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The Thing # 16 Neal Adams illustrated what comic strip beginning in 1962? We'll just go with it! Questioners! Try to hang around a little while (if it's during busy times) to award the winner! My question was "Neal Adams illustrated what comic strip beginning in 1962?" which Jack answered correctly. So, its Jacks turn. Oh boy. When Blackhawk's Chop-Chop became Doctor Hands, in which metal were his hands first encased? Jack This is currently the top of the stack! (unless whoever just said titanium got it)

Whoever asked the question can just say it's right. It's up to them to choose the winnah. IF someone presents challenging proof for a different answer, that's fine, but it's STILL up to the questioner to choose what to do about it. Each question asker is the "ref" for the moment. It is the sacred right they earned by uh... answering the other question right? So they get to hold the tribal torch? Does anyone else suddenly feel like they're on Survivor?

The Thing # 16 Neal Adams illustrated what comic strip beginning in 1962? Ben Casey JPS Ok, so just quote him and throw in the icon!

The Thing # 16 Neal Adams illustrated what comic strip beginning in 1962? We'll just go with it! Questioners! Try to hang around a little while (if it's during busy times) to award the winner!

Yeah, I just don't know if it was the right answer!

Right now it's up to PovertyRow to pass it on

Spectacular Spider-Man 27 (Are we supposed to wait for a response to see if it's right?) What was the name of the seventh member of the Metal Men? Jack 7th member = "Nameless" Bob Kane's real name is what?

Cosmic Stories Is pressing resto..... NO, NOT THAT QUESTION! But I already asked one, and I don't know which of us got the "officially correct" Daredevil answer. Jack

Well, we could just let the chaos continue... it is kinda fun

Oh, added a graemlin especially for this situation.

Love the participation! Ok - Some ground rules - if everyone likes them. 1. Post your answer and only your answer, not a follow up question. 2. The person who posed the question will respond to the person who was the first to answer correctly as the winner and will "pass the baton" to that person. 3. Then the "winner" can post their follow up question and the game continues. Does anyone want step up and handle posting point totals?

Just an idea for a thread that I'm stealing from someplace else I saw it. Someone asks an interesting question about comics trivia / information. Whoever answers it first gets a point and must post their own question. Ok - Some ground rules - if everyone likes them. 1. Post your answer and only your answer, not a follow up question. 2. The person who posed the question will respond to the person who was the first to answer correctly with the icon and will thereby "pass the baton" to that person. They are the authority on who the winner is. You can submit evidence to them of an alternative answer, but in the end, the questioner makes the call. 3. Then the "winner" can post their follow up question and the game continues. 4. You can and should give hints if it's taking too long to get an answer. 5. You can publicly post to name a surrogate judge if you will be away for a while - just make sure to PM them the answer first so they can officially choose a winner! 6. When you get a win add a point to your score and post your updated score with your new question. I'll start... Superman's "final" battle continued across all four of his monthly comics and after a year or so he came back to life. What was the name of the character that kills him and the issue number?

In the early days of BBSing and chats (like ddial) the phone companies had some pretty high per minute charges on anything considered "long distance", but no line charges on things that were considered "local". Call packs were a pricing scheme that the phone company used to charge a higher monthly fee to expand your "local" coverage and thus eliminate per minute charges. BBS and chat users frequently signed up for these as it was then possible to leave yourself connected for hours without worry about mounting phone bills. Some of the bigger chat boards actually got giant call packs for themselves and set up systems so that you would dial in on your modem, connect, then disconnect and the BBS would call you back and make the connection - thus riding for free on their call pack rather than on your per minute charges. Of course, this rampant use of the phone system for very long connections (way in excess of voice call averages) both to post and to download files soon brought the phone company's attention around. This quickly lead to the elimination of call packs. But it was cool for awhile.

Mirrors my first experience Commodore 64 with a 300 baud plug-modem...took ages and nobody minded and I was paying per minute on the phone. Had to take a student job just to pay the $300 monthly phone bills and I was 16 at the time. You probably downloaded some games my group cracked or some demos I wrote back in 1983-1987 Call packs.

I would say... uh... cut it out? Honestly, I don't mind a thread now and then raising issues with moderation and questioning the direction. We design moderation around what helps the community to thrive and getting an occasional gut check from the community on those issues is a good thing. I also think that the community self-moderating through sharing opinions with each other about when, for example, things are getting too off topic is a good thing as well. It helps everyone stay in touch with each other about what kind of posting is appreciated and what kind isn't and by who. Several threads, or too frequent beating of a dead horse, or overly aggressive spamming once an issue has been discussed and fair opinions expressed would be too much - but an occasional re-addressing of an issue over reasonably long periods of time is ok. Let's just not get combative over it.

The below is still an accurate representation of moderation policy on this issue. ------------------------- "This is just a reminder that while there is considerable lee-way on what's allowed in comics general, including the occasional OT post, we do need to keep a reasonable limit on non-comic related posts. This is less a carved in stone limit than a general feel for the % of OT content. The water cooler is the appropriate place for general banter. Thanks. Arch" --------------------------- " There is no exact science. If there aren't many popping up, we tend to ignore them. When the trend of OT posts gets too numerous, we run a quick skim through the threads and move a bunch. If your OT post was this week as part of a trend of too many, you'll get swept. If it was an isolated incidence on a mostly on-topic week, it might get left. Also, some topics are more clearly way off topic than others. For example, a post about the TV show heros, while not technically about comic books is pretty clearly sort of comic book related through the super hero concept. A post about Battlestar Galactica... ok... not very comic booky but a pretty good bet to be of interest to the crowd. A post about flying model airplanes... water cooler. Essentially it's a process left to expediency and based on the general feel among the participants and moderators of whether CG is feeling too off topic. We will not be refining that process as it wouldn't be worth the time consumption. Please just utilize common sense and try to keep things generally on topic. Thanks."

A thread that cannot be derailed!!!! Brilliant!!!! Guinness beer!!! Brilliant!! Yes! Talk here about anything you want while hanging out in the Marketplace so the selling threads aren't spammed. This is the place to "out" bad sellers and buyers too if you feel the need. I <3 titty bars. Not exactly anything you want. Stop it.

How about neither? You can turn it off in your preferences.

What do you guys think on the side-bar... better on the left or right?

You guys vote yet? http://boards.collectors-society.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1795797&an=4&page=1#Post1795797

I really don't see how that could be true, as a true type font can change based on system setup, browser and rez, but a JPG stays constant in term of font size. View it on ten different screens and the font will remain consistent in the image. Only in proportion to everything else. Here's an illustration. Let's say I take a JPG that is 200x200 pixels and it is filled with the word "Hi!" I display it on a screen set to 1024x768 that is on a 19" monitor. Now display it on a 72" monitor set to 1024x768. That jpg will fill the same percentage of the screen, however, it will now be much much bigger to the person viewing it because in pure inches, x% of a 72" screen is way bigger than x% of a 19" screen.