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Welcome! (This is definitely NOT an SS-type place.) I like to think of it as a kinder, nicer board. (But don't let that fool you, everyone's got drama, like it or not.) So get to posting, and you'll soon no longer be a "noob" around here.

You are neither. There were too many instances of people quoting everything all the time for no reason, so we removed that option. You can still quote manually, though. Just copy the text you wish to quote before hitting the "Add Reply" button, then paste it in. Then, highlight it and hit the Quote button in the toolbar. () You can even let us know who said it, by writing the person's name in the first "quote" tag, after an "equals" sign. (Ex.

This forum is for reporting what is happening on the Live Feeds only. All discussion of happenings in the house should be directed to the BB20 Discussion forum . The HOW-TO guide for Live Feed Updaters. Please remember, these are just guidelines. We don't want to cramp your individual styles, but it helps the people reading your updates if everyone tries to follow a few basics. Try to include as many of the 5 W's as possible! Who? Ex. Joshuah / Josh If Josh is speaking to Sharon, and they are the only ones in the conversation, you can just use the initials "J" and "S" after the first time. (But it wouldn't make sense to use "J" if Jacob, Joshuah, Jen and James were all present.) IMPORTANT: Please use the houseguests' real names (or agreed-upon abbreviated forms). Do NOT use nicknames from the message board which carries connotations, such as "JanTran" instead of Janelle, for example. What? Ex. Alex and Neil are playing chess. (Sometimes what they're doing is not as important as what they're saying.) When? Ex. 6:30PM BBT (Please use the time it is in the Big Brother house, not your own local time. It is very important that you add AM or PM, ) Where? Ex. Kitchen, Backyard, Bedroom (We may have a few standard abbreviations for some rooms.) Why? Only include this one if it is obvious from the action you have seen. Try not to make guesses or judgments as to the motives behind behaviour otherwise. Leave that for the discussion forum. Ex. 1 Jen goes to tell James that Alex is voting for him because she overheard Alex and Neil talking about it. (This is fine.) Ex. 2 Jen goes to tell James that Alex is voting for him because she wants him to be anxious about the vote. (This is more speculative.) Personal comments within Live Feed Updates Morty and the whole MortysTV team greatly appreciate the fact that live feed updaters want to be of service and that they can't provide as high a quality of that service if they are forced to pause their updating to go post their opinion in the discussion section every time they wish to share, or instead be forced to keep it to themselves. So Morty has given his blessing for live feed updaters to include some personal comments. (*I always loved Morty's personal comments, back when he was updating alone.*) Including a personal observation here and there is well and good, but judgmental comments within the Live feed Updates that will unduly influence the ones reading them are to be avoided. All we ask is that updaters who are including personal comments use brackets to make it clear that the comment is their own. [ This is an example ~Jedi] We also understand how it's not always easy to keep gut reactions out of it, especially when you are watching these people day in and day out on the live feeds. Sooner or later you can't help forming some opinions about liking some and hating others. Sometimes, overboard comments can produce such a reaction in the readers of those updates that posts get reported to the moderators for no other reason than that they feel the updater is personally picking on their favorite houseguest(s). Since the Live Feed Updates forum is NOT the discussion forum, it might help if things weren't too inflammatory. Therefore, let's try to keep personal comments to more of a neutral vein, and less extreme. If you really feel strongly about a houseguest or something they have done, you should probably share your comments about it in our Discussion forum. Suggestions for some common Live Feed Update practices and posting standards are welcome as replies to this thread and can be discussed here.

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Well, you just have to post what you see on the Big Brother live feeds. Go to the Live Feed Update forum (here), and post in the thread for the current day (which will be the top one). Of course, you need to have subscribed to the live feeds from CBS. For related questions about style and format to be used (if anything is unclear), you could try contacting the forum host there (whose name is "Catniptoy") by PM (private message). Almost a year at Morty's? Glad to see you're finally starting to post! Keep it up.

Welcome. Here's hoping you have a pleasant Morty's experience. What's the story, MorningGlory

I hadn't noticed you were so new. You post like a veteran, and I've been enjoying many of your posts. Keep up the great contributions! And welcome!

Until BB4, I just watched the TV episodes. I never even thought to look online, though I knew one could get the live feeds. Once I found Morty's, I would read the updates once or twice a day. Then, during BB5, I discovered this place had a message board! (It was pretty primitive and really chaotic, but a lot of fun!) So I lurked for half the season, until some topic came up that I just HAD to comment on. Been here ever since, through all the board changes and upgrades (and the big hack!). A few months after BB5, when the action died down, it was back to lurker mode for me, where I've been ever since. But you'll all be seeing more of me around this season, I'm sure. There is no place I'd rather be for BB. (Even though, unlike around BB4, there are now lots more BB sites.) Unfortunately, there were times that this board jammed up and no one could get on. At times like those, if I didn't have a back-up, I would have gone crazy without updates! So even though this is the main place I go, and the only place I call home, I've got a back-up ready, just in case.

I opened up my e-mail this morning to find the strangest "chain letter" ever. It seems that Jennifer Aniston e-mailed a friend of hers a few photos from the christening ceremony for the child of Courtney Cox and David Arquette, which she recently attended. That friend forwarded her e-mail to another friend, and so on and so on. Thankfully, at some point, it would seem that her e-mail address was removed from the forwarded message. (Hopefully at the beginning, or she will soon be receiving many unsolicited messages.) Without her e-mail address included, it his hard to attest to its authenticity, as with a few such photos, anyone could convincingly fake an e-mail like this as a hoax, to feel more self-important. Many of the recipients (and subsequent forwarders) remarked upon the fact that this was an invasion of privacy, but this did not stop them. I guess it's pretty common to feel somehow connected to a celebrity through a chain like this, since it is a bit like the "Six degrees of separation" game, and they can all say "I know someone who knows someone who..." All the same, it makes you wonder how celebrities live with a lack of privacy, and having to be careful who they trust. I guess it comes with the territory. I will, of course, share the photos here, so you can all see what I am talking about. I've reduced them to 40% from the original 1600 x 1200 pixels.