To be used whenever you try to PM someone and you can't because they have too many PMs!
I try to keep mine right at 58 or 59, but it is hard, becuase I have kept so many I can't part with over the years (most of which are about various writing/art projects here on LW).
Posted by Power Boy on :
i don't have any pm's to clear.
Posted by MLLASH on :
Now you do! Posted by Power Boy on :
thanks! I just deleted it ... just in case 60 people decide to pm me within the next few minutes.
whew. that was a close one.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'll always cherish my pm from Rodney Leon Potts!
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Power Boy: thanks! I just deleted it ... just in case 60 people decide to pm me within the next few minutes.
whew. that was a close one.
This sounds like a dare to me...
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
I'm game.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Note: Please don't confuse this with "the ALL-CLEAR YOUR PMS!!!!! thread"!
Posted by cleome on :
Tch. I can't believe it took so long for the obligatory PMS joke to show up. You slackers.
Incidentally, I'm having one of my quasi-annual, disorganized, attempt-to-get-organized-by-chucking-out-random-unnecessary-things days. (Anything to avoid another look at the job listings, right?) I found an old copy of Jack Kirby's Battle For A 3-D World, still with the glasses and everything. If anybody wants it, PM me. (No charge, unless you have to have it sent by Priority Mail or something.)
(For the life of me, I couldn't think of where else to place this. If you want it somewhere else, Mods, you know what to do.)
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Bah! I PMed Abin this morning with like 5 paragraphs and it totally didn't go through, so when I 'back buttoned' it, it was gone. I'll never remember what poetic words I spoke!
My most cherished PM is the one from Nighty welcoming me from Legion World!
Posted by Dev Em on :
I have one saved that I'll never delete. It's from art regarding a chat that was happening at the time.
Posted by Thriftshop Debutante on :
Does anyone have good suggestions re: old PMs, such as how to save them on your computer as a document or web page or whatever?
Instructions appreciated (if appropriate).
Posted by Sketch Lad on :
Hello Everyone, My name is Sketch Lad... and I'm a PM hoarder! Well!... I might use those PMs some day! I know as soon as I delete one, I'll wish I had the valuable information it contained.
I'm working on it.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
quote:Originally posted by Thriftshop Debutante: Does anyone have good suggestions re: old PMs, such as how to save them on your computer as a document or web page or whatever?
Instructions appreciated (if appropriate).
I've saved several in the past where I've had long conversations on Legion ideas or LMB ideas (with Lardy, Reboot), etc. A minor worry is that even though they're on a computer, I really should have them saved somewhere else too, as a back-up.
I just used the internet browser 'save as' function at the top right. They basically save exactly how they look when you're logged in except avatars, graemlins and links are no longer there.
When I save threads, the problem used to be saving them when there were multiple pages because the links to pages wouldn't work. So at the bottom left of the thread if you put it in 'printer-friendly view of this topic' and then save it, it captures the whole thread in its entirey, sans avatars.
Posted by Reboot on :
Isn't this thread just going to end up as "the ALL-"CLEAR YOUR PMs Cobalt Kid"!!!! thread"?
Like several other people in this thread, I'm a PM hoarder and have PMs going back to 2003 that I'm reluctant to delete. I *think* the only ones I've saved to my PC are the 21CL-related ones with Cobalt, iB, etc though.
Posted by Chief Lardy on :
quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: Bah! I PMed Abin this morning with like 5 paragraphs and it totally didn't go through, so when I 'back buttoned' it, it was gone. I'll never remember what poetic words I spoke!
That has happened to me a good-many times--so many, that I've gotten into the habit of highlighting and "Control-C"ing the long posts before I hit "reply"! Posted by Emily Sivana on :
I highlight too, mostly because of my horrible campus Internet. Though for LMB stuff, maybe it's time for an OCC thread?
Posted by cleome on :
I've still got Yk/Yellow Kid's PM from my first couple of months here. It's backed up in a folder in my hotmail box, since I always have PMs auto-backed there.
[snif!]
Posted by Emily Sivana on :
I highlight too, mostly because of my horrible campus Internet. Though for LMB stuff, maybe it's time for an OCC thread?
Posted by Chief Lardy on :
quote:Originally posted by Emily Sivana: Though for LMB stuff, maybe it's time for an OCC thread?
Well, Arrow, the "Getting Involved in Roleplaying" thread has become kind of the de facto thread for OOC editorializing, so I don't know if another is necessary. Plus, many of us enjoy discussing some points privately in order to plan some character bits and leave them as a surprise for the others to discover when they are unleashed.
