Member help thread

[aligncare]

I'll check.  Be right back.

[aligncare]

Nope.  I can't modify my post #10 on 'Palin wants tort reform as part of health bill'.  That's strange, and frustrating.

[mystery-ak]

Is that the only post it has happened...how about this thread?


pm me your password so I can look around

[Lando Lincoln]

I can't modify my posts either.  Looks like there's a little sand in the gears that needs to be cleaned out.

[Lando Lincoln]

I can revise the post above but not earlier ones.  Strange, huh?  The delete button is also missing.

[mystery-ak]

very odd....all the settings are okay...

is it old posts?....are all the buttons working now?

[aligncare]

New posts have all the requisite buttons, but not the older posts. 

[mystery-ak]

Very strange....I just performed Forum Maintenance......I can't explain why older posts lost those buttons...I will check with our forum tech, Kat

[mystery-ak]

It looks like all members have lost the *modify and delete buttons* and only have the quote button.....I am working on this...

[mystery-ak]

aligncare...we are back to normal...lol

[tester]

testing

[69FenderStrat]

question...what is a "Hero Member"..after all inquiring minds want to know...

[Kurenai Tsuchi]

question...what is a "Hero Member"..after all inquiring minds want to know...

i'm batman..

hehehe.. not really just wanted to say it.. (batman is a punk) :P

from what i can tell "hero member" just means that you spend to much time online posting nonsense..  ;)

[mystery-ak]

Hero member means you have made 500 posts....

[69FenderStrat]

Hero member means you have made 500 posts....

thank you.....

[R4 Trump]

thank you.....

You want us to lower the bar for you to say 200? We can do that, or are you up to the task of getting 500 ;) 

[Kurenai Tsuchi]

hero member should be renamed "loud mouth"    ^-^

[69FenderStrat]

You want us to lower the bar for you to say 200? We can do that, or are you up to the task of getting 500 ;) 

I don't want any special treatment ...I'm always up to the task as I have learned to adapt to any given situation and I can climb my way up the bar...eventually 

[mystery-ak]

[R4 Trump]

I don't want any special treatment ...I'm always up to the task as I have learned to adapt to any given situation and I can climb my way up the bar...eventually 

LOL :-*

[paprika]

LOL :-*

After clicking on this thread, all I now get is the quote button......everything else is gone. Is this thread contaminated?

[69FenderStrat]

After clicking on this thread, all I now get is the quote button......everything else is gone. Is this thread contaminated?

they call me the thread killer.... >:D

[paprika]

they call me the thread killer.... >:D

"Thread killers" don't make buttons disappear.  ^-^

[tester]

testing

[tester]

testing......quote-modify-delete only shows up after you post.

[69FenderStrat]

everything works fine for me....but then again I'm simple......

[DCPatriot]

DC...just bumping to the top!

[OnCommonGround]

Hi all, I have a quick question I was hoping someone could answer for me.
Is anyone familiar with the web site called 'backtype', where they log posters comments?  Hoping someone can tell me a little about it.  Thanks

[Stormy777]

Hello I just found this site, looks like what I been looking for,

hi

  :)

[MACVSOG68]

Hello I just found this site, looks like what I been looking for,

hi

  :)

Welcome Stormy.  Jump right in. 

[mystery-ak]

Hello I just found this site, looks like what I been looking for,

hi

  :)

How did you find us Stormy?

[speekinout]

Is there a way to reformat posts you want to read? Specifically, the ones with long lines. I find it too hard to read through a long post where I have to scroll left and right every line. I'd sure like to find a line wrap command.

[Oceander]

Is there a way to reformat posts you want to read? Specifically, the ones with long lines. I find it too hard to read through a long post where I have to scroll left and right every line. I'd sure like to find a line wrap command.

What's the resolution of the screen you're using?

[speekinout]

What's the resolution of the screen you're using?

Thanks, but it's not a problem with screen resolution. I know how to change that. My question is only about the occasional post that has longer line length than the usual -

[aligncare]

Infrequently, a page on GBR will resize improperly and I'll have to lateral scroll to see the line, but that's pretty rare, and happens only when I resize to less than half the screen width.

[Oceander]

Thanks, but it's not a problem with screen resolution. I know how to change that. My question is only about the occasional post that has longer line length than the usual -

Can you link me to one of the posts that doesn't size correctly for you?  That way I could check out the post itself to see what's going on.

[speekinout]

Can you link me to one of the posts that doesn't size correctly for you?  That way I could check out the post itself to see what's going on.

Great. This is the most recent one:

http://gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=37289.0

[Oceander]

Great. This is the most recent one:

http://gopbriefingroom.com/index.php?topic=37289.0

Ok.  There were two images on that thread.  I temporarily commented them out, so the links only show up as text now (they were my posts/images anyway, so no-one's nose should be bent out of shape ;) ).

