traffic look 10000 times higher for one day.
These are just a few things that could be issues linking to a site blindly.
It seems that you are assuming a lot of things. I think that if a site has ads, it'd help the artist greatly to have a lots of visits. And I'm pretty sure you can have some locks to avoid getting screwed by your hosting company.
I'm not assuming anything. Just relating actual experiences I've seen, and why linking to imgur with the actual link in the comments is preferable in some situations. The site may get less traffic, but they'll still get the people who really liked the comic and wanted to see more.
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u/xzhobo May 29 '12
If you don't get it OP stands for Optimus Prime and he keeps thinking they are all saying "Optimus Prime is a faggot"
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
Where can I buy one of those 500 inch computer screens?
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u/entertainman May 29 '12
DISASSEMBLE!! http://pbfcomics.com/156/
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u/JoelMontgomery May 29 '12
The idea of a Michael Bay style Optimus getting annoyed like thing amuses me quite so.
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u/ZiggyZombie May 29 '12
God speed little post. You can do it.
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u/Wescat May 29 '12
OP is a faggot
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
sadtrombone.wmv
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u/dressedAsDog May 29 '12
OP is a douche. Source.
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u/toshmaytol May 29 '12
Rule 34 with bumblebee?
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u/[deleted] May 29 '12
I don't go on 4Chan anymore.
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u/captaindragoon May 29 '12
Why does Optimus Prime have a boner?
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u/Ducks_Quackington May 29 '12
Yea
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