Court Records

This is a forum for fans of the Gyakuten Saiban series, known outside Japan as Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. It is also the official forum for the PW fansite Court Records.

Please follow the rules listed below at all times when participating in the forum:

• No flaming. We here at Court Records will not stand for personal attacks on other users. You’re free to disagree with other users, but if you can’t express your disagreement without being a jerk about it, just let the matter drop.
  
  
• No flaming people over their preferences. Our fandom is very diverse. This is not the place to argue the merits of liking certain pairings, etc. Court Records invites discussion on all topics and "don't like, don't click" is the golden rule of thumb. You may discuss the pairing. You don't have to support the pairing. You may not attack people for liking or disliking the pairing.
  
  
• If you have a problem with another user, report them. Do not respond to a jerk by being a jerk yourself. Either report the post or contact someone on the admin/mod team. We will deal with the problem as quickly and smoothly as possible. The report button is the little "!" near the bottom of the post.
  
  
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• Keep your signature small. Sigs are NOT to exceed 600x220 pixels. The intent is that signature images be no more than 200p in height and that the extra 20p is for text, but we won’t force you to adhere to that. Everyone also is allowed to upload a 200x200 avatar if they so choose. Avatars are not to exceed 300KiB in size, and sigs 500KiB. If a Moderator or Admin tells you to change your avatar and/or signature, please change it or they’ll do it for you. Text and quotes count into the size of the sig. Finally, please do not put spoiler tags in your signature.
  
  
• Keep it PG-13. NSFW content is not acceptable on this forum. …Well, okay, there’s one thread where it’s allowed, but anywhere other than in that thread, you may not post NSFW content—and even then, that thread only allows Ace Attorney-related content. The same holds true for TSFW (technically safe for work) content. Just because all the naughty bits are covered doesn’t make the image okay to share here. Links to NSFW content are permitted as long as they are clearly marked as such, but sharing them just for the sake of sharing NSFW content is discouraged. Finally, please refrain from wandering into raunchy topics of discussion.
  
  
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• Do not hotlink off of Court Records. That means if you want to show off a piece of art or a sprite, host it on your own site/photobucket/imageshack/imgur/whatever hosting site you use. It hurts the site when you hotlink.
  
  
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• Be cool. In general we're all fun people here. A lot of us enjoy jokes and sarcasm. Sometimes it's hard to tell sarcasm online, but this is a fansite, so if you find yourself taking something too personally or too seriously, try to take a step back before letting it get the better of you. But at the same time, being a jerk in the name of humor is not really humor, so remember that everyone is here to have fun and there's no need to be mean-spirited. We also know people sometimes get into arguments. Please remember to attack your opponent’s argument, not your opponent. A guide to civil debate and discussion can be found here.

Accessing the image was impossible or file isn’t a valid image.

I tried setting my signature image to http://x.jflom.com/files/pw/sig1.jpg but it says it is invalid. Is it somehow against the rules or some technical thing?

Tony_Tony_Gangsta wrote:Now I didn't see this in the rules but just wondering what's the max size for a sig? I think it's the same as an avatar but not sure.

You should read a little more clearly:

Wooster wrote:-KEEP YOUR SIG SMALL. Sigs are NOT to exceed 600x200 pixels, no exceptions. Everyone also is able to upload a 200x200 avatar if they so choose. Avatars are not to exceed 120kb in size, and Sigs 200kb. No warnings will be given if your avatar or sig is too large - it will be deleted.

The current picture in your sig is 182x184, which is fine, though since the above measurements are for the whole sig itself, it may be a bit too much with the text.

The one I want is in the 400's and I think that's a lot. And is it possible to make a pic smaller? (Sorry I don't know much about the picture stuff for my comuter )

You can make a sig smaller by either cropping out excess parts (like blank space) which make the picture unnecessarily big, or you can resize the picture easily in any picture editing software (though how differs mostly by software).

The Thinker wrote:

Accessing the image was impossible or file isn’t a valid image.

I tried setting my signature image to http://x.jflom.com/files/pw/sig1.jpg but it says it is invalid. Is it somehow against the rules or some technical thing?

It could just be the type of forum this is. I know that APnet rejects off-linked avatars. I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I posted before reading the rules am I banned

Yes, Carter. Totally BAN'D. And yet, the awesome power of your sig compells me to change my mind. Unban'd.

Speaking of banning, I've come up with some new additions for the rules:

-IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH ANOTHER FORUMER, REPORT THEM. Do not engage your fellow members in useless arguments. Either simply report the post, or contact someone on the admin/mod team, and we will deal with the problem as quickly and smoothly as possible.

-IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A MOD, TELL CROIK. Do not engage the mods in useless arguments. As past experience has shown by now, snapping at a mod because you don't agree with their modly decision is the quickest way to get banned. If you don't feel you can talk to a mod in a calm, mature fashion, please save yourself some trouble and come to me. I will do my best to resolve the issue quickly and smoothly.

-IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CROIK....hm, I dunno. Well, you can still come to me. I'm a pretty calm person most of the time. I have no problem accepting criticism as long as it's worded in a mature manner. Or, if your burning hatred of me is so great, talk to Anders. Just don't whine. Which brings me to:

-DON'T WHINE. Whining will bring down any number of punishments upon you, ranging from a quick kick in the pants to a shiny new Payne-a-tar, depending on the situation. If you can't express yourself in a somewhat serious manner, we don't want to hear it.

Thank you, that is all~

Croik wrote:Or, if your burning hatred of me is so great, talk to Anders. Just don't whine.

*is buried under hate-PMs*

Just a quick reminder to folks that the Court-Records forums are here for the benefit of the community, not the individual. If you report someone and a mod looks into the situation and determines that they've done nothing wrong, that's your cue to get over it. Continual pestering of the mods over an isolated individual incident will net you with the aforementioned Payne-a-tar or, god forbid, whatever other form of mod-entertainment I manage to come up with.

I am Interested in seeing this Payne-a-tar. If you need some extra cruel punishment, Feel free to use mine, if not already your idea.

Mind if I add text to that, Mikker?

Croik wrote:Mind if I add text to that, Mikker?

Of course not.

Payne is shockingly buff.

I'd treat that as more of a pleasant surprise than a punishment. Maybe I should start whining about someone or something...

OK, I finally transferred. (shame that my post count is at 0 again... )

By the way, is my original avatar and my sig too big?

Sorry, I can't count pixels... :(

Poltergust wrote:By the way, is my original avatar and my sig too big?

Sorry, I can't count pixels... :(

Right-click on the avatar/sig picture, hit "Proterties". Dimensions tell you how long and tall the picture is, Size is the file size of the picture. Both are acceptable, as far as I can tell.


And I'd say not to complain about the move. What's done is done, and at this point it's fairly late to undo it and tell everyone to go back to the old forum on a whim. Everyone else is settled in now, as you will be soon. Post count shouldn't mean much, anyway. Not as much as what's in the posts, at least to me.

Blademaster_Orca wrote:

Poltergust wrote:By the way, is my original avatar and my sig too big?

Sorry, I can't count pixels... :(

Right-click on the avatar/sig picture, hit "Proterties". Dimensions tell you how long and tall the picture is, Size is the file size of the picture.

Not always possible, though. Alot of avatars and signitures on this board has the data becoming unaccessable when run through the transparancy filter.

Croik wrote:-IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CROIK....hm, I dunno.

Eat all the potatoes in the world and leave her with... ... ... I don't know... Onions and green peppers.

*read rules*

Wooster wrote:KEEP YOUR SIG SMALL. Sigs are NOT to exceed 600x200 pixels, no exceptions. Everyone also is able to upload a 200x200 avatar if they so choose. Avatars are not to exceed 120kb in size, and Sigs 200kb. No warnings will be given if your avatar or sig is too large - it will be deleted.

Um... Wooster?

...Your sig...

Man, Pazu, you pissed Wooster off BIG-TIME.

Worry not, citizen! Mikker comes to the rescue AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT!

Pazu wrote:

Wooster wrote:KEEP YOUR SIG SMALL. Sigs are NOT to exceed 600x200 pixels, no exceptions. Everyone also is able to upload a 200x200 avatar if they so choose. Avatars are not to exceed 120kb in size, and Sigs 200kb. No warnings will be given if your avatar or sig is too large - it will be deleted.

Um... Wooster?

...Your sig...

Bring on the Payne!

Mikker wrote:

Croik wrote:Mind if I add text to that, Mikker?

Of course not.

I-I'll behave -

Wait! Wooster can't punish himself, can he? *head asplodes*

As I was bored of the big empty space under my posts, I made a new sig.
Unfortunately, my computer knowledge past 'How To Get On The Internet' is pretty much zilch, so... ummmm.... bites are smaller than kilobites, right? If so my sig's in size, but if not...crap.

It's fine, Impulse.

Should should only really worry about max size when you have animated sigs/avatars, really.

Thanks. I was just being careful, considering I've already been booked 3 times for my sigs/avatars.
I'll take the opportunity to say sorry about all that now. Sorry, I'll try and keep my sigs in size/un-hotlinked (which, in my defense, was before I knew what hotlinking was)/in file size, from now on.

Fixed my signature so it's not completely humongous now...

Well? Does it follow the rules?

It's fine. The text and pics add up to around 170 px. of height, as far as I can tell.

what is hotlinking?

http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html <=

I checked my signature twice but it still seems too big. Help?

It...is to big. Take out one of the pictures.

I ain't good at byte sizing so umm.. is my sig ok? *covers head*

Darzie the image is fine, but remember that the sig restriction counts Text as well. If you could squish your text higher, I'd appreciate it.

I'll see what I can do croik.

I just had a stupid question. If you have a big picture that you want to put in your sig, could you put it under a spoiler tag or something?

Madfoot713 wrote:I just had a stupid question. If you have a big picture that you want to put in your sig, could you put it under a spoiler tag or something?

No, you tricky tricky Madfoot. If you're so anxious for someone to see your graphic genius, post it in Wright & Co.

I'm pretty sure mine's under measurements, but I just want to make sure.

Umm, how tall is text considered in pixels?

I dug this out of the old country. :3

How about this?

No offense, Croik...