Forum Description OCD

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  1. Tyler

    Tyler The Badministrator

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    I have some serious forum description (and forum name) OCD. If the descriptions and forum names are not visually appealing to me, I must change it. I don't mean what the actual text says, but how it looks without reading it. I usually cannot stand having the last forum name of a category being shorter than the rest:

    The Amazingly Awesome Lounge For Webmasters
    The Technology and Internet Zone
    Music and Entertainment
    Off-Topc​

    ...that absolutely kills me. I would literally make it like this just to please myself:

    The Technology and Internet Zone
    Music and Entertainment
    Off-Topc
    The Amazingly Awesome Lounge For Webmasters​

    The same goes for the actual description. I don't like descriptions that don't look full when they're the last forum of the category. Otherwise I feel like it's "top-heavy".

    Also, something that we have on AA which is a bit of a minor annoyance is the forums with the most posts and threads being at the top of the category, lol. Notice how this very section has many more posts and threads than the rest and it's at the top.



    Anyone else as crazy as me?
     
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    No.

    I can never be this compulsive!
     
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    Yeah, that's just a little obsessive, and your users aren't going to care one bit. But it's that same attention to detail that made your forum what it is today, so fly your OCD flag high!

    I once refused to add a much-requested feature (MySpace-like profiles) on the grounds that they offended my aesthetic sensibilities!
     
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    Yeah, even if my members will never care or notice it, I will (and I'll hate it).
    So if it's my own forum, I'll do things my way and no one will have ever known. :p
     
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    Savage, I am one of the pickiest people you will come across... and even I don't do this. :P
     
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    ._. You REALLY need to have dinner with me, you will change that sentence is seconds.
     
  7. Nick

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    I think we're in the same boat on this one, Chris.
     
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    Thanks people, I appreciate the support. :cry:
     
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    Eh, suck it up - we all know that you're a bit weird, so it's alright.
     
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    Welcome to the WW! Wierd Wagon! Where wierd is seen even in the postbit!
     
  11. Nick

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    Who said anything about "a bit"? :shifty:
     
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    I'm getting hit hard right now, ouch.
     
  13. Nick

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    Yeah, just admit it...

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    Houndoom is going to come back and bite you in the ass one day. And haunt you forever - you wait... just keep it up.
     
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    Wow Nick, you're feisty tonight - and I love it. :D
     
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    Will it be Houndoom or his Pikachu? I need to know who exactly I'm going to be dealing with. :shifty:
     

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