The red letter deal for new posts never seem to match up to whats been loaded. Sometimes it will go grey as if it has been shown before, when it’s the first time I’ve seen it. Small potatos’, but is it a bug or something with my system? This morning it showed all threads as new. Three pages into it. I’ve seen most of them. I leave and do other things, come back, refresh, and it shows everything as being old. There are any number of new ones.
This is newer and bugs me even more. Resposes don’t match how many people have responded to the thread. For instance, at 8:08 a.m., Thursday, a thread in the ‘Pit’ by Revtim, ‘Could we have another survivor thread?’ says there are no replies. I look at it and sure enough, someone replied. I exit the thread, refresh the ‘Pit’, still no responses. This has happened any number of times lately.
Certain new posters history can’t be looked up. It usually has something to do with their names, i.e., using numerals as opposed to letters and abreviations. They almost always are new and don’t stay long. Is this a joke on their part? I ask this only because they seem to eventually get banned.
You guys/gals are the best at responding in here and I don’t mean to bitch. It’s by far the best board out there. I just wonder about the above.
It means, “new since the last time you logged on.” If you’re cookied and aren’t logging on and off, you might not realize. It doesn’t mean, “new since the last time you loaded up this particular forum and read threads”.
The software considers that a post or thread is no longer new even if you have only logged on, not necessarily gone into a forum and looked at the threads. I think.
There are always posts and threads in the pipeline. Sometimes you just have to wait for them to show up. It’s not a bug, just a function of high traffic.
Search has always been notoriously picky about things. Finding posters with numerals in their nicks has always been a particularly difficult task.
As for whether it’s a joke on the posters’ part, I dunno yet, I’ll have to wait to answer that until I come back in my next life with my clairvoyance function fully installed and operational.
Real posters usually find out right away that this is a problem, and the e-mail a moderator and get a name change to fix it. The unreal posters don’t give a rat’s derriere whether anybody can find their other posts.
Yep. I know that. I usually have SDMB loaded for the day and come back to it and refresh. It seemed to be working fine until a few days ago. No biggie.
I understand that some are coming down the ‘pike’. But after fifteen minutes? That’s what I’ve noticed. In those instances it has taken a second poster to ‘bump’ the reply section. Just something else I’ve noticed recently.
For an even weirder example, I’ve seen threads with the last poster being “Chronos” (yes, myself, not an imposter of some sort) marked as “unread”. I’m not sure how that one comes about…
For most purposes, as far as read/unread posts go, the board seems to assume that whenever you do anything whatsoever with the board, that you’ve instantaneously read all new posts in all fora. It’s usually easiest to just ignore the color of the envelopes, in my experience, and just look for threads that have been bumped, or where you know the “last post” date is later than when you last read.
I happen to like this name. It can’t be searched on, but so what? I’ve had it a while and it suits me. I remember what I care about. I never have to “look myself up”.
The only people who “research” you are pit weasles, and I don’t care if they have to work a little harder to slur people. I’d be happy if all searches wer restricted to 100 answers, like on OpalCat’s teeming millions board. We should be able to have our words stand alone, not have history dragged up like we were politicians in a mud fight.
Like your line about how we “always get banned”. What an outright lie. The only one with a digit to get banned was waterj2, and he got out of it right away. From where I stand, it seems like it’s always people with letters in their names who get banned.
And as for staying long, the statistics at the last board change showed 3/4’s of the people on our roster only posted once. That’s probably true for every other signup site in the world, too. I know I’m always signing on to the New York Times or Betty Crocker, etc, ask one question and forget to come back. The web is a big place.
Such hostility, err…, ahh…, symbol person. Did it ever occur to you that people might want to look someone up for something other than pit material?
I’ve done this any number of times. Sometimes, I look people up to clarify what I thought they once said. Other times, I look people up to get a taste of their posting style. Finally, there are times I simply want to look up a poster I find funny, so I can enjoy threads I otherwise would have missed. So stick your righteous, arrogant, platform that people who research are automatically pit dwellers looking for dirt. There are other reasons.
If you read my post, you would see that I strictly stated that these people tend to get banned. I didn’t say always. Read my posts thoroughly before you start assuming what I mean and believe. If you need more clarification, I stated that these were things I’ve noticed lately, that’s it. I was wondering if this was a trend that I had missed or something.
If your interested in getting in a fight with me over a simple question, I’d advise you to take it to the pit.
A quick check shows CnoteChris does seem to be one of the “Pities”, but “pit weasle” is too pejorative. He’s only been there 5% of the time, about the same as me, I guess, and I’m not one to search on people, nor slur them.
I noticed earlier this week evilbeth was trying to search for 1234me, but it seemed to be for romantic purposes.
There are plenty of names on the old ubb system that were unsearchable, and it never caused concern, so it’s ironic vB is being blamed despite it’s improvement in that area.
Some of the oldest names are unsearchable, like** Nu Vo Da Da, MC, C3, (^(oo)^), M.K., KP, m3, {:-Df, KJ, ed,** etc.
None were banned.
Also, some of the oldest members have had digits in their names.
You snuck in before my answer go out, so I just read your latest.
If you want ¦:•) to battle you in the pit, then you’ve obviously never read anything she’s ever posted. She wouldn’t go there on a bet, much less a challenge.
Miss smiley face is one of the chirpiest of the MPSIMS set, and takes a pleasant picture, even if I am too old to notice.
If it was in error, that’s all I wanted to know. Like I said, or think I said, it was a trend I hadn’t noticed before and was only looking for clarification on now. Nada more.
I just thought at the time it might be something else to add to my list of observations. Like, maybe someone who had been banned knew a way around the Vb stuff and was rubbing people’s noses’ in it. Something down those lines. However, I see this has been an issue/problem since before I joined, or even knew about this board.
It IS a problem looking up what I’ve written. (They don’t tell you about search bugs on the sign-up page.)
But I guess I’m in no hurry to change the name. Nothing I’ve written so far is memorable to me, so I doubt others will look for it, unless I become famous. In that case, maybe they will try to prove my words were written by Bacon, and take the pressure off Wm.Shak.
Here is one good, logical reason why some of us would want to look up a poster’s previous posts: because there’s a fistfight going on in the Pit, we’re all curious as to what started it, but there’s no link provided in the thread.
I have also, on occasion, fiddled around with Search for a while because someone started a thread along the lines of, “I can’t find my thread!” and I was trying to be helpful.
Not all of us go into Search specifically to look for ammunition.
Beats me, I do it all the time. What computer and OS are you using? For MacOS (Windows) it should be as simple as using <command>C (<control>C) and <command>V (<control>V).
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[li]Deductive reasoning; i.e., I tried all the alternative alphanumeric combinations, and the last one was the right one.[/li]
[li]I prayed about it, and the Invisible Pink Unicorn put the answer in my head.[/li]
[li]I used cut & paste to insert ¦:•) into the search CGI.[/li][/ol]
The sound of palms hitting foreheads is deafening.
No, I don’t have a Mac. I was able to copy the address, but not paste it. I tried doing it directly. I tried pasting it to Word, which worked. It was only when I tried to paste it into my reply that it didn’t go.