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 UBT - Halifax--lad Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 157 Credit: 2,687 RAC: 0 |
Why doesn't this forum have the option to report a particular thread like over on the SETI boards?? then at least someone could report something offensive straight from the guilty post Also Janus is rewriting forum code over @BURP so maybe that could be implemented over here when he has finished it all Join us in Chat (see the forum) Click the Sig  Join UBT ID: 9863 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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UBT - Halifax--lad Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 157 Credit: 2,687 RAC: 0 |
there are no X's at the bottom of the page I assume you mean the ones like on BURP, SETI & other projects? I cant see them on anypages I have viewed within the forum Join us in Chat (see the forum) Click the Sig Join UBT ID: 9869 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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UBT - Halifax--lad Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 157 Credit: 2,687 RAC: 0 |
It isnt there just like I mentioned inmy previous post the + & - button is there but no X Join us in Chat (see the forum) Click the Sig Join UBT ID: 9871 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
There is a chunk of bad code that corrupts the height of the 'x'. It was identified and fixed on the SETI board, but obviously hasn't been propagated out to all the projects yet. <a href="forum_report_post.php?post=9870"><img src="img/report_post.png" alt="Report this post as offensive" height="img/report_post.png" border=0></a> Anyone familiar with html will see that the height parameter is invalid. It displays properly with Firefox, but not with IE. Go figure. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :)  "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9885 · Rating: -0.99999999999999 · rate:
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Snake Doctor Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 182 Credit: 6,401,938 RAC: 0 |
There is a chunk of bad code that corrupts the height of the 'x'. Yea, I can see the x box (not the game) myself plain as day. I am on a Mac using safari so the IE issue would not apply. So you are saying it is a browser problem related to bad code. Thanks for this post I was wondering what this was about. Regards Phil  We Must look for intelligent life on other planets as, it is becoming increasingly apparent we will not find any on our own. ID: 9893 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
There is a chunk of bad code that corrupts the height of the 'x'. Right! Firefox and other non-Microsquish browsers just ignore the bad height parameter, but IE makes it something like 0 or 1 pixel high, so essentially invisible. The correct parameter should be height="9" Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9895 · Rating: -0.99999999999999 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
EDIT - just tested this and if you click on the "X" at the bottom of the post it will do exactly what you are asking for. Actually, I just tested it and get the following after filling in the dialog box: This project has not yet defined an administrator to handle this kind of forum reports. Please contact the project and tell them to add this information in their html/project/project.inc file This was reported by me quite a while ago (mid December?) in the NC forum. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9898 · Rating: -0.99999999999999 · rate:
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0 |
Why doesn't this forum have the option to report a particular thread like over on the SETI boards?? then at least someone could report something offensive straight from the guilty post Click the  , and you get the mod's attention. It says, when you click it: Why do you find the post offensive: Please include enough information so that a person that has not yet read the thread will quickly be able to identify the issue. so you must express why you report this particular post. [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b] 
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0 |
The long discussions about moderators, who they are, their participation in the discussions, and their legality to do so as moderators, caused the special moderator accounts, they can use in their capacity as mods to post with. These accounts should not be used to post personal messages such as this: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=986#9820 So Moderator9, I think you should remove your post and promote your team as yourself. [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b]
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carl.h Send message Joined: 28 Dec 05 Posts: 555 Credit: 183,449 RAC: 0 |
Let me make this clear Mod 9 altered MY post it is not his post...The Teddies post is mine. Not all Czech`s bounce but I`d like to try with Barbar ;-) Make no mistake This IS the TEDDIES TEAM. ID: 9918 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
I thought moderators could not alter posts here - only delete (hide) or move them. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9925 · Rating: -2 · rate:
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carl.h Send message Joined: 28 Dec 05 Posts: 555 Credit: 183,449 RAC: 0 |
I think what he did Angus was delete mine but rewrite it, hence it appeared to be his ! I will rewrite on his request to save the speculation. As far as I am aware K9  or any other number have nothing to do with the Teddies.Edit : I`ve reposted so Mod 9 can delete his. :cheers: Not all Czech`s bounce but I`d like to try with Barbar ;-) Make no mistake This IS the TEDDIES TEAM. ID: 9926 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
