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Re Change Passwords - forgot to say the screen should indicate minimum number of characters as well as maximum. Does it also need to be a mix of alpha and numeric/letters and numbers?
Hi, Jon. Is it possible to have somewhere a description of what each category should be used for? At the moment there seems to be some confusion. Newcomers to Talkback don't seem to be aware that they should introduce themselves in Welcome Writers, for instance.
Jon: I'd second that. The category descriptions from the old Talkback could easily be copied across as plain text onto the categories menu in the new one.
Claudia: on any internet forum, it's best to assume that the administrator can see everything that goes on within it, private and public. It has to be that way so that there's a means for monitoring potential abuse of the system.
Claudia, As with all systems on the internet of this type. The answer is yes everything that goes on within Talkback can be viewed by an administrator, however only people with the correct priveledges can view them. As Amboline has pointed out it is to stop abuse of the system.
If a new member joined just to start abusing people via the whisper system, and the administrator was told by the member that a problem was occuring the only way of stopping the abuse and track the user through the system to ban them and keep them out would be to view all posts that the user had made. I hope that makes sense. I do not actively monitor any of the whisper chat that goes on between Talkbackers or indeed any of the other threads that go on within the system and will only actively monitor the system if requested to do so, by either Webbo or when a thread is brought to my attention via the boards.
I view threads like this one and one's which shout my name out for help, but other than that you are all looking after yourselves and each other, as it should be, I believe. You all seem like a great bunch of people and you all help each other out, and I don't think you want me to be constantly monitoring the system, checking up on everything you do.
Aw, well aint you just a lil sweetheart, Jon!
We know you're doing your very best for us working tirelessly behind the scenes but might we just ask - pretty please with cherries on the top - if you have answers for Jay's and Amboline's concerns/queries yet?
I know it's a lot to trawl through but you know how men get when their questions aren't answered the day before they ask them. :-)
(Sorry J and A, thought I'd put in my two pence worth. I'm trying. Yes, I know, very trying! Groan)
Thank you for your comprehensive reply Jon - it makes a lot of sense now that you (and Amboline) explained why you can't have a truly private whisper system.
Is there any chance of introducing the previous facility where we could e-mail members? I know we could 'whisper' to someone to ask for their e-mail, but the old version was a way of contacting someone who had dropped out of the forum, so a 'whisper' wouldn't work in that scenario. Am I making sense here?
hi Jon
thanks for all this...
is there not a way to automatically bookmark a thread once we have posted in it? It would possibly make things a bit easier....
Jemma, when you have posted go back to the top of the page and on the top of the page on the left is 'bookmark this discussion' - if you click that it should do it.
yeah but then sometimes i'm in a rush and i forget to do that...some of the sites i know automatically subscribe you to a thread when you comment...and then in the user control panel it tells you when there is a new reply to that thread...
'Post your comments' and 'Back to Discussions' are very close to each other. Today I've found that two or three items I thought I'd posted were not in fact posted. I'm not sure whether I pressed the wrong option or whether I didn't allow enough time for the post to register. (I've also noticed that, if I take too long to post, someone else might post before me - but, because I'm the last to post, it appears I've read their post when I haven't i.e. the main Talkback screen does not show an outstanding post on this particular discussion.)
Does it make sense to move the two options further apart - or would that waste time when reading &/or posting?
I miss not seeing the actual time it was posted. Seconds and minutes is not a problem, but when they are 8 hours ago, and you have a lot it is sometimes hard to make sense of things- there can have been a few minutes apart, or 50 minutes.
If I use the PC it times out quite quickly, on my laptop it stays signed in - but I think I must have ticked the box for remembering details on my laptop as no one else goes near it. (Not if they want to live anyway!)
there isn't one. When WN created the new site, they added that without us asking for it! An additional element to a very good site, I think anyway. It's nice to be able to send thanks without making a formal reply of it.
If you type a mistake or want to change something you have posted, you have a chance to edit. The opportunity doesn't last very long but can cause a fair bit of confusion if someone has read the post and is responding only to find, once they have posted the response, that what they are responding to is no longer there. When you read threads that seem to make no sense that is often what has happened - crucial bits have been edited out of sight.
Hickey, next time you post to a thread, before you press back to discussions, look on the message you have just posted, and you will see grey text saying edit next to the Report post. Click on edit, and you can adjust the message you've just posted, then click save changes. It will then say edited as it does on Jay's message.
When tracing back my own posts I can see the category they're in but not the page. I have to keep scrolling forever, trying to find where the post is. Is there a better and quicker way to do it?
Daisy, thank you, I tried that but it shows me just the first page of where my post is, which in one onstance ends with of a post of 4th january. I think my brain is missing something. Nothing new here.
Forgive me if this has already been mentioned, but do you think it would be a good idea to show the TBers who are actually logged in when we enter the forum? It could be an optional facility - not everybody would want to be 'available'. Also, what about a 'Shout Box' - an instant messaging area? What do you think?
Jon. Today I have had two posts go AWOL. I know there is a theory that if two TBers post at the same time post together, one gets lost in the ether. I don't know about the first time I lost a post but thesecond certainly had nothing to do with timing. Is there a problem here?
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Claudia: on any internet forum, it's best to assume that the administrator can see everything that goes on within it, private and public. It has to be that way so that there's a means for monitoring potential abuse of the system.
Claudia, As with all systems on the internet of this type. The answer is yes everything that goes on within Talkback can be viewed by an administrator, however only people with the correct priveledges can view them. As Amboline has pointed out it is to stop abuse of the system.
If a new member joined just to start abusing people via the whisper system, and the administrator was told by the member that a problem was occuring the only way of stopping the abuse and track the user through the system to ban them and keep them out would be to view all posts that the user had made. I hope that makes sense. I do not actively monitor any of the whisper chat that goes on between Talkbackers or indeed any of the other threads that go on within the system and will only actively monitor the system if requested to do so, by either Webbo or when a thread is brought to my attention via the boards.
I view threads like this one and one's which shout my name out for help, but other than that you are all looking after yourselves and each other, as it should be, I believe. You all seem like a great bunch of people and you all help each other out, and I don't think you want me to be constantly monitoring the system, checking up on everything you do.
I hope that all makes sense.
Regards
Jon
We know you're doing your very best for us working tirelessly behind the scenes but might we just ask - pretty please with cherries on the top - if you have answers for Jay's and Amboline's concerns/queries yet?
I know it's a lot to trawl through but you know how men get when their questions aren't answered the day before they ask them. :-)
(Sorry J and A, thought I'd put in my two pence worth. I'm trying. Yes, I know, very trying! Groan)
I have now copied over the category description from the old Talkback
Regards
Jon
I will look into the password screen and add the min/max characters.
Regards
Jon
Is there any chance of introducing the previous facility where we could e-mail members? I know we could 'whisper' to someone to ask for their e-mail, but the old version was a way of contacting someone who had dropped out of the forum, so a 'whisper' wouldn't work in that scenario. Am I making sense here?
thanks for all this...
is there not a way to automatically bookmark a thread once we have posted in it? It would possibly make things a bit easier....
Does it make sense to move the two options further apart - or would that waste time when reading &/or posting?
How does this happen? What does it mean?