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cazboab

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  1. Hedganian. that would have been me.

     

    You weren't PMed cos no-one else who's had a sig taken down by me ever has been. When someone has a huge sig, its going bye-bye, consultation would just delay that.

     

    Rhino: his signature was some text about something, a quote, some more text then 4 userbars, end result being a sig about 3 or 4 times the length of yours.

  2. To the best of my knowledge arnies(both as a website and as individual moderators) has received no payment, comps or discount outside the review samples and information which Fareast receives. Feel free to continue any discussion along that line in the news thread on ICS real steel parts, but in here a little less conversation a little more pictures please.

  3. Another FAQ to help things run smooth

     

    <b>There's no thread for my gun</b>

    Have a look and see if there's a thread on something very similar, including but not limited too: B&T Mp5s in the HK thread or Lr300s and sr25s in the Armalite thread.

    Also please post your sniper rifles in the thread in the snipers haven, and your support weapons in the appropriate thread in the foxhole

     

    <b>The thread I want to post my pictures in is locked</b>

    If its over 100 pages long then its entirely possible that a new version has been started, if not have a look back in case there's something similar.

     

    <b>I want to ask someone a question about something in a locked thread</b>

    PM them, most of our members are quite friendly, and those that bite are fully vaccinated.

     

    <b>I want to start a thread for X there isn't one and doesn't fit in anything else</b>

    PM a moderator.

     

    <b>I'm still not sure</b>

    PM Misfit, or any other member of the moderating team.

  4. *Ahem*

     

    This isn't some space-saving effort or a decision to bin the picture threads simply because someone doesn't agree with their usefulness.

     

    (well you did ask...)

     

     

    Marlowe's working on the FAQ to go along with the shiney new sections, to explain how they'll be used more efficiently than the one big lump approach in the mean time if you join the chatroom you can put forward any suggestions you might have.

  5. Darklite, yes but in order to assemble the gun legally you would have to have some way to be able to prove you're a skirmisher to avail yourself of the defence, and that would mean you could import it legally fully assembled - customs might even ask for proof you're a skirmisher when they get the package containing most of a realistic imitation in any case.

  6. The news forum is set to default by the order threads were started, so old stuff doesn't come back up to the top all the time. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, you'll see a bunch of pulldown menus one of those says "order: topic started", change that to "order: last post" and click "go" and it'll go back to normal. hover over previews would be nice, but in the age of tabbed browsing not really essential and would probably mean another chunk of custom code to be re-worked when the forum software is upgraded.

  7. When I bought my ACM acog(the version with no backup sights, not the NSN) it worked out at half the price of the G&P one.

     

    The scope itself works pretty good, decent eye relief so you can use it with goggles on, doesn't fog up etc, but the base/peep hole needed filing and I had to drill holes for it to line up right inside my carry handle, the rail grabber its on work great if you want to use it low on the rail though.

  8. So we're saying that it's beyond the average Arnies user to tick a box to save a message if required?

    IMO it would work better as an opt in system, not the default, as while the majority of users would know how it worked there would still be a significant number or new users or folk who didn't read the updates (there are still folk who don't know the rep system is gone for instance).

     

    If someone's away for a month clearing out their inbox starting from the oldest messages would cause problems too, say for instance person X posts a thread selling an AEG, and person Y pms them an offer, unfortunately X gets stuck working on a boat for 12 weeks when they thought they were only on for 3, and goes on a cruise for a few weeks and comes back to find a lower offer from person Z posted in the thread days/weeks after, but Y's has been deleted. X accepts or is discussing terms with Z when along comes Y to reiterate his earlier, higher, offer, X continues with Z's offer and Y gets cranky cos he feels ignored, or he takes Y's offer and Z throws a hissy fit about gazumping, and reports it to the mods, who are stuck between a rock and a hard place due to there being nothing to show either way (although as a sales mod its you that it makes more work for so you've probably thought about that ).

     

    It works for Ebay because they're a site dedicated to sales, so they have a record of offers separate from the messaging system, yes there are the classified up in the corner here which is essentially the same thing, but it would seem, just from the volume of items posted for sale and number of completed sales, folks prefer to use the old sales forums.

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