I'm getting just slightly annoyed that so many posts are getting moved around between threads. I have a pretty good memory where I or others posted things, and when I return to look fo responses or continue a discussion, the posts have gone - somewhere. The latest one of mine seems to have been moved to someplace other that what the mod said. The continuity of many discussions, IMHO, is getting ripped apart. The culture of these forums was for some longer threads to meander a bit, even before the slight uproar of the last month. I don't think that is bad, if it doesn't go wildly off topic. My *personal* opinion is that the 'organization' is too heavy handed at this point. Frankly, I leave here after every visit ever more disturbed by this. It is not a fun place to visit, if you have to spend a half hour tracking down posts that seem to now reside in out-of-context threads. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9981 · Rating: -2 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
EDIT - just tested this and if you click on the "X" at the bottom of the post it will do exactly what you are asking for. What happened to the posts about why the 'x' is not appearing in some browsers? That is a topic that obviously should kept visible (pun intended) until it is resolved. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9983 · Rating: -2 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
EDIT - just tested this and if you click on the "X" at the bottom of the post it will do exactly what you are asking for. It is NOT a resolved issue - it is only a REPORTED issue. If anything, the issue should be posted with the original question about why people can't see the 'x' and the reason for it at the top of each forum until it is fixed. Or just leave it where it was posted. A question asked by a mod and answered by a user. Peopla are CERTAINLY not going to look in a resolved issues thread for a problem that is still not fixed. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9996 · Rating: -2 · rate:
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Angus Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 412 Credit: 321,053 RAC: 0 |
I know this will get deleted, but PLEASE! Yes I have an idea - don't keep adding material to old posts. Let the thread flow in chronological order. You now have two complete long posts with exactly the same material in them. How is that not clutter? People KNOW how they have their threads sorted - oldest or newest on top. They don't need to have to read the thread from both ends to find the most recently added information. It just doesn't work that way. Proudly Banned from Predictator@Home and now Cosmology@home as well. Added SETI to the list today. Temporary ban only - so need to work harder :) "You can't fix stupid" (Ron White) ID: 9997 · Rating: -2 · rate:
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vavega Send message Joined: 2 Nov 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 519,981 RAC: 0 |
a couple suggestions......... how about posting your brief explanations in red, and make sure you leave a breadcrumb trail ( a link for the moved post) so the poster can find it easily? then set yourself up a spam email account just for this board (which you can freely ignore)  so we can contact you when we need to rant. good idea di, get him further entrenched in a job he doesn't want.....yes, but it'll make his life easier!  ID: 10005 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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vavega Send message Joined: 2 Nov 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 519,981 RAC: 0 |
Since there is no way for the user community to contact the moderators reliably sorry, the email account i suggested would have solved this problem. sign yourself up for a free email account, like yahoo, aol, gmail, or hotmail, using a name such as "the world's greatest moderator" although i suspect #8 as already beaten you to it post it here but type it in as..... the world's//greatest//moderator//@hotmail.com so the bots won't pick it up. to further reduce spam and to protect yourself, we would have to put into the subject line "rosetta@home username (vavega). then set up an email filter that rejects any email without the words "rostetta @ home " in the title. this way you would know at a glance that it was legitimate mail and could check the username against the member list before opening it, deleting whatever the filter doesn't catch. this protects you and dramaticaly reduces the amount of spam you'll get. it's cheap, easy and should be reliable. use it for those times when you do want private communication since we don't have a private message option. ID: 10074 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0 |
Excuse me, but hasn't this moderator thing gone a wee bit too far? I mean, the mods are there to prevent things from escalating, but for me it seems like the mods are escalating things right now. Latest with suggested mail adresses, people can mail to, to express how they really feel. If they can't express that directly on the board, then things start to smell like censorship. .oO(Uhhh, I feel a mail telling me that my post has been removed coming on!) [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b]
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vavega Send message Joined: 2 Nov 05 Posts: 82 Credit: 519,981 RAC: 0 |
i think our difference thoughts on the usability of an available email address for the moderators is based on our vision of what it would be used for. i'm of a mind that it would be convient for those who want to voice a complaint to a mod without posting. this would serve to head of at the pass if you will, complaints before they get out to the general public. an example would be......poster A doesn't like something i said but would rather remain anonymous as not to upset me, but still has a question. he sends the email to you, you reply with she's a nice lady and of course didn't mean it that way, he believes you, sees the error of his ways and we are all happy campers once again. being he's a wishy washy kind of guy anyway, he already has a spam account of his own, so it's no more work for him. i don't see this as cencoship fuzzy, unless you wan't to extrapolate it into self cencorship and that's fine and dandy. if that were to take place more often we'd all be better off. while in the short term it might seem like things are escalating, in the long term it's this laying of the groundwork that will ultimately make the mods job and ours easier. we'll all know where we stand and i think things will run more smoothly. you're welcome! ID: 10109 · Rating: 0 · rate:
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