Everything I am about to say has probably been cleared up previously, but I feel it’s important to go ahead and speak a piece right quick.
First of All, everyone needs to go to facebook now and sign up for the Gabe Group. I made it, I am the king of it, Gabe is the King of it, and if you want to, you can be a king or queen of the group as well (note the capitalisation of the monarchy).
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=105547626135055

Second, Hleb: There is no war baby boy; you took my Gif down on that post, and that was that. If anyone can appreciate giving up a little freedom for liberty, it’s me (huh?).

As far as VforVgum goes, it’s a twofold issue as far as I see it – Gifs that move can clog browsers, and people who post well thought out word based comments are marginalized come monster’s ball because of great picture comments.
WIthin that statement of the issues, I see one glaring problem – We are placing too much concern on monster’s ball and inherently from this, Upvotes. AND I KNOW – Super Hypocrisy alert – this is the dude who bitched over and over about voting issues, but Gif’s and their ADORATION FACTOR 7 lead partially to my stance on voting and its effects. And to officially put that issue to bed for me, I will say that there is still un necessary trolling, and there is also a huge movement of groupthink contained within the voting, And I really don’t give a shit anymore, but that’s not what this post is about).

As far as clogged up browsers, I get it. I issued a shitty statement to mr Paper Werewolf, wherein I told him to screw off, and that I will post whatever I want. I apologize. I do see how the browser issue could be a genuine frustration.

But back to marginalizing the great text comments; somewhere along the way, in my 2nd month here, Werttrew shot to all star status through the use of clever gifs. I followed suit, dispensing judiciously with the images and moving pics, ALWAYS TRYING to post gifs that related DIRECTLY to the post being discussed. If my comment wasn’t valid, it got slapped down (And my comments have often been slapped down, gif or not). I don’t think that the issue lies with the gifster who follows the rules. It’s about the ones who post things that are tangential at best. BUT!!!! I personally recognize the concept that there is a main post, and the comments are a self contained unit, that often interrelate, but do not have to (particularly as comment strings and threads end up taking a post in a different direction through conversation or otherwise). So while you may not see the point of an image, try to look at the joke being made in the comment, and often with relevance to posts above.

There has always been a very LOOK AT ME kind of quality to Monster’s ball. Hell, I did my thing gif wise after a while b/c I figured it was my only way onto the IT list…

And this website is Really Important to all of us for some reason or another. I was talking with DavidCXR about this and we agreed – we have never been on a website that we felt like it was ours as much as we feel this about Videogum.
So while I empathize with the originals and the old schoolers, the nu-school crowd has added a ton too. And I can see how interlopers giffing up the place with tagless image insertion could chap your ass, when all you wanna do is discuss something like a normal person, but remember, more monsters, more food on Gabe’s family.

And as far as lists, twitters, fan sites, all the other stuff – You DO NOT HAVE TO ENGAGE IN THEM IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO. No One forces us to click ANY LINKS, no one is forcing us to be here, I just want to laugh and make jokes with people that seem really funny and hip and with it.

So as a Gifster, I would like to say I respect your Position, VforVgummers, and will continue to be thoughtful with my image insertion. But Seriously, I talk in gifs, so it will not cease.