How do you feel about on-the-edge-of-the-rules draws and do you have some of your own or saved someone you saw?

examples

CAT like this:
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/2556/28096360fa0.jpg

STAB like this:
first lines...
http://img390.imageshack.us/img390/9578/111ye4.jpg
ending like this (if not getting voted)
http://img245.imageshack.us/img245/8579/79500010xp9.jpg

:twisted:

Well for the first one it's blindingly obvious the tails form the letters so I personally would see that as against the rules.

The second one I usually wait a few seconds to see what follows before voting a drawing like that.

I have to say that cat one is pretty smart. I quite like it :P But that said, I'd still vote it. The intent is clearly to give the answer away, and it does.

As for the second one.. I'm a bit edgy about it. I guess I'd have to know more about the artist themselves, for one. Like, if they started off each of their drawings with something to that effect, I'd probably vote them, because it's a cheap shot of trying to stick in penis drawings. But I wouldn't do it if I was seeing this person draw for the first time (or if they've done other previous draws that weren't like that). Like Jobe, I'd probably give it a few seconds to see where it's going. They'd have to be drawing pretty fast though..

How do you feel about on-the-edge-of-the-rules drawsIn a user-created room with Mish Mash theme or something.. I think the Cat drawing is nice!
Probably best to avoid them in a public room. Otherwise one might come into some time off the game, in order to think of a better style :idea:

I forget who the artist was, but there was one time when someone started off every single draw with some vague drawing of an explicit body part, and it always ended up into a really great draw; it was probably the same person who drew "stab" in your post, grisse_bob. Wait, was it you?! LOL

Those types of draws are borderline but since they always ended up actually representing the word -- and the content wasn't offensive or unrelated -- then I didn't normally vote to skip those.

However, like Jobe and MrsNerdinator both stated, the letters in the "cat" drawing are obvious and you can tell that they're intended to give away the answer! And letters aren't allowed, no matter what, so I'd definitely vote to skip those.

Last night I was playing in 5 Strokes, and most of the regulars were drawing puns while using letters in their drawings. I really couldn't stand it, and some of them told me to loosen up, but I know that 5 Strokes is a public room and anybody who plays like that should take it to a private room where the iSketch rules don't apply. Seeing so many people use letters so casually in their draws in a public room annoyed me a lot.

I'd recommend that anybody who wants to play a game with "on-the-edge-of-the-rules" draws should take it to a private room where other people wouldn't have a problem with it.

However, like Jobe and MrsNerdinator both stated, the letters in the "cat" drawing are obvious and you can tell that they're intended to give away the answer! And letters aren't allowed, no matter what, so I'd definitely vote to skip those.

Last night I was playing in 5 Strokes, and most of the regulars were drawing puns while using letters in their drawings. I really couldn't stand it, and some of them told me to loosen up, but I know that 5 Strokes is a public room and anybody who plays like that should take it to a private room where the iSketch rules don't apply. Seeing so many people use letters so casually in their draws in a public room annoyed me a lot.

Sketches - I completely agree with you about the pun draws. I loveee puns, but when I'm in 5 Strokes, I'm there to play 5 Strokes (by the Instruction rules) - When I'm in Mash or a Pun room - I'm there to play with those styles of drawing and by their rules. 'Nuff said.
And Btw, letters are allowed in equations.

Grisse - I love those draws (in an appreciative/amazed that's-so-cool kind of way, not love as in trying to break the rules). The "cat"draw is great, but kind of cheap lol. I'd probably vote it.
As for the "stab" draw...when people start off their draws like that I usually wait to see what happens.
Aka I agree with Jobe and Nerdinator.

Okay, but only letters in math formulas are allowed (for example, "x + y = z" for the word "equation"). Every single other use for letters is clearly stated in the rules that they're not allowed. And I don't play in math rooms!

