xash:
There is a little box above Allow vCard Download that is bordered in yellow,with a purplish something inside it that’s too small for me to make out. It blinks when I punch it and if I keep punching it the purple thing vanishes,but nothng else happens. It just blinks.
Is this possibly the button that’s supposed to get me to the visible/invisible option,but isn’t working yet?
Maybe there’s a fly on your monitor screen. Or a frog.
Otherwise, I have no idea.
It could be a fly IN a frog. That would explain why it’s so dark and hard to see.
Well,I seem to have hit a dead end. Thanks everyone. If they get this fixed I will try to get my orange box back so I can stand out from the crowd. And there’s still a small mystery; no one (although I have to suspect Ed) has copped to changing my box from orange to white.
I didn’t change anything. I’m sure there’s some switch that enables charter members to see the options I’ve described, but it’s Saturday morning, the techs are off duty, and I’m not about to mess with anything lest I kibosh the whole board.
As far as the “invisible” thing goes, isn’t that option irrelevant to us here, anyway? Its purpose is to prevent one’s name from showing up in the “Who’s Online” list. However, members who choose to be “invisible” here are still visible to administrators and moderators.
So maybe the reason we’re not seeing the option to be invisible in our CP is that the “Who’s Online” feature is turned off.
No, “Who’s online” appears to every user as the color of the check box.
And I found the setting by clicking on top link UserCP, then the side link** Edit Options** and it’s my very top option, Use Invisible Mode.
So now I’m orange, at least to me.
You misunderstand. The “Who’s Online” is a full list of who is actually on the site at that moment. It is not the same thing as the check box.
It appears on the forum home page under the list of forums, generally in the form of “Currently Active Users: X There are currently X members and X guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was XX on XX-XX-XXXX at XX:XX PM.” … followed by the names of each person on the site at that moment.
So I may never know who (or what) changed my box color to white. A helpful ghost in the machine? A rogue or insane mod/admin?
dantheman:
I go (a number of times) to EDIT OPTIONS: At the very top is the little yellow box. To the right of that is the LOGIN&PRIVACY sign,but you can’t click on that(editorial you) and clicking on the yellow box just makes it blink and produces nothing more.
Directly under that is the vCard stuff.
Is that the way yours is set up?
Things like this drive me loopy. I only have so much patience. Like the little driver in HIGH ANXIETY says when he’s trying to lift the big trunk; “I got it,I got it,I got it…I ain’t got it!”
Nope, I don’t see that yellow box at all. I’m using Opera as a browser, but I also checked IE and still don’t see it.
Below the top banner (User CP … Log Out) are two columns of boxes. The one on the left, the skinnier of the two, is headed “Control Panel.” The one on the right, the much larger one, is headed “Edit Options: dantheman.”
Below that “Edit Options:” heading is “Login & Privacy.” To the direct left of that, below “Control Panel,” is “Settings & Options.”
Now, there is a small icon to the right of the “Edit Options” box, but it’s just something that allows you to collapse or expand that particular box.
Too bad we can’t do images here, because one of us could do a screen shot.
Oh crap! I’ve shown the secret Charter Member options by mistake!
Berkut:
You may have shown the secret charter member options,but I couldn’t say. It was too small for me to read a word of your screenshot.
dantheman:
I tried everything. No go. I now officially give up on this maddening problem unless someone comes up with something new and mind-blowing.
Mucho thanks to all.
Guess I picked the right day to experiment with auto-erotic masturbation…
If you are using IE, it’s probably shrinking the image to fit the screen. If you hold your pointer over the image, a button will appear in the lower right corner. Press it, and the image will appear full size and you can scroll around.
Um, I meant I picked the right day to experiment with autoerotic asphyxia.
Berkut:
As I mentioned somewhere way back there, the Jurassic period,I think, I have webtv+, so I don’t have a mouse,pointer,etc. I appreciate your labors though. Now I’m going to take a nap.
Just to add to the mysteries of the little box - out of sheer curiosity I clicked on two of them (one of them was a blue box next to Beeruser’s name, the other I don’t remember who it belonged to). Twice, I got sent to a link of what appeared to be a sports rankings page, I think a baseball league. Then I tried again, with another name, and got a “This URL is not valid” pop-up. I then tried clicking on the box beside every username in the thread, and couldn’t get that webpage back. Isn’t that odd? Anyone know if this was their homepage that I was accidentally getting to somehow?
I’m using Firefox in Linux, btw.
I’m hoping Berkut’s screenshot was a funny mockup and not the real thing… 
It’s Monday,so I’m going to give this one last kick in case Ed gets the definitive word on this from the tech wizards.
Thank Gord…I thought you may actually be Carrot Top and making racy suggestions in ATMB.
sj2:
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