Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Report Posted May 13, 2006 We have made some minor changes to the user registration routines in the forum. 1. New members must post a thread in the Introductions forum before they can post elsewhere. 2. Users must have 10 posts before they can post a link or an image in your post (a message will be displayed explaining this if you try). Hopefully this will help stop spammers, and also make those who register tell us who they are! In addition, the user thread count is now displayed along with post count. We encourage members to start new threads, not only participate in old ones. :D And features like "Member list" and "Log out" are now available in the Quick Links menu at the top navigation bar.
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 Is it still not correct? It probably was just while the database upgraded all users from the old usergroup to the new. Let me know if it's not fixed now.
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 Ack...hope I didn't mess everything up...
Jay-qu Posted May 13, 2006 Report Posted May 13, 2006 LOL good work T, try and make things better and just end up with another problem :D
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 I can't find any reason why this should happen. I hope folks report back here if they have similar problems as Racoon.
Southtown Posted May 13, 2006 Report Posted May 13, 2006 Whats with the PM folders??? suddenly my storage went from 300 to 20! :) :eek: :(Ditto that. AND all signatures are gone except for the mods/admins. Even the link to change signatures has disappeared from the control panel. :)
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 Ditto that. AND all signatures are gone except for the mods/admins. Even the link to change signatures has disappeared from the control panel. :) Ouch. Something wicked must be going on...
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 Please check again! I think I may have solved it.
Racoon Posted May 13, 2006 Report Posted May 13, 2006 And My PMs are Back! Which Tormod Clone do I thank?? :)
Tormod Posted May 13, 2006 Author Report Posted May 13, 2006 The Evil One was just a sad wanker. The Real Tormod put everything back in order (he hopes). Regards,The interim Tormod
Southtown Posted May 14, 2006 Report Posted May 14, 2006 Yeah all better. THANX T! Sorry to keep you waiting, though.
Michaelangelica Posted May 20, 2006 Report Posted May 20, 2006 We have made some minor changes to the user registration routines in the forum. 1. New members must post a thread in the Introductions forum before they can post elsewhere. We encourage members to start new threads, not only participate in old ones. :shade:."1." might inhibit some people from joing up How do you check that a thread you want to start has not been done before?I haven't found the search engine very good.Tar
Tormod Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Posted May 20, 2006 "1." might inhibit some people from joing up How do you check that a thread you want to start has not been done before?I haven't found the search engine very good.Tar The aim of 1. is to stop spammers. So far it's working great. If people can't be bothered to post an introduction, we really don't need them hanging around. All it takes is to post a "hi!". In fact, signups have not been reduced after we introduced this, but spamming has almost vanished. If you can't find what you want to post about in the search forum (which is good but can be a bit overwhelming - try using the Advanced search option to narrow down using boolean searches), then simply start a new thread and a moderator will tell you if it's already been discussed to death.
Michaelangelica Posted May 20, 2006 Report Posted May 20, 2006 The aim of 1. is to stop spammers. So far it's working great. If people can't be bothered to post an introduction, we really don't need them hanging around. All it takes is to post a "hi!". In fact, signups have not been reduced after we introduced this, but spamming has almost vanished. If you can't find what you want to post about in the search forum (which is good but can be a bit overwhelming - try using the Advanced search option to narrow down using boolean searches), then simply start a new thread and a moderator will tell you if it's already been discussed to death. Thanks for the reply. Good about "1" should I introduce myself or do people already know more than they want/need?Can the search engine be jiggered so it can seach within a thread?I often half remember a post and want to get back to it and have found that difficult.Thankyou for the Science Forum; as you can see I am an enthuasiastic 'newbee'
ronthepon Posted May 20, 2006 Report Posted May 20, 2006 What on earth happened to the new posts column on the right?I'm very disoriented without it.
Tormod Posted May 20, 2006 Author Report Posted May 20, 2006 It's an experiment. I believe the right column takes away the urge to check out what happens inside the different forums, and makes people just check the "Updated" column instead. We needed space to promote the news and also the charity auction, and the right column was the only way. This has the added benefit of making the forums load faster, too. If you get confused, it's probably mostly because you're not used to it (we don't have it at PostMagnet). I recommend using the New posts link in the menu bar! It gives you a much better picture of what's going on that the right column did. Michaelangelica: I don't quite understand your question, the search engine does indeed search inside the threads. There is also the "Search this forum" and "Search this thread" options o top of each forum/thread. Maybe I misunderstood your question? :)
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