why is home theatre forums so restrictive?

I just tried to post a comment in home theatre and got this after I hit submit:
In an effort to cut down on the number of members that just post a thread to post a URL to another site you are not allowed to post URLs to other sites until you're have at least posted 15 times.
To keep the message that you just posted use the back arrow on your browser and then remove the URL from your post. This will keep your original message intact and you won't lose its contents.

Huh??/ what is this???

they have so many restrictions now they have one that you can't post until you post 15 times in the past???

I wonder if this will get thru and on? or will will the powers to be veto it??

You can post, you just can't post a URL to stop spammers from doing "hit & run" URL advertisements. Quite a few big forums do this now.

The message you received was quite explanatory, no? It's an unfortunate consequence of earlier abuses.

You're about to get even more pissed when this thread gets relocated. Don't take it personal....

It helps to RTFM.

Welcome to HTF.

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you've been here for almost six months, but only have 10 posts?

arthur - i mean this with absolutely no offense, but it's not like you are a very active poster here. so, why get so upset?

anyway, as already explained, this is to keep spammers from hitting htf with stupid ads, etc.

anyway, if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask -- we may be crazy here, but we're a good bunch. well ... most of us anyway.

Actually i made a mistake..,,
I had put an IMDB url into my post for others to link to and didn't realize that the warning I got was about that url I placed..

I thought the initial warning I got was what I posted above.

so thanks for the help ..

I also believe that it is against Forum policy to question forum policy in the public forum.



I think the proper way to do things is to PM one of the mods to find out what happened.

Just the thread title by itself is pretty against the rules.

That just sounded funny.

Richard hits the right notes. Arthur, you cannot post a link until you've reached fifteen posts, as explained here. For further answers, please contact a moderator privately.

A few minutes in the Star Wars threads and that number will quadruple.

I believe this line was inadvertently left out of Dr. Strangelove .

arthur,
By any chance are you related to orange?

henry

No but it was the only way to get onto and into the forums to start with,.. A name by any name is but a rose...

...and Arthur, may I say, Welcome aboard here!

Reminds me of: "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room."

~T

We apologize again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked.

this could get fun.

The Cast (in order of appearance [roughly]):
KING ARTHUR : Graham Chapman
PATSY : Terry Gilliam
GUARD #1 : Michael Palin
GUARD #2 : Graham Chapman
MORTICIAN : Eric Idle
CUSTOMER : John Cleese
DEAD PERSON : ???
DENNIS : Michael Palin
WOMAN : Terry Jones
BLACK KNIGHT : John Cleese (?)
VILLAGER #1 : Eric Idle
VILLAGER #2 : Michael Palin
SIR BEDEVERE : Terry Jones
WITCH : Connie Booth
VILLAGER #3 : John Cleese
NARRATOR: Michael Palin
SIR LAUNCELOT : John Cleese
SIR GALAHAD : Michael Palin
SIR ROBIN : Eric Idle
SIR BORS : Terry Gilliam
GOD : Graham Chapman
FRENCH GUARD : John Cleese
MINSTREL : Neil Innes
LEFT HEAD : Terry Jones
MIDDLE HEAD : Graham Chapman
RIGHT HEAD : Michael Palin
OLD MAN/BRIDGEKEEPER : Terry Gilliam
HEAD KNIGHT OF NI : Michael Palin
FATHER : Michael Palin
PRINCE HERBERT : Terry Jones
GUARD #1 : Eric Idle
GUARD #2 : ???
CONCORDE : Eric Idle
OLD CRONE : ???
ANIMATOR : Terry Gilliam
ROGER (THE SHRUBBER) : Eric Idle
TIM (THE ENCHANTER): John Cleese
BROTHER MAYNARD: Eric Idle
SECOND BROTHER: Michael Palin

Credits and Subtitles:

Røten nik Akten Di

Wik

Alsø wik

Alsø alsø wik

Wi nøt trei a høliday in Sweden this yër?

See the løveli lakes

The wøndërful telephøne system

And mäny interesting furry animals

Including the majestik møøse

A møøse once bit my sister...

No realli! She was Karving her initials øn the møøse with the sharpened end of an interspace tøøthbrush given her by Svenge - her brother-in-law -an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian møvies: "The Høt Hands of an Oslo Dentist", "Fillings of Passion", "The Huge Mølars of Horst Nordfink"...

We apologise for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible have been sacked.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...

We apologise again for the fault in the subtitles. Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

[Møøse Trained by YUTTE HERMSGERVØRDENBRØTBØRDA]

[Special Møøse Effects OLAF PROT]
[Møøse Costumes SIGGI CHURCHILL]

[Møøse choreographed by HORST PROT III]
[Miss Taylor's Møøses by HENGST DOUGLAS-HOME]
[Møøse trained to mis concrete and sign complicated insurance forms by JURGEN WIGG]

[Møøses noses wiped by BJØRN IRKESTØM-SLATER WALKER]
[Large møøse on the left hand side of the screen in the third scene from the end, given a thorough grounding in Latin, French and 'O' Level Geography by BO BENN]
[Suggestive poses for the møøse suggested by VIC ROTTER]
[Antler-care by LIV THATCHER]

The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to
be known that they have just been sacked.

The credits have been completed in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute.

But the absolute winner is our original poster, arthurJulius, who (if I understand you properly, didn't I, arthur? ) thought that our rule was:


Cees

Yes that's right.. I really thought that HTF had brought in a new policy which was after you sign up you would post 15 times and each one wouldn't get posted till the magic #15 rolled around...

BUT,, as I hadsaid earlier it was an HTTP url site to an IMDB that informed me of this rule when I tried to link that url into a post

But We all had a good laugh now didn't we...

Cees

Parker is gonna love this....

With egg. That's all I can think about while reading this. Orange Julius, a great American classic.

I nominate Arthur as the best new HTF member with the greatest capacity to take a joke. A quality that's, unfortunately, all too often lacking in any forum-type environment.

I can take a joke and give a joke and be the joke and all sorts of things. I just can't stand something telling a joke that can't tell one.


I honor of Eric Idle, Phython and the gang of Spamalot on their win at the Tony's last night I give Sir Julius a big Ni!

And Zen:

I still like Pineapple better.

Somehow I knew you'd be pleased about that!

General "Julius" Turgidson: Mr. Moderator, we cannot allow a post-count gap!

Welcome aboard Arthur.

Re: why is home theatre forums so restrictive?

I don't have a url or anything like that to post I just want to know where I can go and in which forum I would find out how to get to the service menu on my JVC AV27s33 television set. I thought I posted in the right place before but I don't see my post there. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm a first timer at forums. I'm lost and confused.

Thank you

Rae

Re: why is home theatre forums so restrictive?

Rae,

Welcome to Home Theater Forum.

Looks like Display Devices would be your best bet.

Here is a shortcut to that forum area:

Display Devices (TVs/Projectors) - Home Theater Forum

Re: why is home theatre forums so restrictive?

And hip hip hooraeto Rae for digging up an oldie but a goodie...featuring a bunch of names from the HTF past.

Welcome to the forum, Rae!

For some reason I didn't get a notification in my UserCP that this thread had received a new post. Strange...

And now for something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

Was this always stickied before?  Guess I should drop by this section of HTF more often then...

_Man_