Alternate numbers solutions.
Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 7:39 pm
Im sooooo tired of all the alternate numbers solutions that ppl mercilessly post in spoilers section. What do you all think?
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I have RETINAS for 7 as a contestant equaller.JackHurst wrote:Im sooooo tired of all the alternate numbers solutions that ppl mercilessly post in spoilers section. What do you all think?
I'm tired of people who use text speak on a computer. Is it really so hard to write 'people' instead of 'ppl'?! FFS, FWIW etc are fair enough, but not being bothered to type an extra three letters is ridiculous.JackHurst wrote:Im sooooo tired of all the alternate numbers solutions that ppl mercilessly post in spoilers section. What do you all think?
It's called speed typing...the same idea that you didn't pick him up on not using an apostrophe on "I'm" above. I type so much on msn etc that "ppl" just come out naturally sometimes. Yes, "people" doesn't take that much extra effort but so what?Steve Durney wrote: I'm tired of people who use text speak on a computer. Is it really so hard to write 'people' instead of 'ppl'?! FFS, FWIW etc are fair enough, but not being bothered to type an extra three letters is ridiculous.
'So what' could also be applied to this thread. If you don't like alternate solutions, so what?! Who cares whether you like it or not, just like you don't care about ppl / people. As Charlie wrote in another thread, if you don't like it - don't read it!!Kirk Bevins wrote:It's called speed typing...the same idea that you didn't pick him up on not using an apostrophe on "I'm" above. I type so much on msn etc that "ppl" just come out naturally sometimes. Yes, "people" doesn't take that much extra effort but so what?Steve Durney wrote: I'm tired of people who use text speak on a computer. Is it really so hard to write 'people' instead of 'ppl'?! FFS, FWIW etc are fair enough, but not being bothered to type an extra three letters is ridiculous.
Kind of hard to if you want to see the rest of the spoilers thread.Steve Durney wrote:'So what' could also be applied to this thread. If you don't like alternate solutions, so what?! Who cares whether you like it or not, just like you don't care about ppl / people. As Charlie wrote in another thread, if you don't like it - don't read it!!Kirk Bevins wrote:It's called speed typing...the same idea that you didn't pick him up on not using an apostrophe on "I'm" above. I type so much on msn etc that "ppl" just come out naturally sometimes. Yes, "people" doesn't take that much extra effort but so what?Steve Durney wrote: I'm tired of people who use text speak on a computer. Is it really so hard to write 'people' instead of 'ppl'?! FFS, FWIW etc are fair enough, but not being bothered to type an extra three letters is ridiculous.
Sorry, I thought you could just skip that post and move on to the next one in an instant. Obviously not then. Silly me.Junaid Mubeen wrote: Kind of hard to if you want to see the rest of the spoilers thread.
I agree that it's tedious to post uninteresting alternative numbers solutions (and let's face it; most of them are just that). And srsly, who gives a damn if someone uses 'ppl' or 'people'? Chill out.
I didn't say I found them irritating, just that I thought that posting them was tedious and that they were, for the most part, uninteresting. Thing is, you do get the occasional bit of flair in the alternative solutions, but to detect them you have to go through the whole lot.Steve Durney wrote:Sorry, I thought you could just skip that post and move on to the next one in an instant. Obviously not then. Silly me.Junaid Mubeen wrote: Kind of hard to if you want to see the rest of the spoilers thread.
I agree that it's tedious to post uninteresting alternative numbers solutions (and let's face it; most of them are just that). And srsly, who gives a damn if someone uses 'ppl' or 'people'? Chill out.
And who gives a damn? Exactly! If you find the posts irritating Junaid, try chilling out!
They could pm them to you first for vetting, perhaps?Junaid Mubeen wrote:I didn't say I found them irritating, just that I thought that posting them was tedious and that they were, for the most part, uninteresting. Thing is, you do get the occasional bit of flair in the alternative solutions, but to detect them you have to go through the whole lot.
Jon O'Neill wrote:Never read the spoilers threads any more. They are shite.
Yeah, 'alternatives' or beaters only interest me if they're, well, interesting (I think we're all capable of sticking the letters into a solver). Unfortunately what one person finds interesting another will find boring, so it's just a matter of taste. I mostly find myself being the latter, so I don't bother reading them (which is a shame, because it means I probably miss the occasional cool word/numbers solve).Jon O'Neill wrote:Never read the spoilers threads any more. They are shite.
Not at all. Pretty much everyone in the world likes other people to know when they've done something they think is impressive. You could argue that a top Apterite going on the show is big-headed. They already know they're good - why tell the whole country? Also, it does alert people to good games. There's so many games that a lot of good ones slip by unnoticed. Junaid's and Craig's max numbers attacks against Plum (who does six small) were very impressive I thought, and I'm glad I was alerted to them.Matt Morrison wrote:Alternative to Official Thread of Brag:
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And I'd do the same again.Jon Corby wrote:In fact, somebody used to do exactly that (Katherine someone?), post everything they'd got, and they got very unfairly savaged for it.