That's all.

except Roman numerals ;)

I'd vote to skip the first picture but not the second. I'd wait to see what the drawing turns out to be because I've made a mistake in the past. Someone started drawing and it really did look like they wrote "R" and something else, turns out it was completely unrelated to the word. Oops. I did apologise though and said why I voted to skip, I also think an admin came in :$

As for the second one.. I'm a bit edgy about it. I guess I'd have to know more about the artist themselves, for one. Like, if they started off each of their drawings with something to that effect, I'd probably vote them, because it's a cheap shot of trying to stick in penis drawings. But I wouldn't do it if I was seeing this person draw for the first time (or if they've done other previous draws that weren't like that). Like Jobe, I'd probably give it a few seconds to see where it's going. They'd have to be drawing pretty fast though..

Surely that would count as vote abuse whether they do it every draw or not? I mean we've all seen the video shown in another thread on here where it looks like the person is doing a rude drawing, only for it to turn out to be something else.

Surely that would count as vote abuse whether they do it every draw or not? I mean we've all seen the video shown in another thread on here where it looks like the person is doing a rude drawing, only for it to turn out to be something else.

I dunno... If done repeatedly, then the method of drawing must be specifically intended to represent something which could be considered explicit. I could understand people voting on that.

Surely that would count as vote abuse whether they do it every draw or not? I mean we've all seen the video shown in another thread on here where it looks like the person is doing a rude drawing, only for it to turn out to be something else.

Well, based on the advice that I got from admins, it's not considered as vote abuse, and they themselves said that if it happened several times then they'd give the player an admin warning. Cheers.

Eh, I reckon the cat one should really be let off for creativity. I mean, think about it: CAT. "CAT" is possibly one of the easiest words to draw and everyone in the room clearly would have guessed it before the artist even had time to shape the tails into the word itself.

It's kind of like this: In real life, graffiti is illegal. But we often let the "criminals" off for it when their crime is artistic enough! ;-)

I'd probably vote the top one, even though it's a good drawing, although by the time they got there the round would have probably ended/ everyone would have got it anyways? The bottom one I'd let go, unless it got worse... or didn't change. :P
I just hate the people that complain about getting voted on when the write a letter or letters, but say it's not actually the word we're guessing. -_-

Last night I was playing in 5 Strokes, and most of the regulars were drawing puns while using letters in their drawings. I really couldn't stand it, and some of them told me to loosen up, but I know that 5 Strokes is a public room and anybody who plays like that should take it to a private room where the iSketch rules don't apply. Seeing so many people use letters so casually in their draws in a public room annoyed me a lot.

I'd recommend that anybody who wants to play a game with "on-the-edge-of-the-rules" draws should take it to a private room where other people wouldn't have a problem with it.

It also annoys me, because it's the same people that would skip or boot other people for drawing letters if they don't know them, but if a group of them are friends then they feel it's ok to break the rules... I agree that's what user created rooms are for, and I love them :)

That would be Mish Mash (http://www.isketchforum.net/showpost.php?p=147151&postcount=3) style for a UC room.

lol db, that's the second time you've needlessly explained mish mash to Sunny1.

:rolleyes:

Lol, I was wondering how that was connected, as well! :P

Maybe db is a little out of it.. :razz: *runs*

Oh no, all I mean is the CAT draw would be good in a mash room, that's all :)

All I see in the cat picture is 3 sort-of cat-shaped black blobs on a dark blue background... tails? letters?

All I see in the cat picture is 3 sort-of cat-shaped black blobs on a dark blue background... tails? letters?






psst... there are four cats.

lol, the cat one is nicee XD i couldnt see the letters at first. but aww ^_^ purty :D

hm...but tbh..i dont know that many people that'll bother going through the effort to make a draw like that...and as for the second? tsk, most n00bs that do draw whatchamacallits dont make them look like that -_- they just scribble them...

http://i373.photobucket.com/albums/oo177/db1986/Pink_Heart.jpg

I've never seen the first one, that is very smart though.
I've seen something like the second one, but it kept happening.

That cat one is really neat... :)