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
I did my first 'OOC' thing today. Didn't really like it all that much! Weird.
Posted by Emily Sivana on :
I've been on RP forums with strict policies so alot of the LMB way is unfamilar to me. I much prefer it here, would not have walked away from the USH if it wasn't for the increasing strictness/politics, but it's hard not to let one's guard down.
Posted by Chief Lardy on :
Yeah, Em...we're pretty loosey-goosey compared to what you're used to. Heck, RP is just a small part of what is done on the MMB, for one thing. (It's my favorite part, though! )
Posted by Dev Em on :
It has become my favorite part again after a long absence from it. I am having way too much fum with it.
Posted by Tempest on :
quote:Originally posted by Cobalt Kid: I did my first 'OOC' thing today. Didn't really like it all that much! Weird.
I'm not a fan of those, I think they take from the story.
I'm gonna look back in ten years, get all into reading and then...what? oh a liner note.
I like the Shout box when quick notes are needed for the night
Posted by Dev Em on :
quote:Originally posted by Dev Em: It has become my favorite part again after a long absence from it. I am having way too much fum with it.
wtf is fum??? Geez Dev, learn how to type ya big goof!
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
[insert random Cobie joke here]
Posted by Dev Em on :
Now thatz nut nyce. Posted by Reboot on :
Cobalt, could you bump the last PM I sent you back, please? There's a quick question I want to ask.
[No, it isn't strictly a "clear your PMs" post, but NC's asked us not to start additional threads if we can help it. ]
Posted by future king on :
But .... I just started PMSing , ooops I mean PMing! I DON'T WANT TO CLEAR THEM YET!!!!!!
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME! Posted by Faraway Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Dev Em:
quote:Originally posted by Dev Em: It has become my favorite part again after a long absence from it. I am having way too much fum with it.
wtf is fum??? Geez Dev, learn how to type ya big goof!
I dont know Dev but I think it might be related to "Fee Fi and Fo"
(sorry bad pantomime joke, I know I know, I'll just get my coat and leave now shall I) Posted by Dev Em on :
Far, I swear we do "know" each other on these boards...or at least from some of the previous boards...I've been around since the beginning, except for a brief period when I had no internet.
Posted by Faraway Lad on :
S’funny how we seem to be two nations separated by a common language.
I didn’t mean 'I don’t know Dev', cause you and I go a long way back, I’ve sat over this side of the pond and watched (metaphorically) your kids grow up.
What I was trying in a ham fisted way was to answer the question “wtf is fum” By saying I don’t know the answer, but it might be “Fee Fi Fo Fum,. I smell the blood of an Englishman” which is probably the most famous saying from the Jack the giant killer story over here.
Posted by Dev Em on :
quote:Originally posted by Faraway Lad: Fee Fi Fo Fum,. I smell the blood of an Englishman which is probably the most famous saying from the Jack the giant killer story over here.
On this side of the pond, too, Far, but we call the story "Jack and the Beanstalk" over here.
Posted by Tempest on :
Dev...DEV!!!
Clear some space!
Posted by Dev Em on :
Just did.
Posted by Tempest on :
thank you!
Posted by MLLASH on :
YAY, my thread is useful! Posted by Tempest on :
Yes, it is very useful!
Posted by MLLASH on :
I hear this thread may be needed again.
Posted by Emily Sivana on :
Abin Quank please clear your PM box, and also please read and reply to the Untamed Streets thread.
Posted by future king on :
I find this thread quite useful actually.
Posted by Exo-Lardy on :
Cobester, I need some space!
[No worries, now...problem solved!]
[ April 19, 2011, 01:07 PM: Message edited by: Exo-Lardy ]
Posted by Emily Sivana on :
Faraway Lad, you PM box was filled so I sent the message to Facebook.
Posted by Lard Lad on :
He'll see this tomorrow, Em. He's a limey Brit and therefore currently asleep!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Hey! not all Brits are lazy, no-good, lethargic narcoleptics!
...oh! you meant the time difference!
Posted by Lard Lad on :
Er...yeah, that's what I meant...
Posted by cleome45 on :
Abin, you social butterfly you.
Clear some space in your box, Man! Hurry!
Posted by Abin Quank on :
Done!
Posted by cleome45 on :
Whoo-hoo!
Posted by future king on :
I gotta get in there and do that one of these days.
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