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Texasmame:

--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 13, 2007, 01:02:10 am ---Ok, I was thinking and I decided that a good topic for discussion might be the top 10 Mame mistakes that keep getting copied from one machine to another. And of course for almost every one of these there will be a few exceptions where they are not mistakes, but not many.

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#4. Cabinets with internal frames. Arcade cabinets do not need internal frames made out of 2x4s. It is just added weight with no functionality.. . .


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I am a card carrying member of Overbuilders Anonymous.  :)
HaRuMaN:
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Tiger-Heli:
>You know what, it is my fault I took things the way I did. I switched to the night shift and I am having a tough >time adjusting to sleeping during the days....so I have been a little punchy lately.

Fair enough.

>First of all....I think the whole "Respect your elders" based on post count is ridiculous. Not only is it completely >unfair to judge someone based on the amount of times they have posted in this forum, it is just plain stupid. >Based on that logic, some zitty faced 15 year old punk ass kid would rule the world cause all he does all day is >surf the net (No offense intended if you are a zitty faced 15 year old punk ass kid).

Without this trying to come off as self-serving, it is often a fairly good indicator on most forums.  True, I post a LOT on here and very little on MameWorld or MAME General/Serious, so I am more familiar with MAME than some people with tons of post over there despite fairly low post count, and also true, you can have thousands of posts in P&R or EE on here and know virtually nothing about arcade cabinets, or you can read Saint's book and lurk on the forum for about six months and know more than any of us with only a half-dozen posts, but these would be the exception rather than the rule.


--- Quote ---Secondly, why is it alright for someone to make a remark "Tongue in cheek", while I get raked across the coals for doing it? The now infamous "Thought So?" wasn't tongue in cheek?
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I've gotten in trouble over this on other forums I participate in.  You have to remember that people can't hear your tone of voice or judge your emotions, so they just have to go from the written words.  Take your last comment above:


--- Quote ---The now infamous "Thought So?" wasn't tongue in cheek?
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That ends with a question mark.  Are you asking us whether it was not tongue-in-cheek?  Are you asking yourself whether it was tongue-in-cheek?  Are you making a statement that is was not tongue-in-cheek?  Or are you making a rhetorical question implying that it was in-fact tongue-in-cheek?  Based on context, I am assuming it is the latter, but it could easily be misconstrued.

As far as why you got raked over the coals and others don't - I looked back at the original post:


--- Quote ---Thought so . . .
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Like DK said, that sounds authoritative and confrontational.  You would get a similar response from (and it was taken the same way as:

Thought so . . .   :tool:

or

Thought so . . .  :angry:

or somewhat

Thought so . . .  :soapbox:

as opposed to

Thought so . . .  ;)

Thought so . . .  :cheers:

Thought so . . .   :laugh2:

Thought so . . .   8)

Which most others use and which wouldn't have gotten the board mad at you.

Yes, it really is that simple!!!  :cheers:
Santoro:

--- Quote from: btp2k2 on March 14, 2007, 02:01:20 pm ---First of all....I think the whole "Respect your elders" based on post count is ridiculous. Not only is it completely unfair to judge someone based on the amount of times they have posted in this forum, it is just plain stupid. Based on that logic, some zitty faced 15 year old punk ass kid would rule the world cause all he does all day is surf the net (No offense intended if you are a zitty faced 15 year old punk ass kid).
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Well... I knew shite about anything when I had 12 posts here 3-4 years ago.  I know my way around a bit now. Not like some others, but this would have been a good gauge for me.  Also, how many expert MAME builders do you think are out there that aren't members here?  Probably very few. 

I think your point is valid on many boards that have content that is duplicated on other boards.  It is, for example, easy to be an expert in Sci-Fi without ever having visited Scifi.com.  It is not so easy to be an expert MAME builder without having spent some time here. 
KenToad:
As a fairly low-post resident cab/mame expert ...  :laugh2: ... no, but seriously, I just wanted to point out that I didn't really see post counts as being an issue.  I thought Drew kind of laid into you, BTP ..., and Cheffo fired back at your ranty response, while kind of ignoring Drew's initial rant, maybe because he knows that Drew is bulletproof ... and you were too new to the board to take it with a shrug, like most of us do.   :angel:
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