Try opening the thread again and see if it's still stretching past the width of your browser and let me know if it's better or not.

Also, do you use your browser with the window set to its maximum width, or do you keep it fairly narrow?

[speekinout]

Ok.  There were two images on that thread.  I temporarily commented them out, so the links only show up as text now (they were my posts/images anyway, so no-one's nose should be bent out of shape ;) ).

Try opening the thread again and see if it's still stretching past the width of your browser and let me know if it's better or not.

Also, do you use your browser with the window set to its maximum width, or do you keep it fairly narrow?

It still looks the same.

My browser is set to full screen.

Do you see the longer lines also? I think it happened after the first post - I seem to remember looking at it before there were any replies, and I would have noticed if there was a problem then. This happens only rarely (but still annoyingly)

[Oceander]

It still looks the same.

My browser is set to full screen.

Do you see the longer lines also? I think it happened after the first post - I seem to remember looking at it before there were any replies, and I would have noticed if there was a problem then. This happens only rarely (but still annoyingly)

No, I'm not seeing a thing, which is a little bothersome (I've seen threads on which what you're describing happens, but it's almost always due to there being an image that's too large to fit on the screen without requiring horizontal scrolling.

If you could, can you tell me exactly which post on that thread is the first one that has a line that goes too far past the end of the browser?  That is almost certainly the one that's causing you problems, so I'd like to see if I can find anything funky in it.

Also, what browser do you use, IE6, IE7, IE8, FF, Opera, Safari, or something I haven't mentioned?

[speekinout]

No, I'm not seeing a thing, which is a little bothersome (I've seen threads on which what you're describing happens, but it's almost always due to there being an image that's too large to fit on the screen without requiring horizontal scrolling.

If you could, can you tell me exactly which post on that thread is the first one that has a line that goes too far past the end of the browser?  That is almost certainly the one that's causing you problems, so I'd like to see if I can find anything funky in it.

Also, what browser do you use, IE6, IE7, IE8, FF, Opera, Safari, or something I haven't mentioned?

The first post is now too long. I've seen this before. A post might fit nicely, but when something goes awry, even the first post reverts to long lines. I don't see the posts as they come in, so I can't tell which is the first one to go long.

I use Safari.

[Oceander]

The first post is now too long. I've seen this before. A post might fit nicely, but when something goes awry, even the first post reverts to long lines. I don't see the posts as they come in, so I can't tell which is the first one to go long.

I use Safari.

Ok.  One other question:  What theme are you using for the forum - the standard default that the forum comes with, or did you choose a different theme to display the forum in?

[speekinout]

Ok.  One other question:  What theme are you using for the forum - the standard default that the forum comes with, or did you choose a different theme to display the forum in?

I use the default.

[Oceander]

I use the default.

Ok.  That just makes it easier to limit the number of things that need to be checked.  Two more questions (sorry for the interminable questions, I'm just trying to get a handle on all the different variables):  (1) what OS version are you running (e.g., WinXP, WinVista, Ubuntu linux, Mac OSX, etc), and (2) have you tried using a browser other than Safari, such as FF, to see if you still get the same problems?

[speekinout]

Ok.  That just makes it easier to limit the number of things that need to be checked.  Two more questions (sorry for the interminable questions, I'm just trying to get a handle on all the different variables):  (1) what OS version are you running (e.g., WinXP, WinVista, Ubuntu linux, Mac OSX, etc), and (2) have you tried using a browser other than Safari, such as FF, to see if you still get the same problems?

OSX 10.4. Only Safari. This is an unusual occurrence, so I'm curious about how to fix it. I wouldn't be willing to change browsers or update my OS just because of this. 

[speekinout]

I'm still bothered by the long posts. All of the ones I've seen lately have been posted by DCPatriot.
Does anyone know the trick to reading those? (Like what browsers would work)

[Oceander]

Can you take a screenshot and post it up (maybe put it up at photobucket or tinypic and then link to it here) so that we can see what your browser actually looks like?

There's a step-by-step for taking a screenshot on a mac here:  http://www.wikihow.com/Take-a-Screenshot-in-Mac-OS-X

[aligncare]

OK, before the glitch happened this weekend, I used a theme (blue ice, I believe) that displayed both the recent posts AND 'view replies to your posts' on the same home page.  NOW I can't find a theme that will allow both to be viewed on the same page - they all display either one or the other.  Wazup with that?  Oceander?

[Oceander]

OK, before the glitch happened this weekend, I used a theme (blue ice, I believe) that displayed both the recent posts AND 'view replies to your posts' on the same home page.  NOW I can't find a theme that will allow both to be viewed on the same page - they all display either one or the other.  Wazup with that?  Oceander?

Blue Ice should still be there, so it's probably just a matter of getting the correct options set.  I'll take a look.

[Oceander]

Is that any better?