# Problem children / punch list for fixes / TIPS AND TRICKS **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 22, 2020, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044 "2020-06-22T01:21:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/21 "2020-06-22T03:24:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > It took me several tries to get my password reset, and I think I see what the problem was – it had to do with confusing instructions in the “Reset Password” dialog that I mis-understood, and I wonder how many others might make the same mistake? > > I clicked on “Forgot my Password”, which took me to the “Reset Password” dialog. This had a message something like “A confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”, and an OK button at the bottom. I took this to mean I should wait to get that e-mail, then come back here and click on the button. No e-mail ever showed up. > > Eventually, I clicked on the OK button and got my e-mail. So when it says “A confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”, it means “Click on the OK button and THEN a confirmation will be sent to your e-mail”. This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/22 "2020-06-22T03:26:12Z")
OK. I really don’t like being logged out after a few minutes. Can we set the log out time to something reasonable, like a week? ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/23 "2020-06-22T03:26:27Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > I’ve been logged out about four times, although oddly the first three times I could click a “Refresh” button and get right back in. Bit of an interruption though. The fourth time I actually had to log in for realsies and do a search for posts I’d posted to to get back to this thread. Been logged off twice so far over the last 15 minutes or so. First time, I left the site, came back and logged back in. The second time, I just stayed on the boards as an “un-logged-in” user … and after a minute or so, it showed that I was logged in again. No action on my part required. 🤷‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/24 "2020-06-22T03:26:31Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well. Did you figure that out immediately, or did you, like me, take a while to get it? Was it just me? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/25 "2020-06-22T03:27:13Z")
I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/26 "2020-06-22T03:28:23Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@bordelond](#): > > > > This is the way I ended up getting back in, as well. > > Did you figure that out immediately, or did you, like me, take a while to get it? Was it just me? :smack: I’d run across similar “Forgot password” schemes on other sites, so I just clicked OK without thinking about it. What did trip me up initially on this site was that I expected Discourse to still know out old passwords … my expectation is that it would accept our old passwords but THEN prompt us for a password change. That’s not what happens. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/27 "2020-06-22T03:29:19Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this. IMHO, this is a feature worth keeping. On a board like ours, it will be useful. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/28 "2020-06-22T03:30:08Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this. Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense? ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/29 "2020-06-22T03:30:38Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this. > > IMHO, this is a feature worth keeping. On a board like ours, it will be useful. Unless there is a “Dislike” feature, I don’t like the “Like”. ---
**Author:** ![Wallet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e99b99/32.png) [@Wallet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallet)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/30 "2020-06-22T03:31:04Z")
If possible, please address Skypist’s first problem - the clusterfuck thread is now closed! (“more than 10,000 posts”) Can anything be done to save this thread?? ☹ ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/31 "2020-06-22T03:31:08Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > > [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > > > I’m seeng “Like this post” as an option. I understood this was going to be disabled? Please advise what the staff intends to do about this. > > Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense? I know likes have been discussed on the old board in the past … might be time for a renewed discussion in a new thread. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/32 "2020-06-22T03:33:26Z")
> [@peccavi](#): > > Unless there is a “Dislike” feature, I don’t like the “Like”. What many boards do is offer a range of responses – not simply “likes”. There can be “thanks”, “love that”, “I doubt that”, “come on, that’s terrible”, etc. Some boards even have custom icons that convey responses through board inside jokes. ---
**Author:** ![erysichthon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d07c76/32.png) [@erysichthon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erysichthon)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/33 "2020-06-22T03:33:53Z")
What I’ve noticed so far: Polls aren’t showing up in poll threads. List formatting (bulleted/numbered) isn’t displaying properly. I noticed that some smilies aren’t displaying (maybe all of them; I haven’t done an inventory). I’ve also used the [del] tag in the past and that isn’t working either. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/34 "2020-06-22T03:34:28Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Maybe make a new board rule that liking a post is an instabannable offense? I’ve already done like a dozen of them 🤦‍♂️ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/35 "2020-06-22T03:37:01Z")
Took me a while to get the login email but I finally did. So I’m in but I never set the password. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/36 "2020-06-22T03:37:39Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > But this page: > [https://boards.straightdope.com/c/main/6](https://boards.straightdope.com/c/main/6) > looks much more like the forums index page we are accustomed to. Not only does this LOOK much more like the old board … when clicking on the forum names on this page, the forums display a lot more like the old boards, too. What’s not needed are the line-up of avatars at the right. Just skip all that. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/37 "2020-06-22T03:39:12Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > What’s with the blue dot that appears next to the time of post that disappears after a few seconds? After a bit of trial-and-error, I was able to determine that blue dot indicates that the post is unread. From what I can tell, the site appears to consider a post “read” once it’s been visible on your screen for about a second…so I’m not sure if that’s a “useful feature” or not. The site does seem to automatically take you to the first unread post when you open a thread, so I guess that’s good. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/39 "2020-06-22T03:41:08Z")
> [@bordelond](#): > > What’s not needed are the line-up of avatars at the right. Just skip all that. I changed to the “Sam’s Simple Theme”; it makes the forum pages much less cluttered. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/40 "2020-06-22T03:41:58Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Took me a while to get the login email but I finally did. So I’m in but I never set the password. Me either. I’m unclear if my password is still the same as it was on the old site or what. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044/41 "2020-06-22T03:42:34Z")
> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#): > > I changed to the “Sam’s Simple Theme”; it makes the forum pages much less cluttered. Where do I go to set themes? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/problem-children-punch-list-for-fixes-tips-and-tricks/911044.md?page=3)