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I can't see any reason why we can't open up an ME forum, especially considering the restructuring looks set to take a good while. If the groups are set up already, it should be really easy to do, otherwise it's fiddly but not difficult.

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.... then of course the case is in the hands of the current Admins

Of which, of course, Estel is one. She doesn't tend to be visible, which is probably why you haven't spotted her recently, but I confess I haven't seen her either since I got back online.

<popping in from working--B77 is much more fun>

Thanks, Leoba. I certainly don't want to go ahead without you and the other current admins agreeing it's OK, so you are the first!

I know Estel is still an admin, but I haven't seen her about since early last week, and she hasn't picked up a PM I sent her about this almost 12 hours ago. Perhaps RL is busy for her. Does anyone know if she's gone away somewhere?

Back to work--my client gets into the office in 7 hours and will need the files I'm working on. Fun times!

(I quoted something Steve told me in a PM without permission which is a dumb thing to do as Nin gladly pointed out which led to me editting it out).


(Editted so Nin's posts below don't look like she's talking to herself).

I got the same answer a few days ago, but did not dare to quote without permission.

Nin wrote:

I got the same answer a few days ago, but did not dare to quote without permission.

It didn't occur to me that that communication might have been private for a reason.

I'm getting paranoid, you stay nomal....

Ok, I'll create a new poll for a Games and Hobbies forum. So far there have been about 3 or 4 threads that I remember off the top of my head that would have gone into a Games and Hobbies thread, but that does not include the threads I have never started because there seems to be no correct place to put them.

Off to do it now.

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Your wording's pretty crappy but I like the idea :D.

Well I may as well take another pot shot at Voronwë as long as everyone else is.
Who drafted the wording for this poll? A lawyer?

A ME forum? No way. An Arda forum? Yes.

Nothing to do with the suggested ME forum, just a rant...

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It may just be my computer and screen, but when people use the tiny font option I can't read it unless I hit the "quote" button (which reveals the text in normal size) and then I have to cancel the quote button.

So may I beg of you (plural) not to use the tiny font option unless you are deliberately trying to test my old eyes?

I am supposing that people do it so as not to interrupt the flow of a discussion (like I'm doing right now ) but when I see it, I HAVE to read it (morbid curiosity) so why not just post it in a legible size? If you REALLY don't want people to read it then...don't post it?

Just a cranky suggestion from a grumble bum.

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I think a good tiny-font compromise is 9-point. It's noticeably smaller than the regular size but not unreadable even on my high-resolution screen. So when you use it you are clearly making a gesture toward not derailing the discussion, without actually making anyone jump through hoops to read it.

I mean, this isn't too bad, is it?

Primula_Baggins wrote:

I mean, this isn't too bad, is it?

It's perfect!

Impy, what I do is highlight the text, copy it, then paste it to anywhere I can. If I see a lot of it, I'll open up Notepad. That way you won't have to go in and out of webpages to see it. Just a helpful suggestion.

Yeah, I know that's a sensible way to go, but I'd much rather grumble.

I second Impy's rant! Tiny type leaves me looking like this:

and then

and then I just slink away to pout about whatever nuggets of wisdom I missed.

You never should have said anything. Now I can't help but use tiny fonts.
And make them yellow too.

* cough! splutter! *


No, no! I mean

That's okay, Holby--making your posts unreadable will improve the board experience for some of our Yankees fans.

If this forum gets created, if I could suggest as a title: "Welcome to Middle-earth."

And as a description, something like: "Discussion related to Tolkien's Middle-earth: books, films, language, music, art and philosophy."

Or something like that.