General Questions Thread~FAQ

[I'm Murrin]

Hmm, you're right, there doesn't appear to be a way to do it. I don't know what admin options might be available for the album, though.

(Guess this means you're still not planning to return. Shame when people quit, particularly when the place is already having its quietest year ever.)

[Frostheart Grueburn]

The Laborium stuff can perhaps remain. Some others I wouldn't like to leave lying around (if removals possible).

Sorry, but at the moment I have very little interest to return. It's possible I'll glance back around October when it theoretically might get busier. And provided that the shunning doesn't continue.

[sgt.null]

I wish I knew who you were mystery person, because I would make a heart plea for you to return.

I welcome you with open arms, non-shunning and wish whoever you are to return to us. we need you.

[Avatar]

Seems the shunning is happening from the other side to me...

Regardless, we are ever receptive to at least the mundane needs of our members, so if you will furnish me with a list of links to each image you would like removed, I will perform the necessary excisions for you.

--A

[peter]

Just discovered the links on the top rhs of the 'home page' [posts since your last visit, and 'your posts' I think]. Well - better late than never I guess . Anyway - I see that my earliest posts in this list are in 2009ish and I'm sure I was a member before this. Is this list only good for three or four years, and posts prior to this being 'scrapped' I wanted to find my favorite post [that I can remember] for maybe starting a thread for people to post the ....er....post that they had most fun writing. I wrote one parrodying a wrestling/boxing match between Tolkein vs. Brooks. Masterfull stuff, masterfull, and should be thrust down the throat of even the most unwilling recipient, if only to give them something to compare all written text to for the remainder of their lives.

[Menolly]

Your joined date is August 25th, 2009, Peter.
At least, that's what it says under your avatar...

Here's your first post, dated August 27th, 2009.

[sgt.null]

someone pm me as to who the mystery person is, I have a guess - likely wrong.

[Avatar]

I'm sure looking back at their previous posts will give you a clue.

--A

[peter]

Thanks Menolly - wow! I'd have sworn I'd been here longer that that! Can you teach me to do that thing you did linking to my first post. Is that something non-mods can do? Hang on I've just spotted something. Under my 'joining date' it says I've made 1950 posts, but when I click on 'view your posts' on the home page I get '521 Matches'. Why is that figure different? This must mean that some posts are not being listed mustn't it?

[I'm Murrin]

The "view your posts" is listing topics you've posted in, not posts.

[Vraith]

The "view your posts" is listing topics you've posted in, not posts.

I think the way to see all your posts is go to the search page, search by author [your own, obviously] and near the bottom click to show by posts instead of topics.
I think you can sort it to list by date first to last or last to first.
I could go look to make sure I'm right.
But I won't.

[Menolly]

Thanks Menolly - wow! I'd have sworn I'd been here longer that that! Can you teach me to do that thing you did linking to my first post. Is that something non-mods can do?

Anyone can link to a post with text.

To find your earlier posts, click on your profile button under a post, not the profile link at the top of the board. The one at the top of the board is to edit your profile; the one under a post takes you to the profile as everyone sees it. To the right under Total Posts, you should see a link that says "Find all posts by peter." Click on that and all of your posts should be listed in reverse order. Click on the last page and scroll to the bottom to find your first post.

I will admit I already scrolled through about half of your posts from your first on page 98 to about page 50, looking for the topic you mentioned. None of them sounded like the topic you described, but I didn't open each one to read fully.

Anyway, Esmer created some graphics showing how to link to a post. He posted a second one below, after I offered a slightly easier method. All you have to do to change the url to text is to insert url tags around the link url, and then insert the text you want between them. For instance, the code for the link to Esmer's post I linked above looks like this

Code: Select all

[url=http://kevinswatch.ihugny.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=555566#555566]graphics showing how to link to a post[/url]

If you hover over the URL button at the top of a post box, the code will appear right above the posting box and under the buttons. However, if you click on the button, all you will get is the url linked, without text.

HTH. Feel free to ask more if anything is unclear.

~*~edit~*~
Was composing this post while Vraith posted. I haven't tried his method with my own posts, but it could work. I have heard the search function is iffy though, due to the size of the database. It may only go back a few years, instead of listing all posts.

~*~edit again~*~
Just tried using search per Vraith's suggestion for my own posts. It did work for mine, and does give you the option to list ascending or descending order, unlike going through one's profile.

Learned something new. Thanks, Vraith!

[ussusimiel]

Peter,

Here's a post of yours in Nov '09: just re-read the sword of shannara......

u.

[wayfriend]

I find it's easy to post links.

Just copy the URL from your browser URL box into the post, highlight it with the mouse, and click the URL button. Done.

If you want to be clever and have text that is different from the link, then you need to use the URL= form. So do what I just said, then change the first ']' to an '=', and change the second '[' to ']thetextIwant['.

[URL]link[URL]

[URL=link]text[/URL]

[Avatar]

Comprehensive replies there.

Just note, clicking on the "find all posts" can only handle about 7500 posts, so after you pass that, it doesn't help for early posts.

In your profile though, if you scroll down, you'll see a list of all the forums you've posted in, and clicking on one of those will display all your posts for that forum.

It has the same problem with not being able to show more than 7500 posts in a single forum though.

Still, it'll be a little while before you have to worry about that.

--A

[peter]

Peter,

Here's a post of yours in Nov '09: just re-read the sword of shannara......

u.

Thanks u. - that was fun to re-read [though alas not actually the one I'm after]. What gets me is that the first time after I've made a series of posts in a given thread, that I visit the thread not logged in, I never get any more e-mails concerning postings to that thread. I do understand why this is the case but a consequence is - as in the thread u. linked to - I loose track of the thread and it goes on to have a life of it's own p.p. [post-peter]. I'm off to work shortly so can't check out the various tecniques for linking outlined above today. I will do so however and when I have my personal favorite offering to the Watch under my belt you will all be offered the chance to read it. Now there's something to look forward to!

[ussusimiel]

What gets me is that the first time after I've made a series of posts in a given thread, that I visit the thread not logged in, I never get any more e-mails concerning postings to that thread. I do understand why this is the case but a consequence is - as in the thread u. linked to - I loose track of the thread and it goes on to have a life of it's own p.p. [post-peter].

This used to happen to me as well, what I do now is keep one of the notification emails (I have a separate folder for KW notifications), so that if I want to check up on it I don't have to worry about which forum it's in or having to dig down through the pages to find it. (I still have a notification for your "the post that never was" thread

u.

[Avatar]

I've never bothered with the email notifications myself. But then I tend to scan most forums every day, so it's not much of a problem.

--A

[peter]

Ah yes - 'The Post That Never Was'; on of my greatest literary non-acievements stifled in the cradle by the cruel hand of fate!

I often wondered how you achieved your ubiquoutesness [ubiquosity?] on the Watch Av - you must have a very fast reading speed/uptake rate [or just years of practice at rapid scanning].

[sgt.null]

avatar is a cyborg sent from the future.