Reply To: last night shortly after the contest went live…

[veruca]

If you’ll excuse me, I believe the tooth fairy is in my room and santa in my chimney and I’d hate to keep them waiting.

Holy moly, I think I got a sunflower seed kernal shoved up in my sinuses from snorting out loud when I read that. So, thanks!

From the FarQ:
You may have an internet connection that operates at twice the speed of light, but many of your co-farkers still rely on the trusty old 56k dialup routine. Do them a favor and compress your images! In newer versions of Photoshop use the “Save For Web” option under the file menu. As an added bonus, this feature also prevents the embedded XML nastiness that makes IE go balls-up. Most of the images you post will be between 40-60KB. Consider linking rather than displaying an image if it is larger than 70KB. Entries larger than 200KB will be automatically rejected. Entries larger than 700 pixels wide or 1200 pixels tall will be scaled proportionally (via width and height img tag attributes) to a maximum of 700×1200.

And in the boobies every week we ask people to compress. Some do, some don’t. Even if we cut down the number of images (which I personally am not in favor of) some people will still compress and some won’t. There’s nothing any of us personally on this board can do about it.

And as far as when the contest goes green, again, there’s nothing any of us can personally do aside from farkback (which I did last night). Until, as the mighty staplermofo mentioned above, we get brought into the fark fold there’s not a lot we can do except keep asking Drew to make it happen.

I’ll put a poll out there momentarily and we can see what comes of it.