Very nice initiative. I hope you know the gargantuan task you are embarking on.
Haha thanks, let's see how it goes
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I suggest you to try to limit the amount of merits submission you are willing to receive. This is something to limit the possibility to pos random records like the old thread with some really weird submission.... But, this is only a suggestion, a funny thread can also stay a little bit silly!
For now, I would like to keep the thread as free as possible. Some people really like random numbers, like e.g 123, 567, 1212, 1234 or 1337. To many limitations might prevent these people from posting their records here. At the beginning I would just say, we see how it goes and if things are getting out of hand and people keep spamming the thread, we will surely add more restrictions. In addition to that, if people don't follow the basic posting rules, they won't be added to #1 anyway.
I guess you did not catch my idea. My idea is if you only advise people to use a fixed height for their merit images, at 200, their merit images will be different. Some will snapshot their images at profile pages, without avatars. In contrast, some will snapshot their images in posts, with or without avatars. There will be at least three types of images and the diversity will make your OP be inconsistently displayed. If you include a rule with fixed height and only one image type, OP will look better.
That post looks good with consistently displayed images. Compare it with
that one and with OP.
I got your idea earlier, but I don't see a problem with different screenshots, as long as they are the same height. If some people prefer a screenshot of their profilepage, while others prefer a screenshot of their their stats on the left of a post, I am totally okay with that (people are also free to decide, if they also want to screenshot their avatars or if they want to cut them out). Let's not add too many rules and make things too complicated. This thread should be fun! If screenshots look slighty different, thats totally fine.
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