The subject of your topic is similar to existing topics. Please check these topics, and if your message is similar to one of them, then please reply there instead of creating a new topic. (Links will open in a new window.), followed by a listing of some 10 topics, none pertinent to what I’m doing
…….while frequently a posting will be cashiered for me having placed a comma in the wrong place or a link containing an “x” or a “d” appearing after the slantbar “/“ while just the other day I spent an hour composing a thread which was summarily rejected for containing “advertisements” which really set me back since I couldn’t divine in what possible way it advertised anything
(However if the resident commercial element were identified perhaps I could delete or revise it, then re-post—thanks troops)
--and then whilst editing to get cut off in the middle of a sentence for having overstayed my welcome in the Posting Pit I guess—while I’m still working on the massively involved set of machinations required to get a scrollbar in the edit window
Most abject apologies to those who really do mean well, but it seems there’s attracted to Admin posts of many such websites the chap to whom such a position of authority conveys a sense of power lacking in his everyday life, gaining a sense of accomplishment from the generation of still another rule we must remember, who seems terribly angry at all times about nearly everything and who might be advised, gollyPete, lighten up
Fellas I’m sure all these strange rules have some constructive purpose and other participants hue loyally but herewith anyone, if it’s no trouble could you supply a link to a similar site—one with equally intelligent and expressive participants but with a simpler set of rules
Notwithstanding the 105-word (by actual count) Reminder at the top of the pabge. At age 81 with incipient Alz’s feel like back in grade school being reprimanded by Teach
Thanks again most sincerely folks for you kind attention to my largely absurd but sometimes provocative postings
-- Updated May 12th, 2012, 5:42 pm to add the following --
Dalehileman wrote:Forgive me guys but PF has the single most complicated set of “rules” of any such website I’ve participated over my 17 years’ doing this sort of thing. As if mocking me, the instant I began typing, I was faced with this error message:
The subject of your topic is similar to existing topics. Please check these topics, and if your message is similar to one of them, then please reply there instead of creating a new topic. (Links will open in a new window.), followed by a listing of some 10 topics, none pertinent to what I’m doing
…….while frequently a posting will be cashiered for me having placed a comma in the wrong place or a link containing an “x” or a “d” appearing after the slantbar “/“ while just the other day I spent an hour composing a thread which was summarily rejected for containing “advertisements” which really set me back since I couldn’t divine in what possible way it advertised anything
(However if the resident commercial element were identified perhaps I could delete or revise it, then re-post—thanks troops)
--and then whilst editing to get cut off in the middle of a sentence for having overstayed my welcome in the Posting Pit I guess—while I’m still working on the massively involved set of machinations required to get a scrollbar in the edit window
And blocking links to Wiki??????????????
Most abject apologies to those who really do mean well, but it seems there’s attracted to Admin posts of many such websites the chap to whom such a position of authority conveys a sense of power lacking in his everyday life, gaining a sense of accomplishment from the generation of still another rule we must remember, who seems terribly angry at all times about nearly everything and who might be advised, gollyPete, lighten up
Fellas I’m sure all these strange rules have some constructive purpose and other participants hue loyally but herewith anyone, if it’s no trouble could you supply a link to a similar site—one with equally intelligent and expressive participants but with a simpler set of rules
Notwithstanding the 105-word (by actual count) Reminder at the top of the pabge. At age 81 with incipient Alz’s feel like back in grade school being reprimanded by Teach
Thanks again most sincerely folks for you kind attention to my largely absurd but sometimes provocative postings
-- Updated May 12th, 2012, 5:44 pm to add the following --
…..and requiring the entire post to be reproduced in order to edit one sentence?????????