vBulletin 3.0 Gold Questions - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

***Sharkû*** · 03-25-2004, 12:47 PM

The 'post shrinkage' already happened in the move from UBB to VBulletin, as you can see in the older VB Questions thread, and is due to the fact that VBulleting excluded some old posts (in closed threads and for IIRC) from counting towards your total. I lost exactly 400 posts, for example.

I can't see how new posts get lost; certainly not if they did actually appear and it wasn't a software/connection error. Please verify that and report back.

The max number of images in a thread makes sense IMO. Perhaps smilies could be excluded from it, but why should they.

symestreem · 03-25-2004, 01:46 PM

Submitting something to a forum is like sending an email; the people who read your message can't read your body language, and they can't hear your tone of voice. Most of us are not skilled enough as writers to always express sarcasm/kidding/whatever else in our posts; smileys help us do that and save a whole lot of confusion, and possibly offense. If you have a large post, or are trying to express a "compound emotion" (like:

) it stands to reason that you will have more than three smileys in a post.

***The Barrow-Wight*** · 03-25-2004, 01:49 PM

The smiley limit gives everyone the excuse to improve the emotional writing

symestreem · 03-25-2004, 02:08 PM

GAAAAH!!!! No... emotions... can't... breathe... *GASP*
*withers up and shrivels into dust over her keyboard*

Is melodrama better than emotions?

***Sharkû*** · 03-25-2004, 02:12 PM

It's a discussion forum... sarcasm/kidding shouldn't have a big place in it anyway, and RPGs should have no smilies at all.

***The Barrow-Wight*** · 03-25-2004, 04:39 PM

I notice many people are still having problems adding an avatar. Here's what you do.

(1) Click 'User CP'
(2) 'Edit Avatar'
(3) Either enter the URL of your avatar (it must reside on space you 'own') or Browse your hard drive for a good picture file.
(4) Click 'Save Changes'

All registered users are able to upload an avatar. Please post a comment here if you are unable. No need to comment when you are successful. We will see your avatar.

Ainaserkewen · 03-26-2004, 10:37 AM

Okay, lost some posts...whatever, I didn't need them anyway.

All of this is so...New! After coming back from a month of absence to this brand new design. Even as I'm typing this post I look around my screen and am bewildered. Luckily I haven't run into any real problems. Something back when the forum was first updated bugged the Proxy blocks on my computer and for ever after until yesterday, I haven't been able to view threads. It works now that I have gotten it unstuck, but what on earth could have been read wrong?

03-25-2004, 01:46 PM	#2
symestreem Face in the Water Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 728	Reasons to exclude smileys Submitting something to a forum is like sending an email; the people who read your message can't read your body language, and they can't hear your tone of voice. Most of us are not skilled enough as writers to always express sarcasm/kidding/whatever else in our posts; smileys help us do that and save a whole lot of confusion, and possibly offense. If you have a large post, or are trying to express a "compound emotion" (like: ) it stands to reason that you will have more than three smileys in a post.

03-25-2004, 01:49 PM	#3
*The Barrow-Wight* Night In Wight Satin Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 4,043	The smiley limit gives everyone the excuse to improve the emotional writing __________________ The Barrow-Wight

03-25-2004, 04:39 PM	#6
*The Barrow-Wight* Night In Wight Satin Join Date: May 2000 Posts: 4,043	I notice many people are still having problems adding an avatar. Here's what you do. (1) Click 'User CP' (2) 'Edit Avatar' (3) Either enter the URL of your avatar (it must reside on space you 'own') or Browse your hard drive for a good picture file. (4) Click 'Save Changes' All registered users are able to upload an avatar. Please post a comment here if you are unable. No need to comment when you are successful. We will see your avatar. __________________ The Barrow-Wight

03-26-2004, 10:37 AM	#7
Ainaserkewen Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: A cosmic waiting room Posts: 651	Okay, lost some posts...whatever, I didn't need them anyway. All of this is so...New! After coming back from a month of absence to this brand new design. Even as I'm typing this post I look around my screen and am bewildered. Luckily I haven't run into any real problems. Something back when the forum was first updated bugged the Proxy blocks on my computer and for ever after until yesterday, I haven't been able to view threads. It works now that I have gotten it unstuck, but what on earth could have been read wrong? __________________ Solus... I'm eating chicken again. I ate chicken yesterday and the day before... will I be eating chicken again tomorrow? Why am I always eating chicken?

03-25-2004, 12:47 PM	#1
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	The 'post shrinkage' already happened in the move from UBB to VBulletin, as you can see in the older VB Questions thread, and is due to the fact that VBulleting excluded some old posts (in closed threads and for IIRC) from counting towards your total. I lost exactly 400 posts, for example. I can't see how new posts get lost; certainly not if they did actually appear and it wasn't a software/connection error. Please verify that and report back. The max number of images in a thread makes sense IMO. Perhaps smilies could be excluded from it, but why should they.

03-25-2004, 02:08 PM	#4
symestreem Face in the Water Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 728	GAAAAH!!!! No... emotions... can't... breathe... GASP withers up and shrivels into dust over her keyboard Is melodrama better than emotions?

03-25-2004, 02:12 PM	#5
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	It's a discussion forum... sarcasm/kidding shouldn't have a big place in it anyway, and RPGs should have no smilies at all.