stampsyne wrote:
gemma58 - Nothing personal to you, even though you did post a few times clarifying. It just seemed that every person who got the answer added another spin on the same hint. While this is usually good, we don't usually need more than three. The Neopedia is about enough of a hint. Maybe saying it is in the front, middle or back. I believe that telling which page it is on may be going a bit too far (tell me if you agree or disagree here, PPTers!). The people looking for hints should really have to do the leg work like everybody else.
If they didn't have to, we would be no better than the people who spam the answers everywhere.
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If you look up the shopkeepers name, you get a pet by the same. Cute page they have.
... is NOT a hint. It is something that can only be found AFTER you know the answer.
stampsyne: you are the one that made it personal -
How is posting ONE clue and saying what it is not in ONE post qualify for:
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"even though you did post a few times clarifying"
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Obviously someone that has been on pptforum a fair while longer(long before the current date under my av) is not as good as yourself or:
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XenaAndGabrielle- I was wondering where you were. You are usually the FIRST to post a relavent / confirmed clue.
To me ANYONE is capable of finding and/or giving clues to a mystery pic (or any other neo info)
irrespective of their time on any given forum and my personal take on mystery pic clues is evident in how I gave my one and only clue on the forum.
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You may not have seen me post many times on the Mystery Pic, but I only post if:
1. I have an idea that someone else has not thought of earlier than me,
2. I have something relevant to say
Please note: I do not usually post a clue unless I have
confirmed that the image I have found matches EXACTLY and if someone posts a clue (to the same image) before I do, I do not post as I consider that my post would be a me too type post.
That said, I agree that sometimes a clue may be too revealing or there may be too many clues, however that is not my job to "police", so I leave that to the very capable mods.
Perhaps there could be a "mod notice" placed in the first post of every Mystery Pic thread, that outlines the pptforum "rules" of posting hints to the Mystery Pic.
Let's put this behind us and get the next Mystery Pic by working together on here!