Having serious problems posting. Need Help.
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Having serious problems posting. Need Help.
I tried to reply to Spectrum, but kept getting an error stating to the effect, "You haven't been registered long enough to post URLs. Please remove them." -- But there were no URLs in my reply! I was only able to post (as a Quick Reply) after editing out all HTML code.
Then, I tried to write a reply to Marina000, but each time, instead of creating a new reply, the Forum added my text as an "edit" to my previous reply to Spectrum. I tried replying normally and as a Quick reply and both times it refused to let me create new reply.
Am I doing something wrong? Please help.
-- Updated Sat Dec 29, 2012 4:24 am to add the following --
Edit / New question:
Is it possible to post two consecutive posts without the second one piggybacking onto the first?
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Re: Having serious problems posting. Need Help.
You can't post HTML code.Blazing Donkey wrote:In the thread, http : // onlinephilosophyclub.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7745&p=114236#p114236
I tried to reply to Spectrum, but kept getting an error stating to the effect, "You haven't been registered long enough to post URLs. Please remove them." -- But there were no URLs in my reply! I was only able to post (as a Quick Reply) after editing out all HTML code.
No. Two consecutive posts by the same user are considered one post, which to me makes complete sense from a function perspective. From a style/display perspective, what kind of separator you want to be able to add to your posts to separate one section (e.g. a reply specifically towards one user) from another section (a reply specifically towards another user). A new post is usually distinguished by the display of the new poster's username, avatar, post count, signature as well as some HTML/CSS structures which are subject to change at any time. What is it that you are looking to put between the first part of your post and the second part? Your forum signature (which many users don't see ever by hiding it via the User Control Panel)? A horizontal rule? I'm genuinely interested since you are not the first person to be concerned about this.Edit / New question:
Is it possible to post two consecutive posts without the second one piggybacking onto the first?
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Re: Having serious problems posting. Need Help.
Perhaps I am using the wrong word. What I meant was editing out the language codes ie. " [ i ] fasdflskdf [ / i ] "Scott wrote:You can't post HTML code.
No. Two consecutive posts by the same user are considered one post, which to me makes complete sense from a function perspective. From a style/display perspective, what kind of separator you want to be able to add to your posts to separate one section (e.g. a reply specifically towards one user) from another section (a reply specifically towards another user). A new post is usually distinguished by the display of the new poster's username, avatar, post count, signature as well as some HTML/CSS structures which are subject to change at any time. [/quote]Is it possible to post two consecutive posts without the second one piggybacking onto the first?
Yes. That makes sense, but...
First, thank you for asking; there are damn few Admins (it seems) who actually take the time to consider issues of this nature. Thus, I appreciate it.What is it that you are looking to put between the first part of your post and the second part? Your forum signature (which many users don't see ever by hiding it via the User Control Panel)? A horizontal rule? I'm genuinely interested since you are not the first person to be concerned about this.
Basically, here's the issue:
You start a thread: "I Love Jooky". I reply to it and my posts gets it's own reply. Then Xris replies to it. Then Misty replies to it. Ok. So then I choose to reply to each of their posts, starting with Xris.
So I reply to Xris and this post gets its own reply. But when I reply to Misty, what I wrote gets dumped onto the back of my previous posts. This can be confusing to read because, at first glance, it seems like it's only written to one person. In this case, Xris. If this is not the reply you are looking for (for example, if Misty was looking to see if I had replied to her post), it's easy to take it for more of the top post and skim right past it. -- When I first joined here, I found my self doing this many times before I caught it.
Also, it makes it easy to make quoting errors, especially if one is using quotes from other people as part of one's argument. In fact, this very thing happened to me earlier today in thread: I quoted someone else, and when the person who was replying to my post when to quote me, they inadvertently quoted the person that I had quoted, but mistakenly attributed the quote to me. Which, as I'm sure you can imagine, really confused the issue.
I would imagine that there is some way to reconfigure the system so that it only posts replies as new posts; most forum softwares have a system of this sort. If not, oh well, no big deal; I've already adapted to it personally. I just think this would make it easier to see who is replying to whom.
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Incidentally, I am hesitant to encourage in any way the tendency towards skimming through posts before writing a reply and writing replies to each different user individually which breaks topics down into several one-on-ones being read only by the people in that one-on-one. I do have a PM system for private one-on-ones, and have set up a special one-on-one forum for special public one-on-ones.
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I believe spiritual freedom (a.k.a. self-discipline) manifests as bravery, confidence, grace, honesty, love, and inner peace.
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